Awake and Alive- Skillet
Lilly
That one wish. One stupid, meaningless wish ruined everything. I don't know where I am right now. It's a vortex void of any other form of life where I wait. I don't know when I'll get out or even if I will, but I don't really care anymore. I don't seem to care about anything now. The minutes have turned to years, but time means nothing to me. I used to be Miley Stewart, but that part of my life was shattered by a shooting star I wished on. Now I'm Hannah Montana. My life is starting over: all my memories are gone. All my experiences are erased. But I know who I am, and that star can't take that from me.
While Miley waited in her limbo, Lilly lived out an entirely different life on Earth. After reality reset, everyone was living different lives. Some would call it the butterfly effect.
Having never met Miley in the sixth sixth grade, tomboy Lilly became friends with the class nerd, Amber Addison and her close friend, Ashley Dewitt. The three were social outcasts until eighth grade when Amber began to blossom into an attractive young woman. Boys admired Amber, and her friendly attitude gave her many friends of the same gender. Soon, however, Amber became a ruthless, trend-setting girl, who single-handedly decided who was cool or uncool. Amber noticed the changes, but allowed them to become her life (the other kids deserved her punishment for being so cruel to her, she thought). Ashley and Lilly soon adopted her vein habits and her nasty, condescending attitude.
As time progressed, Lilly abandoned her tomboy attire and behavior in favor of a brand new identity. Heather Truscott, Lilly's mother took it as "coming out of her shell", and never realized Lilly's growing cruelty towards other teenagers or her decreasing self respect.
Being so popular, Amber, Ashley, and Lilly met people with connections: smoking came and went for all of them, but Ashley was the only one who let become a permanent vice. Drinking didn't take too long to infect their young lives. This hit them the hardest, it seemed; nights were spent awake, drinking "one more beer" for hours, then passing out on the couch, deceiving their parents the next day, hiding hangovers, making idiots out of themselves in public.
Unfortunately, it didn't stop at drinking: Soon, drugs crept into the girls' lives like a swarm of maggots in a meat locker. The three would smoke pot after school. Then, they started injecting, snorting, and huffing. They thought nothing of it at first, but after they were hospitalized, they tried to quit. Lilly was the first to succeed, but she always had the scars. The scars from the needles, the scars from the joints she put out her arms to stimulate herself, and the scars from the cuts she made on herself to express her emotions, instead of skating or doing anything constructive.
Come sophmore year, life was back to normal: petty attacks on unpopular girls became their only excitement. Some days, they longed for their drugs, but didn't want to go down that dark road again. However, Lilly secretly kept cutting herself, which explained why she always wore long sleaves. The good life wasn't always so good after all.