Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and context.

When I was a child I (a) _____ (be) afraid of the dark, and I (b) _____ (go) to sleep with a light on. Even then, I feared that monsters (c) _____ (climb) in through my bedroom window. Every sound I (d) _____ (hear) struck fear into mE- Often, I ran away from the room and (e) _____ (sleep) on the floor at the foot of my parents' bed. Now that I (f) _____ (be) almost twenty, I obviously do better than what I (g) _____ (do) as a child. However, I (h) _____ (be) still scared of bedtimE- I hate (i) _____ (sleep) alone, and I still keep a tiny night-light on. And before I go to bed, I double check every door and every window to make sure that they (j) _____ (be) locked.