Diamond had been to a Bormuga shop before, so she knew how much those people loved overpricing their clothes. If it wasn’t for the fact that they knew how to make nice clothes, she wouldn’t have bothered to enter the shop and shocked her sister that much.
However, that was something that she was planning to do. She needed Ruby to get used to that, as she didn’t want her to be fooled by a scheming man when she went to school.
As she didn’t have a lot of money back, then and was desperate to earn it big without working hard, Diamond suffered so much in a relationship that only brought her pain and humiliation in the end.
For the sake of a branded handbag, a fancy meal, and an expensive phone, Diamond went through a lot.
She didn’t want Ruby to follow in her previous footsteps. If she were to be used to spending money like that, then even if a young man approached her for the wrong reasons, she wouldn’t be fooled.
Several young girls were getting fooled for a meal and getting their lives destroyed because of that.
Only having one person in the family experiencing that was enough. She was going to raise Ruby well and do her best. But if Ruby decided to go on the wrong path herself, that wouldn’t be her fault.
She was a grown-up, and old enough to face any dire consequences of her actions.
Diamond began to pick several sets of clothes for Ruby since she already purchased several the last time.
As she stood in an aisle filled with dresses, she was busy pondering what type of dress she could pick for Ruby. She already purchased several before and she didn’t want any more dresses.
She barely wore them, so she didn’t want to fill her closet and then empty it next time without wearing the clothes. That was being wasteful, and she didn’t want to waste anything.
"Sister, what are you looking for?" Ruby asked curiously after seeing the conflicted expression on Diamond’s face.
"Which one do you prefer? The asymmetrical or halter dress?" Diamond asked Ruby without looking at her but at the two dresses that were right in front of her.
"Oh! I think that both of them are nice!" Ruby honestly responded as she looked at the overpriced dresses.
In her mind, she simply thought that her sister wanted to buy something for herself again.
And since each dress was priced at around sixty thousand dollars, she didn’t think that there was a way her sister would buy her something that expensive.
"That’s it. They are both indeed nice. Let’s get these two!" Diamond exclaimed happily upon hearing that.
Why choose one when you can just get everything?
In the end, Ruby watched helplessly as her sister paid another ridiculous bill that made her heartache. However, another shocking thing occurred when Diamond was paying.
"Oh! Ms. Perry, it seems that you are a VIP client of ours. You will get ....."
Everything that happened after, Ruby couldn’t recall. All she knew was that she woke up when she was in another foreign brand shop where Diamond was busy looking at handbags.
’Just what happened?’
Inside the bag shop, Diamond was in the middle of a wonderful conversation with some young woman who was busy looking at bags in the same section as hers.
"You must know your bags?" the other woman asked smilingly as she looked at Diamond.
Diamond shook her head lightly as she maintained a smile on her face.
"Not really. I just buy a bag that I find pleasing to the eyes. As long as it does the work that I want, then I go for it," Diamond answered sincerely.
A sense of fashion. She didn’t have that. What she had, however, was her intuition. As long as she likes something, she goes for it. That’s how she had been filling her closet.
"You are very different and I like you!" the young woman beamed as she said that.
Diamond couldn’t help but give another look at the young bright woman talking to her. She was very pretty, looked very young, and, above all, approachable.
Seeing her, Diamond couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like if she made friends with her.
She was lacking in friends after all and befriending the other didn’t seem to be a bad thing.
"Hehe, I am starting to like you too!" Diamond beamed at the young woman after concluding.
Upon hearing that, the young woman clapped her hands happily as she looked at Diamond with sparkling eyes.
"I am Clarissa, by the way. What is your name?" Clarissa introduced herself.
Diamond heaved a sigh of relief seeing that Clarissa was the first to make a move. Everything would start from there, and that’s how they would be able to proceed to the next stage.
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