The Better Life // Ryan Ross

The Concert

I woke up in the morning around 9-ish. Thankfully I was greeted by my soft, fluffy, black-grey shnoodle on the left side of my pillow."Good morning, Lolu. How are you today?" I said scratching her head as she responded yawning. I got up and stretched my arms and legs before walking out of my room with Lolu following. I automatically got hit in the face by the scent of pancakes comming from the kitchen. I couldn't help myself, I ran past our bathroom and my play room and automatically sat in my usual spot at our table.

"Good morning, Jamie. Have you gone to the bathroom yet?" asked my Grandma walking out of our kitchen with wide eyes and a plate of pancakes.

"No. . ." I replied looking down.

"You know the drill, you go to the bathroom before, you eat breakfast. Now go to the bathroom before Grandpa does." I got up and did as she said. I did my business and walked out to see my dog in her play bow position.

"Who's a good dogiee? Who's a good dogiee?" I asked her.

"Wraf!" replied Lolu.

"Yes you are! Now, who wants pancakes?!"

"Woof!" and with that she walked around in a circle and ran down the hallway to my grandma who was sitting down eating.

"Im done." I told my grandmother as I was sitting across from her in my spot.

"Good." and with that she put a pancake on a plate that was already infront of me.

"Thank you, Grandma."

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My day went by pretty fast so when it was about 5 that afternoon I went to Audrey's apartment wearing black leggings, a turquoise shirt with a black mini jacket and turquoise fuzzy booties.

*Knock,knock, knock*

"Jamie, your here!" yelled Audrey as she hugged me, practically squeezing the life out of me.

"Can't. . . breath. . ."

"Sorry about that. Mom, Jamie's here!" she said pulling me into her apartment.

"Hi there Jamie! Are you guys ready to go?"Audrey's Mom asked us.

"Sure are, Mama."

"Okay, because I don't know what time we're coming back I got you two these hats." she said giving us both a black beanie with the letters FOB in a dark purple.

"Thank you!" Audrey and I said as we attacked her with double hugs. We walked out of their apartment and into their black SUV. When Audrey and I were comfortable and Audrey's mom got in the front, she put in a Fall Out Boy cd in and started the car. Audrey and I fell asleep in the back of the car while her mom was jamming out. Hopefully, she kept her eyes on the road while we sleeped.

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After about 2 hours of sleep, we finally made it to the concert.

"Girls. Wake up, we're here!" announced Audrey's Mom.

"5 more minutes mommy!" Audrey whined still sleepy.

"No. Now lets go see rock gods."

"Ughh. . ." Audrey and I said in unison getting out of the car. Audrey's mom had the tickets so she showed him our tickets before letting us in. As we walked away I saw him look at her like she was crazy I didn't understand why until I remembered that a 27 year old woman had brought two 7 year olds to a rock consert. Oh well, at least not many kids get to say that they went to their first consert when they were 7. We all walked into the venue and saw that it was a standing room only. "Ughh. . ." Audrey and I whined in unison again still tired. Audrey's Mom managed to get us to the front of the room to see the guys perform and soon enough, they came out. After about 5 minuets of people screaming out their names, they introduced themselves and started to play.