Be Your Lover Forever (Alicia)

"What do you think you are doing?"

Staring at him, Alicia felt nervous in an instant and stepped backward, leaning against the elevator wall. Her eyes widened as if she was facing a great enemy.

Her reaction to being on guard against him pierced Jeremy's heart deeply. Feeling bitter and disregarded, Jeremy's lips quivered.

"You think I am going to... do something?"

Even though it was just a casual sentence from him, it was obvious to feel his pain of being rejected and questioned. From his tone, Alicia could understand his feelings and started loosened her fist gradually to let her guard down. The next second, Jeremy spoke in a despondent manner,

"I just want to stay with you a little longer!"

Despite the discomfort from being soaking wet from the rain, Jeremy felt as if he was back to the past the moment he thought of Alicia bringing him clothes. That was a time when he was being loved and cared for by her. He felt an inexplicable heartache.

Alicia, on the other hand, not only wanted to keep him at arm's length but breathed and sweated heavily that there were even goosebumps.

Therefore, for a good few minutes, she did not speak at all, but kept eyeing the elevator door from the corner of her eye.

Gradually, she felt the elevator slowed down, as if it was about to stop. After a sudden ticking sound and as Alicia moved her feet, there was a loud banging sound that shook her body. And in the next second, the entire elevator plunged into darkness. Alicia screamed.

"Aaaah!"

"Don't move, Ally. Don't be afraid and don't panic."

As Jeremy comforted her, he took out his mobile phone. Alicia opened her eyes to the faint flashlight.

What happened? Was there a blackout? Was the elevator out of order?

Instinctively, she took out her phone too, but only to find out that there was no signal. She stated to move around anxiously.

"Don't move, stand against the wall and hold tight!"

Comforting her and taking charge of the situation at the same, Jeremy pressed the elevator's emergency button as well as the buttons of each floor number.

buildings should have a standby generator and circuit breaker,

to himself so as not to frighten Alicia, Jeremy kept his

soon! There's no need to panic, everything will be fine. When there's the mobile network again, we'll call for

rain and wind outside during this time, the CCTV monitors had been displaying pitch- black footages. The thunderstorm also drove all the security personnel to head out for inspection, leaving nobody behind

elevator, after acclimatizing herself to the surrounding,

Why did the elevator have to break down all

narrow space, Alicia felt that even breathing had turned difficult for her. Feeling unsettled, she paced around and banged on the elevator door. Jeremy then pulled her aside and

call for help again, surely someone will notice us! Switch off your phone now too or else your battery will go flat very quickly. Since it was

and then returned to

was all

soundly by now, and not here suffering with

to argue with him at this moment. After all, there were only the two of them inside the elevator. To Alicia, she'd be on the losing end if she were to

see if it could detect any mobile network but to no avail. Besides being unlucky, she really didn't know

sense of eeriness. As Alicia stared into the blank space, she felt somewhat afraid too. Standing up, she tried to look at the elevator control panel again, only to discover that besides a call-to-help button, the intercom telephone was just there without any function. There was nothing else Jeremy could do too. His phone

Jeremy coughed.

call for help, he sat down at one corner dejectedly and

and how long we are going to be here. If you're scared then just talk to

she was already curled up on one side, Alicia still emboldened herself. She actually knew very well that if he had not followed her into the elevator, she would

chats, things inside the lift remained silent and dark, with no response from the outside. It even started to smell like death from the inside. Standing up, Alicia went to press the "call- to- help button"

"Help! Is there anyone?"

the elevator door. But as it was already midnight and with the ongoing thunderstorm, there was not a

at

not getting any response, she suddenly realized that Jeremy hadn't made a sounde for some time. Using her phone's flashlight, Alicia discovered that Jeremy had already leaned himself against the wall in one corner. He looked like he was sleeping.

are... Are you

and there was faint groaning sounds from him. Alicia felt she couldn't breathe smoothly

sleep, Jeremy. You'll fall sick. Talk to me! Talk to me! The least you could do is wait for us to get out first before you get yourself

was difficult to

because I can be with you. Ally, if I could

I would. But why?