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5 CREEPY HIGH SCHOOL HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: This little story is from 2012. I live in Canberra, Australia.
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Speaker 1: We're an incredibly boring place 99% of the time. Not
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Speaker 1: much happens, but when it does, everyone hears about it.
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Speaker 1: I just started year 11 at a new school. The
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Speaker 1: last two years of high school are done at a
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Speaker 1: separate school which we call college to year 7 to 10.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's about 16 to 18 at this campus. I was
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Speaker 1: a bit of an overachiever when it came to English,
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Speaker 1: so I was placed in a class of six or
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Speaker 1: seven other overachievers in an experimental English class taught by
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Speaker 1: the deputy principal in charge of my grade. Basically, rather
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Speaker 1: than physical books and assignments, the school wanted to trial
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Speaker 1: a totally digital format, which I hated by the way.
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Speaker 1: We worked almost exclusively on our personal iPads that we
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Speaker 1: had to bring to each lesson. Even though the class
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Speaker 1: was small, I don't remember much about most of the kids.
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Speaker 1: They weren't particularly interesting, I guess. I kept to myself
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Speaker 1: after the collapse of my high school friendship group and
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Speaker 1: sat next to the other quiet kid in this particular class.
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Speaker 1: I'll call him Jimbo. Jimbo was even quieter than me.
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Speaker 1: I got myself in trouble a couple of times for
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Speaker 1: challenging the teacher's views, but I honestly do not remember
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Speaker 1: this guy ever saying a word. One lesson for some
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Speaker 1: reason that escapes me where we were discussing our pets.
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Speaker 1: Jane talked about her cat, Bob about his dogs, whatever.
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Speaker 1: It was one of the few times I contributed without
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Speaker 1: challenging the teacher even. Jimbo still said nothing, just flicking
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Speaker 1: idly through his iPad and leaning back on his chair
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Speaker 1: as he very often did. A couple of weeks into
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Speaker 1: the year, I finally found a few new friends to
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Speaker 1: hang out with on breaks. Jimbo was absent from class,
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Speaker 1: and then the next and the next. This kid just disappeared.
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Speaker 1: And after another couple of weeks, I asked the deputy
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Speaker 1: where he was. This dude hated me, so he literally
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Speaker 1: rolled his eyes, shoved past, and said nothing. I shrugged
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Speaker 1: it off because I knew the teacher was a dickhead,
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Speaker 1: but I was still curious. I brought it up to
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Speaker 1: my new mates because it's not common around here for
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Speaker 1: a kid to just stop showing up to school. We're
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Speaker 1: a small city. Someone always knows something. If he'd moved school,
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Speaker 1: someone would have heard. There had to be some kind
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Speaker 1: of explanation for the sudden extended absence. One of my
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Speaker 1: new buddies took me aside. I'll call him Jerry. Jerry
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Speaker 1: was a good, goofy guy. He was the type to
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Speaker 1: always joke around. So when he pulled me aside all serious,
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Speaker 1: I knew that something was off. Jerry and Jimbo had
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Speaker 1: been friends back in their old high school. At some
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Speaker 1: stage over the summer holidays when Jerry had visited him,
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Speaker 1: Jimbo had spilled a glass of milk in his kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Jerry laughed about it, but Jimbo demanded he clean it up,
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Speaker 1: even though Jerry obviously wasn't the one who made the mess.
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Speaker 1: Jerry turned his back, and the next thing he knew,
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Speaker 1: Jimbo had a knife to his throat and made him
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Speaker 1: clean up the spill at knife point. But it gets worse. So,
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Speaker 1: so much worse. He tells me that Jimbo's iPad was
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Speaker 1: absolutely packed with videos. Videos of him doing the most
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Speaker 1: disgusting subhuman things to animals. Primarily dogs. I physically can't
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Speaker 1: bring myself to write the specifics of what he did
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Speaker 1: to those poor souls. Thank the BTK killer, but without
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Speaker 1: the people. He'd been stealing them from backyards and luring strays.
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Speaker 1: There was even a teacher at the school who'd come
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Speaker 1: to find out why his dogs were going crazy so late,
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Speaker 1: and then he saw Jimbo scamper off into the night.
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Speaker 1: There was a vast paddock not far from the school
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Speaker 1: that I used to go smoke weed in, because the
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Speaker 1: grass was tall enough to keep us relatively well hidden
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Speaker 1: from the rest of the world. Absolutely huge, a good
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Speaker 1: kilometer square if not more. That specific paddock in question
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Speaker 1: I learned had been his killing fields. I was just
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Speaker 1: getting high in the opposite corner closer to the houses
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Speaker 1: that lined one side. If we decided to venture diagonally
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Speaker 1: across for whatever reason, we very possibly could have come
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Speaker 1: across something he'd done. The iPad that he'd recorded it
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Speaker 1: all on had been less than a foot away from
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Speaker 1: me for weeks. It flicked through the images of what
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Speaker 1: he'd done so casually in that little classroom of six
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Speaker 1: or seven students. Hell, he knew that each one of
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Speaker 1: us had pets. He also had a buggy list found
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Speaker 1: on the iPad, the top item of which was graduating
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Speaker 1: to killing humans. From what I know, Jimbo was convicted
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Speaker 1: for animal cruelty, and nobody's heard of him since. I'm
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Speaker 1: a 25-year-old female, and this happened maybe 8 to 9
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Speaker 1: years ago, and I was 16 to 17 years old then.
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Speaker 1: I'm from a small village, and I went to school
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Speaker 1: in the nearest big city, which was about 40 kilometers away,
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Speaker 1: about 25 miles. Because public transportation was so bad, I
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Speaker 1: had no way to get home unless they came for me,
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Speaker 1: or I had to walk 4 kilometers. I lived in
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Speaker 1: a dormitory during the week in the city where I studied.
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Speaker 1: I stayed in the city during the week and went
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Speaker 1: home on Fridays then back again on Sundays. I always
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Speaker 1: get off the bus at the main station when I
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Speaker 1: arrive in the city around 2pm. My boyfriend who came
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Speaker 1: from another town also studied in the city. He came
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Speaker 1: by train. Every Sunday I waited for him at the
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Speaker 1: station for about an hour and a half and then
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Speaker 1: went to the dormitory together. That day was no different.
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Speaker 1: I was waiting for him sitting upstairs at the station
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Speaker 1: in a spot where I could see the entire ground
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Speaker 1: floor from above. I had my headphones in and on
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Speaker 1: my phone just sitting there. Out of the corner of
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Speaker 1: my eye, I noticed a homeless woman wandering around. She
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Speaker 1: sometimes stood still and looked around, but I didn't pay
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Speaker 1: much attention. There are a lot of homeless people in
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Speaker 1: that area. Time passed. I was still sitting, headphones on,
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Speaker 1: phone in hand. Then I saw the homeless woman start
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Speaker 1: walking in my direction. I still didn't think too much
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Speaker 1: of it. When she was about a few feet away
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Speaker 1: from me, I noticed she was talking to other people
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Speaker 1: who were sitting nearby, probably asking for money. A few
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Speaker 1: moments later, she had started walking toward me again. I
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Speaker 1: saw her, but I didn't lift my head. Then she
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Speaker 1: stopped in front of me. That's when I looked up.
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Speaker 1: She just stared at me. Her eyes looked like she
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Speaker 1: was high on something, and she was slightly swaying. She
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Speaker 1: was dirty, honestly disgusting to look at. Some green liquid
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Speaker 1: was dripping from the corner of her mouth and her
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Speaker 1: face was dirty. She wore a thick coat, gray pants,
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Speaker 1: black boots, even though it was spring, and had a
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Speaker 1: black backpack. She had brown hair, brown eyes, looked around
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Speaker 1: 40 years old, though she could have been younger. I
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Speaker 1: saw her lips moving. She was talking to me. I
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Speaker 1: took out my headphones and gave her my attention. I'm
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Speaker 1: not a rude person and I always try to speak
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Speaker 1: kindly to people. But when I removed my headphones, she
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Speaker 1: just went silent. Just stared at me. What? Could you
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Speaker 1: say that again? I asked her. Then she spoke again.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't understand a single word. Just mumbling. She
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Speaker 1: stared at me with those glassy eyes. I just shook
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Speaker 1: my head. Sorry, I can't understand what you're saying. I
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Speaker 1: told her and looked at her. At this point, I
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Speaker 1: felt my heart beat faster. I got scared. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know what she wanted and something about her made me
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Speaker 1: feel really uncomfortable. She started mumbling again and while she mumbled,
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Speaker 1: she began searching for something in her coat pocket with
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Speaker 1: her right hand. I looked down at her hand to
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Speaker 1: see what she was doing or what she wanted from me.
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Speaker 1: At this point, I thought maybe she needed help with something.
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Speaker 1: I looked back up into her eyes and waited to
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Speaker 1: see what was going to happen. Then, I saw her
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Speaker 1: pull her hand out of her coat and look down
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Speaker 1: at her hand again. She was still mumbling. I then
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Speaker 1: saw a piece of glass in her hand. She slowly
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Speaker 1: slid it up under her coat to her forearm, holding
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Speaker 1: the sharp end in her palm. It was pretty big
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Speaker 1: and sharp, probably about six inches. That's when I realized
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Speaker 1: something was very wrong. My eyes widened. I was scared.
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Speaker 1: I asked her one last time, a bit more irritated now.
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Speaker 1: What do you want from me? I knew that there
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Speaker 1: were people around. It was a train station in broad daylight.
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Speaker 1: so I didn't think she would actually do anything. Well,
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Speaker 1: very suddenly, she stepped toward me and pushed the glass
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Speaker 1: toward me, right toward my neck. I reacted immediately. I
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Speaker 1: jumped up in time, pushed her away, and yelled at her.
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Speaker 1: What the hell are you doing? She started mumbling more angrily.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea what she was saying. My whole
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Speaker 1: body was just shaking, and I was terrified. I grabbed
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Speaker 1: my travel bag quickly, all while keeping my eyes on her.
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Speaker 1: She was still mumbling angrily, holding the glass shard in
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Speaker 1: front of her, staring at me. Leave me alone! Go
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Speaker 1: to hell! I shouted at her again, and as I
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Speaker 1: rushed off, I saw that everyone at the station was
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Speaker 1: now watching us. I ran outside the station and saw
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Speaker 1: some police officers nearby. I felt relieved. I walked toward them,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't say anything. I knew that if I
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Speaker 1: told them, they'd probably just tell her to leave and
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Speaker 1: that would be it, so I just stayed close to them.
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Speaker 1: A few moments later, I saw the woman come outside too.
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Speaker 1: She was walking in my direction, angrily looking at me.
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Speaker 1: I didn't see the glass in her hand anymore. I
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Speaker 1: grabbed my bag and walked to a different part of
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Speaker 1: the station courtyard where she couldn't see me. I was trembling, scared,
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Speaker 1: and in shock. I never saw her again. A little
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Speaker 1: bit later, my boyfriend arrived and I told him what happened.
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Speaker 1: He was surprised and worried too. He told me to
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Speaker 1: never wait for him at the station again, and I didn't.
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Speaker 1: From that point on, I always waited for him at
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Speaker 1: the door Even now, every time I go to that station,
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Speaker 1: which is rare, I always get anxious and stay alert.
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Speaker 1: I still live in that city now even after finishing school,
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Speaker 1: and I'm still with my boyfriend. We live together. Just
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Speaker 1: knowing what could have happened there if I hadn't reacted
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Speaker 1: in time or if I had just ignored her, it
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Speaker 1: still scares me. This may sound bad to some, it
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Speaker 1: might sound harmless to others, but I was never found
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Speaker 1: out about these things. It wasn't illegal as far as
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Speaker 1: I can tell, but I'm not sure what I'm about
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Speaker 1: to say counts as. I just really want to talk
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Speaker 1: about it though. If my post is removed, I'll understand.
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Speaker 1: This all happened when I was 15 to 17. I
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Speaker 1: was in middle school to start off. I had very
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Speaker 1: few friends and my family life was not that great either.
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel alone nor did I want any friends.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to get the school day over with
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Speaker 1: and be alone in my room. I had no bad
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Speaker 1: thoughts before these years. I was going to second period
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Speaker 1: math when I saw him, a guy around my age
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Speaker 1: tall with blonde hair. He was very quiet but he
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Speaker 1: had many friends when I saw him at lunch time.
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Speaker 1: I had never paid him any mind before. But something
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Speaker 1: about him made me feel weird. Like I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get to know him, to speak to him, and to
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Speaker 1: be near him. I must confess, before this, I had
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Speaker 1: never felt romantically inclined nor sexually to anyone or really anything.
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Speaker 1: So these feelings didn't feel like love to me. But
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Speaker 1: maybe it was just delusion that pushed my next move.
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Speaker 1: I would always watch him when I had lunch. I
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Speaker 1: got in line just like normal, but I always knew
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Speaker 1: where he would sit. He never changed spots and I
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Speaker 1: stood behind him, still and unmoving. It really felt amazing
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Speaker 1: to be near this person for no good reason. Over time,
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Speaker 1: it was more than just staring at him. I followed
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Speaker 1: him in the halls of our school and I knew
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Speaker 1: his entire schedule. I knew his full name, age, birthday,
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Speaker 1: his house, and his family. I didn't think it was weird.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to know more about him and to
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Speaker 1: be with him in a way that I couldn't really describe.
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Speaker 1: I told myself it wasn't love, because why would I
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Speaker 1: love a person I've never spoken to or really even know?
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Speaker 1: It got to the point that I always thought about him.
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Speaker 1: When I got home, I'd go through the pictures I
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Speaker 1: took of him from school that day. I was almost excited.
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Speaker 1: What if he caught me? Would he tell me to
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Speaker 1: never speak to him again or go near him? Would
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Speaker 1: he think it was nice and speak to me how
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Speaker 1: I want? What would happen? I didn't even care what happened.
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Speaker 1: It wouldn't change how I felt. Nothing did. I got bold.
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Speaker 1: One day he had to walk home, so I followed
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Speaker 1: him to the nearby wooded area. He was a pretty
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Speaker 1: fit guy, so he was quicker than I was, and
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Speaker 1: I did get tired of walking so far, but I
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Speaker 1: was determined to follow. I didn't want to follow him
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Speaker 1: home since I already knew where he lived, and I
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to go that far. He almost saw me
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Speaker 1: many times, as the path he was taking was normal
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Speaker 1: for him, but not for me. It was rocky with
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Speaker 1: dead leaves all over. I tried to be quiet to
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Speaker 1: not let him notice me. Eventually, I left, satisfied with
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Speaker 1: new pictures of him walking to add to my delusion
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Speaker 1: and to my growing collection. I regret every bit of this.
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Speaker 1: I didn't study for school like I normally would. so
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Speaker 1: I'd sometimes talk to the teachers and they would tell
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Speaker 1: me how I needed to get higher grades to pass
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Speaker 1: the class. So I tried to get back into the
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Speaker 1: flow of doing work more often. When I was moved
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Speaker 1: to a different biology class, I saw him there in
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Speaker 1: the back. I was sitting right next to him with
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Speaker 1: a reasonable gap between us. I felt so happy that
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Speaker 1: I would finally get the chance to speak to him
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Speaker 1: without worry or anxiety or people listening in. During that class,
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Speaker 1: he would sometimes look my way, At me, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't think too much of it at first. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: was just doing it to look near me at someone else.
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Speaker 1: But it kept happening, so I would do the same.
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Speaker 1: We would stare at each other. It felt so... I
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Speaker 1: don't even know how to describe it. Eventually, I tried
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Speaker 1: to talk to him and ask for help with some notes.
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Speaker 1: I never really spoke to anyone, so this was new
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Speaker 1: to me. I only spoke to teachers and, sometimes if
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Speaker 1: I had to, other students. He was nice and he
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Speaker 1: would speak to me in a tone that I was
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Speaker 1: unfamiliar with. It was pleasant. It didn't last too long
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Speaker 1: as I realized that he had found a poem that
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Speaker 1: I'd written to him that I was not going to
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Speaker 1: give him. He took the paper from my desk and
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Speaker 1: I just stood there next to him, honestly more worried
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Speaker 1: than I thought I'd be. He didn't say anything. He
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Speaker 1: just sat down and we didn't speak during that period.
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Speaker 1: I left and went online to find his socials. I
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Speaker 1: apologized to him and I said I understood if he
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Speaker 1: didn't want to speak to me. He said that he
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Speaker 1: knew that I liked him, which shocked me. But to
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Speaker 1: be honest, it was obvious to everyone but myself. He
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Speaker 1: never knew that I followed him or took pictures of him.
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Speaker 1: At least, I don't think so. I later found out
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Speaker 1: that he was not supportive of me liking him, as
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Speaker 1: he was a stray male and I was not his
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Speaker 1: usual romantic interest. Over time, I did stop following him,
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Speaker 1: and I never spoke to him after that, but he
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Speaker 1: would still stare at me very often. I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: I had done this with one other person, the same
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Speaker 1: game of following and taking pictures, but this other guy
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Speaker 1: was cut short as I moved away. I honestly don't
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Speaker 1: know what compelled me to do these things. I hope
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Speaker 1: I don't do them again. I now live happier than
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Speaker 1: when I was in these situations, so I hope things
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Speaker 1: can sort themselves out for me mentally. The story may
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Speaker 1: not sound so bad, but I left out details on
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Speaker 1: purpose due to them being private and somewhat disturbing. This
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Speaker 1: might not be one of the freakiest stories of all time,
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Speaker 1: but it's a great reminder that you should never fully
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Speaker 1: relax in a taxi. In the place where I live,
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Speaker 1: the taxi service is pretty well developed. We have a
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Speaker 1: global app where you have an ID as a passenger
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Speaker 1: and the driver has one too. There's a rating system
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Speaker 1: so you know what to expect and people get punished
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Speaker 1: for doing bad things. You feel pretty safe with that system.
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Speaker 1: It's not like the old days of completely random taxis.
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Speaker 1: I've never had any serious trouble with drivers. Until yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I needed to travel from one small town to another
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Speaker 1: passing through a big city. Everything felt off from the
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Speaker 1: very start. The taxi was showing up weirdly on the
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Speaker 1: app's map, but I thought, oh well, that happens. The
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Speaker 1: internet and GPS can be glitchy sometimes. Eventually, the driver
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Speaker 1: arrived and we started the trip. Right away, something just
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Speaker 1: felt wrong. The driver didn't mark that the drive had
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Speaker 1: started in the app. I didn't even see the awaiting status,
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Speaker 1: which drivers sometimes use to get extra cash for waiting.
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Speaker 1: I usually tolerate that. but this was just strange. We
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Speaker 1: were also taking an unusual route, not the one I'm
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Speaker 1: used to. I even had a weird thought. What if
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Speaker 1: he starts heading in the wrong direction, not toward the
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Speaker 1: city center, but out to the suburban area instead? And damn,
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Speaker 1: he did. He had been pretty silent since the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the trip, and it became very clear that this
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Speaker 1: was not an accident. He still hadn't started the ride
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Speaker 1: in the app. and we were literally driving in the
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Speaker 1: opposite direction, one that had no chance of leading to
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Speaker 1: my destination. At that moment, I genuinely felt scared. It's
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Speaker 1: a horrible feeling when something like this happens and you're alone.
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Speaker 1: I'm a 27-year-old female, by the way, and I'm in
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Speaker 1: a car with a stranger. I gathered myself and asked, Hey,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, what path did you choose? I don't need
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Speaker 1: to go that way. Immediately, he changed direction toward the
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Speaker 1: correct route, started the trip in the app, and looked
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Speaker 1: absolutely furious. And keep in mind, the trip was about
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Speaker 1: an hour long. He continued driving, but still not exactly
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Speaker 1: as the navigator suggested. He stayed on the correct general route,
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Speaker 1: but kept making odd choices, especially as we got closer
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Speaker 1: to the end of the trip. At that point, I'd
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Speaker 1: called a friend and casually said that I was almost there,
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Speaker 1: just in case, so someone would know I was expected
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Speaker 1: and on my way. He remained silent the entire time.
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Speaker 1: When I finally got out of the car, I was
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Speaker 1: literally shaking. I understand that it's likely that he wasn't
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Speaker 1: planning the worst case scenario we're all thinking of, but
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Speaker 1: his actions were absolutely not okay. What if I didn't
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Speaker 1: have the app working? What if I hadn't checked the road?
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Speaker 1: What if I didn't know the route at all? The
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Speaker 1: most chill explanation is that he wanted to take the
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Speaker 1: longest round possible to get more money, maybe an extra
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Speaker 1: hour of driving. But that's ridiculous, and even then, not acceptable.
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Speaker 1: I wrote to customer support and reported the situation. Hopefully,
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Speaker 1: I just don't get him as a driver again. So,
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Speaker 1: my story happened a few years ago when I was
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Speaker 1: 10 or 11. At that time, my mom and dad
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Speaker 1: had just divorced, and my mom moved into a small apartment.
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Speaker 1: The building had two apartments per floor right across from
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Speaker 1: each other. In the first few months, we never really
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Speaker 1: saw the neighbor who lived in front of us. But suddenly,
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Speaker 1: we started seeing him more often. I remember the first
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Speaker 1: time I saw him. It was behind the building in
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Speaker 1: the small garage. garden. He was there with his dogs,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if I felt scared. Not just
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Speaker 1: scared in a usual way, but this feeling like something
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Speaker 1: was wrong. It was like he was staring at me,
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Speaker 1: but not in a normal way. I couldn't explain it,
20:06
Speaker 1: but it made me feel uneasy. There was just something
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Speaker 1: about him. his presence that felt strange, even though I
20:13
Speaker 1: couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was. It just felt wrong.
20:17
Speaker 1: A few days later, he came to our apartment and
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Speaker 1: he asked my mom if he could buy me toys
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Speaker 1: and even underwear. My mom was naturally scared. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what happened next, but I just know that she
20:29
Speaker 1: kicked him out of our apartment right away. Then about
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Speaker 1: two weeks later, it was around midnight. My room was
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Speaker 1: right next to the front door, and I suddenly started
20:39
Speaker 1: hearing knocking. But it wasn't just regular knocking. It was
20:42
Speaker 1: like someone was trying to force the door open by
20:45
Speaker 1: jiggling the handle. It started slow at first, but then
20:49
Speaker 1: it got faster and faster. I could hear it, and
20:52
Speaker 1: my heart started racing. I was frozen in fear. I
20:56
Speaker 1: tried to get up to wake my mom or even
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Speaker 1: look for the people, but I couldn't move. I was
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Speaker 1: so scared that my body just wouldn't cooperate. I know
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Speaker 1: that it wasn't a dream or anything. I knew it
21:08
Speaker 1: was real. I could feel the panic in my chest.
21:12
Speaker 1: After that, my mom and I moved out quickly and
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Speaker 1: we never saw them again. But since then, I've really
21:18
Speaker 1: developed this weird paranoia that never really goes away. It
21:22
Speaker 1: feels like my brain keeps playing tricks on me. I
21:25
Speaker 1: hear a little noise and suddenly I'm convinced someone's in
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Speaker 1: the house. I keep imagining things that aren't there, like
21:32
Speaker 1: someone hiding in the hallway, watching me from the dark.
21:35
Speaker 1: I know it sounds irrational, but it doesn't feel that
21:38
Speaker 1: way at the moment. It's like my body freezes, my
21:41
Speaker 1: heart races, and I can't move, just like that night.
21:45
Speaker 1: And it comes in waves. Some days I'm totally fine,
21:49
Speaker 1: and others, it all comes back stronger than ever. I
21:53
Speaker 1: start thinking someone might come back, that someone might already
21:56
Speaker 1: be inside. Even when I lock the doors, double-check everything,
22:00
Speaker 1: I can't fully shake that feeling. It's exhausting, and I
22:04
Speaker 1: hate that it still has this power over me. It's
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Speaker 1: honestly really not fun. I feel ridiculous sometimes, but it
22:11
Speaker 1: happens out of nowhere, and I just can't stop the fear.
22:15
Speaker 1: It's completely irrational, but it's there, and sometimes it feels
22:19
Speaker 1: like I just can't escape it. And a few years later,
22:22
Speaker 1: someone actually broke into our house. It was a guy
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Speaker 1: who was drunk or high, and I don't think he
22:27
Speaker 1: even had bad intentions. He was just lost. But that
22:31
Speaker 1: didn't make it any less scary. The paranoia is still there,
22:35
Speaker 1: even though I try to remind myself that it's just
22:37
Speaker 1: my brain playing tricks on me. Anyway, that's my story.
22:42
Speaker 1: I know it's not the scariest one, and it probably
22:44
Speaker 1: won't be as interesting to others, and it's my first one,
22:48
Speaker 1: but I just needed to share it. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how to get over it. If anyone has had similar
22:53
Speaker 1: experiences or feelings, I'd be happy to talk about it. Thanks.