In My Desperate Time

Tonight no one books the whole pub, so there are many people. Frances sits alone in the same private room, having a drink.
From 9 p.m. when he came till 2 a.m. when I get off work, he sit there still. If he doesn’t look at me some times, I can hardly feel
his existence. As he doesn’t come over, I feel both relieved but somehow lost. After putting on the casual clothes, I plan to leave
from the rare door. After stepping out, I run into Frances Louis.
I am surprised how he appears here in such a short time. Only pub employees have access to the rare door, so he should have
left from the pub’s front door and then arrived here waiting for me. As it’s a long distance. I wonder whether he can teleport.
I push him impatiently and walk forward. “What are you doing here?”
“Of course I am waiting for you.” The man follows me unhurriedly. The path to my residence is not far, only about 1km. Usually I
would go back alone.
After following me for a while, he says like a meddlesome elder person, “It’s very dangerous for a girl like you to walk home
alone in the midnight.”
Previously his inadvertent word would get me nervous, but now his care makes me sick. “It’s none of your business. Besides, are
there more dangerous people than you?” I sneer at him.
In my life, the most dangerous people should be him. As I am not afraid of him, how can I fear other people?
Frances stops talking and continues to follow me until I stop outside my residence. I don’t want to conceal my address, but it
doesn’t mean I want him to accompany me upstairs.
“If you don’t leave now, I will call the police.” I turn backward and say loudly. My private part still hurts. If I allow him to enter my
residence, I don’t know what to do if he forces me to have sex.
“Do as you wish.” Frances raises his eyebrows and chuckles. He seems not to believe I would call the police. Why is he so
confident?
I roll my eyes, taking out my phone from the bag to call 110 immediately. “Hello, there is a hooligan following me along my way
home. I am so scared. Could you please send some people to arrest him? My address is...”
I make the call before Frances. With mouth twitching, he looks angry.

So what, I don’t care. Then I say like a winner, “The police would come if you don’t leave asap.”
When we are talking, I find someone is shining the flashlight toward us. Soon, two policemen come over.
“Why so quickly?” I look at the policemen in surprise, because I made the call just 2 minutes ago. It’s true that when talking of the
devil, he will appear.
“We just go on patrol nearby because another woman reports being followed. Is this man whom you call a hooligan? He seems
not.” Policeman is a little surprised after looking over Frances Louis.
“As there is an old saying, you can know one’s face but not his mind.”