Miranda

All of my peers were partying and hanging out and I chose to stay in our hotel room by myself.

And I think that that was just an indication of

into how ready I was to move on and particularly to not have to have him be in my life anymore.

And he knew that, but despite that, was still trying to text me a lot.

It really, at that time, grossed me out in a lot of ways because it was so obvious that I didn't want to speak to him in that way.

And he was still actively trying to press my boundaries.

He was the head of the department, so he would show up in outside rehearsals or to my scene design class, which he had no business being in, just to like pop in and see what's going on.

It's a signal that he's still around.

I remember feeling just very exasperated by having to navigate through all of this.

By my last semester in school, the veil had been completely lifted and I had no interest in seeing him at all once I had graduated.

I graduated in the spring and then that summer he would text me quite often and I would ignore him because at that point I genuinely needed nothing from him.

So I

chose to not engage at all.

That summer I auditioned for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and I got cast in a lead in The Tempest.

Somehow he found out because he was pretty active on social media so he could see stuff that I was posting and I was running like promotions on this show and stuff.

He might have texted me and been like, I'm going to come see you, but he never really told me when exactly he was coming, so I couldn't mentally prepare myself.

And he just showed up.

Of course, it's like a public event, so he can come, but it was quite jarring to see him.

He talked to me a little bit afterwards.

That would have been the last time that I ever saw him at all.