Had I known in 2007 what I know now, maybe things would be different. Maybe I could have warned them that this weird and twisted relationship they have would turn out to be poison in their lives. Maybe I could have told them that somebody else would beat him to the chase and somebody else would get his girl. Maybe I could even have mentioned how much they would change, both as a couple and as individuals, not always for the better.
I have experienced everything with them. I have seen them in the prime of their relationship. I have seen them while he is missing her and she is missing him, and I have seen their relationship fall apart. I have seen them as they break up and hate each other for months on end. I have seen them as they 'reconnect'. I have seen them as they break each other's hearts all over again. Perhaps the most painful thing I have seen is him wanting her more than anything and her wanting him just as much, but neither of them willing to grow up and admit that they had been wrong all that time ago.
I first met Nick in 2007. We were filming Camp Rock, the film that would catapult both our careers to unimaginable heights. We had this connection on a musical level. Though I never felt a romantic link to him, we understood each other through our love of music, and it brought us closer. He introduced me to Miley, and that introduction is exactly what allows me to look at two of my closest friends every day and wonder why I didn't help them a little bit more at the time. I think back and remember their history, and I think about what I could have and should have done. The things that would have changed everything for them.
Now 2012 is coming to a close. Nick and I are in the studio, and he's writing possibly the most heartfelt thing he's ever written. Of course, it's about her. It always is. I listen to this song he's working on and it hits me that I could have been the one to change things. I could have been the one to warn them that what they were doing to each other was toxic and would never end well, but I wasn't. I let them hurt each another and I let them hurt themselves.
The romance of Nick and Miley is like something from a film. As far as I'm concerned, their tale is one of the epic and tearjerking love stories of our generation. When I'm eighty and my grandchildren ask for stories, I will tell them theirs, because it deserves to be heard. They deserve to be heard.
I plan to tell their story to whoever will listen, because I want it to invoke comfort. Comfort in the knowledge that, somewhere, someday, there is going to be a boy that loves each and every one of us as Nick loved Miley. I plan to tell their story to whoever will listen, and I plan to start with you.
I came up with this one day when I was listening to 'Six Degrees of Separation' by the Script, and it was originally going to be told through Miley's eyes. However, I was thinking about it, and I thought that it would be interesting to hear the story of Nick and Miley through somebody else's eyes; somebody who has seen everything. It occurred to me that Demi has been friends with both Nick and Miley, and she will have heard both sides of their story, so I thought it would be interesting to hear what I think Demi thinks about their relationship, and the things she possibly thinks she could have done to stop them from falling apart.
I must add that a lot of things will come from my imagination. I obviously do not know Demi, and I can't pick her brain for what she thinks about them. There will be conversations and events and details that will obviously be completely fictional, because I don't know everything that happened.
Hopefully you all enjoyed the prologue :-)