On October 8th, 2012 I got to meet Justin in Portland, Oregon with one of my best friends, Lynsey. I was home sick from school on October 1st and I was pretty sure that it was the last day to enter the meet and greet contest on bieberfever.com for the Portland show, so I figured why not enter. I thought there was no way I was going to win but why not give it a try. Never say never right? I gathered all my Justin Bieber stuff, took a picture and sent it in and just carried on with life as usual. They said that they would notify winners the day before the show, so for the rest of the week I completely forgot about the contest. Then on October 6th, I got home from our school’s homecoming dance at around midnight and went and checked my email at around 12:30am (so it was technically October 7th) and I saw I had an email from BieberFever Contests. I opened up the email and read the first line which said “Congratulations Shelby!” I couldn’t believe what I was reading so I kept reading and the email said, “You’re officially invited to attend the photo meet and greet TOMORROW NIGHT October 8th in Portland!” I re-read that part about 5 times and then I finally screamed to my mom that I was going to meet Justin Bieber! She couldn’t believe that I was one of the winners and I screamed, cried and couldn’t even believe what was actually happening. None of it felt real. I called and told Lynsey that her and I were going to actually meet Justin and she just kept repeating “What?! What?!” Actually saying it out loud didn’t make it feel real. When I replied back to the email with our names I was shaking so hard, I didn’t know how I was going to control myself when I met Justin. Then October 8th finally came and I managed to make it through a full day of school. We got to the arena and went to will call at 4pm to get our meet and greet bracelets. Then at around 4:45pm some one who worked for the arena came and took us and about 10 other meet and greet people inside the arena to where the line was. When we were waiting in line, it still hadn’t sunk in that in about 15 minutes we would be looking Justin Bieber in the eyes. Finally a lady who worked for the meet and greet came and told us to get in a group of 6 so we did and the line started moving. When we got to the front and saw the black curtain that’s when it FINALLY hit me that I was going to meet my inspiration. When the group in front of us went in we saw some one pull back the curtain and it was Kenny! We started freaking out and were like “Oh my god it’s Kenny!!” He waved to us and 2 of the other girls in our group and said “Hi guys!” Then the security guy we were talking to said “Alright it’s your turn, have fun!” Lynsey walked in first and I was behind her and there was Justin looking more perfect in person (which I didn’t know was possible) and he said “Hey what’s up guys!” He smiled at us and we all got in a line to take our picture with Justin. Lynsey and I were standing right next to him. He had his arms around us and we all had huge smiles on our faces. Then we left and when we walked out we were crying and hugging each other and calling our parents to tell them how we had just met Justin. I will never forget this day for the rest of my life because I never thought I would ever in a million years be writing and thinking about the moment I met him. This whole thing is so surreal and Justin was so sweet, kind and just perfect. Never give up on meeting him because it really can happen!! I would always roll my eyes at reading the line of “Never give up on meeting Justin,” but now I know that if you try hard enough and believe in it, it can really happen . I’ve been a Belieber since November 2009 and it was worth the wait getting to meet him. NEVER SAY NEVER and BELIEVE -@ShelbyDurkin55 Read more here: On October 8th, 2012 I got to meet Justin in Portland, Oregon…
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