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phantasticsheeran · 6 years

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What it was like meeting ed

Okay, so I want to start this off by saying that I feel so incredibly lucky to have gotten the opportunity to meet ed and it all still feels soo surreal. It’s so crazy to have gone on this journey and have it end like this. I got the opportunity to meet ed at my 10th and last ed show for the divide era. What a dream. So now to the most important part....

So the day of the concert I had about a 2 hour drive to go see ed in Minneapolis, I already knew I was gonna meet him but I was so scared something was going to go wrong. My mom, best friend, and I all left super early and got to our hotel at about 3 o’clock. We got showered, got ready, and as silly as it sounds....practiced our hugging techniques for when we met ed. We then walked to the stadium and got there around 5:30, the meetup wasn’t going to be until 6:45 so we had some time to prepare and sit around in anticipation. When we got to the meetup location we were asked for our names and given these passes:

Up until this point, I was soo soo soo scared that everyone was gonna change their minds or say “wait nevermind, you can’t meet him.” Once we got the passes everything felt so intense and real and i was SO nervous. We were then lead to an elevator and taken underground in the stadium and were separated into two groups. We then lined up in front of these two black doors and the first group went in. It was so surreal to be about one foot from the door and hear ed welcome the first group....I can’t really describe it but hearing his voice at a normal volume not amplified through a microphone was so weird? So the first group I think consists of people who work for the stadium because they presented him with a check in his name to a charity i think? and there were about 10 people and they were in there for a solid like 10-15 minutes. My friend Anna and i had assumed we were all gonna walk into the room together and ed would then take pictures with us individually but instead they separated us into the groups we came in.

Anna and I were first in line in the second group. I had expected the room ed was in to be big like a standard living room or for him to be at the end of the room so we would have to walk to him but instead the room was tiny! and he was right there a foot away from me when we walked in. Honestly this was the moment when I completely lost it....I had absolutely no idea what to do. My jaw just dropped my eyes widened and I just pointed at him and then look back at kev while I pointed and said “wow that’s him? that’s really him? it’s you?” and then i let out not a scream but just like a mildly loud “AHHH!” or terror. And so then I was still in shock and just looking at ed and then he just grabs me and pulls me into a hug. it was the softest gentles hug i’ve ever gotten. He was wearing a black shirt, so after the hug I look at his shirt and I just say “oh my gosh i’m so sorry i got makeup on your shirt I feel so bad” as I frantically try to wipe the foundation and highlighter away from his chest.

And then get this....this boy, the softest boy just puts his arm around me pulls me into him and says “no, no it’s alright i change before really it’s alright, you’re alright”so then next i thrust a build-a-bear i brought him that’s dressed like him and sings “take it back’ toward him and just say “i brought you a bear. it sings!” and he just starts giggling and looks at the bear and presses its hand and makes it sing. He can tell i’m nervous so throughout the entire conversation we have he’ll look at me once the bear stops singing and press the hand and make the bear dance to make me laugh. He did this at least 5-6 different times. At one point he also, in the most gentle way, starts tying one of the bears shoelaces and moving its shoes around.

next, my friends shows him two drawings i made of him and goes “she also made these for you, aren’t they so goood?” and he looks at me and hugs me and goes “now, normally, i don’t keep these with me because on tour they rip or get damaged and these are really quite well done, so is it okay if i just sign them and you can take them home and put them on your wall?” and I’m like yes that’s so okay! and he’s like “but is it okay if i keep the bear? i quite like this bear” THIS SOFT BOY LITERALLY ASKED ME IF HE COULD KEEP THE BEAR AS HE CRADLED LIKE A BABY IN HIS ARM LIEK WHAT??

after this, I asked him if I could ask him some questions but he didn’t have to answer them if he couldn’t and he just says “yeah, okay, shoot. any question you want” and I asked him if in the perfect video it was really a picture of him and cherry because i’ve been wondering for the longest time. and he just touches my arm and goes “actually it’s a picture of my brother and cherry and they just photoshopped my face onto it” and then i’m like “don’t think i’m weird or anything but you got a new tattoo on your back and a lot of people are trying to figure out what it is because it kinda looks like a frog wearing a crown so i was just wondering what it’s of?” and he just goes “oh have you heard of an artist named basquiat? he makes these paintings and they sell for hundreds of millions of dollars and i really like them and obviously can’t buy them so i just decided to get one tattooed on me.” and then he asks to see my friends phone and is gonna google the picture of his tattoo. my friend hands him her phone and her thumb is sweaty so it’s not unlocking her phone so she just types her password in and he’s on her phone and just goes “where’s google, i can’t find it” and she goes “it’s in the blue, i color code them” and then he turns to me and puts his hand on my arm again and goes “ you know what i have a friend who does that too” and so then this SWEET BOY spends a solid amount of time finding the exact picture of the tattoo on his back so i can know exactly which one it is.

next i told him how funny cherry’s captions are on the wibbles instagram and he just goes “yeah she is funnny” and giggles and then goes “did you know kev has an instagram” and we’re like yeah we did like of course and my friends brings up his last post with shawn mendes and kev and ed both start laughing kev goes “oh i’m glad you liked that one.” and then my friend goes “fun fact ed did you know kev and her have the same birthday” and then ed just looks at me and hugs me and goes “happy birthday by the way” and then kev is like “girls do you want pictures” and ed just wraps his arms around us and takes this picture:

and then we took some selfies and he made sure the bear was in EVERY PICTURE and in this one specifically you can tell how much it actually looks like him!

and then we can tell kev’s tryna rush us a bit but ed keeps bringing stuff up every time we’re about to leave so then ed asks us if we’re from minnesota and we’re like no we’re from iowa and he’s like “i love iowa! they have raygun there don’t they?” and i’m like “yeah they’re the ones that make all your shirts when you’re there” and then he looks at me and sounds so proud and says “yes they are!” and then my friend tells him that we’ve gone to 8 concerts together adn i say this is my 10th concert and he just looks at me and puts his arm around me and he looks soo humbled by this and just goes “thank you, you don’t have to do that, thank you” and then we can feel our time coming to an end so we’re panicking and my friend tells him the first time she swore was when she was singing you need me, i don’t need you. and he just holds up his fist and giggles and gives her a fist bump. and then i go “ed i’ve never swore before. should i swear for the first time right now? i will if you want me to.” and he just giggles and looks at my friend and just says “wow her first time” and then holds up a fist bump and then i just start swearing for the first time in my 19 years of life 5 times in a row, each time louder and each time giving him a harder fist bump and he just starts laughing because he thinks this is the funniest thing ever. and then after this we hugged him goodbye and it all came to an end.

important things i left out:

-i felt his belly at one point because he hugged me and my hand just kinda slid past it and it was the softs and most delicate baby belly in the world and like you could feel the like curvature of definition on it

-during this entire conversation he could tell i was overwhelmed so he’d randomly just hug me or squeeze my shoulder or put his arm around me and just bring me close to try to make me feel bettter and more calm

-he smelled like a light musk

-his tattoos are a lot more faded up close

-he was wearing black cartier bracelet and i could tell it was old because it was scratched and chipped a bit

- every time we were about to leave i’d ask for another hug and instead of just saying yes he would just bring grab me and hug me without warning

-he’s just as soft adn warm and loving and gentle as you’d think and he really makes you feel special and like an old friend

-he didn’t let go of the bear once during the entire conversation and just cradled it the entire time

-when i made the bear a few years ago they make you put a heart in it and make a wish on the heart and my wish was to meet ed and it’s just so crazy that now he has that bear

-he gave me at least 9 hugs during then entire encounter which was about 10-13 minutes long but felt like 30 minutes

-since we went first in every other picture he took after you can see the bear i gave him and you can tell he like tried to perfectly balance it so it’d be standing against a wall:

if you guys have any other questions or if i left anything important you wanted to know out just drop me an ask and i’ll answer it for you guys!

#ed sheeran #divide #divide tour

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