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the elevator flying down
the chute to her death. She looked at the buttons the floors only went up to
six. Not nearly as dramatic as the movies. Why would the haunted elevator even
bother?
    Because of this, she convinced herself that
she was safe. Yet it was a fleeting thought, so soon the elevator raced past
the third floor and went up to the top, then screeched to a stop forceful
enough that she crammed her body in the corner and hung on tight. The doors
flew open and stuck that way.
    Her breath came only in small gasps. The
floor up here was freezing cold, despite the fact that it was only a not too
cold October. But it was cold enough to make her skin prick with goosebumps
through her purple light windbreaker.
    The floor was also pitch black she had
heard of this place. It was no longer rented out but closed off instead. The
builders weren't the smartest the elevator was the only way out. There was a
fire and the only escape had been this elevator. Luckily, no one had been
killed, but there were serious burns the two men that were home at the time
had managed to jam the elevator doors closed to protect from the fire and had
waited there until the fire department had come. After that, instead of
investing in getting the apartment redone and build a fire escape, they had
made sure the floor was sturdy enough to safely stand so that the floors below
would be safe, and then they had shut this level down.
    Which meant that some of the walls were
still marked with the black tattoos that the fire had left behind. It looked
eerie here, especially against all the cobwebs and such against it. No one had
lived here for over ten years. And thanks to the lazy attendant, there was no
way out for Molly. Not with the freaky elevator stuck.
    This had happened once before to her when
she had first gotten the place. She was frightened of small, dark places, but
there had been rats and bats up here at the time, so she had been forced to
stay in the elevator and close the doors after about an hour or so, she was
in hysterics.
    Harrison, who was supposed to be showing
her around town that day, had found her that way, on the edge of
unconsciousness and scared out of her wits. He had known she must have been
stuck up there and had to call the fire company to get her down which had
taken longer than forever for someone like Molly.
    But this time, no one would find her like
that. She'd stay calm and she'd get out.
    She got out her cell phone, already knowing
she couldn't call and that there would be no bars for a signal, but looking
anyway. Once this fact was confirmed, she pressed the back button on it, which
made
    light shine from the flashlight indicator
at the top. There, that was something, at least.
    She looked around, but the light actually
made it scarier than the dark had. Which was a good thing, considering that her
battery was low.
    After trying to pry off the wood from the
windows and failing, she looked around the floor one more time. Not finding any
other ways of escape, she returned to the elevator and started trying to pry
the carpet from the floor. By the time she had ripped up about two feet, her
fingertips were sore and bleeding slightly. But she had found what she working
for a square of the elevator floor had been cut out by the firefighters. When
it was replaced, they had put a latch on it so if the elevator got stuck again,
the firefighters would be able to get to the people inside easier and faster.
Harrison had escaped this way, using heavy duty working gloves to shimmy down
the sharp elevator lines. Even with those gloves, the line had torn through to
his skin. She didn't have anything to protect her hands, so escaping down the
lines was useless, even though all power to the elevator had shut off by itself
to make it safe in at least that way. The power wouldn't be returning for at
least a week when the companies came.
    "Well this sucks." She growled,
leaving the latch door open and standing up, walking around it. Because