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Rui stares down at the social media announcement.
“A raffle will be held for a chance to obtain LUMINOUS member, Tsukasa Tenma exclusive and limited time merch..”
Right now he couldn’t care less about whatever he was working on, the merch in question was not only not for sale. But would have his idol’s, the light in his world, signature on it. Rui reads the post a little closer..
“The 1st place lucky winner will have the signature addressed to them personally.”
He could faint right there. He NEEDED to enter this raffle
..which was a hassle to say the least, seriously why does he need to pay to enter?? Rui grumbled to himself. It didn’t help that you could enter multiple times if you payed for each time, which basically meant any rich bum could guarantee a win.
Thankfully he had a good amount of money saved up, purely for a moment like this. Okay, maybe it was odd of him to have a dedicated saving just for some blonde dude who sings but it’s not like that’s the weirdest thing about him.
He enters in his info and all he could do now was hope and pray. As the days passed he grew anxious until finally..
“The winners have been decided! Congratulations to..”
Rui’s intense gaze flicked over the winner list and he could feel something inside him break.
His name was not there, at all. He didn’t even get the runner-up prizes, he would’ve been happy for that at least but nooo..
Disbelief took over, he double-checked, triple-checked. “Come on… maybe I missed my name..” His teeth gritted, “I SPENT WAY TOO MUCH ON THIS PLEASE!” But no plea can change the present.
“..Curse the 1st place winner, curse the 2nd, 3rd place winners, curse whoever got anything out of this..!”
The poor Tsukasa plushie placed on his table got flung as he slammed his hand around. “It’s not FAIRR!!” Rui shouted out in despair. “Im his biggest fan, I swear.. I deserve this..”
Onto the floor he flopped down. And he stayed there for a good minute or so, being so close to throwing another tantrum. Seriously the severity of how a single idol can affect a person psyche needs to be studied
“Tsukasakun.. I’m sorry for being like this..” Rui whispers to the plushie lying on the floor with him. Eventually he picks himself back up and plucks the plushie off the floor. “I guess it can’t be helped, if you were here right now you’d probably say something along the lines of ‘You can’t give up now!’. Well, my dear star, as a fan it’s my duty to listen to you~”
“Although..” He stares at his now empty bank account. “Looks like I’ll be struggling for a while.”