Today, when I opened the Pistoia newspaper, I was surprised by an article about today's chronicle.
It seemed so unreal that I decided to write almost a story, the episode is fictional but the facts are unfortunately real.
Pistoia 2018
She had believed it, really. She had even waited for him when his children called her attention: "Mother, mother's homework", shouted at her, but her mother was worried, she could not help them with their volcanoes and their stars, she already had a universe to deal with, one of the dark ones where there was no place to get lost watching the sky
Her sky was dark for months, cloudy, then he had arrived and had lightened it for a moment. It had been months since she had been living on tranquilizers and fear, those messages, those nocturnal phone calls, those pedestrian with the face always covered. She feared for her life every day and did not know how to do it. In the morning she opened the computer and was bombarded by this sick and perverse man, a man who wrote to her every day and begged her to send him photos or nods or anything to have her and she did not want it.
She was just a woman scared of so many unwanted attentions, but the solution was close at hand, He had come to save her. She remembered little and nothing that matter about him , they were friends during high school, he was taciturn, mysterious and maybe that's why the mystery had become his job.
Now he, a well-dressed adult, was a secret anti-stalker agent and as soon as she told him she had a stalker on her side, he rushed to her rescue. He had asked her any information about her stalking case, begging her not to divulge anything around, or how could he find out who was hiding behind the man who was persecuting her?
He had to be discreet he would tell her, silent. He protected her from the stalker and one day he would have caught him and arrested him, he would have smashed that scoundrel who was haunting her! To guarantee her safety, he had even accompanied her to the psychotherapist, whom she had to resort after the constant stalking of the stalker. He had held her hand when he thought she was going crazy with fear. She was married, she knew it well, they both knew it, and yet, with her prompetitive manner, as expected by a serious agent dedicated to her work, he had conquered her and something had escaped between them , a fast kiss, a caress, maybe something more. He told her not to tell her husband he was helping her against the stalker and she trusted, He would solve everything, so he said. And he also love her, so her relationship must be a secret until he stop the stalker and she leave her marriage.
But the stalker continued to persecute her and she was now exasperated, her husband could not know it so she can not ask for help , is true, is a mess, but the investigation of his agent lover proceeded slowly, she had been waiting for him but he was late, did not give her concrete results and she she was tired of persecution. She decided that help from the police would not have tasted the investigation. So she call the police and she find an awful truth.
And when she turned to the big police station, it was a surprise to discover that he was not one of them, he was not an investigator. He was just a liar, he was two people the agent and the stalker. Executioner and savior.
He lied to her, he stalked her and pretend to save her from the "stalker" at the same time.
Reading the news page I found such a story so surreal as to deserve a post and I even thought that for those who have ambitions as a thriller writer would be a good basis for a novel.
In short, I have no words, when reality overcomes imagination.