Getting Tickets

As BTS announced their Permission to Dance series was going to Las Vegas, my mom suggested that we sign up for the ARMY Membership Presale for the Las Vegas shows. She claimed it was “just to test it out” for future concerts. So, we signed up and waited to be accepted into the presale. The day before the presale came sooner than expected and we received the acceptance email. Then, it was finally time for the actual presale. The morning of, I texted my mom from school, reminding her that the sale was that night. She then warned me that we weren’t actually going to go as it was “unreasonable” and it was too complicated. I told her I understood, but deep down, I had a single spark of hope. Despite this, I continued my day without thinking of the sale.

6pm rolled around and my heartrate was going through the roof. I tried to keep calm and continued with my math work, which in itself, stressed me out. I came downstairs to see my mom waiting in that dreadful waiting room. I ignored it and told her I didn’t want to see. Being so close but so far made me upset and I didn’t want to cry that day. We ate dinner with the laptop on a table in the other room. After dinner, I sat on the couch and watched some BTS videos per usual while my mom sat in front of the laptop, still waiting. My mom was in the waiting room for an hour and a half before actually getting in. When she finally did get in, she called me to see the seating with her, but I once again told her that I did not want to see it.

However, after some convincing, I caved and decided to take a look. The entire bottom of the stadium was already sold out, leaving only the three hundreds and four hundreds. This blew me away as it was only the ARMY Membership Presale. My mom clicked on some of the seats in the three hundreds section to see the price… $91 USD. Much cheaper than either of us had expected. After accidentally swiping back into the waiting room and luckily getting back into the ticket sale, the unthinkable happened.

My mom turned to me and asked, “do you want to go?” I can still picture the moment as if it were in slow motion. In an emotional overload, with my whole body shaking, I agreed. We quickly selected seats and bought them. I was a crying, sobbing mess, my heart pounding out of my chest. That “you got the tickets” from Ticketmaster only made me cry more. After my tear ducts completely dried up, we realized we had to book a whole trip to Las Vegas. Within an hour, we had a Vegas trip booked for Easter weekend!

That night I could barely sleep, I was still trembling with the enormity of the situation. I was completely dazed by everything as it had all happened so fast. Just a few hours ago, I had been almost in tears over my math homework. Now, that homework no longer mattered. I was seeing BTS in Las Vegas in a month…