Paper Heart - Bradley Will Simpson

Chapter 2.

            If the three sisters' mobile phones had been switched on, they would not have stopped vibrating. But the girls had been watching movies until after four in the morning and, even though it was after three in the afternoon, all three of them were still sleeping soundly. They had no idea what was going on about them on the internet. Their subscribers had loved their video and had shared it over and over again. Within a few hours, the number of followers had tripled and was now spreading to several European countries. They were receiving a lot of positive feedback (and also messages from some insulting trolls) and, most importantly, their video was now one of the top music trends on Youtube. The number of subscribers was growing at a dizzying rate. And the girls still didn't see it all.

          Alexandra's sleep was rather light, but nothing disturbed it, apart from her little sister's snoring, which was strong enough to shake the thin wall between their two rooms. The second sibling woke up grumbling and groaned at her sister in the dark looking for her phone to see what time it was. For a moment she was surprised to find it completely switched off, while her neurons reconnected, then she startled and muffled a scream. She got up quickly and turned on her phone. It was getting old and it took a while to handle it. Suddenly, her phone just started vibrating. She quickly put it into silent mode and watched with almost childlike excitement the avalanche of notifications scrolling across her screen. If she had been standing, she would surely have fallen to the ground when she noticed their incredible new subscribers number, which now exceeded 20,000 followers. Alexandra stopped herself from shouting, but soon she couldn't hold on any longer and rushed to her youngest sister's room. She opened the door with a loud bang and it bumped violently against the wall; it was her little personal revenge on her sister and her snoring. Laura barely had time to open an angry eye when Alexandra jumped on her, screaming

"Are you out of your mind?! Shouts the youngest. I don't understand what you're saying, just let me sleep, she added, tucking herself under her duvet.

- Hey, you'll sleep when you're dead! Don't you want to know what people thought of our piece?!"

              Her hair in a state of shock, Laura straightened up suddenly. She grabbed violently the phone her sister was holding out to her. After a few minutes of studying their various social networks, she began to read the many comments that invaded their Youtube video. While the majority were in French, there were also a large number of messages in English and in languages that the girls did not speak, such as Portuguese, Italian, German and even Chinese. Laura tried to put a like on all the comments she read in order to show their authors that she had seen them. As their mother always said, when you received love, you should always respond with love. And the young woman knew that internet users should be especially pampered.

"We have to answer them... Laura murmured; her eyes still glued to the phone screen.

- I think we'll have to do a general IG story, we'll never be able to answer everyone individually. For that, we'll have to make ourselves presentable and, above all, have Chloé there.

- She still doesn't know?! exclaimed the youngest.

- Are you kidding?! You know her, if we don't wake her up, she could sleep for a whole day!"

             The eldest of the three sisters was indeed known for her very heavy sleep. If she had difficulty falling asleep and often suffered from insomnia, once she fell into the arms of Morpheus, it was very difficult to get her out and even the joyful cries of her sisters could not wake her up. At the same time, her room was located at the other end of the corridor...