The guys received an update from the
maintenance man when he told them an engineer from the elevator
company was expected to arrive within the hour.
Mason was thankful the atmosphere inside the
elevator had calmed significantly. Although there were long
silences, they didn’t seem uncomfortable. One or the other would
speak up, recalling some of the highpoints of the time they’d spent
together as teenagers. Neither felt the need to dredge up any of
the less pleasant aspects of their friendship.
“Do you remember Lorraine Little?” Mason
asked at one point.
“Uh, no, don’t think so.”
“Yes you do. You dated her for a while. Tall.
Straight black hair.”
“Oh, yeah. She was your date when we,
uh…”
Mason smiled, “It’s okay.” Mason didn’t want
to bring up the disastrous double-date ep
