aita for hurting my stalker's stupid baby feelings
This is extremely, extremely fucking stupid, I just want to lead with that, and it’s even stupider that I’m typing this shit out, but I don’t have any friends, so whatever. Whatever. I can’t believe I’m wasting my lunch break on this.
Basically I (16M) have a stalker. Don’t tell me to call the cops, I fucking hate those guys, deal with them enough at my damn job, and either way, they can’t stop him. He does all the stalker works - shows up to my job, breaks into my home, knows my schedule, follows me around, acts like I know him personally, all the bullshit. I’ll call him TB.
The thing is, TB also does some stuff that’s atypical stalker behaviour, but still stalker shit. He buys me groceries and stocks my fridge. He packs me lunch for work (that he breaks into my home to make. And he does the dishes). He nags at me consistently, constantly, unasked for, all the time. He drags over his maybe-dad(? Or boss? Or...creator? I don’t fucking care so I don’t ask) when the guy is injured for me to take a look at his wounds, since the weirdo is still hesitant about that shit.
A couple of days ago, I told him to stop breaking into my house, which I say whenever he does, but I guess since I was fresh off an 18 hour shift, it came out extremely harsh. It...made TB cry. Which was alarming, because I didn’t think he could cry, and also he just is really pitiful if you ignore the stalking. Not the kind of guy you wanna see crying. He doesn’t usually act...human, so it was super uncomfortable. Before I could even process it, that this was my stalker, crying, TB was gone, and since then I haven’t seen him.
TB has my number (I didn’t give it to him, to be clear) and usually texts me fairly regularly, but he hasn’t texted me since then. He’s been shoving lunch into my locker at work as usual, but I don’t think he’s been in my apartment since the day I snapped at him. It’s really weird. It’s good he finally fucking listened to me, but...I don’t know.
I can’t get his stupid crying face out of my head. I feel like the worst piece of shit alive, and the biggest sucker ever for feeling that way. I know Stockholm syndrome for sure isn’t real, but whatever the fuck this is doing to me shouldn’t be real either. It’s just like TB to pull this shit. AITA?
EDIT: My stalker is seven years old. Adjust accordingly.
EDIT 2: I’m not going to edit out the swearing, fuck off.
EDIT 3: If I knew where his parents were or how to contact them or if they even fucking exist, he wouldn’t be my stalker anymore, would he?
