WELL HERE’S HOW IT STARTS.

I convinced my parents to let me go down to Detroit with my 2 friends because we didn’t have tickets to the BTR/1D concert, but we wanted to see if we could just get, I don’t know, a glimpse of them.

THINGS WENT BETTER THAN EXPECTED.

Well for one, we got there and absolutely froze our asses off. But we made some friends! We just stood outside the gates to where the buses were and were kind of being the most obnoxious people in the entire world, but at least a few kids around us were actually entertained. Side note: the PENIS game is extremely fun.

Okay so between 1:30 and 5:30, we had seen all of BTR as a collective group. Kendall came over to talk to us towards the beginning when there was a smaller group of people standing around, and other that the others kind of just waved as they walked by.

BUT GET THIS. When One Direction’s car pulled by us, everyone absolutely flipped out. We all ran after the car trying to get pictures and just generally trying to get a wave/smile out of the boys, and they seemed like they were reasonably entertained by it all despite the fact that everyone was smacking their faces against the window.

So after the car disappeared around the corner, Anna, Suzie and I BOOKED IT back to our spots at the fence and just when we got there, 1D was walking from their car into the venue. They all waved and stuff, and I had a great view of their faces but REALLY HOW ARE FIVE PEOPLE SO PERFECT.

So after standing around for another 20 minutes, we went back to the car and moved it from the starbucks parking lot to the parking garage across the street. We sat in the car, regained the feeling in our fingers and toes, and then went to eat at Hockey Town.

Now this is where shit gets just great.

Okay, so we finished eating, mucked around a bit, and then went back to where we were standing before, in front of the buses.

One of the security guards (ROBERT I BELIEVE?!) said that we’d have a better chance of meeting 1D if we were there after they performed, because they’d be walking to their bus.

BUT GET THIS.

We were standing there talking to these 4 girls who were also unlucky enough to not get tickets, when Carlos Pena from BTR came over to talk to us when he was playing with his dog.

Okay so we had a nice chat with Carlos. Super amazing guy, really, really sweet. And then he went back inside to put his dog back in it’s cage.

So when he came back out, he walked over to us and we asked if we could get a picture with him, seeing as we were a small group. There were 10 of us there at this point.

Carlos. This beautiful, beautiful man. He goes, “I’m not sure if I’m allowed to do that. How many of there are you?”

We counted real quick and told him there were 10 of us.

So he laughs and says “You’re killing me here! I only have 8 tickets!”

NEEDLESS TO SAY WE FLIPPED.

So the 4 girls that were there originally got 4 tickets, and the other 3 went to Suzie, Anna and I. The last ticket went to those girls’ mom apparently. The other three girls that were with us didn’t really care I don’t think, well I know at least one didn’t.

SO CARLOS. I OWE YOU EVERYTHING.

They were 7th row in the center.

And throughout the concert, he kept waving to us because he knew where our seats were.

AND OUR NEW FRIEND BRIANNA GOT PULLED UP ON STAGE BY BTR. They sang to her and kissed her on the cheek and oh my god.

But when BTR came out into the crowd, Logan was legit 2 feet away from my face and I touched his hand YES.

I love life.

Seriously.