Gamer Superstar - Chapter 146

Chapter 146: [Bonus Chapter] 146 – Fan Club
Ayla was a huge fan of Jake Park, one of the biggest teenage pop singers.

Since Jake was an A-list artist, his Instagram account alone had millions of followers, so it was very difficult to get noticed by him.

Even though Ayla had a fan club account for Jake with over 200k followers, Jake never saw anything about her fan club and never gave Ayla the minimum attention she wanted.

Over time, this began to make Ayla more and more disappointed in Jake, as if the love she had to give him was never reciprocated in the slightest.

When scandals surfaced that Jake had abused and beaten Hannah Garcia, his ex-girlfriend, another pop singer Ayla loved, Ayla realized that the love she felt for Jake had been replaced by disgust.

The page she maintained, with over 200k followers, was updated less and less… until two months ago, when she didn’t even look at the account anymore, she abandoned it completely.

The problem is that for someone who started the page when she was 13 and made it a big part of her life and identity until she was 15, not following Jake and posting about him left Ayla with an empty feeling in her chest.

In one of her saddest moments, Ayla heard a song she had never heard before.

[In The End – BlackVelvet]

With every phrase the singer of this band sang, Ayla felt more and more that this song was written for her.

When the singer of BlackVelvet sang about how the person never appreciated him, about how the person always acted like he was something guaranteed in her life and that she didn’t have to do anything to keep him there.

About how he felt after trying and trying for so long, only to end up with nothing and none of it mattering…

Even when the song was over, Ayla couldn’t stop thinking about it.

At that moment she was only listening to recommended songs on MeTube, so out of curiosity she looked at the other recommended songs and saw one called “Numb”.

Out of curiosity, she clicked on the song and was surprised at how good the artist’s voice was and how cool the lyrics were.

Even though Ayla wasn’t a big rock fan, she really started to like this song.

At the end of the song, Ayla looked at the recommended songs again and noticed that unlike Numb and In The End, which were just songs with a picture and the lyrics on the screen, among the recommendations was a song that showed BlackVelvet’s face!

Ayla wasted no time in clicking on it, excited to see what the band’s lead singer looked like.

[Boyfriend – BlackVelvet]

To Ayla’s shock, there was only one boy on stage!

BlackVelvet is the stage name of a singer? Isn’t that a band?’ She wondered confused. Why doesn’t he use his real name?

While BlackVelvet played the melody of Boyfriend on stage, Ayla took the opportunity to take a closer look at him and was shocked by how handsome he was.

Bleached hair, black clothes, black necklaces and bracelets, singing in a crowded bar with a glass of booze at his side… BlackVelvet was completely in line with the BadBoy mental checklist Ayla had in mind.

‘He’s very handsome…’ She thought happily and moved closer to the screen to get a better look at him.

🎼🎶🎤

I can’t believe we’re finally alone…

I can’t believe I almost went home…

What are the odds? Everyone’s dancing…

And he’s not with you…

🎼🎶🎤

Hearing his voice in a husky, magnetic tone, Ayla was shocked at how cool he sounded singing it.

With every line of the song he sang, Ayla imagined him saying it to her and her heart was racing.

When she got to the chorus of the song and saw that he was singing it to a girl in the audience, the first thing Ayla’s mind did was imagine that she was standing in for that girl and he was singing it to her!

The more she watched the video and listened to the song, the more Ayla felt her body heating up and running out of air.

Finally, after three minutes, the song ended and Ayla was able to breathe normally again.

Uff

Ayla gasped as she stared at the computer screen.

Looking at BlackVelvet’s channel and seeing that he had just under 200k subscribers, she was surprised that such a small artist could cause such an intense reaction in her.

Without realizing it, Ayla stayed up all night listening to BlackVelvet’s other songs and watching the vlogs he had posted.

As someone who didn’t know him, it was very interesting for Ayla to see that he was an artist who not only posted music, but also recorded vlogs of his routine at gigs.

“If Jake recorded something like that…” She thought about the possibility, how cool it would be to see Jake being as human as BlackVelvet was when playing with his agent and cameraman.

By the time Ayla realized how much time she’d spent watching his videos, listening to his music, and looking at his Instabram posts, the sun was rising outside her room.

“I’ve been up all night watching something about an artist I don’t even know? How long has it been since I’ve done this for Jake?” She asked herself in shock.

Ayla only had two hours of sleep that night before she had to get up for school.

At school she showed BlackVelvet to her friends, but although they liked it, they were still so in love with Jake that they couldn’t care less about BlackVelvet…

This frustrated Ayla a bit.

Trying to find out more about him, Ayla searched for BlackVelvet’s fan club pages and found nothing!

How did he get 200k followers and nobody made a fanclub for him?’ she asked herself in confusion.

By the time she found the answer, BlackVelvet was less than 3 months into his career!

He grew to that point in just two months?! She was shocked.

It was at this point that she began to see BlackVelvet as a rough diamond, slowly being cut to shine in front of everyone around him.

‘I think I’ll start a fan club for him…’ She thought a little uncertainly, not knowing if she wanted to get involved in this again after what she’d been through with Jake…

As a temporary thing, Ayla decided to make the page for BlackVelvet and surprisingly she got over 100 followers on the first day of the account!

This started to get Ayla more excited about making some edits to BlackVelvet and posting them on the page and the numbers started to climb very quickly.

The more she searched for BlackVelvet to post on the site, the more she became addicted to it.

Up until 2 weeks after she created the page, Ayla received a notification on her cell phone while she was in the shower going to sleep.

[BlackVelvet liked her post].

Upon seeing the notification, Ayla froze.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!” She screamed excitedly in the bathroom, scaring her mother so much that her mother opened the bathroom door, worried that something had happened to Ayla.

But Ayla didn’t care that her mother had gone into the bathroom, she was just shocked as she stared at the Instabram notification, desperately trying to take a screenshot of it.

Something so simple, just a like, something that didn’t even take two seconds of BlackVelvet’s life, made Ayla very happy, but it was this simple thing that Jake never managed to do…

Unbeknownst to Noah, he had won the most dedicated fan he would ever have for his career, not only with good music and good looks, but the main factor was the Like he gave, which served as the recognition this girl never received.