BEST FUCKING DAY EVER
(just going to warn you guys, it was a VERY long day and therefore this will be a VERY long rant sooo...deal with it)
(also it's only me, Rena, and Casey in the pic because my friend doesn't want her image on the Internet so yeah, no Nia or Miranda, sorry)
Okay, let's start from the top.
Sort of.
So it was like 2:30, the Hey Violet hangout was at 4, and Hartford is AT LEAST a half hour away, without traffic.
We don't have our tickets printed.
My friend and I started freaking out that we were going to be late and miss it, but it turned out okay and we left at like 2:50.
We got there about half an hour early, payed $30 for parking because the free lots weren't open yet, and somehow managed to get to a decent spot for the hangout.
While everyone was waiting for Hey Violet to come out, people started taping up posters on the fence behind where the band would be sitting. There was a 5SOS Pepe the Frog poster, a poster covered in pictures of Doge, a sign that read "IT WAS SATAN" , and a picture of Bill Nye. Then someone found a pizza box with one piece of pizza in it and put it on one of the chairs and wrote "Casey, PROM??" on the inside cover of it.
THEN THEY CAME OUT
THEY'RE SO FREAKING ADORABLE
During "I Can Feel It" Nia kept laughing because of this sign she saw and there were these girls wearing KFC buckets on their heads and they said it was because Ashton worked at KFC and Nia said she didn't know that and that she's never going to let him live that down now.
When they finished their set (it was only two songs, unfortunately) everyone got in line to have their picture taken but there was like 500 PEOPLE there so we couldn't get hugs from the members :( BUT
I made these little sculptures of Hey Violet out of clay a while back and I decided to give them to them so when it was time for my picture I handed the little container I had them in to Rena and she was like "AWW THAT'S SO CUTE!" AND SHE HUGGED ME
I STARTED INTERNALLY SCREAMING AND I HONESTLY STILL AM
After that my mom and my friend and I went to get some merch. I got $130 worth of it (2 shirts, the Hartford show's poster, and a program) then my friend and I went to go wait in line for the doors to open even though they didn't until it was like 6 and it was like 4:30 then. My mom went to sit on the curb because she didn't feel like standing that long.
HERE IS WHERE IT GETS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY
So my mom was sitting there, and I looked over at her and see her talking to this random guy and nodding along to what he was saying.
Then I saw him hand her something and she gave him money back.
I nudged my friend as my mom walked over to us because I had no idea what was going on.
"How would you girls like to have VIP seats?"
My friend literally screamed and scared a bunch of people in line around us.
I kept telling her not to get her hopes up as my mom went around to see if they were legit because come on, I had been waiting over a year and I'd been forced to have LAWN TICKETS that entire time.
But then my mom came back and waved us over.
We got into thE VIP LOUNGE THING
It was so surreal...there was this table full of candy (including "Luke's Nerds" and "Ashton's Skittles" but nothing of Cal or Michael's) and this weird glitter tattoo thing, plus nice comfortable chairs and oh my god it was so cool.
We got into the venue at like 6:30 and WE WERE LITERALLY 14 ROWS FROM THE STAGE
We waited around and they played Nickelback (surprise, surprise) and a bunch of other music before Hey Violet finally came on.
We sang the Bill Nye theme song and it turns out Casey has never had Dunkin Donuts before and everyone screamed and it was so awesome
Then we waited longer and THEN
5SOS CAME ON
I can't put my excitement into words, honestly...I'll just go over the highlights.
During Don't Stop, Michael stole Calum's mic at the first refrain, then pushed Calum away from his mic when it was time for his solo.
Before Amnesia, when Calum was talking, Michael kept strumming his guitar whenever Cal spoke.
Michael went all-out with American Idiot and didn't hold back on swearing at all.
I WAS ON MICHAEL'S SIDE AND SCREAMED THE ENTIRE TIME
My friend hit me in the head while attempting to get Michael's attention.
Also, it's now the next day and I still can't properly hear out of my left ear
Yay
I think the best part about the whole thing was the fact that, as we were getting in the car to leave, guess what was playing on the radio.
SHE'S KINDA FUCKING HOT
Post-concert depression is starting to hit as I'm writing this on my bed with my Hey Violet shirt on and I'm not enjoying it so far.
Pray for me.
-Cat
P.S. I actually meant to publish this last night, but wattpad deleted most of this rant before I could publish it and I was too tired to try and rewrite it, plus my wifi was being shitty.
