I was perfectly happy for a long while. Months went by, neighbors moved out, my salary got a little higher. I was going perfectly well in my home maybe 20 years old living on my own with an easy job, all the books I can read. I even had my own form of social interaction. I got all of my food shipped to my home so the most I ever had to do was open the door and grab it all off the porch whenever it was dark enough outside that no one could see me. I started figuring out how to cut my own hair since it had grown out so much that it became too annoying to manage. I started shaving because the beard I was growing with dirty and I didn't want to look up how to manage it.
Everything was fine until I got one new neighbor in particular. At first she didn't strike me as anything special just another person that was probably going to mind their own business and not bother me. I thought it was like any other person but every night she lied in a tree in her yard and just looked up at the sky. She was nervous, she didn't hesitate, and she was never late. Every night at 9PM she was in that tree just staring into the sky. Even if she was shivering in 6 layers of clothes she still sat in that tree for what seemed like hours. I noticed every night for some reason, every night I sat at my computer and talked or work while glancing over at her to see if she was still there.
I never noticed if she looked at me because she was always laying down but I was never stressed or worried about her judging me. She was doing her thing and I was able to sit and do my thing as well. That was I could've until she didn't lie down in the tree one day, she was sitting staring down at her phone, weeks and weeks of laying in that tree and then she sat up in it. She was there for maybe 5 minutes until she looked up at the sky again, then out of nowhere I got an air drop. I checked my phone and all it was was a number. I ignored it at first, why would I use a random number, even if it was from her, I tried to ignore it but every few minutes she sent it again and again and again until I just caved in and texted it. What did she want from me?
I texted the number with as blunt of a comment as I could. "Why are you sending me a number"
Then it just went on and on, this random person who had to have been looking at me a judging me texted me and I texted them for what felt like hours. Why in the word did I keep texting why did she send me her number in the first place. Either way I was able to find the conversations, It feels like it was too long ago to find them but I was able to ask some people I talked to to fish into the files that sorted dates and times for me and he was able to get ones that covered that month.