Writing Challenge -- Day 11

The instruction for Day 11 of the 30 Day Writing Challenge:

Your character gets trapped in an elevator with someone he or she is afraid of
(you decide why)…

Marjorie Simpson is a slight slender girl of twenty-two. She is employed as a personal assistant to Gregory Svenson, one of the top nobs in the Axia Insurance group at the office in the Richardson Plaza building. On the fourteenth floor.  Marjorie usually travels down to the staff cafeteria on the ground floor in the company of another girl Connie Johns, who is a PA to another top nob.

Brett Wever works as a janitor for Axia. He is a creepy-looking half-shaven guy with a slop-store/ office on the tenth floor. Marjorie has heard rumours about Brett, rumours that he suffers from a debilitating condition, which apparently is some sort of combination between bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, combined with the tendency to go into uncontrollable fits of rage and physical violence.

Although Marjorie had never personally witnessed or experienced any of these symptoms first-hand, she had heard from Connie that one should never get involved with this Brett character. He was inclined to go off the deep end, if anyone gave him cause to raise his level of jealousy. Mind you, the same could be said about countless other folk, too.

Five to One. Marjorie glances up at the large ornamental clock on the wall. She neatens her desk, packing away all superfluous documentation. Four floors below her, Brett Wever had just locked his storage facility for the lunch break, when a supervisor confronts him about his timekeeping. The supervisor is not rich in tact, and really gets up Brett’s nose-hairs. He is fuming and, and it is only the horror of the thought of another disciplinary hearing which prevents Brett from attacking this bossy nob.

As the elevator arrives at the twelfth floor, the door opens to reveal a tiny solitary figure standing at the back of the craft. Brett stomps into the lift and presses “G” . The door will not open for another nine floors.

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[ 340 words  ]

[ The brief for Day 12 reads, “Write the ending of a mystery story. Then write the beginning.]