{MARYANN}
September 1st, 1989
Dear diary, I believe I'm a good person
You know I think there's good in everyone
But, here we are
First day of senior year!
And, uh, I look around at these kids I've known all my life and I ask myself
What happened?

{STUDENTS}
Freak!
Slut!
Bug eyes!
Poser!
Lard ass!

{MARYANN}
We were so tiny
Happy and shiny
Playing tag and getting chased

{STUDENTS}
Freak!
Slut!
Loser!
Short bus!

{MARYANN}
Singing and clapping
Laughing and napping
Baking cookies, eating paste

{STUDENTS}
Bull dike!
Stuck up!
Hunchback!

{MARYANN}
Then we got bigger
That was the trigger
Like the Huns invading Rome

{BOY}
Hooah!

{MARYANN}
Ugh!
Oh, sorry
Welcome to my school 
This ain't no high school
This is the thunder dome
Hold your breath and count the days
We're graduating soon

{STUDENTS}
White trash!

{MARYANN}
College will be paradise if I'm dead by June!
But I know, I know
Life can be beautiful
I pray, I pray
For a better way
If we changed back then, we could change again
We can be beautiful

{BOY}
Ow!

{MARYANN}
Just not today
Hey, are you okay?

{BOY}
Get away, nerd!

{MARYANN}
Oh- okay

{STUDENTS}
Freak!
Slut!
Cripple!
Homo!
Homo!
Homo!

{MARYANN}
Things will get better as soon as my letter
Comes from Harvard, Duke or Brown
Away from this coma
Take my diploma
Then I can blow this town
Dream of ivy covered walls
And smoky French cafes

{DUKE}
Watch it!

{MARYANN}
Fight the urge to strike a match 
And set this dump ablaze!

{DUKE}
Ooooops

{MARYANN}
Duke Gates
Third year as line back and eighth year of smacking lunch trays
And being a huge dick!

{DUKE}
What did you say to me, skank?

{MARYANN}
Ahh!
Nothing
But I know, I know
Life can be beautiful
I pray, I pray
For a better way
We were kind before
We can be kind once more
We can be beautiful
Ahhh!
Hey Louisa

{LOUISA}
Hey

{MARYANN}
Louisa Taylor
My best friend since diapers

{LOUISA}
We on for movie nights?

{MARYANN}
Yeah!
You're on jiffy pop detail

{LOUISA}
I rented The Princess Bride

{MARYANN}
Ooooh, again?
Wait don't you have it memorized by now?

{LOUISA}
What can I say?
I'm a sucker for a happy ending

{ARCHIE}
Louisa Dumptruck!
Wide load!
Haha!

{MARYANN}
Archie Greene
Quarterback
He is the smartest guy on the football team
Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf

{ARCHIE}
Haha!
Alright!

{MARYANN}
Hey!
Pick that up!
Right now!

{ARCHIE}
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me right now?

{MARYANN}
Yes I am
I want to know what gives you the right to pick on my friend
You're a high school has-been waiting to happen
A future gas station attendant

{ARCHIE}
You have a zit right there

{STUDENTS}
Hahahaha!

{MARYANN}
Dear diary
Why?

{STUDENTS}
Why do they hate me?
Why don't I fight back!
Why do I act like such a creep?
Why won't he date me?
Why did I hit him?
Why do I cry myself to sleep?
Somebody hug me
Somebody fix me
Somebody save me
Send me a sign, God
Get me some cold beer
Something to live for!
Oh
Emily, Cheryl and Wendy

{MARYANN}
And then there's them
They float above it all

{STUDENTS}
I love Emily, Cheryl and Wendy

{MARYANN}

Wendy Hamilton, head cheerleader
Her dad is loaded, he's the secretary of treasury
Cheryl Jackson, runs the yearbook
No discernible personality but her mom did pay for implants
And Emily Rae, the almighty
She is a mythic bitch
They're solid Teflon
Never bothered, never harassed
I would give anything to be like that

{BOY}
I'd like to be their boyfriend

{STUDENTS}

That would be beautiful

{GIRL}
if I sat at their table, guys would notice me!

{STUDENTS}
So beautiful

{LOUISA}
I'd like them to be nicer

{STUDENTS}
That would be beautiful

{BOY}
I'd like to kidnap one of them and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leaver her tied up for the rats

{EMILY}
Grow up, Cheryl
Bulimia is so '87

{WENDY}
Maybe you should see doctor, Cheryl

{EMILY}
Yeah, Wendy
Maybe I should

{YVETTE}
Ah Emily and Wendy
...And Cheryl
perhaps you didn't hear to bell ring over all the vomiting
You're late for class

{EMILY}
Cheryl wasn't feeling well!
We're helping her

{YVETTE}
Not without a hall pass you're not
Weeks detention

{MARYANN}
Uh, actually Ms.De Lafayette 
All four of us are out on a hall pass
Yearbook committee

{YVETTE}
I see you're all listed
Hurry up and get where you're going

{EMILY}
This is an excellent forgery
Who are you?

{MARYANN}
Uh, Maryann
Rose
I crave a boon

{EMILY}
What boon?

{MARYANN}
Um, let me sit at your table
Just once, no talking necessary
If people think that you guys tolerate me
Then they'll leave me alone

{THE GIRLS}
Hahahaha!

{MARYANN}
Before you answer I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes

{CHERYL}
What about prescriptions?

{EMILY}

Shut up, Cheryl!

{CHERYL}
Sorry, Emily

{EMILY}
For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure

{WENDY}
And a symmetrical face
If I took a meat clever down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves
That's very important

{CHERYL}
Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds

{EMILY}

And you know, you know, you know
This could be beautiful
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss
And we're on our way
Get this girl some blush
And Wendy, I need your brush
Lets make her beautiful!

{CHERYL}
let's make her beautiful!

{WENDY}
Let's make her beautiful!

{EMILY}
Make her beautiful!
Okay?

{MARYANN}
Okay

{CISHET MALE}
Out of my way geek!

{SAID GEEK}
I don't want trouble!

{CISHET MALE}
You're gonna die a three pm!

{GIRLS}
Don't you dare touch me!
Get away pervert!

{SAID PERVERT}

What did I ever do to them?

{STUDENTS}

Who could survive this?
I can't escape this
I think I'm dying

{YVETTE}
Who's that with Emily?

{STUDENTS}
Woah
Emily, Cheryl, Wendy and someone
Emily, Cheryl, Wendy and a babe
Emily, Cheryl, Wendy

{LOUISA}
Maryann?

{STUDENTS}
Maryann, Maryann, Maryann!

{MARYANN}
And you know, you know, you know
Life can be beautiful!
You hope, you dream, you pray
And you get your way!
Ask me how it feels
Looking like hell on wheels
My god, it's beautiful 
I might be beautiful
And when your beautiful
It's a beautiful fricken day!

{STUDENT}
Emily, Cheryl, Wendy, Maryann
Emily, Cheryl, Wendy, Maryann
Maryann, Maryann, Maryann, Maryann!