Welcome to Wednesday One Chots, a series where we share a bonus episode with you every

week to help you get through that midweek slump.

This week we have a story titled Popular Guy with an Obsessive Side by Maya.

I've had many encounters with odd people that I wouldn't want to meet again, but this incident

is probably one of the first times I was scared for my safety.

This took place when I was 14 and in middle school.

My school had a gifted and talented program for both humanities and science sectors with

30 to 40 kids in each of the programs.

I was in the humanities program, and our days mostly consisted of skipping other classes

to full-around in the film classroom.

Our film teacher was extremely chill and let us walk in and out of his classroom as we

pleased.

This concerned me as well as my longtime best friend who will call Paige.

Both of us came from immigrant families that migrated from the same country, so our families

were very close.

I practically lived at Paige's house because my parents traveled often for work.

Paige and I took the school bus and we got off at the library, then transferred onto

a public city bus to get to Paige's neighborhood.

After the bus rides, we had to walk about half a mile to get to her house.

Now that I've set the scene, I'll jump into the events that took place.

It started when a kid from the science program approached me during our PE class.

I'll call him Jake.

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