It all started with my friend and I seeing a contest to win…
It all started with my friend and I seeing a contest to win Justin Bieber tickets and M&G’s. We had to enter a video to the Florida Hospital to make the patients smile, so we did. There were two winners, the video that had the most votes, and a video that was picked by the patients. From posting my link to vote on every social network I have, starring on FOX news, and having some criticism from people but more support, we won the contest on January 11th! I was speechless when I got the call from my friend saying the polls closed and it was official that we won. If I wasn’t surrounded by people, I would of cried with joy. The concert was 14 days away and they were the slowest 14 days of my life . I went shopping, picked up my tickets from the Florida Hospital marketing office, asked opinions on what to wear, and even made a game plan on what I was going to say and do when I met him. The big day came on January 25th. We had to be at the Amway Center at 3:30 to meet Scoot, who had out wristbands to get in the meet and greet. We waited till about 4:30 to get in the meet-and-greet line, that moved slowly through the arena, and backstage. At one point, all of the fans in line just sat down in a hallway backstage, where some of Justins crew and guests would come chat and take pictures with us, like Dan Kanter, Justin’s drummer, VIP manager, stylist, Kenny, and some security. We had fun backstage, just really anxious. Around 6:30, the line was finally moving, it moved very fast because the meet and greets are just about 5 seconds. We got to the curtain and I gave Justin’s VIP manager, the present I got Justin and made him promise that Justin would see it. “You ready girls?” security asked as we walked through the curtain. On the red carpet, there was Justin, more perfect than I imagined in front of the yellow and white BELIEVE background ready for the picture. “Hi nice to meet you,” Justin said, I was speechless. All I was able to say was, “I gave him a present for you,” pointing to Mike, and he replied saying, “Alright.” The photographer counted to 3, and all I remember is we put our arms around each other and when I put my hand on his stomach, he sucked in and the camera flashed. Then we said our goodbyes, we exited out of the backstage while people were taking pictures of us, and headed to the thrilling show that I will never forget. I had to look on BieberFever for the meet and greet picture because I didn’t even remember if I looked at the camera, if I was smiling, or what, it all felt like a dream. This was a great opportunity to be able to live my dream and make patients smile, this was definitely a night to remember. Dreams really do come true. -Lexi (@heyitslexig)
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