The Glass Elevator’s New Absurd Button

The Button on The Glass Elevator

Glass Elevator. I remember this day distinctly. It was a gloomy day. The rain just made it worse. I looked through the front windshield of the school bus awaiting my stop to evade the blasphemy of the older kids at the back of the school bus. The hubbub caused by the children was way worse than an airport during Christmas holidays. Being an introvert and a loner, the peculiar surroundings looked worse than being put together with prison inmates.

These eerie surroundings sent a shiver down my spine once I got off the bus. However, the sight of my building did not make it better. It was a bit old with unequal proportion to its modern windows which just made the building very absurd. We got the apartment for a cheaper price coz the previous tenant freaked out when they were believed to have seen the supernatural form of the Jewish who died in the holocaust of WWII.

How stupid. They died in Germany not all the way in Asia! I absent mindedly slipped into the elevator, keen to press the 7^th floor button which had faded and instead looked more like the 1^st floor button.

But my eyes were cast in the direction of an absurd button that read- Olympus. My mind started to go through a deep thought process as the name rang a bell in my mind. The Olympus in Percy Jackson. This button intrigued me and with plenty of time on the clock, I pressed the button. At first, silence dwelled until the lift jerked and started moving in all directions unsteadily, a movement similar to the great glass elevator.

This again made me wonder if it was the same elevator. That would be silly question to ask as the whole Charlie and the great glass elevator book is totally fictional but with these uncanny coincidences made my blood run cold. As the lift seemed to lose speed it came to a smooth halt.

As the door opened making a rather cranky noise it presented to me a realm of darkness. I took a brave step out and ventured in. I walked very warily until I began to wonder whether this was a huge black hole.

The thoughts diminished when I came across a theatre. I gave a sigh as I say humanity inside it, and I questioned one person about where I am? Just then I realized he was the building security.

“Sonny, don’t you know where you are?”, he asked.

“No, I mean obviously. I wouldn’t have asked you otherwise” I gave a rather sarcastic answer.

“You are in our building’s to be family theatre. Did you like the lift?”, he asserted.

“ Like it? It startled me! Why don’t you just make it go straight.”, I said.
“ We thought it would give suspense. Now run along home. Do you want to be escorted home?” he offered kindly.
“ No, Thank You! My mom will be wondering where I am”, I replied as I hurried to the lift which did not seem as bad now.

I never felt more happy to be at home. And that was the odd story of how I found about the new family theatre in my building.

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