⚘✾Slangs & Trends¹⚘✾

       The lights flickered in the dim-lit room. They all sat outside a circle formed by salt with weird symbols inside of it.

"I recently made a discovery. Has anyone heard of Kafakshi? Well, Kafakshi is the demon of the internet. He controls every deed in here and he helps people gain followers, views, and reactions. Kafakshi is real."

"You're delusional, Perry."

"Please, peace, Puppy!"

"Alright, alright. You can go on with your little child's play. I'll be in my room."

"Some people post stuffs online and it might not really be a quality content and they may be irrelevant people but instantly, you see that they have lots of views and followers and the stuff begins to go viral all of a sudden. Someone is behind all of that, his name is Kafakshi and he's a demon. He increases your interactions and followers as soon as you summon him. Now watch as I summon Kafakshi, the Lord Of The Internet, here in my room. I'm currently in 227. 20 Followers. And I want to top up to 300 Just today."

  Creepy ocean music played in the background. Perry withdrew himself from the face of the camera and went to sit beside the rest.

They sat on the floor and encircled the circle. Each one of them placed their phones on the floor, on certain symbols and poured the candle wax all over their phone screen, with the visibility of the section of their social media they intended on improving.

I watched with entranced attention as they slowly poured the candle wax on the phones' screen and chanted rhythmically, "Kafakshi, The Lord Of The Internet. I evoke your presence into my social media."

The lights began to flicker even more and a gentle breeze soared into the apartment as I became really apprehensive.

Perry picked up his phone and took off a part of the wax on his screen and showed his phone to the camera. A hundred increase in followers! Unbelievable!

"Fifty new subscribers on YouTube! F**k!"

"Sh*t's real! Sh*t is real!" One of them turned to the camera shaking it back and forth with both hands as he was greatly marvelled.

"This can't be real." I said to myself. I closed the video and rapidly moved on to check Perry's IG account. To my uttermost shock, his followers had increase from 227.20 to 300!

"Oh my God! Oh my God!" I danced excitedly! I was so going to try that out.

Aisha's call immediately came in.

"Good morning."

"Good morning to you too. I hope you had a great night. So tell me, what happened between you and Remi?"

"He called me stupid."

"Well that's really disrespectful of him. You guys should try fixing things between yourselves cause we need to do a group study today and I don't want you two picking on each other in my presence."

"You need to tell him to watch his tongue and how he spills his opinions. After the little argument we had yesterday, he's just been acting so absurd. It wasn't even something serious. I posted something and he came to my DM saying I'm being distracted and I'm not being myself, indirectly calling me a phony."

"Well..." She said in a high-pitched tone. "I don't think he has anything against you. I did see the posts you made and honestly, you weren't being yourself. It seemed like you were trying so hard to gain attention or fit in in an inappropriate manner."

"Oh, really?" I said and hung up.

        Saturdays used to be for studying and creating new paintings  but not when you've got an incredible gadget with overly incredible apps!

The night before, on Friday night, I had slept around past two 'cause Oliver was online. We had chatted from 8:00pm to 12:00am then did a video call from 1:00am to 2:00am before he finally had to leave at his mom's order. If he hadn't gone offline, I don't think I would have.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬? 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬???

I also took note of every single punctuation and emoji, every second or minute it took for him to respond to a particular text.

There really was something about texting a person one has feelings for, late at night, and I would have never let go until sunrise if he had stayed back.

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𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡.

I had cereal for breakfast and hastily got my phone when I was done. I went online because there was nothing else to do and I was bored stiff.

I had also blocked my parents from viewing my activities on every social media platform and they didn't even notice. 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐮𝐡.

Based on my perception, I noticed that a lot people were used to using certain slangs and words that made them cool.

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𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

There was just something quite fascinating about slangs in the virtual world. In one word—it was simply cool. Man, it was cool!

I noticed some of my friends and the people I was following and basically everyone, every cooool people, on social media often made use of the "F" word. I mean, I simply joined them in attaching the "F" word in some things I said because I thought it was way  cool to not be used. It had a way of compelling my audience to listen to me, helping me express my angry or sad self, and making a crucial point.

I grasped something else, another popular word—"y'all" as in "you all." 

Or "dunno" as in "don't know."

Or "gotta" as in "got to go."

Or "lemme" as in "let me."

*𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞.

*❉ *.¸¸.*✳ 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟.

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𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

I saw them becoming actual words on social media as they were used really frequently.

Other slangs were formed through abbreviating words.

I aimed at being cool in the virtual world by demand so I often posted stuff like, "What the f**k is wrong with y'all," which seemed way cooler to me than saying, "what is wrong with you all."

Getting more updated, I realized it's actually, "WTF is wrong with y'all?"

Now getting much more updated as one needs to be doing on S.M, I realized that it had become, "TF is wrong with y'all?"

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥—𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭!

Except that Remi disagreed. :(

Common slangs like, "I'mma, h*e, d**k, momma, yo, b**ch, f**k, sh*t…" were often used by 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠; peeps with such choice of words were often those whom never had less than 500 comments and reactions on their post, with tons of followers and audiences.

Oftentimes, words were misspelled to create slangs: "boi" as in "boy"

"gal" as in "girl."

Blending with the standards of social media and tagging along with my generation, I thought it was just okay to express myself using slangs, even if they were obscene.

I made tons of posts on Facebook and updated my Whatsapp status with cute pictures of Remi, and Aisha.

I would return back every now and then to observe the interactions on a certain post—such as reactions, comments and shares; and if they were impressive, I got excited.  (●'◡'●)

I layed on my bed. I was immersed in viewing statuses and pictures when I heard a knock on the door.

I went over to open the door and standing on my pink foot mat were the guys.

"Well, aren't you going to invite us in?"

"Do I ever send invitations before you step into my room?"

"What's with the attitude na?"said Aisha.

"Sit," I said sharply and jammed the door.

"Erm, you never replied my text," Remi began.

"Hmm?"

"Test begins on Monday and we haven't done a proper group study," Aisha said.

"Hmm."

"Temi! Is there anything we ought to know about?" Remi shot his eyes at me. He looked cross.

"I should be asking such questions cause it seems like my best friends have been saying things behind my back."

"We've never said anything behind your back, we both just observed the same thing," Aisha explained.

"What? That I'm a fake?"

"Dear Lord! We just think… I think that you're in a complex position right now and you might need some advice and guidance. I'll be brutally honest Temitope; from the way I see things, you're not being yourself, you lack understanding, you are distracted and you are trying so hard to please people. Just be yourself."

"I AM myself! I just want to be free and have fun sometimes, you know. No one likes being locked up in an apartment, forced to bury one's head in books without a glimpse of fun in the virtual world. I get lonely and of course, you don't see that cause Aisha here has tons of followers and not just virtually, physically too and Mr Remi also has tons of attention. Not to forget that you both have large families. I want to be a part of this too, you know. I desire to fit in, I don't want to be the odd one out. I also learnt that people can be quite different from who they are in the real world, in the virtual world—just like I noticed you both are too sometimes but you don't see me making a big fuss out of it, do you?"

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬  𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝—𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝—𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, (𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬) 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 (𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬, 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞), 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚… 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞?

"That's enough now. Let's study. I'll be leaving in a short period of time. By the way, my mom brought some 𝑘𝑢𝑛𝑢, who's in."

"I can't be too angry to deny a good drink. I hope it's really chilled."

"BRB," Aisha scurried out. I sat to wait for Aisha; I didn't want to talk to Remi but of course I couldn't just sit without doing anything on my phone.

I picked up my phone to keep myself busy a little.

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10 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 100 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐈𝐅𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞

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𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬:

CRASHY

Crazy and trashy; like a trainwreck.

CRUNK

Crazy and drunk.

HANGRY

Hungry and angry.

REQUESTION

A request and a question.

TOPE

Tight and dope.

So Oliver used the word "tope" once and I actually thought he was referring to Tope—as in TemiTOPE. 𝐋𝐨𝐥.

I wanted to feel unique, free, and revolutionary, thus make use of slangs.

Actually, it took me quite some time to figure out their meanings but I did proper observations based on the context such languages were used in. 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐡? 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭. 𝐋𝐨𝐥.

I didn't want to ask questions about it—I didn't want to seem like a noob even though I was a noob. 𝐎𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐛, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 "𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐛" 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐛𝐢𝐞. 𝐇𝐞𝐞-𝐡𝐞𝐞-𝐡𝐞𝐞

GOAT

Jeez, I felt so stupid when I placed an angry reaction on a guy's post that referred to Pretty Perry Peterson's artwork as the GOAT. I felt like going to the comment section and trashing him.

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𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐑

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𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐮𝐭.

He then mentioned my name in a comment asking if I wasn't a fan of Pretty Perry Peterson and I answered, "I freaking am! And why the hell would you call that art work a goat?—Comparing an artwork with an animal. That's not good of you at all. You shouldn't just condemn people's work that way!"

A random girl responded, "GOAT—Greatest Of All Time! LMFAOOO!"

𝐎𝐮𝐜𝐡!

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞!

SALTY

Means bitter, or agitated

SIC/SICK

This means cool or sweet.

TEA

Means gossip, situation, story, news…

SNATCHED

Looks good, perfect, or fashionable. Actually the new "on fleek."

THIRSTY

Trying to get attention.

FIRE

Which used to be "straight fire" means hot, trendy, amazing or on point.

YOLO

This is often used ironically and it's actually an abbreviation for "You Only Live Once."

FAM

Means group of friends or pals.

BASIC

Boring, average, or unoriginal is what that means.

CAP

This means fake or a lie. What happened to the stuff we were on our head? Gee, social media.

EMO

The word is used to refer to one who is a drama queen or a softie.

SHIP

Please "ship" two people together like they would make a perfect match or they're fit to be a couple. This word is actually derived from "relationship."

SUS

Suspicious, shady, not to be trusted.

SHOOK

To be incredible shocked or shaken up

THROW SHADE

To give someone a dirty look

  Now, that expression, Remi shot at me (¬_¬) as I spoke to Oliver on phone. He had called to tell me that he missed me and that he needed me online.

"That'll be later. I'm actually studying with Aisha and Remi."

"Oh, Remi, my man!" He was fond of pronouncing Remi's name as Re-mai, rather than Re-mee.

"I am not your man and say my name right!"

"Are you eavesdropping?" I whispered to him but he ignored me.

"Could you please send me his whatsapp number?"

"Don't give my number to anyone."

"Oh, I'll send it right away."

"I'm warning you, Temi."

"Okay, cool. So I added you to a group chat. My friends here in Abuja wanna meet you."

"And how do your friends know me?"

"I may have told them a lot about you." 𝐀𝐰𝐰. "Busted." He said in a cute high—pitched voice and I  smiled. Remi, on the other hand was burning inside for a vague reason.

"Okay, talk t'you later. Say hi to Remi and Aisha for me okay?"

"Will do." I dropped the call and turned to Remi, "Oliver says…"

"Hold it."

"Why do you have to be so dramatic? What's your problem exactly?"

"I have no problem! I just don't want you being so attached to him!"

"Wow! And who made you ruler over the affairs of my life?"

"I'm just looking out for you."

"You call that looking out? I don't understand you, Remi. You've been acting way too odd these days. I'd call this jealousy but even that is not rational."

"Says the girl who can't breathe if she doesn't get a text from some guy!"

"Okay take that back right now."

"Both of you, shut up!" Aisha suddenly walked in on us. "Ah-ah. I've got a biology test on Monday, that I don't want to fail. So do I and yourselves a favour by bringing out your books and zipping your lips!"

I and Remi shot a gawk /|∞|\ at each other before I turned to grab my notebook.

We were best friends alright, but bickering had always been our thing since childhood.

        Aisha suggested we worked on questions and answers since THEY had been studying but I hadn't even studied a bit.

Remi grabbed his tablet and searched for the first question. "What is a cell?"

Just as I began to write, my phone disrupted at the appointed time; it beeped loudly.

"I'm sorry. I'll turn that off." Said I. I picked up my phone and turned it on. It was an update on a TikTok video from a girl at school. I stared into my phone's screen for a second then sighed.

"What is that?" asked, Aisha.

"It's Lara again. It's a video of her doing the Drippin' trend."

Lara was one female who had a split personality. in school, she was the most introverted and well behaved human anyone could find. Teachers made her a point of reference to the other kids. But on social media, we saw someone different, totally different; a b**ch.

We all became curious to know the content of the video and I decided to check it out.

A new trend was out. It was tagged as DRIPPIN'. The goal of this newest trend was simply to get oneself wet with water dripping from above in slo-mo while wearing a tank top in order that ones watermelon figure or abs could be stylishly displayed through the wetness of the top. Hence, Drippin'.

The trend had taken the internet by storm and I was dying to try it out.

One's own part of the trend was acceptable by how 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 he or she was and the style in which the video was shot and the body movement to the background song and special video effects.

After checking out Lara's side of the trend, whom was half nude, we sought for more videos to feed our interest and see how far the trend had gone. Thus, we became spellbound.

We watched more and more Drippin' videos and made fun of some of them and rated their style.

Remi whom felt like he was committing a sin then asked us to resume studying. We answered five more questions and everyone suddenly felt uninterested because we had at first left the real world for the virtual world and each time that happened, it became difficult to return to a recent activity as we would begin to feel drawn back by the virtual world.

"Did you guys see the recent trend on Kafakshi?" asked Aisha.

"Sure. That thing is trending like mad."

"Is it real?" I was curious.

"Of course not! How can it possibly be?"

"Well I could agree to the demon being in charge of the internet part but there's nothing like Kafakshi and the whole result on one's social media is made up and that's a fact."

"It's obvious that it's false cause perry of all people brought it up. That guy is sick in the head," Aisha uttered.

"Hey, hey, hey."

"Someone is going to bite you." Remi remarked and I sneered at him.

We decided to watch more videos on Kafakshi and lots of people kept summoning this demon to help them with their social media.  This trend on kafakshi was termed as the most popular trend because of how much engagement it had worldwide in just a day. Of course, everyone wanted more followers. But was it real? I was curious.

More people tuned in on the trend claiming that the demon did visit their social media accounts!

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   I heard a loud knock on my door. I made a turn on my bed, grumbled, then crossed over Aisha and Remi on the bed to get the door.

"Temitope, how are you? Please, tell Aisha we're leaving now."

It was Aisha's mother. I rubbed my eyes as they weren't seeing clearly yet. I turned to stare at the wall clock and it came to my awareness that it was nearly 5'0clock! We had been watching too many videos that it landed us asleep. 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐚.

I woke them up and they left, disappointed that the plans to study went awry. I was also disappointed because we had a forthcoming test and I hadn't studied much… at all.

        I took light steps out of the kitchen and slowly shut the door. I held four candles in my left hand and tip-toed back to my room.

I got prepared to initiate the ritual with foremost alacrity. I made a circle with salt and used chalk to draw certain signs in it. ꕥꪶ࿋྄ིᤢꫂ๖ۣۜ

I shut the windows, turned off the lights. I sat outside the circle with my phone in the circle, laying on one of the symbols and covered in wax from a candle. No, I wasn't petrified at the scratch, not yet. I closed my eyes and called out to Kafakshi and he answered with the blowing of a wind. Gradually, the wind became intense. Fear gripped me as I made for the lights.

Abruptly, a behemothic sound hit one of my windows and it broke at the same time with my phone's screen.

I screamed.

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    *𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒*

ΩRich and cool adolescents. Often with social media fame.

∆...were often used by 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠...

                  *𝐇𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐔*

ΩSomeone who is always so eager to condemn, criticize, and attack without reason or without patience.

ΩOne who is perceived to fight people online for an invalid cause.

∆ social media is filled with a bunch of 𝒉𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑠 who'd take you down before waiting to hear you out.

         *𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄*

ΩA  𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 male or female is one who is physically attractive.

ΩOne who possesses a good figure.

∆...acceptable by how 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 he or she was...

::♥• 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐓𝐀𝐆 "𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐌𝐂"

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