But, a sudden noise wrenched me from my beautiful dream.
"Lorraine? Lorraine, wake up!" Came the voice of my good friend, Francesca.
I'd fallen asleep again. In bed it's okay, but in English class?!!!
"Huh?" was all I could manage.
"You were resting your head on your left arm while writing with your right, then your arm seemed to write slower and slower, then it stopped completely. When I nudged you, there was still no movement, so I assumed that you were either asleep or you were dead, and I wasn't planning on the second one being right, so I nudged you harder - that's when you woke up. You should be glad that Mr Colqhoun ( my English teacher ) didn't see you!"
"Ha, he's so old, he couldn't see a hippopotamus jump on his car - while he's trying to get in it!"
With that we fell about laughing. Mr Colqhoun heard us laughing, but let it go.
I'd fallen asleep because I was up half the night before, and the night before that, well, and the night before that, actually, for a whole week this had been going on, because I was so excited, 'cos it was getting closer to one of the best nights of my life - my first Backstreet Boys concert!!!!!!!
Francesca's not a BSB fan (why??!!) , so it was me, and two good friends, Joanna and May, my best friend Lisa wasn't a big BSB fan either, so didn't go, and quite frankly, we were soooo hyped we could have been in the next Duracell bunny advert!!!!
I had received the tickets a few weeks before, just after I booked them with my parent's credit card (don't worry - I had permission!!), and when I got them in the first mail on the Monday morning, I saw where we were sitting - block HH, row A, seats 18, 19, & 20.
My first thought was " Woah, back up there - Row A???? OH MY GOD - FRONT ROW! "We got front row!!!!!! AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed running around my house like a headless chicken.
"What are you talking about Lorraine?" asked my mum
" The Backstreet Boys concert I booked tickets for - We got Front Row!!!!! AAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"OK, there's no need to shout - I'm sure they can hear you at the SECC already!"
I was soooooo happy, I was finally going to see my man - Brian - in person!!!!! But then I remembered the both Lisa and Joanna liked him too, but I tried to not let it get to me, I was going to see him too! May would be happy, she would see her Nick in person.
On the bus to school, I couldn't stop smiling, I was getting some really strange looks, but all I could think was "Ha, you're only sad 'cos you ain't got tickets!!"
As soon as I got to school, I headed straight to registration, and as May, Joanna and I are in the same register class, I told them first.....
"AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Came Joanna's response, ever the extrovert.
"Oh.....My.....God!!!!!" said May, subtle as usual.
And that day in English, Mr Colqhoun decided to give us a free period, so we all sat together and just practically screamed!!! Well, as you do really!
And that's why I had been up half the night for that past week, well, can you blame me?!!
School had been going really slowly all week, and to pass the time, I slept through most of it, good thing it was near the holidays - actually it was the last week of term, and the concert was a kind of celebration as it fell on the last day of school before summer holidays. I would have slept more if Francesca had let me, and she had ruined a really good dream, I still wondered who the guy was in my dream.
But finally the end of Friday came, and on a Friday, we're always let out at 12:15, but because it was the last day, we got let out at 12:00, and then Joanna, May and myself all got on the bus to my house, where we would have our showers, change into our concert clothes and put our makeup on, the usual things you do before a concert, while we waited for my dad to come and pick us up after work about 5:00pm.
We had all changed into our concert clothes about an hour after we got to my house, Jo went for some dark but bright blue trousers, a Benetton jumper with a BSB T-shirt underneath, just in case she got hot. May had on another pair of black trousers, a white v-neck top and a black jacket. I had gone with my new black skirt which had a black lace thing ove it wich was embroidered with white thread (sounds complicated, you really have to see it to understand), and a white strappy top, also covered with lace (you can tell I’m big on the whole lace look can’t you?!), and my favourite white high-heeled trainers (or sneakers, whatever they’re called). May and Joanna had both gone for pairs of black high heeled shoes, while I had gone for flats (well, kind of, they didn’t have that big gap between the ball of the foot and the heel), as experienced concert go-ers (of Boyzone and 911 ), I knew to wear flats, Joanna has been to almost the same number of concerts as I have, so she should know, oh well, I guess I was going to have to give her a piggy back to the car afterwards!
(Or as it turned out - I wasn't going to at all!)