Wait for me.....!

“Hate that f*cking lift. The alarm screams easily, even though there were only 8 persons inside it. It can’t even bear 8 persons even though the capacity label said so. Dush! Must be something crooked with the weight capacity.”

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Mira was running like a toddler when she rushed to the closing lift. She made it and sneaked in the lift as fast as she could. Suddenly, the alarm screamed. “Derr.. Am I that heavy till this lift couldn’t even carry me up?” she grunted as she stepped out from the lift. She was so upset because there were only seven other students in the lift. Angrily, she waited for the next trip. After waiting for sometime, she managed to get into the lift. Reluctantly, she pressed the button. When the lift door closed, she was shocked to see a girl, poorly dressed and wet, standing at one of the corners at her back. She couldn’t see the girl’s face, as the hair was covering most of her face.

“Excuse me miss, are you okay?” she asked.

“Hhheeelllppp mmeee…..” the little girl showed her pale face and gave a whisper to her. The eyes were red, some water was dropping off her nostrils, and the body was giggling.

Mira couldn’t feel her legs and fainted.

* * * * * *

Everybody was shocked by that incident. Some rumours include:

“Maybe she’s pregnant. That’s normal...”

“OMG! Maybe she was undergoing a strict diet regime until she cannot stand it anymore? I must start mine immediately!”

“Maybe she was frightened by something..?”

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It had been 3 months since that incident happened. Mira was carrying a heavy box up to her class, and to use the stairs, would be ridiculous. She thought of using that lift again, but she was traumatized by the incident. The box was extremely heavy, as it contained some books and computer appliances. She did not have other options, but to use that lift. She was praying deep inside her heart that this time would be nothing. She pressed the lift button and the lift opened shortly. She slowly moved into the lift and pressed the closing button. Her heart was beating fast and she couldn’t stop herself from giggling. Suddenly, she could feel someone’s breath on her neck.

The light went off.

The lift stopped moving.

Books and wires scattered on the lift’s floor.

She was sitting at one of the corner in the lift, hugging her feet. She couldn’t stop her sobs and screamed for help.

“Hhheeellllpp mmeee…”

it was that voice again. Mira could hear the voice clearly, like the girl was murmuring next to her.

“What do you want from me?!”

Mira shouted with a shaky voice.

The voice disappeared.

Suddenly, she noticed that there was a lid that could be opened at the top of the lift. She thought she could get out of the lift by opening that lid. She stood up and stepped on the bars in the lift.

As she managed to open the lid, her nose caught something foul and rotten, like some sort of rotten rats. She tried to poke her hands out of the lid and her hand touched something hairy. She pulled it into the lift to see it and she noticed that it was a head of a girl! She screamed out loud and closed her eyes as tight as she could.

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*News Breaking Issue*

“Satu mayat kanak-kanak perempuan telah ditemui di sebuah bangunan akademik, U**M, lewat malam semalam. Mayat Tee Fong Ling, 7 ditemui di atas sebuah lif di bangunan tersebut dan didapati telah reput. Tee Fong Ling dilaporkan hilang dua tahun lalu ketika mengikuti ibunya, Yin Chui Peng yang bekerja sebagai pensyarah universiti ini. Saksi kejadian, Mira Akwim Abdollah, seorang pelajar universiti berkenaan masih berada di hospital untuk rawatan lanjut. Polis mengklasifikan kes ini sebagai kes pembunuhan kejam dan suspek pembunuhan ini masih di cari. Orang ramai yang mempunyai maklumat berhubung kes ini boleh……

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Mira smiles every time the lift door is opened. Now, she knows that she did a good thing, which is saving the girl. “No wonder the alarm keeps screaming every time there are 8 persons in the lift, because it is already become 9 persons...."