Summer I laid down, by you, & shared my frail light, you gave the dark to me.

Took an AFI road trip, finally. Taylor drove me, Shelby, & Andrew to Charlotte, NC for the show on March 13 (which is also the day STS came out 7 years ago, wow). We got a hotel & played Robot Unicorn Attack, watched youtube videos, & ate pizza. Watched God Killer, which Davey is in... I thought it was horrid! hahah.

We woke up early that morning, ate our "free" breakfast...makes me wish I had more of an appetite! So we went to Family Dollar & purchased children's umbrellas (I got Hannah Montana), because it was suppose to rain early that day. We went where the GPS told us, & we ended up behind a bus, that was orange, white & gray. It too went to where it told us, but it was definitely not where we were supposed to go. I was like *gasp* what if it's AFI!? They're lost too! & so we were lost, pissed, exhausted, trying to find the goddamn Filmore, for it to be right on the other side of the effin' street. It sounds less complicating than it was, trust me. Not to mention there was a St. Patrick's day parade going on! WTF. -_- Anyway, hour later, we got there. Saw that it was in fact AFI's bus. We should've just followed them. The boys were in & out of the bus. The girl at the front of the line, Christy, had the card game Apples To Apples. We all got in a circle & played for quite awhile. Making Davey, Adam, Hunter, & Javey cards. Guess couldn't have Jade without Davey. Haha. It was sooooo much fun. We got moved I don't know how many times into who knows how many different lines b/c the staff didn't know what the hell the DF was.

There was a horrible guy, who was shirtless, in leather pants, glittery blue eyeshadow, & a devil lock. Oh my... at first I thought nothing of it & was just like "He's expressing himself" ...until he made an ass out of himself by fake wrestling with people & talking like Christian Bale in Batman, acting like it was how he talked. He was nice, since he caught Hannah when she flew away down the line...buuuuut he was far too obnoxious to tolerate quietly. We heard them sound check, they played God Called In Sick Today, Sacrilege, Wave of Mutilation by The Pixies... & Hunter intended to tease me with the beginning bass line to Lower It. >_< While they were playing, I looked in one of the windows to the venue, which were curtained, & Smith was looking out. I waved like an idiot, he flipped me off, I flipped him off back & he laughed & disappeared. I was so happy. XDDD & no one else witnessed this but me! I wish someone else had saw just so I could be like "see, I'm telling the truth" ...Not like I'd lie in the first place. =P

Saw Lorra before the show! Took a pic together, chatted. Her Jade sig tattoo with the CL heart is to die for! Loooove it.


Anywho, then it started to rain, we huddled under our tiny umbrellas. D: ...everytime Hunter left with his girlfriend (I assume) It rained. When he came back, sun & all. At first it was a joke, then it happened like 2 other times. X] A boy came over from the other line & asked if the line we were in was the DF line, we said yeah & he was like "aw man...." & then he went back to the line he was in. As it was getting closer to the doors opening, we were thinking "aw man, we should ask him if he wants to cut us! D:" Before we could do that, he came up & was like "I'll give you guys 5 bucks-" & we said "forget that, get in here! D:" Haha so we tried to keep him dry with our tiny umbrellas. We regretted paying the extra money to get cute little umbrellas. We only kept his hair dry. & ourselves barely dry... -_-

Waiting was horrid, my feet hurt, I was wet. People around me smelled bad. Haha. The first band, Scarlet Grey, the singer was adorable & they were quite good. I actually enjoyed them, even for a band opening for AFI. (When you go to see AFI, you just want the other bands to hurry the eff up so AFI can get out there) ... But they were actually enjoyable. The Loved Ones came on next, at first they were pretty good...but they played... & played... & played O_O Made me wish Scarlet Grey played longer. Not so soon enough, AFI finally came out. Not opening with Torch Song, but with Medicate. It was a great set list, lots of pushing since we were right front & center, but didn't care much until crowd surfers started falling on my head. The girl behind me, I swear she was gonna start having a sezuire, she even almost fell to the ground, luckily Shelby, a guard, & me were there. I held her arm as the guard grabbed it & Shelby actually went down & picked her up.

After that, we got pushed more to the right. Crowd surfers aggrivating us even more, I punched a girl in the ass & Shelby bit some guys back. It was pretty funny, actually.


Anywho! Jade bent over like 3 times for us, it was fantastic. X] They played Wester! & The Interview again! =D Me & Taylor held hands & fangirled at the end. Shelby did too, she can't deny it. X]]] Jade's mannerisms are quite hard to ignore. I'm kinda sad that I barely saw Hunter during the show. The girl in front of me was taller...so I couldn't see. & for once, Hunter didn't move all around the stage like usual. =/



After the show, we went into the pouring rain without umbrellas, but it was quite a relief since we were hot as hell. We waited for them at the bus, only Hunter & Adam came out, but they came out pretty quickly, & right after they announced that they were the only ones coming out. Which was okay, we were gonna go ahead & leave anyway. So it was kinda good that they announced, made me feel not so bad about leaving before Jade & Davey. Sad I didn't get to see Jade again, but I got to hug & take a pic with Adam, & got Hunter's signature again. =]]

Definitely not a trip wasted. We then tiredly went to Waffle House, ate.. Taylor being half asleep, we decided to all pitch in for another hotel. We finally found one that had a room. I caught FMA Brotherhood just in time too, so I didn't have to miss it. I'm so glad they show it twice. =D So watched that, as I was waiting, I reached to pat down my hair & there was fucking gum in it. -_- I ripped it out of my hair ...then watched FMA then went to sleep. Woke up, then left.

All in all it was a fantastic road trip, I spent 80 bucks all together & it was absolutely worth it in every way. Just wish I had gotten something at the merch table. Too bad we're always too focused on getting in to see AFI & out to meet AFI. XDDD

I had so much fun! I love my friends. It was amazing. =DDD