"That's true," she says. "I wonder if it can build up like that. Like, maybe if you had gotten into one fight and then lied about it, you would be fine. Maybe it's the fact that it's happened multiple times that makes you vulnerable. If that's really what's going on, of course."
"Are you trying to tell me I shouldn't be such a troublemaker?" you ask her.
"I'm just speculating," she says. "But also maybe you shouldn't be such a troublemaker."
You watch as Anuja walks out into the rain. Before getting too far, she turns around.
"Why do you think it came after Rex? Obviously he did a lot of messed-up things, but do you think there was a main thing? Do you think it could have been because of what he did to us?"
Anuja shakes her head and waves off the question as soon as she asks it.
"Never mind, I guess it doesn't matter. It's not like he could do anything to fix it now."
With that, she hurries off towards her house, her hand tugging on her rain jacket hood so it stays on her head.
Now you just have to figure out how brutally you want to wrong someone to make this work. If you do something mild, whatever is out there might be more attracted to your friends than to you, but you won't be actively trying to harm anyone. If you do something big, you're practically painting a target on yourself. It would instill some confidence in your friends, though. They'd know you were taking this seriously.