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Speaker 1: Think all kids think their parents are strict. It's all
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Speaker 1: a matter of perspective, isn't it? Like, I used to
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Speaker 1: think my parents were strict because I had to set
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Speaker 1: bedtime and curfews on weekends, but then I stayed over
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Speaker 1: to a friend's house for the first time when I
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Speaker 1: was 13, and it changed my entire view of my parents.
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Speaker 1: Because his mom was an actual tyrant. Like, it was
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Speaker 1: scary to watch. We live in a rural area, my
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Speaker 1: friend even more so. Like, again, I Thought I lived
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Speaker 1: out in the sticks, but he lived miles from even
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Speaker 1: the smallest towns, like right on the outskirts of Galloway
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Speaker 1: Forest Park. It was a nice wee gaffe, but it
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Speaker 1: was old school, proper old school. Like all of the
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Speaker 1: locks were latches instead of key locks, which meant all
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Speaker 1: of the doors were accessible from the inside and outside,
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Speaker 1: including bedrooms and bathrooms. On the evening in question, we
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Speaker 1: had a nice enough time, watching James Bond movies in
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Speaker 1: between rounds of Deathmatch on N64' s Goldeneye. Admittedly, I was
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Speaker 1: a proper little mummy's boy at the time, and I
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Speaker 1: was pretty uncomfortable at sleeping over at a friend's place,
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Speaker 1: more so because of the distance from home. But like
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Speaker 1: I said, the evening was good up until a point.
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Speaker 1: We were both immersed into the whole Bond lore, stuffing
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Speaker 1: ourselves with pizza and arguing over Brosnan vs.
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Speaker 2: Connery.
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Speaker 1: Then, as we're talking... My friend's mom comes into the lounge,
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Speaker 1: calmly walked up to him, then gives him the biggest, loudest,
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Speaker 1: hardest slap in the face I'd ever seen. Like it
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Speaker 1: was almost more like an open palm smack than anything else.
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Speaker 1: I'd never seen anything like that. I mean, not a
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Speaker 1: parent hitting a child anyway. So, in the seconds that followed,
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Speaker 1: I was literally just like, what just happened? My mate
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Speaker 1: burst into tears, crying. gets up and runs upstairs with
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Speaker 1: his mom in hot pursuit and the whole time she's
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Speaker 1: screaming stuff like disgusting at him. I was just dumbstruck.
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Speaker 1: There I was, chilling with my mate when his mom
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Speaker 1: just comes up and annihilates his face for apparently no
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Speaker 1: bloody reason whatsoever. Anyway, they both disappear upstairs and I'm
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Speaker 1: left on my own to wonder what's going on. I
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Speaker 1: just stay there, not knowing what else to do, waiting
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Speaker 1: for them to reappear. When they do, my mate just
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Speaker 1: plonks himself on the sofa, red in the face, eyes
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Speaker 1: all puffy from crying. Then, when his mom is out
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Speaker 1: of earshot, I asked what happened. Turns out that she
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Speaker 1: smacked him square in the face because he was eating
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Speaker 1: with his mouth open. Yep, eating with his mouth open.
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Speaker 1: That's all he did to deserve that open palm punch
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Speaker 1: to the face. After that, I was petrified at this
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Speaker 1: guy's mom. I mean, we didn't have very many sleepovers
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Speaker 1: at his place, and I have a few more stories
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Speaker 1: involving the absence of any privacy because of those old
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Speaker 1: locks situation. Don't get me wrong, I know there's way
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Speaker 1: more harrowing things out there as an adult, but the
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Speaker 1: way she treated him was the most abusive parenting I'd
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Speaker 1: ever seen. This guy's parents were some of the scariest
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Speaker 1: people I'd encountered in my life, let alone my childhood.
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Speaker 1: If he was punished that bad for just eating with
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Speaker 1: his mouth open, what else did the poor kid suffer
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Speaker 1: through for other seemingly minor infractions? It made me feel very,
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Speaker 1: very lucky to have the parents I did. Let me
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Speaker 1: just put it that way. I had a sleepover when
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Speaker 1: I was about eight or nine. Me and my best
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Speaker 1: friend were watching the Scooby-Doo episode with the creepy voodoo dolls.
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Speaker 1: We're having a whale of a time, enjoying all the
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Speaker 1: wholesome spooks, but when she sees the voodoo dolls... I
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Speaker 1: can see my friend getting visibly nervous. I knew her
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Speaker 1: mom was hardcore Christian and looked down on all that
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Speaker 1: kinds of magical or satanic stuff, but I had no
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Speaker 1: idea just how bad she'd fly off the handle when
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Speaker 1: she caught us watching freaking Scooby-Doo.
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Speaker 2: Of all things.
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Speaker 1: Bearing in mind it was my friend who put the
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Speaker 1: show on in the first place, but when my friend's
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Speaker 1: mom wanders in to see what we're watching, she just
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Speaker 1: assumes it was me that put it on. She yanks
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Speaker 1: me up from sitting, then proceeds to scream in my
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Speaker 1: face that I was disgusting and that I was going
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Speaker 1: to hell for making her daughter watch that kind of filth.
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Speaker 1: And right as I'm about to burst into tears, she
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Speaker 1: slaps me so hard across the side of the head.
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Speaker 1: I just lost it, bolted up to her bedroom, locked
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Speaker 1: myself inside and called my dad. She's banging on the
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Speaker 1: door telling me she's gonna beat me for being a sinner.
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Speaker 1: My dad can hear this and just yells, I'm on
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Speaker 1: my way into the phone before passing it to my mom.
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Speaker 1: I was so scared, more scared than I think I
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Speaker 1: ever was during my entire childhood, and the minutes of
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Speaker 1: waiting in that locked bedroom for my dad to show
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Speaker 1: up were some of the longest of my whole life.
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Speaker 1: When he showed up, I was in the back bedroom,
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Speaker 1: so the only way I knew he was there was
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Speaker 1: when my friend's mom answered a banging at the door
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Speaker 1: and started screaming at someone. I ran down the stairs
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he saw me, My dad basically
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Speaker 1: pushed the woman on her butt, grabbed me, and then
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Speaker 1: we got out of there. It was a whole drama
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Speaker 1: after that. The police were involved, charges were filed, but
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Speaker 1: the worst part, it totally soured my friendship with the
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Speaker 1: girl who I was having a sleepover with. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: ever allowed to visit her house, and her mom pretty
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Speaker 1: much ordered her not to hang out with me anymore.
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Speaker 1: It was sad, really sad, but I guess that's just
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Speaker 1: how life is.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes.
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Speaker 1: Please don't think I'm trying to throw myself a pity
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Speaker 1: party here because I'm doing much better in my adult life.
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Speaker 1: But back when I was a kid I had an
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Speaker 1: incredibly toxic home life and as a result I went
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Speaker 1: to school basically with little to no social skills. I
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Speaker 1: made just one friend and even then it was only
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Speaker 1: on accident because she was being nice to me after
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Speaker 1: I tripped and broke my toy on the bus. Her
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Speaker 1: name was Rachel. Rachel's BFF was named Emily and Emily
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Speaker 1: was the prettiest, coolest girl in class. So imagine my
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Speaker 1: delight when one day I find myself getting an invite
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Speaker 1: to Emily's birthday sleepover. To this day I can remember
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Speaker 1: how excited I was. My first sleepover. It was indescribably validating.
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Speaker 1: I beamed at that invitation over and over again like
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Speaker 1: it was a trophy or something and begged my mom
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Speaker 1: to give me a ride to the sleepover early. I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to miss a single minute of it. Then,
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Speaker 1: on the night of the sleepover, I found it wasn't
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Speaker 1: quite as enjoyable as I thought it would be. It
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Speaker 1: was a real fun atmosphere and all, but Emily and
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Speaker 1: Rachel weren't exactly being very warm with me, and I
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Speaker 1: could really obviously detect it. Then, right as I'm lying
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Speaker 1: on my back with a pillow under my head, just relaxing,
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Speaker 1: I feel Emily straddle my stomach while Rachel seems to
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Speaker 1: hold my legs down. Emily then grabs the pillow out
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Speaker 1: from under my head. shoves it over my face, then
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Speaker 1: proceeds to tell me how ugly I am and how
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Speaker 1: she never wanted to invite me. It hurt. Emotionally, I mean.
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Speaker 1: It cut really, really deep. But that feeling was nothing
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Speaker 1: to the one I felt when I realized I couldn't breathe.
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Speaker 1: I struggled and struggled, but still that horrid little girl
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Speaker 1: kept that pillow over my face until I felt myself
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Speaker 1: passing out. It was only when her mom walked in
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Speaker 1: to see what all the fuss was about that she
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Speaker 1: took it away from my face. I still can't see
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Speaker 1: their names without remembering how awful that memory is to me,
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Speaker 1: but I'm glad to say that there were definitely repercussions.
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Speaker 1: Rachel was grounded for a long time for letting it happen.
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Speaker 1: I know that, but Emily ended up getting like a
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Speaker 1: psychological evaluation or whatever which revealed that she had some
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Speaker 1: serious personality disorders. This was all part of her being
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Speaker 1: arrested as a juvenile and She only narrowly avoided attempted
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Speaker 1: murder charges. It caused a huge thing in our community
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Speaker 1: and it was so bad that, in the end, Emily's
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Speaker 1: parents had to just pack up their family and leave town.
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Speaker 1: But before I end this, let me say it again.
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Speaker 1: I'm not looking for sympathy here. All that stuff is
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Speaker 1: long in the past. Childhood was not kind to me,
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Speaker 1: but I promise you, these days I'm in a much
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Speaker 1: better place and surrounded by all the friends a girl
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Speaker 1: could possibly wish for And only two of them are cats.
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Speaker 4: I'm a female and at the time this story occurred
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Speaker 4: I was 15. My best friend Ellie would spend a
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Speaker 4: lot of time in my house. I kind of just
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Speaker 4: assumed that this was because she had two younger siblings
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Speaker 4: that she didn't really get along with well. and the
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Speaker 4: father wasn't in the picture, and their mom was gone
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Speaker 4: most of the time. Every weekend, Ellie would stay at
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Speaker 4: my house. On this particular weekend, I'd asked Ellie if
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Speaker 4: maybe we could stay at her house instead. I was
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Speaker 4: just kind of wanting a break from my parents, and
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Speaker 4: I had never stayed over at Ellie's house before. Her
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Speaker 4: mother said that it would be fine, and that she
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Speaker 4: wasn't going to be home much anyway. We went to
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Speaker 4: Ellie's house straight after school on a Friday. We sat
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Speaker 4: down on the couch and we had watched some TV
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Speaker 4: for a bit. After a while, we decided we wanted
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Speaker 4: a snack and we went into the kitchen to see
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Speaker 4: what we could find. They had a side door and
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Speaker 4: their kitchen was open with a screen on the outside.
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Speaker 4: I was very startled when I saw a man standing
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Speaker 4: in front of the screen door looking inside. He looked
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Speaker 4: to be in his late 30s and he was really
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Speaker 4: dirty and shaggy looking. I actually wondered if he was homeless.
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Speaker 4: Once we made direct eye contact with him, he then said, Well, well, well.
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Speaker 4: Hello there, young ladies. Dave, Ellie said. She told this
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Speaker 4: guy Dave that her mom wasn't there. The man replied back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she never is. Who's your little friend here?
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Speaker 4: He asked as he creepily looked me up and down.
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Speaker 4: She told him I was her friend and that we
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Speaker 4: were just hanging out having a sleepover. Ellie seemed uncomfortable
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Speaker 4: and I was too. He stood there for a moment
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Speaker 4: just smiling at us when he then said.
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Speaker 2: So are boys allowed? I'm sure a couple of cuties
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Speaker 2: like you have boyfriends coming over. We grew increasingly uncomfortable
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Speaker 2: and Ellie told him that she had to watch her
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Speaker 2: brother and sister for the night and that her mom
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Speaker 2: would be home later. I knew that wasn't true though.
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Speaker 2: Her siblings were staying at her dad's that weekend, and
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Speaker 2: her mom would be going out with her boyfriend, so
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Speaker 2: most likely she wouldn't be coming home. The man was
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Speaker 2: still standing at the door, smiling at us.
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Speaker 4: He then said, Oh well, I guess. Tell your mom
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Speaker 4: I stopped by. See you sexy ladies later. When the
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Speaker 4: man walked away, I asked Ellie what was that all about.
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Speaker 4: She told me that Dave was her neighbor. Apparently her
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Speaker 4: mom had gone on a date with him several years
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Speaker 4: ago when they first moved in. Her mother wasn't impressed
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Speaker 4: with Dave and there was no second date. She said
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Speaker 4: that he was cheap, had bad hygiene, not at all interesting,
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Speaker 4: and was far too forward sexually. I guess this Dave
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Speaker 4: character would stop by frequently trying to get the mom's
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Speaker 4: attention and then flirt with her, much to everyone in
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Speaker 4: the household's dismay. Ellie also said in the last couple
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Speaker 4: of years he seemed to start taking more interest in her,
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Speaker 4: even making the horrific comment about how she's grown up
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Speaker 4: enough to wear bras now. I was totally horrified. What
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Speaker 4: a creep. We tried to relax some and forget about
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Speaker 4: the creepy neighbor. We ate some junk food, watched some
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Speaker 4: of our favorite shows, and also took some quizzes out
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Speaker 4: of teen magazines. It was getting dark and we were
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Speaker 4: starting to want dinner, so we ordered a large cheese pizza.
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Speaker 4: Not even ten minutes later after the pizza had arrived,
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Speaker 4: there was a knock at the front door. We were
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Speaker 4: both really surprised as it was going on 9pm at
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Speaker 4: this point and we weren't expecting anyone. Ellie got up
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Speaker 4: and looked out the peephole. She looked right back at
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Speaker 4: me wide-eyed. She put her finger up to her mouth
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Speaker 4: and told me to be quiet. There was another knock
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Speaker 4: at the door, then a voice. It was Dave.' Girls,
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Speaker 4: I know you're home,' he said. We were both frozen
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Speaker 4: in fear. Then Dave the Creep said something along the
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Speaker 4: lines of that he knew we were alone and saw
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Speaker 4: that we were hungry for a pizza, and so he
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Speaker 4: thought he'd bring us a large sausage.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Cringe.
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Speaker 4: After a few minutes of not responding, Dave said something
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Speaker 4: about us being stuck up little girls and then left.
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Speaker 4: We went around the house closing all the blinds and
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Speaker 4: making sure all the doors were locked. We were so
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Speaker 4: scared that we barely had the volume of the TV
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Speaker 4: up and kept the room lit with one tiny dim
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Speaker 4: lamp out of fear of Dave seeing or hearing us.
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Speaker 4: Once it got to be around 1030, we were really
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Speaker 4: fed up with having to sit still in the dark.
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Speaker 4: Ellie got up and peeked out the window at Dave's house.
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Speaker 4: She said that all of his lights were off so
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Speaker 4: we probably went out or went to bed. We felt
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Speaker 4: comfortable enough to turn on some lights and relax a bit,
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Speaker 4: so we put on some music and chatted some. We
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Speaker 4: were sitting on the piano bench in front of the
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Speaker 4: dining room windows when all of a sudden we then
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Speaker 4: heard a tapping outside the window. I guess we had
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Speaker 4: only closed the shades halfway because when we looked over,
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Speaker 4: you guessed it, there was Dave peeking in. He held
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Speaker 4: up a six-pack of beer saying that he knew Ellie's.
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Speaker 2: Mom wasn't home.
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Speaker 4: And that we should let him in so we can
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Speaker 4: all party together. I guess Ellie had enough at this point,
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Speaker 4: because she stood up and yelled at him, no, and
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Speaker 4: that he needed to leave. Dave had a completely blank
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Speaker 4: look on his face, and then he said, You know
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Speaker 4: I can just come in, right? Ellie then yelled at
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Speaker 4: him that she had spoken with her mom, and she
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Speaker 4: was calling the police. Well, at that point Creeper Dave
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Speaker 4: started to back away, saying he was just kidding and
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Speaker 4: that we needed to calm down. Ellie stood her ground
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Speaker 4: until she knew Dave was in his house, then proceeded
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Speaker 4: to call her mom's boyfriend's house. She told her mom
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Speaker 4: all the creepy things Dave had been doing, but her
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Speaker 4: mom didn't believe us and she thought we were making
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Speaker 4: things up. She said we should just go to bed
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Speaker 4: and everything would be fine. Ellie was so upset. We
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Speaker 4: ended up locking ourselves upstairs in her mother's bedroom. We
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Speaker 4: didn't have any more problems with Dave that night, and
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Speaker 4: we finally got some sleep. After that night, as you
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Speaker 4: can imagine, We decided to just go back to sleepovers
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Speaker 4: at my house, and I think that's for the best.
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Speaker 4: Before I start this, I just want to say that
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Speaker 4: I in no way blame this on my friend or
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Speaker 4: her mother at all. The story takes place around two
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Speaker 4: years ago, during the summer of 2019. I was 14
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Speaker 4: years old at the time, and I had a really
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Speaker 4: big group of friends that I would go to the
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Speaker 4: pool with like almost every day. We all lived only
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Speaker 4: a few houses away from each other, except for about
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Speaker 4: three of the girls. There were eight of us. The
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Speaker 4: day was like every other day. We woke up, put
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Speaker 4: on our bathing suits, and we had our friend Ryan's
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Speaker 4: mom take us to the pool. She happened to have
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Speaker 4: a minivan that could fit us all. We got to
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Speaker 4: the pool around 11am and swam until about 9pm when
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Speaker 4: the pool closed. Since all of our parents were super
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Speaker 4: close and we still wanted to keep the fun going,
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Speaker 4: we decided to crash at our friend Ava's house. She
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Speaker 4: had a huge downstairs basement that was soundproof because her
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Speaker 4: dad used to teach guitar and drum lessons to people
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Speaker 4: all the time down there. Two of our friends, Carly
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Speaker 4: and Erin, didn't really want to go because they felt
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Speaker 4: really tired and dizzy for being out all day and night.
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Speaker 4: So we said our goodbyes to the two of them
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Speaker 4: as their parents came and picked them up. And it
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Speaker 4: only took about four minutes for Ava's mom to come
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Speaker 4: get us. She had a smaller car, so we had
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Speaker 4: to squeeze in a little more. When we got to
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Speaker 4: Ava's house, we came inside and thanked her mom for
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Speaker 4: driving us before going to get some snacks from the kitchen.
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Speaker 4: As we walked into the kitchen, we could see Ava's stepdad, David.
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Speaker 4: None of us really liked David since he kind of
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Speaker 4: had a reputation of being really creepy towards us and
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Speaker 4: making rude comments to us whenever our parents came to
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Speaker 4: pick us up. We walked to the cabinets and grabbed
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Speaker 4: all we needed and proceeded to pile down the stairs
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Speaker 4: to the basement. Let me give you a quick layout
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Speaker 4: of the basement. As soon as you walk down the stairs,
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Speaker 4: To your right is sort of a kitchen and work room,
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Speaker 4: and then to your left is a basement living room.
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Speaker 4: And then once you walk past the sofas, there's a
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Speaker 4: pool table. On the left of the pool table, there's
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Speaker 4: a hallway where on the left is a bathroom and
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Speaker 4: storage room, and then to your right is a bedroom.
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Speaker 2: All of us really.
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Speaker 4: Smelled of sunscreen and chlorine, so we split into groups
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Speaker 4: of two and went to each different room to change
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Speaker 4: out of the bathing suits and into clothes.
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Speaker 2: The basement was.
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Speaker 4: Kind of creepy, and none of us wanted to be
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Speaker 4: alone in any of the rooms due to the previous
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Speaker 4: paranormal experiences we've had there. Ava always had spare shirts
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Speaker 4: that she'd let us wear that used to be her dad's,
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Speaker 4: and since most of us were 5'2 and shorter, the
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Speaker 4: shirts covered us enough that we didn't need to wear shorts.
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Speaker 4: And if you're wondering, yes, we washed our hair. We
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Speaker 4: would usually take turns taking a shower, but we were
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Speaker 4: so tired that we just tilted our heads back over
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Speaker 4: the tub and then took turns washing each other's hair.
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Speaker 4: Once we finished with that, we walked to the basement
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Speaker 4: bedroom and got comfortable. We made bracelets, talked about drama
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Speaker 4: and the new school year coming up, eat junk food,
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Speaker 4: drink Pepsi, and then watched the new season of Stranger Things.
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Speaker 4: After around three hours of this, our friend Ryder was
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Speaker 4: asleep on the bed while the rest of us sat
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Speaker 4: on the floor talking. While Ava was halfway through her sentence,
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Speaker 4: we heard the stairs of the basement then creaking. All
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Speaker 4: of us were silent. Ava said it could just be
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Speaker 4: one of her cats or something But before she could
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Speaker 4: even finish, we then heard around six more steps from
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Speaker 4: the basement stairs area. Ryan, the oldest of us, seemingly
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Speaker 4: the most freaked out, quietly walked to the door and
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Speaker 4: locked it while me and my friend Molly went to
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Speaker 4: turn off the lights. We waited around five minutes, the
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Speaker 4: only light coming from the computer screen that we'd been
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Speaker 4: watching Netflix on. We quietly whispered about what the noise
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Speaker 4: could be until we heard sliding footsteps coming into the
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Speaker 4: hallway of the basement. Me and Ava grabbed onto each
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Speaker 4: other as everyone else fell silent.
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Speaker 2: After about two.
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Speaker 4: Minutes of hearing nothing, we all then moved to the bed.
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Speaker 4: While doing this, we managed to wake up Ryder, who
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Speaker 4: then loudly asked, What the hell are y'all doing? Ryan
19:03
Speaker 4: covered his mouth with his hands while telling him what
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Speaker 4: was going on. Ryder, who hates when people wake him up,
19:09
Speaker 4: sat up and told us to calm down as he
19:11
Speaker 4: walked to the basement bedroom door and unlocked it. He
19:14
Speaker 4: swung the door open. and what we saw made us
19:17
Speaker 4: all stiff as a board with fear. There in the
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Speaker 4: doorway was Ava's stepdad. Her stepdad was terrifying. He was
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Speaker 4: six foot four, short brownish hair, heavy set, and he
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Speaker 4: had these square glasses that could reflect about anything. Me
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Speaker 4: and everybody else in the room screamed to the top
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Speaker 4: of our lungs as Ryder slammed the door in his face,
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Speaker 4: locked it, and ran into the bed into me and
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Speaker 4: Ryan's arms. We all stayed as silent as possible as
19:42
Speaker 4: we waited for what felt like hours. as we heard
19:44
Speaker 4: Ava's stepdad groaning and asking if he could join us.
19:48
Speaker 4: Our friend Izzy and I began to cry. while Ava
19:50
Speaker 4: called her mom to come down and get him. After
19:53
Speaker 4: I'd say about 45 minutes all was silent and we
19:56
Speaker 4: ended up falling asleep piled up on top of one another.
20:00
Speaker 4: We woke to the sound of Ava's mom knocking on
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Speaker 4: the door. We then unlocked it and let her in.
20:05
Speaker 4: She then explained to us how after she brought David
20:07
Speaker 4: back up he then told her That many young girls
20:11
Speaker 4: down in the dark basement all by themselves is really dangerous.
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Speaker 4: Anything could happen, and no one would hear anything. Thank
20:18
Speaker 4: goodness those two boys were in there and were smart
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Speaker 4: enough to lock the door in case anyone tried to
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Speaker 4: do anything. When her mom told us this, I felt
20:25
Speaker 4: sick to my stomach. When I looked over, I saw
20:28
Speaker 4: the look of pure horror and disbelief on everyone's faces.
20:32
Speaker 4: After that, we all decided to go home. I'm 16
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Speaker 4: years old now, and Ava's stepdad passed away due to
20:38
Speaker 4: the coronavirus. Me and those girls aren't as close anymore,
20:42
Speaker 4: but that night and all the other experiences we've had
20:45
Speaker 4: since then have stayed between us, and they probably always will.
20:53
Speaker 4: Sometimes you need a bit of fun in your life,
20:55
Speaker 4: and certain people can definitely make it brighter. I'm talking
20:59
Speaker 4: about friends. Close friends. This story's been in the back
21:04
Speaker 4: of my mind for about two years now. and it's
21:07
Speaker 4: one of the most terrifying experiences of my entire life
21:09
Speaker 4: that I really want to forget. It occasionally pops into
21:13
Speaker 4: my mind, and it still gives me the shivers to
21:15
Speaker 4: this day. It was the end of another school week,
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Speaker 4: a Friday, and as a lot of us teenagers do,
21:23
Speaker 4: we decided to have a sleepover on the weekend. My
21:26
Speaker 4: friends agreed with me, and we happily walked home, talking
21:30
Speaker 4: about what we should do the next day and where
21:31
Speaker 4: we should go, and all that stuff that you'd expect
21:34
Speaker 4: to talk about. One of my other friends said that
21:37
Speaker 4: we should have a sleepover at his place. I'm not
21:40
Speaker 4: revealing their real names for privacy reasons. So for this story,
21:44
Speaker 4: I'll call them X and L. And in case you're confused,
21:48
Speaker 4: it was X that said he wanted us to sleep
21:49
Speaker 4: over at his place. I quietly walked home as I
21:53
Speaker 4: and L split up to go to our own houses
21:55
Speaker 4: to pack up our belongings for the sleepover. I grabbed
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Speaker 4: out my bathroom equipment, sleeping bag, and fresh clothes, and
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Speaker 4: all the other stuff you would need for a sleepover.
22:04
Speaker 4: Once I was finished packing my bag, I had called
22:06
Speaker 4: both X and L on our group chat and told
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Speaker 4: X that I had packed and I had asked my
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Speaker 4: parents if I was allowed to come and told them
22:13
Speaker 4: they said yes and L said the same thing as me.
22:17
Speaker 4: We were all excited and X said that he'll be
22:19
Speaker 4: waiting at the park down outside his house to meet
22:22
Speaker 4: since the park was only two houses down from his place.
22:26
Speaker 4: I casually walked to the park which was approximately 10
22:28
Speaker 4: minutes away. Right as we got there, I had saw
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Speaker 4: X and L already at the park I gave them
22:35
Speaker 4: both a wave and we all walked to X's house.
22:38
Speaker 4: We all got inside and made ourselves comfortable with our
22:41
Speaker 4: sleeping bags in the living room, because X's room was, well,
22:45
Speaker 4: a tad bit tiny. I think that the time was
22:48
Speaker 4: somewhere around 1230 AM. I remember it raining ever so slightly.
22:54
Speaker 4: We were all laughing and giggling about certain events that
22:57
Speaker 4: had happened at school that day, but I guess that
22:59
Speaker 4: isn't really relevant to the story. I told them that
23:03
Speaker 4: we should probably all go to sleep since it was
23:04
Speaker 4: extremely late and that I was really tired. Elvin replied,
23:10
Speaker 4: Alright then. I mean, I guess it is a pretty
23:12
Speaker 4: shitty night after all. We had all started laughing at
23:15
Speaker 4: that response and it eventually got to the point where
23:18
Speaker 4: we started talking less and less and then eventually falling
23:21
Speaker 4: asleep from boredom. However, I didn't really fall asleep that night.
23:27
Speaker 4: I was rolling over in my bag and just trying
23:29
Speaker 4: to get into a comfortable position to sleep in. but
23:31
Speaker 4: had no luck falling asleep. I had my eyes wide open,
23:36
Speaker 4: staring at the blank ceiling. I looked at both X
23:39
Speaker 4: and L, who were both pretty wiped out into slumber.
23:43
Speaker 4: I got out of my sleeping bag as quietly as
23:45
Speaker 4: I possibly could, and then went into the kitchen to
23:47
Speaker 4: get a drink. But after I had my drink of water,
23:51
Speaker 4: I had heard some type of noise coming from a wall.
23:54
Speaker 4: I didn't really make it out at first, and I
23:57
Speaker 4: kinda had a difficult time trying to figure out what
23:59
Speaker 4: it was, and it was coming from the living room.
24:03
Speaker 4: I carefully went into the living room, and then tried
24:05
Speaker 4: my best not to step on Elle. I was standing
24:09
Speaker 4: in the middle of the room, trying my best to
24:10
Speaker 4: find out where the hell the sound was coming from. Okay,
24:14
Speaker 4: to give you a bit of context, if you enter
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Speaker 4: the front door of the house, the living room is
24:18
Speaker 4: in the first room that you enter, and the left
24:20
Speaker 4: side of the living room where you enter is a
24:22
Speaker 4: giant window. Well, the tapping sound was coming from that window.
24:28
Speaker 4: My heart was starting to speed up now, but what
24:31
Speaker 4: was the only logical option, you may ask? To look
24:34
Speaker 4: through the window. I told myself to just go up
24:37
Speaker 4: to the window and see what it was, so I
24:39
Speaker 4: proceeded to do so.
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Speaker 2: I stopped.
24:43
Speaker 4: There was something else. The windows were closed by blinds.
24:48
Speaker 4: I leaned my ear closer to the window. Now along
24:51
Speaker 4: with the tapping, I could also hear breathing I could
24:55
Speaker 4: barely just hear it over the rain. Very slow breathing.
24:59
Speaker 4: I couldn't say anything. I very slowly backed away from
25:03
Speaker 4: the window. I frantically woke up both X and L
25:07
Speaker 4: in a panic. They both said to me, What?
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Speaker 2: What is it?
25:13
Speaker 4: In a grainy, tired voice. I told them to shush
25:16
Speaker 4: themselves and to listen. However, the tapping and breathing soon stopped.
25:22
Speaker 4: L then said, Dude, I don't hear a thing. I
25:26
Speaker 4: told them what I heard, but they didn't believe me.
25:29
Speaker 4: I was getting mad. But then Elle suggested, Why don't
25:33
Speaker 4: you just go outside and check? I immediately said something
25:36
Speaker 4: along the lines of, Fine, I'll go out there. In fact,
25:41
Speaker 4: why don't you both come out with me just to
25:42
Speaker 4: be sure? I opened the door quietly and motioned my
25:46
Speaker 4: friends to come outside with me. We got to the
25:49
Speaker 4: window outside the house and nothing. There was nothing there.
25:55
Speaker 4: X said to me, I told you, I knew there
25:57
Speaker 4: wasn't going to be anything there. We both talked about
26:01
Speaker 4: it for a bit outside, and X said I was crazy,
26:04
Speaker 4: but the story doesn't end there. Out of the blue,
26:09
Speaker 4: L nervously said, Wait, who's that guy over there? We
26:14
Speaker 4: all looked, and there was a dark silhouette that was
26:16
Speaker 4: just standing still a few houses down the street. He
26:20
Speaker 4: was probably about 5'5, and he was wearing a raincoat
26:23
Speaker 4: from what I remember. My friends both looked at me,
26:27
Speaker 4: knowing that I wasn't crazy. The guy was just staring
26:30
Speaker 4: at us, not moving a muscle, but he then started
26:33
Speaker 4: laughing in a sort of sinister kind of way. Within
26:37
Speaker 4: that moment, I said softly, Go for the backyard gate,
26:41
Speaker 4: right now, do it. The guy continued to stare at
26:45
Speaker 4: us while we both slid slowly to the gate, which
26:48
Speaker 4: was very close. Suddenly the guy just full on sprinted
26:51
Speaker 4: right toward us without warning, My life was in slow motion.
26:56
Speaker 4: I dashed for the gate. All of us got in,
26:59
Speaker 4: and I was actually the last one to get in,
27:01
Speaker 4: and then I locked the gate. The guy ran into
27:04
Speaker 4: the gate with such force, but the gate didn't budge.
27:08
Speaker 4: The gate and fence were really high, and he couldn't
27:10
Speaker 4: possibly get over it. He then started banging and screaming
27:14
Speaker 4: at the gate, yelling things like, Come on out here and.
27:17
Speaker 2: I'll kill you, you dumb teenagers.
27:20
Speaker 4: And I'll honestly never forget that sentence. We made a
27:24
Speaker 4: run for it to the back door of the house
27:26
Speaker 4: and woke X's dad up. He bolted straight outside and
27:30
Speaker 4: said the guy made a run for it and was
27:31
Speaker 4: already halfway down the street. He chased after him, screaming
27:35
Speaker 4: for him to get back here. X's dad called the
27:38
Speaker 4: police straight away. They arrived a little while later with cops.
27:43
Speaker 4: Three searched the area while one stopped to talk to
27:45
Speaker 4: me about it. The three cops found nothing except for
27:49
Speaker 4: a long and sharp kitchen knife that was dropped outside
27:51
Speaker 4: the front lawn.
27:53
Speaker 2: I shuddered.
27:55
Speaker 4: One of the policemen asked me if I knew what
27:56
Speaker 4: he looked like, but I couldn't make anything out other
28:00
Speaker 4: than he was somewhere around 5'5 and wearing a raincoat.
28:04
Speaker 4: He wasn't seen again after that, and he hasn't come back.
28:08
Speaker 4: But the police that day said they found dirty boot
28:10
Speaker 4: marks right outside the front door. But the really creepy
28:13
Speaker 4: part about the boot marks outside the door is that
28:16
Speaker 4: apparently that door had a peephole, and that peephole could
28:19
Speaker 4: make you see through both ways. Plus X's house is old,
28:23
Speaker 4: and that guy was possibly spying on us through it.
28:27
Speaker 4: Moral of the story is be very careful during the night,
28:30
Speaker 4: because anything can happen if you're not careful.
28:35
Speaker 1: We're going back many, many years for this, but I
28:38
Speaker 1: grew up in Northern California in quite a poor rural area.
28:42
Speaker 1: Some of my best friends from elementary and middle school
28:45
Speaker 1: lived like 10 to 15 miles away, so on weekends,
28:48
Speaker 1: instead of just going over to visit for the day,
28:51
Speaker 1: we'd have sleepovers to save our parents driving these crazy
28:54
Speaker 1: round trips. So I had this one friend called Star,
28:58
Speaker 1: whose parents were like old school hippies. Their house always
29:02
Speaker 1: smelled of patchouli, they were vegan before vegan was even
29:06
Speaker 1: really a thing, and aside from a few unusual recreational activities,
29:10
Speaker 1: they were basically just as good as being parents as
29:13
Speaker 1: any other couple. They were sweet, loving, and attentive, and
29:17
Speaker 1: I always had a ball whenever I went to sleepovers
29:19
Speaker 1: at their place. mainly because they'd let us stay outdoors
29:23
Speaker 1: in a tent at night, which was just such a
29:25
Speaker 1: huge adventure for a little group of pre-teen tomboys. Anyways,
29:30
Speaker 1: this one night we're staying in a tent in the backyard,
29:33
Speaker 1: but it was a backyard that extended to one side
29:35
Speaker 1: of the house. Where we're camped is in the view
29:38
Speaker 1: of the TV room windows. so Star's mom and dad
29:41
Speaker 1: could keep an eye on us, but it also meant
29:43
Speaker 1: we could see the driveway from the flap of our tent.
29:47
Speaker 1: It was summertime, so it was still incredibly warm at night,
29:50
Speaker 1: so we ended up leaving the tent flat unzipped to
29:53
Speaker 1: let some cool air in. It obviously wasn't open all
29:57
Speaker 1: the way because bugs, but we can still see outside
30:00
Speaker 1: the tent. Then, in the middle of the night, Star
30:04
Speaker 1: shakes me awake and whispers, There's someone in the driveway.
30:09
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it might have been her big brother, who
30:12
Speaker 1: was a few years older than us and was attending college.
30:16
Speaker 1: But when I suggested that, she said, No, it's a
30:19
Speaker 1: bunch of people, look. I start getting real anxious hearing that,
30:24
Speaker 1: so I quietly creep up to the tent flap to
30:26
Speaker 1: peek out. and that's when I saw that Star was
30:30
Speaker 1: exactly right. In the little bit of moonlight that we had,
30:34
Speaker 1: I literally lost count of the number of people I
30:36
Speaker 1: saw creeping up her driveway. It was seriously one of
30:39
Speaker 1: the scariest moments of my life, mainly because there was
30:42
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to do but keep as quiet as possible.
30:46
Speaker 1: We couldn't call the cops. This was way before cell phones.
30:50
Speaker 1: We couldn't warn Star's parents without revealing our presence. We
30:54
Speaker 1: were just powerless. forced to watch people who obviously didn't
30:57
Speaker 1: have good intentions slowly approaching Star's house. I think in
31:02
Speaker 1: the end, Star just broke, and in a move you
31:06
Speaker 1: could either call real brave or real stupid, she just
31:09
Speaker 1: ran out of the tent shouting, get away from my house,
31:12
Speaker 1: and then, mom, dad, call the cops. As soon as
31:16
Speaker 1: she starts screaming, a bunch of flashlights burst into life,
31:20
Speaker 1: obviously held by the guy sneaking up the driveway. And
31:24
Speaker 1: oh my god, There were so many of them. At
31:28
Speaker 1: first glance in the darkness, it looked no more than
31:30
Speaker 1: about five or six people. But when they all turned
31:33
Speaker 1: their flashlights on, it was clear the number was more
31:36
Speaker 1: like 15 or 20. I'd just hear, Sheriff's Department, show
31:41
Speaker 1: me your hands. And that was incredibly confusing because we
31:45
Speaker 1: were all about calling the cops to get help, but like,
31:48
Speaker 1: the cops were already here? Anyway, Stardust as she's told...
31:53
Speaker 1: while me and our friend start climbing out of the
31:55
Speaker 1: tent with our hands in the air. That's when the
31:58
Speaker 1: person approaching us started saying, Jesus, they're just kids, man.
32:04
Speaker 1: And with them being closer, I could see that they
32:05
Speaker 1: really were cops, with caps and badges and all patches
32:09
Speaker 1: on their arms, all that stuff. Then I hear, go, go, go,
32:13
Speaker 1: get in there. And the cops start bashing the front
32:16
Speaker 1: door to the house in while other cops fanned around
32:19
Speaker 1: the backyard and headed towards one of the barns. We
32:23
Speaker 1: were scared, obviously, but more so focused on just staying
32:26
Speaker 1: down and watching that we're not really freaking out too bad.
32:31
Speaker 1: But when the cops started dragging Star's mom and dad
32:33
Speaker 1: out of the house and arresting them, she had to
32:36
Speaker 1: be restrained by the cop that was guarding us. After that,
32:40
Speaker 1: the cops drove me and our friend back to our
32:42
Speaker 1: respective homes. Then, I don't know what they did with Star.
32:46
Speaker 1: I think they took her to her grandma's or her
32:48
Speaker 1: aunt's or whatever. Then a few days later, We find
32:52
Speaker 1: out that Star's mom and dad had been growing something
32:55
Speaker 1: they shouldn't have in one of their barns. I get
32:59
Speaker 1: that it was illegal and stuff, but the aftermath was
33:02
Speaker 1: just so sad. Star had to go live with her
33:05
Speaker 1: relatives because her parents were sent off to prison for
33:07
Speaker 1: a few years.
33:09
Speaker 2: It was messed up.
33:10
Speaker 1: And I get that the cops were just doing their
33:12
Speaker 1: job and stuff, but it was definitely one of the
33:14
Speaker 1: scariest times of my life. Seeing all those figures in
33:17
Speaker 1: black just creeping towards my friend's house.