Texas Homecoming Queen Combats Bullying Incident In Amazing Way

After a cruel prank was played on one of their friends, two North Texas high school students vowed to make up it by awarding the Grand Prairie High School homecoming crown to the girl who was pranked.  Bullies make the news, but we don’t always hear about good deeds.

According to NBC Chicago, 17-year-old Lillian Skinner is described by friends as “just an amazing girl” and “one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.”

“She’s so sweet,” 17-year-old Anahi Alvarez said. “We need people in this world like Lilly.”

“My mom tells me, and I remember to tell my friends, ‘Look inside [to see what] counts. Not the outside. Look inside your heart,'” Skinner said.. “If you judge people’s skin, that’s bad. But look inside their heart, to who they are.”

Skinner was targeted by some unnamed girls at school who told her she had been nominated for the homecoming court alongside her longtime best friends, Alvarez and Naomi Martinez.

When  Alvarez and Martinez found out about the prank, they created a plan to pass their crown to Skinner if either of them were named homecoming queen.

“We promised each other and we were like, ‘No matter what, no backing down. If one of us wins, we’re giving Lillian the crown,'” Martinez said.

Thousands of friends, family members and fans were in attendance at the Gopher-Warrior Bowl.

Principal Lorimer Arendse was let in on the plan just before halftime and had a planned announcement of the homecoming winners.

“In all my time in school, this is probably the greatest moment I’ve ever experienced as a principal,” Arendse said.

Arendse escorted Skinner onto the field, under the guise of helping to take pictures of the homecoming court’s procession. Lillian had no idea what would happen next.

Skinner had front row seats for when her friend, Anahi Alvarez, was named 2014 homecoming queen.

“When she won the queen, I took a picture and she told me to come over. And I said, ‘It’s OK. It’s OK. It’s your crown, you know? My name is not on the list,'” Skinner said.

“That’s when it was just, the moment itself took over,” Arendse said.

“Seeing the look on her face and the way she reacted toward it, it was priceless,” Martinez said. “I knew it was the right decision.”

When Alvarez placed the crown on her head, Skinner recalled, “I was like, ‘Wow, really? Like, wow! Like, is this a dream or something?'”

“Well, for me, I want to say, and I always say, ‘Lilly won. I just ran in her place, in her position,'” Alvarez said. “When they ask me, ‘Were you homecoming queen?’ I say, ‘No, Lilly is homecoming queen.'”

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Now that was beautiful.

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