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- 0:00Speaker 1: If this happened. When I was in college, I lived
- 0:03Speaker 1: in Ala Vista, a student community at ucs B notorious
- 0:09Speaker 1: for being a party school, and it fully lived up
- 0:12Speaker 1: to its reputation. I like partying, but holy shit, these
- 0:16Speaker 1: people were off the wall. As such, there were a
- 0:21Speaker 1: lot of students who put themselves in dangerous situations, drinking
- 0:25Speaker 1: way too much, not being careful, and forgetting to lock doors,
- 0:29Speaker 1: et cetera. It had a very isolated vibe, and anyone
- 0:33Speaker 1: who was hanging around who wasn't college aged immediately looked
- 0:38Speaker 1: out of place. One night, after having a few drinks,
- 0:42Speaker 1: I came home to my small house where I lived
- 0:45Speaker 1: with my two roommates. It was probably around two thirty
- 0:49Speaker 1: a m. We were all serious students, and when we partied,
- 0:53Speaker 1: it wasn't your typical ucs B megaager, more like a
- 0:57Speaker 1: small get together with friends. It would often have a
- 1:00Speaker 1: few people spend the night sleep on our furniture and
- 1:03Speaker 1: our beds, as the case may be. That night, my
- 1:07Speaker 1: roommates had somebody over whom I didn't know, and I
- 1:11Speaker 1: saw that this person was sleeping on the couch. I
- 1:13Speaker 1: didn't turn on any lights because I didn't want to
- 1:16Speaker 1: wake him. Up, but as I was passing by the
- 1:18Speaker 1: couch to enter my bedroom, I noticed the figure was
- 1:22Speaker 1: lying very stiff. He gave off a strange vibe. It
- 1:28Speaker 1: was like he was putting all of his energy into
- 1:30Speaker 1: being as still as possible. I paused, and the guy
- 1:35Speaker 1: quickly jerked his head to face me without moving his limbs.
- 1:40Speaker 1: It was so fast that it startled me. I could
- 1:44Speaker 1: see his wide open eyes glinting in the dark, figuring
- 1:48Speaker 1: that I might have startled him, or perhaps he was
- 1:51Speaker 1: drunk or maybe on some kind of stimulant and was
- 1:53Speaker 1: unable to sleep. I just hurried past into my bedroom
- 1:58Speaker 1: and locked the door. That guy made me nervous, and
- 2:03Speaker 1: I wasn't taking any chances. Eventually, I fell asleep. At
- 2:15Speaker 1: four thirty a m. I woke up. There was a
- 2:18Speaker 1: strange sound at the door, almost like somebody was drumming
- 2:23Speaker 1: their fingers against the wood. I lay still and listened.
- 2:31Speaker 1: There came more sounds, like somebody scratching the door with
- 2:35Speaker 1: their fingers, which got louder and louder. It was clear
- 2:40Speaker 1: that he was using both hands and scratching as fast
- 2:44Speaker 1: and hard as possible. It created an extremely loud and
- 2:48Speaker 1: intimidating sound that filled me with fear. I grabbed my
- 2:54Speaker 1: phone and texted my roommate, Hey, your friend is freaking
- 2:59Speaker 1: me out. Is he doped up or something? Can you
- 3:02Speaker 1: please go out and talk to him. He's banging and
- 3:05Speaker 1: scratching at my door. She didn't respond, probably because she
- 3:10Speaker 1: was sleeping. I texted my other roommate, but the end
- 3:14Speaker 1: result was the same. Keep in mind that the scratching
- 3:18Speaker 1: had been going on at this point for a couple
- 3:20Speaker 1: of minutes. I have no idea how he could have
- 3:23Speaker 1: sustained it. Scratching a wooden door with your finger nails
- 3:27Speaker 1: can't feel that good. He also grabbed at the door
- 3:30Speaker 1: knob and tried turning it. Because neither of them answered,
- 3:38Speaker 1: I decided to call and wake them up. I know
- 3:42Speaker 1: it sounds dumb, but there was something seriously horrifying about
- 3:46Speaker 1: being teased like this through the door. I knew that
- 3:50Speaker 1: he was trying to scare me, and I felt like
- 3:52Speaker 1: a little kid. But I could tell this guy was
- 3:55Speaker 1: for something, and perhaps the police needed to be called.
- 4:00Speaker 1: I wanted to loop in my roommates, though, since it
- 4:03Speaker 1: was one of their friends. The scratching stopped abruptly, and
- 4:07Speaker 1: I called my roommate, who answered in a tired voice, hullo, Hey,
- 4:14Speaker 1: your friend is messed up. Can you please deal with it?
- 4:18Speaker 1: He's scaring the crap out of me and he's scratching
- 4:20Speaker 1: at my bedroom door. She didn't say anything for several seconds,
- 4:26Speaker 1: and when she spoke, she didn't sound tired at all. Uh,
- 4:31Speaker 1: what friend guy who was sleeping on the couch. We
- 4:36Speaker 1: didn't have any guys over tonight. Call the police now.
- 4:41Speaker 1: My adrenaline went through the roof before hanging up. I
- 4:46Speaker 1: told her to lock her bedroom door as quickly as possible.
- 4:49Speaker 1: I realized that I hadn't heard the scratching in a while,
- 4:52Speaker 1: and I had no clue where the guy was. Suddenly
- 4:58Speaker 1: I heard a loud banging at the other end of
- 5:00Speaker 1: the house, where my roommates Lorn and Monica shared a bedroom.
- 5:06Speaker 1: The bangs were followed by the sound of screaming. I
- 5:12Speaker 1: quickly dialed nine one one as this maniac proceeded to
- 5:16Speaker 1: bang against my roommate's bedroom door. Thankfully, they had locked
- 5:21Speaker 1: it in time. The heaviness of the blows left no
- 5:24Speaker 1: doubt that he was trying to break the door down.
- 5:28Speaker 1: I told the operator the situation, and they dispatched two
- 5:33Speaker 1: squad cars. The police and Ila Vesta are generally used
- 5:38Speaker 1: to peeling drunks off the sidewalk and breaking up brawling
- 5:41Speaker 1: frat brows, but this was serious, and I think the
- 5:44Speaker 1: despatcher knew how terrified I was from my tone. She
- 5:49Speaker 1: stayed on the line with me. At one point, the
- 5:52Speaker 1: banging stopped and everything was silent for a while, when
- 5:57Speaker 1: suddenly I looked down and saw that the intruder had
- 6:02Speaker 1: slipped his fingers through the one inch gap between the
- 6:05Speaker 1: bottom of my door and the floor, and he was
- 6:08Speaker 1: just kind of wiggling them around and making this weird
- 6:14Speaker 1: growling sound. I screamed and backed away, which I instantly
- 6:20Speaker 1: regretted in hindsight. It would have been so awesome if
- 6:24Speaker 1: I just stomped out of his fingers and heard him
- 6:27Speaker 1: howling in pain. When the cop showed up, I heard
- 6:31Speaker 1: him running and the sound of our sliding glass door
- 6:34Speaker 1: opening and closing. He was gone, and the cops never
- 6:39Speaker 1: caught him. My bedroom door was covered in these huge
- 6:44Speaker 1: gouges that he had made by using a pair of scissors,
- 6:48Speaker 1: which he discarded on the ground before he left. What
- 6:53Speaker 1: terrifies me the most about this was that I walked
- 6:56Speaker 1: right past him. I looked him right in the face.
- 7:01Speaker 1: I realized now that he was not trying to sleep.
- 7:04Speaker 1: He probably heard me open the door and freaked out
- 7:08Speaker 1: because he hadn't realized that somebody else was living there.
- 7:12Speaker 1: He was lying so stiff because he was trying to
- 7:15Speaker 1: blend into the couch. In the fall of twenty ten,
- 7:24Speaker 1: I decided to go back to college. I was a
- 7:28Speaker 1: single mom of three boys, but they were all in
- 7:31Speaker 1: school by now, and me going back was finally possible.
- 7:36Speaker 1: The school I went to is a regional campus to
- 7:38Speaker 1: a very large university and located in a neighborhood that
- 7:42Speaker 1: is known for crime, meth heroine, prostitution, etc. But it
- 7:48Speaker 1: was only a twenty minute drive from my house and
- 7:51Speaker 1: I didn't feel unsafe about going there. My first day
- 7:55Speaker 1: there was intimidating. I didn't know anyone, and I was
- 7:59Speaker 1: a lot older than most of the other students. I
- 8:02Speaker 1: was twenty eight at the time. I sat down at
- 8:05Speaker 1: a table in the back of the room, and a
- 8:08Speaker 1: few minutes later, a woman who was around my age
- 8:12Speaker 1: sat down next to me. She was very skinny, smelled
- 8:17Speaker 1: like cigarettes, She had greasy hair and sunken eyes, but
- 8:21Speaker 1: when she started to talk to me, she seemed normal enough.
- 8:26Speaker 1: She started off the conversation by telling me that she
- 8:28Speaker 1: sat close to me because I was wearing the prettiest
- 8:31Speaker 1: blouse in the room. Strange, but as an awkward person,
- 8:36Speaker 1: I give a lot a lyway for people who say
- 8:38Speaker 1: or do awkward things before I think too much of it.
- 8:43Speaker 1: She didn't have a backpack, any books, a pen or notebook, nothing.
- 8:49Speaker 1: She said that her financial aid hadn't come through yet,
- 8:52Speaker 1: but she didn't want to fall too far behind in
- 8:54Speaker 1: class and asked if I would share my book. I
- 8:59Speaker 1: agreed and gave her a pen and paper as well.
- 9:04Speaker 1: After the first class, she asked if I wouldn't mind
- 9:07Speaker 1: going with her to the library so she could scan
- 9:10Speaker 1: a few pages from my book to take home. I agreed,
- 9:14Speaker 1: and we began to head to the library. She stops
- 9:18Speaker 1: and looks at her phone and says her son just
- 9:21Speaker 1: texted her and needs her to come home to do something.
- 9:25Speaker 1: She then asks if I could come with her. I
- 9:29Speaker 1: tell her that I have another class and I couldn't
- 9:33Speaker 1: go with her. I asked if she still wanted to
- 9:35Speaker 1: go to the library first, and she said no, and
- 9:39Speaker 1: that she had to get back to her son, but
- 9:42Speaker 1: really couldn't go alone. For some reason. I was confused,
- 9:48Speaker 1: but I kept telling her that I couldn't go with her,
- 9:50Speaker 1: and then she starts crying. At this point, we were
- 9:54Speaker 1: in a common area outside, with the parking lot on
- 9:57Speaker 1: one side and the library on the other. I didn't
- 10:01Speaker 1: like being outside away from people with this woman anymore.
- 10:06Speaker 1: She got really upset and start screaming at me, basically
- 10:11Speaker 1: cursing me out. I don't remember how the interaction went
- 10:15Speaker 1: exactly because I was in complete shock by how quickly
- 10:19Speaker 1: she transitioned from being friendly to crying and now screaming
- 10:24Speaker 1: in my face. I turned around and began heading toward
- 10:28Speaker 1: the library. I pulled out my phone and called my
- 10:31Speaker 1: friend so that I would have someone else aware of
- 10:34Speaker 1: this lady if she tried to do anything more than
- 10:37Speaker 1: just scream at me. I get to the library doors
- 10:41Speaker 1: and watch her. She was now standing at the edge
- 10:44Speaker 1: of the parking lot. A car then pulls up next
- 10:47Speaker 1: to her. The man who was driving was obviously upset
- 10:51Speaker 1: with a woman. They were arguing, but I couldn't hear
- 10:55Speaker 1: them from where I was. Eventually, she gets into the
- 10:59Speaker 1: car and leaves with him. The next day, I was
- 11:03Speaker 1: dreading class because I didn't know what this woman's attitude
- 11:07Speaker 1: would be the next day, but she wasn't there. In fact,
- 11:12Speaker 1: she never came back to class. Looking back, I'm very
- 11:17Speaker 1: certain that she wasn't even a student there, and for
- 11:20Speaker 1: whatever reason, she was trying to lure me away. I
- 11:24Speaker 1: wish I knew what her intentions were, but at the
- 11:27Speaker 1: same time, I'm glad that I never had to find out.
- 11:36Speaker 1: This happened when I was attending university when I was
- 11:39Speaker 1: eighteen years old, I made an effort to make a
- 11:42Speaker 1: lot of friends after I moved on to campus, and
- 11:46Speaker 1: I ended up with a few groups to hang out with.
- 11:48Speaker 1: I even had a girlfriend. Students would usually have lunch
- 11:51Speaker 1: in the cafeteria in pairs three at the most, and
- 11:55Speaker 1: I wasn't very picky about who I had lunch with because,
- 11:58Speaker 1: like most people in class, we were all trying to
- 12:01Speaker 1: make an effort to be social. A girl named Lily
- 12:05Speaker 1: asked me if I wanted to eat lunch together after class.
- 12:09Speaker 1: I didn't have any reservations about it. We made small
- 12:12Speaker 1: talk about school and what not. After that day, she
- 12:16Speaker 1: kept asking me to get lunch with her. It became
- 12:19Speaker 1: a pattern, and there wasn't exactly a way to start
- 12:22Speaker 1: saying no. At the time, I didn't mind, but this
- 12:27Speaker 1: did mean I lost the chance to eat lunch with
- 12:29Speaker 1: my other friends. In hindsight, I suppose that was the point.
- 12:36Speaker 1: One day, after class, somebody asked me if I could
- 12:40Speaker 1: add them on social media. It was kind of a
- 12:42Speaker 1: new thing back in those days. This happened right in
- 12:45Speaker 1: front of Lily. I saw her face jerk toward me
- 12:48Speaker 1: from a few seats over. It was such a sharp
- 12:51Speaker 1: reaction that it was hard for me to ignore. By
- 12:55Speaker 1: the time I got home later that day, Lily had
- 12:58Speaker 1: sent me a friend request. We had no friends in common,
- 13:03Speaker 1: and I don't know how she knew my last name.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I was a bit surprised, but I guess she had
- 13:09Speaker 1: just dug through the university's social media pages and found
- 13:12Speaker 1: me there. It gave me a strange feeling, but what's
- 13:18Speaker 1: the worst that could happen? She ended up messaging me
- 13:21Speaker 1: non stop and commenting on everything that I posted. I
- 13:26Speaker 1: told myself that she was just socially awkward, but whatever,
- 13:31Speaker 1: I've known worse people, or so I thought, she still
- 13:36Speaker 1: always got me to eat lunch with her. Other than
- 13:39Speaker 1: that we rarely spent time together in person. I saw
- 13:43Speaker 1: her round sometimes, but I never went out of my
- 13:46Speaker 1: way to go hang out with her, so it was
- 13:48Speaker 1: mostly online messaging and seeing each other at lunch. Coincidentally,
- 13:54Speaker 1: my girlfriend was also named Lily. This was something that
- 13:59Speaker 1: clearly bothered the other Lily. She occasionally hinted that she
- 14:03Speaker 1: wanted my girlfriend to pick a different name, or joked
- 14:07Speaker 1: about her name not suiting her. She obviously didn't like
- 14:10Speaker 1: my girlfriend at all, and I had an idea of why.
- 14:15Speaker 1: It was hard to ignore. By this point, Lily was
- 14:19Speaker 1: starting to subtly hint that she had a crush on me.
- 14:23Speaker 1: I tried not to address it, because what was I
- 14:25Speaker 1: going to say. I've never known what to do when
- 14:28Speaker 1: her friend makes a pass at me. I was also
- 14:31Speaker 1: not interested in dating her at all, even ignoring the
- 14:34Speaker 1: weird stuff she pulled. Lily was just not my type.
- 14:39Speaker 1: She tended to dress and act like a nineteen fifties
- 14:42Speaker 1: housewife and one of those adults who was still obsessed
- 14:45Speaker 1: with Disney princesses. If you can imagine that, things took
- 14:51Speaker 1: an uncomfortable twist on the day of our last shared
- 14:54Speaker 1: class of the year. Instead of asking me out to
- 14:57Speaker 1: lunch like she usually did. Lily asked me if I
- 15:01Speaker 1: could go walk with her again. I didn't know how
- 15:05Speaker 1: to refuse. Our campus was bordered by a large patch
- 15:09Speaker 1: of woodland. Lily led me into the woods. The sounds
- 15:13Speaker 1: of our fellow students slowly faded away. She sat down
- 15:18Speaker 1: on a log and I reluctantly joined her. She began
- 15:23Speaker 1: talking about how she was going to miss me over
- 15:25Speaker 1: the summer. I tried my best to placate her, but
- 15:29Speaker 1: honestly I didn't want to be there, especially because she
- 15:33Speaker 1: seemed to be on the verge of tears. I think
- 15:36Speaker 1: I tried to make an excuse about having plans with
- 15:38Speaker 1: my girlfriend, but before I could leave, Lily kissed me
- 15:43Speaker 1: without warning. It was uncomfortable, to say the least. I
- 15:48Speaker 1: got out of there, and I was happy to think
- 15:50Speaker 1: that I wouldn't be seeing her for a while. I
- 15:54Speaker 1: came back to university after the summer break. I had
- 15:57Speaker 1: moved into a house with some of my friends. Without
- 16:00Speaker 1: getting too much off topic, there were some serious issues
- 16:03Speaker 1: with this group of friends. There was a lot of
- 16:06Speaker 1: petty arguing going on, and worse, I also broke up
- 16:11Speaker 1: with my girlfriend around the start of the school year,
- 16:13Speaker 1: and basically this entire mess made me recontextualize things with
- 16:19Speaker 1: Lily because it suddenly didn't seem like a bad idea
- 16:22Speaker 1: to socialize with her. With that said, I still did
- 16:26Speaker 1: not want to be alone with her. We mostly talked online.
- 16:31Speaker 1: It was around this time that I began dating a guy.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Lily was not pleased to hear about that news. I
- 16:38Speaker 1: think she hoped to sneak in after I broke up
- 16:40Speaker 1: with my girlfriend, but as I said before, that was
- 16:44Speaker 1: never going to happen. There wasn't a big gap between
- 16:47Speaker 1: my break up and this new relationship, so she must
- 16:52Speaker 1: have thought that she missed her chance to be with me.
- 16:56Speaker 1: This is where the story gets bad. At the time,
- 17:01Speaker 1: I was fairly active on tumbler. I would occasionally talk
- 17:05Speaker 1: about my wife and mostly reblogged photos and stuff. I
- 17:10Speaker 1: was on there one day when something odd happened. One
- 17:13Speaker 1: of the blogs I followed messaged me. I saw a
- 17:17Speaker 1: screenshot of somebody asking this completely random person to analyze
- 17:22Speaker 1: my about section and then asked their opinion on the
- 17:25Speaker 1: type of person who would write it. I cannot stress
- 17:29Speaker 1: to you how bizarre and completely out of left field
- 17:32Speaker 1: it was to see someone trying to study me like
- 17:35Speaker 1: a character in a book. The reply was basically, UM,
- 17:40Speaker 1: I don't know, sorry, But the important thing was that
- 17:44Speaker 1: the question hadn't been anonymous. Obviously, I wanted to know
- 17:48Speaker 1: who had taken such a bizarre interest in me. Huh,
- 17:52Speaker 1: No prizes for guessing who was behind it. What I
- 17:57Speaker 1: discovered was like a shrine. It was a cute sea,
- 18:03Speaker 1: pink and red page. There were a few posts about
- 18:06Speaker 1: Lily's interests, but most of the content was focused on me.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Most of the blogs were about me, chronicling things I
- 18:16Speaker 1: had done recently, as well as references to things from
- 18:19Speaker 1: as far back as I had known Lily. It was
- 18:22Speaker 1: clear that she had been keeping tabs on me, both
- 18:26Speaker 1: online and offline, gathering up every scrap of information she
- 18:31Speaker 1: could about my wife and filing it away in her collection.
- 18:37Speaker 1: She talked about us eating lunch together and how special
- 18:41Speaker 1: art dates were, as if it was something more than
- 18:44Speaker 1: just acquaintances getting food after class. She talked about the
- 18:49Speaker 1: time that she kissed me in the woods, but she
- 18:52Speaker 1: made it sound like it was mutual. She quoted lyrics
- 18:56Speaker 1: from my favorite songs and talked about how she would
- 18:59Speaker 1: always be there for me no matter who else came
- 19:02Speaker 1: into my life, lots of references to loving me just
- 19:07Speaker 1: the way I am. Things got worse. There were a
- 19:11Speaker 1: lot of posts about my boyfriend. These were clearly psychotic.
- 19:17Speaker 1: They talked about how he didn't deserve me and he
- 19:20Speaker 1: didn't know what he had, and that if she was
- 19:23Speaker 1: with me, she would be jealous of anyone else who
- 19:26Speaker 1: came near me. I don't like thinking about what kind
- 19:29Speaker 1: of person would write so obsessively about their fixation on me.
- 19:35Speaker 1: One thing that didn't make sense initially was that the
- 19:38Speaker 1: blog also referenced Lily's best friend, Stephen. She had never
- 19:45Speaker 1: mentioned this person to me before. Her post talked about
- 19:49Speaker 1: how Stephen was such a great friend and how they
- 19:53Speaker 1: had so much fun together and he would always look
- 19:56Speaker 1: out for her, et cetera. I was trying to work
- 19:59Speaker 1: out if this Stephen was an online friend when one
- 20:03Speaker 1: specific post made it all click. Stephen sent this to
- 20:08Speaker 1: me he knew that I would love it. The problem
- 20:12Speaker 1: was the photo was taken from my own page. She
- 20:17Speaker 1: was claiming that this fictional best friend of hers shared
- 20:20Speaker 1: it with her, so in her messed up fantasy life,
- 20:24Speaker 1: she split me into two people. I was both the
- 20:27Speaker 1: perfect best friend who was always looking out for her
- 20:32Speaker 1: and her soulmate who was bound to end up with
- 20:35Speaker 1: her when I finally got over my boyfriend and all
- 20:38Speaker 1: these other easy girls I hung out with. Believe it
- 20:42Speaker 1: or not, Lily had an audience. She asked open questions
- 20:47Speaker 1: about me in regards to her relationship with me, and
- 20:51Speaker 1: got comments from her followers, people who took what she
- 20:55Speaker 1: said at face value. I saw a bunch of random
- 20:58Speaker 1: people agreeing with her and enabling her stalking behavior. Lily
- 21:03Speaker 1: had constructed this fake, intricate fan fiction version of my
- 21:08Speaker 1: life for anyone to share their opinion on, and she
- 21:12Speaker 1: made herself out to be the hero. I went maybe
- 21:17Speaker 1: a month back into this page's history. I did not
- 21:20Speaker 1: look at everything that was there. Frankly, it made me sick.
- 21:26Speaker 1: I'm not sure how long this had been going on
- 21:28Speaker 1: for my messaged to Lily and confronted her about her
- 21:32Speaker 1: little stalker shrine, and she said nothing. I cannot strust
- 21:37Speaker 1: to you how weird it was to have found pages
- 21:40Speaker 1: and pages dedicated to me with her talking about how
- 21:44Speaker 1: she was in love with me and would make sure
- 21:46Speaker 1: that we ended up together, creating this messed up fantasy
- 21:51Speaker 1: with two different versions of me in it, and when
- 21:54Speaker 1: I confronted her, she acted like it never happened. He
- 22:00Speaker 1: eventually deleted the page, or at least changed the name
- 22:04Speaker 1: so that I couldn't find it. No way was I
- 22:07Speaker 1: ever going to hang out with her again. But we
- 22:10Speaker 1: still shared a class, and she was starting to scare
- 22:13Speaker 1: me with what she might do next. I'm a paranoid
- 22:17Speaker 1: person by nature, so knowing that someone was obsessively keeping
- 22:20Speaker 1: track of me for who knows how long freaked me out.
- 22:26Speaker 1: The next thing she pulled was trying to seduce my boyfriend.
- 22:30Speaker 1: It was an absolutely useless attempt that only made him
- 22:33Speaker 1: feel awkward. He told me about it right away. What
- 22:38Speaker 1: was her plan there? Did she hope that he would
- 22:40Speaker 1: cheat on me with her and then wait for me
- 22:42Speaker 1: to break up with him. When that dumpster fire of
- 22:45Speaker 1: a plan failed, she tried hitting on three of my
- 22:48Speaker 1: other friends. None of them took the bait. She ended
- 22:52Speaker 1: up dating one of my former roommates for a while,
- 22:55Speaker 1: but made sure to send me messages while they were together,
- 22:59Speaker 1: letting me know that she would rather be with me. Blah,
- 23:04Speaker 1: no things. Lily made sure to stay in my life
- 23:08Speaker 1: the entire time I was at that university. There was
- 23:12Speaker 1: a time when I tried to pull away from her,
- 23:15Speaker 1: and that's when she started rumors about me, which damaged
- 23:18Speaker 1: career opportunities that I had put a lot of work into.
- 23:22Speaker 1: I don't know what else she did behind my back,
- 23:26Speaker 1: but it made me realize it was safer to let
- 23:29Speaker 1: her think that she was part of my life rather
- 23:32Speaker 1: than doing something that would cause her to get angry.
- 23:35Speaker 1: After I graduated, Lily was still trying to claw her
- 23:39Speaker 1: way back into my life. I almost stopped posting on
- 23:43Speaker 1: social media entirely by this point. Of course, she didn't
- 23:47Speaker 1: give up that easily. She tried to start conversations. I
- 23:52Speaker 1: usually just ignored her. I didn't like to think how
- 23:55Speaker 1: she was still tracking me online. The last time we
- 23:59Speaker 1: had a real commentation was when she messaged me out
- 24:03Speaker 1: of nowhere, and thinking about what transpired makes my skin crawl.
- 24:09Speaker 1: But I'll summarize what happened. She started asking me very
- 24:13Speaker 1: personal questions about my sexuality. I really didn't want to
- 24:17Speaker 1: talk about that with her, but I told her some
- 24:20Speaker 1: basic stuff. Then she changed the subject and began talking
- 24:25Speaker 1: about how would I feel if she was a boy.
- 24:32Speaker 1: There was something seriously wrong with this girl. I had
- 24:38Speaker 1: tried telling her not to pull this crap with me,
- 24:41Speaker 1: but she responded by sending photos of herself, followed by
- 24:45Speaker 1: a bunch of messages, maybe four or five a minute,
- 24:49Speaker 1: way too fast for me to reply before the next
- 24:52Speaker 1: one arrived, basically quoting back what I had told her
- 24:56Speaker 1: about myself, as if she was rope as me, trying
- 25:03Speaker 1: to absorb my history like some kind of parasite. I
- 25:08Speaker 1: cut off all communication with her after that. I eventually
- 25:13Speaker 1: deleted her from all of my social media pages, which
- 25:17Speaker 1: was the only real way she had of contacting me. Now,
- 25:21Speaker 1: I really thought that she might have finally moved on,
- 25:24Speaker 1: but only a few days ago she sent me another
- 25:28Speaker 1: friend request. It's sitting there unanswered because I know that
- 25:32Speaker 1: if I delete it, she'll only send another one. From
- 25:37Speaker 1: some perspective, Lily and I first met nearly twelve years ago.
- 25:43Speaker 1: This story here is just the highlights, and even then,
- 25:47Speaker 1: it's only the stuff that I know about