“Alright. That’s enough,” Christ pulled his agent back, “Stop the quarreling. It’s meaningless.”
“Why should we leave? They can’t just bully us like this!” The agent was being very loud, and it was quite embarrassing.
Chris didn’t say anything as he pulled his agent out. He didn’t even dare to look anyone in the eyes.
“Thea, they have left. That agent seemed to be quite mad. He was still shouting at Chris after leaving the site,” Daisy laughed, “Adam did a great job showing them a middle finger. They deserve the treatment!”
Thea just smiled, shaking her head. Now, she only wanted to focus on the shooting.
The shooting finished in 30 days with Thea and Luca’s joint efforts.
They posted pictures of their wrap-up party online. However, those pictures summoned a lot of angry Chris fans.
They were all cursing Thea’s name, saying that it was her fault that Chris’s role was taken away. Luca’s situation was not better.
Thea sighed and threw the phone away. Christmas was just around the corner. She only wanted to enjoy her holiday with her family.
Before Christmas eve, Cody asked Thea to come over to his house to shoot a short video clip to wish her fans a merry Christmas. After finishing the clip, Thea left the mansion and went back to her apartment.
However, before she could get to the building, she saw a couple of fans standing by the roadside. They were all hugging themselves against the biting cold outside.
Some of them looked quite familiar.
Thea remembered seeing their faces when they came to see her at the airport. She instantly told the driver to stop and got out of the car.
The fans swarmed up the minute they saw her.
“Thea! I love you so much! Could you sign this?”
Thea was curious, “How did you guys know my address?”
“Why? You don’t want to see us, Thea? We’ve waited for you for hours.” A fan sounded pretty sad.
Thea was signing their T-shirts as she shook her head, “See? That’s what I don’t want to see happening. It’s so freaking cold outside, and you guys still waited for hours. Don’t do this anymore. What if you catch a cold?”
However, before she could hear her fans say anything, one of the fans suddenly dashed out, holding a weird bottle of liquid in her hands.
“Hey! What are you doing?!” A fan detected the weirdness, and she instantly screamed.
She went forth and blocked Thea away from the weird woman.
That woman screwed the bottle open and threw the liquid in it at Thea’s face.
“Ahhhh! My eyes! It hurts! Help!” The girl who stood before Thea fell to the ground. Thea only realized what just happened now. A couple of bodyguards got off the car and got her in between, blocking her away from the attacker.
Thea watched in horror as she saw that girl’s face melt. There was acid in that bottle.
The attacker failed to throw the acid at Thea’s face. She threw the bottle away and ran off immediately.
“Call the ambulance!” Thea screamed as she pushed the bodyguards away, “There’s a box of bottled water in the trunk! Bring them to me right now!”
She dashed toward the girl and peeled her clothes off. When one of the bodyguards came back with the box of water, she screwed them open and used them to flush the girl’s face.
“Thea, It hurts…. It hurts so much.” The girl cried.
“It’s okay. You will be okay. The ambulance will be here soon. You will be fine.” Thea also wanted to cry, but she restrained her tears. She didn’t want to scare the girl. As she tried to comfort the poor girl, she also didn’t stop pouring water over her face.
The bodyguards went to chase the attacker. Thea went into the ambulance with the girl after it arrived, sending her to the hospital.
A couple of journalists showed up instantly, asking Thea questions, but she was deeply depressed. She waved them off. She couldn’t make herself all smiling and polite when the poor girl was still in the OR.
Without informing the company PR, Thea edited a tweet and sent it out when she waited outside of the OR, “This afternoon, an evil bastard suddenly showed up at my apartment building and tried to attack me. One of my fans got hurt because of the attack. Here is for my anti-fans, I’m not a piece of cotton candy that you can squish as you want. If you dare to hurt me or my fans, don’t let me catch you because I will sue you and send you to prison. Whoever that bastard is, you just ruined a beautiful girl’s life. Her name is Diana, and she’s only 17 years old. My bodyguards failed to catch you this time, but the police will find you. I saw your face. I will make you pay for what you did to Diana. I’ll see you in court.”
Thea had never been so furious in her life.
When the parents of the girl came, Thea went to meet them, giving them comfort and promising that she would pay all the money needed for the operation and following plastic surgeries.
Zara proposed to handle all those things for Thea, but Thea turned her down. She insisted on doing all these things by herself.
Thea had never expected something like this to happen to her or her fans.
Those people were out of their minds. Thea went to see the surveillance video of when that attack happened. When that anti-fan took out the bottle of acid, Thea was still signing a T-shirt. If Diana didn’t run forth, she would be the one who gets poured.
How evil and vicious were those people to come up with an idea like this? Thea couldn’t understand why some people could sink this low. The news about the attack stirred a storm on the internet. Most anti-fans Thea got generated from the show Chris failed to cast. Chris became the target of public rage overnight.
Some people guessed that crazy fangirl must be from his fanbase. She must have decided to attack Thea because she felt bad for Chris getting kicked out.
Chris’s tweets were swarmed with condemning comments. Chris couldn’t bear it anymore. He chose not to log in to that account anymore.
Thea’s fans started to raise money for poor Diana, sending her countless flowers and gifts to the hospital.
Thea noticed that those people started to cyber-bully again. So she sent another statement.
“Thanks for being so caring and sweet, guys. I’m okay now. This tragedy began with online bullying from one side. But I must ask you guys to stop condemning anyone before we have evidence. I don’t think Chris has anything to do with this. I believe most of his fans are good people, and no people in the world would want things like this to happen. I hope you guys can calm down and stop the bullying. I don’t want anything like this to happen anymore.”
“Is Thea trying to defend Chris?”
“Thea, come on. You don’t have to do this. It’s not your fault.”
“Guys, Thea is right. Showbiz is complicated. We can’t jump to any conclusion so soon before we find any evidence.”
“Thea is smart enough to handle this issue. Let’s just listen to her. We are not bullies. We’re better than that.”