The Concert©

By Sunray Clewis

I am so excited!  I, Kelsey Regan am going to a concert of my favorite group, Aqua Color.  The best part is that I’m getting back stage passes with my two best friends, Bridget and Michelle.  I am going to meet Aqua Color in person too!  I am their #1 fan!  I know everything about them.  Jesse, the drummer, still sleeps with a teddy bear.  Alexandra, the lead guitarist, broke her leg when she was ten years old.  Brian the keyboard player got into college when he was 17 years old.  I am crazy about Aqua Color, and I am finally going to meet them!  I have all of their CD’s including their special edition, signed by all of them.  Michelle Tucker and Bridget Robinson are also psyched about the concert.  Bridget collects anything that has to do with Aqua Color and Michelle is in the Aqua Color fan club.  It is 2:00 AM and we have to leave at 3:00 AM. We have to leave so early because the concert is in Sacramento, California and we live in Salt Lake City, Utah.  It takes just about ten hours to get there.  Bridget’s parents, Sam and Kelly are driving us to the concert.

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It is 10:00 AM and we finally arrive in California.  Bridget and Michelle are sleeping, but I can’t even think about sleeping. I am so nervous.  What am I going to ay to Aqua Color?  ‘Umm, I like your music.  I am your biggest fan.’ No, they probably get that a lot.  I’ll just be myself.  I’ll treat them like regular people.  All of the sudden, I hear this really loud noise.  ‘BANG! Chuff, chuff, chuff. ‘ The noise was so loud, that it woke Bridget and even Michelle who is a heavy sleeper.  Sam got out of the car and looked at the engine.  Then he looked at the tires.  Then he looked at the engine again.  Kelly said, “Do we have a flat tire?” Sam shook his head.  “One thing about my dad, is he isn’t handy,” Bridget told us. Sam got back in the car and he turned the key.  Nothing. Sam turned to us and said, “I don’t know what happened.” We all looked at him in horror.  “Sorry girls,” he said, “We might be a little late for the concert.” No!  Bridget and Michelle said, “ Aww man!” Sam got out of the car and said, “I am going to go look for a call box.” Then he walked away.  I looked out the window. I saw sand like we were in a desert or something. Too bad we weren’t stuck in the middle of civilization.  I got out of the car and I looked around.  The sun was beating down at me, and everything was hot.  All of a sudden, I saw something in the distance.  A car, no more like a motor home was coming this way.  It came closer and closer. I waved my hands at them and they slowed down.  It turned out to be a bus, a tour bus.  The door opened and I looked inside. A man was driving the bus and he said to me, “Need a ride?” so Bridget, Michelle, Kelly, and I got on the bus.  When Sam came back he said we can go and he’ll wait for the tow truck.  When we got in the bus, we recognized the people in the bus.  Jesse, Brian, Alexandra, Shawn, and Tamara!  Aqua Color’s tour bus!  Michelle, Bridget, and even Kelly, were squealing.  “You’re Aqua Color!” Bridget said.  “No way!” Jesse laughed. “We are?” I stood there speechless.  “We were on our way to your concert, when our car broke down and my husband has no idea what happened to it,” Kelly told them, “We have backstage passes.” The bus started moving, and we waved good-bye to Sam.  Sam waved back to us.  

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