CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Have you ever felt like you are finally doing something right with your life and you needed to celebrate it in an extrememly grand style? That was how Adonia felt after today's red table discussion. She might have discovered how much this particular human didn't give two fucks about her but she knew she was free from him forever, free to start being her own person.
After the red table discussion, Adonia felt like she was on the right path for healing. Now she was going to give herself the pampering she deserved, she would allow herself heal at her own pace. There was phong to rush about the whole process. Quincy had messed her up big time. Before, she used to feel unsure but now she had the clarity she needed to move forward and she was ready to. She would move forward and she would never look back at him again.
She played around with her phone and out of curiosity, checked her social media. She shouldn't because she had been avoiding that toxic place but indeed, curiosity used to kill a cat. She found herself logging out of her main one and logging into her stalker page as usual. She took a deep breath before going to the explore page, she knew her picture would be littered all over the place. It had happened before but that time, they were filled with unkind words from Quincy Loyalists.
The first one she opened shocked her, instead of the usual spiteful message of how she wasn't beautiful or how her daddy's name was paving way for her or something degrading, she was seeing nice comments. People were actually on her side now and she swallowed her tears. It felt so surreal but it was truly happening.
A lot of people were now on her side. She had tons of new followers and comments crowding her Instagram, most of them apologising for their actions and the others complimenting her photos, some others saying they couldn't wait to see the new movie she was acting.
By now, Heartstrings was trending.
She smiled and exited the app.
That was the power of social media. It could make and destroy. A double-edged sword.
Quincy who used to be on the positive side of the spectrum was losing fans and receiving a lot of backlash for his behavior.
The same 'rude behavior' his fans called cute were now seen as childish and impolite. In the interview, everyone could see the shit he was made of and those who supported him felt ashamed. Like they should, they enabled a bully and made him a small god. She was sure he would not be greeting too many roles like in the past because one funny thing about Hollywood was when the crowd cancelled you, the whole industry did.
Not only was their fav a bully, he had no regard for women feelings and he treated their trust for him as a game and lied to them for sympathy. It was a disgusting behavior.
Adonia didn't have to check his social media to know Quincy was being served what he dished to her. She only hoped he had people around him who would hold his hands gently and help him get out of the mess he blindly created for himself. Karma was really a bad bitch who took her time to deal with humans.
A breath escaped her lips and for the first time she let out a real sigh of relief. The dog days were truly over. She could actually tweet with her original account and she wouldn't get dragged for petty things. She sent a quick message to Bella Diez, asking her if she could post a picture and Bella agreed almost immediately. She smiled because her former agency took days to approve a post and the used to police the caption and make sure she doesn't reply comments.
she selected a few pictures she took before the red carpet, Maxine had taken them and she made sure to make them as beautiful as the model herself. She typed a caption and she made sure to tag Maxine. She knew her friend didn't like the public attention but it was a little sacrifice she was doing for all the days the girl had her back. She wanted her best friend to have a strong social media stand and maybe consider her dream of being an influencer like they talked about in college.
'If life gave you lemons, make lemonades and make sure you're happy while at it. @babygirlmax took beautiful pictures of me earlier this week and I felt like they were too beautiful not to make it to the gram." She smiled at what she was comfortable with the caption before hitting the send button. She wanted to turn off the comment section but she decided against it, she didn't care about their opinions anymore, they can go to hell for all she cared.
Maybe some already turned on post notifications but the amounts of likes and comments she got within the time she posted were massive, she had no idea she was capable of pulling such traffic on her own page. She knew Maxine would soon call her when she finds out she tagged her in her post. She tried her best to reply the nicer comments and she stopped when she got tired.
Bored, she scrolled through a website while reading boring info on finances.
As she was reading she saw an ad on a social network website called wonder.
She clicked on the ad and created an account on the site.
'This should be fun," She muttered under her breath as she read the username she gave herself. Celine23. There was nothing special about it. Just like her purpose for coming here in the first place, she was just here to feed her curiosity and see how normal humans behaved without all the society pressure on them. She used a flower as a profile picture, her favorite roses that she took on her last trip to London and wrote Doughnuts and chocolate in her bio. She wasn't here to find love or friendship, she didn't mind if she got one though.
She checked out accounts in her location and randomly added a few.
Should she flirt with some users online or something? It would be fun. And it wouldn't affect her reputation one bit since she was using a fake account. None of them would think it was the Adonia Konstantinos that was chatting with them and she was likely going to get away after she had her fill of them. It was that simple and she bet how fun it would be.
With that in mind, she added several more accounts. The truth is, in reality she did not have many friends she could fool around with and she kinda craved it. This new thing was making her thrilled and
However it was better than hanging out with disrespectful people who only saw her as a friend if the audience was cool with her and diss appeared the moment she gets under fire.
Beep beep beep
She got new notifications all at once.
A few of her friends requests were accepted.
She simply giggled and messaged all four people with a simple word, 'Hi,' and a cutie emoji with it.
In response, she got two dick pictures and a link to a porn website. She sighed. She should have known humans were weird and stupid at times and now she has to be watchful of who she wanted to chat with because apparently, a lot of these people are unwell. Those people had a pretty decent profile though and she didn't know they were mad or close to being mad.
It wasn't fun getting a dick pic that early from someone she wasn't attracted to. But she did admit, the random strangers dick were bigger than Quincy's. She giggled and she wished she Maxine was around to join her in laughing at him. Maybe Maxine will scream at her for doing this because according to her best friend, the world was insane.
Well.. it wasn't that she was shaming him, that was just what it was.
'Wassup' the fourth person that had accepted her friend request responded.
'Looking at dick pictures' She bluntly replied.
Her text was left on read for a while before the stranger with the weird username, Sheepcraft12 answered,
'BUT WHY?! with a surprised emoji look. Apparently he was one of the decent ones on this app but she couldn't really come to conclusion that fast, she would wait to see how it played out. Some mad people disguise themselves.
'I'm new to this app and I requested for friend requests, three people that accepted my requests sent dick pictures and a porn link.'
'What a world.' He responded and she could imagine him rolling his eyes. Maybe he didn't go through it because he was a guy or maybe he was just tired of people being shit.
'However, if you want to make real friends on this website, you should be real about who you are on your profile. Real people won't randomly accept friend requests from a fake account.' He replied again and Adonia blinked in surprise, this new person surely had an attitude, she would give him that.
Adonia raised an eyebrow, look who was talking. She clicked the profile tab and she went to his profile too. Asides from the fact that he identifies as a male and he was located in the Space, nothing else gave anything about him.
There was nothing on his bio and his profile picture consisted of a spaceship.
Nothing more, nothing less. And his username was kinda weird. She must've added him by mistake. Maybe when she was tapping the add without looking because now, he surely did look weird. This was the type of people that would definitely send you an unsolicited dick picture.
'You're on a fake account too' She responded and was left on read for sometime. Maybe he didn't like girls like her and he was ignoring her, she exited the app and she watched her screen lit up many times indicating new notifications from Instagram. Apparently, people were still liking the pictures and dropping lots of comments.
'It's not fun getting to know you that much anyways, why don't we give each other nicknames and have fun on the site.' His reply came in shortly after she opened the app to check for new people, and she decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. Maybe leave him to feel bad about his earlier attitude and he might not. Humans are really weird.
No response.
She placed her phone on the table and strecthed herself on the bed. Might as well get her beauty sleep.
Beep.
She groaned and grabbed the phone before looking at the screen.
One new notification.
She swiped it and read Sheepcraft12 new message.
She thought he decided to ignore her.
'Turtle'
His word didn't make sense either.
She responded with two question marks and he replied after two seconds.
'Your name'
Oh..
He was giving her a nickname.
'Why Turtle?' She asked.
'None of your business, will you give me a nickname or not?'
She shook her head. People from the internet were weird.
She looked at his profile to see if she could decern something cool from it. At the end, she sent 'Stone'
Why?
He seemed like the impatient time.
If a stone was placed in a boiling water, it wouldn't soften.
That was exactly Adonia's point, he had no patience.
She didn't even know if he was male or female gender but she reckoned he was a guy. It was just a gut feeling.
Even though she was wrong she couldn't care less. After all, he was just someone from the internet.
Sheepcraft12: Typing..
She sighed and watched the message drop.
Sheepcraft12: Nice name.
He wasn't even curious to know why she named him that.
Sheepcraft12: Do you have interest in art?
Adonia shrugged, she did have a few but she couldn't exactly tell him she was ruling the industry in fashion. She was recognized for her amazing taste in fashion and it was as a result of her mother's influence in the fashion world. She smiled before typing back a quick response.
'Yes, I like music, fashion and drama.' She waited for him to reply too and very soon, the profile bar showed he was typing back. Maybe he really did enjoy her company and she was enjoying the conversations too. It's nice to get a break from reality and immense in fantasy, even if it was from a short while.
'Me too.' His reply came shortly after and she waited for home to ask another question and she decided to go ahead without waiting for his question. That was a nice way to keep the conversation going and prevent it from being one sided.
'What do you want to be in future?' Adonia asked and she leaned back into her seat, this was turning better than she imagined. If he had interest in fashion and drama, Sh could give him a few pointers and maybe get a clue from knowing who he was in the real world.
'A trillionaire' that was his reply and Adonia wanted to laugh out loud, she knew everyone wanted to have money and be swimming in wealth but at least he could be discreet about that but he preferred to come out straight and be blunt about it.
Adonia smiled, he was quite the interesting character.
'why a nrillionaire though? You don't have dreams" she typed back and she waited for him to reply. She noticed in replied almost immediately or nothing less than five seconds, she wasn't the only one craving a break from reality then.
'You can call me Dracula though, life has sucked every reason to have a dream out of me. I just want to be happy and have plenty money. Create my own happiness and live in it. The world is getting expensive and one can't really afford to be broke." He answered her question and she smiled again. She has really been doing a whole lot of smiling during this conversations.
'What about you?" He asked and Adonia paused. She had no idea what to tell him without giving away her identity and she smiled because she had never really given it a thought. She knew she wanted her face out there on the screens and she had no idea if that was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.
'I want to continue doing what I love, putting a smile on other people's face while I make myself happy. I earn more than enough to keep me comfortable and I age away on an island with the love of my life. It's really that simple."
she hit send and she watched her reply with a smile, she really did touch all the parts she wanted to touch and funny how a two lines sentence defined her whole life.