Pearple Rain

In all honesty, what kind of crazy person spends 4 HOURS in the rain waiting on a boy band? I don't blame people for calling us crazy, because if I was on the outside looking in, I think I would too. But I'm not on the outside, I'm on the inside and sometimes that doesn't mean nice, warm, sun-shiny days. Sometimes that means long, cold nights in the rain. I can hear some people saying "Well aren't you pissed at the guys for not doing anything about it? Doesn't that make you hate them?" NO! If anything, it makes me love them more. If it hadn't been for the Tulsa rain, I would have never bonded with the DUH-mazing Honor Society fans outside K-HITS or The Marquee. I don't know...there's just something about sharing umbrellas with a group of girls for 2 hours that makes you appriciate the fact that music can bring us all together like that.

I mean, how can I hate someone that

• signs my CD even though they're running late for a radio interview
• tweets while we're standing in the rain that we're the best fans EVER!
• goes to Starbucks and gets the best damn hot chocolate in the world to help warm us up
• takes time out of their already busy schedule to make sure that every fan gets a meet & greet picture like this one

I will NEVER have the chance to tell the Jonas Brothers how much their music changed my life. How when I thought I was done, that life had finally beaten me, they told me to "Hold On." When I thought I was dying & the doctors didn't know what was wrong, Nick told me to just wait "A Little Bit Longer."

I had my heart seriously broken for the first time this year. I was in love with this guy who didn't love me back, or at least, that's the story he told me. I was ready to give up all my dreams to be with this guy, to make US work. Stupid idea, right? I didn't think so. When I wanted nothing more than hope that he would realize his mistakes and come back to me...that's when I found Honor Society. I bawled the first time I heard "Don't Close the Book." I was a college Freshman trying to make my way in the world, on my own for the first time. When Mike sang

"In chapter three, went off and chased the dream to get your ghost that's haunting me it was scarier to be without you but I know that in the end need some time to take a pen and write a chapter of my own"

I felt like someone finally got it. It wasn't until recently when the album stuff finally came out that I realized this guy never loved me, no matter what he said, and would probably never love me. Songs like "Full Moon Crazy", "My Own Way", and "Where Are You Now?" were major parts of my healing process.

If it weren't for those 4 gentlemen I would have never found the career path that I love. I got to tell them that Thursday night. It might have meant a lot to them to hear a fan say that "I chose my college major because of your music" but to be able to tell them that and see the looks on their faces....it meant the world to me.

I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to see the gentlemen in the same way I did last Thursday. I pray that I do and that they are as sweet and kind then as they were last week.

oh...and if...for some strange reason you gentlemen happen to read this (we're on to you Mr. Andrew Lee!) I hope you get a good laugh every now and then. If it weren't for Tulsa & you gentlemen, we would have never met & this wouldn't be happening. You guys are beyond amazing. NO DUH!

<3 Jen