I finally regained control over my actions and mind. The encounter with him and the loud blaring alarm must've triggered some sort of memory relapse. I must've been sitting there like a complete idiot for over a minute, and I'll need all the time I could get.
 
            I stumbled out of the office. Only to run into some people in lab coats running in the opposite direction. I snap back to reality and run to where I remember them putting the rest of the survivors. I pull and push and slam the door, but it doesn't budge. I realize that the padlock on the door needs an access card. I ran back across the hall to the office room where he had interrogated me, there had to be a key card somewhere. I absolutely wasn't leaving my friends in there to die.
 
            Finally after searching every available inch of his office, I run back to the hallway. I notice one of the lab coats thrown and forgotten on the floor a few feet away. I rummaged through it till I found a plastic card in the front left pocket, a key card. I just had to hope that the person who the coat belonged to had the security clearance to open that door.
 
            I stumble towards the door and insert the card. After a few tries, the light turns green and the door unlocks itself. I walk into the room, which was covered in flashing red lights like the rest of the facility. After a quick glance I notice that the room was empty of anyone. The test tubes and flasks were all knocked over as if everyone left in a rush, the different colors were mixing on the floor, and when certain colored liquids touched, the floor and the tables would hiss. I took a mental note to say away from the liquids on the floor.
 
             In a panic, I start towards the door near the other side of the room, they had to have still been in here. I couldn't have missed them leaving, I was right across the hall for Christ's sake!
 
            "Payton?"
 
            I turn towards the voice and see what I hadn't noticed before, Patrick and Julian were huddling in the corner cabinet, scared and afraid. I run to them and give them a gigantic hug, I hadn't lost all of them after all. They hadn't died yet because of me.
 
            "Guys, I'm so happy to see you." I exclaim. "But where are the others?"
 
            "I don't know" Julian whispers. "They took them to another room when the alarms went off, we ran and hid before they could find us."
 
            I let out the breath that I didn't know I was holding, everyone was alright after all. "Which way did they go?"
 
            He points to another small side door near the main entrance. I pick them up and place them on their feet. "Come on, let's go find us some teenagers." I say with a smile on my face to cheer them up a little.
 
            We run to the door and I put my key card in, the light turns green. We open the door and find ourselves in a back hallway, probably the service hallway. The alarm was quieter in here than it was out there, thank god for that. My ears couldn't take too much more of that blasted alarm. The lights also weren't flashing red in here, but more of a purple light that wasn't as harsh on my eyes.
 
            We reach another door in two minutes, this one didn't need a key card, because it was already opened. We cautiously walk through, but this room was empty like the last one.
 
            "Payton?" For the second time in the last few minutes I turn my head to the sound of my name.
 
            What I saw shocked me. Amy was sitting there with Brandon, Kasta, and Lauren, and they were all tied up to a horizontal pole near the large window that faced the side of the island that we never got to see. We immediately reach down and untie them, even Amy. I stand up and look the room over.
 
            It was then that I looked out the window, and god I wish I hadn't. Outside there was a major storm raging. I didn't know much about storms, or hurricanes, but this was a monster on any scale that I'd ever seen. The wind was howling and could be heard over the alarm, the clouds were dark and contained the brightest and scariest lightning bolts that I'd ever seen, the rain was so dense that I couldn't have seen two feet in front of me if I was out there.
 
            I then realized why they were left here. They were all escaping from the monster storm, leaving all of us to die when the storm breaks through the window. These people were merciless.
 
            "Why'd they leave you guys here?" I ask Amy, wanting to see if we could still trust the girl who had ran out on us and started working for the man who ruined everything he touched, the man who destroyed my life.
 
            "They led us in here, and tied us to the pole. I don't know why they left me too. I can't believe they tied me to this blasted pole with the others, I don't deserve this, I work with those bloody coats too!" Her voice turned steadily into a British accent the more angry that she got, she must be from there or something.
 
            I stare at her for a while before I decide that she is trust worthy enough for me. "Fine, I believe you. We have to find a way out, or at least a way to get off this island. Amy, do you know a way off this island. Like is there a port or something?"
 
            "Well there is a big boat dock on the East side of the island, but they could've already taken it. There's some blow up boat thingies in the cupboard out there though." She says quickly.
 
            "Can we get to it from here?" Lauren pipes up.
 
            "Yeah, we just have to take a couple of back hallways. I never liked going there, it smells like fish." She scrunches up her nose in disgust of the memory.
 
            "I have a key card, just in case we can't get through some of the doors." I also pipe in, just in case anyone was wondering what would happen if we got stuck on a locked door.
 
            "Good, now come on." Brandon says as he helps the others up. Tonight we were getting off this island, and no one was getting in our way.