lowkenuinely getting groomed

ive been in a weird situation with a teacher (lets call him mr. b, 46M) and i'm in between feeling bad for him but also angry at him. he's a math teacher, but he doesn't teach me. i've liked him since sept of last year and he knew that, but he never did anything and acted as if he didn't know (i found out from his friend that he in fact knew) - he even pretended like he didn't know me. when winter break came, he suddenly began texting me on instagram. ever since that day we've been texting each other like every single day. but late jan i started realizing it was weird when he would avoid looking at me, act like he didn't see me, and technically just act like he hasn't been texting me a month straight. he would always say shit like "how was your day" "have you arrived home yet" "sleep well". time skip - i eventually told the counsellor about this, and he ended up getting confronted by the principal which was something i didn't expect to happen. i felt so bad because he was at risk of losing his job, so i talked to him in school. he said that he'll now be following the school guidelines "strictly", then proceeded to say "...you can remind me after you graduate" which made it obvious he was still intending on continuing this shit. i thought it'd be over, but he decided that it was a GREAT idea to create a new account and stalk my instagram (knew it was him because it was his fucking name spelled backwards with an ai pfp of him). i would walk around school scared. i didn't want to see this man. i ranted to a teacher who somehow knew about this weird situation. i trusted him, but he ended up telling mr. b that i was planning to "get him fired" - which is inherently incorrect because i only wanted him to stop. the teacher who told mr. b also said that my friends are not to be trusted because they put sick ideas into my head and make mr. b look like a bad guy. MIND U i have tons of screenshots of things mr. b shouldn't even be saying. i blocked him on instagram, but i would still feel uneasy in school. it has been getting better now but i genuinely feel like shit. i don't know how other students knew, or how other teachers even found out, but they'd avoid him (only the students and teachers who know). it's bittersweet to me. yesterday, it rained so heavily and i saw him, fully drenched, walking out the school gate with his head down. it's obvious he isn't taking this well either and his mental health is worsening. to add more context, i think he's been mentally unwell since the very beginning. he would always talk about how "things would get better". as someone who's suicidal i feel empathy for him. i cannot live with the fact that i'm the reason why he's getting frowned upon and laughed at. i also can't help but get mad at THAT teacher for telling mr. b that it's my friends' fault, because now mr. b looks at them like he wants to murder them.

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