Hang Onto Yourself

Hang Onto Yourself Part 1

Disclaimer: This story is 100% fictional, all characters are fictional, including Bowie. Its just a bit of fun. My first ever fanfiction, so please go easy on me. Apologies for spelling and gramma errors etc.

I have tried to keep the timelines in keeping with Mr Bowies career but it hasn't always worked like that, but have been changed to help with the flow of the story.

Just a side note. For those wanting to read this for Bowie, he appears a little later. Stick with it. As for those just wanting to get to the good stuff...there's a lot to happen before they can move forward ;)

Nova was tired. Not just tired from working 24/7, but tired of the situation she was in. She had been writing music since she was 12, music was the most important thing in her life.

She had taught herself to play the guitar with next to no help, but realised she needed guidance and training when it came to singing.

Carrying a tune wasn't so much a problem, but Nova just needed "fine tuning", which she got, and had a wonderful tone to her voice, with very slight quirkiness that people seemed to enjoy.

It made her distinguishable from other people in the same profession.

She was a pretty girl with long dirty blonde hair. Delicate facial features with stunning blue eyes.

People thought she wore coloured contact lenses, but they were naturally a piercing blue colour. She stood at about 5' 4", was slim and toned, she looked after her physique and worked out almost religiously, and had a slight hint of abs.

She took pride in having the body she did. She was born in the mid 70's which annoyed her greatly.

Nova liked weird and kookie music, she'd often thought she'd been born in the wrong decade and should have been a teenage hippy in the 60's and wanted to experience the 60's and 70's purely for the music that was about back then.

She loved the Beatles because of how they experimented with music, the same with artists like Queen.

She got her first "big break" when she received a call one day from her old singing teacher, Paula, saying she had recommended Nova to a friend's daughter who was in an up and coming girl pop group locally called The Viva Divaz.

One of the 5 piece had quit unexpectedly so they needed a replacement and fast. They had a gig in two days time, Nova was the very girl for the job, when she met the band and auditioned, they instantly liked her.

Nova could learn songs very quickly too which was a plus. She was 18 at the time of joining the group with Megan, Bex, Laura and Emma.

However, Nova was a complete tomboy, dressed in jeans and shirts all the time, was perfectly happy to get her hands dirty, which usually resulted in broken nails, so very unlike her girlie bandmates.

She didn't care about those things, she cared about music.

However, management had soon made sure of making her more "girlie" so she appealed to young men and teenage boys, bleaching her hair, giving her false nails.

She was instructed to never leave the house without makeup and when working had to wear clothes she never would have bought for herself. Much too girlie for her.

The band took off pretty quickly, travelling everywhere, all over the world across Europe, Japan, Australia. They were an over night success pretty much with their second single off their debut album "Here We Come".

She generally liked her other group members, with the acceptation of a few instances, they had become quite close as they got to know each other.

Nova's passion was writing music, she was the only member that would see a song through from beginning to finish, even those which she hadn't any say in. She had an ear for music, adding ideas here and there, but never being able to fully express herself properly.