Spitefic: Resolve, Part 1gehayiJune 9 2011, 15:05:46 UTC
Patch wouldn't shut up during the quiz. Quiz, hah. It was easy to pass one of those things; all you had to do was echo back Coach's sexist bullshit. I'd tried writing down actual information earlier in the year, but I'd given up after my facts--which were more accurate than anything Coach had ever dreamed of spouting--got me a couple of Fs. I'd had to do a ton of extra credit to wipe out those grades, too.
After that, I got the message. Shut the fuck up, little girl, and don't bother boring me with facts because my mind's already made up. Just repeat everything I say and you'll get an A...which, after all, is what colleges look for. Who cares if you've actually learned anything?Oh, yeah. I was just a little pissed about this. And every quiz just made it more annoying. I really did not need Patch whispering in my ear, least of all in that mock-solicitous tone of his
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Spitefic: Resolve, Part 2gehayiJune 9 2011, 15:09:03 UTC
I told Coach that I felt sick to my stomach and needed to go to the nurse's office before I threw up. All of which was true. I was getting such a creepy vibe from Patch that I felt as if I might hork up that minute. I guess I looked like that, too, because Coach let me go with a minimum of fuss.
I did go to the nurse, and I did lie down. But once I was lying on the cot, I called 911. (After all, I didn't have the regular number of the Coldwater, Michigan Police Department on speed-dial.)
Once I got transferred from the emergency number to the regular one, I spoke to an Officer Lewis. She sounded like a nice woman. She even sounded as if she believed that Patch was sexually harassing and stalking me.
The tough thing was proving it.
"Under Michigan law," she explained, "stalking is defined as 'a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested, and that actually causes the
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After that, I got the message. Shut the fuck up, little girl, and don't bother boring me with facts because my mind's already made up. Just repeat everything I say and you'll get an A...which, after all, is what colleges look for. Who cares if you've actually learned anything?Oh, yeah. I was just a little pissed about this. And every quiz just made it more annoying. I really did not need Patch whispering in my ear, least of all in that mock-solicitous tone of his ( ... )
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I did go to the nurse, and I did lie down. But once I was lying on the cot, I called 911. (After all, I didn't have the regular number of the Coldwater, Michigan Police Department on speed-dial.)
Once I got transferred from the emergency number to the regular one, I spoke to an Officer Lewis. She sounded like a nice woman. She even sounded as if she believed that Patch was sexually harassing and stalking me.
The tough thing was proving it.
"Under Michigan law," she explained, "stalking is defined as 'a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested, and that actually causes the ( ... )
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"Yes. But only under certain circumstances. A stalker can't cross state, tribal or international lines--personally, by mail, by email or by cyberstalking. And he can't stalk on federal land like national parks or military bases."But none of that applies in your case. You're both here in Michigan. And even if you were in a different state and he followed you there...well, under federal law, it's not enough for you to feel harassed or to be afraid. Patch would have to follow across state lines with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate you. Proving intent to harass and intent to intimidate is tough; stalkers often don't see any reason for their victims to not welcome their attentions ( ... )
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