My name is Alexis I have middle length hair that is a light brown.My skin is fairly pale,my eyes are a real bright green.I'm just your average teenage girl that likes to do teenage stuff. I'm not into the whole drinking or having sex thing though. I want to wait for my one true love.I'm seventeen years old and as of now I'm home by myself. My mom has been really sick lately.As for my dad we wont even go into conversation about him. Lets just say if my mom dies I will have to move in with my grandparents at least for one year. I soon pulled up to the hospital,I was about to go up stairs by taking the stairs when a janitor had stopped me before going up."Sorry miss but you can't go that way.""Why not?"I asked."The stairs are being worked on right now as we speak, there doing some construction on them."I was trying to remember back to the last time I was on the stairs. I do recall them being cracked in the concrete stone structure.But not enough for them to close off the stairs for construction."Miss you okay?"He asked meI shook my head to get out of my little trance."Yes,I'm fine. Thank you. I'll just take the elevator I guess."I said letting out a big gulp from my throat.I made my way over to the elevator,not pressing the button I stood there looking at it for awhile. I don't know why but ever since I was little I've always been afraid of the dumb things. Once again I started to go into my little trance, thinking back when I was young. My mom and I would be at the beach,we would always stay in a hotel. Of course you know that hotels have elevators. I remember chasing after the little boy's playing tag. We would run back, forth on the balcony.They were so into the game that they didn't want to get caught so they would run into the elevator. I would never go in there no matter..."Excuse me miss."A lower tone mans voice from behind me said. Startling me as I turned around to see a man in his upper age of sixty five years old.He has very little grey hair that is slicked back, his eyes were blue as the sky.He was wearing a all black suit."Are you okay?"He asked me in a friendly tone voice."Yeah,I'm fine. I've just got a lot of things on my mind thats all.""I see.Going up?""Yes."I said as he pressed the up button on the elevator."I'm sorry if I startled you miss.""Thats okay.I'm just going through a rough time right now."Ding the elevator rang. As it did I jumped."Are you sure your okay?""Yeah, I'm fine."He just gave me a weird look as we entered the elevator."What floor?""Tenth."I said as he pressed the tenth floor button.Right then was when the elevator door shut.As it did I jumped on the inside as my muscles tensed up.The elevator was going up,at the top of the elevator were the numbers of the floors we were passing up. I was watching the numbers going by as we were passing the floors.First floor, Second floor,Third floor,fourth floor,after the fourth floor it was starting to slow down."Is it suppose to do that?"I asked.The elderly man was looking up,around the elevator with a weird look.After he did he leaned over pressing the tenth floor button again .I found it weird how him and I were going to the same floor.The elevator was going slower now it had barely made it past the fourth floor.Right then was when the lights in the elevator had started to flicker off and on.After they came back on my heart was nearly pounding one hundred miles per hour.The elevator then had came to a complete stop."Ah!"I let out a little scream."It will be fine. Probably just a malfunction."He said pressing the tenth floor button again. The elevator didn't move,I was still about ready to panic,my heart was beating fast. The man then pulled out the phone in the elevator to call for help."Hello?"He said about four or five times before giving up. He then got frustrated pulling the phone out of the box,throwing it across the elevator close to me."No answer?""Were stuck in here."My heart almost stopped as he said that."Your kidding right?""No, no one answered.""Well someone should know were in here right?""Someone will hopefully come over time ."Hour 1 The lights in the elevator are off. The air is now cold due to the fact the elevator electric is off.I found out that the elderly mans name is Jack.The only thing in here thats producing light is the little mini flash light on Jacks key chain.I'm rolled up into a little ball in the corner as Jack is pacing the floor back and fourth trying to figure out away to get out.This is not how I want to die.I don't want to die by one of my long life fears. Jack is starting to act a little different then usual. He tells me that it's because he hasn't had his medication. He says if he doesn't get his medication soon that something bad will happen. I don't know what to do.If we don't get out of here we will both die over time. Also another thing I noticed was that the elevator every now and then will creak.Jack tells me that its because of the elevator hanging in one place.He says the the lock won't be able to hold up for much long. He says that another five hours the elevator will drop. He didn't have to tell me the rest.I knew what it meant if the elevator dropped. It would mean one thing.......death. Hour 2 The elevator seems to be getting colder by the minute.Jack is now in the other corner across from me."Why don't we try to reconnect the phone?"I asked him."No good.Don't you remember I tried that as soon as the elevator stopped.""Okay, you don't have to be such a jerk about it. It was just a thought.""Don't be a jerk about it."He said in an Ironic tone,getting up out of his corner walking over toward me.He crouched down on one knee while getting in my face.He grabbed my shirt and pulled me closer to him."I'm stuck in an elevator with a teenage brat.Now wouldn’t you be a jerk to.Plus I still need my medication.He said letting go of my shirt."Whats gotten into you?""Just never mind." Hour 3 Jack is acting more and more weird. He doesn't want the flash light on anymore because he said it hurts his eyes.He told me he had a head ache.After our little fight before he hasn't left his corner.Both of us are just sitting in our own corner now.I'm worried for him. Not only is this elevator thing driving him mad but he needs his medication.I fear that death is around the corner if someone doesn't find us soon. The elevator is now making the creepy creaking noise more often.I can only guess that the elevator lock will be only able to hold up for at least two more hours. I think Jack is either sick or asleep one or the other. I'm not really sure.The elevator is now colder then ever. It feels as if the cold has joined together with the darkness to make it colder.It is now so dark in here that I can barely see Jack at the other end of the elevator. I have noticed one thing that seems to be bothering me though. The phone that Jack threw across the elevator is now gone.I'm not sure if he has it for protection to make him feel safer or not. -Creak- Every time I hear the elevator making that noise I tense up really tight. I still fear these things.As soon as I get out of this thing I'm never going back in one again.As a matter of fact I think I will burrow Jacks flash light to look for the shaft to try an climb out."Jack."I cried out."Jack."I cried out again but no answer back.I then got on my hands and knees to crawl my way over to him. I want to stay close to the floor so I could see him. God knew if I stood up I wouldn't be able see where he was at.Finally after crawling for awhile I came across him. He was asleep with his black jacket covering him.Not wasting anytime I very carefully began to search his jacket pockets for his key chain.I didn't want to wake him for I feared if I did wake him he would be a complete jerk to me again.Finally on his left side of his jacket pocket I found the key chain with the light on it.I quickly turned it on while getting to my feet.I looked up at the elevator shaft to find that it needs a key.Thats when it hit me. Here I was holding a key chain that was some guys that I didn't even know. It was weird how he was going to the same floor as I. Finally I knew what was going on. It all makes since now why he pulled the phone out. Why he has the pair of keys on him. My God he's trying to kill... Hour 4 "Wake up."I heard Jacks voice call out.My vision was slowly starting to come back from darkness.As soon as my vision was fully back to normal I couldn't believe what I was seeing.I was tied up at the side of the elevator shaft with ropes. Jack was standing a little ways up from me on the ladder going up. Down below my feet was the elevator we were in."HELP ME!"I cried out."SHHH! no one can here you scream. But if you want to keep going at it. The least it will do is make your voice box sore.""Jack what have you done?!""Oh you don't know? Let me explain to you then."He said climbing down the ladder until he reached the same height level as me as me.He then put both arms behind him,folded them around the ladder to hold him up while he was looking at me."You see I was out to kill you along.""What did I do to you?""You see I noticed you come here a lot. I also know about your sick mother.I've been watching you for some time now.A life lesson will be taught here.""Your real names not Jack. WHO ARE YOU!!??"I cried out while sobbing."Don't you worry about that.Everything will be fine I promise. Now let me explain to you whats going to happen here.I'm going to climb to the top of the ladder to reach the other floor. As soon as I do I will press the up button on the elevator.The elevator will then proceed to come up crushing every bone in your body causing you to die.""No, Please don't do this."I said to him but he didn't pay any attention to me he just kept climbing the ladder leading to the top floor.He was soon out of my site. I tried to break free from the tight ropes.Even if I did get free I would have a long fall down.The elevator had then made a beeping noise.Jack or whatever his name was had pressed the button for the elevator to go up.I wasn't about to sit here and die I had to do something.Acting fast I was trying to get free by pulling and tucking.It had then hit me that I carried a pocket knife in my pocket for protection.Quickly I reached into my left side pocket pulling it out.I barely had enough arm length to cut the rope but I managed.Just in time I got free of the tight hold.I quickly fell on top of the moving elevator, the shaft was still opened.I don't know how I did it but I some how managed to roll into it. -Ding-The elevator has reached the destination it was going to. As soon as I got up the elevator doors opened.There was Jack standing in front of me with a shocked look on his face. In his left hand was the phone that he had ripped out of the elevator box.I had assumed that he was going to try to reconnect it then try to leave like nothing happened. I wasn't about to let that happen.Quickly I grabbed Jacks shirt pulling him into the elevator.I then stabbed him in the legs with my pocket knife.He cried out in pain falling to the ground as his blood spewed from his legs.While he was falling to the ground he dropped the phone.Quickly I grabbed the phone from the ground wrapping the cord of it around his neck.I began to choke him...but no this is not how I wanted him to die.While still holding the cord around his neck I drug him over to where the buttons are.Pressing the lowest floor button to get the elevator to go down. When we finally reached the very bottom floor.I climbed up the elevator shaft while pulling jack up with the cord around his neck.His face was now turning a bright red color."Is this what you wanted Jack?Is it?!"I asked him while I watched his face turn red.Not to long after that he had died of loosing air.As soon as he did I crawled back into the elevator closing the shaft.As soon as I got back in I walked over to the buttons."Tenth floor."I said pressing the tenth button. The elevator made its way up to as it normally does.As soon as it reached it's destination I could hear bones crushing along with a nasty gushing sound.I then left the elevator to go to see my sick mother.Boy will I have a story to tell her.---------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ------------------- Artist commentsHere is a story from my series The Tomb Of Horror you will see me post a lot of these.This happens to be one of my favorite ones. My girlfriend originally gave me this idea.She went to ride the elevator up with her mom.She said there was this creepy old guy in there with her and her mom.The elevator started to make weird noises.This made my mind come up with the story.