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Flashing lights and a whole lot of yelling welcomed Luca and Iris as soon as they stepped out of the car. Iris took in her surroundings, startled at the chaos of the reporters who were eager, no, desperate to get pictures of her and Luca as they strolled down the red carpet.

This was her first outing with Luca and the reporters knew it. They couldn’t stop taking pictures and while the lights from their camera didn’t do anything to her, the activeness of the reporters was a bit too much.

She glanced up at Luca and he wasn’t bothered by the reporters. Instead, he ignored them, leading her with his hands around her waist to the entrance. Iris couldn’t help but let the pout form as she realised that he hadn’t told her there would be reporters and judging from his behaviour, he knew.

As they neared the entrance, she spotted couples posing for pictures which the reporters took advantage of, yelling questions at them which they just smiled and ignored.

“Are we going to take pictures over the