At 8 o'clock, Kelsey showed up at my house in sweatpants, a t-shirt, and two over the shoulder bags. My mother had just left for a business dinner so we had the house all to ourselves. I cranked up the music and we went up to my room. First, we decided what we were wearing. Now, this was not a normal concert, this was a dress-up-as-crazy-and-weird as-you-can kind of place, and we were going all out. Kelsey was wearing a black t-shirt with the sleeves cut off and the bottom cut into fringe that went about an inch past her belly button and a bright orange bandeau underneath. She also had on glow-in-the-dark paint splattered jean shorts, and striped knee highs with converse. She was going to put her hair up in two high pigtails. I ended up picking blue spandex shorts that looked like they had a galaxy printed on them, a pink tank tip that was ripped so my tie-dye bandeau peeked through. I braided my wavy long blond hair into two braids on each side of my head and put a Indian headband across my forehead. We both did extreme makeup, and by 9:00, we stared at ourselves in the mirror. "Damn, girl! We be hot." Kelsey joked. We spent the next half hour getting tipsy enough to look like we were moving bar to bar, but not drunk enough to look like kids.
Kelsey picked up Kevin, Melissa, and Jack and we headed down to the concert. We stared at the line that formed outside of people waiting to get in. If we got in back of the line, we wouldn't even be able to see the stage, so the 4 of us stood sort of off to the side while Kelsey worked her magic. She had been eye-flirting with some guy near the front of the line, who was dressed in black and white striped prison pants and nothing else, before she made her move. "BRANDON!" She yelled to him, he looked at her confused until she repeated herself, "BRANDON!" he gave her a head nod and held his hand up, Kelsey motioned for us to join her and she started making her way up towards him, several people protested us cutting them in line but Kelsey would just calmly respond "He's my brother, we just stepped out of line for a sec." Finally we made our way to the kid and his friend, who only looked a year or 2 older than us.
We didn't wait long, but some people behind us had brought a music player and Kevin and I had danced to the techno that was blasting while we waited. Finally, the doors opened, and it was a mad rush to get in. The club was like an outside backyard, but huge. Lit up trees towered over us and had blinking cords running through the branches. We made it near the stage, towards the center, and lost sight of 'Brandon'. I looked around as the room filled up, hundreds were there. I turned to Melissa, who was talking to some girl next to her, and painting color streaks on the girls face. Melissa turned to me, "You want some, Miss Indian?" She giggled and dipped her fingers in little tubs of blue, pink, yellow and green face paint and drew streaks all over my face. I used my phone screen as a mirror, "Haha, cute." I laughed and drew the color on Melissa, then on Kelsey and Kevin and Jack. Most of the groups of people here, I noticed, all had something in common, must be so its easier to find each other. We had paint on our faces. The opening band went on and we started dancing and jumping around.
I pulled out my camera and tried to get a good shot but the people in front of me were too tall. I looked around, and was apparently obvious about what I wanted to do, because with in seconds, some guy had lifted me up onto his shoulders. I patted his head and he looked up at me, "Thanks" I shouted at him and he gave me a thumbs up. I took shots of the band, the crowd, and my friends. Glitter flew around and strobe lights started going off as the openers waved goodbye to the crowd, who was going wild for them. They had a twenty minute break until the headliners went on. I was about to ask the guy to put me down when I realized, there was no room for me on the ground. Everyone was pushing and bumping into each other already and my spot had obviously been moved into. I was going to lean down to talk to him but no way he would be able to hear me over the talk of everyone. I took out my phone I typed a quick message into my notes, "Is it okay if I stay up here? Theres no room for me on the ground." I handed it down to the guy and he looked up and me and grinned before replying, "Cool with me, babe. I'm Liam." I smiled when he passed the phone back to me, "I'm Lindsay, those are my friends next to you, with the paint." He nodded and said hello to them, Kelsey immediately started flirting with him. And he passed the phone back a few minutes later, "My friends are next to you and behind you, with the big blinking glasses." I tried to crane my head backwards but only managed to see one of Liam's friends, his glasses took up over half of his face and were purple with blinking lights on them, I laughed. Liam and Kelsey continued flirting so I stopped the conversation.
Suddenly, the lights on the surrounding trees dimmed and sparkled simultaneously. An announcer came on the stage and screamed "ARE YOU READY?" and the crowd responded very enthusiastically. I screamed and blew kisses to the drummer when he took the stage. He caught it and blew one back. I screamed louder.
By the 12th song, I wasn't sure if I had lost my hearing from the crowd or not because all I could hear or feel was the thumping of the bass run through my body. On the encore, the lead singer reached out and grabbed my hand and I felt like Obama had just given me 2 billion dollars. I fell back and felt the people around me grab me to stop me from falling. I grinned goofily up at one of the people in glasses as he held me in his arms. I felt him start to turn and I made eye contact with Kevin. We both made our hands into cell phones, our signal to keep in touch. The person holding me started talking to someone and soon we were on the move. There were four of us and whoever was holding me kept trying to talk to me, but I couldn't hear a thing and he looked drunk enough that he probably wasn't making much sense. We cut through the woods and when we got to a parking lot, he set me down on the trunk of his car and I looked at who I was with. My vision was blurry and the glasses covering his face didn't help, but when I saw Kelsey I screamed. I hugged her and we sat on the trunk of Liam's car and laughed at each other for what seemed like a long time. After a while Liam grabbed Kelsey's hand and led her into the car, and the guy who carried me cupped my face in his hands and I faintly heard him say "I'm Harry. Whatss… -our name?" I laughed and pressed me forehead up against his, "Linds…" Was all I could get out before I broke out laughing again. He picked me up and led me into the car, to sit next to Kelsey in the back seat, before falling asleep.
When we woke up we were pulling up to a street, I shot up, unaware of where I was, but stopped when my head felt like it would explode any second. I noticed Kelsey sleeping next to me and I pushed her until she woke up. We were both stable now, so it must have been hours later, and we were still driving? Where are we? I looked in the drivers seat and saw Liam. I sat back, "Where am I?" Liam turned, "oh, you're awake, good. We were gonna drop you off wherever you were staying but you were asleep and so we were driving back to our hotel. Do you want us to drive you home?" Kelsey put her hand up, "no. I need to pee. Right now." And with that she hopped out of the car and ran towards the hotel doors. Liam jumped out after her and tossed Harry his keys. I got out and so did the person in the passenger seat, Harry. My eyes were still foggy and my head was pounding when he took my hand and led me to a bench outside the hotel. I sat down and he sat next to me. I twirled a curly piece of his brown hair, I guess I was still a little drunk. "I'm Lindsay." I said and stuck my hand out for him to shake it, but I lost my balance and felt onto his lap. I shut my eyes and laughed. Harry started laughing too. I sat up and he put his hand on my neck, moving his fingers in little circle. Suddenly, we were kissing, and my hands were flying through his hair and Harry was pulling my closer, even though I was already on his lap.
I stopped him and pulled out my phone. I took a picture of him kissing my cheek and he programmed his number into my phone. Kelsey and Liam were back soon enough and Liam hailed us a cab. I hugged Harry goodbye and stumbled back into the seat with Kelsey right behind me. We told the driver the address of Lindsay's apartment and waved at the boys until we turned the corner.