Hi everyone,

Before I explain my situation, I would really appreciate it if you could abstainin yourself from being mean to me in the comments. I know I was stupid and naive and I should've known better. You telling me that will only make me feel even worse and I don't need that right now.

In August I exchanged numbers with a guy who was selling drugs in a club after having a chill conversation. I didn't even buy anything from him, but he just started taking to me while I was chilling outside and he was nice so I just chat to him like I would've with anyone else in a club.It wasn't flirty at all and the point of exchanging numbers was so that I could buy from him in the future. The next day he texted me how I was doing and I just replied friendly but very dry. Then I get a call from him the next day at like 4 am. I was sleeping at the time and texted him saying it was not cool that he would call me at 4 am and that why was he doing that. Basically he then proceeded to say he wanted to hook up with me and after I rejected him he started calling me names etc. I know I was probably naive in giving him my number, but at no point our conversation was flirty. I just treated him decently like I would've literally any other human being.

A couple of weeks later he called me from multiple different numbers. I blocked of them. I thought that would be the end of it but today (7 months later), I got a call again from an unknown number and I picked up not thinking much of it and it was him again. As soon as I realized I hanged up and blocked him. I have no idea why he is calling me as I didn't let him say any words before hanging up. To be honest I feel very scared and vulnerable.

I want to get some advice from anyone who has been through something simila. I decided I will change my number but is there anything else I can do to protect myself? He only knows my frist name, my current phone number and he might have a picture of me if he took a screenshot of my WhatsApp one at some point. All of my social media is private.

Any advice is welcomed and I would appreciate it if you didn't blame this situation on me as I'm already feeling awful about it.

Edit: thank you everyone for the advice and the kind reassuring comments. It definitely makes me feel a bit safer and better❤️