Go Ask Alice!
Alice is fifteen, white, middle, class. She diets, she dates. She loves Roger
but the most time he doesn't notice her. If she would ever sleep with a boy she
would sleep with him. Alice
hates her look. She wants to be pretty and slim. Lately she loses fascination
about all things. School is boring and she doesn't even go to parties.
Her parents want to move. Her Dad is invited to
become the Dean of the Political Science at - . Alice is happy and is not hard for her to
leave the old school. But she misses her old house and her grandparents who she
calls gramp and gran. Alice has a brother called
Tim and a sister Alexandria.
The two are younger than Alice.
At her new school it is horrible for her. Nobody speaks to her the first days.
but her brother and sister like the new school. Finally she finds a friend at
school. Her name is Gerda, but Alice's
mother and father don't like her. Alice
doesn't feel happy in her family. She hates his sister and her brother more
than she loves them. Tim is intolerable and her mother is constantly Peking at her. Alice
gets to know Beth Baum. Beth is Jewish and her father is a doctor. Her mother
nags a lot. Alice's
parents like Beth, because she is pretty nice. In the holidays Beth goes on a
summer camp for six weeks and Alice
stays at her grans.
One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites
her for a party. Alice
doesn't like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa
has a little heart - attack and Alice
has to help her grandma. Alice
cant tell her parents why she wants to leave her grans so she has to stay. In
the holidays she sees Roger. She feels strange after she has slept with Bill. Alice takes pills to feel
better. She feels horrible and tired. She is afraid of being pregnant but than
her period starts.
Beth comes home from camp, but she is hardly
the same the same person and she met some Jewish jerks, that she's going with.
Alice feels lonely but Roger writes her some letters.
Alice gets to know Chris
Chris takes drugs too and she works in a shop
where are the flippiest clothes are sold. Chris has a boyfriend named Ted and Alice gets to know
Richie. Alice and Chris want to move to San
Francisco and to look for jobs. Alice loves her family and she wants to leave
them, because she doesn't want to know them which person she is. At first its
pretty horrible in San Francisco.
Their (flat) stiffing little one room apartment is clammy and damp. They cant
find good jobs. But finally Alice
takes a job in some crappy little lingerie store. Chris takes a job in the
boutique from Sheila. Sheila is very attractive and the owner of the shop. Alice gets more homesick
every day, but she is afraid of telling Chris. She quiets her job and gets a
job at Mr. Maria Mellani who is very fat and jolly man. Alice adores her job and Mellani is like
second family father for her. Alice gets to know
Mr. Mellanis family and for the first time she feels happy in San Francisco. Sheila has parties nearly
every night and Chris and Alice are always invited. At first Alice and Chris
enjoy the parties, which are really fun but then.
December the 3rd.
Chris and Alice decide to leave this screwed
up some. The two girls find their "new home" close to Berkeley. They work hard to make the
apartment looking great.
Kids often visit Chris and Alice and tell their
problems, but the two girls have enough problems with their lives.
Alice phones her parents and her family is happy to hear from her. Chris and
Alice fly home and both are fetched by their parents. Alice likes living at home and Christmas
time. After holidays its shock at school. Chris and Alice see each other often
at school but not even one other child wants to have contact to Alice. Everyone knows
that Alice was a pusher and so they often attack
her, Lane is a boy who takes drugs and he hunts Alice the worst way. But in February Lane
gets hit. Alice
can't stand it at home and so she leaves home again. She hitch - hikers to Denver and there she
shares a place with a couple of kids. For a few nights she sleeps in a park,
but one day she goes to a nice church where she gets help. They give her to
chance to take a shower and she gets clean clothes. She is allowed to take acid
there. They want her to stay for a few day and then to contact her parents. But
they don't allow her to take acid Alice
gets to know Doris who gets good friend for her. Doris
is 14 years old and she has been taken Drugs since she was 10 years old. Her
current stepfather started heaving sex with her. One time, when he hunts her so
bad, that her gym - teacher recognised. She got a "new family" where her older
brothers raped her. Alice
lives in the street for some time, but then she comes home again. Everything
gets better. She gets to know and love Joel. But one day Alice becomes clean and she gets to know and
love Joel. But one day Alice
gets very ill. She has to go to the State
Mental Hospital. She
thinks that worms and maggots are crawling on her body, but there are only
hallucinations. After a few weeks she becomes OK and she is allowed to go home.
Now she is happy and she wants to live a happy life with Joel, her family and
Fawn.
Three weeks later she dies. Her parents find
her lying on the floor in the kitchen.
