[VERONICA:]
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?
[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass!
[VERONICA:]
We were so tiny, happy and shiny
Playing tag and getting chased
[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!
[VERONICA:]
Singing and clapping, laughing and napping
Baking cookies, eating paste
[KIDS:]
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!
[VERONICA:]
Then we got bigger, that was the trigger
Like the Huns invading Rome
Oh, Sorry!
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
[KIDS:]
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...
[VERONICA:]
Just not today
Hey, are you okay?
[HIPSTER DORK:]
Get away, nerd
[VERONICA:]
Oh, okay
[KIDS:]
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
[RAM:]
Watch it!
[VERONICA:]
Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!
[RAM:]
Oops
[VERONICA:]
Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick
[RAM:]
What did you say to me, skank?
[VERONICA:]
Aah, nothing!
[VERONICA:] But I know, I know... [KIDS:] I know, I know...
[VERONICA:] Life can be beautiful [KIDS:] Beautiful
[VERONICA:] I pray, I pray [KIDS:] I pray, I pray
[VERONICA:] For a better way [KIDS:] For a better way
[VERONICA:] We were kind before; [KIDS:] Ooh...
[VERONICA:] We can be kind once more [KIDS:] Ooh...
[VERONICA:] We can be beautiful... [KIDS:] Ooh... Beautiful...
[VERONICA:]
Ugh!... Hey Martha
[MARTHA:]
Hey
[VERONICA:]
Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers
[MARTHA:]
We on for movie night?
[VERONICA:]
Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail
