My name is Vianca and back in 2008 when I had just turned 20, I met the most beautiful boy that changed my life forever. See, I had never had anyone look at me the way he did, touch me the way he did even speak to me the way he did yet he came at the perfect time as if that is how God had planned it all along. His name was Scott, obviously we are not together anymore, it’s a shame but we all do move on. I remember hearing about Haste the Day coming with Norma Jean and believe me guys I am a huge fan of Norma Jean and to hear that they were arriving in Dallas was grand to me. I had only heard of HTD because Scott at the time loved you like no other. He had every album so to speak. So I decided that on October 8, 2008 I was going to surprise him with tickets to go see our favorite bands. It turned out to be his birthday also which made it even more memorable. I managed to get one of our friends to drop us off at a “recording studio” in Deep Ellum, oh, the plan we had since they were both in the same band and we would be showing him a place in Deep Ellum where “they would
start practicing some new material” and I remember arriving at The Door and he just couldn’t believe it. He looked at me with his big eyes and kept saying to himself
NO, NO, NO. I paid for our way in and he repaid me with his bass pick. We tried our best to get to the front but we never made it past all the other lovers and hardcore enthusiasts for the bands playing that night. Once he saw you guys in HTD, it was done and he was in love with more than me. He felt like a child holding on to my shoulders and singing every song word for word and I did the same with Norma Jean. No, I am not saying I love Norma Jean more because that night you guys were amazing and your album DREAMER really was able to get me through hell after we were done. I remember walking out and being told by Scott at the time it was the best present he had ever received or well it was a close second to the basketball he had obtained earlier from his sister in the day for his 23rd birthday if I am not mistaken. I might be. Who knows. Thank you guys because that night will live with me forever even if Scott didn’t.