Andrea Bowman said the incident occurred about 20 years ago when the pair were teenagers.
Sica, 40, is facing a committal hearing in the Brisbane Magistrates Court, charged with the murders of his girlfriend Neelma Singh, 24, and her siblings Kunal, 18, and Sidhi, 12.
As teenagers, Bowman said she and Sica would go driving to places including Mt Coot-tha where they'd sit in their cars and talk for hours.
"We were good friends. I felt like a sister to him," she said.
But she said Sica had more romantic feelings towards her, and bought her an expensive toy bear. She told him they had no future as a couple, and claimed his mother later said the rejection had a bigger effect on him than she thought.
Bowman also recalled that Sica followed her home with his car lights off when they were teens. "He frightened me," she said. "I don't know what it was about. It was odd."
She said Sica got out of his car and she screamed at him not to come near her.
"Someone opened their door, some lights came on and he got back in his car."
Bowman said she later spoke to Sica about it, and he said he was just following her to see what she was up to after work.
Under cross-examination by defence counsel Sam Di Carlo, Bowman spoke of the two sides of Sica that she called Massimo and Max. "When we were young, he'd get glassy-eyed, and I thought 'there's something not right'," she said.
Bowman described Max as funny and bright with a softer nature. "He's someone you can be very fond of. That's the side that tends to get down and reflective." The other side seemed to "have more presence". "He can be more threatening. It's just completely contrasting behaviour to the softer, placid side."
The hearing continues.
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Ms Bowman although thinking all this still continued seeing Max, went for drives with him and then was the one to make initial contact with Max many years later when she found out about the Singh murders. She says Max had more romantic feelings towards her and that she just wanted a friendship etc etc, she said he would get glassy eyed and that she thought "there`s something not right"............
Ms Bowman even though feeling what she did about him (when they were teenagers), still made contact with him more than ten years later of her own accord.
Seems strange to me that you would want to see someone so many years later if you truly believe what Ms Bowman has said.
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