Chapter 160: First fan club assembly

In Penny’s first life, she didn’t get a chance to get to know the school basketball team. She only heard that they were popular and that they were competitive lads. Who would have thought they were also the very first bunch who scared Penny of diabetes?

When they sat her down, all of them brought out handfuls of sweets and snacks from their pockets and created a huge pile on top of the table. At first, Penny was happy with eyes twinkling. But then, they wanted her to finish all of it in ten minutes!

This was not how she expected her second brother to brag about her!

Fortunately, Lily and Ginnie were there to stop this madness.

"As the president of Penny’s fan club, stop this now!" Lily harrumphed, stopping the group of seniors from cheering on Penny. "This is not healthy at all!"

"Penny, don’t listen to them." Ginnie meekly stood beside Penny. "You don’t have to eat everything."

Penny’s round eyes wiggled as she felt emotional at her friend’s sincerity.

"That’s right. Do you think my sister is a spectacle for your own entertainment?" Seated right beside Penny was Hugo, looking down at his teammates. His teammates, however, couldn’t help but cast him a disgusted look.

Who was the one here who told them his sister could finish an entire cow in ten minutes?!

Penny’s face also twitched.

"Penny, it’s okay." Hugo smiled at her kindly. "You can take home the snacks. It’s an offering from the basketball team."

Offering? Penny looked at her second brother incredulously. Did he think she was some sort of a god?

"Yes, little sister. You can take the snacks home or enjoy it during your class." One of Hugo’s teammates remarked, cupping his smiling face.

There were three guys seated across from Penny, and they were all cupping their faces. Their smiles were bright, while their eyes were squinting. It was almost like they were melting at the sight of her. Penny was so cute, especially when she was eating. Her rosy cheeks were bouncing so adorably.

"Little sister, don’t forget our entire team is supporting you!" another one expressed. "If anyone picks on you again, they’d have to face the entire basketball team!"

"Little sister, when is our first assembly? I think I deleted the notification."

"I bought your first limited-edition merchandise, little sister. Don’t worry. We’re going to help sell the merchandise."

Penny’s face contorted, seeing that her brothers’ teammates all carried this bright smile. They might’ve looked like rogues previously, but now, they looked like rogues in a daze.

"There’s no need for that." Lily shook her head before she smirked proudly. "The first release of Penny’s merchandise is all sold out. And even the next five batches were all reserved."

All of them looked at Lily in awe.

"President, if everything is running smoothly, how else can we help?" someone asked curiously. "We’ve never been to a fan club before, so we have a lot of questions."

"I already created a group for the fan club. You’ll be added soon if you are approved."

Penny sighed and didn’t take their conversation to heart. She didn’t think much about the merchandise or anything about the fan club. She just thought whatever Lily released, which she called Penny’s merchandise, was probably around five or ten items. Hence, they were sold out.

’Well, with Brother Atlas’s classmates, Slater’s few classmates, Second Brother’s teammates, and a few of my classmates, I guess the fan club is starting strong,’ she thought, glancing at Lily and Ginnie who were enthusiastically talking about the first assembly. ’But compared to other fan clubs, it’s still a small number.’

Deep in her heart, Penny wished her friends hadn’t come up with this fan club. However, with how enthusiastic they were, she didn’t have the heart to stop them. Ginnie and Lily looked so happy, after all.

’Oh, well —’

"Penny?" Ginnie tilted her head a little to the side.

"Huh?"

"Penny later is our first assembly as a club," Lily repeated as it seemed Penny was distracted. "You’ll be there, right? Everyone already prepared the school gym for it."

"Ha ha... Lily, the school gym is a little too big for a small club assembly."

Lily frowned. "Penny, I told you the school gym is just perfect to accommodate everyone. I already got approval to use the gym."

"That’s right, Penny. Everyone has been preparing for the first club assembly for the past few days." Ginnie wondered. "And it’s barely enough to accommodate everyone."

But despite their argument, Penny still believed the school gym was a little too much. There were only less than fifty of them — if her estimate was correct. So a bigger classroom was enough for the first club assembly.

"Well, whatever you say," Penny smiled, assuming Lily and Ginnie were simply exaggerating. ’I guess less than fifty members are a great start.’

Oh, how Penny thought how wrong she was.

After school, Penny had to go to the school gym because Lily and Ginnie had to leave first. They were expecting her to show up in the first club assembly. Out of courtesy, Penny came.

But when she did, she was horrified.

"Eh?"

Stands and posters of Penny were displayed around. Countless students were also inside, wearing some headbands with Penny’s face on them. Some were holding banners with Penny’s name on it.

Penny blinked, rubbing her eyes, and then looked up again. Her face twitched, confused. Did she go to a different school gym? This didn’t look like the first fan club meeting, but an actual school event!

"Uh, no." Penny intuitively took a step back, only to hit someone standing behind her. For some reason, her heart thudded nervously before she looked back.

Slowly, she lifted her eyes, only to see a pair of squinting eyes and the familiar white portion of hair falling to Ray’s temple.

"Escaping now, leader?" Ray chuckled, and for a second, Penny knew that laugh came from pure evil.

In the blink of an eye, Penny found herself standing on the stage before hundreds of students, all from different grades and sections.