Chapter 87: Instagram And Chill?
The day passed by without much event, the highlight of Liam’s day was basically the case and gaming console he had gotten for himself.
Liam was winding down, he had taken a shower and was getting ready for bed but wanted to check just one more thing.
Liam opened his Instagram and noticed how bland it was compared to the other pages he came across.
This made him think about uploading a few pictures to curate it but even at that, the pictures in his possessions weren’t up to Instagram standard in the literal sense.
But then he checked his mesaage request once again.
Liam contemplated shooting her a message back but held off just a little longer.
He found a funny video on his reels and decided to post on his story for the first time in a really long time.
And Instagram tends to alert everyone when someone who hasn’t posted in a while does.
Liam checked his views out of curiosity and there she was, not the lady who had messaged him but Sara.
Liam noticed she had a new profile picture but he wasn’t curious enough to check it.
"Oh right, I still have her on here..." Liam thought to himself but realized that seeing her no longer made his heart drop.
He was over her, and he had the current women in his life to thank.
Liam closed the laptop and finally headed to bed, he snored like a sociopath but his entire body felt lighter because he was able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time.
Liam was glad things had turned out this way. And he felt no regrets defending Sara against the allegations either because at the end of the day, what people call naivety was just trust.
But Liam couldn’t sleep, next thing he found himself doing was scrolling down reels on Instagram on his phone.
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Vanessa was following Liam now and being the age she was, Instagram was one of her most used apps.
She was talking with a few friends there and sharing reels with one another.
But Liam’s story popped up, Vanessa stared at it for a second and wondered if she should open it?
She thought about it longer than she cared to admit but decided to bring it to her council of girlfriends in a group chat they had running on Instagram.
[Vanessa: Guess who just posted a story?]
[Sohni: Guess who cannot read minds?🫠]
[Penina: Don’t tell me. Is it him!?😭😭😭]
[Sohni: Him? It looks like you two are keeping secrets away from the group🙄]
[Penina: Your girl has a crush on a fancy lawyer!]
And just like that, the other girls that weren’t talking in the group began to fall in one after another like they just heard some gossip that would keep them sustained for the rest of the year.
[Priya: A crush?🤨]
[Daniella: Show us his profile!]
[Gina: Is he hot?😒]
Vanessa instantly had second thoughts, she didn’t know if she should say any more or allow them to run with whatever conclusion they wanted to.
But she wanted to talk about it so bad now that the cat was out the bag.
[Vanessa: It isn’t a crush, crush but he is so hot! Omg! Give me a second🫣]
Vanessa proceeded to screenshot and send the picture he had uploaded to them.
The group messages started to come in rapidly and Vanessa was smiling sheepishly as she read them.
But then she realized something horrific in the process the moment she got a mesaage from Liam.
[Liam: You know you can say hello, right? I don’t bite.]
Vanessa was confused for a second because there was no way he should know she was online, her activities wasn’t turned on.
And then she saw it, she had accidentally liked his picture during the screenshot.
"Fuck!" Vanessa could easily play this off and she was usually smooth mouthed when it came to such things but for some strange reason, she felt her heart pounding.
And once again, she ran to the group chat.
[Vanessa: OMG! I ACCIDENTALLY LIKED HIS PICTURE AND NOW HE HAS MESSAGED ME!😭😭😭]
[Sohni: Not the all caps😂😂]
[Gina: What are you doing here!? Go reply!]
Before the other messages could come in, she had gone to back to his message.
She stared at it for a brief minute, thinking about what she could reply with but Vanessa had to take a deep breath to calm herself.
"Relax. He is just another man," Vanessa said and her fingers moved across the screen.
[Vanessa: You don’t? That’s a shame.]
She was proud of this response and expected Liam to respond right away.
A minute went by, then another but in those moments, she kept monitoring him.
And a second later, he posted another reel on his story.
Vanessa wasn’t thinking when she opened it, she loaded the first reel that she had initially ignored.
It was a video of an AI generated cat running around with a basketball and Liam laughing his ass off apparently with his caption.
The second video was simply of an edit of a Spiderman video and truth be told, it was actually good.
But this told her he wasn’t as invested in the conversation as her.
Vanessa briefly thought about deleting her message to protect her ego, this would be the safest bet.
But Liam finally responded to her message.
[Liam: Did you just let a kink slip?]
Liam asked but the tone he used couldn’t be discerned because there was no emoji.
Liam rarely used emojis when he texted so she had no idea if he was being serious or not.
And just like that, she began to overthink once again with her mind running all over the place.
Should she play this off as a joke or double down and press on with the flirting.
The latter might make her come off as desperate as Liam had already refused her once, could her ego handle another rejection?