Kris Allen is my home-skillet biscuit
So Saturday was like, the coolest day ever. Omg. I finally finally fianlly, got to see Kris Allen perform live.
If anyone wants the original size of any of these pics, (they look somewhat better before I made them smaller, considering the lighting of the venue making them kinda grainy..and I have a few before my cousin edited any pics) please ask me. :3 I'm not posting them all yet, just a few for now, and then I'll link to an album on some other day at beep. Combined with me and my cousin, we have almost 700 pics. ;D
All typos are entirely my fault. XD This thing is frickin looooooong.
For those of you who don't know, Kris was to perform at Anthology here in San Diego on the 24th of July. I won tickets to his show on a radio station called Star 94.1 the Wednesday before they went on sale to the general public. I was on my way to an Anime convention up in L.A. and I knew that the tickets were being given away, so I figured, "Hey, let's listen to this station." Not ten minutes later they're offering tickets and I decide to try my luck. The phone rang like, three times, and then I heard, "You just won tickets to Kris Allen!" I couldn't believe my luck. I never win things. I was so thrilled. I find out that Friday that his concert SOLD OUT all by himself and I was so happy that I won those tickets because there was NO WAY I would've been able to go otherwise. So yeah, lucky.
I didn't nab any tickets to the second show, but I invited my cousin along with me to my show cuz I'm not taking her to Adam next week. (Eeps she was pissed at first, but she got over it.) Plus she really loves Kris, just not as much as me. ;3 We decided to get there around 11:30 in the morning or so, considering the venue was only eleven minutes away from our house and mostly because I thought we'd have a good chance of seeing the bus pull in. We were originally going to get there at eight, cuz we're crazy like that, but we were talked out of it.
So by the time we're at the venue it's about.. noonish. The bus is already there and by now I'm already dancing with anticipation.
My cousin and I gush over how the only thing possibly seperating us from Kris right now is a bus wall, lol... anyway, we then go to the box office, not knowing that the second show is sold out (because they DID NOT advertise that until later that day) and are disapointed to find out that we wouldn't be seeing Kris at the second show. :( It was also really sunny that day, so we decided to sit at the patio they have set up in front of the venue. We're sitting there for a few minutes, just waiting, because the lady who is already there says that they will be setting up barriers for a line soon, when I see a white van pull up. I'm not thinking much when I look into the window when I see something.
Fluffy. hair.
(This is the picture I take when I realize that Kris was not on the bus and I forgot that my phone was in camera mode.) XD;;;
This is the part where I'm like, *hitting my cousin's shoulder* "That'shim!That'shim!That'shim!That'shishair!" She looks at me like I'm completely nuts, and she looks at the van and sure enough, Kris steps out of the van with Cale, Lizzie, and another guy whom I later find out is the merch guy. He's wearing a blue shirt and those nice black pants that I like, and white converse. :3
Luckily I calmed down and now I'm smiling like I just saw a puppy do a backflip or something because next thing I know Kris is saying words (holy crap is this surreal btw, after only hearing his voice through a screen for the past... who knows how long, the first day of idol? and now this? It was totally the same, but completely different at the same time. And his accent? unf. unf unf unf.) and this is when it hits me that Kris frickin Allen is standing right in front of me and he is INDEED, real. And boy were you guys not kidding when you say he's extra tiny and pretty and perfect irl. He's talking to Lizzie about something and he and Cale are walking towards the bus, Kris with his guitar, and Cale waves at us and says, "How you guys doin'?" and Kris turns to us, does a ~cool hand gesture and is like, "Suuuuuuuup??" and we smile and reply.
Kris puts his guitar away, and then he and Cale go onto the bus real quick. After like, two minutes, Cale comes back out and he walks over to us and I say, "Hi Cale!" :3 and he says, "Hi! Have I met you two before?" (This really got me, btw. How sweet is he? Asking if he's met us before? omg.) and I decline and he extends his hand to me and says, "I'm Cale, what's your name?" and so I tell him and he makes sure that he gets it right because apparently I fail at talking. (I was pretty shy.) He asks us what show we're seeing and we tell him that we're only there for the first show and he says, "Awesome, thanks for coming. I'll be right back, I want to check out the venue very quick." So we nod and he leaves for a few moments... when he comes back my cousin points out that she had the same sunglasses as him. (He had a pair of aviators on the collar of his shirt.) He says, "Oh really?" and he pulls them off and my cousin pulls out hers and he says, "I got these at Forever 21." This is when I give Cale a look like.... wuuuuuuuuut... because umm, that's a girl store, and I'm about to laugh cuz seriously? XDD And so I say, "Forever 21???" and he's like, "Yeah." like he's all proud or something and I say, "Isn't that a girl store?" and he's like, "don't you have those over here?" and we say yes, that we do, but it's a pretty feminine store, and so he says "Oh yeah, well these are from their brother store, Heritage." and we just shake our heads and say that we've actually never heard of it.
He's still talking when I see the bus door open and there's Kris walking out of the bus, right behind Cale. I don't think he noticed how my eyes totally widened and I got all super smiley again. (Not that Cale doesn't make me smile, cuz he does. But I really felt my face brighten like crazy. It was embarrassing, to say the least.) Cale notices and turns around and Kris takes his hand and they do a man handshake and Kris goes, "Hey man." and then Cale turns to us and says, "Hey, I'd like you to meet my friends Monique (me) and Sabryna." Kris says hi to both of us and he reaches his hand out to shake ours and wow does he have nice hands. A nice grip too, they were actually quite large despite how tiny he is. (I could go on and on about his hands, and I probably already sound creepy to you, so I'm going to wait until later. lol.) So now Kris is talking with us and Cale and he asks about which show we're going to and we catch him up and he's like, "Awesome. Thanks for coming" and then he mentions how nice the day is and we agree and then suddenly Kris Allen is doing a little dance right in front of us. Dorky expression, fists-in-the-air on either sides of his face, body wiggling dancing in front of us. It was the most precious thing ever and seriously how is he so cute? How is he real. They then ask us if we're excited for the show and of course we're like, duh and then we mention how we're sad that we can't go to the second show. And that's when Kris says, "Why don't you just hide in the bathrooms?" and Cale says, "yeah, just...wait until we come back out." and we laugh and say, "haha, and if we get caught?" and they say, "Tell them we said you could do it." and yeah, I think I love Krale right now. like so much. This is when we don't have anything else to say (I'm still really shy for some reason.) and so they say, "Well, we'll see you guys later! Thanks again!" and then they go back onto the bus.
I take this time to flail a bit on twitter and then I watch the people take in the band stuff into the venue. The lady who works at the venue then sets up the barriers for the line to the first show and she asks us to stand in line, on the sidewalk. By this time it's about..one pm. The show starts at 7:30, and Anthology opens at 5:30. The merch guy is taking out some boxes marked "red elephant bbd" and he asks us, "Big Kris Allen fans, huh?" and we're like, "Yeah, kinda." ;) and he asks us what time we got there and he's like.."really?" and so we decide to tell him when we first planned on being there and he goes, "....why?" and I say, "Uh, it's Kris Allen?" and he's like, "Cool." He comes back and I ask him if he's in charge of merch and when he says yes I say, "Is the whole band here?" cuz I saw drums and everything being brought in and I was pretty sure that the show was just an acoustic show with only Kris and Cale for he longest time. He says, "nah, just Kris and Cale." and I'm thinking that he didn't quite get what I meant because I kinda meant, "in San Diego" and not "at the current moment" and this is when he says, "But Torres, Kris' bass player, Torres's band is opening up for Kris." I didn't know this and I was like, "Oh really? :D" and he's like, in a teasing voice, "you didn't know?? Wow, you must not be a super Kris Allen fan if you didn't know that." (OH HALE NAW. D:<) Then he says, "I better see you two buying something today." we pinky promise him, and he goes over to Lizzie and this guy who works at the venue and some other person who are standing around the bus, waiting to go get food or something. Cale gets off the bus again with his backpack and waves at us before walking down the street and out of sight. Then not a few moments later Kris gets off the bus and my cousin decides to ask, "Hey Kris can we get a picture?" and he smiles and is like, "Of course."
I hadn't been standing around when I first met Kris so I was kinda feeling nervous because I don't like being taller than him and I really didn't want to bug him... but Lizzie takes my camera and takes a picture of my cousin with Kris and then one of Kris with me. (He's so tiny. Have I said this? It's really cute and wow he's so pretty I shouldn't have been anywhere near him.) XDD We're done with our pic and he says "see ya" and then starts walking down the streets of SD. (Me: "He's going without security??? D:"/concerned)
Disclaimer for next pic content: SORRY ABOUT YOUR EYES
Lizzie leaves too, and now we're all alone on the streets. Some fans arrive but they don't stand in line, and they decide to wander the streets. Some even ask us where a good place to eat is, and we tell them. Thirty minutes or so after Kris leaves, my cousin says, "Here he comes." and I turn around and it's like Kris walked in a huge circle or something. He survived the streets, thank goodness, (haha.) and my cousin is like, "Monique how come you haven't asked asked him to sign your cd?" and I'm like, "I've already asked him for so much! Entitlement is not sexy." and she says, "If you don't get it signed then I'm getting it signed for myself." And I wasn't going to let that happen, so I pluck up the courage to bother Kris one more time when he's near the rear of the bus and I'm like..."Hey Kris..?" and he looks over at me and I ask him if he'll sign my cd, and of course he's like, "sure." I give him my cd and he looks at me and is like, "You're not Sabryna. You're Monique." (He remembered our names, I'm pretty much putty to him.) He starts signing and he goes, "M-o-n-i-?" and I spell out the rest, totally blown away by how sweet this man is, personalizing my cd when I didn't even ask him to, and I'm just wondering if he thinks I'm creepy or bothersome, when my cousin says, "Aww man, now I feel lame, not having anything to sign. :(" and Kris says to her, "Find something and I'll come back to sign it for you. :)" (once again, how is he real?) and he goes back on the bus after we thank him again and apologize for being a bother to which he says, "No no no, not at all. It's fine." (Thank goodness.)
Not five minutes later the bus drives away. (lmao.)
Skipping a few hours of waiting. I checked twitter once at one point and I was famous \o/ There were times where I was like, to random employees, "Is there ANY way that I can please please please get into the second show?" and one was like, "Do you have tickets?" and I'm like, "No." and he's like, "Sorry, no." Dammit. :(
I saw Torres drive up in a car and I say hi to him and he says hi back. :) Sabryna asks him if he can remind Kris of her outside, cuz she decided to get her ticket signed, and he's like, "Soundcheck is about to start, I'll tell him. :)" and then he goes inside and we start to hear things going on inside because the walls are pretty thin.
I got a few random people asking me who I'm waiting for in line, and I tell them. Only two ask who Kris is, a few recognize the name, have seen him on Idol, and one even was like, "oh? You gotta live like you're dying? :D" and two older couples were like, "how exciting! Have fun!" and "Wow you've been here that long? Did you meet him? You did? How neat! I'll pay you $100 for your tickets! No? How dedicated."
I go to the ATM at one point and I notice that I'm walking next to a few people on my way back, but I figure they're just a few fellow Sders, when I notice them turn into the venue and I'm like, "Oh hey, that was Andrew! Aww man. :("
There is now one other person standing in line with us and she's telling us about how she saw Kris at The Greek (lucky.) and now she's here for both shows. She was nice. :p I now see Lizzie walking in circles around the block multiple times and I was kinda like everytime she passed... >.>;;;
The part you've all been waiting for!
Then Katy comes out a few minutes later. lol. She's wearing like, bright neon orange shorts and a top that doesn't go with them, and she has her pink bag. The lady standing next to us kinda freaked out and I lol'd. It's just Katy, yo. She says hi to Katy and then I'm looking at this tiny little blonde thing and Katy says something about San Diego being beautiful and awesome. My cousin mentions that we saw her bag on the bus and how she figured it was hers. I then say something about thinking it was Kris', and Katy kinda gives us a "....?" look because I'm not sure she actually heard the whole conversation about her bag. She's kinda mindlessly walking the sidewalk, now, when my cousin asks, "Is Kris soundchecking?" and Katy says, "He's on the bus right now.." and then she walks around the corner. (Seriously, weirdest encounter ever, idek.)
It's like.. 3:44 now.
Cale comes back and my cousin asks if he had a good walk, and he says, "I've actually been sleeping this whole time. :)" Awwwwwwwwwwww. <333 Poor bbs are so tired.
More fans are coming. A few people who work at Anthology ask me who Kris is and if he's awesome. I tell them everything. I'm now talking to this person who loves Adam too. :3 I mention how I think Kris is probably at his cocktail party or something. I meet a person from lj who only approached me because she saw the Kris and Adam pins on my bag. lol. She was sweet. Kinda shy. Didn't think she should mention that she slashed Kradam, but I told her that I didn't judge. ;) haha.
Soundcheck is now going on, I flailed when I heard INTK.
*time skip*
It's 5:30 and they open the doors. :DDDD
I get a spot at the bar with my tickets, lol what. XDD It was a reallyyy tiny venue. It was awesome. It was tall though. Three stories. I liked the setup. :3
Here's a rough idea. XD
My phone dies shortly after which makes me sadpanda, cuz now I can't tweet, but it's cool, I have my camera. We had a camera nazi that night, he told us still shots only. lololol, k.
The people who work at Anthology made me lol. They were like, "You were here first! Before me! Wow!" It was funny.
The menu they gave us made me smile cuz they welcomed Kris. :3 The food was tiny and expensive too, lol. XD
I see Cale walking around a bit and then I see Jessie. (The merch guy. He knew our names, so we asked him for his.)
The guy in charge mentions that the merch table was in the back lobby and how we had like, thirty minutes before the show started and they would close it up until after the show. So my cousin and I go and check it out, I got a keychain and a signed poster thing that I didn't need. lol. She got the Red Guitar shirt and a keychain as well. (We made sure to mention that we didn't break our pinky promise to Jessie and he laughs.) He's nice, and snarky, it was a good combo for him. ;P
We get back to our seats and The Grass Heat (I may have gotten this wrong.) start playing. They sound frickin awesome. Torres is great. I loved all of their songs. :) He sways a lot, lol.
My cousin decides to order these six dollar fries when this guy in a suit talks to the bartender and says, "Anything these two girls order? Is on me." and I'm like.... wait, what? and when he notices our questioning looks he's like, "You guys were here before me, and I'm the owner." oh.. hey, sweet! Thanks guy! :DDD We thank him and then I think for a minute and I'm like.. "Dude, we should've asked for tickets to the second show instead of free food. And my cousin is like, "Oh my god, I'm so asking." and I'm like, "Go! Omg go."
So my cousin goes and when she comes back she sais that he says, "We'll have to see about that. Come talk to me after the show." So I try not to get my hopes up, because dnw dissappointment.
It's time for Kris' set and I'm bouncing in my seat. I'm so frickin excited. Boy was on fire. He sounded sooooooooooooooo good, as you all know, and I knew this too, but seeing it live is always an amazing experience because, it's the energy, you know? And it's Kris. And just seeing Kris perform in youtube videos gets me beyond excited. When Kris sings it's like he's singing to everyone who will listen, anyone who wants to experience the passion that is so blatantly obvious when he opens his mouth and strums his guitar, but then it's also like he's singing to just you. He hooks you in, no matter where you are, and this boy was just made to perform.
Random, but during MITM I lol'd cuz the background vocals were so boyband-like to me. Kris motioned to the guys and they would add in their voices and it was great. ahahaha.
A few pics from maybe the first two songs:
Kris Allen, stop moving dammit.
There were a couple of people who were already drunk and started dancing in the front of the stage during the show. I was pretty sure that the camera nazi man who was wandering the venue the whole time was going to have them sit down or something, but I was surprised when he didn't. Kris enjoyed them. ("We have some dancers tonight.") They sat down during the slower songs, and then by the time Kris got to LLWD (who he dedicated to a group up in front, I'm pretty sure they were all benches) there was a large crowd at the front and so I decide to get my Kris experience on and join them. I got this close:
Some Krale for you :3
This was cute. Andrew was rocking it and being frickin amazing and kris thought it'd be funny to pretend and help and of course Cale decides to do the same. ;p
(My cousin's shot)
Oh hai Krale mic!sharing~
Lots of fan interaction, touching hands, "Like we're dying ohhhhh, like we're dying~"'s, and walking the edge of the stage. It was awesome. He thanks the crowd, gets off stage and people start moving back to their seats, thinking it's over. Ngl, I was wondering if it was, myself, cuz usually he does Come Together? But I figured that maybe he was saving that for the second show.. but sure enough, Kris comes back! \o/ I got closer this time since the crowd originally up front were no longer there. He starts to play INTK on the keyboard. (Me = dead.) And then right after, he sings Come Together!! (Me = flailing! Kris/The Beatles otp!)
And now the first show is officially over. Oh noes. ; ; dnw to leave! And no, Kris is not signing merch after the first show. (Now how will my cousin get her ticket signed?) D: I got a setlist tho. And my cousin caught a guitar pick. :3 And the lady who decided to be our mom for the night (she's an Archie fan, lololol) handed me his water bottle. lol thanks, but what am I going to do with this? XDDD /feels creepy
The anthology employees start to clear out the audience and i go to my cousin and say, "Find the manager!" And we're literally on this wild goose hunt. We can't find him anywhere! D: We ask a lady if she knows where the guy is and she says, "...I think he left." Whaaat??? ; ; We ask her to ask him to see us in the back if she actually finds him, and tell her what he told us, and we don't think she believes us. :(
Kinda bummed that he probably left, we make our way to the back, following the crowd out. And omg, thank goodness we were forced that way because there was our man in the back! :DDDDDD
We say, "Hey~ so did you think about it? Can we please stay?" *insert puppy eyes perfected only be teenagers* and he says these magical words, "Okay, go ahead and go back to the front of the venue. You;ll find a girl at the front desk, and tell her that Michael says that you two can stay and to find you two a place to be."
(Me: KLSDSBL;LKAGBLKJKLGKUDFFl;;kjhFD;V;jkBytcytCBOIoivi;iuIUu'oOIB)
We flail a little bit and thank him over and over again and I mention how for that moment I totally love him more that Kris Allen, and he laughs and we go tell the lady at the front who was totally like, "ummm..okay.." like she didn't know what to do with us. lol.
We get sent to sit at the front patio temporarily and then we get moved to the General Admission line that takes you to the third floor. They stamped the inside of our wrists with a stamp that says "Paid" and we're on our way to see Kris again! :DDDD
(/Feels bad for not paying for ANYTHING at this show. We got the free food too. But then again, Kris told us to hide in the bathrooms and cheat him out of money, too...)
The people in line were like, "Did you just come out of the first show?" and we tell them yes and a couple asks how it was and if Kris was any good. I'm kinda liking this telling everyone how amazing Kris is. I hope that everyone I informed about Kris took the time to actually pay attention to him or look him up or whatever and became fans of his.
They let the people in again and it's like 8:30. the camera nazi sees us on the way in and he's like, "again?" and we're like, "heck yes!!" We go to the third floor and I manage to nab seats right above the stage. Like seriously. We would be right above Kris. The screen was not four feet away from me and there was a glass room right above it.
And. Guess. Who. Was. In. There. XDD
Kris! He just finished eating dinner or something and he was talking to Andrew, I think. Let me tell you, I do NOT blame him for going off stage later that night. Boy was drinking so much water in that room in addition to the water on stage. It was pretty funny. Also, I honestly wasn't trying to watch him, but just look at this:
unffffffffffffff. he also did this back stretch where he leaned back a bit and started rubbing his stomach/torso and guh, it was like porn. My cousin is a goddess for taking a pic after he already did this.
The lighting had me transfixed. Poor bb looked so tired. :( We see Torres again (because he needs to perform again) and we ask him if he talked to Kris, because somehow this now became a let-me-please-my-cousin-because-I-don't-want-to-hear-her-mope concert experience. >.< He says he'll see what he can do and... well, he couldn't really do anything cuz he needed to go on stage, but it's okay. :3 The rest of the band is up stairs too, and there is a hall blocked by a wooden folding barrier thing that keeps the fans away from the glass room which is only like... eight feet away from my seats. I decide that well hey, Kris isn't doing anything anymore.. he's literally just sitting there, looking at a music video on a tv and I try to wave at him to see if he'll recognize us or something from earlier on. He notices me and he gives me a small wave through the window, and I'm thinking to myself, Krisssss, stop waving at meeee. I'm trying to get my cousin's ticket signed cuz you said you would. XD (me on the inside: but no, please don't, you're cute when you wave.) He doesn't seem to remember. lol. XD I stop bothering until I notice him stand up and move towards what I presume is the hallway and so I take one last chance and go, "Kris!" and he turns around (all you back lovers would have died)and he looks at me, smiles, (so cute, omfg, I will never get over this man's beauty) and waves, AGAIN. Kristopherrrrrr... XDDD
At this point I'm feeling like an entitled fan or something and, god, I felt bad. >.> Not sexy. Thanks cousin, for making me feel like a loony.
Ryland walks out from the hallway and I take this chance to say hi~ and ask him to sign my setlist. :3 He's real sweet and we tell him that he's amazing and he's like :D "Thanks!" cute omg. Why are they all so cute. /totally has a crush on Kris and the KAB now
It was great cuz this girl and her mom were sitting next to us and she was cute and gushing about how much she loved Kris and then she asks me when Ryland leaves, "Who was that?" and I'm proud to help her out in her learning of the KAB. :3
Torres performs (and he sounds even better this time 'round if this is even possible) Ryland watches a few songs, and Cale is now the one in the window room, and then shortly after Kris is out playing again. Can I say that I love my seats? Perfect view of Kris molesting his microphone. I also overheard a male waiter reassure a few peeps that our seats were awesome cuz Kris "really works the stage." :D icu milkshake. Torres comes back up very quickly after his set and we get him to sign our setlists too cuz he's so sweet for trying to get Kris for us. Plus he's just genuinely frickin awesome.
Oh yeah, and remember that cocktail party i mentioned earlier that Radio Sophie gave away? I met this chick who somehow managed to crash it. Apparently there were the ten people and Kris in that little glass window room. Practically none of them new Kris. (It's the Kris Allen winner person and nine of their friends who got this limo ride package thing.) It's like they were dragged along. Boo! I would've went! Kris didn't drink anything. (No duh.) lol but I wanted a fruity!drink storryyyyy From how she described it, it didn't sound so special. Maybe because no one knew him? Lame. Anyway, she was awesome. You could tell that kris meant a looooot to her. :3
Different set order, and he adds different songs to it like BIB (jksavbJBGVKFJKJ;LVKJOhfdoul) and Maybe. :D
Blurry setlist is blurry, but Too Make You Feel My Love was NOT on this list, just the first. (I checked for someone who had asked.)
Kris is on, like, crack now. XD He talks to ET and then he warns people about Paranoid Android, and right before he starts singing that people are shh-shing the audience and Kris is like, "Hey, who's shh-shing me? and he looks around and then he looks up at me (I was like, the only one leaning over the bar and tabletop to look at him) and he says, "Is it you?" (Me: .......)
Paranoind Android was awesome. I got that and the shh-shing part on my camera, but I accidently deleted it cuz camera nazi taps my shoulder and is like, "I don't want you to lose [your camera.]" and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm literally hanging it over the railing right above Andrew, and not because I was recording.
During Alright With Me Kris says something like, "Alright everyone, it's time for you to sing. And I know some of you are probably thinking, 'what?' 'But there's so many people..'" and he's impersonating shy people and then he's about to explain the "Yeah"'s when he says, "Everyone from the first show? Be quiet." lmao. XDD
During this performance he jumps out into the crowd and I thought he'd pull some people up, but he just places the mic in front of people. This was really awesome to me because you just KNOW Kris was enjoying himself. He was so giddy and jumpy and smiley, and it made me beyond happy. <3
Is It Over was a facinating story. Besides what everyone knows, in regards to Kris leaving his set "to do something stupid. I really have to pee." (Oh Kris, you and your peeing obsession.) I happened to be next to Lizzie (who I guess is kinda buddy buddy with the Anthology peeps and at one pint, Torres).... yeah... not so happy when she heard those words escape his mouth. She was standing between that one hallway, and the elevator that takes you to stage left, and she runs over, peeks over the edge, and when she doesn't see Kris her face is livid. She then turns, and stalks the opposite way from the stage towards the stairs in the front of the venue. There was seriously a disturbance in the air, because holy moly I can't believe I saw that. I did manage to see the band crack up and then continue jamming, which was amazing. I love a good jam-session. :3 When Kris came back his face was kinda wide-eyed and maybe even sheepish when he looked over at Cale. I'm thinking that Lizzie probably made a remark to him on his way back to the stage. >.>; (My cousin later quipped that the closest bathroom to the stage was a women's bathroom, too. I lol'd.)
My cousin managed to snap a shot of the second set and so I knew when LLWD was going to start. I was hoping to get a nice vid of Falling Slowly, prefferably up close, and it was listed as an encore, so my cousin was like.. "Do you think they'll let us up front again?" because no one had been up to the stage since the second show began. There was a looooong banter right before LLWD and I said, "Well, I guess we'll find out." And we make our way down the stairs that Lizzie went down to the first floor. When we reach the bottom and start walking towards the stage, Kris says, "You guys can come up and dance." and I manage to snag a spot right at the mic~ \o/ Kris sees me and my cousin and he totally did a head-shake laugh in our direction. (We obviously amused him.)
(cousin shot)
(lol these were in order before I invaded my cousin's stash)
(one more from my cuz)
The encoreeee: Wow, when Kris came out with just his guitar, it didn't even hit me that he didn't sing TMYFML even though it was on the first set list. It was gorgeous. Absolutely 1000000% so. So so so pretty. I would've recorded it, but thankfully someone else did because my memory card was filled with blurry, jumpy!Kris from the first show and I still needed to film Falling Slowly. I only got the first half. ; ; stupid memory card. *kicks it* Come together was awesome again, if not better. He jumped out into the crowd again and it was so redundant to even try and follow his location because tiny!Kris was tiny, and lol there was no way I would find him in the crowd. XD
He thanks San Diego at the end again for being such an awesome crowd and I'm like some proud mama or something because everyone loved him. <3333 This time around he starts tossing out guitar picks and he actually hands me one. :3 Then these girls are asking him for his water bottle and he's looking around like, whaaaat? where? and it's cute as people are pointing and he's grabbing and giving things away. This one girl wanted a water bottle that wasn't even opened and he was just like..okay..? lololol.
Then the guy who was in charge of the event was like, "If you want to meet Kris Allen then he;ll be out in the back lobby signing merchandise in a few moments. Please stand in line." Oh hey! We can still accomplish our mission! :D We were like.. fifth in line.
Poor Kris, when he comes out mostly everyone is cool. I say mostly because when he walks past one girl towards the fron she screams so loud, and it's already such a tiny room, and he jumps and turns to her like. O.O (It was actually kinda funny, but I was thinking... omg why are you screaming at him..? Keep it in until you're awayyy.)
Lizzie asks us if we have something for him to sign, and we're like, "yeah." and then it's finally our turn to see him.
He's like "Hey guys." and my cousin says, "Do you remember us?" and he's like, "Of course." and he smiles, and I joke, "And we didn't even need to hide in the bathrooms~" and he laughs and says, "Yeah, how'd you guys manage that?" and we're like, "Oh, we talked to the manager and he liked our dedication." And Kris was typically Kris-like and says, "Nice. Awesome."
My cousin then says, "I have something for you to sign, like you said you would" and he takes her ticket and starts to sign her name (It's Sabryna, btw.) but he starts spelling it with an "i" and she goes, "It's a 'Y' by the way." and he's like, *fixes it* "That's what I put. That's a 'Y'" hahaha. He then puts on his initials on her guitar pick and then he looks at me, wondering if I have anything for him to sign and instead I pluck up the courage to ask, "I was just wondering if I could have a hug." and he was like, "Yeah, sure." (Me: *ded*) and... *siiiiiiiiiigh* his armsssss... <333333 /krisbert
When we pull away I know this is probably my last chance to say something, so I start to thank him, especially for his music - Because seriously? This man is so amazingly awesome and talented and kind and I feel like I shouldn't have even been given the opportunity to be a part of this fandom. Kris and Adam seriously came into my life in a what would otherwise be a very stressful and sad year for me and they seriously kept me sane, and feeling alive, and happy, and in love with life and music and just everything. and even though I couldn't possibly tell him all of that, I thought a simple thank you would be good enough - lol but at the same time he says, "Thank you guys so much. For everything." and my thanks was buried under all of that, but whatever, it was there, and it was time for me to go and leave Kris once and for all. It was almost two by the time I got home. :o
I hadn't been to a concert in sooooooooo long, and boy am I glad that I went to Kris'. I feel overwhelmed still, because I really mean it that Kris and Adam saved me. <3 I know I'll ne stanning Kris forever. Even if he loses all his hair one day. (lol omg please not anytime soon.)
Thank you god, for Kris Allen. <3 X3
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(I applaud anyone who reads this whole flash fic sized recap. Believe me, I cut a lot of things out. Like, a song by song recap could've totally been incorporated to this, but I spared you the boredom.)
Sorry about your f-lists for a sec there bbs! D: