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Y/N was not feeling the mood to go outside and instead felt like she is more content staying indoors. She can breathe and be herself without having any fears of negative people trying to burry her all because they are jealous.
That is unfortunately, what happened whenever she tries to make friends with someone they end up being mean all because they want to make her loose her spark. To make her hide in a shell, but she never bowed down to them. She accepted herself for who she is.
She decided to avoid toxic people. She liked being in her room, doing things like baking, drawing, reading fanfics and stories, watching videos and spending time with her family. She is fortunate to have a loving family that simply cares for her. In her mind, she felt like she can easily drift into a more peaceful state but lately, that has been disrupted.
It has been disrupted by the sense that she is becoming more on edge by the feeling that she is not alone. Someone must be here and it was bothering her. It bothered her to the point she was unable to sleep. She kept looking at the window and making sure all the doors are locked. The place she lives in has en-suite rooms but the big kitchen which is near her room is a shared one with eight people. The place she lives in is better than the one in first year.
The first year one was dreadful the room was not spacious, the kitchen was very small and made her feel very cramped. The thing is her current place she lives in has a nice view but there has been lots of problems with living in this particular place.
As a student she has to travel by bus to go to her university and the area is full of shady people. Some older men are so creepy they attempt to try to harass her but she swiftly stays near a crowd of students and walks quick with the group.
It is true she is petite but she is an adult, she may not look it but she has all the proof. She is at the legal age of drinking alcohol but she does not do it because she knows she is a light weight. Embarrassingly, with only a few sips she was quickly drunk on her birthday. She was not walking properly. Her speech was slurred. She became emotional; laughing and crying in front of her mum. That was truly when she found out she cannot handle alcohol at all.
Genuinely, she loves tea and anything sweet but due to her having lactose intolerance she can not consume milk tea, which she curses herself often for. Yes, the inability to consume milk is something she totally wish she did not have.
There are vast amounts of products which needs milk and it just tastes good. Despite there being alternatives like soy, oat or almond milk it just does not taste good so she consumes flavored tea often instead which to her surprise tastes good and has a pleasant aroma.
She always was pretty much alone. Walking to class to make notes from the lectures or to just listen to them. Being alone never bothered her but having classes drained her. She liked literature but the lectures and doing essays were not something she enjoyed.
She disliked waking up early in the morning for her classes and also having it late as well.
That was her life. She is no special person just your typical average person. She was never a high scorer. The subject she took well her grades are pretty bad. I mean she passes but it is always in the forty to fifty range.
One day she was walking to her class. That feeling appeared again. She thinks she is going insane as she has been feeling this for more than one day. Every time she turns no one was there.
All she knows that her phone has been acting weird. Strange noises were coming from it. There were glitches and her battery was draining quick. At times the location service icon would appear when she travels somewhere.
What is going on? She frowns. It is puzzling!
She has no idea how to investigate why her phone is being like this. She does not even have any evidence if someone could be stalking her. She gives up. She just brushes the thought someone could be stalking her and instead labels herself as being absolutely paranoid. Even calling herself insanely delusional.
What she does not follow is her gut instincts. Her subconscious alerting her she does indeed have a stalker.
She always gets bad quality sleep. Having black circles under her eyes. She does not even have a job despite applying…. it ends up with her application being rejected. Simply because she does not match with their standards. It is unfair as students should be allowed to have jobs.
Enough ranting, we are focusing on this clueless protagonist.
The thing is… she is not good at observing people and when it comes to being street smart… she is a zero.
Late at night 3am, she is fast asleep. Silently creeping in her room was a tall figure. He has straight brown hair, edgy outfits and hypnotic green eyes. His hair is mid length but he tied it up, giving him a more feminine appearance. He has piercings and tattoos.
Leaning in forward he makes sures not to make a sound which could wake the sleeping victim up. He unlocks his phone and takes pictures of her.
He simply stares at her and at one point lifted her t-shirt without hesitation… yeah this is what happens when you do not follow your instincts. Well, this oblivious protagonist had many chances but it is simply too late… I mean …. he is getting away with this kind of behaviour.
Sigh, when would she face reality. Men just cannot resist the opportunity to seek a person they are so obsessed about.
She woke up feeling frightened from a nightmare and decides to relax herself.
She watches a video on gaming. Then goes back to sleep. She did not see that figure.
But what she did hear was a loud bang noise coming from the door downstairs. It was not the front door but the back door. This happened when she was staying at her parent’s home. To be honest she does not have a very busy schedule as it is only for three days that is why she decides to travel back to her parent’s house.
So, why does the stalker not come through the front door you may ask? That is because her dad added a camera at the front. This is to make sure no one is intruding into their house at night.
As lately, there were incidents involving other people’s house being intruded by burglars stealing expensive items. The police was involved and was investigating the incident. Everyone was notified about it so the camera being installed was a good idea.
Now, it seems easy for the stalker to open the wooden door which is there for taking the rubbish out. It is only how he can manage to cut open the chains used to keep the two broken doors together and replace it exactly the same way it was before.
As it is going to be difficult to get your hands through the inside of the door to remove the chains, and then shut it exactly the same way someone would if they were inside even though you will have to do it from the outside. It is really complicated even for me to understand.
Anyways… despite not knowing who could be watching her… she got a creepy vibe from a particular person. Even though this person was acting normal.
This one person and this one day… made her feel really anxious. It was like he was expecting her to seat next to him on the bus. He’s action showed it as usually no one notices her and often she would ask someone if she could seat with them. By asking do they notice her and remove their bags. However, this one did so without having to be asked.
He was totally normal. She kept on thinking maybe she was overreacting to this simple thing. I mean it looked pretty much that he already has someone with how he was looking at the window to texting someone.
Probably, his girlfriend. So, why would she be anxious around this person?
Maybe this person reminded her of someone. Maybe she had been drawn to his eyes. It is usually a guys eyes that attracts her.
It is just it is only this person that made her anxious. Usually, she is calm.
All she knows is this person is a student like her. They both go to the same university cause she noticed this person getting up when he reached his stop, his lanyard had the university name on it.
The embarrassing thing was that she was sitting on his lanyard and only noticed it when she got up to allow him to get out. He quickly took his lanyard and was covering his student id card. She was puzzled by that.
She was a bit bored and fiddled with her lanyard to which she saw him glancing at it.
It felt strange but she does not know why?
Classes finished and she decided to go to her accommodation. The thing is she is not aware that her phone conversations are being monitored. That her phone camera is also being used. She does not even know someone is recording her.
All she kept on thinking was how she could manage to get a good life. How? She taught herself to bake by following recipes online but she wants to be successful in the future. To make her parents proud.
Day turns into night. In winter it gets dark easily. She takes a nap. The same man comes into her room, caressing her head.
Gently, but making sure she does not get disturbed he does it lightly without her feeling it.
He speaks so silently that she doesn’t hear him, “My love, you are my everything.“ He says that and leaves. Smiling to himself.
To be continued.