Alright, I honestly don't know where to begin... This is going to be long, and probably not have much meaning to everyone else, but I really need to get my thoughts out, even though it's been a few days since it happened, and I'm STILL a little bit shaken...
On Saturday, I went to a sleepover at my friend Ali's with a few other girls. It was a group meeting for this cosplay group my friends were trying to get started... anyways. Around 10 o'clock, Ali remembered that she had to go and check her work schedule down at Safeway, so she would know when she had to work over the next week. Danica and Keely said that they would drive Ali down, since she wasn't feeling well, but since it was really nice out and Safeway was only a few blocks away, Cheryl, Ayla, and I decided we would walk there.
We were running after the car, joking around and trying to catch up, and we pass this court that split off from the street, and we hear some kids yelling at us. Me, being a dumbass, decided to yell back, just joking around and stuff. It was totally moronic and I really shouldn't have done that, but we'd all done that kind of thing before and others to us. It just didn't seem like a big deal. To us, anyways.
So, we reach the end of Ali's street and turn the corner, and we hear this girl yelling after us, but we figured that after awhile she would just give up and go back to her friends. But she just kept following us, staying about a block or two behind, shouting stuff like... "Why the hell won't you stop and face me? There's only one of me and three of you! Why the fuck you yelling things at me? Why you walking so fast, bitches?" and stuff like that.
Then this little motorbike that kept driving by, and we finally figured out that the guy on it was one of the girl's friends, and we were all starting to get really freaked out. Cheryl took out her phone and tried to call our friends in the car, to see if they could come and pick us up. The guy saw Cheryl's phone, I guess, so he rides back to the girl and picks her up. I didn't hear, but later Cheryl said that she had heard the guy say "They're calling their boyfriends in the jeep!" or something like that.
So, they finally catch up to us about four or five bloacks away from where we started and they stopped us. The woman jumped off of the bike and walked up to us. She looked pissed, and was very apparently on some sort of drugs. She was probably around our age, but looked almost 30 or 40, and her eyes were all wide and sunken in, and she was incredibly skinny. She started screaming shit at us and getting right up in our faces, only inchec away. She kept threatening us and telling us that she should "fuck us up" and "throw us down."
Then she turned and started getting at Ayla, demanding that she rat out whoever yelled. I was scared she was gonna hit Ayla, so I spoke up, and told the lady that I was the one who shouted at her. She turned told Ayla "Don't worry, I ain't gonna touch you, I can tell you're scared and not trying to start shit," which was a relief, but then she turned on me and started to yell and cuss at me, stuff like "Why you yelling shit at me, huh little bitch?! I could take you all out right now!!" She went on like that for awhile, to me and Cheryl mostly, getting even more riled up and pissed the more she ranted.
She started to turn on Cheryl more, and that was when I really started to worry. It was alright if she was shouting at me, but she was getting really pissed and clenching her fists and we seriously thought she was going to attack us. It just kept getting worse, especially when we tried to explain what we had been doing. She's all... "You bitches were just trying to start some shit? Cuz there's eight of us and we got wheels."
Of course, that's when two more of their friends walked up.
So she turns back to Cheryl and sort of jabs her hand at her, and asks "What do you have on you?" Cheryl pulled out her hairtie and a chapstick, and the lady asked if she had a cellphone. Cheryl said "Yeah, in my pocket..." and the girl tells her to give over her phone. Cheryl hesitated for about a second, then said no.
At this pont, she was maybe three inches away from Cheryl, who had backed away and was farther from us now. Her fist was curled and she looked about two seconds from punching Cheryl in the face. However, the guy on the motorbike pulled her back a little (I didn't even see when he had gotten off his bike, it scared the shit out of me that he was suddeny so much closer). And he gave us an ultimatum... "Alright, girls, this is what I'm going to do. We're gonna give you a five minute head start, and you'd better run." And the girl (helpful as alway) jerked away from his hand and said "Yeah, and you bitches better get out of here fast!" or something to that effect.
We booked it out of there. We headed for the nearest main street which would take us to Safeway, but Cheryl pulled ahead and Ayla fell behin. It felt like shit, but I sped up to catch up with Cheryl instead of helping Ayla. I was banking on the fact that the girl said she would leave Ayla alone, but I still felt horrible.
Anyways, we ended up running into our friends when we were almost there and they drove us to Ali's house by another route while we gave a brief summary. Danica and Keely left not too soon afterwards, because the guy on the motorbike had told us at one point "I saw the car your boys were in, and if I ever see it again I'm gonna fuck them up. We own this side of town." We didn't want them to see the car and know which house it was, so she took Keely with her and left.
We were all so shaken up.... it was horrible. Especially Ayla, we called the police to report the bastards and she could barely even talk to them... We all had a major guilt trip once the police were gone. Cheryl felt bad for suggesting we walk, and Ayla felt bad for not saying anything to the crazy people, and both are things they can't really be blamed for. I felt like shit though, because if I had kept my fat mouth shut, then none of this would have happened.
It was one of one of those, "That kind of thing only happens to other people" situations, and that made it even scarier. I've gone over the situation a million times though, and I think we did the best we could in a shitty situation once it had got started. Every other thing I could come up with ended in at least one of us being punched out.The main thing is, no one got hurt.
Once we'd all dealt with it a little, the rest of the sleepover was a ton of fun. No one slept much, though.
I haven't told my parents yet, and I don't plan too. It's over and done with, there's nothing they could do, and I don't wanna cause a ton of worry. Plus, I don't wanna be locked in the house for the rest of my life. Not that I'm going to be walking out at night again... or even anywhere by myself anymore. Not much sleep recently either.
Anyways, I'm sorry that this was so long... for those that sat through the whole thing, thank you so much. It gets a little easier each time I tell it, though I don't think it'll ever really go away.
Thanks for listening....