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"U R Selected, Miss Magic"
#WritcoStoryPrompt92
You were sinking into the abyss, someone came to your aid at precisely the right moment. Make a story out of it.


"Oh god, why am I always late on such occasions, I set the alarm, but that damn sleep it never arrives or depart at right time, it's always late, I think it is having a bad impact on my habits now a days, I'm so becoming like it, always late. "

I was going through a bad patch in my life, a patch youu can call as unemployment, and it was my own making, it wasn't due to my low grades or Inexperience, it was because I was searching for a right job, where I would be happy working, not forced to work on others advice.

I was cursing my sleep as always, but I was in such a hurry to get inside the elevator that I didn't even realised that I was talking loudly, that's why everyone's brows
raised while I passed them.

At last I entered the elevator and was about to press the ground button when suddenly someone rushed inside and collided on me.
My already irritated mind was about to give that someone a sound advice, but he apologised, even before I opened my mouth.
And I have to swallow my words just like my half eaten breakfast.

In this collision my file fell down and all the documents which I had arranged so perfectly, scattered everywhere inside the elevator, I was about to sit down and collect it, but the well dressed, seemed quiet mannered as he said
"It was my fault, let me help you miss?? "
" Oh thanks a lot, but I think it was an accident, wasn't it? you don't seem like a guy who would purposely bump into girls, I'm Elvi by the way and what's your name, are you a guest here never seen you before "

" Thanks a lot for not judging me, now a days very few people have this talent, Btw I'm Ezlyn, I think we are neighbours, who never met before. Haven't seen you either,
what type of name is this Elvi??
Mind sharing it's meaning "

And suddenly the elevator stopped with a jerk, the lights started to play hide and seek and my already chaotic mind became more unsettled, not that I have some sort of phobia which is caused due to closed spaces, but I don't want to be late for my interview, and I don't want to loose this opportunity,
It's my dream job, was waiting for such a chance since I completed my studies, but it seems like the opportunity kept slipping through my hands, already I was late and now stuck in this elevator with this strange neighbour.
Now a days no one is so kind and humble, he actually apologised to me, and is also arranging my documents. But why is he peeping in every document? Instead of calling someone to start the elevator. He is busy arranging the papers as if it's the most important work. And I was enjoying watching Mr Strange Neighbour, what a sight to see ,
he is not just handsome, he was the kind of handsome that spoke to me of olden times before he'd uttered even a word, his entrancing, wayfarer-blue eyes. Sloe shaped, they were shining as bright as the evening stars in betwixt the hide and seek of elevator's lights, seems flamboyant of character, and his sonorous, rumbling voice was making my heart stop every time he said something,
" you have no time for this elvi, look at him he is a Greek god and you are an ugly loathsome toad in front of him, stop building castles in air,"
my already annoyed brain warned me. But still I asked him to call someone for help as if I didn't have the number of the watchman.

" Hey Ezlyn, why don't you call someone and ask when is this thingy going to start, I am already late for an interview, dunno what that stubborn old CEO would ask me, or even if he would let me enter his office, after all no one goes late for the interview."
I was observing him, just when he caught me looking at him

" Oh like what you see? "
This question shook me and I said
" You seem to have the other side to your persona too Mr Ezlyn, actually
no I was trying to understand what is so important in my documents that it's taking so long to arrange them, that's all "
He seemed to be galled at my reply.
"Wait what did you said, stubborn old ceo? What makes you think that the CEO's are always old and stubborn "

" I think they need the wisdom and experience to reach that position, I don't say young people are not talented, but it's my opinion "

"Why are you going for that interview, seems that's why you were mumbling all the way through the corridors, never seen persons talking to themselves so loudly in open spaces, "
"Now you have seen one, so stop making very big issue of it, and whats wrong in that job, or that firm, it's one of the top ten firms and the job, well it's my dream job, and a golden opportunity for me, which unfortunately my sleep and this stupid elevator can become the main reason behind losing it? "

" Ohh, be positive Elvi you seem to be the topper in almost every academic year of yours, you are quite talented, btw you haven't told me the meaning of your name yet"

" Thanks a lot Ezlyn, Elvi means magic , and what does Ezlyn mean, this is also new to me"

And the elevator started with a jerk suddenly, leading us both to our destinations and how I hope that they are same.

"Did you say something, Miss Magic? "
"Oh no did I said it loud again, or do you read minds ha"
He laughed at that, and I knew it would reverberate in my heart forever.

"No you didn't speak loudly and I cannot read minds either, but at this moment I wish I could, btw Ezlyn means gift of God"

We reached the ground floor, and he wished me good luck for the interview
And said be prepared to work with the stubborn but young ceo. Before saying goodbye he gave me his visiting card, saying " give this to my secretary when you reach the office."
I was puzzled and didn't understand his words until
I read his visiting card, on which
His name was imprinted in bold letters
And below it was written the words
CEO of "xxx" , omg he was the CEO of the firm for which I was going for the interview, my fingers shivered and I knew I have to search a new job,
Because I knew no one in his right mind can select someone who speaks loudly.
Now I understood what he was actually doing while arranging the documents,
So instead of going out I decided
to go home and start searching for new placements,
but before entering the elevator again, out of curiosity I turned the card and couldn't believe what I saw, those three words which were gonna change my entire life,
" U R Selected Miss Magic".
Yes indeed for me Ezlyn was a gift of God, who fulfilled my dream.

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© Sanhita Sonavane