Catfish (Minizerk)

Chapter 2

Josh's POV:

When I got home, I made a new account on Instagram. This one didn't have my name in it. It was just a random username, but a believable one.

I changed my profile picture to a photo I'd taken of me that didn't have my face in it. You couldn't even tell it was me.

I posted a few photos, ones with date stamps from my Snapchat camera roll, so it didn't just look like everything was from today.

Next, I followed some people. A mixture of celebrities, bands, artists, football players, and some people from school but not anyone popular.

I felt kind of weird about this. It was mean, was it not?

But at the same time, I didn't have to get him to full-on fall in love with me. Just have a crush on me. If I could get him to admit that much or even hint at it, that'd be enough.

And if he didn't know it was a joke, then it'd just seem like I was rejecting him, not playing a prank on him.

Yeah, it'd be fine. It wasn't even that bad anyway. It might upset him a little, getting rejected, but everyone gets rejected at some point in their life. I couldn't really see any harm in doing something to him that he was bound to experience at some point anyway.

With my worries pushed aside, I went onto Simon's account and began following him.

He followed me back pretty quickly, which surprised me.

I decided to make my next move, liking his most recent photo. It wasn't actually a bad photo of him. If I didn't know he was weird, I'd probably think he was pretty hot.