this morning #2251.

this morning, her gift of gab had helped her make her way past the hapless guard at the front desk but now that she was officially inside the building, she wasn’t sure what to do next. made her way over to the elevator bank & took out her phone to stall for time. try to obscure the fact that she had no plan. nothing came to mind so she decided to just act on the fly. when the elevator doors opened up, she stepped inside & pressed the button for floor nine. just as the doors were about to close, a man stuck his hand in between them. the doors opened back up & he stepped inside. reached for the panel and, seeing that “9" was lit up, gave her a quizzical look. as soon as the doors closed, the small talk began. engaging with this stranger was not at all part of her “plan.”