I moved into a pretty cool neighborhood a couple of years ago. It's funny, but of all the places I've lived, big and small, this West LA neighborhood has been, by far, the friendliest.
The day of my pre purchase home inspection, most of the neighbors came by and introduced themselves and welcomed me warmly. A welcome party was organized by nieghbor A our first weekend after moving in. It's a great place and I feel fortunate to have found my way here.
Unfortunately, things have changed somewhat.
A little background - In January, neighbor A decided she hated her job and wanted to join neighbor B's online business as a partner. She invited a few of us to lunch to discuss her ideas for B's business. She planned to revolutionize his organization. Everyone attending the lunch told her her enthusiasm was terrific, but advised her to work with B for a while to get a feel for what changes would be best. B had been running the business for years and might resent sweeping change on the first day. We also asked if she had looked over his finances to ensure the business warranted expensive changes (new computers, networking, phones, printers, etc.).
About six weeks later, she called me. At first, I couldn't understand what she was saying as she was nearly hysterical. Eventually she was able calm down enough to ask me to keep and eye on her place as neighbor B was a "crazy psychotic" and was going to break into her house in the next few minutes. What she didn't tell me is that she had just finished breaking into B's house and business. The business didn't make enough money the first month to pay back her investment and she was furious. She stole back all of the equipment she bought and a bunch of products B had sold and packaged for shipping. She also got B's online banking information and cleaned out his accounts telling others she was intent on ruining him.
I saw B and asked him if I needed to worry about him breaking in to A's place. He said no and told me the story of his break in (the missing stuff is prominently displayed in A's garage, no question that she broke in). I asked if he was going to press charges and he said "no, she's got bigger problems than that to deal with." He was quite puzzled as he told her he would be happy to give her back the stuff she bought or make a payment schedule to buy it from her. She rejected that and opted for the break in.
I did my best to stay out of it and maintain relationships with both A & B for a while. A has since started lying to, and trying to manipulate me, in addition to other odd behavior. For example, one day she decided she wanted more light in her dining room so she came into my yard with a chainsaw and sawed the top off a section of my vines. I was so shocked when I got home! During this time she also started greeting visitors arriving at B's house in his driveway ranting about him being psychotic, they might be murdered while at his house and that he killed her dog (he didn't, natural causes). I've distanced myself from her as have most of the other neighbors.
The police have been by twice in the last three days to check on her (A). She's now suicidal.
Of course I don't want her to harm herself but am having trouble with becoming involved in her life again. In the best of times, it wasn't a healthy relationship for me. She's started getting very drunk then getting behind the wheel now too. I'm pissed about that.
Any suggestions on a course of action? BTW, this is my first diary.