Stalker

There was a kid I met on some geeky trip to a super-computing challenge when I was in the 8th grade. I was in middle school, he was in high school, 11th grade at the time. This school trip took us several hours away for 3 nights. As soon as I boarded the bus  he said hi to me, he was obviously not popular because all the other kids started to tease him immediately and were telling me not to talk to him. I felt pity for the way he was being treated so I sat in the seat behind him and he talked to me the entire ride, by the time we got to our destination all the other kids were teasing that we were boyfriend/girlfriend, which was extremely annoying. He was very awkward in so many ways, but he was not a bad person. While I was definitely NOT attracted to him, he latched onto this idea and because I would not be mean to him he followed me around and embarrassed me the entire trip.

I thought that I would never see this guy again, we were so far apart in grades and why would I see him? I was wrong. He just kept showing up. He would show up at my school, after school, he even showed up at my house once, which my parents thankfully put a kibosh to immediately. After I got expelled in 10th grade and stopped going to school I spent a lot of time out of state away from the town where he was so I didn’t see him for probably about a year. He did find me on an anonymous website at one point and started an explicit rpg (it didn’t start explicit, he took it there) but I didn’t know who he was until much later, I don’t even know how he knew who I was on that site.

Anyways, at some point, I can’t remember where in the timeline this happened, it was either he picked me up after school one day or he stopped by a job I had and had me go for a ride with him or some such thing, I don’t know, but he definitely did not listen when I told him to get his hands away from me. I was clear I didn’t want it but at some point I relinquished the fight. I had no place to go, I wasn’t hurt I guess, I was just violated.

After that, I had just broken up with my boyfriend, I just got out of the car on the side of the highway, I had no place to go and no one to call so I was just walking  along the road and not even 5 minutes passed and who pulls up other than this stalker. Of course I got in the car with him. I ended up staying with him and his girlfriend at the time for a few months, she was an amazing (albeit a little eccentric) person. It was pretty clear I was a cause for contention between them and he would often spend time with me in the room I was renting, uninvited, but I was the intruder so I wasn’t going to be rude. At some point there was another incident, I had finally allowed them to give me something to drink, I hadn’t prior for many reasons, some obvious, but of course he followed me to the bathroom area and cornered me there. I didn’t know what to do, not to mention I was drunk, I was not trying to cause problems, he pulled me down on top of him and held me there, I don’t know if it was 10 minutes or less, but thankfully his gf came storming in finally and that was the end of that.

Way to fuck up the only thing I had, it didn’t look good that I was on top. I didn’t want to be there anymore but being the amazing person she is she wouldn’t let me leave without a place to go. She still talks to me now and again, he is gone, to my knowledge. Fuck, he could be here on this site for all I know.

The moral of the story is that being nice to the strange kid isn’t always in your best interests.