Being a woman can be a truly terrifying experience; no matter what we do and where we go, we have to be on high alert. It seems there is an alarming number of men who are eager to hurt us or, at the very least, go out of their way to make us feel extremely uncomfortable and unsafe. According to the Domestic Violence Services Network, about 1 in 3 women is stalked annually with most (78%) stalking victims being female and most (87%) perpetrators being male.
As if that weren’t a harrowing enough reality, oftentimes when we are brave enough to speak up we are dismissed or not believed. Mom and influencer @sabercierra knows this all too well. She recently took to TikTok to share a rather disturbing story about the time a classmate passed her the creepiest note in history.
She begins by explaining that as a kid she moved across the country and had to attend a new school, and one day she was approached by a kid with a note while sitting at lunch.
@sabercierraa Part 1 High school was a nightmare. #highschool #storytime #scary #creepy #newkid ♬ original sound – sabercierra
“This kid walks up to me and he drops this folded-up piece of notebook paper onto my tray while I’m eating,” she explains in the video before continuing. “I look down at it and I look up at him and I’m like, ‘Is this for me?’ And he just looks at me and he just slowly nods but doesn’t say a word. And I’m like, ‘Are you sure?’ Because I’ve never seen this kid in my life.”
She began reading it, and the first line began, “Pretty girls like you are going to pay,” she recalls in the video. And from there it got. worse and worse.
“I had no idea what to expect going into this letter, so I unfold it, I look at it, and it is the tiniest handwriting you’ve ever seen, like serial killer handwriting, full page front and back,” she says.
In it, he provided in excruciating detail how he wanted to harm her, dismember her, and wear her skin all because “pretty girls like her” ignored boys like him all the time. He went on to say that he would follow her home and listed out the tools he’d pack in his schoolbag to get the job done.
“He’s got the wrong girl,” she immediately thought after finishing the letter. “I’m not walking around like my [redacted] doesn’t stink. I treat people very well …”
Scared, she began approaching a teacher, but as she did, she noticed the kid standing right behind the teacher and decided against saying anything. For the next week or so, she saw him everywhere, though he didn’t speak to her.
“I am walking around, and he is following me. He’ll be behind me in hallways, and I’ll feel breath on my neck,” she notes in the clip.
Followers of her story were beyond appalled and highly invested by this point. Despite ending the video there, she uploaded a part two to reveal what happened, and honestly, the story didn’t get much better.
@sabercierraa Replying to @_sassafras Ouch okay part 2 lol #scary ♬ original sound – sabercierra
After the week of stalking went by, she made a big decision: She’s going to tell the principal because by this point she hasn’t told a soul, not even her own mom. So she sat down with the principal, showed him the note, and relayed how terrified she is of the kid. And you know what that principal did? He laughed when he got to the name.
“He’s not gonna hurt you,” he assured her. “He’s special needs.” The principal took the note because it was “upsetting her” and figured it was solved. She was utterly stunned and even more horrified when eventually, the student got onto her bus home right after her.
“I’m sitting there and I lock eyes with him as he’s getting on the bus was like, oh no ‘this is the day,’” she confesses in the second video. “He’s literally told me that he’s gonna do this. He’s gonna follow me home. He’s gonna get on my bus and he’s gonna dismember me, wear me like a sweater.”
Luckily, at that moment the boy’s aide arrived and directed him off the bus to where he was supposed to go, but that ended up being her final straw. After a week of faking sick to stay home, her mom asked what was going on, and she relayed the whole story. Immediately, the mom went to the principal and chewed him a new one for not contacting her and for throwing away the note.
“We go straight from that school to the superintendent’s office of the school district and she has me withdrawn like same day,” the woman explains in the clip. “She’s like, ‘yeah, my daughter’s not going back in that school. Not one day, not even to pick up anything.'”
The woman said she never saw him again after that, but the memory clearly hasn’t left. “I still got his, his creepy eyes ingrained in my memory,” she shared.
