/skerd/
adjective
fearful; frightened.
"I wasn't scared at all"

Is it normal to be
scared of something that
never existed last year? Tomorrow,
it will be one full year
of COVID, 
social distance,
masks,
"unprecedented times." You know,
last night I had a panic attack
after my hockey tryout because
my car wasn't in the parking lot
and my mom didn't show up for
20 minutes. I couldn't
breathe; my first thought was
accident. My second thought was
COVID. 

I get scared
all too easily now. When a
person without a mask brushes my arm,
I can't breathe. I have
panic and 
anxiety attacks more than ever now
for the most random things, stuff like
my mom being late to pick me up
from school or my sister
coming home from swimming
ten minutes late. 
A mask hides my face,