Stalker

Date: 1/14/2018

I’m hanging out with a group of good friends, DCA included. DCA starts talking about a bright young man who’s become a new good friend, who’s charming and fun. DCA shows me photos on his phone. There’s a familiar looking young man in some of the pix, but his face is always blurred because he’s moving his head, and he always has a cap on, pulled down quite low. My heart sinks but I don’t say anything. Whenever I’m at one of DCA’s concerts or at a big dinner party, I’m aware of this ‘presence’ but it’s always in the background and never comes forward. We are in a car, I’m in the front seat, next to the driver, Veronika. Pam is behind me, chattering away. We’re all excited about where we’re going. And DCA is in the 3rd row at the back of the people carrier. When we get out I think I see ‘him’ in the back of the car, he must have joined the group when I wasn’t looking. I sit in the car and start putting on a pair of rather tight shoes with a bright green interior, and I loudly ask DCA to introduce his new young friend from the back of the car. I tell Pam my fears. As he approaches in that familiar lumbering way of his, I don’t even have to look at him properly to know it’s TL. “Oh for heavens sake”, says Pam as she sees him. “As I live and breathe,” I say, “if it isn’t TL. This is my ex-boyfriend, everybody, and he appears to be stalking me.” TL starts spluttering, “I think you’ll find, J (he emphasises my name sarcastically), that it’s a free country and I can mix with who I want.” There’s a flashback as to how he meets Veronika at her restaurant Pot du Jour, “bumping” into her at the front door and “reminding” her of the fact that they’ve met at a dinner party (they haven’t, but he’s heard about the legendary dinner party from me). She doesn’t remember, but pretends that she does and soon he becomes part of the group. As I’m so busy, I don’t hang out with the group very often, but there are reports of a nice young man everyone likes who’s hanging out with them, particularly DCA. This “young man” has been attending DCA’s UK concerts and has become a big fan. “Why MY group out of all the people in the world“, I ask. “Don’t you have any friends of your own?” I don’t understand what they see in him. I’m suddenly scared. Why is he doing this? Will I ever be rid of him? [[Significance of tight shoes with bright green insert? Also I’d just been watching OJ Simpson drama on Netflix]]