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Let's get smarter together

"Oh... what are they doing here?" Billy questioned, looking at a group of people sitting in a small cafeteria, lighting cigarettes even since they're sitting outside.

"Haven't seen these people for years." Jimmy murmured and takes a few steps more forward towards them with an aim to greet. These are high school friends.

Feeling sick of girls due to the recent events, having some guy time feels like a reward, it's nice seeing old friends as well. "How're you fuckers doing, haven't seen you in years!"

"Yeah because you never call man." The tallest there answers, pulling a chair for him to sit in. "How have you been."

Taking a seat and unleashing a sigh, Billy expresses. "Bad... women are crazy let me tell ya."

Understanding the burden, the tall guy points at a young man across the table and deciphers. "I hear that, Steve over there just got cheated on."

At this point, a couple of tears broke out of Steve's eyes and he didn't put effort to hide it. 

"I feel ya Steve but don't cry about it, you don't need her." Nodding at the third and only other young man on this table, Billy requests. "Give me a cigarette, need to relieve these nerves."

Lighting the cigarette, he takes a few whiffs and soon tries to understand why his vision became so blurry.

He smoked cigarettes a few times before but the effect was never this rough, he can't even see the smoke that puffed out and the table feels like it's spinning.

...

"Ela! What's this bullshit going on all over the internet? This is the 5th time the neighbours sent me this!" The young lady's mother approaches, short by length and a little chubby, dark by skin colour.

You would think they adopted Ela, since the young lady is white but no that's not the case. 

Certainly feeling busted, growing hate for any neighbour that couldn't keep their mouths shut and put their noses in her business, Ela tries to excuse herself. "It's just a misunderstanding."

Yanking the phone off the lady's hand, her mother counter argues. "What misunderstanding? The internet says you had sex with this Gale guy, did you have to tell the world about that?"

Standing up, Ela grabs her mother by the shoulders and explains. "I didn't tell the world at first, but he threatened me when I confronted him again and someone got it on video."

"So you really had sex with a stranger? I thought I taught you better!" Her mother hollers, raising her hands trying to slap Ela's face but hesitant about it.

Wanting to be a bit more direct, the young lady reveals. "Well I did but I didn't expect that all of this would happen!"

Not wanting to hear a bunch of excusements, the short loving mother requests. "Ela, I've raised you alone for the past 15 years, do me a favour and stay away from dicks."

And that's where she cut the topic in half, grabbed her keys and went for the door, saying. "I have to buy some stuff, get the chicken out of the freezer."

"Love you mom." Ela answers, loving that the two reached an understanding, kind of.

"Okay." The short mother answers, closing the door after.

As for the situation regarding Ela's father, he left when she was 5. From that point neither of these ladies have seen that man again, and you can guess that he's white considering the different skin tones in this house.

Grabbing the phone of which her mother left on the sofa, Ela makes for her social media account to give it a glance, first thing she notices is reaching a total of 180,000 followers or differently described as 180k.

Celebrating for a few seconds, she after goes through the comments on her latest video and later aims to check for the thousands of new message requests. 

Prime reason she's checking the comments for, is to determine just what the hell to do with this exploding account!

There are thousands of comments about it, fair to say most of the focus was on her latest video. A lot have written quite long paragraphs regarding why she should choose this genre and how to do it.

We can't decipher what all the comments say but we can give a good grasp of the options Ela has narrowed down. Which are: Food blogging, normal blogging, song reviews, modeling, memes, animal activism, space stuff and science.

All of these options are good and most would likely not unfollow the lady after making any of the above decisions, the media is giving her quite the attention as well so she has a good chance of success. 

Taking a good hour to decide what to do here, taking each of the narrowed down options and trying to figure out how to follow the genre if picked, she came to a decision that memes would be the easiest genre.

The grand reason is memes being easy to find, she can just scroll through the internet for an hour and find quite a bunch of up to date memes.

But there's one thing she thought through as well, meme accounts are just too common. The media will help her stand out but how far would such an online career go? It has limits.

Then later she decides that the vast majority are stupid and now she has the power on her hand to educate people, and so she came to a decision to dumb down science and space stuff for people, post them and hopefully generate a smarter youth.

It truly is an odd decision and might not bring the most money but that's okay, after all it will prove that she is no gold digger.

Well at least in her own perspective she ain't a gold digger, there will always be haters, when such rivalry came from a friend then anything is possible.

So she turns the camera on and starts speaking out her mind. "Hello everyone, thank you for staying patient with me."

"I'm happy to tell you that I have finally decided what to do with this account."

"See I feel that many of us don't respect the world around us and above us, there's just so much to learn, we can all become smarter together."

"So I have decided, this account will from tomorrow post stuff about science and space, for the newbies I will try to make everything easier to understand."

"I hope this isn't a deal breaker for all of you but I can't pretend to like a genre that I don't."

"I will be in the videos of course, for the many super fans so don't worry about that."

"Let's get smarter together."

Putting the camera down, she sighs and mumbles. "Pewww, finally. That was like the 15th take."

...

Meanwhile in another house, specifically her own, Brooks gazes at her phone and can't help letting out a smirk.

Checking on her social media account, she has reached 7,000 followers in a matter of a day because someone "leaked" her account.

Fair to say she helped leak it, kind of devious but not exactly ilegal.

And so, with tons of ideas in her mind, one stands out like a growing zit. "I'm coming for you Ela."