The humiliation pushed Dylan into increasingly desperate behavior. He attempted to break into my apartment using a bobby pin until he realized that I had already changed the locks. His mother visited the next morning to lecture me about loyalty and real women, yet when I showed her screenshots of Dylan’s insults she shrugged and claimed that I was boring anyway.
Eventually Dylan attempted unemployment fraud by claiming that he had worked as my personal assistant and social media manager for a business that did not exist. Amber even called pretending to verify the employment. I recorded the conversation and reported the situation to the real unemployment office.
The investigation resulted in fines and repayment demands totaling two thousand dollars, which Dylan blamed entirely on me. Unable to accept responsibility he created a social media account dedicated to discussing supposed narcissistic abuse, yet one video accidentally revealed a phone notification labeled “rent money maybe,” and the internet turned the phrase into a running joke that spread quickly through the city.