Just a couple things

[jaeliyah]

1. I think a lot of people meet me and think that I'm interesting and then lose interest when they find out that, really, I'm just weird and quite boring.

2.

Comments

[cloverest]

I'm really sorry you had to go through that and have no one believe you, or advocate on your behalf and support you if they did, first of all. There's no easy way to start a conversation with his relatives about what he did to you and pass along a warning about his daughter, even if you were close to the family to begin with. I'm not sure that it could be brought up to his close relatives and loved ones without you burning some bridges, but if you're not close to them, if you think it could help the girl, and if you feel like it's something you are compelled to do, I would say go for it

[nikloo]

1. I think you're interesting! You are the Countess of Win, after all

[jaeliyah]

1. Thank you. :)

2. I know they're not going to like it, but I don't know how out of left field it comes. By the time it happened to me, he was married and a father, but after I told my mom what happened, she remembered his girlfriend ten years before having a little sister who said he'd touched her inappropriately, but my family just chalked it up to a cry for attention on her part and never talked about it and to my knowledge never did anything about it. Even my dad, who got pissed at me and blamed me, never doubted me. So it's kind of a matter of convincing them to act on something they don't want to believe. Because even if he doesn't do anything to his daughter, she presumably has friends. And it's hard to be inconspicuous because they're three hours away. I mean, when I was 15, he was a truck driver and he'd come through town and stay a couple nights at our house, like, every other week. I don't know how I'd be able to just pop over without attracting attention. Just...stuff.

[horatio09]

Why aren't we friends yet? Okay, fixed on my end...**waits expectantly**

Sanna's already summarized my suggestion, so no need to go into much more. I think that an off-the-wall, odd solution to this might be to take this as incentive to get close (well, closer) to your family. As Sanna said, find out what's going on. See if the guy is still the jerk you remember. Let the family get to know you, so they know you're not a freak and should be taken seriously if you do need to say something. And even if nothing ever comes of this situation (and please, God, may that be so!), you'll have gained something from it in the form of closer relationships which people who just might be pretty cool (they are, after all, related to you, which has a certain amount of inherent awesome

[jaeliyah]

I don't send friend requests. I'm always convinced people will say no because if they wanted to be my friend, they'd send me a friend request. But we're friends now!

I'm kind of afraid of my family. I don't know that they really like me. That side of my family has always considered me stuck up. And even though they're my closest extended family geographically, they still live three hours away, so it's hard for me to try to inconspicuously keep an eye on my cousin, and I know I couldn't do it regularly. And I feel like time is an issue.

I think most things by virtue of being uncommon are not boring, but I think it is possible to be weird and uninteresting. Like in my crafting, I'm having a long-running problem with adhesives that all do something wrong differently, which strikes me as both weird and boring.

Also, Runaways = awesome!

[horatio09]

That's why I think you should go ahead and take this opportunity to get to know them. All of them. Just to get to know them. Yes, the reason you're doing this is to get close to your cousin to make sure she's alright, but the goal is just to get closer to your family. However that happens. Who knows? This might lead to keeping your cousin safe and a bunch of other good stuff besides. **shrugs**