Kpop oneshots

RIIZE - Claustrophobia | ❤️‍🩹 |

Main member: Wonbin

Caregiver: Shotaro (ft. Sungchan)

Request/Idea - The author (Me)

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RIIZE has told each other, from predebut as a group till now, that they'd be able to say things without being judged and most members have been following this pretty well, except for one. Wonbin. He too has been doing but one thing he never told anyone is that he's had severe claustrophobia ever since childhood. Wonbin was playing hide and seek with some friends at his house one day and somehow got on the top shelf inside a small linen closet. After waiting for about an hour, Wonbin decided to leave as he was getting bored but quickly realized that he couldn't get down and started freaking out. He screamed for someone, anyone, and luckily one of his friends found him and called for Wonbin's parents to help the kid down.

The boy had nightmares for weeks, which fortunately went away but the fear never did. Wonbin never told his members because as he began to get older, he started thinking how claustrophobia is a childish fear. Why were the rest of the members fine but he got scared if they had to use the studio with the tiny recording booth? And when Wonbin switched rooms with Sohee just because of the bigger closet. Not because he didn't have enough room but because of his fear. Wonbin didn't like it at all and any attempts to get over it ended up in chaos. So, Wonbin chose to forget about getting over his fear and tried his best to keep it a secret.

RIIZE were in a studio (not the one that Wonbin despised) recording their newest single, "Lucky". Wonbin, Shotaro and Sungchan were in the studio while Anton, Eunseok and Sohee relaxed at the dorm, the three having already recorded their lines. Wonbin and Shotaro sat on the couch, waiting to record while Sungchan stood in the booth, in the process of recording his lines. Sungchan was taking a break, opening a second water bottle because he finished the first one when one of the staff helping him record suddenly started talking to the idol, making him drop the water bottle and spill water all over the recording booth's floor.

"It's fine everyone, I can clean it up" Sungchan spoke, leaving the booth to grab paper towels.

"Well, you're not cleaning that up by yourself" Shotaro stood up, walking towards the younger, "I's gonna take too long if you do it yourself. I'll help"

"Thanks, hyung. Hey Wonbin, can you go get some more paper towels from the closet near the studio? We're almost out" Sungchan held up the almost finished roll for Wonbin to see.

The currently present youngest froze, memories flooding back to him, "S-Sure, hyung."

Wonbin got up from the couch, putting his phone in his pocket and leaving the studio in search of the paper towel roll his hyung asked him to get. The closet was a pretty short walk from the studio the trio was at but to Wonbin, every small step felt a minute. In his head, the idol had started to panic, wanting the walk to last longer so he'd never reach the closet but like most things, it came to an end and Wonbin was soon facing the closet's door.

'Okay, Wonbin. It's just some stupid closet. There's no reason you should be freaking out. Just go in there, get the paper towel roll Sungchan hyung asked for and leave. It'll be quick. *Pause*, but what if you get stuck again? No one's gonna come because you're an adult who can supposedly do stuff on his own. And if someone does find you, they'll think you're an ass who can't do stuff himself. Just- fuck it and go in there already, you're wasting time.'

Wonbin took a deep breath to calm himself one last time before reaching out and resting his left hand on the door handle. Eyes trained on his fingers, Wonbin turned the handle and pushed the door open, right hand searching the wall to his right for a light switch. He flicked the light switch, the room being filled with a dim yellow glow. Wonbin could barely move around with the door wide open so he grabbed a bucket that was just heavy enough to prop on the door. Thinking back to the pep talk he gave himself, Wonbin went from shelf to shelf, looking. He got to the middle shelf, the one he was facing when he entered the room and spotted the paper towels sitting on the top shelf. Wonbin reached up as high as he could and used the tip of his fingers to push the roll to the edge. When it was close enough, Wonbin successfully grabbed the roll. However, as Wonbin grabbed the roll, he tripped a bit and stumbled backwards into the door hard. The force pushed the bucket out of the way, the door slamming shut.