The Resident

Chapter 31

IAN'S POV:

So everything was fine lately. As it always is with Janel.
But then one night, I got a text. From a phone number I didn't know.
It said "loved the sex the other night xx".
I was on the couch with Janel, watching a movie when it came in. I got creeped out, and looked around at her windows, trying to remember the last time we had sex, and if someone could see into a window somehow. We always had the blinds down, because we were ALWAYS having some sort of sex, and we got tired of stopping to put them down. So...I couldn't understand what the text meant.
I started to text back, but then thought better of it and didn't.
Janel noticed me looking around with a strange look on my face and asked what was wrong.
I showed her the text. She looked around too, wondering what the hell it meant.
But we got over it quick and got back to the movie.

The next day, at breakfast, I got another text. I had just come back from the bathroom and my phone was on the kitchen table and I noticed it. It was from that same strange number. "miss you xx" it said.
Ok......what THE hell?
I decided to block the number. It was obviously a prankster.
I didn't even bother telling Janel about it. It wasn't even worth my or her time.

That night, another one came in. From a different number. "what time tonight? xx" is what it said.
I was starting to get pissed off. How many numbers did this person have to fuck with me with?
I blocked that number too. I'd just keep blocking them all, until the person got bored with my non responses. I'd had crazy fans that got my number before. They gave up quick.

For the next week, at least twice a day I'd get these texts. Everytime I blocked one number, the person would have another number to bother me from.
They started getting weirder and weirder. Stuff like "meet me when your girlfriend goes out" and "stop ignoring me...what we have is real. doesn't it mean anything to you?" and "stop using me for sex." and "if you can get out, come over for a quickie, sexy!"
Just odd stuff that was pissing me off.
And then, a few picture texts began to come in at various times. Naked women parts. Boobs. Vagina. Fingers on vagina. Fingers IN spread open vagina. Dildo in vagina......yeah. This wasn't funny now.
Again, I didn't say anything to Janel, because I kept thinking I'd block the number and it'd go away, and it was nothing in reality, so it wasn't worth mentioning. And I saw how she was kinda creeped out by that first text I showed her. So I honestly didn't want to creep her out anymore. I wanted her life to be carefree and easy.
I should have mentioned them. Every single one. I just thought it was honestly a crazy fan, messing with me. I even wondered if Janel had snuck my phone number to that couple we befriended at the club that one night. But if she said she didn't, then I believed her totally. She never lied.

Then one day when we both went to visit Martin at the home kitchen, we walked in and Tammi was at the desk and Bonnie was walking out. Bonnie stopped to say hi and Janel was asking about her friend Marcus. Tammi got up from behind the desk and came over to me and asked if I wanted coffee or anything, and started talking to me more than usual. I gave her short polite answers like usual and kept looking over at Janel, hinting that I wanted to get back to her.
But she kept saying weird stuff. Kind of flirting with me, if I'm honest.
I caught her sneak a sideways look at Janel at one point, and I looked at Janel. Janel had just looked over at us. Next thing I knew, Tammi laughed at NOTHING. NOTHING had happened. But she laughed this weird, flirty laugh, and put her hand up to my cheek for a quick touch and said "Stop....heh he he hehe.....your girlfriend's right there!" and then she walked away.
I was frozen in my tracks. I just stood there with a strange look on my face, watching her go back to the desk. She even looked back at me with a "flick her hair over her shoulder" look once before she sat down.
I gave an even stranger look, with my nose crinkled and eyebrows scrunched, then I looked over at Janel. She was just staring at Tammi, and finally she looked back at me.
Bonnie wasn't with her anymore. She had just walked out the door after her shift, I guess.
Janel's face was.......sad.
I went right up to her and took her hand tight, and we walked towards the kitchen. When we got nice and far away, I told Janel "That was WEIRD. Did you see that?"
Janel said "Yeah....what did you say to her?"
"NOTHING! She asked me if I wanted coffee or a snack as usual, and then she started like....flirting with me. She looked over, to see if you were looking, then when you were, she said, completely out of the blue, "Stop, your girlfriend's right there", and she laughed....at NOTHING!?" I explained to Janel.
Janel just stared at me for a few seconds. Then shrugged her shoulders and said "Well, she's a bitch. I guess she's trying to make me jealous." and she continued walking to the kitchen.
I was relieved, because if Janel wasn't as understanding as she was, this could have been pretty bad.
I was still sooo confused about what Tammi did. I guess she WAS trying to make Janel jealous.
Maybe since Janel's "normal" now....she doesn't have to treat her nice anymore. But why would you purposely go to that trouble just to irritate someone who's never done anything to you, let alone anyone?
It just didn't make sense. I knew she was a bitch, but THIS much of a bitch?
I put it out of my mind and we visited Martin. Janel was supposed to start working in the kitchen here soon, and getting paid, so she could take over her bills and start supporting herself.