--- title: Texas Homecoming Queen Shares Crown in Grand Prairie description: What started as a nasty homecoming prank turned into a heartwarming story about friendship canonical: https://time.com/3417935/texas-homecoming-queen-prank-friends/ author: Megan Gibson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-22T12:24:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:01.403Z og:title: Texas Homecoming Queen Shares Crown in Grand Prairie og:description: What started as a nasty homecoming prank turned into a heartwarming story about friendship og:url: https://time.com/3417935/texas-homecoming-queen-prank-friends/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e579f1cb92f6a71/6986a48955a859012ea82b23/homecoming-kindness.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: homecoming-kindness og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Texas Homecoming Queen Shares Crown in Grand Prairie twitter:description: What started as a nasty homecoming prank turned into a heartwarming story about friendship twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e579f1cb92f6a71/6986a48955a859012ea82b23/homecoming-kindness.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WATCH: 2 Homecoming Queens, 1 Incredible Act of Kindness by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Sep 22, 2014 12:24 PM UTC  NBC by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Sep 22, 2014 12:24 PM UTC If you’ve ever imagined how Stephen King’s _Carrie_ might have looked with an alternative ending, this story is for you. A group of girls at Grand Prairie High School, in North Texas, nastily pranked their classmate, 17-year-old Lillian Skinner, by falsely telling her she’d been nominated for homecoming queen. When Skinner’s two longtime friends, Anahi Alvarez and Naomi Martinez, who actually were nominated, heard about the prank they vowed to do something to help their friend. The two girls planned that if either one of them won the homecoming crown, they would give it to Skinner. “She’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met,” says Martinez, explaining why they wanted to help their friend. Alvarez agrees: “We need people in this world like Lilly.” As luck would have it, Alvarez was named homecoming queen in a ceremony in front of thousands of parents and classmates, but she immediately passed her crown onto Skinner, who said the moment was like “a dream or something.” It’s a great story — and no pigs were harmed in the making. \[[NBC](http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Grand-Prairie-Homecoming-Queen-Shares-Her-Crown-275390651.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3417935/texas-homecoming-queen-prank-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3417935/texas-homecoming-queen-prank-friends/"},"headline":"WATCH: 2 Homecoming Queens, 1 Incredible Act of Kindness","datePublished":"2014-09-22T12:24:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:01.403Z","description":"What started as a nasty homecoming prank turned into a heartwarming story about friendship","url":"https://time.com/3417935/texas-homecoming-queen-prank-friends/","keywords":["Living","Pranks","Bullying"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e579f1cb92f6a71/6986a48955a859012ea82b23/homecoming-kindness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e579f1cb92f6a71/6986a48955a859012ea82b23/homecoming-kindness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"homecoming-kindness","caption":"","creditText":"NBC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3417935/texas-homecoming-queen-prank-friends/","name":"WATCH: 2 Homecoming Queens, 1 Incredible Act of Kindness"}}]}] ```