
I’m F(20) and my ex best friend from highschool told this crazy dude we know where I work and he started to stalk me

 so for background information this dude that i know through these girls i USED to be friends with over a year ago, let’s just say his name is *tyler. so Tyler used to hook up with this girl I knew and then she introduced him to our friend group, but the guy Tyler started hanging out with my best friend from high school and would drive her around, buy her drinks and smoke w her etc. This is how I actually hung out with him in real life cause before this we had just known him through this group chat we had with the other girl, but other than that I never hung out with him alone or would go out of my way to text him. We were 18 he was 25. 
Over a year later I’m not friends with these girls at all and I haven’t spoke to or seen this dude, but in October he had hit me up for some artwork and paid me $200 and I had finished it and was sending him progress shots to see if that is what he had wanted, but then he kept switching the ideas around AFTER I had done it and then would text me non stop about other topics and just be weirdly sexual. I honestly got really mad and annoyed because this guy had always been weird as fuck telling my friend that he used to hang out with that he wanted to get me pregnant, he wanted me to be one of his wives and he was obsessed with the fact that we were both Albanian and wanted to convert me to Islam and shit. I know I made the mistake of even talking to him in the first place and Bc I blocked him even though he sent me the money (but after I did the pieces he was ducking me around trying to make me do more) because he’s clearly a weird guy but I needed the money and I never thought that I would see him again cause we live in different boroughs of nyc. 

Two months later in December, I go downstairs in the middle of the day at my job that my dad also works there and HES THERE. I pretended I didn’t see him and I walked out but he proceeded to call my name and ran out the building to follow me. In my head I was like fuck cause I thought it was a coincidence so I was like Hi and we spoke for like 3 min but only cause I was in shock that he was there. He kept saying “This is fate I never thought I’d see you again, this is allah brining us together” I was like ok and he kept hugging me and tried to kiss me on the cheek twice, I w frozen lol. And then I asked him what he was doing there and he told me he was at the mosque next door. KEEP IN MIND, I’ve worked there for THREE years and I’ve never seen him not once there (and I’ve never told anyone where I work besides a few close friends) 


Anyway I shook it off as something awkward and a crazy coincidence, but then after I left he sent me $3.33 on zelle, then. $33.33 THEN $333.33. 
Next week he was there AGAIN but he was just across the street. A week later being this past Friday, HE WENT INSIDE MY JOB AND SPOKE TO MY FATHER ASKING TO MARRY ME. Knowing I have a boyfriend and knowing I’m not interested in him whatsoever in any way romantically. 

So I ended up contacting him to send him that $200 back so he can leave me alone and have no reason to have any ties to me, and basically told him to never contact me and never appear at my job again. He responded saying that he only did that cause he likes me + other dumb bullshit, but one thing that I noticed is that he told me he had started hanging out with one of the girls I used to be friends with again. He basically exposed him and her because she is the only way he could’ve found out where I work. Even when she would meet me at work she didn’t even know which building I worked at, I would tell her to meet me across the street or at the corner. Meaning that he must’ve been watching me. This girl that told him is someone that I was best friend with for FIVE years but I had cut her off cause she had a bunch of issues and would always involve me with drama and put me in dangerous issues and I felt like it was time to walk away. Why she told him where I work, I really have no fucking idea. And I’m just so disgusted that she put me in danger for literally no reason or I guess to be petty.

I don’t even wanna confront either of them cause I feel like they’re both unhinged and gross, what should I even do? I feel lost in the situation, I also blame myself for even associating with these people in the first place.