I yelled as I jumped and fell and when my shoes hit the hard wooden shelves the entire library echoed the thud. Every eye in the library had turned my way, but I wasn’t about to stop long enough for them to react. I leapt again, hitting the carpeted floor hard, tumbling and my shoulder ramming against one of those metal, rolling paper-back carts. It went one way as I used my momentum to rise to my feet and keep running.
“HEY!” someone shouted.
I heard someone cuss from above me as dozens of people seemed to be converging on me. I ran past the service desk, several ladies voices could be heard shouting but I didn’t stop and I went for the door, which I burst through. I didn’t stop running and I didn’t look back; I was sure they were right behind me.