So Much More Than Nothing (LDR ADU)

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*Ding. Ding*

Laura's notifications sounded off on her laptop. Two Twitter notifications.

C_Karnstein followed you

C_Karnstein liked your profile photo

Laura was used to random people liking her posts. She'd been on Twitter for several weeks at this point and people had started communicating with her already. She got tons of followers from her rant on transgender and non-binary rights. She didn't expect such a large following in just a short time. 300 followers and counting. So many different faces to meet. New people to talk to.

*Ding. Ding.

Laura chose to ignore it, sure it was just a new follower, she didn't have to check her computer for every new follower. She appreciated them. But nobody acknowledged every single follower...did they?

Do they? Am I going about this all wrong?

She was clearly new to this.

*Ding. Ding. *

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"Holy Hufflepuff! How many people are adding me?"

Laura picked up her laptop from the mattress and paused the movie she'd been watching to clear her notifications. She didn't even delete the first one. She was floored. Every notification was from the same person. They'd liked nearly every tweet Laura had posted since she made her Twitter.

Am I being stalked? Is this what stalking feels like?

Unsure of what to do, Laura chose to do what she was sure any curious person would do. She stalked their profile. Their profile picture was only black curls and the corner of an open book, nothing in the description but 'life is arbitrary'.

Someone's optimistic.

There was barely a tweet. Just retweets of starry nights and some not-so-positive life quotes. There was the occasional concert date. Nothing to give Laura any insight into why this user chose to stalk her Twitter. So, Laura chose to get answers a different way.

NearlyHeadlessHufflepuff: Are you stalking me?

It was read almost immediately. Laura almost didn't have time to register what she'd just done. She contacted a stranger! That goes against at least 3 rules her father had raised her to abide by...4 if she counted-.

C_Karnstein: Well, that's quite a way to make an introduction, Cutie.

C_Karnstein: Why would I be stalking you?

NearlyHeadlessHufflepuff: You liked a lot of my tweets. I think that qualifies as stalking.

C_Karnstein: Maybe I just like what you have to say.

C_Karnstein: Though I could do without the Hermione Granger quotes.

NearlyHeadlessHufflepuff: You liked those quotes...

C_Karnstein: Only the ones that were worth liking. Sorry, cutie, I don't watch much HP.

C_Karnstein: And by that, I mean 'none'.

NearlyHeadlessHufflepuff: All her quotes are worth liking!

C_Karnstein: Would you rather I go back and like them all then?...