The Elevator Said No To Me

Summary

On Christmas Eve, my parents half-jokingly announced:

"Whoever gets home first between you and your brother gets the house."

I rushed into the elevator first and headed up to the 20th floor.

But when the elevator doors opened again, the home I'd been longing for wasn't there. Instead, I was somehow back on the first floor!

The door stood wide open, just as it had been when I first arrived.

Confused, I pressed 20 again.

The sensation of ascending was clear, and the floor numbers climbed steadily from 1.

But when the doors opened, I was back on the first floor again!