Facts about Chapter 44

So this note is for those who might find it a little weird that a girl might become obsessed with a man on a whim and want it so badly to the point of going to such great lengths as to harming herself to get what she wants. If you think this is purely fictional and doesn't happen...it totally does. And it was something that had happened with me...just not to that extreme.

Why am I sharing this? Well, because it was something that kinda inspired the previous chapter.

When I was in high school, 11th grade, we had a lot of new students from different schools. It's normal here in India as kids often change schools after 10th grade. That was when this one guy, lets call him Ben, transferred schools and came to be in the same class as me.

I literally had no idea he existed because I wasn't friends with him or with any of his group members. However, I had no idea that he had noticed me and...maybe started to obsess over me?

Later that month, he joined the same physics tuition classes that I took with several other classmates. I still didn't go out of my way to be friends with him, but since my handwriting was good and I didn't usually miss classes, the teacher asked me to give him my notes so he didn't miss out. And I did. Which should've been the end of the story...but it wasn't.

He told a few of my friends that I had taken his copy and that he needed to get in contact with me urgently and got my phone number from one of the guys, which...if there's any boys reading this...please, never give a girl's phone number to anyone, be it god himself, without the girl's permission first. Please, boys.

Because that's where trouble started for me.

Ben started calling me non-stop. And when I told him that I wasn't interested...it got worse. He would still call non-stop and sometimes in the middle of the night and with god-awful slangs and vulgar languages. This was more than 13 years ago, so I'm pretty sure phones at that time didn't come with the block feature or I had no idea how to use them, because trust me, I would have gladly blocked him.

That harassment continued for months! Especially to the point where the calls became death threats or rape threats.

Ultimately, I told my father and he had the police trace the call and they caught one of those boys involved and then they showed him exactly what might happen to them if they continued down this path. Ben had actually formed an entire gang to harass me and my mother and if the police didn't get involved, things could have gotten worse. 

They were still minors, so we didn't press charges, but my dad is a high ranking government officer, so the police handled the matter silently and without actually harming the kids. They did show them some very interesting torture videos though.

The school was also notified and Ben was transferred to another class, but the guy ended up quitting school insted as his parents moved him to another school.

I'm one of the few lucky people who survived a very dangerous affair and I'm really thankful to everyone who helped me.

However, I can't exactly tell who to blame for this incident. Ben? He was only 17 as well, a pampered rich brat who though he could get away with everything. Or his parents? The one who did all the pampering and then had him transfer schools like nothing happened?

The incident is well in the past and well behind me, but this I got a wave of nostalgia while writing this chapetr and not in a good way. 

Some incidents really leave you with a sour taste in your mouth and you always find yourself watching over your shoulders just to make sure that no one is looking at you.

It can be a really scary experience.

I just hope no one ever has to experience that ever again.