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.

residential buildings should have a standby generator and circuit breaker, why is there

not to frighten Alicia, Jeremy kept his phone's flashlight on and continued to

to our rescue soon! There's no need to panic, everything will

CCTV monitors had been displaying pitch- black footages. The thunderstorm also drove all the security personnel to head out for inspection, leaving nobody behind to monitor the facilities. Therefore, nobody would notice their signal for

after acclimatizing herself to the surrounding, Alicia began to calm

Why did the elevator have to break down all of a

Feeling unsettled, she paced around and banged on

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

returned to a corner of the

all

have been sleeping soundly by now, and not

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 provoke him to

her phone high to see if it could detect any mobile network but to no avail. Besides being unlucky,

Standing up, she tried to look at the elevator control panel again, only to discover

Jeremy coughed.

sat down at one

here. If you're scared then just talk to me," he told and coughed. "I'm sorry I got you into this." "As

on one side, Alicia still emboldened herself. She actually knew very well that if he had not

an eternity following the aimless 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" again and shouted at the intercom

"Help! Is there anyone?"

and with the ongoing thunderstorm, there was not a sound or movement from the

shouting at the

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. She

are... Are you

seemed to be really hot and there was faint groaning sounds from him. Alicia

do is wait for us to get out

breathed deeply for there was this heaviness on her chest which was difficult to describe. She then sat down as well. "Please tell me we are not going to be trapped

won't! If this is the last moment of my life, then I have no regrets because I can be with you. Ally, if I could use

why? Why won't you