Beda April 4: Creep

Today I want to do a little bit of complaining.
To begin with I should point out that I don't drive. It freaks me out I hate doing it. I have a driver's licence and I had a car until my brother wrecked it but I hate hate hate driving. This story is about my getting to school. Seeing as I don't drive and if I did I don't have a car I have to depend on other people to get me places, including school. Right now I am living with my mom so she has to drive me places a lot of the time, again including school. The problem with this is that for the first part of the semester she had to start work at 7 am, my classes start at nine am so the choice there is walk or get dropped off at quarter to seven. The school is four miles from my house, this walk is doable but not pleasant and not something I want to do first thing in the morning so I show up for school over two hours early every morning. This to put it nicely sucks, but I've gotten used to it. My new problem is that my mom's place of work has moved the opening time to an hour earlier so it opens to the public at nine instead of ten and she has to be there at six instead of seven. This part is the part that sucks the most for me. Technically the school doesn't even open until seven thirty but there part of it is under construction so they open the doors at about quarter to seven so the workers can get in which is usually when I sneak in. Now if my mom drops me off at the school before work I would be there at 5:45 which is far to early to be sitting in the dark waiting for the doors to be unlocked. So at first I thought I would ride my bike the four miles in the morning and probably home again in the afternoon, but when I did a test run my legs hurt so bad after only a few blocks and I had to quit. My mom did figure out that the bike is set up for 13 year old me which is why it killed my legs but I'm not sure that I can do that ride now and there isn't really a time when I can test it so that's a problem that I'm working on. So the decision that I went with which is the worst of all of the choices but it's the only one I have at the moment is to ride with my mom to her job and then walk from there. Like I said it's not the best plan, it's a bit scary to be walking around in the dark at prime rape hours. (Yes I remember weird scary statistics like that.) My mom only works about half a mile from the school so even with me walking as slow as humanly possible it still only takes maybe half an hour to get there and then the school is still locked. Okay that is the back story my main complaint is what happened on friday.
On friday I was walking down the street when I felt this sort of presence behind me so I turned around and there is this guy walking really quickly up behind me, this freaked me out because I was alone and had my computer in my backpack, which could do some damange if I hit him with it but I also need my computer so I would be screwed if he took it. I shoved on hand into my pocket grabbing my phone and preparing to call 911 if I had to. Just as I got across one street the guy caught up with me and while still one step behind me he happily said "Hi" I'm used to people doing this when I have to walk during the day, it's just polite, so I sort of turned my head and smiled at him wanting to be friendly but not encouraging, because hello six am on a dark street alone. I assumed that he would just keep walking and I really hoped that he would but instead he slowed down to my super snail pace and staying cheerful he said "I know you" which freaked me out because I definitely didn't know him so I looked at him a little quizically, he said "You go to OCC don't you? I see you there all the time." I said "yeah" although I was thinking yeah I go there, how have you seen me? Are you stalking me? Are you just like watching the school to see who comes and goes? Then he started asking me all sorts of questions "what's your major?" "Why did you pick that?" "What kind of photography do you want to get into?" "Is this your first semester here?" "did you go anywhere before this?" "Where do you go?" things like that, now if I were having that conversation at three in the afternoon while in a familiar location that would be one thing, weird coming from a stranger but not so creepy this was just weird at six am in the dark. Then out of nowhere he started talking about how he tutors math, which did explain about why he would be at the school during the day. He said that he worked at Wayne State and that the people he tutors there are all available in the middle of the night which is when he has to work there because I guess there is an overnight study thing, this sounds a little weird to me, well a lot weird actually but I would believe that a college would have a study lab open really late. He also said that he tutored at OCC and was looking to get a full time teaching job there, which is when he pointed out that he graduated college in 1984, which is two years before I was born, and that he was 47. Here's my huge question. If he has to work at Wayne State so late and then come over to OCC why doesn't he go home in the downtime? Also if he has to go between the two he clearly has a car so what is he doing walking down the street at six am? If for some reason he doesn't have a car and takes the bus again why is he walking down the street because I know that the bus stop is right across the street from the school.
The whole time I was talking to this guy I was really afraid, he was too interested in me and to free with giving out just enough personal facts then after we got to the school and found out that it was locked (which is when I found out that the doors are still locked then) he walked off into a residential area only to come back to sit outside the school a few mintues later. He didn't sit next to me thankfully but I just had a feeling that something wasn't right there.
At six fourty five one of the security guards came and unlocked the door and saw us sitting outside and then gave me a hard time for getting there so early because the school doesn't open until seven thirty. This I should point out is the same security guard that on my first day told me that it was okay to get there early I would just have to wait in the cafeteria until seven thirty before I could wander around the school (which was my plan anyway I always have a book with me so it's no big deal) but there she was giving me a hard time about it. It's not like I can get there any later. She let me and the guy in (by then he had told me his name was Chris) and we went down to the cafeteria and he kept on talking to me, this time about how the guard lady seemed really cranky today. When we got to the cafeteria I went to a corner that couldn't be blocked in (it's the corner of the room but it is also next to the archway that leads to the row of vending machines and also the main door) He went to a different corner and promptly fell asleep which is when I finally recognized him.
Just because I finally did recognize this guy doesn't mean that he wasn't creepy. I don't ever want to have to relive that experience again because it was scary and something still just doesn't feel right about this guy, I have seem him sleeping in the cafeteria before but never that early before. Maybe it was a one time thing, but maybe not. I'm not sure I want to risk running into anyone that early in the morning. Even if it is a safe city there are still a lot of dark alleys in downtown Royal Oak.