Monday Morning - Demien's Apartment
Sunlight cut through the gap in the curtains and fell across Demien's face, pulling him from sleep that had come deep and dreamless after yesterday's exhaustion. He blinked twice before the memories flooded back—the debut, the goals, the rainbow flick, his mother's face through the fence—and something warm settled in his chest.
His phone buzzed on the nightstand.
Then again.
And again.
He reached for it and the screen lit up with notifications that hadn't stopped since yesterday, the numbers scrolling past faster than he could read them.
Instagram: +12,847 new followers
His follower count had jumped from around 3,000 this morning to 162,013 now, and the number was still climbing in real-time—he refreshed and it jumped to 162,891, then 163,356.
But what caught his attention were the specific follower notifications at the top:
manuwa_fernandez started following you
adriano.ventresca started following you
