5 Minute Freewrite: **** Not surprising ****

Fear of something often paralyzes people from doing activities that seem normal to other people. Ava was suffering from a trauma from when she was really young. She had a fear of snakes because when she was about 7 years old, a venomous snake attacked her and bit her. Nearly all of Ava’s friends knew about her fear of snakes.

One day, Patrick, and her other friends, decided to put a prank on her. They wanted to make her feel a little bit less afraid of snakes. So, they bought a plastic snake and put it on her bed. She was in the shower. When she finished showering and came to her room, she saw the snake on her bed and kept screaming and ran away from her room out to the street, and then she saw her friends laughing.

Her naughty friends put a camera in her room and filmed the whole thing. It was not surprising to them that she would have a reaction like that. She stopped speaking to those friends of hers who did this to her. But it was a reminder that she should stop being afraid of snakes and deal with her fear.