Beautiful

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[VERONICA, spoken] September 1st, 1989 Dear diary I believe I'm a good person You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but— Here we are, first day of senior year And, uh, I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself, what happened? [STUDENTS] Freak, slut, burnout, bug-eyes, poser, lard-ass [VERONICA] We were so tiny, happy and shiny Playing tag and getting chased [STUDENTS] Freak, slut, loser, shortbus [VERONICA] Singing and clapping, laughing and napping Baking cookies, eating paste [STUDENTS] Bull-dyke, stuck-up, hunchback [VERONICA] Then we got bigger, that was the trigger Like the Huns invading Rome [MALE STUDENT, spoken] Huh [VERONICA, spoken] Ugh, oh, sorry [VERONICA] Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school This is the Thunderdome Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon [STUDENTS] White trash [VERONICA] College will be paradise, if I'm not 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 [A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor] [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] Ow [VERONICA] Just not today [VERONICA, spoken] Hey, are you okay? [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] Get away, nerd [VERONICA, spoken] Oh, okay [STUDENTS] Freak, slut, cripple, homo, homo, homo [VERONICA] Things will get better soon as my letter Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown Wake from this coma, take my diploma Then I can blow this town Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés [VERONICA jostles RAM SWEENEY] [RAM, spoken] Watch it [VERONICA] Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze [RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray] [RAM, spoken] Oops [VERONICA, spoken] Ram Sweeney Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick [RAM, spoken] What did you say to me, skank? [VERONICA, spoken] Ah, nothing [VERONICA, STUDENTS, VERONICA & STUDENTS] But I know, I know (I know, I know) Life can be beautiful I pray, I pray (I pray, I pray) For a better way We were kind before (Ooh) We can be kind once more (Ooh) We can be beautiful (Ooh, beautiful) [MARTHA approaches] [VERONICA, spoken] Agh, hey, Martha [MARTHA, spoken] Hey [MARTHA helps VERONICA pick up her tray] [VERONICA, spoken] Martha Dunnstock, my best friend since diapers [MARTHA, spoken] We on for movie night? [VERONICA, spoken] Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail [MARTHA, spoken] I rented The Princess Bride [VERONICA, spoken] Ho-ho-ho, again? Wait, don't you have it memorized by now? [MARTHA, spoken] What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending [KURT, spoken] Martha Dumptruck Wide load, honk [KURT KELLY knocks the tray from MARTHA'S hands] [KURT, spoken] Haha [VERONICA, spoken] Kurt Kelly, quarterback He is the smartest guy on the football team Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf [KURT, spoken] Haha, alright [VERONICA, spoken] Hey, pick that up, right now [KURT, spoken] I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? [VERONICA, spoken] Yes, I am I wanna 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 [KURT, spoken] You have a zit right there [KURT and STUDENTS laugh] [VERONICA, spoken] Dear diary [VERONICA] Why? [HIPSTER DORK] Why do they hate me? [YOUNG REPUBLICANETTE] Why don't I fight back? [KURT] Why do I act like such a creep? [VERONICA] Why? [MARTHA] Why won't he date me? [RAM] Why did I hit him? [STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & PREPPY STUD] Why do I cry myself to sleep? [VERONICA] Why? [STUDENTS] Somebody hug me Somebody fix me Somebody save me [STUDENTS & VERONICA] Send me a sign, God Give me some hope here Something to live for [The three HEATHERS enter] [STUDENTS] Ah-ah, Heather, Heather and Heather [VERONICA, spoken] And then there's the Heathers, they float above it all [STUDENTS] I love Heather, Heather and Heather I hate Heather, Heather and Heather [VERONICA, spoken] Heather McNamara, head cheerleader Her dad is loaded, he sells engagement rings [STUDENTS] I want Heather, Heather and Heather [VERONICA, spoken] Heather Duke, runs the yearbook No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants [STUDENTS] I need Heather, Heather— [VERONICA, spoken] And Heather Chandler, the Almighty She is a mythic bitch They're solid Teflon, never bothered, never harassed I would give anything to be like that [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] I'd like to be their boyfriend [STUDENTS] That would be beautiful [STONER CHICK, spoken] If I sat at their table, guys would notice me [STUDENTS] So beautiful [MARTHA, spoken] I'd like them to be nicer [STUDENTS] That would be beautiful [BELEAGUERED GEEK, spoken] I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats [VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom. HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Grow up, Heather, bulimia's so '87 [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken] Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should [MS. FLEMING, spoken] Ah, Heather and Heather [HEATHER DUKE vomits] [MS. FLEMING, spoken] And Heather Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting You're late for class [VERONICA scribbles on a piece of paper] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Heather wasn't feeling well, we're helping her [MS. FLEMING, spoken] Not without a hall pass, you're not Week's detention [VERONICA, spoken] Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass Yearbook committee [MS. FLEMING, spoken] I see you're all listed Hurry up and get where you're going [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] This is an excellent forgery. Who are you? [VERONICA, spoken] Uh, Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] What boon? [VERONICA, spoken] Um, let me sit at your table, at lunch Just once, no talking necessary If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone [The HEATHERS laugh] [VERONICA, spoken] Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] How about prescriptions? [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Shut up, Heather [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Sorry, Heather [HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken] And a symmetrical face If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves That's very important [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds [HEATHER CHANDLER] 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 Heather, I need your brush Let's make her beautiful [HEATHER DUKE] Let's make her beautiful [HEATHER MCNAMARA] Let's make her beautiful [HEATHER CHANDLER] Make her beautiful [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Okay? [VERONICA, spoken] Okay [KURT] Out of my way, geek [BELEAGUERED GEEK] I don't want trouble [RAM] You're gonna die at 3 pm [REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL] Don't you dare touch me Get away, pervert [BELEAGUERED GEEK] What did I ever do to them? [STUDENTS] Who could survive this? I can't escape this I think I'm dying [MS. FLEMING] Who's that with Heather? [THE HEATHERS enter again] [STUDENTS, spoken] Woah [STUDENTS] Heather, Heather, Heather [REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL] And someone [STUDENTS] Heather, Heather, Heather [PRINCIPAL GOWAN & COACH RIPPER] And a babe [STUDENTS] Heather, Heather, Heather [MARTHA, spoken] Veronica? [STUDENTS] Veronica, Veronica, Veronica [THE HEATHERS part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a makeover] [VERONICA, STUDENTS, VERONICA & STUDENTS] And you know, you know, you know (Ohh-oh) Life can be beautiful You hope, you dream, you pray (Ohh-ah) And you get your way (Beautiful) Ask me how it feels Lookin' like hell on wheels (Ooh-ah) My God, it's beautiful (Beautiful) I might be beautiful (Beautiful) And when you're beautiful (Ahh) It's a beautiful frickin' day Heather, Heather, Heather, Veronica (Hey-yeah) Heather, Heather, Heather Veronica, Veronica, Veronica, Veronica, Veronica