Hey, how's it goin'?
My name is Soup and I'm new here!
Back when I was a kid, say around 12 or so, I was a really anti-social kid.
I never really went outside and didn't care to talk to other kids, either.
I played video games all day and-..wait I still do that.
Anyways, one day my parents told me to go outside.
Find a new adventure, meet some new kids and just generally get the fuck out of the house
for a little while.
I hop on my bike and ride aimlessly around my neighborhood until my parents are satisfied
and I can just ride back home.
As I was riding, I saw two kids on the sidewalk playing with these cards and I realized, it's
Yu-Gi-Oh!
I loved playing that card game as much as the next anti-social kid so I thought it'd
be fun to ride over and say hi.
"Are you guys playing, Yu-Gi-Oh?
I love that game, my names Soup, can I play next?"
Just to keep things less personal, I'm gonna use a fake name for this kid.
One of the kids looked up and said, "Oh yea, for sure.
My name's Jacob."
I honestly forgot the other kids name but after that encounter I really never even saw
him again.
Jacob seemed really harmless and actually kind of chill at that time, so I invited him
over to play some video games in my room.
I booted up DragonBall Z: Budokai 3, since at the time it was my favorite game to play
with friends.
Everything was going pretty well!
I made a new friend, he likes all the same stuff I like and my parents were pretty happy.
After two weeks of hanging out at my place, Jacob finally decided to invite me over to
his house.
Seems fun!
What could go wrong?
Just hanging out at a new buddy's house playing his favorite games now!
Hahahaaaa....haha...hm.
Now Jacob lived on the other side of the neighborhood so it was a bit of a hefty walk.
Everything was going pretty well, his house looked really nice and clean on the outside.
We walked through the front door when this dirty, smelly dog lunges at me.
I SCREAMED SO LOUDLY I think my parents heard me from home.
Jacob grabbed the dog by the collar apologized.
"Sorry, he's friendly.
He's supposed to be locked in the bathroom though.
Not sure why he's out" as he pulls the dog with what looked like all his god damn strength
into the bathroom and quickly locks the door behind him.
"Let's go to my room!"
I kind of just nervously laughed and followed him into the room, not thinking much of it.
I set up our place mats for our Yu-Gi-Oh game.
While I'm setting up, I lay out the decks and look up for just a moment and see Jacob
pulling out something from his dresser.
I figured he was just getting his deck too, so I start sifting through mine making sure
I have all my cards together.
Jacob is kind of taking a long time to just get his deck what is doi- OH MY GOD.
This kid is just sticking really thin sewing needles through his skin on his fingertips...one
finger at a time.
He straight up looking like edward scissorhands at this point.
I couldn't stop staring though, I couldn't look away as my face cringed into a black
hole.
He hadn't noticed me watching him though, so I try to keep my cool because I mean hey,
some people like to do weird shit, who am I to judge.
Then he sits in his desk chair, grabs a pocket lighter and begins to set his fingernails
on FIRE???
HUH?
WHY?
WHY IS THIS KID DOING THIS?
DO I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE?
AM I IN DANGER?
Eventually he noticed me watching in abject horror and turns and smiles at me.
Jesus Jacobt he's looking at me what do I do I'm so horrified do I laugh, do I join
him, do I just get the absolute legendary FUCK OUT OF HERE?
"You ever try this before?"
"N-n-no..."
I'm sweating bullets at this point really trying not to offend my new freaky friend.
He kept insisting that I try it and being pretty pushy but I just kept telling him I'm
good for what seemed like forever.
We didn't even end up playing the game.
I just sat on the floor of his room in the dark watching this kid fuck up his fingers
with the backdrop of his dog thrashing around in the bathroom.
Ok.
It's time to get the heck outta here.
I suggested we go outside and ride around on our bikes, we left and pretty much never
spoke of that day again.
I try not to think too much of it now, but boy.
That was weird.
BUT IT GETS WORSE.
Time goes on and I'm still friends with Jacob, and he starts hanging out at my house a lot.
Like everyday almost.
Eventually he just started showing up uninvited.
It's fine with me, but I also needed to let him know to just plan out our time together
in the future.
Usually we hang for about 2-3 hours before he heads home but he's starting to stay longer
than I intended.
2-3 hour days turned into almost the entire night.
I'm trying my best not to make this awkward in any way.
I'm a socially stinted kid so I'm trying my hardest not to step on any toes here.
But I gotta be honest, this shit started getting hella annoying.
Because he was staying for so long, I began falling behind on my school work and my grades
started falling.
My parents were hounding me about it and I kept trying to tell them it was because Jacob
kept coming over and they didn't reall buy it.
So I had finally had enough.
I hear a knock on my door one day and it's Jacob, wanting to hang out.
AGAIN.
I told him I couldn't make time today cause I had way too much homework to do and needed
to pick my grades back up.
I close the door and he straight up puts his foot between the door and insists we hang
out.
At this point I'm super creeped out and persist in telling him I can't because he keeps distracting
me from my school stuff and to respect my time.
He bold face told me he didn't care about my time or my homework.
I'm trying not to swing on this kid so I said we can hang out another day and close the
door.
Feeling relieved that I had gotten rid of him, he came back and started continously
knocking on my door and hovering around my windows.
My mom is really confused and asked if everything was ok.
"OK YEA THIS KID IS DRIVING ME CRAZY."
He did this over the next few days.
A few days later, I just opt to ignore it because this is getting really obnoxious and
spooky.
He starts leering into my windows saying creepy things like, "I know you're in theeerrreeee...."
with his whole face smushed onto the window.
Jacob LITERALLY opens up our garage door and just sits in there in the dark waiting for
me to come out.
My mom is visably spooked at this point so I said heck this, I'm gonna FINISH THIS ONCE
AND FOR ALL.
My dad coincidentally came home early and walks in asking why Jacob is just sitting
in the garage in the dark.
I told him the whole story and how I wanted him to just go away and my dad says he'll
take care of it.
My dad invites Jacob inside and tells him, "OK, we need to talk, let's hash this out
right now."
My dad's actually a really nice and chill guy, but he can seem intimidating if you don't
know him too well, so Jacob must've gotten freaked out, so he hopped on his bike and
rode away.
Neeeeever saw him again.
My parents and I afreed I never need to go out on the streets looking for friends again.
And that is the story, of my 12 year old stalker.
Fuck Yu-Gi-Oh.