Understandably, she and her best friend decided to cross over to the opposite side of the street. They arrived at the convenience store, found the cookie ingredients they needed, and went to the register.
While paying, they informed the cashier of the man dancing in the church parking lot, and the cashier went to the window to take a look across the street. However, she didn’t see anyone.
After that, they were even more frightened. At the time, neither of them had a phone, so they, unfortunately, couldn’t call her best friend’s dad for a ride.
Instead of taking the main street back to her best friend’s house as they’d done on the way to the store, they decided to take a detour on another street behind the store.
This way, they hoped that they’d avoid running into the strange man. The entire way, they remained aware of their surroundings.
Just as they were nearly at the end of their journey, they saw the man dancing in front of her best friend’s house as they approached.
Obviously panicked, they immediately turned around and walked back the way they came. She started crying in fear, and her best friend said that she knew some friends from their school who lived nearby.
Once they got to their friend’s house, he didn’t believe their story of the strange man they’d seen. By this point, it was nearly 11 p.m., and he looked tired, so he was unwilling at first to walk with them back to her best friend’s house.
But when they both continued crying, he knew that they must have been telling the truth and really felt unsafe walking by themselves, and he changed his mind.
He walked them to her best friend’s house, and when they got there, the man was gone. Their friend walked them to the front door, and once inside, they told her best friend’s parents what happened.
But her best friend’s parents didn’t take them seriously at all. They laughed and told them they were being dramatic and that they must have seen something that wasn’t there, reminding them that the village they lived in was very safe.
