The secret that no influencer will tell you:

Your thumb hovers over the keyboard. You type "Hey." You delete it. You type "How was school?" You delete it. You finally send a meme at 10:47 PM. They reply with "Haha" at 1:23 AM.

As a "budak," you don't know how to date because you learned how to date from TikTok skits. You think love is a tropi (tropes)—the "enemies to lovers," the "slow burn." But real life doesn't have a script. When the other person stops replying, you don't think, "They are busy." You think, "I have been ghosted. I am worthless."