Toxic Mold in my High School Locker at Ten Year Reunion

Date: 4/8/2026

It was the ten year anniversary of my high school graduation and everyone was back at school for lunch and games and a reunion. I went to my old locker. I thought it was crazy that I still remembered the combination. Once open I saw the entire locker was taped off with a sign warning of toxic mold. Everyone was collecting memories from their lockers. I knew inside mine was the hood from my regalia and it was signed by my grandma who, in the dream’s lore, passed away in between signing it and the graduation ceremony. I then remembered the toxic mold situation. It started with Zack F. The day his locker became contaminated, in class one of my teachers picked up my books and tried to play keep away with them. She threw them to another student and they all threw my books among each other while I tried to get them. Then my locker became contaminated. I went to the front desk to ask about obtaining it. There was a long line of people waiting with questions. I explained how my locker became contaminated and that it wasn’t from my own home. The lady looked in some records and found that 14 students had contaminated lockers that year, the most of any year in the school’s history. She said I’d have to reach out to their insurance company in order to get my things. “What do I give them? Like proof I don’t have toxic mold in my home so it wasn’t from me?” I asked. “Yeah exactly,” she said. In my head I also decided I would send photos of me and my grandma to add the appeal to emotion. I went back to the cafeteria where most people were. I noticed everyone looked the same even ten years later. A lot of people brought spouses and babies. I noticed Tyler F had a newborn baby that he was taking care of. Later I went outside where there was a giant slide. Everyone was climbing up endless stairs to get to the top. I rushed over and watched some people go up. Tyler F was there and said to me “if you run you could still probably catch up with them!” He motioned to the family with multiple kids going up the stairs. I realized he thought I was with them. “Oh. That’s not my family,” I corrected him. “I’m single and childless.” I immediately walked away but heard him say “Okay… Good for you.” I immediately felt bad remembering he just had a baby. I didn’t mean to sound like I thought I was better for being unmarried and childless compared to him. It was only my personal preference but it came out so wrong. I spent the rest of the day recounting the embarrassing interaction to all my friends one by one.