A teenager yesterday explained how she ran off a bus in fear that a man who made sexual remarks to her would follow her home.The young girl said the man told her she was beautiful and asked the colour of her underpants, as she sat in the back of a bus alone.Neither the girl nor the man can be named for legal reasons.The man has denied charges that he intruded on a female on March 1, 2012.His alleged victim said she first spotted the man talking with another young girl on the bus.“I could tell that she was uncomfortable when she put her earphones in her ears,” she said.The man then turned his attention to her.“He sat about three or four rows in front of me and he kept telling me how pretty, and how beautiful I was before he asked me my age. He said he could have mistaken me for 31.”She told the court that she could tell the “conversation would become inappropriate” when the man started staring at parts of her upper and lower body.“I put my bag up to my chest and turned my legs to the side,” she said. “He asked me if I would think he was rude if he asked me what colour underpants I had on, and I said ‘yes’.“Then he asked me if I thought he was weird and I didn’t answer him and it was pretty much silent until I reached my bus stop outside [my house].”She said the man asked if he could come home with her and whether or not this was her stop.“While I was getting off the bus I saw him get up to follow me off the bus so I ran down the hill and into my house.”The door to the house was open as her mother’s boyfriend was home, she said.“I was upset and in tears and when I told my mom’s boyfriend what happened, he grabbed a golf club and went outside to look for the man who was on the bus.“I don’t know if he got off the bus, but it looked like he did. I just ran because I thought he was following me and I was afraid.”Asked by Crown counsel Takiyah Burgess what happened next, the girl replied: “My mom drove up and saw me crying and upset so she asked what happened.”The teenager said she’d never seen the man before but had seen him three times since that day.She told Ms Burgess that she spotted him at the bus terminal in Hamilton on May 14, and pointed him out to her mother.She begged her mother not to confront the man, but she did.The girl’s mother told Magistrates’ Court that the man denied knowing her daughter.“I told him my daughter is not going to lie to me and that I don’t believe him,” she said. “I told him that my child is a minor and to leave her alone, respectfully. Then we got in the car and drove off.”The trial continues on March 13 before Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.