What Are You Scared Of?

I couldn’t hear anything other than my heart pulsating in my chest, the sound echoing throughout my entire body and filling my ears up like water. I slammed my palms down on my ears and rocked back and forth, wishing for silence – wishing for the moment everything became nothing. I shook my head as the shadow of feet appeared from under the small space of the closed door, just inches from my own two feet. I inched myself further back against the wall, wrapping my arms around my legs, trying to fall into myself and become invisible. No, no no.