DILEMMA

After becoming aware of what was happening around me, I quickly stood up and just as quickly dashed to my backpack and zipped it shut as fast as I could. Not being able to close it completely as the parts of some of the tools I had used earlier stuck out a little

*STEP*

As the door was almost half way closed, I started to sprint for the door with the backpack in my hand. Knowing that I had to get the backpack out first I started giving it a strong backwards momentum and then a forward thrust with each step I took and at the peak of my throwing arm length I let go and the backpack was flung all the way through the opening of the door which was now about sixty-five percent closed at the time.

*STEP* *STEP*

I finally managed to get close enough to the door, which was now about seventy-five percent closed, then I powered my legs and jumped forward as hard as I possibly could in a diving position with my arms extended and making it out of the door first then my head and shoulders followed.

*BAM*

Unfortunately for me, the opening wasn't big enough that no matter how I positioned myself while diving out, I still ended up bumping my chest against the approaching sliding door. This threw me and my reaction time off significantly and I was forced to land on the floor right shoulder first but luckily on the other side of the door with my entire body making it all the way through.

"Kak... aak... Fffuck!" I mumbled in pain as I couldn't express what I wanted at the top of my voice. I almost dislocated my shoulder from the unplanned impact with the floor and I also managed to burn my skin from sliding forward after I fell. My uniform I had on was shirtsleeved so it wasn't able to protect my arm properly.

*ROLL*

I got my breathing under control in an attempt at getting calm because I didn't have the time to be idling around with the alarms constantly wailing. And after I managed doing that, I instantly transitioned into a tantrum style body roll, holding my shoulder and kicking my legs in the direction I wanted my body to move to.

I rolled around until I turned to the door which was almost completely closed at that time and saw my hair ribbon, which I had been using to make the chalk powder, on the floor in-between the door and the two rooms

"No!" I whispered, reaching out my hand to grab it although I was too far and then the door finally closed completely.

"No! No! No! No!" I sat up but still holding my shoulder, scrunching my face and gritting my teeth

*CRAWL*

I crawled to the door and held on to the small piece of ribbon fabric that had made its way to my side of the door then I pulled on it, tugged on it but it wasn't budging. I didn't have enough fabric to hold on to and the door was sealed so tight that nothing could get through it.

"Fuck!" I finally gave up and let go after giving it all the strength I had.

I had just made a huge mistake and anyone who sees that ribbon would know that there truly was an intruder who tampered with everything and had made it all the way down here.

*BEEP* *BEEP*

Meanwhile, the alarms were still going in the white room I just got out off but wasn't in the room I was in at the moment, the one which was filled with all those boxes and equipment. The door between the two rooms had muffler the sound of the alarm significantly but it was still coming through none the less.

I got up on my feet with my entire body aching and some bruises here and there.

"I don't have time to worry about that" I exhaled to calm myself and free my mind

Now left with no other choice of going forward I quickly bent over and stuffed my supplies back into my backpack as some of them fell out when the backpack landed on the floor and because the zip wasn't fully done, the opening for them to pour out was there. I kept my things in order while I tried to think of what to do next.

'Think Samuels think, this is just a hiccup, you are considerably a smart guy so think. What's going to be your next move?' I thought while taking the switch blade from all the tools that had fallen out to the closed door then I ripped the piece of ribbon that was hanging out the door so that it wouldn't be showing on this side. That's as much as I could do at the moment.

After I had done that, I went back to the backpack and stuffed both the blade and the ripped piece of ribbon back into the backpack. While doing that, I realize something I was too distracted to realize earlier.

"Wait a minute, the alarms are on. I could hear and also see the flashing lights in the previous room but was I the only one who could see them? What about the security?" I said then rubbed the finger tips of my left hand against my forehead, moving my hand in a circle pattern as I gave myself a little massage to arrange my thoughts.

"No no no, I took care of the cameras so there's no way they can see me" I said then looked around and to my luck there weren't any cameras in this room of boxes.

"No cameras, I'm good... Phew!" I said then looked into the screen of my phone which was the only thing I hadn't put back into the backpack yet then I read the time [2:55pm]

"Looks like I still have about five minutes before the storage cells clear out and they gain live footage again so I'm good for the moment" The minute I came to that conclusion a contrary thought sparked in my mind 

'What if apart from the cameras there is also an external alarm system to alert them? What if I made a mistake and they rebooted the system sooner than my calculated time thereby clearing the stored data in the cells. Did I really think about this plan properly before I decided to go with it?'

"Shit, what if this, what if that. Too many what ifs and I'm running out of time here. Doing this and thinking about possibilities won't solve anything. I can't take any chances and I need to get out of here" Slowly I stuffed the phone into the backpack and zipped it shut then wore it as I stood up as I had been crunched down all this time.