I had wallowed for nearly 3 days. Took a sick day at work and on Sunday feared going back into the office. After cleaning up the messed I had made in my apartment I tried to convince myself that everything would be fine but there was no way to trick myself into that.
I blew off Dylan's texts and calls on the first day but when he came over Saturday in fear something had happened I was sad to say his fears were realized. I walked him through the events with Bud. Although Bud had dared me not to tell the police or the apartment company, I was able to tell Dylan through some tears. I could tell he felt bad for me but what could he do.
He offered to have me stay with him and I considered it but wasn't ready to give up. I didn't have a plan nor did he but he helped me feel normal for a day if nothing else.
Sunday though, I formulated a plan. It was incredibly risky but what else could I do? This bitch knew where I lived and who knows what she was planning next.
I went over to the Verizon store in the afternoon. It was tricky to explain without sounding entirely insane but I had one of the clerks backup my contacts. I wouldn't include any old messages but she explained that I'd have all the numbers from people I've called or messaged. I thanked her and drove back home for my research.
I had a decent chunk of unknown numbers in the history but knew that there was a 99 in the number from the bitch. There were 4 in total but no real way to narrow them down. I tried searching them on google and was able to remove one as it was listed to a chinese place I ordered out from occasionally.
That left 3 potential numbers, one of them was her.
My plan had been pretty simple but the other two numbers may be collateral damage. Would I be so shitty as to put some people at risk for the sake of my future?
I want to say I was a better person, but I wasn't.
I typed a message out to each of them, "OMG (laughing emoji)! Have you seen this yet! You're going to laugh so hard by the end!" I then sent a bit.ly url to the hypnosis page that originally cursed me. Then I just waited.
I confirmed the link worked on mobile, at least for my phone, so now it was a matter of seeing if they'd take the bait. The number ending in 2238 responded back first. "Who is this?"
I responded back, "deleted my number already? Rude. Did you watch that funny video yet?"
Dots. "Alright, spammer. Nice try."
Shit, this wasn't going well.