“Ouch!”
I froze on the spot as the lift doors closed behind me.
*Thinking I would not bump into another soul in the wee hours of morning, I had shuffled out of my apartment in my night slip, carefully balancing three oversized boxes in my small arms. I yawned, most unglamorously, while I waited for the lift to arrive at the 48th level.*
*So, imagine my horror, when I peered past the boxes stacked tall in my arms, you popped into my view, adjusting your spectacles.*
“Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry!” Panicking, I tried to turn, but for some reason, my brain-to-arm coordination became glitchy, and the boxes smacked you in the face again, just as you huddled over to the empty space beside me.
I cringed in apology, and you chuckled as you adjust your spectacles again.
You brought your phone up from your side to pause the video you were watching—Devilman Crybaby.
“Here, let me…”, you paused to remove your earphones and tuck your phone into your back pocket, before grabbing the top two boxes, “… help you with that.”