Before I Die

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Finally, the concert started. First 5 Seconds of Summer opened up for One Direction. It was amazing. I loved those four boys almost as much as I loved One Direction. They did an amazing job and the show was just perfect. 

After 5SOS finished, the intro video came on. It was even more amazing, funny, and perfect than it was when I watched it on YouTube. After that the boys started singing Up All Night. I jumped around and sang along with the familiar song. 

"Lucy, singing and dancing like that can't be good for your lungs," my mom said with a worried expression on her face. I have lung cancer, by the way. A lot of my relatives are smokers and I guess I got it from being around a lot of second-hand smoke. My lungs weren't all that great when I was born, so the smoke definitely wasn't good for me. 

"It's fine mom. I can do it," I replied. 

"I wanna stay up all night and jump around until we see the sun, I wanna stay up all night and find a girl and tell her she's the one!" They sang. I was pretty sure Harry was looking at me when he sang about finding a girl and telling her she's the one. No, stop Lucy. Harry would never fall in love with an ugly, bald, sick girl like you. I tried to ignore my annoying mind and focus on having fun at the concert. 

Up All Night ended and Louis started talking. 

"Helloooo Dallas! How are you sexy people doing tonight?" I laughed when he called us sexy people. Ashton, from 5 Seconds of Summer, always called the fans "sexy people" when he tweeted about us. Louis talked for a few minutes, and then they sang I Would and Heart Attack. 

After Live While We're Young Niall talked. I knew the concert was almost over. They would sing What Makes You Beautiful and the best night of my short life would be over. 

"You're insecure, don't know what for. You're turnin' heads when you walk through the doo-o-or," Liam sang. Tears starting rolling down my cheeks, smearing my makeup. I was just thinking about how far the boys had come since their first single, What Makes You Beautiful. I was so proud of these five idiots who ruined my life. 

"Don't need makeup to cover up, being the way that you are is enou-ou-ough. Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you.

Baby you light up my world like nobody else, the way that you flip your hair gets my overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell you don't know oh oh, you don't know you're beautiful. If only you saw what I could see you'd understand why I want you so desperately. Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know oh oh, you don't know you're beautiful, oh oh, that's what makes you beautiful.

So c-cmon, you got it wrong. To prove I'm right I put it in a so-o-ong. I don't know why you're being shy and turn away when I look into your eye-eye-eyes. Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you.

Baby you light up my world like nobody else, the way that you flip your hair gets my overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell you don't know oh oh, you don't know you're beautiful. If only you saw what I could see you'd understand why I want you so desperately. Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know oh oh, you don't know you're beautiful, oh oh, that's what makes you beautiful. That's what makes you beautiful.

Na na na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na. Na na na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na." They sang.

Oh gosh, it was time for Harry's solo. I thought I was going to die when he started pointing at me and reciting the words.

"Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell," his solo ended and the other four boys joined in.

"Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell you don't know oh oh you don't know you're beautiful. If only you saw what I can see you'll understand why I want you so desperately. Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know oh oh you don't know you're beautiful oh oh you don't know you're beatiful, oh oh that's what makes you beautiful!"

The song ended and they all yelled goodbyes and thank yous into their microphones. Harry blew me a kiss before walking off the stage. 

So, yeah. It was the best three hours of my entire life so far.

The mob of people leaving was very chaotic. My lungs were getting very tired from singing and walking around so much, so I closed my eyes and focused on breathing through the tubes connected to my nostrils.

Come on lungs. You can do it, just a little while longer of walking and you can sit down in the car.

A security guard came up to me and asked if I was okay. I wasn't okay at all, but I didn't want to admit it. My mom would be annoyed. I needed to sit down. I had to. Something bad would happen if I kept walking and pushing through the crowd.

"I need to sit down. I can't breathe very well," I told the guard. He started walking towards the backstage area and gestrued for my mom and I to follow.

When we got back there he took me to a little couch in the dressing room. It was really comfortable. No one was in the room, but a few seconds later Michael, Luke, Calum, and Ashton came in. They looked surprised to see me sitting on the couch.

"Oh hey, you were in the front row weren't you? I remember you," Calum said. I nodded. I wanted to talk to them but I was too out of breath at the moment. 

"Well, that's cool. Not to be rude or anything, but why are you in our dressing room?" Ashton asked. I looked at my mom and she realized I was waiting on her to explain for me.

"Lucy has lung cancer. She can't breathe very well right now because she was singing too much even though I warned her that it was a bad idea," my mom told them. They all nodded, and Luke sat down next to me on the couch. 

"Move over, Luke. I want to sit too," Michael said. I stood up and told them I could sit on someone's lap if Michael wanted to sit. He smirked and sat down. His arms wrapped around my waist and pulled my small body onto his lap.

"So how are you feeling?" Calum asked. I told him that I was feeling better and that I would leave as soon as the crowds died down and I could easily walk through the place. He nodded and we all started talking about how great the show was.