watching me, everyone looked busy going to school and doing their own thing.
At lunch, I told my friends about the mean text message I got last night. They didn’t understand it either. It seemed like this person hated me, not liked me, I didn’t know why they would stalk me.
My mom came and picked up Chanda and me. It was a big hassle because all of the seniors had cars now and they were leaving at the same time.
“I know this is a real pain, Mom. I am sorry,” I said.
“ Not your fault,” my mom said.
“ Did Whitney tell you about the text she got last night?” Chanda asked my mom.
“ No,” my mom said.
I shot Chanda a look. She mouthed “sorry” to me.
“No, she didn’t. What did this one say?” my mom asked me.
“ Just the word, ‘Witch,’” I said. “I showed Dad.”
“ I really don’t like this,” my mom said, visibly upset.
“ I don’t either,” I said. “Why are they doing this?”
“ Well, at least we made a police statement,” my mom said.
“ I have been thinking about that,” I said, “maybe I shouldn’t have done that. It really seemed to upset the person stalking me.”
“ We are not going to let this person control us,” my mom said.
“ Okay,” I said.
We arrived home and Chanda and went to her house to get her history notebook for me to copy, I had finished copying the English notebook last night.
My parents, Jacob, and Jordan went out to eat. My stomach was in turmoil, so I wasn’t hungry, I told my parents I would have a TV dinner at home.
Our phone rang on our land line, I picked up. Someone said, “Your parents aren’t home,” and then they hung up.
I looked to see who called and the caller I.D. showed “unavailable.”
By then, I was really scared. I went around the house and locked all the doors, I turned on all the lights, I even made sure the windows were locked. I was sitting in my dad’s chair with every light on in the house when my family came home. I let them in.
“Why in the world is every light on?” my father asked me.
I motioned for him and my mom to come to my bedroom. Jacob and Jordan took off to the living room to play their video games. When we got to my room, I told my parents about the threatening phone call.
“He is really messing with your mind,” my dad said.
“ How does he know so much about me?” I asked fearfully.
“ He might have driven by and seen that the car was gone,” my mom said. I started shivering.
“ Oh, honey, it will be okay,” my dad said, hugging me.
“ I am more than a little scared. Do you think he might hurt me?” I asked my parents.
“ I don’t think so,” my dad said, “but I don’t know what he is thinking either.”
“ I personally think it is some kid who has a crush on you,” Mom said.
“ What a way to show it,” I said.
“ What a way to show what?” Jacob came in my room.
“ This is a private conversation,” I said to him.
“ Fine, I will leave,” he said, then he farted, he left, laughing.
“ Jacob, that was rude,” my mom called after him.
We all decided to leave the room because of the smell.
I was still nervous from the phone call, so I never ate dinner. I decided I had a new diet. The stalker diet.
I got some Febreze air spray and sprayed my room. Then I started on the history notebook Chanda gave me.
This stalker thing was such a pain because it was starting to get warmer out and I was afraid to open my curtain and my window.
I finished the history notebook but I didn’t go over to Chanda’s. It was dark and I was scared, I would get a new notebook tomorrow. I had gotten new books from the school so I had homework to do and I decided to get right to it.
While I was working on it, Jordan came to my door and knocked and I told him to come in.
“ What is going on here?” he asked me.
Jordan was always very sensitive.
“I don’t want to freak you out,” I said.
“ I won’t freak out,” he said.
“ Some guy has been stalking me, and