When in La Jolla

Don't Pout

As we are walking towards the room Vinnie asks, "so have you listened to the opener's stuff at all? We are meeting him too." I was too busy thinking about Drake I didn't even realize he had an opener. "I don't know who is it?" I ask. He grabs my hand and says, "Jack Harlow, I've heard a few of his songs. He is pretty good. He's still pretty small but I bet him touring with Dark will make him blow up." I shake my head, "Yeah I don't know but he has to be good if he's touring with Drake." We make it to the room and wait outside the door until it is our turn to go inside. The security woman explained there are two rooms. The first one has the opener and the next one is Drake. Finally, the security lady standing at the door points at us and then to the door and says we can go in. My hands start sweating and I get super nervous in a good way. Vinnie opens the door for me and I see a man wave at us. I assume that this is Jack Harlow. He is a tall handsome man with curly hair. He has a bit of a mustache and beard coming in that really suits his face. He is also wearing an all-black outfit that makes him look intimidating. I instantly feel fluttered, I have never felt this way just looking at someone but wow. He smiles over and tells us to come over to him. He grabs my hand and kisses it, I can feel my cheeks turn bright red. "Now what is your name gorgeous?" Vinnie answers for me and says, "her name is Hibba" he sounds almost angry saying it. Jack continues looking at me and says, "Hibba, that is such a pretty unique name." He had completely ignored Vinnie and now I realize that I am too. I snap out of this trance he has put me under and grab Vinnie's arm, "This is Vinnie, he really likes your stuff!" Jack thanks him and we all get a photo together. Security tells us it's time to go into the next room, as we are walking away Jack shouts, "Hibba I hope to see you around soon!" I try to keep my head down so Vinnie can't see my smiling. The next door opens up and I see my role model smiling at me. After that, everything went black.

I wake up in a bright room, I am having a hard time opening my eyes but I hear someone saying my name. I slowly open one eye leaving the other one shut and I see a blurry Vinnie standing over me. I ask what happened to me. He told me that I passed out and that we are in the medical area now. He asks how I am doing and I sit up, "well, I was so excited to meet Drake that I might have forgotten to eat." He asks the nurse if she has any food and she walks away to see what she can find. I can already hear the music playing so I assume Jack is on right now. "Should we leave, I don't want you to pass out again?" I shake my head, "No way, I will eat something and be fine. You can go to the VIP section while I eat and I will meet you down there, I don't want you to miss anything?" He asks if I'm sure that's okay and I say yes even though I want him to stay with me. He nods his head and tells me to check my camera roll and that he will stand near the end so I can find him easily. I look at my phone and click on the photos app. There was a video of DRAKE holding my phone. I click play and he makes a silly face with his tongue out then pans the camera over to me and says, "look at this goofy ahhh!!" and then he ends the video. I start dying laughing, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT. Drake making a video while I look dead on the ground. After several minutes the nurse came back with a large pretzel. She told me they didn't have anything so she got a pretzel from one of the food stands. The music had stopped playing so I knew Drake would be on soon. I started to eat and heard a knock at the door. I thought it was Vinnie who decided to come back and stay with me. They open the door and I realize it is Jack. I get red again and wave at him. He looks sweaty and tired which means he probably just got off stage. He asks if it is okay if he comes in and I nod my head. "So I saw your little fan girl moment with Drake and wanted to make sure that you are okay?" I smile and say, "yes I am better now, that was so embarrassing. Of course, I had to pass out in front of Drake." He walks further in and sits in a wheel-y chair across from me. He pushes his feet moving the chair closer to me. He puts a hand on my knee and says, "Well he says he really knows how to take a girl's breathe away but I didn't know he meant literally." I can't tell if he is trying to flirt with me or is just being friendly. His hand is still on my knee, I look down at it and look back up. He has been staring at me this whole time. I start to feel shy and a little light-headed again. I don't say anything so he keeps talking, "Are you from LA, I just moved here from Kentucky and I need some people to hang out with." I explain I am only here for the summer but I don't know anyone besides Vinnie and my roommates. He hands me his phone and tells me to put my number in so that we can hang out sometimes. "So speaking of your boyfriend, where did he go? He really can't stay here and make sure you're okay?" I shake my head, "Well this is his birthday gift so I didn't want him to miss the concert because of a little slip-up I had." He makes the little tsk sound a few times, "well I saw him walk up to VIP without you so I skipped my last song to make sure nothing was wrong." I wonder how he even noticed that or remembered Vinnie and me after meeting so many fans today. He moves his hand a little further up my leg, "I don't think he is good enough for you. He is a boy and you need a man to really treat you right." For some reason, I don't want to move his hand and I like it sitting there but I know I have to make this stop. I grab his hand and move it off of me, "Jack you seem nice and I would love to be your friend but I am dating Vinnie and I don't want things to get messy here." He shrugs while saying, "I can work with that but just know if things don't work out don't be afraid to call me." I laugh, "Okay yeah Jack whatever you say. Vinnie is having a birthday party on Friday, we are renting out a club if you want to come?" He looks at me confused, "Do you think that's a good idea?" I look at him and nonchalantly say, "Why would it not be? As long as you respect my boundary I would love to be friends with you. I'll send you the details." He stands up and starts to walk out, when he grabbed the door handle he turned around and said, "See you Friday." He then winked and walked out. I sat there unable to move. An extreme flood of guilt ran through me but I registered that I had done nothing wrong. I told him that I had a boyfriend and stopped him from doing anything. But this feeling still sat there in me. I didn't want to admit it but I think I might have a crush on Jack. I have this perfect kind boyfriend in front of me but there is something so mysterious and intriguing about him. I hope I would actually see him on Friday.

I grabbed my hand and slapped myself in the face, I can't let myself think this way. I finished the rest of my pretzel and walked out to the VIP area. Drake had already started but at least I would get to see a few songs. I saw Vinnie and walked over to him, he was drinking a beer and jumping along to Drake performing Gyalchester. I tapped his shoulder and he looked over, he yelled my name loudly then pulled me in. I could tell he was drunk, I have only seen him drunk a few times but it isn't a pretty sight. He will drink until he can't anymore every time. I look up at Drake and start dancing and singing along. After a few songs, Vinnie yells in my ear that he is going to get another beer. I yell back saying I just got back and I want him to stay with me. He yells back, "You'll be fine. Don't pout, just enjoy the concert. I'll be back in a sec." I roll my eyes and he can see that I am upset but he still walks away. And this is why I do not like him to get drunk, he gets angry and all the good is taken away. I don't let him get to me and decide to focus on Drake and only Drake. Vinnie had come back acting as if nothing happened. Drake started speaking before his last song, "while y'all are going home I will be staying out and partying all night! This one goes out to the shawty that passed out when she saw me. I'm sorry I'm way 2 sexy! Get it HAHA!!"

Then the music kicked on and he started singing Hold On, We're Going Home as his last song and the crowd went wild. Jack came on and started singing it with him. They both have such a confident stage presence and really knew how to captivate the audience aka me. They bowed after the song and Vinnie grabbed my hand to walk out. I started to tell him how much fun that was even though I had passed out. Before I could finish he told me I had to drive and threw me his keys. I asked him if he had fun and he slightly nodded his head trying to keep his eyes open. Damn this man is fucked up. I had to open the door to the car and get him inside, I felt like his mother. He was trying to talk while I was driving but he was slurring his words so badly that I just turned up the music to tune him out. He had been selfish and rude for the majority of the night and it made me super upset. I called Baron off of his phone once we made it to the house and asked for help bringing him in. He came out and each put an arm around our shoulders and brought him up into his room. I went downstairs and immediately passed out after a long stressful night.