Elevator

Not quite positive if it’s a hospital though it pretty looked more like a condo or a residential building. Walls were painted in white, people looked like they came from different classes, at least based from perfume scents. Rich. Average. Poor. I wasn’t walking fast like I was in a rush. I was even a little smiling looking at people’s faces. Women dressed to kill and some sans make up on their faces. There was even a kid holding her teddy bear who smiled back at me and that old man trying to hold his cough.

It was a fresh new day.

Outside the elevator door, there stood an old woman with paper bags. I must’ve flashed a smile at her and asked if she needed help, she raised an eyebrow as a reply. (SK would probably say I am sooo SM with these words, he’d probably be disappointed coz’ this is so high school, probably super beginner).

Anyways, as the door opened, I let her go in first while scrutinizing me. I went at the back of the shaft, leaving her behind me. I’ll be stuck with the snob granny for 5mins tops. She’ll be the first to get out of it so it can’t be that bad, I guess. I pressed 51 button, where I’m probably going, which I’ve no idea what I’m gonna do there/who am I seeing or if that’s even my own place/where the heck am I really. I barely glanced at where granny is going though.

Midway, not knowing where granny is going and just thinking my what/who/where, I felt a super strange numbness. I somehow knew something, somewhere is wrong..

Hayun, meron matinding phenomenon sa labas ng building na parang katapusan na ng mundo pero mukang ako lang naman ang nakakakita at nkakakaalam ng nangyayari. At hindi pa pala penthouse ang level 51, kaso nahati sa gitna yung building at nilipad yung elevator na parang isa syang malaking container.

Ang lakas lakas ng hangin sa labas may kasama pang ambon at nagpagulong gulong ang elevator na sinasakyan naming ni Granny. Dumaan pa sa flyover, at nagpatalsik talsik pa kung saan-saan hanggang sa tumigil kami sa baba ng isa pang tulay. At bumukas an gang pinto ng elevator. Nagawa ko pang tulungan yung isang mag-ina sa kalsada dahil sanggol pa lang ang anak nila.

At eto pa, nkasalubong ko si Ryza na naka-dress pa at maayos na maayos ang itsura at bigla naging maayos ang kalangitan at nagliwanag ang paligid. Nginitian pa nya ako habang hndi ako magkada kumahog sa pagsasalita na wala namang boses na lumalabas sa bibig ko.

Tapos nagising nako.

Ano kaya yun?

Period.