#elevator door

My grandfather died in 2013, 9 months or so after my brother was murdered. I sort of liked him as I knew him, but I didn’t much like him as a person, because he was a horribly abusive parent and husband. I didn’t really want to go to the funeral either, because no one from my father’s family(including my father) had gone to my brother’s funeral. But I went anyway, because I felt like I wanted to be a better person.

Anyhow, I wound up promising my granny I would visit her at home, and I’ve since been visiting her twice a week. We have a good relationship now, but we never could have had it while my grandfather was alive.

Okay, okay. That’s almost more exposition than actual story.

I used order pizza for my granny when we didn’t feel like cooking. I would meet the gentleman on the ground floor, and take the elevator back up, no problem.

One particular night, I was on the elevator by myself, and just as the doors closed, they popped open again, as if someone had stuck their hand in to catch it.

I thought at first it was a mechanical error, a surge of electricity, or some dust. Still, there was a feeling in the air, the heavy stillness of being in an enclosed space with someone that you don’t know very well.

I tried not to look to my left, and kept my eyes on the pizza box.

The elevator went up.

2...

3...

I wondered if I should say something, or just look up. The walls were covered in mirrors, because nothing cures claustrophobia like vertigo. If I just looked up, the elevator would be empty.

6...

7...

Electrical wiring could affect your brain when it malfunctioned, and make you feel things that weren’t there, I reminded myself. Just have to wait it out, I’ll be off in a minute, and I can take a different elevator down.

9...

10.

The elevator stopped. The doors opened.

No one was outside.

I felt something, that slight vibration of air that follows in the wake of someone passing you, and the elevator began to be just an elevator again, boring and covered in mirrors.

Feeling slightly foolish, I called out, “Good evening.”

The elevator doors closed.

Later, concerned over the malfunction, I told my aunt about the experience.

“Isn’t that funny,” she said, chuckling. “Your grandparents lived on the tenth floor before your grandfather died.”

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