[ WP ] Short story that takes place in a single elevator ride .

It was fate that led me to her. 
 
 I pressed the `` Up'' arrow and waited for my steel courier to arrive. Tonight was the night, the ring in my pocket grew heavier the closer I got to her apartment. Thoughts raced in my head quicker than the passing glances I had received from strangers on the way over. My mindless wandering was interrupted by the arrival of the elevator. A subtle ding and the doors slid open. I darted inside and smashed the button for the 5th floor. The button's light seemed brighter today, the air seemed cleaner. I exhaled the most crisp breath of air I had ever tasted. The elevator doors slammed shut, and swiftly rose towards the heavens. Light as a feather I felt, I am right where I am supposed to be. I had never felt so alive. 
 
 In the blink of an eye my ascent to destiny was halted. The elevator went black, the buttons had faded. The button for the 5th floor had died with the rest, the once weightless ride was now suspended stories above the ground. The sweat on the back of my neck was cooled by a breeze. A breeze? In an elevator? This could n't have been normal. My chamber of darkness was then illuminated by a red safety light that had flickered on overhead. I pulled out my soon to be fiancee's ring and stared at it. It was beautiful, everything I had ever imagined. The ache in my heart had hardened now, I stared deep into the crystal and closed my eyes. 
 
 *Bang* 
 
 The elevator lurched down, dropping what seemed a couple feet. I landed in a crouch, my breath calm as ever. My hand steady, this was n't an accident. This is my fate. She is my fate. When the elevator gave way again there was no bang. A silent decent to the ground below. My footing gave way to gravity, I floated there with the ring just out of my grasp, it was so beautiful there. Just as she was now... So close to me, but so far. I would never put that ring on her finger now, she would never see how I see it now. A last glimmering light in a dark world. My weightless decent down had not bothered me. This was my life, this is my death. 
 
 It was fate that led me here.
