This is bad, so much is going on

Recently I've been in contact with my closest friend from High School, we love each other to death, as friends of course. We're like brother and sister, we'd do anything for eachother hell I've already arranged for her to be a godmother in the future. But something odd has happened, we're going to the anime convention we've been going to since Sophmore year of High School (this is the 7th year!) lately she's been running into some drama with money and collage AND her job. I won't go into detail but lets just say that she quit her job because she got into an argument with her parents, she's not the richest person in the world so she doesn't have much behind her to pay for school and her own place, I've already arranged for her to come live with me and my girlfriend (my girlfriend is not a freakout about her, my closest friend is a lesbian so there's no "I'm not letting her in because than you're going to cheat on me!"). I've talked to her, been with her, hugged her telling her its going to be alright. I keep mentioning that "March is coming up! We'll be at the convention and we'll have such a great time! Like we always do!" she calls me one day saying she's not going, I call bullshit on this, just a couple of weeks ago she was going on and on on what we were going to do and who we were going to see and what cosplay she was going to make, than all of this stuff happens and now she says she's not going, I know this convention will make her happy, I know what will make her happy, I just want to cheer her up so bad, if anything bad happens to her I go crazy and demand to know who is responsible for this. Is there any way I can convince her to go? Will she forget about this and just go with me for tradition?

 

I doubt she's decided not to go because her mind has simply changed, it may just be a financial burden, or her parents aren't letting her go. If the former, and you're feeling generous, you could help her out, though some people are weird about accepting money like that, especially when (from the sounds of things) you've already spent quite a bit to back her. If the latter, I'm not sure it can be helped, but finding their reasons may allow you to form some kind of counter-argument.