Entitled Parents

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EM wants me to date her 10-year-old son. She then claims I'm lying about my age, her son would treat me better than my boyfriend, and that I'm selfish for "breaking his little heart"

So here's some background context:

I'm a 17 year old female, turning 18 later this year. At the time of writing this, I am in a relationship with my boyfriend for about 5 months now. I normally get a ride home from school since I don't have my own car yet, however there were times when I ended up having to take the public bus. To be honest, taking a public bus is not as bad as some people think...most of the time.

On with the story: This happened several weeks ago, around the beginning of February. I was walking to the bus stop after school had just let out, when I got there, there was a young boy who's around 10, and his mother. (Take a guess who these people are) I notice the boy often staring at me as we were the only ones there, aside from an elderly man minding his own business. At first I think nothing of it as I often stared at people for no reason around that age, as weird and creepy as that sounds.

The bus arrives and I sit near the back. I'm not sure if this bus design is everywhere but where I'm from, the back section is on a bit of an upper level with about 2 or 3 steps to get up. The elderly man sits in the priority seating at the front, and the mother and son sit right across from him.

I plug in my music, since it's about a 15-20 minute ride until my stop. About 2 songs later (I wasn't sure of actual time passed but I was on the third song on my playlist), I see the boy say something to his mother. Once again thinking nothing of it since that's a normal thing, right? Not exactly. The mother then got up and walked towards the back of the bus.

For the sake of naming characters, we will now be addressing the mother as Karen, the boy as George.

Karen walks up to the back of the bus towards where I'm sitting and takes a seat right behind me. This is where the red flags started. I then felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around to see Karen smiling at me. Not in a genuine way, in a creepy stalker-ish way.

Karen: "Hi there, I've been sitting there and observing you. I was wondering what you thought about my son over there." She pointed towards her son and waved at him. George looked but then looked away as if he was embarrassed.

Now I don't know about you but the use of the words "observing you," creeped me out and more red flags were going off.

Me: "Oh, he seems like a nice boy. He seems around my sister's age so maybe they can be friends or something."

Karen: "Oh come on, don't you think he's cute?"

Me: "I mean, cute as in like baby duckling cute, sure."

Karen: "Perfect, so you can be his girlfriend then. He was just telling me how pretty he thought you were and that he'd love to take you out sometime."

Of course like anyone else would be, I was real surprised. I've never been told that I was suddenly in a relationship with someone I just met.

Me: "oh no sorry, I'm not going to be his girlfriend. I'm already in a relationship with someone else, and we've been together for a while."

Karen: "WOW."

Me: "Pardon?"

Karen: "You just got in a relationship in my son and you're already breaking his heart. How selfish."

Me: "I'm not in a relationship ship with your son though. I never agreed to that, as I'm already in a relationship with someone else and I'm not interested in a 10 year old. Nonetheless, even if I was remotely interested, which I'm not, I'll be 18 by the end of the year and that's kind of illegal."