The alarm goes off at 6:00 am as you awake to start a new day...
You crawl out of your empty bed to walk toward your window and look out to see the busy Kansas City streets below your 15th story studio apartment. The noises, pollution, hot dog stand smells, and overall city stench is actually quite pleasant to you this morning. Not really sure why, but it seems like today could be a different kind of day.
You then hear your automatic coffee machine kick on. You like your coffee steaming hot, so you have it set to be finished about the time you are up and actually moving around and not dead to the world so you can enjoy the one exciting thing in your tedious day. You see your blue skirt suit hanging on the back of the bathroom door as you enter to get your daily self pampering bubble bath before your stroll into big city life. You start the water and add the peach scented oils and moisturizers, and beads that seam to dissolve almost instantly. You lay there in the tub imagining what is missing in your life as you think about that one true love that had slipped away many years ago. Wondering how much you have yearned for that feeling of need, compassion, devotion, pleasure, since you have been left alone. Then you stop to think, I have the only person in my life that matters, me... After 36 years, you finally found the right combination that completely sends you to oblivion when you bathe and keeps you refreshed the entire day.
Today is completely different than any other day... why? Because you have been given this new career opportunity that is just too good to pass up. Today is the big interview. You have to be downtown at 8:30 am, so you decide to take a horse and buggy, just because you have plenty of time. You thought it would be a nice change of pace and a way to relax to clear your head of all nervousness before the "big meeting".
Reading the directions and address given to you through a conference call in your home office only hours before, you hand them to the driver and sit back to enjoy the ride. You watch the people walk by in a hustle bustle to get to some place that doesn't matter. The cars push impatiently through the overcrowded streets, and the drug dealers turning their next trick, but yet the city life today seems so distant and serene. It is unexplainable, but something about the way you feel says that this Monday is going to be different...
After stopping at the bakery to get a fresh pastry, you continue your journey toward the first step into your new life. You arrive 3 blocks later in front of this high rise glass building, which sits on the corner of what seems to be the busiest intersection in the city. You tip the gentleman handsomely for his stop at the bakery and the surprisingly smooth ride through the chaos around you. Immediately in front of you, stands this towering structure which seems like something from the movies. Reflecting the sun as if it were a giant prism designed to cast a bright rainbow of light onto a dismal city. You take a deep breath and enter through the revolving doors to the marble floor lobby full of jackets, ties, and pantsuits, and more stress than the New York Stock Exchange.
Your new instructions tell you to go to the 68th floor to the Human Resources Department of Menchey Industries Inc. to speak with a Mr. Jason Whitley. You have always been slightly afraid of heights but today, you feel like you can conquer anything that your heart desires.
The elevator doors open and you timidly step onto the landing trying not to think about not being able to get off until you are 1000 feet above solid earth. This probably won't be the worst challenge for you today. "Concentrate on the interview", you tell yourself. The elevator begins its ascent and you look around you to find one man reading his Wall Street Journal, a well-dressed woman tapping her right foot to the music playing from small speakers in the corner of the lift. Then you turn to look out the front of the elevator and realize the only thing is preventing you from falling to the busy street is two panes of glass...
Then you think about how wonderful your day has been so far and watch all of the people, automobiles, and commotion below you and begin to get the erotic thoughts in your head as a gorgeous, well-built man enters the elevator at the 43rd floor. He immediately caught your eye. He stood about 5'8", strong facial features, with a slight 5 o'clock shadow. He was wearing a pair of snug blue jeans with a tool belt slung over his shoulder, and a tight white tee stained from whatever work he was doing just before. Sweat is so slightly rolling down his forehead. As he looks your way. Your eyes meet just briefly. Enough to manage a smile from your mysterious guest. You blush and continue your trip as you pass the 56th floor. The impure thoughts are now intensified as you wonder what it would be like to have someone like this handsome man make you feel like a real woman again... Not even caring when or where, you think of being on this elevator alone with him, but knowing that if all of the people from outside world would just stop with their lives for a moment then you would have one million eyes upon you. This thought intrigues you, as you reach the 68th floor and have to come back to reality to get to the meeting.
As you exit the elevator, you exchange glances once more, as if you have met somewhere before and you will meet again...