Seriously, this is probably the twelviest problem I have ever had in my life.
But I need some input big time.
(It's a VERY long story, but involves necessary background information.)
(And it's happening as I type this and is fresh in my mind, so I'm venting while I explain... and get wordy in the process.)
Backstory:
My sister and I have been big Jonas Brothers fans since wayyy before Disney owned their souls. They've been "our thing" for years. So when they announced their big winter tour, obviously we were going to have to go together. (The show is this coming Saturday.) We ended up getting AWESOME seats (4 of them) - row G in the center section, 7th row behind the orch pit dead center. Perfect. I had a huge group of friends going, but I definitely wanted to sit with my sister. My sister only had 2 other friends going, so she was going to give one of them the tickets for their birthday, which was last weekend. Before she could give her friend the tickets, she went out and bought her own. So my sister and I were using 2 of our seats, but the other 2 were going unused so far. We hadn't really started the search for anyone else to use them yet.
Well, my birthday was 2 weeks ago. And I received a late birthday present from one of my friends this past week - a ticket in the Orch Pit with her. She got them through a broker, so they were craaaazy expensive, and were a gift, so I couldn't say no. So I talked it over with my sister, and she was ok with it. So I'm sitting in the Orch Pit with my friend and her two sisters. *First ditching*
The JoBros are playing in Grand Rapids on Thursday night (2 nights before the Detroit show), and we're also going to that show. My family has a suite at the arena, so it wasn't as much of a hassle to get tickets. We got 6 tickets, I invited 2 friends, she invited 2 friends. (The 2 friends that she invited are the ones who she wanted to go to the show in Detroit with us, but bought their own tix.) We invited our friends before the show was even announced to the public, so it's been planned and confirmed for a while.
Wellllllllllll tonight, my sister gets a phone call from one of her friends (side note - my sister and her friends are just babies) saying that she misunderstood the plan to go to both Thursday and Saturday shows, and she had to pick one or the other. She decided to go to the Saturday show because it was just her and the other friend going, and she couldn't leave the other friend completely alone. *Second ditching*
So whatever, my sister was fine with it... she still had her other friend going. Uuuuntil about 15 minutes after the first friend backed out... the second friend called with basically the same story, and basically the same decision. *Third ditching*
My sister ended up finding another friend to go to the Detroit show with her, so 2 of the 4 seats were again being used for that show. So she asked her friend that's coming to the Detroit show if she wanted to come to the Grand Rapids show now that the other 2 friends weren't. Her friend said yes, it was taken care of. Until 5 minutes later when she called back and basically changed her mind. *Fourth ditching*
(This is kind of another story, that all ends up wrapping together... stay with me...)
This weekend, a local radio station was giving away meet and greet passes. You had to go to a Verizon store at a certain time... long story short, my sister and I went on Saturday and Sunday, and were unsuccessful.
They were doing the same thing in Grand Rapids... I have two cousins (Kailey and Kensie) who are both my sister's age. You know how younger girls always want to be like the older girls? Prime example in my family. I'm VERY close to Kensie (she's like my best friend) and I'm very close to Kailey. I'm closer to each of them than my sister or either of them are to each other. (Kailey and Kensie both live in Grand Rapids.) So Kailey tried every single day in GR to win the meet and greet passes at the Verizon stores. Kensie only tried today. Kensie called me after she went to the Verizon store to tell me she hadn't won anything... and then called me back 15 minutes later flipppinggg out that Kailey had won. So I called Kailey, and she was flipping out and was crazy excited. I called Kensie back to talk to her, and Kensie was ANGRY. Not just jealous or upset, but legit MAD. She told me that she and Kailey had said before any of this was even remotely realistic that if either of them had won passes, they would invite each other. (Which isn't true at all - Kensie had plans all along to invite her little bestie that I can't stand.) Kailey told Kensie that she was bringing the friend that's going with her to the concert. Sooo Kensie got all pissed at Kailey for not inviting her, and she was pissed in general that she hadn't won the meet and greet.
Still with me?
Rewind a little bit... remember those 2 unused seats at the Detroit show? Yesterday, my sister and I decided to invite both Kensie and Kailey to drive down for the concert. Kailey said yes right away. Kensie's parents are divorced, and she was with her dad this weekend (my mom's brother), and he said yes, but she had to talk it over with her mom (COMPLETE bitch - when she was 44, she had an affair with a 23 year old and broke up the family), who she will be with this coming weekend. She texted me a little while later saying "my mom doesn't want to pay for another ticket so I don't think I can go." I asked her if that was the only thing keeping her from coming, and she said it was. Kensie keeps bitching to me about how mad she is at Kailey for winning and how annoying it is that she didn't invite her, blah blah blah. Well, I needed to know tonight whether she was coming to the Detroit show or not. I told her I'd pay for her ticket. (I'm paying for Kailey's, too.) I thought that would make her able to come since she said it was the only thing not letting her. She responded with "I have other stuff to do." Annoying. We're in a fight. Haha.
Rewind a little bit more... remember how my sister's friends ditched her at the Grand Rapids show? Well, it was fine because she's really close with Kailey, too, and gets along with Kailey's friends. (She's WAY closer to Kensie than she is to Kailey, but Kensie has AWFUL friends, so she wasn't planning on spending any time with Kensie that night.) So she was fine with hanging with those girls that night. Wellllll, along with her meet and greet passes, she won 4 floor tickets, so Kailey and her friends are on the floor rather than in the Suite with the rest of the group. So I'll be there with my friends that my sister knows, but after everything that happened, my sister is technically going to the show alone. *Fifth-ish ditching*
Back to the meet and greet.
Kailey and I were texting back and forth and I kept congratulating her and telling her how cool it was. I asked her who she was bringing and she responded with "one of my friends I think... but I really want to bring one of you (meaning me, my cousin, or my sister.)" I told her it'd be better if she didn't invite one of us. With as mad as Kensie got at the situation, and with my sister being ditched so many times, I knew it would just end badly. If I got invited and they didn't, my sister would feel ditched again and Kensie would get insanely mad at both of us... and if one of them got invited, they'd be mad at eachother, and I'd be jealous... it just wouldn't go well. So I recommended that she bring a friend. She came online a little while later, and we were talking about who she would bring. She started stressing out hardcore about it. After thinking about it, I told her she should invite my sister. After our cousin threw a bitch fit (I love the girl, but she takes after her mom) and my sister got ditched so many times, I told her that my sister deserves it the most and would be overjoyed to meet them.
I left my phone for a little bit, and came back to 9038598349608 missed calls. All from Kailey. I finally answered one of them, and all she says is, "You're coming with me." So even after all my advice and telling her to bring a friend or my sister and skip all this drama, she invited me. Under normal circumstances, I'd be ALL for this. If my sister had her friends going to both shows with her and if I hadn't gotten a better seat for the Detroit show, I would be ALL over that meet and greet. (I'm 12 and I love the Jonas Brothers, how could I not be?!)
But with everything that's happened, this has become such an awful situation. As of right now, I accepted her offer simply because I needed more time to think everything over and I couldn't not be COMPLETELY ecstatic when she invited me.
If I take the meet and greet, I'm completely ditching my sister again, and making things VERY difficult between Kailey and Kensie. If I don't take the meet and greet, I don't get to meet the Jonas Brothers, and there's a chance that Kailey will invite Kensie even after all of this, and I just can't handle Kensie bragging about it, and she doesn't deserve it.
So... Any input?? I just need some reassurance that the Jonas Brothers aren't that important and that I'm not a completely awful person for ditching my sister and making this whole situation hell for her in the first place.
I need suggestions on how I can convince my cousin to bring my sister to the meet and greet, too.
Yea, I don't know what I'm asking for... I just needed to vent. A lot. And make sure everyone knows how much these last few hours have sucked because of those stupid, gorgeous, amazing Jonas Brothers. Haha.
I'm 12. I know.
But I need some input big time.
(It's a VERY long story, but involves necessary background information.)
(And it's happening as I type this and is fresh in my mind, so I'm venting while I explain... and get wordy in the process.)
Backstory:
My sister and I have been big Jonas Brothers fans since wayyy before Disney owned their souls. They've been "our thing" for years. So when they announced their big winter tour, obviously we were going to have to go together. (The show is this coming Saturday.) We ended up getting AWESOME seats (4 of them) - row G in the center section, 7th row behind the orch pit dead center. Perfect. I had a huge group of friends going, but I definitely wanted to sit with my sister. My sister only had 2 other friends going, so she was going to give one of them the tickets for their birthday, which was last weekend. Before she could give her friend the tickets, she went out and bought her own. So my sister and I were using 2 of our seats, but the other 2 were going unused so far. We hadn't really started the search for anyone else to use them yet.
Well, my birthday was 2 weeks ago. And I received a late birthday present from one of my friends this past week - a ticket in the Orch Pit with her. She got them through a broker, so they were craaaazy expensive, and were a gift, so I couldn't say no. So I talked it over with my sister, and she was ok with it. So I'm sitting in the Orch Pit with my friend and her two sisters. *First ditching*
The JoBros are playing in Grand Rapids on Thursday night (2 nights before the Detroit show), and we're also going to that show. My family has a suite at the arena, so it wasn't as much of a hassle to get tickets. We got 6 tickets, I invited 2 friends, she invited 2 friends. (The 2 friends that she invited are the ones who she wanted to go to the show in Detroit with us, but bought their own tix.) We invited our friends before the show was even announced to the public, so it's been planned and confirmed for a while.
Wellllllllllll tonight, my sister gets a phone call from one of her friends (side note - my sister and her friends are just babies) saying that she misunderstood the plan to go to both Thursday and Saturday shows, and she had to pick one or the other. She decided to go to the Saturday show because it was just her and the other friend going, and she couldn't leave the other friend completely alone. *Second ditching*
So whatever, my sister was fine with it... she still had her other friend going. Uuuuntil about 15 minutes after the first friend backed out... the second friend called with basically the same story, and basically the same decision. *Third ditching*
My sister ended up finding another friend to go to the Detroit show with her, so 2 of the 4 seats were again being used for that show. So she asked her friend that's coming to the Detroit show if she wanted to come to the Grand Rapids show now that the other 2 friends weren't. Her friend said yes, it was taken care of. Until 5 minutes later when she called back and basically changed her mind. *Fourth ditching*
(This is kind of another story, that all ends up wrapping together... stay with me...)
This weekend, a local radio station was giving away meet and greet passes. You had to go to a Verizon store at a certain time... long story short, my sister and I went on Saturday and Sunday, and were unsuccessful.
They were doing the same thing in Grand Rapids... I have two cousins (Kailey and Kensie) who are both my sister's age. You know how younger girls always want to be like the older girls? Prime example in my family. I'm VERY close to Kensie (she's like my best friend) and I'm very close to Kailey. I'm closer to each of them than my sister or either of them are to each other. (Kailey and Kensie both live in Grand Rapids.) So Kailey tried every single day in GR to win the meet and greet passes at the Verizon stores. Kensie only tried today. Kensie called me after she went to the Verizon store to tell me she hadn't won anything... and then called me back 15 minutes later flipppinggg out that Kailey had won. So I called Kailey, and she was flipping out and was crazy excited. I called Kensie back to talk to her, and Kensie was ANGRY. Not just jealous or upset, but legit MAD. She told me that she and Kailey had said before any of this was even remotely realistic that if either of them had won passes, they would invite each other. (Which isn't true at all - Kensie had plans all along to invite her little bestie that I can't stand.) Kailey told Kensie that she was bringing the friend that's going with her to the concert. Sooo Kensie got all pissed at Kailey for not inviting her, and she was pissed in general that she hadn't won the meet and greet.
Still with me?
Rewind a little bit... remember those 2 unused seats at the Detroit show? Yesterday, my sister and I decided to invite both Kensie and Kailey to drive down for the concert. Kailey said yes right away. Kensie's parents are divorced, and she was with her dad this weekend (my mom's brother), and he said yes, but she had to talk it over with her mom (COMPLETE bitch - when she was 44, she had an affair with a 23 year old and broke up the family), who she will be with this coming weekend. She texted me a little while later saying "my mom doesn't want to pay for another ticket so I don't think I can go." I asked her if that was the only thing keeping her from coming, and she said it was. Kensie keeps bitching to me about how mad she is at Kailey for winning and how annoying it is that she didn't invite her, blah blah blah. Well, I needed to know tonight whether she was coming to the Detroit show or not. I told her I'd pay for her ticket. (I'm paying for Kailey's, too.) I thought that would make her able to come since she said it was the only thing not letting her. She responded with "I have other stuff to do." Annoying. We're in a fight. Haha.
Rewind a little bit more... remember how my sister's friends ditched her at the Grand Rapids show? Well, it was fine because she's really close with Kailey, too, and gets along with Kailey's friends. (She's WAY closer to Kensie than she is to Kailey, but Kensie has AWFUL friends, so she wasn't planning on spending any time with Kensie that night.) So she was fine with hanging with those girls that night. Wellllll, along with her meet and greet passes, she won 4 floor tickets, so Kailey and her friends are on the floor rather than in the Suite with the rest of the group. So I'll be there with my friends that my sister knows, but after everything that happened, my sister is technically going to the show alone. *Fifth-ish ditching*
Back to the meet and greet.
Kailey and I were texting back and forth and I kept congratulating her and telling her how cool it was. I asked her who she was bringing and she responded with "one of my friends I think... but I really want to bring one of you (meaning me, my cousin, or my sister.)" I told her it'd be better if she didn't invite one of us. With as mad as Kensie got at the situation, and with my sister being ditched so many times, I knew it would just end badly. If I got invited and they didn't, my sister would feel ditched again and Kensie would get insanely mad at both of us... and if one of them got invited, they'd be mad at eachother, and I'd be jealous... it just wouldn't go well. So I recommended that she bring a friend. She came online a little while later, and we were talking about who she would bring. She started stressing out hardcore about it. After thinking about it, I told her she should invite my sister. After our cousin threw a bitch fit (I love the girl, but she takes after her mom) and my sister got ditched so many times, I told her that my sister deserves it the most and would be overjoyed to meet them.
I left my phone for a little bit, and came back to 9038598349608 missed calls. All from Kailey. I finally answered one of them, and all she says is, "You're coming with me." So even after all my advice and telling her to bring a friend or my sister and skip all this drama, she invited me. Under normal circumstances, I'd be ALL for this. If my sister had her friends going to both shows with her and if I hadn't gotten a better seat for the Detroit show, I would be ALL over that meet and greet. (I'm 12 and I love the Jonas Brothers, how could I not be?!)
But with everything that's happened, this has become such an awful situation. As of right now, I accepted her offer simply because I needed more time to think everything over and I couldn't not be COMPLETELY ecstatic when she invited me.
If I take the meet and greet, I'm completely ditching my sister again, and making things VERY difficult between Kailey and Kensie. If I don't take the meet and greet, I don't get to meet the Jonas Brothers, and there's a chance that Kailey will invite Kensie even after all of this, and I just can't handle Kensie bragging about it, and she doesn't deserve it.
So... Any input?? I just need some reassurance that the Jonas Brothers aren't that important and that I'm not a completely awful person for ditching my sister and making this whole situation hell for her in the first place.
I need suggestions on how I can convince my cousin to bring my sister to the meet and greet, too.
Yea, I don't know what I'm asking for... I just needed to vent. A lot. And make sure everyone knows how much these last few hours have sucked because of those stupid, gorgeous, amazing Jonas Brothers. Haha.
I'm 12. I know.
