Band One Shots! (Mostly Linkin Park so far...)

3 - Meeting Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)

My best friend Mia came to school and basically ran down the hallway with everyone staring at her as she slammed face first into the lockers beside me... yikes.

"I have them! I got them!!" She's yelling. It's not helping her case. Even teachers now look concerned.

"What is it?" I whisper. Everyone is S T A R I N G.

"The tickets! I got them!!" She hands me one.

"Lel Poppin?" I ask laughing.

"Yes!!! It's a ... hold on I'll tell you once everyone isn't watching okay?" Mia says.

"Uhm, sure..." I say to her. It is 1976 and a very strange day in October already. Mia and I have been friends since we met in fourth grade and never in my life have I seen her freak out like this before.

In first period everything starts to make sense. She explains to me that it's Led Zeppelin, they are coming to town in secret and changed their name to have a shorter fanbase. I am p s y c h e d and she can't stop jumping around. The tickets are front row seats!!

When the day of the concert finally comes around I go over to Mia's house and she does my hair and makeup. I have naturally long dirty blonde hair. She does my hair up in braids and I do hers. She then proceeds to do my makeup and I look so different when she shows me I can't believe it's me. I am not used to wearing makeup like ever.

We jumped into her dad's van and he drove us to the show. It is in a small club downtown, very weird for a band such as Led Zeppelin to play at. Walking in I am amazed at how the place is set up. There are mirrors on all the walls and lights EVERYWHERE. I stand near the front where the stage is. We are seriously so close to the stage we could touch the floor of it. Mia is jumping as the lights go down and a drum solo begins to play. Zeppelin approaches the stage.

Bonham is banging away, and Page is walking with his double-neck guitar. Then out walks Jones followed by Plant with his curly hair. Oh, his curls. Mia is screaming. He grins down at us. Oh my gosh he grinned at us!!

The band starts playing Dazed and Confused. I'm in love. The bass is so booming and the drums so loud... Page's solos are spot-on, and Plant's voice touches my soul so soothingly.

Then comes Whole Lotta Love. "You need coolin!" Robert Plant starts as he walks closer and closer to me... I am singing back at him as he reaches his hand down to me. Mia screams. I grab his hand. The next thing I know I am on the stage with him dancing with Mia beside me. She appears to be having so much fun. I am singing the lyrics along with Plant as he watches me sweetly and shares the mic. When the psychedelic part breaks down Mia and I lock arms and dance around circles on the stage. Plant is whaling while we are having the time of our lives. We are a psychedelic mess with the stage lights in our eyes and our hearts on fire. This is what life is all about.