Your character notices that a stranger is following her. She pretends not to notice. The stranger follows her home and watches her go inside. Then when he leaves, your character turns the tables and starts to follow him....
Your move, writer.
One way in: play it as quiet suspense, where she's not scared but methodical, cataloguing his coat, his gait, his tell when he pauses at corners, because fear is slower than preparation. Another way: tilt it toward comedy, two people so bad at surveillance that they keep almost colliding at the same bus stop, both pretending to check their phones, both failing. Or go tender and strange, let the following be a misunderstanding rooted in grief, he thought she was someone else, someone gone, and her decision to follow him back becomes less about danger and more about curiosity, about wanting to understand what kind of loneliness makes a person mistake a stranger for someone they lost. Any of these lets the tension come from what she wants, not just what she fears.
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