“Won’t they try to explain themselves online?” Old Mr. Hunt asked.
The internet was a foreign world to the old man. However, he knew the story his grandson posted on Twitter was made up. He was worried that his two granddaughters would straighten the facts and leave the Hunts without the money and pride in the end.
“Who would believe them? We hired trolls to write nasty comments and spill dirt on Serenity and Liberty. The netizens will blast them to kingdom come if they even so much as get online.”
Old Mrs. Hunt chimed in. “Mike, use my phone and give Serenity another call. She better delivers the money right now if she doesn’t want to face public outrage. Liberty probably doesn’t have much money since she has a family. You must get Serenity to open her wallet.”
“Say that you’ll delete the tweet in exchange for six hundred thousand dollars or be prepared to be ruined. She won’t be able to show her face in public,” Old Mr. Hunt added.
“Granddad, we shouldn’t be the ones to call them. We can only get what we want if they contact us instead.”
Mike believed the trending tweet should be able to force his cousins out of hiding.
Old Mr. Hunt believed Mike had a point after thinking about it. The person who made the first move would be the loser.
Old Mrs. Hunt contemplated for a while before saying, “People might not recognize them since the photo you used was over a decade old. Liberty was looking more like her mother the last time I saw her. Serenity takes after her father.”
Mike answered helplessly, “That was the only picture we have of them. They didn’t stay in touch after they turned eighteen. Where was I supposed to find a recent photo?”
The sisters changed a lot once they reached womanhood.
“Ah, why did the tweet drop from the trending list?”
Mike witnessed the tweet dropping in the Trend ranking. It fell a few more places minutes later when he refreshed the site. With the tweet about to be drummed out from Trends, he quickly gave his friend a call.
Despite getting an answer, Mike could not do anything about it.
“What happened?”
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