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Chapter One- The Concert

The noise was almost unbearable! Lottie almost had to put her hands over her ears to cut out the piercing shrieks of the thousands of preteen girls around her.

Why did I ever agree to this? she thought to herself vaguely surprised that she could even hear her own thoughts but then as she looked sideways, her glance landed on the unusually hyperactive 8 year old beside her and smiled. She knew exactly why she had agreed, her cousin Emmie was the closest thing she had to a sister other than her best friend Rina who was sitting on her other side not even bothering to pretend the noise bothered her having already clamped both hands firmly over her ears with her eyes shut!

...Flashback...

Lottie was sitting in the garden of her parents' home under the cherry tree with branches that were heavy under the pale pink flowers. She looked up from her books that were spread on the ground around her when she heard the distinctive giggles of her favourite cousin. Her Aunt, who was her mums sister, and her Uncle were coming over for dinner that afternoon so she knew that meant Emmie would be with them. She smiled as the girl came bounding down the back steps of the ranch style house that Lottie lived in with her parents.

"Guess what!" the girl hollered as she ran across the grass to throw herself on the ground next to her cousin.

"I don't know; let me think um...Nate Grey asked you to marry him?" Lottie teased and her cousin went bright red and started spluttering.

"NO!" Emmie finally managed to gasp out her colour returning somewhat to normal whilst hitting her older cousin playfully on the arm.

"I'm just kidding Em no need to have a fit!" Lottie rolled her eyes and tickled her cousins' sides lightly.

"You know that competition I entered a while back?" Emmie continued on determined to get out her news.

Lottie didn't even need to think hard on that one, Emmie was an obsessive Connect 3 fan `pulling Lottie along for the ride half the time, she had entered a contest a few months ago to win tickets to one of their concerts and had been able to talk of little else ever since. "Vaguely" was all she said in a mildly sarcastic tone which Emmie didn't quite catch.

"I WON!" was the excited squeal from the little girl next to her who had a huge grin on her face. She was practically wriggling on the ground; well at least dinner was going to be interesting as Lottie suspected they would have a hard time shutting Emmie up today.

It was at that moment that her mum came out onto the back porch and called them in for dinner. So whilst Emmie babbled on in her ear about how extraordinary the show would be Lottie gathered up her books and they both headed back to the house to wash up before dinner. By the time they had made it back to the house and Lottie had greeted her aunt and uncle she thought she might need some sanity in the form of AIM to her friends after her family left later in the evening.

They all sat down in the dining room and then after grace had been said there was very little conversation as they paid homage to Lottie's moms cooking.

"Well," Lottie's aunt was the first one to break the silence, "I take it my little hellion of a daughter has informed you of her exciting news?" she asked Lottie but the sarcastic comment was delivered with such a huge smile that it was impossible to see it as an insult and if anything Emmie's smile grew wider.

"Yeah" Lottie said on a slight chuckle, "I think it was the first thing that she said to me!"

"Of course, there was something that we wanted to talk to you about to do with the concert!" her uncle joined the discussion, "both Lisa and I have to work on the day of the concert so we can't take Emmie, we have already talked to the coordinator to check it would be ok and if you were willing to it would be great if you could take her? You could take a friend as there are three tickets!"

"Are you serious," I asked, my mouth must have been hanging open as my mum made some comment about catching flies, although I rarely admitted it to anyone other than my cousin I was a huge fan of the band I love their music.

"Absolutely!" said my aunt, "would you fancy it then?"

"Yes I would love to, if you don't mind having your cousin take you Em?" Lottie added quickly to make her feel like she was having some say in the conversation although it's hard to know if she heard as she was currently doing a happy dance in her chair yelling Lottie's coming Lottie's coming over and over again. "I guess Rina would come if I asked her!" she said already looking forward to the concert which was in month's time.

"Cool Rina is coming too this is going to be the best ever!" Emmie stated as she continued to bounce up and down.

Later that evening Lottie's POV

When she logged onto her messenger account she was happy to see that Rina was already online…

Storygirl1988: Hey stranger it is so weird not seeing you every day, how r u?

Highlandgirl1988: I am fine little miss dramatic, how do you get along without me?

Storygirl1988: I substitute you with my 8 year old cousin!

Highlandgirl1988: Are saying I'm eight years old? (Sulks)

Storygirl1988: That depends, will you scream if I say we have tickets to a Connect 3 concert? (Eyebrow raised in question)

Highlandgirl1988: Maybe (Screams) are you being serious?

Storygirl1988: Would I be anything less (Crosses fingers behind back)

Highlandgirl1988: How did you manage that one they sold out months ago?

Storygirl1988: Emmie won the contest…three tickets and no available adults equals you me and Emmie at the concert in LA next month!

Highlandgirl1988: This is so cool…are you going to drive down with Emmie?

Storygirl1988: Will you fly or catch the bus up here?

Highlandgirl1988: I think I'll fly, I always feel ill on the bus!

Storygirl1988: Great and I'll have my car so we can get around.

Highlandgirl1988: Yep, so will you guys stay overnight?

Storygirl1988: Think it might be a bit late to make the drive back after we have hung out and met them all

Highlandgirl1988: (Screams like an utter fan girl) you mean we actually get to meet the GREY BROTHERS!

Storygirl1988: Hey you have Dan no pinching

Highlandgirl1988: There my celebrity crushes but Dan is way cuter!

Storygirl1988: If you say so you puddle. Lol.

Highlandgirl1988: What we're actually going on a date tonight, our first since spring break…speaking of which I need to get ready. Email me the details and I will book my flight tomorrow we can sort out where to stay later!

Storygirl1988: Fine but I expect a rundown of this fabulous date tomorrow! (Turns green)

Highlandgirl1988: Well I suppose you are taking me to Connect 3 concert so I promise tomorrow. Night, night. Xox

Storygirl1988: I'll hold you to that…have fun. Night. Xox

...End Flashback...

The girls didn't have to wait long for the lights in the auditorium to go down and then it was time for the concert to begin. The opening act was a girl called Mitchie and there was a surprise in the last song of her set when Shane Grey the Lead Vocalist of Connect 3 came on stage and sang a duet with Mitchie that had half the girls in the audiences awing and the other half shooting death glares. Lottie found that very amusing much to the disgust of some of the girls in her row who were looking at her like she was some kind of traitor. Emmie didn't seem to notice she was too hyped up to notice much although that may have had something to do with all of the sugar she had consumed that afternoon. After the three girls had met up at the airport they had spent their afternoon down by the beach eating ice cream and having fun, their hotel wasn't too far away from the stadium where the concert was being held. There was about a ten minute break after the last song in Mitchie's set and then the boys were running onto the stage smiling and waving to the audience.

"What's up LA?" yelled Nate through his mike but it was still difficult to hear him over the screams. The wide grins on their faces showed just how much they loved to perform.

"It is great to see you all here tonight!" Shane said, "Now as you all know I went back to Camp Rock this summer and as a result the band is trying some new stuff for our new album and switching up some of our old songs!" more screaming followed this announcement, "well we hope that you like it and let's have a great time tonight what do you say?"

The screams reached a point as they played the first notes of the boys' new single Play My Music. As the concert progressed and they played both old and new songs it was easy to see the subtle differences that they were putting in. Their new songs were absolutely amazing because they were blindingly true and no pun on the band name intended but they were easy to connect to. After 2 hours of solid performance the last cords of Goodnight and Goodbye reverberated around the stadium…that was until the screaming started up again Lottie and Rena looked at each other.

"How can they possibly still be able to scream?" Rena mouthed her hands firmly back over her ears to cut out the little banshee next to her who was in hysterics now that the guys had left the stage.

Lottie shrugged and turned to look at Emmie who was still jumping up and down but thankfully not screaming. She looked so happy and Lottie was doubly glad she agreed to bring her cousin to the show. They stayed in their seats until the stands were relatively empty before making their way out towards the souvenir stands in the lobby there was a massive queue but that didn't put the girls off they had a while to wait before they could go backstage any way. As they stood there waiting for the line to move Emmie began to lean into Lottie's side bunching up the fabric of her cousins shirt in one hand. Just as they got to the front Emmie slumped against Lottie apparently asleep.

"Shoot," Lottie muttered as she tried to keep Emmie upright and dig in her purse to pay for the 2 posters and T-Shirt she was buying.

"Let me!" Rina muttered she grabbed the purse from Lottie so she would have two hands to support the little girl with and took over purchasing Lottie's and Emmie's souvenirs before grabbing some for herself. She held onto the plastic sacks and their purses whilst Lottie swung the unconscious Emmie up into her arms. Considering that Lottie only just topped 5 feet in height this was no small feat. The information pack that had come with the girls tickets had told them to return to their seats where they would be collected to be taken back stage.

They had only been sitting down a few moments; Emmie still curled around Lottie when a huge scary looking security guard approached them. "Hey is one of you a Miss Emmie Jacobs?" he said in a deep voice.

"Um yeah that would be this sparked out eight year old, my name is Charlotte Hannon I'm Emmie's cousin and supervising adult and this is my friend Katrina Downs." Lottie had stood up again and as she did so her cousin had wrapped her arms and legs around Lottie like a limpet.

"That's great; do you guys have your passes?"

"Sure thing they are in my purse, do you think you could get them out Rina it doesn't look like Em is going to be letting go any time soon!" Lottie grinned as she tightened her own arms around her cousin and shifted the weight onto her left hip ever so slightly. Rina grinned in response and dug through Lottie's tote bag to find the envelope containing the passes.

"Here you are," she said as she handed them over.

"Perfect!" the man said after checking them quickly, "would you like to follow me please?" he motioned for the girls to keep up before he turned towards the front of the stadium and headed down the aisles to a door in the far corner. He waved a pass card at the electric lock and then pulled the door open, "The boys have just finished the meet and greet and are waiting for you in the green room!" he paused beside a door on the left hand side of the hallway, "I think you guys can probably take it from here, just knock and wait have a good time girls!" he smiled and headed off back down the corridor the way he had just brought them in.