Katelyn
I could remember pretty clearly the day that Alex called me and told me we were going to meet One Direction. You would think after waiting so many years for this one thing to happen we would have been in hysterics, but it was a lot less dramatic than that.
Alex won some radio competition that let her and two friends go backstage at the concert of her choice – Melbourne, duh – and hang out with the boys. So she picked me – once again an obvious decision – and Naks, who flew in from Sydney a few days ago to meet us for the first time.
And all of our meticulous planning and far-fetched hopes and dreams have come down to the penultimate moment; in an hour the concert is going to start, and then a few hours after that we’re going to be sitting backstage… with One Direction.
Alex
This may be the strangest combination of feelings to ever happen to me. I know I’m nervous, that’s kind of a given considering the situation, but apart from the fact that I’ve been changing my make-up and outfit almost every five minutes while Katelyn is in the shower I think I’m coping pretty well.
“THAAAAAAT’S WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFULLL-UH-UL!”
“Katelyn, how about you shut your fucking mouth!”
“Hey! Naks I heard that! I’m so very offended.”
We’re not even at the concert yet and I’m already getting a headache. Naks and Katelyn bicker so much, I mean we all do, but it’s seriously setting me on edge today and I don’t need this in my life. Speaking of things I don’t need in my life.
“Alex is that what you’re wearing?”
“Um yeah it is, why? No oh my god what the fuck is wrong with it seriously?! KATELYN GET OUT OF THE SHOWER AND TELL ME IF THIS LOOKS OKAY NAKS IS SCARING ME!”
“I was totally kidding man calm down, you look super-hot, two thumbs up.”
“Yeah Alex 10/10 would bang.”
We all know how lovely and supportive friends can be, but girls will be girls and we never believe these things no matter how many people tell us. It’s a hard life sometimes.
Naks
The car ride to the arena was the quietest us three girls have been since I flew in from Sydney the other day. It was really unnerving and threw me off completely, especially because when we got to the arena it was the total opposite.
Girls were already screaming and they weren’t even inside. The lines were so long and I really felt sorry for everyone that had to wait around to be let in. (Did that sound unbelievably snobby of me, because I may have meant it to be).
We were allowed in early and you could tell by the mass amount of dirty looks we got that people were not happy. I mean the judgement didn’t so much bother me, but it probably bothered Alex a whole lot more than she would ever admit too.
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“That concert was fucking insane girls!”
“It was actually so amazing; they topped the last tour they did here that’s for sure.”
My ears were still ringing from the blasting of the music, and the cacophony of screaming girls in one big room together, but now we were going backstage and the nerves were finally setting in.
Alex
The urge to take my shoes off was so real. The concert was incredible – we knew it would be but it’s always nice when your expectations are exceeded in these cases – but being on my feet for so long was definitely something I could have done without.
By the time we’d gotten backstage the crowd from inside the arena had thinned considerably, so we were allowed to stand on the side of the stage and look out. I could kind of feel a second-hand adrenaline rush; in that moment I thought I understood what the boys felt when they went on stage every concert.
“Hey Alex, look right where I point my finger and tell me what you see okay?”
“Okay? I’m looking, and I see a whole lot of people walking up the stairs to go outside.”
“No look at the rows of seats not the stairs.”
“Katelyn what the hell am I looking for?”
“Blindingly white t-shirt, even whiter sign? See it yet?”
“ONE DIRECTION SMALL ERECTION?! That is epic, whoever that is you are a legend and I will find you and tell you so myself!”
“We saw that sign while we were singing you know, not entirely sure how they would know the size of our erections but oh well, what’re you gonna do?”
Turning around to see Liam from One Direction practically eavesdropping on our conversation was not how I thought we’d make our first impression; just gotta push through the awkwardness now.
