I'll never forget the High School Talent show during my senior year of High School. I was a Master of Ceremonies, and a group of my friends and I made a parody of the Justice video for "Stress." Good times, good times.
While most of the performers were bros with acoustic guitars playing Jack Johnson songs, and 'punk bands' playing Blink 182 covers, there was one act who stole the show. Her name was Alice. She was in my Speech class. She never spoke to any one, and people called her 'weird goth girl.' I always thought she was kind of cute, but thought maybe 'things weren't okay at home.' She wore a lot of eye makeup, and skirts over leggings. A very unique girl. I heard her talk once, but she just kind of screamed something about an "Air War" and I didn't know what it meant.
Anyways, at the Talent Show, Alice signed up to sing a song. The whole school was worried that she was going to use the public forum as an opportunity to utilize a backpack bomb. To every one's surprise, she took the stage with her 26 year old boyfriend. He stood behind his laptop playing electrobeats, and she yelled into the mic. Every one stood up, danced, grinded...just 'let go.' For a moment, Alice was Queen of the School.
After the Talent Show, every one got closer to Alice. She ended up dating the Quarterback of the football team, and even went to prom. Her parents were proud of her for being social, and they bought her a cherry red Jetta.

"Life is meaningful. Never give up."
-Alice Glass, in the made for TV movie The Alice Glass Story

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