Kelvin hated having to come into the city and work in the old buildings. Work takes you where it takes you, so you have to go. Having to install state of the art security electronics in a new building is one thing for Kelvin, but to do so in one of the old monsters just seemed somehow wrong to him.
If fighting the traffic to get down town wasn’t bad enough, the temperature having broken a hundred earlier in the day hadn’t helped his disposition at all. Working past ten at night certainly hadn’t improved it one bit either. He took a swig from his last bottle of water while he waited for the decrepit elevator to slog its way up to him on the top floor.
The building was sweltering from the day’s heat, even at this late hour. The tons of stone just seemed to soak the heat up and then keep releasing it all night and the air conditioning system didn’t seem capable of keeping up with even a fraction of it. In the three days he had been working this job the only real bright spot had been that the hotel was walking distance, and the building seemed to have a lot of fairly decent looking women working on the lower floors.
The doors creaked open assaulted him with a blast of stale sweltering air. kelvin almost decided to walk down the seventeen flights of stairs, choosing to ride in the veritable furnace of a car only just before the doors closed. He slipped in as the doors were closing and set his case on the floor next to him, almost instantly wishing he had taken the stairs. It felt like it had to be at least a hundred and ten in the seven foot square box, making him instantly think of all those POW movies where they throw you into a metal box in the sun for punishment. He hit the lobby button and waited for the car to rattle and shake its way down the long shaft.
It hadn’t made its way very far before it stopped, the doors creaking open to let a nice looking young lady into the car. He was sure he had seen her step into the car ahead of him earlier in the day, and taking a quick look at her short black mini-skirt and slender shapely legs he was convinced he had. He would never forget a set of legs that looked like that!
The doors closed and the car started creaking and wobbling down the shaft once again.
Without warning the car came to an abrupt stop. Not the usual slow and pause, but a jolting shaking sudden stop that left no doubt that it was not intended to stop that way.
“Oh fuck!” The young lady cursed before looking over at him and blushing slightly. “Sorry.”
“Not a problem. My sentiments exactly.” he said as he set his bag down on the floor next to him. “Does this happen a lot?”
“Well…” she said stepping back and leaning against the wall. “Last time, I was stuck in here for almost four hours, but that was during the day.”
“Well, let’s hope that we don’t have to wait that long.” Kelvin replied as he reached down and toggled the alarm switch. He waited and listened for the telltale of a bell ringing outside the car, and waited and waited. “Huh. I didn’t know they had silent alarms in these old elevators.”
“Um… They don’t.” The young lady said from where she had sat down on the floor. Her legs were curled under her and her high heels standing empty on the floor next to her.
kelvin turned to look at her as her statement sunk in. “So we’re stuck in here and no one knows?”
“Sooner or later someone will notice. There are only two elevators so someone will notice.”
“So sooner or later, like in a few minutes?” he asked, realizing that he was already sweating like crazy, and the nervousness of being confined was quickly making him sweat more.
He was not real claustrophobic, but to be brutally honest, he live in the country for a reason. Being closed up in a steel box for an extended period of time was not something pleasant to contemplate.
“Well, it’s hard to say.” She said looking up at kelvin.
“Um…. Ok.” kelvin said pulling his tie loose and unbuttoning the top two buttons of his shirt. Yeah, this was going to get really tense if he was going to have to spend a couple hours in there.
“Are you alright?” She asked, cocking her head on an angle and looking up at him.
“Um… sure. I’m fine.” Kelvin lied as he started perspiring a bit more. No this was not his idea of a good time.
“So. I take it your claustrophobic?” She asked in an exasperated tone as he began pacing back and forth in front of the closed doors, willing them to suddenly open.
“Oh, maybe a little.” he answered forcing a smile to his face.
Kelvin paced for several minutes before the young lady reached up and grabbed his hand. “Come sit down. You’re just going to wear a hole in the floor.’ She said with a smile. “My name is Jennifer, but most people call me Jenny.
“I’m Kelvin.” He said as he dropped to the floor next to her.
“Well Kelvin. We might as well relax. So what are you doing up here so late?” Jenny asked.
“Working on a security system on seventeen.” kelvin said looking at the doors and wishing they would open.
“Ah. I heard someone new had taken over the whole floor. Some stock trading outfit or something like that.”
“Yeah. Something like that.” he answered.
“So I work on fifteen. Administrative assistant in an office there.”
“Ah. I see.” Kelvin answered as he looked at the ceiling.
“Ok. Look. You can stare at the walls, door and ceiling all you want, but it won’t get us out any sooner.” Jenny said.
“Um, ok. What will?”
“Well, to be honest, probably not much. We just have to wait till someone notices it’s out of order and calls for the maintenance team.”
“And the alarm doesn’t go anywhere?” he asked, looking at the ceiling and doors again, sure that they were starting to get closer to him as he looked.
“Well, it’s an old system. It breaks from time to time. So I guess the alarm is broken. Don’t worry though, Security will be along soon to close everything up and they’re bound to notice it’s stuck.” She said brightly.
Kelvin looked over at her, realizing she was one of those incredibly annoying glass half full people. Kevin also realized she was kind of cute; a fact which momentarily allowed him to forget that the size of the elevator was shrinking at an alarming rate. He guessed her to be in her mid twenties, dark brown curly hair, fair complexion, large brown eyes that some young man could spend a whole night sinking into and a definitely Jewish nose.
Without trying to look like he was giving her a full exam, he quickly scanned the rest of her. Her light colored blouse was quickly becoming a bit more translucent where it lay against her sweating skin, allowing him to see she had on a light colored lace bra encasing a nicely proportioned set of breasts that had to be a good thirty eight d’s. Her slim waist disappeared into that cute black mini-skirt, which in her current position rode well up the thighs of her long slender legs.
Kelvin couldn’t help but wonder what type and color panties she had on that were hidden just out of his view. The whole survey only took a few seconds, after which he quickly looked away, but it was enough to allow his dick to begin to begin to embarrassingly grow. If it kept up its current pace, it was going to be painfully obvious very soon. He didn’t know that Jennifer had noticed his stares.
“Well, at least you were polite about it.” She said with a small grin.
“Huh? What?” he asked his brain trying to puzzle out what she was referring to.
“Checking me out. At least you were polite. Lots of guys would have practically had me undressed in their minds by now.” She said without looking at his direction.
“I’m so sorry.” kelvin responded as his face grew a bit brighter shade of pink with the realized that he was doing just that.
“Oh, that’s cute! You’re blushing!” She said with a giggle. “So, let’s see. You’re technical, you’re a gentleman, you’re easily embarrassed, I’d guess you’re what, forty? Kind of cute too.” She finished, making him blush a bit harder with her last statement. “So now that I figured a few things out about you, why don’t you take a few guesses at me?”
“Huh? I don’t understand.”
“Well, keeping your attention on me is obviously keeping your claustrophobia in check. I will just as soon not have to deal with someone going hysterical so let’s see if we can keep that going a bit longer, shall we? Besides, this is kind of fun.”
“Being trapped in a hot elevator is kind of fun?” Kelvin asked incredulously.
“No silly. Guessing about each other. Now come on. Your turn to guess.”
“Well, you already told me you are an admin in an office, so let’s start with age… Um twenty five? No ring on the finger, so you’re not married, I don’t think attached either, given how late you’re working.”
“Good start, keep going.”
“Aren’t you going to tell me if I am right or wrong?” Kelvin asked.
“You’re kidding right? You want to ask a woman her age? Let’s just say that so far you’re flattering me and no, I’m not attached. Now keep going, what else can you guess?”
He sat and stared at her for what seemed like a long time, trying to decide what else he could try to guess about her. His mind kept going to her physical attributes, which he didn’t think were going to be the best choices to guess about. “I’m at a loss. I am not sure what to guess about again.”
“Hmmmm Ok, then. my turn again. I guess six foot and an inch tall, and oh about one eighty?”
“Close. Six even and one eighty five. Pretty good guessing.”
“Good. Your turn again.”
“Um, ok. Five foot seven and one thirty?”
“Ohhh you are good for my ego. I wish I was one thirty. my turn again. Let’s see, what can I guess about you…. Oh I know. BOXERS!”
He sat stunned for a moment. Blurting out a surprised “huh?”
“Boxers, you look like a boxers guy rather than briefs. Am he right? And I bet solid colors too.”
“No, not boxers.” he answered as he tried to drag his mind back to the conversation each time it wanted to see if the doors had opened yet.”
“Oh not boxers huh? I didn’t figure you for a briefs man… unless of course you don’t wear any!” She said with a crooked grin that couldn’t help but drew Kevin’s attention.
“Huh? Yeah, I wear underwear.” he said almost defensively.
“Well, what kind then? Please tell me your not a whity- tighty guy. I will be so disappointed.”
“Um. No. Actually I wear bikini briefs.” he answered almost without realizing it he was so startled by the direction the conversation had gone.
“Ohhhhh. Nice. Let’s see. I bet…. red?” She asked as she leaned farther toward him.
“Um nope… They’re..”
“No don’t tell me, let him guess!’ She interrupted. “Let’s see, not red, then how about gray?”
“Nope.” kelvin answered, feeling his dick begin to swell as his mind began to wonder about her underwear.
“Mmmmm must be blue?”
“Nope.” he answered, still not fully believing what she was asking.
“Hmmm ok, I am going to have to say white, but if I am wrong this time you’re going to have to show me!” She said with that same slightly devious looking smile.
“Actually they’re black.” he answered.
“Black? I never thought about black. Guys wear black underwear? Come on. I doubt that. Show me let me confirm” She said grinning.
“What? I am supposed to drop my pants for you?” Kelvin asked incredulously. Not that he was averse to being seen by a beautiful lady, but damn!”
“What? You’re scared the elevator doors might suddenly open and someone will see you flashing your underwear? Come on! Show me!” She persuaded him.