The movie was finally done, and it was time for phase two of the plan. Chuka, Folarin, Lucy and Seyi had sorted through the photos they'd taken and selected the best ones.
"Okay, so how do we get the bitch to post them?" Lucy asked.
"She's not going to post unless someone else does. Especially GLB.", Seyi added.
"Then let's get GLB to post it." Chuka said with a shrug.
"WHAT?!", both girls exclaimed.
Chuka and Folarin looked at each other with a conspiratorial smile.
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The meeting with Annie's personal assistant, Nina held at her favourite restaurant in Ikoyi. They needed to butter her up as much as possible.
"This is such a treat guys. I can rarely afford to eat here, and I live for their desserts.", she said as she bit into another chocolate éclair.
"Nah, you deserve it." Chuka said, with a charming smile.
"Yeah, we see how hard you work. Does she even pay you bonuses? Overtime?" Folarin added, a note of indignation on her behalf in his voice.
Nina blushed at Chuka's comment and sighed at Folarin's.
She was a slightly petite girl with beautiful brown skin. Beautiful in a nerdy, good-girl way, complete with her pink glasses. But she was also a snappy dresser and always smelled good. She looked like the type that would instantly transform into a total babe when she took of her glasses and let down her hair. "Annie is a lot, seriously." She took a sip of her drink. "I know I'm underappreciated but...", she shrugged, letting the rest of her sentence trail off. "Okay so as much as I love hanging out with two of the hottest men on the planet, I know this meeting is about something. What's up?"
"Yeah, you're right." Chuka said. "We need you to do something for us. But let's talk after lunch."
Nina nodded.
Afterwards, in Chuka's car, Chuka and Folarin gave her the back story and what their plan was. It was risky, as they weren't sure how loyal she was to Annie, but the success of the plan hinged on her participation.
"Ah! But what if she notices? Or she doesn't post after seeing it?"
"We're about 80% sure she will." Chuka responded.
"What about all the other people following it?"
"All bots. They're not real." Folarin assured.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes." They had paid someone a chunk of change to make an exact replica of the GLB Instagram page and had made sure he started from scratch and built the follower count with only bots. Annie was going to be the only real follower on that page.
"What if Instagram decides to do oversabi and put the post on Explore page? If other people see it, it will spread nau."
"That's why we need to move quickly. We'll post as soon as you make the swap then she needs to check her phone almost immediately." Chuka took a cheque out of his wallet and handed it to her. "So can we count on you?"
"Wow! 500k." she exclaimed, looking from one guy to the other. "You guys aren't messing around."
'We're not. Her rubbish needs to end." Folarin said. "So, are you in?"
She paused. "Well...em...the money is cool o, but I want one more thing.
"Let's hear it."
She let out a sheepish laugh and looked coyly at Chuka from the top of her glasses. "Is it true? The rumours about you and Lisa?"
Chuka tried not to look annoyed as he answered. "Yeah, it is." There was no point denying it.
"Okay good. I want a kiss."
"Oh." Chuka exclaimed, surprised. "From who?".
"You. Yeah, I'm engaged and everything but I've always had a huuuge crush on you. I want to know what it's like to kiss you before I get married."
"Oh shit." Chuka laughed. "Here? Now?"
"Yeah. I mean, if that's okay with you. And you, Folarin."
"This should be interesting." Folarin said, simply.
"Uh...okay sure."
Nina leaned in and Chuka covered her lips with his, Nina moaning softly in-between. Folarin looked away after a few seconds and picked up his phone, shaking his head amusedly. He didn't even know what he was averting his eyes for. Chuka had kissed women in front of him several times over the years.
"Oh wow." Nina said after they broke the kiss, a dreamy look on her face as she ogled him. Chuka laughed. "You kiss well.", he said plainly, then threw a furtive glance at Folarin. He wasn't sure why he suddenly felt the need to see Folarin's reaction.
"You kiss like magic.", she said still swooning. "I swear if I didn't have a fiancé and I wasn't crazy about that man, I would be all over you now that you're single."
Chuka was going to mention that he technically wasn't single yet but didn't bother. He simply let out a short laugh. "So, are we good?"
"Do we have a deal?', Folarin chimed in
"We have a deal.", she smiled, slipping her cheque in her bag.
"Good. Tell us immediately before and immediately after."
"Got it."
"Cool. I'll call you an Uber." Chuka said, whipping out his phone.