The full story arc of a particular chaos episode — from first sign of trouble through escalation, peak drama, consequences, and eventual resolution (if any). Every great wahala arc has clear acts: the calm before, the triggering incident, the point of no return, the fallout, and the awkward aftermath where nobody is quite sure what they're supposed to say now. Wahala arc is used both as a retrospective label (looking back at the whole saga) and in real-time narration (we are currently in act two of this wahala arc and it's only Tuesday).
The whole situation with the internship, the ex, and the apartment became a six-week wahala arc that nobody fully recovered from.
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