Is this a dream?

I haven’t been to a lot of concerts before, in fact, before this one I’ve only seen one other concert. And now, I was finally going to see my favorite band in my favorite city. A Day To Remember playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, and I had a ticket. Was this real? It felt like a fantasy.

 As the day of the concert came closer I almost couldn’t contain my excitement. I would bring it up everyday when talking to my friends at school. But there was an issue that I knew my mom wasn’t going to be very happy about, I had only bought one ticket and that meant going to this huge city for a concert by myself. I hadn’t even told her about the concert at this time either. Luckily, I ran into one of my friends at the gym and he is an even bigger A Day to Remember fan than I am; of course I brought up the concert and found out he was going as well. We got to talking, I now had a ride AND someone to enjoy the concert with. Only thing that sucked about the situation was that he and his sister had VIP tickets that included meeting the band. So he was able to go into the concert earlier than everyone else. Which meant I had to wait in line by myself, but at that time I didn’t really care because I had a way of getting to the concert with a friend.

 It was time to talk to my mom about the concert, at first she wasn’t too happy about me going but eventually she said yes. I think she became tired of me begging her to let me go. A few days later I had tweeted about the concert coming up and one of my other friends said that him and his sister were going too. I asked him where he was sitting and luckily enough our seats were almost right next to each other. So we had decided to all meet up when we arrived in the city that day.

The day I had been looking forward to was finally here! School was over and I was headed home to change and grab a few things before we got on the road. About three hours later my friend Lalo, his sister and I were in San Francisco. It had taken us a little while to actually find where the venue was and to park. We ended up parking quite a ways away so we had to walk for a while to get in line. We met up with our friend Ero and his sister a few minutes later. The doors didn’t open for a few hours so we were stuck waiting outside the venue. After about five or so minutes of waiting in line, a guy walks up to us and starts to talk really fast. I couldn’t really understand what he was trying to say at first until I realized that he was hitting on me. Both Ero and Lalo picked up on it as well and were trying to just get him to keep walking but he wouldn’t. It was getting uncomfortable for me and my friends could see it on my face. Eventually the guy kept walking but he wasn’t our last encounter with a homeless person while waiting in line. After a few hours of waiting the doors finally opened and it wasn’t long until we were inside headed to our seats. There were a few bands opening up for A Day to Remember, so it was about an hour and a half before they actually took the stage.

The time I had been waiting for so long was finally happening! A Day to Remember was taking the stage; the lights dimmed down to just a spotlight on the backdrop of the stage. The shadows of the band members walking across the stage made the crowd go insane. Then as the guitars started to be played the venue became even louder with cheers. Their opening song was called “Second sucks”, one of the bands most popular songs.

I won’t ever forget that night. I experienced watching my favorite band perform live in one of my favorite cities with people that loved the band as much as I do. It was one of the best days I’ve had and the bands performance was unforgettable.

A Day To Remember- All I Want