Moments of Happiness

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Lauren ~ Show time

The music started and the screams became defening. I can't judge because I was screaming just as loud. As they came out and started singing, the screams got quieter and became singing. I could see Joey next to me singing her head off and dancing with some girls we had met when we found our seats. I smiled and turned back to look at the stage, Niall was dancing and being goofy, per usual. Harry was singing the intro to Change Your Ticket. The songs flew by, the boys singing their hearts out. Joey and I sang and danced and screamed.

Then during one of the small breaks where they joke around and tell stories, Harry is handed a bowl by one of the guards. He holds it over his head and turns in a circle.

"We have a surprise today! Two fans are going to get a special treat, that even we don't know about yet after the show! I am going to read the row and seat number and that is the first fan to win. This is completely random, I swear!" He says in that raspy voice of his. He then puts the mic in between his knees and reaches up into the bowl. "Section 3, row 15, seat 9." He says. Joey and I are in section 5, clear across the arena from that winner. All of section 3 cheers loudly. Then the guys go back to joking around, Harry hands the bowl back to the guy and joins Niall, Liam, and Louis for You & I.

After a few more songs, Niall goes and grabs the bowl from the guy. The arena gets quiet, everyone praying that it would be their seat that gets called.

"Section...5." Niall says, trying to build up the suspense. That's my section! I'm in section 5! Joey and I are hugging each other. Bouncing. I grab my ticket out of my pocket. Almost as if he read my mind as I read my ticket, he announced "Row 8." I showed Joey and she looked like she was going to faint. Seat 16, seat 16, seat 16, seat 16, I chanted. "And finally, seat..number.." and he stopped. He stood facing our section, I could have sworn he looked straight at me and said, "Seat 15."

Wait. What. I was ONE off!!!! But, wait. I turned and Joey had dropped into her chair. Chair 15!!!!!

I yanked her up and screamed and bounced and laughed. After a few moments Joey realized that this was real and started screaming and jumping with me. The girls all around us smiled at her, with a mix of excitement and hate of course.

The man took back the bowl and handed Niall a slip of paper to read. Instructions.

"Okay, lucky two winners. After the concert bring your ticket to the man who will be waiting at the front of the stage. He will have a sign so you know its him. Anyway, bring your ticket and a form of identification to him and he will have further instructions for you!" Niall said. Then pocketed the paper and yelled, "Lets get this party going, how does Act My Age sound?"

Joey was still having trouble completely understanding that she had won as the concert got closer to the end. But that didn't stop her from dancing and singing like crazy.

Harry ~ End of concert

We finished the concert with No Control. Which got the loudest screams of the night, just like we had expected. As we bowed and waved we left the stage and stumbled backstage. Concerts took everything out of us. We were dripping in sweat, voices strained, and faces aching from smiling so much. But none of it mattered because we had fun and we love to see the fans and to make them happy.

One of the techs had taken Nialls guitar and someone else handed us each water bottles. We went out the stage door to the waiting golf cart that would take us back to our dressing room. Once we got their we took quick showers and changed out of our sweaty nasty show clothes and into dry fresh ones. Lou then worked her magic again and made us presentable. Once we were all looking good we were put on a golf cart again and taken to the green room.

We were left there with some of our security team and no information. Niall found a soccer ball behind the couch and Louis joined him. Liam had flopped onto the couch and looked like he had already fallen asleep. So I grabbed my phone and scrolled through Instagram. I even posted one of my typical black and white artsy pictures I had taken earlier on our way here from the hotel this morning.

After a couple minuets I got bored, and after making sure Liam was still breathing, I joined Niall and Louis in playing a miniature game of soccer with a couple of our security team.

Lauren ~ after the show

We did as Niall said and when we could we made our way down to the front of the stage. There were still a lot of girls still here, waiting to see what Joey and the other winner had won. We got down to the stage and found the man with the sign, there was already another girl there, she was about 14 or 15. She was showing him her ticket, and after he inspected hers, he checked out Joeys. He nodded and told us that I was allowed to go with Joey and that the girls mother was allowed to go with her. We nodded and then followed the man to a set of stairs that led up to the stage. There were already crew members on the stage beginning to take apart the stage.

We were allowed to stop and take pictures, and we did. Then we were instructed to continue to follow the man. We learned that his name was Dean. He toured with One Direction as security and crowd management. He pointed out things like the guitar cases that Nialls guitars were in, and the boxes that held their mics. Dean lead us out the stage door and into the tunnels under the arena. We were lead to a conference room where we met Mr.Willis, the man from management who organised this. We were asked to sign confidentiality agreements as well as media slips. Just in case, he told us.

That all took about half an hour. We also found out that the other winners name was Olivia, a 14 year fan from Maine here with her parents. They looked tired and just ready to go home. Then, once the forms where signed, we were lead out a different door to two golf carts that would take us to the surprise.