Morgan sends a text message to her teacher, “I don’t think that I’m going to make it to class today. I’m taking a mental health day from my life. Hope all is well!” Her teacher texts back, “Understood 🙂 xo”
Steve and I are weighing our options in the morning. We are becoming a lot more educated about stalkers and we are not liking anything we read. A particularly troubling issue for Steve is that our stalker is different. Every stalking instance, example and scenario they seem to know the stalker at some point. It was this fact, and also the fact the he was so seamlessly coexisting within our neighborhood that had Steve entertaining the thought of moving.
Today I started looking at other houses for lease ant at first it seemed crazy and desperate. But as I looked, and thought about it, and started to see homes that I could see had good defensive qualities to them, they didn’t appear very stalker friendly, and it all began to make sense. Up and moving would be such a huge task. But then staying put was really not any easier. Our free time was consumed preparing to catch the stalker. Our evenings were juggled around being certain we would be close by for Morgan. And our nights were always some new anti-stalker protocol that failed just like the last one.
We are so stressed out, and afraid for Morgan. Then came the deal breaker, reading over and over that if the stalker follows her when we move, shows up just as we have settled in and breathed that first sigh of relief, then it will only be worse…
We abandon ideas of moving for the moment and order two new motion detector sets. They can be clustered together, and each have its own unique sound. Steve thinks he can set up a light grid that will give us not only noise, but some invisible way of tracking him as he approaches.
I felt like I was in one of those old westerns, where the fort is about to come under attack from the Indians, and preparations for the onslaught are being carried out in the quiet before the storm. It has actually been days now where we are not sure if the stalker has even really been here. There have been noises and taps and barks, but nothing that really indicates him. It could all be just the normal noises that to a hyper-vigilant family are still something to worry about.
(Police reports later show the “suspect” was not working this evening)
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