The Elevator Said No To Me
Language: en
On Christmas Eve, my parents half-jokingly announced: "Whoever gets home first between you and your brother gets the house." I rushed into the elevator first and headed up to the 20th floor. But when the elevator doors opened again, the home I'd been longing for wasn't there. Instead, I was somehow back on the first floor! The door stood wide open, just as it had been when I first arrived. Confused, I pressed 20 again. The sensation of ascending was clear, and the floor numbers climbed steadily from 1. But when the doors opened, I was back on the first floor again! Cold sweat broke…