Amazing concert! (well.. my only concert so far, but still quite amazing)

So the most amazing thing happened to me (or one of the most amazing things anyways)
Quite some time back me and my friends that I had lunch with were discussing a Slipknot concert that we all wanted to go to. Slipknot was the headliner and then Trivium and Coheed and Cambria were also playing (Coheed and Cambria were the main people that I wanted to see).Steven was trying to convince me to go but I was like, I really wish I could but I don't have the money and I doubt my mom would let me... So Steven offered to pay and it would be his early Christmas gift to me. I considered it and said that I was at least tell my mom about it, but if you do end up paying for me I am definitely going to pay you back. I mean, I could just let him buy me a 40 dollar ticket to go to a Slipknot concert. Anyways.. My mom considered it but then she researched the concert some more and found out who exactly was playing and then that there would be any seats on the floor and so she, of course, changed her mind.
It would have worked out the way we had originally planned it anyways because a couple weeks later I found out that Steven had spent all his money on an MP3 player and so he couldn't go either, let alone pay for my ticket. So I had completely given up going all together.
Eli (I've talked about him before in my school post) had planned on going to the concert as well but... at the time that he told me this his mom didn't know that he was planning on going. So when Eli finally asked her about going she said no.

Anyways... as the concert came closer and closer me and my friends started complaining more and more about how we really wish we could go to the concert. So about a week or so before the concert I got a text from my cousin, turns out that she was getting free tickets from one of her friends and she had enough for me and another person! :D Oh my god, I love her so much for this. So anyways, I told my mom about this and she considered it and then ended up agreeing to it since it was free tickets and then because my cousin was planning on staying for Trivium, Coheed and Cambria, and a few songs by Slipknot (Ha ha, yes.. I know.. we go to a concert and don't even stay to see the head liner? Eh, Slipknot is OK but like I said earlier, all I really care about it is seeing Coheed). My cousin ended up getting a total of 5 free tickets, one for her, one for her sister, Kayla, one for Kayla's husband, Chris, and then one for me and then one for a person who was going to be my mom but because she didn't care that much about going and since she knew how much my boyfriend loves Coheed she decided to let me bring him instead ^^

So of course then I was so incredibly excited about all of this, I absolutely could not wait. I told Eli and Steven about how I got free tickets and they were all incredibly jealous of course, in fact, I still don't think Steven has forgiven me for going without him. Steven was rather angry when he found out that I was going because he ended up finding a way to pay for the tickets only he didn't have ride to the coliseum. Eli was rather angry at first but then later that day of the concert he sent me a text saying, "Have fun at the concert, bitch". So my mom saw me looking at the text and she asked me about it and so I told her about how Eli wanted to go to the concert but can't (I can't exactly remember what for now... but anyways). My mom then told me about this lady she met at a party that she had just recently been to and how she told my mom that she had an extra ticket that she was trying to sell. So then I told Eli about this lady and the we went through all this crazy hectic stuff in order to hook him up with the ticket. So later Eli told me about how he went to his mom and was like *sniff* *sad face*, his mom asked him what wrong and so he was like another person offered me a ticket... (he had already gotten several offers from other people) and then that led to his mom deciding to let him go.

So I had to go through all kinds of stress trying to get ready, be sure that Eli knew where to meet us, checking to make sure that we would have room enough for Eli too, and then just making sure that Eli could actually get the ticket from said lady. My boyfriend also got poison ivy the day before the concert and I was worried that he wouldn't come, which was rather dumb seeing as he's such a fan of Coheed but he was saying before hand that he wasn't even planning on going. When I did ask him if he would still be going he replied with, "Not even god will stop me from going to see Coheed and Cambria perform live." ^^

So what we had all decided was that I would meet Brandon and Eli in the Bishop High School parking lot (It's the private catholic school that my boyfriend goes to). So we all met there and hung around for what was probably about 30 minutes and then my cousins showed up and we all squeezed into her car. The car was made for 5 and with Eli we ended up having 6 people to fit into this car. So I had Eli sit in the middle next to Chris and then Brandon sat on the outside and I sat on top of him. At first Eli was like, No! I don't want to sit in the middle. But then that would mean that if I were to still sit on Brandon's lap I would have had to bend over as far as I could so that I wouldn't block my cousin, Sheena's, review mirror's view and if I didn't then either Brandon, Eli, or Chris would have had to pair up and neither of them knew each (Well, Brandon had met Eli once before but we didn't spend that much time with him). So once we got to the concert Brandon and Kayla had to go pee really badly so we had to go up to this lady guarding the doors at the coliseum and convince her to let them go to the bathroom.
So the wait to get inside actually ended up taking less time then I had expected seeing as the line went every where. This was both a good thing and a bad thing. It was good for me and everyone who had their ticket but for Eli it sucked quite a bit since the lady with his ticket hadn't shown shown up by the time we had made it to the door. So Eli ended up buying his own ticket there (Thankfully he had enough money to pay the full price of the tickets they sold there)

So the concert ended up being amazing. We made there in time to see the last bit of Trivium. We stayed towards the back for them, mainly because it would have been rather pointless to go through all the trouble of pushing ourselves up there when we're not that big of fans of them and then because they were finishing up anyways. When ever Trivium finished a lot of people left to go to the bathrooms or to buy drinks or maybe just because they didn't care anything about seeing Coheed, whatever the reason we were able to get closer to the stage. Throughout the entire time we continued to try and push our way closer but it didn't help much. Eli decided to go to the bathroom while no one was on stage, Brandon and I decided that if we wanted to get closer to the stage then we need to go now while there wasn't as many people around. So we ended up losing Eli for the Coheed and Cambria part of the concert but there were many other people at the concert that we knew so Eli ended up finding somebody to hang out with. Well... for the most part anyways, Eli ended up crowd surfing. He wasn't exactly planning on it but some big guy decided to toss him up. He made it all the way to the front but the crowd didn't put him down in time so then the guards ended up catching him and sending him to the back. We were discussing after the fact about how he should have thrown up a dragonfly and then the band would have been like, "Fuck yea. A true fan, get him up here!" And then it would have just been amazing-ness after that.

So when Coheed left the stage Brandon and I went to the bleachers and grabbed a seat. Then we played Where's Eli? I think Brandon ended up winning... or maybe Eli ended up being the one to find us. I don't know, but the point was that we were all back together and just reveling in the amazing moment. Throughout the entire concert I was taking pictures like crazy (which I will post to my deviantart account later). I ended up getting some pretty amazing pictures. I can't wait to show them off.

Apparently my cousin Sheena is afraid of clowns and she had forgotten that one of the Slipknot members has a clown face and so she was telling us after the concert about how she almost peed her pants when she saw him. Ha ha... So anyways, there were many times throughout the concert where Eli would tell me, "No body loves you Melena." and then, of course, my boyfriend would stand up for me and be like, "I love you Melena!" Eventually I just turned to Eli and was like, "You know what? I could be like no body loves you Eli! and you would have no one to stand up for you." but then Eli was like, "Yes... I know... v.v" So then I felt somewhat bad and so I said *sigh* "I'm sorry... That's untrue..." So then Eli was like, "Yea, you may not love me but you're just saying you figure there's probably someone out there that does." Then Brandon says, "I love you, Eli." Slight pause. "No homo." Then Eli looks Brandon in the face, dead serious, and says "Why not?" Ha ha, so I start laughing while Eli holds his serious look and Brandon gives him this "WTF??" look.

Oh my god... this was definitely an amazing night... We ended it by hanging around the Bishop parking lot, playing Coheed songs out of these speakers Eli has in the back of his car, just laying around, taking pictures, and discussing the whole experience while waiting for my mom to come pick me up.
I definitely need more nights like these... ^^