"Now, Ms. Anderson for the test that you are able to go through will be terrifying for you. If you do succeed this test then we will give you something in return" the man in the black suit, black shaded sunglasses said while sitting across from me
"And what will I get in return if I pass this test?" I asked
"One million dollars" I was surprised
"Well, it must be really hard whatever it is to offer that amount of money" I stated
"Yes, it is" he nodded "The test will begin in just a couple minutes," he said before the door opened and another person came into the room. They walked behind me "You will be injected with something that will numb your body and you will be blindfolded as you are transported to the place of the test. Good luck" and with that, I was injected and blindfolded as I was taken somewhere.
When I arrived at the place I could tell it was cold or at least the ground was. I was still blindfolded and strapped to a chair without shoes on until the blindfold was taken off and the straps became undone. I looked around to see I was in a small room that was metal with one door that was closed in front of me and no one else was around
"Your test will start now. Good luck" I heard a speaker say as the door opened into a hallway. Slowly I got up and walked over to the door. Looking out it there was just a long hallway with several doors on through it. I walked down the hallway with each step I took echoing throughout the hallway. When I came upon the first door that was to my right it had a sign on the outside that read
"Arachnophobia: the phobia of spiders.
Kristen Micheal Kelly"
When I looked through the small window I saw a girl, not much younger than me, strapped to a chair surrounded by hundreds if not millions of spiders that were crawling in the room. There was a monitor that she was strapped to too and from out here I could faintly hear it beeping like crazy as the dial went up higher and higher. The girl had a face of horrid fear on her face with her skin ghostly white from fear not wanting to stay I moved onto the next door that had a different sign on it reading
"Acrophobia: the phobia of heights.
Jackson Jack Baker"
In this room, there was a boy though you could bearly tell it as he was standing on this very high podium. He was clung to the wall as he was looking down, again ghostly white from being up so high and looking down. As I moved further down the hallway each room had a different person and a different phobia that they were afraid of and forced to face. Jake phobia of snakes, Nichol phobia of clowns, Asher phobia of mirrors etc. That was until I got to the end of the hallway where there was one last door left
"Crystal Mallory Anderson"
Was all that the sign said. I opened the door to be met with a video tape recorder on a metal table in the middle of the room. Confused but curious I went up to the recorder and pressed play
"Hello everyone my name is Crystal and welcome to my channel" my heart dropped to my stomach as this was a recording of my voice. My body all of a sudden felt so weak that I dropped to the floor and stared at the floor while the recorder kept playing "It is so lovely to meet you all today. How about we play a little game" the sound of my voice coming from that recorder sickened me. Just the sound of my voice being played back from being recorded sickens me so bad to the point that I can't move right now and my heart is racing with the threat of nausea washing over me. I try to stand up or even look up but the room around me starts to spin just then a speaker comes on
"Crystal Mallory Anderson, most people don't like hearing their voices when recorded but you are absolutely sickened by it do you know why?" unable to speak I just shake my head assuming that they can see me "That is because your phobia is Phonophobia, the phobia of voices or one's voice" With that the speaker cut off but the recording still went on with various things that I said, some I didn't even know I was being recorded. Suddenly the nasua got to much and I puked before blacking out.
***
When I woke up I was strapped to a chair again in the same room I was in before the test. The same person came in and sat down in front of me "Ms. Anderson, do you know why you're in here?" he asked
"No sir, I do not"
"Do you know how you got here?" he asked
"No sir, I do not"
"You failed the test" he stated
"What even was the test?" I asked
"To see if you can survive your phobia, don't worry you aren't the only one who's failed"
"Wait, is that why those other people were there. To see if they could pass the test" he nodded, "How did you even know what I was afraid of?" I asked him
"Simple, we asked your parents," he said it like it was the most obvious thing
"What happens now that I failed it?" I asked wondering
"You'll just have to see," he said standing up
"Wait, wha--" with that, I was blindfolded and knocked out.
When I woke up I was in a room with huge speakers "What the--" suddenly they were turned on with loud noises playing from them. I covered my ears from them
"You will be spending your life trying to overcome your fear. Good luck" with that I was spun into a world of torture and everlasting noise until the day I die.
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