Chapter 7
The next morning I woke up and glanced around my room at all my posters, This was it, finally, the day I had been waiting for for so long, the day of the concert. I woke and ran downstairs to eat breakfast, my mom put a bowl of cereal in front of me, but I was to excited and nervous to eat. I still had a whole school day ahead of me, then Stephanie was coming over to get ready for the concert. We ended up booking the hotel for two nights so we could make it a whole weekend thing. (With the help of some of our parents money.) I ran across the street and rang Stephanie's doorbell, she opened it, she was wearing her navy blue Middle of Nowhere t-shirt, I had on my white one with mmmbop written across the bottom. "Ready?" I asked, "yah," she said locking the door. We walked to school talking non-stop about all the possibilites we had in the night ahead of us.
We arrived at school and went our seperate ways. As soon as I walked down the hall I saw Jen, "Jen!" I shrieked, "the concert is tonight!" "I know" She said smiling, "Lauren, you have been counting down the days the since you found out." She finished. "Sorry, I'm just soooo excited!" I exclaimed. We went into our home room for first period. Our teacher handed out the assignments, but I just starred blankly at my sheet. All I could think about was the concert. My teacher gave me a look, but then smiled, even she knew all about the concert. The day dragged on I went to all my classes, but didn't end up getting much work done. The dissmissal bell rang at 3:30, I opened my locker and pulled out my green army jacket and my airwalk backpack locked it up and ran down the hall. I skitted to a stop at Stephanie's locker, "hurry up! Only 4 more hours!!!" I yelled in her face. She quickly gathered her stuff up and we walked out of school with the usual people, soon everyone went there seperate ways, we began to make plans. Our parent's had already dropped our stuff off at the hotel earlier in the day. So we could get ready at the hotel. Finally we were on our street. "OK, so be over at my house at 5:00" I said, "then my mom can drop us off." I finished. "OK, got it" she said walking up her drive way. I didn't have much to wory about because everything I needed was at the hotel, my makeup, concert clothes, bathing suit etc. I had left everything that I wanted taken, out on my bed and my mom took it to the hotel, this was the coolest thing, the hotel is only like 10 minutes away from our house. Our mom's had also taken drinks, chips and all the other stuff we needed to the hotel. If we needed anything else it could be easily dropped off cause we lived so close. But technically we were parent free for the weekend.
I took an apple out of the crisper and grabbed a bottle of Evian water and went up to my room. I turned on my TV and popped my Hanson video from YTV Paramount Canada's Wonderland in just to get me more Psyched for the concert. (like I wasn't already enough) I pulled out my bottle of nail polish that I had botten from the manicurist and touched up my nails. "Oh my Madeline, here we go around again, you know it I know it..." I sang aloud. I finished watching the concert and soon it was 5:00. "Mom! It's 5:00!" I yelled into my mom's room. I ran downstairs and soon Stephanie cam across the street. "Hey," I said with a smile as I slipped on my Vans and we went into the car. I turned the radio dial to find the radio dj talking about the concert. Then they played mmmbop. My mom went over instructions all the way there and finally she dropped us off and handed me the key.
"102, 103, 104....107!" This is ours, I said opening the door. "Cool!" Steph exclaimed. There was tons of food, "geez, I think they think Hanson is staying with us!" I said shaking my head at all the food they had left us. Stephanie laughedand fell onto the bed. I walked into the bathroom to check it out, "Awsome;" I muttered. There were the little shampoo bottles, soaps, shower caps, nice white towels, the works. "Freebies!" I yelled running out of the bathroom using our weird sense of humour. "Yes!" Steph yelled. I looked at the alarm clock, 5:30, "We should start to get ready" I said poping in my Where's the love single into Stephanie's CD player her mom had brang. We got dressed first and then did makeup. I steadily drew a thin black line with my liquid eyeliner. I blendede in a little bit of coverup until it was even. I left my lipstick till last since we were snacking on chips and stuff. Then we began helping each other with hair. Stephanie ended up with her bangs pulled up and layers falling in front, the way she reffered to how "Dannielle Fishell did hers" We manged to get it exactly how she wanted it. I pulled my hair up into a " I dream of Jeanie" style ponytail, then I let two stray pieces of bangs fall to frame my face. I pulled on my boots and glanced in the mirror satisfied, except for one thing, I pulled my lipstick out and coated it on. Perfect. I looked over at Stephanie and took a deep breath. "This is it" I said excitedly. She smiled and nodded. It was 6:20 and we knew it would take a minimum of a half hour to get there by bus so we left. I locked the door and put the key in my World Famous bag. We left the hotel and walked to the nearest bus stop to wait for the bus. As the bus pulled up we each got a bus ticket out and got on. We sat down at the back. I think that by the time we got off the bus every person on it knew that we were going to the Hanson concert because we talked about it and screamed excitedly all the way to the arena.
Email: levans@autobahn.mb.ca