ALIYA TORRES
I couldn't breath.
The lights did nothing to calm me down either.
The red light flickered now and then at the corner of the entrapped space we were in.
I never liked elevators. Something just didn't feel right.
The thought of me being swallowed while by the walls came to mind, the thought of the shaft snapping and us plunging to our deaths came to mind and I shook with fear and dread.
'Aliya, hey-hey look at me",Ethan said cupping my cheeks with his big hands.
I tried to stare at him but everytime I saw the red light flicker, the nerves are me alive and retreated to my space back in the corner of the elevator.
'We are going to die", I shook my head.
'We are going t die", I said once more.
'We are not going to die. They are going to fix it and while they do I want you to hang on, Aliya. Okay? Hang on for me?"
His thumb caressed my cheek lightly pulling my chin so that his eyes were at a level with mine.
I swallowed a large lump of saliva concentrating on his reassuring words.
He sat on the ground next to me.
'What's your favorite song?" He asked and I glanced at him in surprise.
The red light again caught my attention. Spinning, spinning and spinning like a fire alarm.
'Eyes on me, Aliya",Ethan said calmly and my eyes went back to face him.
'M-my favorite song is F-flowerd", I muttered.
'I think I might have heard my mom sing it once",he mused and I found that to be a big lie.
'Y-your mom?"
'Yes why I know the song by heart",he added, his hands taking mine and rubbing the back of them.
'You do?"
'I do",he smiled. A big drool worthy, panty dropping smile that had me forget about my predicament.
'You want me to sing it for you?" He asked sweetly and I nodded.
♪'Hold me while you wait I wish that I was good enough if only I could wake you up♪
He sang but that was not Flowers. It did amuse me a bit that he knew ‘Hold me while you wait'. That was my second favorite song.
'Ethan that's not-'
'That's not flowers? Hold on, give me another chance. I know I can get this right", he pretended to be thinking hard before his eyes lit up and he sang again.
♪Just stop your crying
It's a sign of the times
We gotta get away from here
We gotta get away from here♪
'Ethan-'
'I know. I know. That's not the song, is it? Fine you caught me. I don't know the song",he lifted his hands in mid air as if admitting defeat.
'Can you sing it to me?" He asked.
I wasn't the best singer around so it was an actual surprise to hear him ask that. He on the other hand had an angelic voice, better than mine, better than Lewis Capaldi (okay that was a total exaggeration) but he was good.
'I'll not take no for an answer, Aliya"
He wasn't going to drop it so I cleared my throat, my eyes falling to the his legs on the ground.
♩I guess that flowers aren't just used for big apologies
I guess I should've been more conscious how you spoke to me
‘Cause when we'd fight, you'd give me space and not communicate
And for a while I thought that's what I should appreciate
Maybe I was holding onto what I thought you were
But when you think too hard, eventually it starts to hurt
The version of you in my head, now I know wasn't true
Young people fall for the wrong people, guess my one was you♩
I finished watching his expression.
'I-well that was- you are really good. Maybe not sing it infront of thousands of people? I loved the song though",he said awkwardly and I punched him.
'You don't have to be so mean about it"
'I thought I said the song was good",he retorted.
'Sir? Sir Ethan?" The voice coming from the little speaker near the buttons on the lift gave me a heart attack and for a minute, I recalled that we were trapped in am elevator.
How long had it been? Five minutes? Half an hour? An hour?
I wished I had my phone.
Ethan stood up from the ground leaving my hands and going to stand by the buttons.
'Charlie what's taking you so long?" The grumpy Ethan Carter asked.
'Sir- it took me almost twenty minutes to get hold of Finn rest assured he's working on it as we speak"
Twenty minutes? We were trapped in this thing for twenty minutes? I gasped, standing up.
I banged on the steel walls in hysteria.
'Get us out of here, Finn! Finn! Hurry up!" I banged incessantly.
Ethan noticed it and within any time he was infront of me, having my wrists in his hands and his eyes locked with me.
'You have to calm down, Ali. You heard him right? Someone's already working on it to get us out"
'We've been here for twenty minutes! We'll run out of air anytime soon and you telling me to calm down? I hate lifts. I never should have come here, you made me do it. We are going to die because of you…you-I-I hate you and the fact that you are the last person I'll see before I die irks me"
He didn't let go of me instead he kept his hands on me, smiling. Why was he smiling?
'It doesn't work like that. The elevator isn't airtight, you are not going to die of suffocation"
'Gee, that makes me less worried", I murmured sarcastically.
'Finn is fixing it"
'He's never going to get it fixed"
'Aliya"
'We are going to die in an elevator"
'Aliya",Ethan called.
'I'm too young to die"
'Aliya!"
'I can't die", I murmured.
'Ooh fuck it!" I heard Ethan cuss and before I could say anything more,he clammed his lips with mine.
To make matters worse, the rush of wind getting into the elevator together with the light confirmed to me what I doubted.
They fixed the elevator.
The elevator doors were open.
'Sir?" Someone called out and no matter how good it felt kissing Ethan, I knew his employees had witnessed our kiss and I felt like a guilty mistress caught by the legal wife.
