You stay at home

Fortunately, your brain still works well. You start taking long deep breaths and slowly you calm down. You were losing control because of a poor jerk on a dating app! Come on, you have to be reasonable!

You take a nice cold shower and go to sleep.

***

In the morning you wake up really well: you had a deep, dreamless sleep. Remembering yesterday's surge of anger makes you smile.

You do your things as usual, the day goes on quietly. At the evening, you finally have a break and decide to check the app: who knows, maybe someone wrote to you. Or you could answer the two guys you ignored yesterday, STRAIGHT4U and CAZZOPLUS.

You open the app and immediately a new message notification appears: it is still THERULER. You are about to delete the message without looking at it, but then a moment of curiosity pushes you to read it. And you stay ice.

The message begins with “Hi, Pietro Cesari, how are you? Yesterday I waited 10 minutes for you at the meeting place and you didn't come: I know you are a faggot, but I didn't think you were also a scaredy-cat. See you tonight at 11 pm, the same place as yesterday.” And then there are your home address, your work address, your mother's name and address.

Anguish takes hold of you, you would like to cry, but you can't. You would like to shout, but you can't. Your head spins like a top, shaken by billions of thoughts together.

If you want to be on time for the appointment with THERULER you have to hurry. But going there would be madness: isn't it better to ask the police for help?