Real Encounters

*First time getting Catfished yesterday*

It was extremely the most traumatizing experience I've had.

I was in this group on Facebook where people shared different kinds of stories, mostly funny stories. I usually post comments there using my dummy account and most of the people there use dummy accounts as well. I had a fun conversation with this guy using a dummy account named "Luffy" who claimed to be 21 years old. We exchanged messages on Facebook without actually adding each other. We both found out that we lived nearby each other so we decided to meet up and have lunch in a mall near our school. I chose a place to meet where it's really crowded.

Since I had a dress rehearsal for a play, he told me that he would wait for me in a burger stand near our school. The night before, we sent each other pictures. I was so excited to meet him since he looked really attractive, smart and funny.

By 4PM, I stood beside the burger stand. A heavily-tinted red car stopped at the street in front of me, then I received a text message from him asking me to go inside the red car. Since I've read a lot of stories here on LNM, I decided to go with my instinct and sent him a text saying that I wouldn't get in the car unless he goes out and shows himself.

What happened next made me promise myself that I would never meet anyone from the internet ever again.

A man, most likely in his 30s, went out of the car and started to clutch me by my arm and kept tugging me. I screamed like I have never screamed before, making it noticeable since there are civilians there as well. The guy who watched over the burger stand came to us and asked what's wrong, clearly concerned.

"She's my daughter." "She's in big trouble." "She ran away from home." were this creep's defense.

I denied it every time and the burger guy told him that he would alert the guards from our school. That's when "Luffy" let go of my arm, went inside his car, muttering to himself and drove away. When the guards came, I told them everything and I was never let out of the school that day without my guardian picking me up.