Review by: Jessie

All right, I’m gonna tell you the whole story about Auther ashe. you would have had to be there. but anyway , here it is. About two months before it, my friends and I found out about it from the hotline. So, right away we got tickets. Then, all two months we tried and tried everything we could to get backstage passes. Finally, Lee's dad (Lee is one of my best friends) was looking at the tickets and found out the sponsoring companies name. He called them up. They said that they would do whatever they could to help us, so they put in a request at the us open or something. On the day of the performance, we got a call saying that they tried all they could, but it wasn't possible to do it. WE CRIED and cried, but then it was time to get ready!! the lady at Aetna (the sponsoring company) told lee's dad that we could throw around her name and see where that could get us. So we got there. We were in the nosebleed section. All of a sudden my other best friend Lindsay said she had to go to the bathroom. So, not one of us wanted to stay there alone, and she didn't want to go by herself, so we all went. Finally after getting through the crowd and on the second level, everyone was in their seats waiting for them to come on except of course us. Linds was about to go into the bathroom when lee started screaming. She had been looking over the balcony, and there they were getting out of their van. WE rushed over, and started talking to them from two levels up. TAy was so cute. The sun was in his eyes, so he swung his arms around (don't ask me why) he even had sunglasses on. Right then I almost fainted. Now we ran and I mean ran back up to Lee's dad's seat (our seat's weren't together) and made him come down with us to try to find them. On the floor we found a ticket that get 's you onto the first floor, ya know one of those VIP ones? So Lee's dad took the ticket. He quickly flashed it to one of the guards on the first floor, and the guard let us in!! Lee's dad threw around the lady's name here and there, and finally we were standing right outside of the room that hanson was in. I couldn't stand still. Now I live in a really small town, I mean really small you know everyone!! And everyone in my town is into tennis, big tim. And as we are waiting for them to come out, and these five guys from my town walk up to us. One of them happening to be my ex-boyfriend who I cant stand. !!!! Oh well, I got over that quickly, when three girls started walking toward us. They were these girls we had met at the Meadowlands concert. The concert we had gone to before that!! We made sure they stood behind us!! Don't ask me why. So, as soon as they came out they walked quickly by, and waved. Then they went and played. We followed them onto stage, and the guards decided what harm would it to let us stand there? So we were literally 2 feet away from Zac. We would scream to him, but he had headphones on. It was so cool. The guards than pushed us back into the hall so that they could come out. We saw them go in. Then a boy tay's age my age too came out of the room. See they couldn't stay in their own room because it was on another floor and there wasnt' enough security there. So anyway, the boy who’s name I don't even know, comes quickly over to me and says Tay just wanted me to tell you he thinks your cute. I felt extremely tingly inside and I almost fainted. I told the boy to tell him to come out and talk to me, but he said that he would be mobbed by everyone even though there was only 8 or 9 people there. Anyway, the boy went back inside, and Mr.Hanson came out with Avery. They stood there, and it took a minute for me to figure out who they were. Mr.Hanson was talking to the security guard. All of a sudden it hit me who they were and I screamed out hi hanson's dad!! I didn't even think to say hi Mr.Hanson I don't know why. He just looked over and smiled, but Avie came over and tugged me. She goes, My brother likes you, but don't tell him I told you he might tickle me. I started laughing. Then the guards started letting girls down from other levels, but they had to stand behind a fence. The guards then put us behind the fence. I put myself in the front right at the angle so they would see me and only me when they came out. Finally they came out. All the girls went CRAZY, and you know how they don't like that, so I just said hi really quick so tay could hear. He heard, turned around looked at me and said hey what's up? See ya later, and then waved to everyone and went on stage. Mr.Trout then thought that they would sign autographs down by their van, so we went down there. this was after only two songs, we thought it was all over. There were ton's of girls lined up down there, but we just sat on the curb waiting. All of a sudden, we heard music coming from the stadium, and it was them. Some police men were like hurry you better run its Hanson. Sort of making fun of us. It was over a mile to where we had to be. We were all bawling our eyes out it wasn't even funny. Finally some guys let us in the bottom of the stadium. We were now in the photographers pit. Alone. No photographers were there, just us. Right in front of us was hanson. Isaac looked down at us and said , Hey down there. We just laughed. We sat there while they finished their last few songs. After that, they quickly left. It was the best day of my life.