One Text
By: Jaimee Erbaugh
The day started off just like any other. Then something different happened. I went to the mall with my friends, Anna and Jordan, to go shopping. “We should all go back to my house.” Anna said.“That sounds like a great idea! What do you think about that Jaimee?” Jordan asked.“Sounds good!” I said. After we were done shopping we went back to Anna’s. When we got to her house it was looking like it was getting ready to storm. We then hung out at Anna’s for a while. “I think I am going to start heading home.” Jordan said.“I’ll go with you because when i’m walking, i’ll be heading that way anyway.” I said.“Okay sounds good. We will see you sometime soon Anna. Bye!” Jordan said. “Bye!” Anna exclaimed. Jordan and I left Anna’s house and walked to Jordan’s house. Jordan and I said our goodbyes and I started walking to my house.
After I started walking it started to look like it was going to storm again. It started getting foggy and the air smelt of wet dew on the fresh cut grass. A few minutes into my walk going home I got this strange feeling that somebody was following me. I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around. When I turned around I saw a man like shadow figure. The shadow didn’t move. I could feel my heart pounding against my rib cage. “Jordan?” I yelled. No one answered. I then turned around and started to run as fast as I could. I couldn’t hear anything else except the footsteps that sounded like they were right behind me. As I started to approach my house the footsteps that I heard behind me started to die down the closer I got to my house. As I went inside my front door of my house breathlessly my phone started buzzing. I checked my phone and it said that I had gotten text messages from restricted. The texts said“I see you, I know where you are, I know where you live, and I followed you tonight.”“This must be somebody pulling a prank on me and that shadow was probably my own.” I thought.
I didn’t tell my parents or my friends what happened because I just thought somebody was pulling a harmless prank and I was over reacting. That day I had just blew it off my shoulders. The next day seemed perfectly fine. I thought everything was fine and everything had blown over but then “DING DONG!” The doorbell rang. I didn’t think that anybody was home because I waited a few minutes to see if my parents got it but they didn’t. I then got up from my bed and looked around to see if anybody was home. I found a note on the kitchen table that said “Went to the store, be back in a few. Love, Mom & Dad.” After I read the note the doorbell rang again. “Coming!” I yelled. I opened the door and saw a tall man with a black hat, coat, and boots on. The man seemed kind of strange to me because it was the middle of summer and who wears a coat and boots in summer. “Can I help you?” I questioned him. The tall man then put his head up, looked me straight in the eyes and said “I see you, I know where you are, I know where you live, and I followed you last night now run…”
