It was a guy i knew from university. I had given him lots of free lessons and he knew i was into him (im gay). Two years after university, he calls out of the blue and says that he always had a crush on me and invited me to his place in a secluded area. Me being the horny idiot decide to go to him.
When i arrive he takes me to a room and locks the door then gets his cousin and a gun. All i did was chuckle when i saw the gun. They proceeded to humiliate me and make me tell them about my past experiences. It was weird but i dont know why i didn’t lie and answered truthfully, something about the gun i guess. Anyway i talked about my first experience and the fact that i was molested by a family member and walked up to the last time i had sex. I did manage to lie about the identity of another university guy they knew.
They emptied my pockets which didn’t have much like 20$ worth which wasn’t a lot so they decided to blackmail me and started filming me saying all this. So here i was on a video clearly in distress answering their questions about me getting molested etc. I tried to play with my facial expression on the camera to convey “what are you talking about i wasn’t molested by X” whilst i was saying that i was etc. As if to show the camera i am being fed lines.
In any case they wanted to take my iphone so i told them how are you gonna blackmail me if you take the phone away, you dont know where i live. So i got to keep my 500$ iphone. They then took me to the atm where i withdrew money for them. I told them i dont have a lot they said just empty it. Start by taking 500$ so i press 500 then remember the memes about putting your password in reverse to call the cops. That didnt work but it did give an error sound. So he said you really dont have a lot ok try 200 at a time. So i withdrew 200 then put the wrong password the second time then a 50 at which point they told me to stop. Then another wrong pass on a 50. They later got me in a bus and payed for my fee.
The next 2 days they kept calling asking for money, to be fair had they not dont that so quickly as i told them i just graduated with no job and have no means of getting that kind of money so quickly, i wouldnt have done what i did next.
I had to out myself to my mom, so she answered the phone and demanded to see the video and said she will call a lawyer. I think they got scared the video would be proof of their blackmail so they stopped calling and didnt send the video.
My mom did not take this well (and this was 10 days before Christmas and 2 days after my emotionally abusive mom told me she was proud of me as i had gotten my masters degree). She cried and locks herself for 3 days in her room, i then downgrade from me being gay to bi and shes was like you are lying so i tell her to ease drop on a phone call and i call me female ex who was basically my beard and we flirt and talk about the times i got her flower and secretly saw her when she snuck behind her parents. Anyway that was enough to get my mom out of it but our relationship was different.
After my masters i knew i didnt want to pursue a phd but this incident pushed me out of the country as my blackmailer belong to a group of rednecks that control the buses and i could see him by chance and the rednecks would help him out against me without hesitation.
So i was scared of taking the buses, i took a private taxi everywhere which was expensive. My friend got married in that redneck area and i wouldnt visit. This deeply affected my interactions, i wouldnt even go to my old university. I was paranoid whenever one of my friends talked to me, do they know, have they seen the video. I did have a lot of friends in common with him. Well, had as i never answered anyones calls from that area. I was scared and wanted to leave, whenever the door knocks or phone rings id be terrified and mom would be like hide or dont answer it, i will.
So i apply for a phd to get out of the country and get accepted and leave to canada. I returned home after 2.5 years for a Christmas vacation and still refuse to take the bus and have all the same fears. My mom seemed to have forgotten. My friend had a baby in the redneck area and still i wouldnt visit so her husband came and drove me there, i pretend to be tiered and sleep in the back of his car so no one sees me. And was very scared.
She mom asks me if i am coming back after the phd as she was getting old and its my turn to take care of her (she didnt say that but im the caring son and she raised us by herself since i was 5). So i tell her i am never coming back as the country is shit. Though its true, i still love my country i just cannot live in constant fear. Whenever i hear this redneck area was attacked (war), i wish i hear the news of this guys death. I never thought id wish a man dead, not for revenge but to go back home.
TLDR, Gay, kidnaped, blackmailed, outed myself to my mom, live in fear, traveled for a phd i didnt want to escape, can never go back home to my dwindling single mom and cannot tell her why. I wasn’t that scared of the gun, the trauma and emotional damage came later..