August 19, 2011 was the date of My Bieber Experience. That night was Selena Gomez’ concert in Philadelphia so my sister and I were going to get there early so we could try to meet Allstar Weekend. On our way there, we got a text from my cousin saying that Justin and Selena walked right past her in the city. We decided that we NEEDED to go and try to find them. We heard what hotel they were staying at so we stood across the street from it for about 10 minutes. I was starting to think that nothing was going to happen, until I saw a tour bus pull up. My sister and I walked over to the side of the street that the hotel was on, but a security guard from the hotel came over and told us we had to go back across the street. Soon after that, I saw Kenny walk out, followed by Justin and Selena, with their arms around each other. We ran back over, (we were literally the only 2 fans there) and I was screaming “Justin Justin!” but the security kept pushing us away telling us that they were on a strict time schedule. I tried to ask Kenny if we could get a picture with them but he didn’t respond, and my sister made a really disappointed look. Just when I thought that we lost our chance, I see Justin walk over to us, right past the security guards who were telling us no. He came over and my dad took a picture on my phone and also had my sister’s camera so Justin said “Take one on that one too!”. Overall he was pretty quiet, but it was the nicest thing that he actually walked right over to us, past all of the security. This has really taught me to Never Say Never.

-@molliedronson and @maddiejill