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below to download Opera GX [Music] today I live in Chandler Arizona this happened when I was like 17 and in my heavy gaming phase still living with my parents I played a lot of Call of Duty in my room on my computer in those days especially in the summertime when it's so unbearably hot outside and I prefer to stay inside in the air conditioning anyway way back when I lived at home I'd have the place to myself a lot because my parents travel a lot and I was the last one to move out if I
recall correctly this was on a Friday night or a night that school was out the next day because I was staying up late after I got home from school I submitted a paper that was due that night to get it over with then I had to do some shopping afterwards on my mom's orders since they'd be gone for a while it was how I earned my keep in the house according to my dad they left cash for me to use I always had to show them the receipt though so that I wouldn't just pocket any
of the money my mom gave me a shopping list so I went to Whole Foods in my old Camry my first car shopping took about an hour door too while in the grocery store this guy online behind me started talking to me and I don't know why he made a comment about one of the things I was buying and just wouldn't stop even as I was bagging my groceries he kept talking to me which I found weird he wasn't paying attention to anyone else I was still nice though when it was time to leave I
said have a good one and left I went out to my car in the parking lot and packed the trunk then headed home it was a scorching hot day as we were in early June I wasn't looking to go out and do anything outside once I was done with everything I needed to do it was dark out by now so I got right on Call of Duty Black Ops on my computer and texted my friend Johnny to get on as well he joined my party and we played some Team Deathmatch as we always did I
was using my noise cancelling Logitech Headset we were committed already to playing Call of duty all night and ranking up so of course I needed to take a break to make dinner at some point probably 2 hours into playing I told Johnny I was going to eat dinner and I'd probably be back on in an hour he said he'd be back on later too so with that I took a break and made some pasta for dinner the kitchen is downstairs and my room is upstairs while I was sitting in the kitchen eating I knew for
sure I heard a thump from upstairs did it sound like a footstep I wasn't sure it could have been any any number of things but the last thing I'd imagine it would be would be a footstep I did however go and lock the front door now often times for a while I would leave the door unlocked just because my parents house is in a good side of town and I just never took the idea of a break-in seriously it's something you hear about on the news but don't think it'll ever happen to you I went
upstairs and I don't know what I was expecting but I said my brother Tristan's name into the hallway I knew he wasn't supposed to be here but I don't know I heard a sound and I felt the urge to see if anyone was here when no one answered back I went back to my room and got back on Call of Duty I put my headset back on and texted Johnny that I'm going back on shortly after he came back on we started playing Team Deathmatch again a couple games in I looked to my left at
the doorway of my room into the hallway I don't know if something in my peripheral vision or some other sense felt something there but I would leave the door open when I was home alone as my mom would tell me to the hallway was dark except for the one little NightLight plugged into to an outlet my room Shone blue for my wall lights some of the blue poured into the part of the hallway closest to my room in between the crack of the door was total Blackness I couldn't see through it I didn't think anything
of it after our next game Johnny said he was taking a leak and walked away while we were in the lobby I looked at my phone then looked back out to the hallway and I noticed something was different now I could see through the crack of the door into the hallway my first thought was was someone BL knocking it just minutes ago by Instinct I spun my chair around to face the bed behind me and there was a man sitting on my bed with his freakishly upright posture and His Hands resting on his thighs he
almost looked to be smiling I was so alarmed I jumped out of my seat onto the desk and crawled onto the desk causing my monitor and basically everything else to fall off of it I screamed what do you want and he started to actually smile now showing his teeth like he was laughing I ran out of the room into the Hall hallway I stopped halfway down the hallway and looked back at my bedroom door I heard the Springs of my bed lifting and then the guy slowly walked into the doorway and stopped he stood there
I once again yelled what do you want he then spoke in a stuttered slow voice asking if he could play too I asked how did you get in here he stepped a few steps forward and pointed down the stairs I assumed he was implying he entered through the front door I was at a loss for what to do so I ran down the stairs to the landline phone as my cell phone was still in my room I grabbed the phone and a kitchen knife and screamed you need to leave on calling 911 I heard footsteps
walking down the steps and the last time I saw the guy was when he walked past the kitchen looked at me and then I heard him walking out the front door I ran to slam it shut and lock it for the first time ever I was ashamed at myself for leaving the door completely unlocked I held the phone for a few minutes deciding whether to tell my parents ultimately I did my mom was concerned at first then grew livid so much so to the point that she put my dad on the phone he told me
to go through the house and make sure nothing was taken I went through every room and honestly everything seemed in place I said the man seemed like something was off about him and my dad said yeah no [ __ ] the man didn't seem overtly hostile but something was wrong with him and I don't know what his intention was the image of him sitting on my bed and the realization that he was watching me through the crack in the door was Haunting [Music] enough this is a story I'm not proud of mostly for my naivity
when I was in Middle School and early High School I didn't know how to talk to girls at all at school but that's a lot of boys in middle school I wasn't shy in general I had friends and did normal things an eighth grader would do I just had never kissed a girl or anything some of my friends at the time claimed they already gone further than that with girls and I was starting to feel pressure but I was still having trouble approaching girls in that way the mentality went from boys making fun of girls
to suddenly liking them in a matter of like a year I was a pretty big gamer in middle school and early High School this was when I was in e8th grade I was like 13 my voice was still probably a bit prepubescent sounding it was 2010 I played a lot of console games and computer MMO RPG games my favorite console games at the time were GTA 4 and Call of Duty and my favorite computer game was this mm o RPG called gonu it was this online game where you would level up by killing monsters and
the more you leveled up the higher level monsters and hunting grounds you'd be able to tackle the online community in this game was very active and there were tons of players my older brother used to play it a little bit too I played it more for sure though I was in a guild and town and everything I don't remember how it happened but I befriended this female player who was a higher level than me her username was Medusa anytime I'd sign in and she was on she'd message me and vice versa we would join parties
together which meant we'd share exp on whatever monsters we killed and we just chat for hours she knew a lot about me including my age my town and some personal family details she would open up to me too eventually she told me her name was Teresa it was weird feeling such a connection with a girl who really you knew nothing about her appearance or her voice it truly was like having a pen pal but better it was interesting enough that we both lived in New York state she lived about an hour from me after a
few weeks or maybe even a month we started talking about maybe meeting one day to do this though we'd have to exchange numbers at the time I didn't actually have a cell phone yet I only had an iPod touch but I was able to download some texting app that allowed me to send messages to people with cell phones through this app I was able to send her a picture of of myself it was definitely this cringy eighth grade boy selfie of me trying to look good-looking she called me cute and then she sent back a
picture of herself she looked a couple years older than me like 15 which was the age she told me she was based on the picture I found her very attractive this was around the time our messages became more flirtatious and romantic but we were both Miners And so of course neither of us could just go drive an hour away however she apparently had a solution for this she told me her sister had friends that lived around me anyway and she could probably get a ride to me this was exciting news for my little 13-year-old self
I wanted to wait for a day and night that my parents wouldn't be home and I'd have the house to myself which was about a week later I believe my parents were going to the Hampton for the whole weekend so it would just be my brother and I home my brother was 18 so I asked him to please just go out for the night with friends so that I could be alone with Teresa I gave Teresa my address and told her to come that Saturday whenever she wanted she said she'd be coming a little later
like at night she didn't give me an exact time at that point in time we still had never spoken on the phone I still hadn't heard her voice I was so nervous all day that I couldn't even play video games I was busy cleaning my room making things look cool fixing my appearance even rehearsing things to say in the initial moments of meeting then I got a message from Teresa saying she's here I sprang up and ran to the front door I looked through the peephole and did didn't see anyone she then said you can
come out to the front door I opened the door and stepped onto the front porch I looked around and the street was dark and quiet no cars no people I went back inside and shut the door I messaged her back saying I don't see you she said back oh I must have the wrong house give me a minute that was a bit weird I locked the door and sat on the living room couch nervously waiting playing games on my iPod I got a message from her again she said she's here and to come outside I
replied ring the bell so I know you're at the right house then the doorbell rang my nerves really set in now I walked to the door looked through the peephole and didn't see anyone I said Teresa through the door through the peephole I saw a hand reach towards the door and knock I said Teresa again as I kept looking through the peephole everything felt like it instantly crumbled down on top of me as this bald creepy looking short guy stepped in front of the peephole and then said through the door hey Joey it's Medusa from
gonu I want to talk I ran away from the door with my hands over my mouth truly speechless the person I'd been talking to all this time was a creepy grown man I was disgusted and scared I went to call my brother's cell phone he didn't pick up the doorbell kept ringing I went to my bedroom and locked myself in I held the house phone in my grasp considering calling my parents but too embarrassed to do so my room was the the only other room in the house with the lights on I have a big
window in my room that overlooks the whole sidey yard of our Corner House I turned off my lamp and slightly kinked the blind just a crack and I saw that guy on the other side trying to look in he started to knock on the window and started saying through the closed window how much of a connection we clearly have that we can at least be friends I responded nothing I called my brother again and he picked up this time I said please come home right now the Teresa person was a grown man the entire time
and he's at my window right now my brother's always been pretty big even as a teenager I'd feel safer with him being here he said he was coming home with his friends right now we stayed on the phone so I could tell him if anything happened I ran to my parents' bedroom upstairs and hid there the man was blowing up my message app saying he would like to talk and there's a reason he had to lie about who he was when my brother got home he told me he sees the guy outside my brother and
his three friends confronted the creepy short man outside so I I went outside now to watch the four of them intimidated the man calling him a sick [ __ ] such and the man's defense was that he was concerned for my well-being inviting strangers from online over and that this was supposed to be a learning lesson I refuted this claim by asking him why he would say that we could be good friends at my window when my brother and his friends started pushing the man he started quickly walking to his car my brother kicked the
guy's tail light while one of his friends threw a rock at his window he sped off down the road to never be seen again this was humiliating and disturbing but at the same time I was really grateful of my brother and his friends to come to my Aid they potentially saved me from a seriously sick creep breaking into the house it's still painful and uncomfortable realizing all that time I spent opening up to who I thought was a girl my own age on a game was some creepy grown man with a different [Music] agenda this
happened last week just a bit of background information I had just officially quit playing fortnite not that it's important but this was May 2021 so fortnite had already had a lot of people quitting the game my friend Brandon suggested that I download Apex Legends and play with him I had already had the game downloaded so I just updated it to the current version so I logged on and I remembered how bad I was at this game I hadn't played since the game came out so my stats were awful and I had only the starting Legends
I mean Pathfinder and blood hound because I just thought that they were the two best starters something else to note I have a very loud gaming headset so I could barely hear any background noise but to get to the actual story it happened when I was home alone my parents had gone out for their week late anniversary dinner and my brother was at his friend's house I was playing Apex with Brandon when he suddenly got a text from a random number he said dude what the [ __ ] I just got a random message what
does it say I asked I remember exactly how it went he said look out the window don't look out the window dude there's nothing there I replied no he says look out your window what why I said as I turned my head slightly to the right then to the left I didn't know which window to look out of since this room has five windows I looked at each of them in a panic then I found it the one that was least visible from my couch there was this man just standing there I was clueless I
didn't think much of it because the dude was facing away from the window little did I know just yet I put my headphones back on Brandon just got another text he told me Luke I'm not messing with you dude there's someone outside your window I know I told him I just saw him he's just looking the other way what he asked he just took a picture of you at the window looking clueless what the [ __ ] I said I suggest you call the cops and get him out of there he tells me then strangely
he stopped talking and there was that sound of an Xbox notification he left the party he never does that without saying bye or that he's going to bed and I saw he was still in Apex playing in a match what the [ __ ] I muttered to myself again eventually I got a party invitation from Brandon and asked what happened next thing I know there was a deeper voice than Brandon's on the mic I remember in every little detail what it said come outside right now or I will come in I couldn't recognize the voice
at all but I knew the voice was that of a grown man I looked back at the window and sure enough there he was banging on the window he looked completely demented his face was a dark red with his hands gushing blood as he pounded on the window it started to crack I picked up my phone which was right next to me I was horrified to see it was at 1% basically out of battery I kept saying oh [ __ ] over and over I put my phone to my ear and mouth the words there's
a man trying to break into my house his face is dark red and his hands are bleeding next thing thing I know he starts screaming while bashing at my window then I thought wait a second there's screen sheets in front of all of our windows so how if he never cut it was he already at the glass I took too much time to think finally A Shard of glass falls to the ground a hole large enough for me to shout through opens up I screamed go the away before the cops got here you son of
a [ __ ] I used Too Much breath on those words another Shard Falls then another I went to get a large knife from the knife block we have in the kitchen and I returned to where the man was breaking the window there was already a hole big enough for him to crawl through and he had already started I ran back to the kitchen and grabbed the cordless phone ran upstairs and dialed 911 I told them the exact words that I mouthed on my cell phone earlier along with the fact that he was now inside
my home unfortunately the only doors with locks upstairs are the bathrooms so thinking on my feet I went into my parents room into that bathroom and lock the door at that moment I was thinking I was being smart because I left the bedroom door watch wide open and the bathroom door that's actually inside the bedroom is not visible from the bedroom door I thought if that guy managed to come upstairs before the cops got here he would see the door wide open and think I wasn't in here suddenly I heard footsteps coming up the stairs
my heart started pounding harder than ever and it got harder to breathe I opened one of the drawers looking for something sharp that I could maybe use as a weapon and I think he must have heard the drawer because he came stomping into the bedroom I heard sirens outside and I never could have thanked the cops enough for being so so fast he heard it too and at this point he had nowhere to go I heard him run outside but he was too late the police were out front already I ran outside to the police
as well and I told them what happened the man was arrested handcuffs put around his bloodied wrists I later figured out that I had killed that guy in Apex and kind of [ __ ] talked him just an hour or two before somehow he got my address and Brandon's phone number some people are just [ __ ] up in the head and apparently they will do unspeakable things for video games everyone gets frustrated from getting killed in a game but really showing up at a person's house to potentially kill them in real life over a
game is really messed up this guy had to be mental a few police cars stayed at my house overnight after the others had taken the man away the man was convicted for aggravated [Music] burglary
