***Story Takes Place in Summer 2007***

Yeah, I know Nick Jonas.  Met that kid in kindergarden.  I hated him, he hated me.  That's how it went.  We grew apart.  Well, we were never really friends, whatever.

Time passes by, he enters my life again.  What the hell?  Whatever.  This is a long story.  Care for a look?  Go on ahead, I will tell you all about Perfect Little Nicholas Jerry Jonas.

Let me tell you one thing.  He remembers me.

They say first impressions are incredibly important. And usually, I handle first impressions pretty well. Well, that was before I met Joe (the Jonas one, of course). I single-handedly managed to mortify myself in front of the pop star.

I figured I would never see him again, so no harm done (besides the hit to my ego). But I was severely mistaken. This is my account of a first impression that initiated a journey I could have never imagined.

I never thought I'd be going back to college. Once my business started going and I could pretty much support myself I didn't think I'd want to. Then I was reminded of my true passion, teaching. Even now I'm not sure if that's what I want to do but I'm working my way towards a bachelor's degree in that area. While all this rebounding and discovery is going on within myself I've learned that some people just turn us upside down.

FUTURE TRIGGER WARNING: I'LL WARN YOU AT THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER INCLUDING TRIGGER.

It only takes a moment for the course of your life to be steered in a different direction. You think you’re right on track but suddenly that path that you were driving along takes a turn and you’re treading new ground. That’s how I came to LA. That’s how I met Nick Jonas. That’s how my life, as I knew it, was being left behind in the dust.

Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear
Take the wheel and steer

It's driven me before and seems to have a vague
Haunting mass appeal
But lately I'm beginning to find that I
Should be the one behind the wheel

Life is simple. The goal of life? To live. All you have to do is eat, sleep, and breathe, and you’ll breeze through life pretty easily. But human beings are selfish. We’re not content with just living. We want things; we want pleasure. Everyone has something that makes their life worth living. Everyone has that one thing that awakens their soul.

For me, it’s Charlotte Taylor.

Charlotte seems to make my life worth living. She has shown me what it feels like to truly live. Life is about doing; Life is about firsts. Without them, how will one be able to become acquainted with the person they truly are? How can we know what we want if we don’t try something new more frequently than we’re comfortable with?

So now I’ll ask you this:

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

When Nova Harper moved in with her best friend, Joe Jonas, she never expected a worldwide pandemic to quarantine the two of them together for months with no end in sight. But that's exactly what happened. Everything changed between them in a blink of an eye.

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