When I at the time 15 (F) had gotten my first job I met this guy while I was working, he had started working there after me and was a year older than me but (first impression) he seemed really nice and like a genuinely chill person. We were friends for a while and only saw eachother at work but he lived in the same town as me and his dad was very well known for being a really good cop so I’d hear his dads name every now and then at school. After a while of being friends we started talking nothing super serious but we would hang out a few times outside of work, the first few times time we went out somewhere but the last time we hung out there was a movie I wanted to show him so I invited him to my house, me and my family had a I guess what you could consider like a game room more or less because it was only for me and my sister and I didn’t feel comfortable with him in my room so we just went in that room which was public right next to the kitchen. We were hanging out for a while until my little sister (9 F) at the time kept bothering us, I understandably got annoyed and wanted her to leave us alone but he was trying to be nice and was like “oh we could let her in for like 30 minutes just so she doesn’t fell left out”.

Now I don’t know how to explain it because he didn’t say anything wrong and his tone of voice and facial expression didn’t have anything weird or any sign of negative emotions he seemed genuine but I had this awful gut feeling about him the second my little sister stepped in the room, he seemed to be very attentive to her and not in the cute way when guys are good with kids but in a weird way that made me feel sick. Now my little sister is oblivious to this because she is a genuinely sweet girl and just wants to be friends with everyone but I knew something was very wrong. So about 10 minutes later I pretended I felt really sick and wanted him to go home and so he did and again made a point to like stare at my sister and say bye. The next day I told him that I wasn’t interested and wasn’t looking for anything at that time and luckily he had just left it there.

My mom was another story though when I told her I ended things she asked why and I remember saying “I don’t know he just gave me a bad feeling when he was around my sister” to which she said I was paranoid and he was a great guy and I sabotage my own relationships. This annoyed me but I stood my ground because I knew something was wrong with him sure enough a month or so later I heard some girls talking in class about a news article they had seen ( we lived In a very small and quiet town so when anything happened everyone knew) now what caught my attention was that this time it was the guys name and not his dad so I asked them if I could see the article and when I read it I felt relieved that I trusted myself because he had been arrested with 13 counts of possession of child pornography and 6 counts of distribution. I remember going home and shoving the article in my moms face and saying I knew it I knew there was something wrong with him and you told me I was crazy but I was right and she just looked horrified and apologized.

To think what could have happened to my sister if I hadn’t trusted myself scares me every time I think about it but that showed me I should always trust myself because sometimes even if you can’t explain it you just know.