Chapter 6. Trapped Inside the Elevator

The elevator stopped on the sixth floor. Everyone in the small box was out with Adam. Adam walked alone, while others were in pairs or with friends, perhaps also with family. 

Before entering the glass door, some mid-air movie posters would welcome visitors. Two of them were Hollywood movies, "Mission: Impossible 5" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens ". Then the other two were Indonesian movies, "Retroaktif: Single part 1" and" Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika."

However, Adam chose a movie with a poster that had the face of Raditya Dika as the main focus. The man was not in the mood to think too much. He wanted to laugh and got carried away by the player's foolishness because of its plot. That's what Adam expected.

Adam's hands were free. Unlike the hands of other visitors thronged with their cell phone screens. Adam left his phone in the office. At the moment he felt like he was separate from the job noise and he liked it. Maybe Hassan would be rushed into a tight spot when he needed him all of a sudden. This made this tall man smile.

After one person was in front of him, that would be Adam's turn to book the ticket. 

"Good evening, what would you like to watch?" the woman in black asked in a friendly manner.

"Single. One ticket."

Adam's answer moved the ticketing woman to go through the reservation process and instead looked in disbelief. The ticket clerk was dumbfounded with her mouth a bit open. She did not expect that the man in front of her was just watching by himself. She thought he was a handsome man and should have come with a girlfriend or a wife to accompany him.

"Just one? Are you sure?" she teased with a smile.

"Let it be suitable with the title," Adam answered with a light smile.

The ticket clerk chuckled at Adam's answer. "You're very funny, Sir," she said. "Which seat will you please choose?" The woman showed Adam the seating chart that was still available.

"D7," Adam chosen.

"Fine. One ticket, Single, theater two. Here you go," the woman said as she handed Adam one ticket.

"Thank you," Adam replied.

Leaving the ticket counter, Adam's eyes caught a face he had seen earlier on the ground floor. The woman who accidentally bumped into his arm. 'Maybe she's planning a movie, too,' Adam's inner soul said.

The movie that Adam was about to see was near to air. The man chose to sit on one of the empty waiting chairs. Keeping a look around. There was not much to do, only wait and see a few visitors coming back and forth.

In time, there were two women reached by Adam's gaze. The second woman's face looked familiar. Like Adam had seen it before, but somewhere. Then came the announcement on the speaker.

"Attention, please. Door of theater two has been opened. For those of you who have a ticket are welcome to enter theater two."

That was the call sign for Adam. He went from sitting toward the entrance of theater two. Some people were already lining up to enter the room. Adam's turn came. Then he walked into a room where the visitors were less than by day or afternoon.

The big screen in front welcomed him with commercials. The booming sound of a loudspeaker made Adam frown while looking for a chair with a combination of numbers and letters alike the ticket in hand. Once found, he sat down and made himself comfortable.

Almost two minutes passed. The lights in the room were starting to fade. Some of the visitors still came looking and took their seats. Adam inhabited the outermost seat on the middle line. Three seats on his left side are still empty.

"Excuse me," a woman said, which turned Adam's attention and made him look at the source of the voice. They were two women.

 Adam pressed his knees back and pulled himself back. Give them as much space as they could go through. They were sitting one seat away from Adam. 

The movie begins, and the main character in the film was truly a poor man. Filled with cuteness, awkwardness, and recklessness. Perfectly churning the bellies of the audience. Laughter was occasionally heard. Adam, who was in the mood to savor the moment, simply went along without thinking too deeply.

It was heard that one of the women sitting on the left side received a phone call. Then in several minutes, the woman stood up and once again apologized to Adam for making a way for her to pass by. However, there was only one woman who went. The other one continued to watch the movie.

The movie in which Adam watched told the struggle of the main character who tried to give up "single" status by an adventure from girl to another girl. In the end, however, the main character learned something far more in life than merely fulfilled one's desires.

Adam the scion of the Saguna family touched by the film in a different version for himself. If Ebi, Single lead movie was named, struggled for a girlfriend, then Adam thought of fighting for his own happiness. The guy started to consider if he continued to keep the memories between him and Clarissa, the results would not be good to him.

After 127 minutes, the soundtrack came along with a list of cast names until the film crew moves on the giant screen. The room lit up slowly. The warm colors emitted as the visitors dispersed and took turns leaving the room.

Once outdoors, Adam did not leave the theater immediately. Instead he sat on the waiting benches as a contemplation, rethinking what was going on inside. The man rolled up the tip of the arm of his worn yellow hoodie and then looked at the number indicated by the watch of his left hand. After looking surely, he thought of returning to his apartment soon, because it was about to change days. 

Adam walked towards the elevator. The shopping center's visitors did not have much left. He was even standing in front of the elevator door, alone.

 Ting!

The elevator doors are slowly opening. Adam came in and hit the a button to get to the ground floor. Before the door was completely closed, someone shouted from outside the cubicle.

"Elevator! Hold it!" Someone exclaimed with a kind of female voice.

At the sound of the call, Adam pushed the button to open the door again. A woman rushed in. Adam pressed another button to close the door. Noticing the woman still breathless, Adam asked her which floor she was going to, "which floor would you like to go to?"

She looked up and saw the row of buttons on the side of the elevator door, then said, "Yes, I … also … going to as … same as ... you to the ground floor." The breathing that hunted her down made it difficult to utter a sentence without cutting it.

Adam just nodded. The man stole a look out of the corner of his eye at her. She was the same woman who had hit her on the ground floor, who had also been seen by Adam in the cinema, and had been reminded of the same color of the dress as the woman who was sitting not far from his chair at the time he was watching. And now they were both in the same elevator to the same floor. The son of Adyaksa Saguna, made a smile unconsciously for the sheer number of coincidences.

She rested her slender body on the wall of the lift. Her shoulder-length black hair had bangs cut out in the middle. Even though she wasn't alone there, her face was flat as if Adam were not there. 

The elevator was suddenly bumpy. Immediately those two stood alert and strengthened their footing to stay upright. However, it shocked again and felt like the elevator had fallen by a standstill.

 "What's happening?" the woman hissed.

 "I think the elevator is in trouble," Adam answered.

"Jam?" The fear implied the tone of voice and the woman's eyes as she looked closely at Adam's face.