Against All Odds(the rewrite)

True Friends Stab You In The Front

The longer Nova is alive the more she realizes that it isn't everyone else she's so afraid of and it isn't other people that she hates, its herself. Her whole life she's blamed everyone else for her problems. But it was her the whole time. She's stuck in an endless loop of shit.

Nova sits in her bed drunk and high while Motionless In White plays in the background. She didn't understand why she was so sad and why just fifteen minutes ago she was slicing her thighs open again. She was near quitting the band thinking that it would solve her problems but secretly knowing it wouldn't. Nova's phone rang but it wasn't a number she knew so she ignored it and texted Dakota in hopes he'd answer back but she fell asleep before she could find out.

"Nova..Nova wake up." Nova gasped and jumped and looked at who woke her up. "Jesus! Jasmine what that fuck." "Sorry, what's going on? There's empty alcohol bottles everywhere, and it reeks in here." Nova sighed and went to the window where her ashtray was. She picked out a half smoked cigarette and lit it after opening the window. "You expect me to care?" Jasmine sighed. "No. But that's not why i'm here. Dakota your drummer was in an accident last night." Nova looked at jasmine shocked, "Is he okay?!" She then realized the unknown number was probably the hospital. "You're not going to care after you hear what he was doing." Nova looked at her and waited for her to tell her. "He was leaving Mariela's house. Damien saw them out together kissing and stuff." Nova had tears in her eyes, sadness mixed with anger. "That bitch!" Harley poked her head up from the bed at the sudden raise of Nova's voice. "Its not like I loved him anyway. It just pisses me off she steals everyone from me." Jasmine sighed. "You love Anthony. I know you do. You've had that crush on him since you two met." Nova looked at Jasmine, "I had a crush on Cameron the same way and look where that led." She looked out the window to prevent Jasmine from seeing her tears. "Anthony is nothing like that asshole. Anyway get dressed." Nova went to her closet and pulled out skinny jeans and a slipknot shirt. "Where are we going?" She asked. "Taking you somewhere to help your hair." Jasmine said ushering Nova out of the house.

Hours later Nova was laughing and forgetting all about her problems. As soon as she got home they'd all rush back and she'd be sad again but she decided not to think about that. It wasn't worth it.

The next day Nova and the bad were busy. "You know.. Dakotas stupid for doing that to you." Damien said. "Doing what?" Nova asked. "Hurting and leaving you." Nova laughed at his words. "What's so funny?" Damien asked. "You. The fact that you call him stupid for doing the exact same thing you did. You have no goddamn room to talk. You are just as much of an ass as he is. You made me stop believing in myself and you call him stupid? If he's stupid you're a ignorant prick." Kai laughed. "And I don't know why youre laughing because you left too. You were my best friend and you left me. Alone with no one." Nova said turning to Kai.

"You know what I am so sick of this." She said picking up cigarettes and alcohol. She handed Damien the cigarettes and Kai the alcohol. "Now just look. Just look at the things I've handed you. You River are the reason I started smoking. I thought maybe if I smoked cigarettes for the girl after me you'd love me again. It turned into something I did everytime I thought of you to something that I did to relax. You Kai. Well its self explanatory." The guys tried to say something to her but she stopped them. "These may have been my choices but without the pain you caused me I wouldn't have made them. So they're your fault just as they are mine." Everyone just looked at Nova shocked they didn't know what to say. "Don't look at me like that. Im just sick of the bullshit and finally got to say how I felt." Nova thought for a minute and realized there was one more person that needed to know how she felt. She ran out of the house with out a word and went to the one person that meant the most. Anthony.

She stopped in the drive way to catch her breath then slowly walked up and knocked on the door. "Nova?" Anthony said when he opened the door. "Yes." Nova kisses him without hesitation but he doesn't kiss back. "What are you doing?" He asked as he pushed her off of him. Nova felt her heart break. "I.. I love you." "You're too late. I loved you until you were hung up on a different guy." That was a lie. He still loves Nova, a lot actually. He just didn't want to get hurt. Nova nodded and left walking slowly back to her house. She was too late... Anthony didn't love her anymore...