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7. Your OC confronting a silly fear

I didn't used to have claustrophobia, I didn't used to be scared of anything except other people. In fact, I think I liked small spaces as a kid, I made a lot of forts out of whatever I could find. It only started when someone pushed me into a locker one day, I tried to push the door open but they put the lock on. Do you understand how small lockers are?? If there wasn't those line-shaped holes at the top I would have suffocated. I cried and screamed but none of the students knew the lock combination and none of the adults were monitoring the hallways. I was stuck in there all day ALL FUCKING DAY until a janitor took pity on me. He tried to look at that big sheet with everybody's locker combinations for each class but that locker wasn't anyone's so they didn't have a combination on record for it. So they had to break the lock. At least they explained to my mom why I was so late so she wouldn't get mad at me, oh and then she somehow still got mad at me. "Why would you let someone push you into a locker?" Why does she always have to victim blame me. Anyway, in my small little bungalow house we have one of those showers with the doors. So I avoided taking a shower for a week, I really tried but everytime I closed the door it felt like I was suffocating so I just didn't do it for a week. Eventually I had to overcome my fear, I couldn't avoid taking showers forever, so I closed my eyes and tried to be as quick as possible. I still hate that stupid shower but I'm a little more used to it now. I don't close my eyes anymore.