It’s time for our daily Three Things Challenge. Our host, Di of pensitivity101 fame, has chosen these three words for us today:
- Hexagon
- Vex
- Text
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Alexander lay in bed trying to get his courage up. As much as he loved spending the night at Cecelia’s, he dreaded the mornings. It wasn’t the mornings, exactly, that vexed him — if you want to know the truth. It was having to take a shower in her bathroom that struck horror in his psyche.
Why did she have to have those menacing hexagons on her bathroom tile?
Each time he entered the shower he was instantly repulsed. The design made him want to vomit, cry, and scream all at once. He’d been through therapy and knew exactly what the problem was and what it was called. Aside from exposure therapy, he also knew there was nothing he could do about his trypophobia, meaning the fear of clusters of geometric shapes.
Several times Alexander considered telling Cecelia about his odd disorder but was afraid she’d think he was a freak.
What if she didn’t want to see him anymore?
He really liked her. A lot. So, coming clean (pun intended) wasn’t an option.
His cell phone went off, alerting him that he had a text. He knew who it was and what the message was about: Cecelia was out of the shower and now it was Alexander’s turn.
“Damn.”
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