This choice: Lunge to stop the door with your arm before it closes, and help your mother off. • Go Back...Chapter #6Lunge to stop the door with your arm before it ... by: R682  
Heroically, you throw yourself bodily towards the door, thrusting your arm into the last few inches of closing gap to block it from closing the rest of the way. These things do have anti-closing mechanisms to reverse them if they detect something like that, right? It's a good job this one does, otherwise you wouldn't like to contemplate the possible outcome. Fortunately, however, as soon as the rubber seal presses onto your arm, the door surrenders and slides back the way it came with an apologetic hiss. Taking your mother's arm, you help her stumble off the train, feeling every bit the bold saviour son, especially given what seems to be her current unfortunate situation.
Panting to catch your breath, the two of you stand on the platform and watch the door close again behind you, successfully now on its second attempt. The guardsman seems to blow his whistle kind of angrily, and within seconds the train is starting to depart. You turn towards your mother, ready to offer a few words of sympathy for what seems to have occurred while she slept. Instead, you're greeted by a shrill call of alarm from her, and an even more stinging cry of recrimination.
"Oh, Daniel, you idiot!" she cries. "What about our luggage?!"
What about it, indeed. While you were racing for the door, and helping your bewildered mother off, both your two large suitcases were still sitting on the rack. Now they're still on the train, and the two of you are watching it pull away. Meaning you're currently standing here left with only what you're currently wearing. In your mother's case, that's particularly bad, since what she's wearing on her lower half is seemingly soaked with urine... and now she hasn't even got anything to change into. No wonder she called you an idiot, though you can't help but feel more than a little hard done to, to be made the focus for her blame after all your good intentions.
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