A Twisted Halloween: Terror is Trending

Chapter 17: Bona Fide Viral Sensation!

Briar and the others continue to walk past Main Street and head back to their dorm, the Ramshackle Dorm. However, when they arrive, they can see a crowd of people in front. This catches Briar and the others by surprise.

"Hm? What's with all the people outside our dorm?" Grim wonders.

"They don't like students or teachers," Tanzanite says.

"Then they must be Halloween visitors," Briar replies.

Soon, they begin to hear a lot of screaming and shouting.

A woman shouts, "Ooh! Over here, ghostie!"

Another woman shouts, "Gimme a wink!"

"Sure thing!" Patrick says.

Patrick, Albert, and John then give them a wink.

Both women scream, "Aaaah! So dreamy!"

All the people, especially the women and girls are going nuts as they scream in excitement. Among the crowd are Cater and Deuce.

Told you guys this was gonna be nuts," Cater says.

"What a huge crowd. You weren't kidding, Cater," Deuce says, shocked.

Sereia soon notices them, "Look, there's Deuce and Cater."

"You're right," Briar says.

Soon, Briar and the others walk up to them.

Briar calls out, "Cater. Deuce."

"Oh, hello Briar. Hello everyone," Deuce says.

"Do you guys have any idea what the deal is with all these people around Ramshackle Dorm?" Grim asks.

"You want to know the deal?" Cater questions.

Then Cater brings out his phone, "Check it out."

"What am I lookin' at?" Grim wonders, looking at the phone and notices it, "Magicam?" Grim looks at it and notices, "Wait a minute, that's the picture I took with the ghosts?"

Briar and the others look at Cater's phone.

"You're right. That's you, Grim," Jasper says.

Then Grim asks, "What about it, though?"

"You see that number under the picture? That's the like counter. Basically it's the number of times people liked your picture," Cater explains.

"What's the counter at?" Grim wonders.

Hen Grim finds the number, he exclaims, "Whoa, ten THOUSAND?!"

He then asks, "What in the world?! Cater, your Magicam must be bused or somethin'!"

Then Cater explains, "Ghosts don't show up in pictures very often. Of course it'd get attention when they do. And this is a ghost SELFIE! Plus a bonus cat pic - a perennial favorite online. Throw in some good ol' Halloween trendiness... And you've got a viral sensation on your hands!"

"I ain't a cat!" Grim says with a frown.

"You do look like one," Briar says.

The group giggles in reply.

Grim ignores them and says, "Anyway, it says only five friends viewed the ghost picture."

"So how'd it get ten thousand likes?!" Grim asks.

"All it takes is one user to spot the picture on their feed. They give it a like... Then their followers give it likes, and their followers' followers give it likes, and it just keeps spreading," Deuce says.