Who knows what i was thinking, was I really about to do this? Backstage wasn't so far away but it felt like 800 feet. Lets get this straight, I was first row, I payed 800 for this out of my own money, call me selfish but I wanted more than just a concert. I wanted to talk to them, be friends, or maybe even more. As they sang their last song I started to get nervous. Keep in mind Paul and Andy were both on duty. It was almost impossible but I had a plan, a pretty good one at that. I managed to get seating next to my best friends Jazzy and Claudia. They would be the key factors in this "plan" I had in my mind. As the boys finished up there encore of "I Want" my plan took into place. Claudia and Jazzy started having an "argument." Take in mind they both took krav maga and were very well skilled at fighting and of course made it easy for them to fake an "intense fight". The first person to glance our way was Paul, although he didn't take it too seriously at first, as soon as Jazzy "punched" Claudia in the gut, his eyes opened with awareness. The boys were backstage and I didn't have much time to get there before they left on their tour bus. Claudia and Jazzy somehow got about 11 more girls arguing with each other because of pushing and shoving. This is definitely now what I planned to happen. A few seconds later almost everyone in our section is just yelling at each other and being extremely violent. Paul and Andy both move swiftly towards the crowd obviously trying to control the crowd. Backup is being called and I give Claudia and Jazzy the signal (a part of the inbetweeners dance) stupid I know but it is the only thing I could think of. Take a moment to realize i just made this plan up about an hour before the concert started. Well, back to us sneaking out of the crowd...it was actually easier then we expected but we finally go to the halls heading to backstage and my hands were sweating nonstop. Jazzy holds me back and says to me "If you want to go back you can now because after this there is no telling what will happen, either get kicked out , arrested or get lucky". Claudia with a rude interruption bluntly states " I didn't do all this to not meet the boys" As they exchange glares I get in between to stop them from actually harming each other and reassure them with a nod this is what I want to do. I stop right in my footsteps because I am sure I just saw Harry's beautiful brown curls walk the corner of the hall. Knowing my friends they were probably just scared to bits and were looking around behind to see if anyone was on to us. "We're here", Claudia states. "I know" I reply. Jazzy is at a loss for words and I just put my hand on her shoulder comforting her letting her know it will be okay. Of course this was my idea and I never thought in a blue moon that I would ever even get past the stage. The gig was about 2,000 people , not too many so then again maybe this was meant to be. I turn the door knob slowly and the first thing I see is Niall's eyes move towards the door then meet mine. At this point I'm frozen and Jazzy gives me a big nudge , giving me a snap back into reality. As all three of us walk into the room Niall just keeps staring at me. You can call me delusional but I know when one of the boys of my dreams is staring right at me! Everyone looks so surprised as if we we were some magical mermaids sprouting from the gates of heaven. Liam breaks the silence with a "How did you all get in here?" Me being the only one able to speak answers as if Harry was my speech instructor with a "well, um...we just snuck in, I'm so sorry I wanted to see all of you so bad , do you want us to leave because if you do we will- Liam interrupts saying "calm down babe you are already here just sit for a while" Harry, Louis and Zayn, were sitting on a gray couch. The room was a tan color and the feeling in the air was so strange I must have been in a dream. Liam was standing up by a counter pouring himself what looked like some tea. Niall was sitting on a red couch across from the other boys with his head facing Liam. I finally took a step forward to sit next to Niall. It took me all in my power to do this because Niall was so beautiful you don't even understand. He was still in his red polo and it complimented his green eyes so well you would think he was an angel. Jazzy just squeezed herself in between Louis and Harry. Harry didn't seem to mind because Jazzy was the most beautiful out of the three of us. She had long wavy dark brown hair, she was short and had hazel eyes, had a waist of about 6 and the most long curly eyelashes ever. Me on the other hand had light brown hair, it was straight down my back, straight eyelashes and I was average height at least a little shorter than Niall , that was what was important. Claudia was blond and her hair was curly and to her shoulders, she had dark brown eyes and the best legs in the world ! She was about 5'8. Back to what was important is the fact that me, Joanne was sitting next to Niall freaking Horan. Right across from me was Zayn and he hadn't said a word, as if he was used to crazy teenage girls sneaking into backstage. My friends were 17, I wasn't because i just turned 18 the day before. Liam being the gentleman he is asked us if we wanted pictures and wanted the boys to sign things for us, I answered with a yes. So we all got up to take a group picture each. Me being the daring person that I am asked Jazzy if she would take a pic of just me and Niall, I asked Niall if this was okay and he wouldn't look at me but he said yes! He looked red but I couldn't tell maybe my eyes were deceiving me. I did one of those pictures where i kissed him on the cheek. That right there was the best feeling in the world. Well we were being rushed because the boys had to leave soon and who knows when security would come up and check on the boys. Jazzy took a single picture with Harry but instead Harry kissed her cheek. Gosh why didn't I think of that?! Claudia took a picture with Liam, a normal picture since he had a girlfriend and all, she wanted to be respectful but she was upset I could see the look in her eyes. After the pictures I took out a laminated poster of the boys with a black sharpie and had them all sign it. Niall took the longest to sign which i found strange. He also wrote his on the back which was again very weird. I didn't have time to look at it because Louis told us to get going for our own sake so I quickly put it in my bag. Claudia and Jazzy had their iphones signed real quick. Jazzy and Harry exchanged numbers, something in my stomach knotted up at the fact, she was so lucky to be beautiful. A random fact is that Louis was not as rude as everyone portrays him to be, he was smiling throughout everything. I felt like such a pushy person asking Niall for a hug but he held me so warmly I felt a connection and I'm sure he felt it too. I smiled at him and told him see you someday and he just smiled back. More with his eyes then anything. Jazzy gave harry a tight hug and Claudia gave Liam a hug. We all said our goodbyes to everyone and I specifically said bye to Zayn really loud because he hadn't spoke one word and I thought it was weird. He said "Bye babe" and let me tell you he spoke 2 words but his accent spoke a thousand. Haha well I was happy, Jazzy was happy, and Claudia was semi- happy. If there was one thing I wish would have happened is if Niall gave me his number!! On the other hand how lucky was I to have even been in the same room with One Direction!!? No, this was not real life, I need someone to slap me. So we are all on our way home now and we all go our separate ways. We get on the phone on a 3-way and Claudia tells us how lucky we were to have a "connection" with one of the boys because she didn't. We tried to comfort her but she just got more upset. We get off the phone because I get home and needed to eat dinner. When I finally got to my room I took out my laptop to get on twitter and tell everyone willing to believe me about my night. Claudia was having some unusually depressing tweets considering she got to see Liam and hug him. That was not the problem. There was one tweet that caught my eye in particular. It said "When your friends rub the fact that their dreams came true in your face" Now, Claudia is a naturally moody person but really? Out of the about 2,000 people that were there THREE got to go backstage and meet the boys. She should be happy! This reminded me, I never checked my poster to see how flawless the boys signatures were on MY laminated poster ! To be honest I always fancied Niall's signature the best seeing their signatures on magazines and stuff like that. I looked at the front and saw his missing..."OH YEAHHHHH!!" I bursted in animation. I didn't even want to turn the poster around.."what if its not there?" I thought. I started to question whether I was getting my hopes up too high. As I turned the poster around I saw his signature and I just couldn't handle my emotions! I took the poster out of the plastic, or whatever the stuff is. I looked down to see a message and it said, "hey, thanks for coming, we don't really get to meet many fans after shows , but I'm glad you came...I was wondering if you would call me some time? Maybe we could get to know each other, I think you are the princess I have been waiting for" Under that was a number, I'm guessing his. I jumped to the side in excitement and my tropical punch spilled just over the last 2 numbers. "SHIT BALLS" I screamed in an aggravated voice. I wonder why I have such bad luck. It was 1am and I doubt Niall was asleep but what am I suppose to do now? I thought about dialing every digit from 0 to 99 but how awkward would it be calling all these strangers and finally getting to Niall? It was late but I was desperate. I decided to try the next morning so I went to sleep.
