Saturday, June 17, 2023Team Hotel — St George's Bay, Malta6:00 AM
The alarm went at six and the phone was already buzzing before the sound fully registered, and when he unlocked it the screen showed 47 unread messages and the Instagram notification had stopped counting at 999+ and the Twitter mentions column was a continuous scroll that wasn't distinguishing between individual names anymore.
He silenced it and set it face-down.
Eze was awake across the room with his own phone up, and the blue of the screen lit the ceiling above his bed while the room was still dark outside the window.
"You're still trending," Eze said. "Number one on UK Twitter. Football and overall."
Demien sat up. "What time did it happen?"
"The goal went past four million views sometime around three in the morning," Eze said. "It's been building since."
