Before P

I'd been wring my hands for the last hour as tears streamed steadily down my cheeks. Eyes puffy and hot, I gazed one final time up at the clock, the minutes hand barely kissing the 10. It was the sound of my name that plunged me back into reality with a start. Fixing my skirt as I stood, I hastily wiped away the black smudges blotched under my droopy eyes. It was judgment time. Hands impersonating a level 7 earthquake, I followed the professional lady as she brought me to a chair. Sitting down, I absorbed my surroundings. A grey door behind me, and a piano playing softly in the background. The rest was hallow. A vast emptiness filled the long halls of the testing facility. My test. My level 6 piano test.
Creeping slowly along my spine like a snail, realizing and terror finally found it's way back into my thoughts. They consumed me as if I were the helpless rabbit to a skilled hunter. In such deep shock I lacked the ability to come to the realization the door had opened. Only a forced cough rendered me able to move again, to think.
Slowly walking to the device the colour of tar, yet with shine similar to that of a gem, I attempted to settle my hyperventilating. The process ended up futile. Caressing the ivory, I heard a subtle command at the back of my head. Out of practice, I completed the tast, not fully realizing what I was doing.
then came the repertoire. Shot with horror, I became paralyzed. How could I go on? I asked myself. Staring into the solid blacktop I viewed the reflection of my inspector. Eyes emotionless and body poised, the sight only made my breathing race more. Without intention, I played my first piece, hardly comprehending the flashes of flesh racing across the zebra.
As soon as it started, it was over. Out the door I went and into the room before, frozen in a dreary perfection of grey and beige. Gathering my things, no thoughts came to mind. No feelings nor understandings. I was handicapped with the experience to such an extent I was no longer myself.
Eventually leaving, I slowly overcame the memory of the trial, and continued on as I had before.