Explanation: She is a teenage stalker.
The three of us have been very close most of our lives. Along comes Charmed Freak(self-described), who has no friends. We take her under our wing, only to realize exactly why she has no friends. She immediately starts practically stalking us- Asking that we spend every free minute of every day with us, getting upset when we can’t.
A few months go by, and we graduate, leaving her in high school. Despite her knowing quite clearly that we are all working that summer, she calls the house in excess of 7 or 8 times a day, prompting my mother to get fed up during one of my shifts over the multiple calls and messages and tell her to basically stop stalking us.
We go off to college. If I ignore my cell phone, she waits till I get on IM and bothers me there. I plead that I am busy, which only makes her angry. From each of us, she recieves an explanation that we are in college and really don’t have the time to be constantly on the phone/IM with her. She gets upset and attributes it to us hating her “because she has a disability”. She does, but it is her described demeanor that drives people away. I now have two IM’s. We can only get on our regular IMs when we know she is asleep (she text messages in from school). She has been told by all of us and our parents, who still get calls because “They didn’t answer my phone calls or my IM’s or e-mails!” that she is being excessive.
Despite this, she has continued to bother us. I cannot change my cell phone number, as the contract does not run out for several months yet. I ignore her calls, but it is annoying to have the phone ring every 20 minutes when she wants to reach me( I cannot turn it off, I am involved in student government and need to be in contact). If I am coming home on break, she will be calling frequently even before my bus has pulled in. Cheer Bear and Funkster have to play similar evasion games.
The event that set me off occurred yesterday when she called from a pay phone, and I picked it up, thinking it might be one of my committees needing to speak with me. It is her, putting off my pleas of being busy (I was typing a paper) and saying she needed us to spend our mini-break with us. We have exactly four days of break, one of which is Easter. (She seems incapable of remembering we spend these days with family.) She counters with “Then you can spend Monday with me!”
I tell her I want to spend that day with my parents. She asks why. I cannot tell her, because I do not trust her with the background knowledge behind it (It is a personal issue known only at home to Cheer Bear and Funkster). She pesters me with this, until I tell her I have to go to class. She finishes it up with “well then, we have to hang out for a few days after you come home for my graduation! I need my sisters with me!”, ignoring the known facts that a) We are all working and I can only go home for one or two days. b)I am coming home for the graduation ceremony- my little brother’s, c) Funkster wanted bring her boyfriend home. d) Cheer Bear’s sister is coming in from Arizona to spend time with her, e) she is fully aware of these facts.
She is not our sister. She is our stalker, and the fact that she co-opted that title (which is quite precious to us) just set off my nerves.
Does this clarify matters?
