Kate Hackett
A proposal should be a sweet, thoughtful gesture, not… holy moly, whatever this was. Poor u/Cautious-Rabbit- recently posted to Reddit’s True Off My Chest sub and told a truly HORRIFIC story about how her boyfriend kidnapped her to propose.
OP explains that a week ago her guy left for a camping trip. OP went for her Friday morning run…
I am trembling and just created this alt account because my main has a lot of details about me that would make it easy to trace back.
A week ago my bf told me he had a camping trip planned with his friends on Friday(today). He said he would have no service and he’ll see me on Sunday. He messaged me at 5am this morning and told me they are hitting the road. Around 8 I went for a run like I usually do on Fridays. I have one headphone in while I do because I was on a work call.
And realized she was being followed by an SUV that she, at the time, did not recognize. She alerted her sister (SO SMART)
While I was running, I noticed a SUV that kept popping up. In hindsight, it looked just my like bf’s childhood friend’s car. I sent a message to my sister saying to standby & shared my location.
Someone jumped out of the SUV and grabbed OP; she dropped her phone and was pulled into the car where masked guys covered OP’s eyes.
Right after sending the message I looked up and the SUV was right beside me and someone jumped out and grabbed me. It happened so fast I even dropped my phone on the pavement. I was pulled into this car and I could tell there was at least 2 masked guys in the back before they covered my eyes. In hindsight they had cartoonish ski masks and black gloves on.
OP fought like crazy, screamed and cried, and even peed on herself out of pure fear. These dudes KEPT THIS UP. Eventually OP was brought to a house.
I freaked out and resisted like crazy, screaming and kicking. All I could hear was these guys laughing and I could feel one of them holding me down by my arms behind me and the other was holding my legs down at the knees. I don’t know how long I was in there but I keep begging them to let me go and crying. I even admit I peed on myself, but I don’t think they noticed until we arrived at the house. They pulled me out of the car and I was screaming for help until I was pulled into a house.
And when the hood was removed from OP’s head, she saw her boyfriend; he seemed furious with his friends.
When the mask on my head was removed, I was on my knees in front of my bf of 2 years. He was staring at me with a confused look before he started to angrily ask his friends what was going on.
The house was romantically decorated, OP’s boyfriend was dressed to the nines… and OP started to put the pieces together.
As I started to adjust to what was going on I realized he was dressed nice and there was romantic decorations around the entry way to his house. I realized who he was and what was going on and collapsed into sobs. I probably had a 5 minute panic attack in that car on my way there and another one sitting in the entryway to his house. I was sweaty, wearing soiled yoga pants, flushed with fear, scared for my life.
Her boyfriend wanted to help OP shower and change, but she wanted to be alone. OP managed to get her phone (not sure when or how that happened) and ask for her sister to come.
That was all about an hour or 2 ago. My bf took me upstairs and was going to help me get showered and changed but I wanted to do that alone. I heard yelling and commotion downstairs while I showered, but I don’t know what is going on. I’m sitting in his room now holding my shattered phone after crying to my sister about what happened. She lives 1.5 hours away but is speeding over to get me now.
OP was scared out of her mind – and her boyfriend’s friends sexually assaulted her on the way to the house.
I can’t stop thinking about what happened and even though I know now I was never in any danger, I don’t think my brain can comprehend it. They were snickering and teasing me in deepened voices about what they were going to do to me. The one that was holding my legs down kept caressing my thighs up and down into the inner area. When the car would brake his face kept falling into my chest. I don’t even know who that was. I just know one of them sounded unsure and kept trying to diffuse the situation, but I think it was the driver.
In an edit, OP shared that her sister wants to take her to the police station; OP needed to sign off Reddit to deal with everything.
Edit: My sister arrived. She wants to take me to the police station, now. I haven’t spoken to my bf yet, but I think there’s more to this story than he knew about. I’ll have to log off for a while. Thank you for the support in the comments.
At the police station, OP was told she could press charges for false imprisonment. Apparently the oldest friend, like the boyfriend, did not know what went wrong either.
Edit 2: I’m working with police now. This is going to be investigated as a false imprisonment if I press charges. My sense of time was so warped. From where I was picked up to his house was about 7 or 10 minutes in the car. It felt like way longer than that. As for the friends, the driver was his childhood best friend who I actually get along with well. He was in tears when he voluntarily arrived at the police station for a statement. The other two were friends from his athletics class that he started attending a few months ago. It seems like the two guys I didn’t know wanted in on what otherwise was supposed to be something more innocent.
The original plan was to pop out and give OP a note that explained she was being brought to her boyfriend. But the new friends wanted to scare OP… and the plan changed.
The original plan was for them to pop out of this car in their funny kidnapping attire and hand me a letter that explained I was being summoned by bf and resistance is futile. Seems like the plan changed as the 2 new friends wanted to shake me up a bit more and make it feel more real.
After taking some time to talk with her sister, OP decided to meet with her boyfriend. It seems like he didn’t know that this happened either – and OP said he’s been very respectful since everything happened.
Edit 3: I’ve had time to calm down and long talks with my sister. We are going to meet up with my (ex?) bf for dinner tonight. He has been respectful of my requests for space but has been emotional whenever he thinks about what I went through this morning. His best friend contacted me repeatedly apologizing for allowing it to get that far, but I asked for him to stop and he did. The best friend’s fiancé reached out and has been supportive and apologetic, too. I’m astounded at the support I’ve received here and wish I could thank each of you individually. I’ve never had anyone other than my sister and bf care for my mental well-being like this. Reddit is a very kind place sometimes 🙂
