Chapter 262: Chapter 260: UNEXPECTED FAN SIGNING EVENT 2
"Sis, you ..... ahem, fine. Since you are about to hold a fan event, how about you take a selfie with Eugene here?" Ruby, knowing that there wasn’t much time until those fans came over, suggested to her sister.
Since she had promised Eugene, then she was going to going to get this done quickly before they arrived.
When Diamond heard that, she didn’t think much about it before she pulled Eugene closer to her.
With Ruby acting as the photographer, the two posed for a while before the photos were finished.
"Let’s get into the car. Sister is about to get busy!" Ruby hurriedly urged as she looked at the swarm of people coming their way.
Eugene’s mind was on the photos, so she readily agreed and moments later, the two girls were seated in the car and safely inside.
Meanwhile, outside, Diamond maintained a smile on her face as she waited for the fans to arrive.
’I hope it will end pretty quick!’
Since she hadn’t planned for such a thing to happen as it had never happened before, she wasn’t prepared. Otherwise, she would have dressed prettily and wowed them to death.
"I have brought them and I promise it will be quick!" with a reassuring smile Garnet informed Diamond.
"Um," Diamond grunted in response as she scanned the twentyish people who were looking at her with fanatical smiles on their faces.
’Just what had she done behind her back for people to look at her like that?’
Anyway, that was something that she was going to uncover slowly as of right now, taking care of business was of utter importance.
With the young men and women gathered, Diamond couldn’t just stand there without doing anything. Besides, they had to be quick, otherwise security might flood them.
So, without wasting a single second, she opened her mouth and began to address the crowd.
"Hello everyone!" with a blossoming smile on her face, she greeted them first.
"DIAMOND, it’s really you?"
"We are fine, and you?"
"It’s nice meeting you in person!"
Hearing the enthusiastic response, Diamond’s smile widened.
"It’s my greatest honor to meet you guys. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting that I would meet anyone who knows me and loves me this much. So, taking this chance and the little time we have, I just want to say thank you for your love."
"Haha, no problem. Thank you for everything."
"It’s our pleasure being able to see you."
"You are beautiful in person!"
Diamond smiled shyly upon being bombarded with compliments.
"Thank you, everyone, for your sweet words. Anyway, I don’t have much time. I still have more errands to run. So, the only thing that I can do for you as mentioned by my manager to you earlier, I can only take one selfie per person and an autograph. In the future, I will find some time to hold a proper fan event where we can just have fun. You wouldn’t mind that right?" with a smile on her face, she revealed her plans.
"You will do that for us?"
"Then we are in."
"Just take your time."
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"Then thank you in advance for cooperating and before we start, I want to implore you. When you upload the photos online later, please blur my siblings’ faces. I wouldn’t want anything happening to them. It’s me who is in this industry and not them, after all," Diamond said, pleading to the crowd.
It would truly hurt if her sister gets implicated because of her in the future. Unless, of course, Ruby wanted to be in the limelight. But it shouldn’t be forced. It had to be done willingly for it to make sense.
The fans didn’t want to make things difficult for their favorite socialite, who was different from those they knew, so they readily agreed.
With everyone on the same page, the photo session started and Garnet recorded the whole thing on the side.
After the photo session, Diamond signed on the books or any item the fan gave her. And once that was done, they took a group photo before Diamond bided the fans, who weren’t showing any signs of leaving goodbye.
"Another time guys, we don’t want to cause a nuisance in a public place after all!" Diamond sheepishly said as she looked apologetically at the car owners next to her, waiting patiently for her to finish.
Seeing that they were indeed causing a public nuisance though the owners weren’t complaining, the fans bid goodbye reluctantly as well.
As for the car owners, curious about Diamond, she had to entertain them for a couple of minutes and even took photos with them.
By the time they were done, it was around seven and the sun had now set.
When Diamond and Garnet entered the car, Eugene was still reeling in shock after finally finding Diamond’s fame on Ioniq.
No wonder why people were looking at them strangely from the second they arrived at the restaurant.
Now she understood why Ruby was telling her that she would be grateful for the selfie later.
Haha, if she were to upload the photos on her Ioniq account, wouldn’t she get famous?
Just thinking about it, Eugene looked at Diamond with worship in her eyes.
Ruby, seeing another person converted, sighed with an unknown emotion before looking at her sister’s account, which was on fire from all the tagging and clamoring of fans commenting on posts.
After putting the car in the ignition, Garnet skillfully drove the car out of the parking lot.
On their way to the studio apartment, Ruby was all chatty as she read the hilarious comments left by fans on Diamond’s page, inciting laughter all the way to the studio.
Thanks to Ruby, Eugene managed to learn more about Diamond’s other life online, and she was grateful that she had followed shamelessly when she was asked.
If she hadn’t followed, wouldn’t she have lost such a great opportunity?
And hearing how many followers Diamond received because of the pics posted by others and how other fans were boasting about how their fans also grew because of that. Eugene sighed as she thought of something she once heard a motivational speaker saying before.
The power of association is something that no one should underestimate.
As long as an individual is associated with powerful people, he or she will also benefit from that connection as well.
In the same way, a person can be affected negatively by being surrounded by people who know nothing but trouble.
’I have gained so much tonight. I will never forget this!’ she vowed as the car drove into the complex.