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My best friends murderer dad tried to kidnap her at school

Okay, I realize that almost everyone starts their stories saying they're true, but I promise that this one is. It's not some paranormal story, but something that I'm honestly still traumatized by since it happened. I guess I'll start from the beginning.

When I was in High School I was pretty quiet and kept to myself mostly, but my best friend was very popular. She was known for being pretty, nice, smart, and generally an all around good person. She's been my closest friend since we were little kids because our houses were basically next door to each other. We only grew closer as we grew up. And during our Senior Year of High School she really helped me socialize more and get rid of my habit of not putting in much effort to make new friends. Thanks to her, I became more well known in my small-town school and my number of friends grew (although it was really annoying always having to explain to everyone that my friend and I were not, in fact, dating.) Anyway, I've known her for a very long time, so I knew things about her that no one else did. This included the fact that her dad was in prison for killing two people.

He was convicted when we were still very young, so I don't remember the trial or anything, but I do know that he was a drug addict and a dealer. He was sentenced to life in prison for killing two of his buyers while he was high on meth. My friend always felt conflicted about her dad because he would send her letters from prison that were really sweet, but whenever he would be granted an opportunity for parole (only happened twice) he'd express no remorse for what he did. Also the fact that the way he killed his victims was extremely violent and disgusting. It makes me feel nauseous just thinking about it.

So, back to our senior year in High School, my friend and I were in class one morning and we suddenly had a lockdown drill. Sometimes our school drills are random and sometimes they're planned, so we just assumed this one was a random one. Nope. It was real. We quickly found this out when my teacher pulled my friend aside and started whispering to her. When they were done, my friend told me what the teacher said to her once we took our places sitting in the closet of our classroom (she was told to go inside the closet and she brought me with her while the rest of the kids were in the corner of the classroom). Apparently her dad had escaped prison, stolen a car, and the car was found parked around a block from our school. The school faculty were told by police that he was planning on kidnapping my friend and escaping with her to presumably start a new life. I was terrified. I knew how dangerous that man was, as much of a kind person he seemed in his letters to his daughter. I knew he'd never hurt her, but he would definitely hurt anyone that got in his way of getting to her. That included my teachers, fellow students and friends, and myself. He never liked me, in fact, he hated me. My friend and I found this out the hard way when she wrote him a letter telling him about her best friend (me). He wrote back about 2 weeks later saying he'd kill me if I hurt her (we assumed he thought we were a couple). In a normal circumstance I'd have laughed it off as him just being an overprotective dad, but not in this situation. She never mentioned me in another letter again.

So I was, rightly so, absolutely scared out of my mind. But I knew that as much of a wuss I was being, my best friend was probably feeling a lot worse than I was. I knew I needed to act strong for her sake, so I just remember telling her everything was going to be fine and holding her close to me for what seemed like an eternity. Finally we were escorted out of the school by some police officers. I didn't stop holding her hand until we were put into different squad cars. Seeing her drive off without me and not knowing if she was okay until we were at the hospital (for shock, psych evals, and questioning) is something I still have nightmares about today.

The school was shut down for a week and during that time my friend and her mom were put into witness protection. It was the longest week of my life. I probably slept for a total of 7 hours because I'd wake up in a cold sweat almost every night, crying or screaming. I had continuous nightmares of getting shot or stabbed or thrown off a building while failing to protect my friend from her father. I still have those nightmares every once in a while.

Fortunately, her dad was eventually caught after a week. He had been found living in a small storage shed on a farmer's property next to our school. The farmers wife had went in the shed and found a bunch of opened food cans and immediately ran back to her house and called the cops. Luckily, no one got hurt or killed during this whole situation. Best feeling of my life was when my friends dad was behind bars again and I finally got to hug my friend after she got out of witness protection. I'm usually a bit hard on myself for expressing too much emotion in front of others, but in that moment I've never cried harder. When I got to finally see her and hold her again, knowing that she was safe, nothing beats that feeling.

I try to think of that moment whenever I get any nightmares about that time in my life. If that doesn't work (which it usually doesn't) my best friend made me promise to call her when I need to hear her voice or I have a nightmare. She always answers, no matter how late at night it is.

This story may not be the scariest one you've seen on here, but it is to me. It's hard to be away from my best friend now that we are in college, separate ones at that, but we still keep in touch. She's still my best friend and I hope she can say the same about me. The only good thing that came out of that whole situation was that it ended up bringing us closer together.

Posted by u/marvelous_nobody