hi hello my name is monstii and i enjoy the free will of going outside for walks.
right now its summer in texas, so the sun is so bright during the day that you'd probably actually die if you were outside too long. (or at least, I'D die.) so i decided to go outside once the sun started setting. it was still light outside, though.
ive been outside late, and i live in a pretty okay neighborhood so i wasnt really scared at all, but this encounter actually made me kinda scared of going out late lol.
my usual walking route takes me past my highschool and towards a main street, then either i turn around or go across the street where theres an HEB and some thrift stores, usually takes me like less than an hour.
...thats not really important.
as im going up on my highschool, (which is in the middle of the neighborhood,) i see this kid about my age (maybe about a year or two younger, idk) walking in the opposite direction of me. not that weird, considering we were in the middle of a neighborhood, next to a highschool, thats also near two pretty busy streets, so i just pass him up and continue on my way.
then i hear footsteps coming up behind me.
(me; internally:) ohshit is he following me
i try my best to be rational in my head, "oh, hes probably just heading in the other direction, he'll pass me up" but i still looked behind me out of paranoia. i glanced behind myself a few times before i realized hes actually trying to get my attention. heres my best inscription of the conversation we had:
him: ay, ay, (trying to get my attention)
(i turn around to face him, as i thought, its a guy my age or a little younger.)
me: ?
him: what are you?
(he had a pretty thick accent and spoke in terse sentences, so im guessing he wasnt fluent in english? its pretty common were im from.)
me: huh?
him" what are you?
me: like...
him: what are you??
me: what do you mean?
him: gender, what are you?
(im a really feminine guy and i dress in girls clothes, also i just cut my hair really short so im extra androgynous, so his confusion was kinda understandable, but still ballsy to come up and ask a random person on the street)
me: im a guy.
(he then made a pretty comical confused face, like im talking his whole body moved. wasnt expecting him to react so much lol)
me: (laughing,) i know, right?
i dont remember who turned around first and walked off first, but that was the end of that conversation.
...or so i thought!
i walked up more, thinking nothing more than that i just had a pretty funny interection with a random, but then the guy came up to me again.
him: come, follow me
me: ?????
(he caught me pretty off guard and then walked in the same direction i was going, so i kept going in the same direction as well, not really thinking. we walked just a little bit down the street to a house with an alley behind it.
behind the houses in my neighborhood are little alleys in between the backyards, just big enough for a car to go through, but most are really overgrown and no one really goes there.)
him: (i couldnt tell if he was referring to the alleyway or the open backyard of the house we stopped at) come in here.
my FUCK THIS alarm went off in my head crazy so i made up a pretty lame excuse to not follow this kid into some overgrown alley/ random backyard.
me: sorry, im kinda in a rush, so, i gotta go...
him: what?
me: i got this thing i gotta do, sorry!
him: what do you mean?
me: i gotta go, sorry!
i couldnt tell if he was angry or bewildered but i kept on walking at a brisk pace cause i was pretty spooked. i dont think he wouldve hurt me, cause he was shorter than me and pretty scrawny, but i didnt want to risk anything. i kept looking over my shoulder as i walked to make sure he wasnt following me anymore, but he just stayed at that house looking at me. i think he called put to me a few times, i think he was telling me to turn back? like hell i would do that! eventually he went back into the alley/backyard and i didnt see him again. i avoided that street when i walked back home. i hope i dont have to avoid it anymore, cause i really like that area, but who knows.
cause i like giving the benefit of the doubt to people, i can just brush it off as some weird kid doing weird kid stuff, maybe he thought i was cute, idk. im kinda curious what would've happened if i had followed him more, but i think missing out on a side quest is better than potentially getting touched inappropriately
monstii out.
