The next day at school, Meg noticed something different about the other students at her school. Not only were the other students not going out of the way to be cruel to her, they were actually going out of their way to be her friend. Even Connie D'Amico was being significantly nicer to her. One girl even offered her her purse!
"Hey, this wasn't cheap," she told her. "In any case, it will be a fantastic way to carry around your little boys!"

"What little boys?" asked Meg. "You can't be referring to my brothers, could you?"

Clarisse looked totally clueless as to what was happening.

"Okay, I'll explain," said Meg. "I have an older brother named Chris, who's an ignorant asshole, and God only knows what Stewie does!"

Clarisse took a look at her, then said "I was actually referring to those cute little things in your knapsack? You know, Alvin and his brothers?"

"Those guys?" said Meg. "Yeah, I guess they're kind of cool."

"Hey, being a pet mom to a such a famous and popular band can't be easy, but it sure pays off!" said Clarisse.

"Confused, Meg just gave her a dumbfounded look, as if Clarisse had shaved her head. Soon enough, Clarisse decided to pull out what appeared to be a newspaper article.

"What the hell do you even mean?" said Meg. "I don't get it. What's going on here? Why does everyone like me? What did I do? Did I suddenly become a Kardashian or something?"
Clarisse just stood there, looking at Meg.
I get it now," she told her. "You're a witch who's cursed me, by giving me what I want by taking my soul! You're the one behind this!"
"What the-" she said.
"There's probably a book about witchcraft in here somewhere," said Meg, taking out her backpack and shuffling through the books. "There's no way I can become this popular this naturally- especially not when those singing chipmunks humiliated me like that. Did you emsee/em what a fool they made of themselves out there?"/p
"Are you kidding me?" said Clarisse, who put her hand on Meg sympathetically. "Ever since word came out that you're the owner of the cutest band ever, everyone is getting interested to know you! Everyone wants to be your friend! Congratulations!"
"Okayyyyy..." said Meg, quite nervously.
"And as for you becoming a Kardashian?" she asked. "Kylie and Kim wish they were you!"
"The Kardashian sisters want singing chipmunks as friends?"
"If it made them popular, yeah," said Clarisse.
"Honestly, I'm not so sure about this."
"Is this about people only liking you for your pets, and not liking you for being yourself?" she asked.
"No, I'm just wondering why the hell anyone here at James Woods would care," she told her friend. "Aren't rodents disgusting?"
Suddenly, she heard a noise coming out of her backpack.
"What the-" said Meg, taking it down and trying to stifle the noise.
"Look, Meg," said Clarisse. "At this point, it's amazing that your life is great as it is. Even if they are annoying, they're just trying to help."Well, good for them, I guess," said Meg, shrugging. "You know, when I said I wanted some more excitement in my life, I didn't mean something like this."/p
"You know," said Clarisse. "I know I look like your typical popular girl, and for the most part, I am. There was, though, a time where I was just like you."

"Really?" said Meg.

"Absolutely," she told her. "You know, this Chipmunk thing is crazier than the time I was humiliated at the prom!"
"As it turned out, before coming to James Woods High School, Clarisse was an overweight, short girl who spoke in a simpleton voice and had an unflattering haircut. This led to a few popular girls electing her Prom Queen as a "joke."
"This is so sweet! All we need to do, is have her win, then we pour pig blood on her while yelling "YES FATTIES!" with an accompanying sign./p
"Hearing that she had been elected Prom Queen, instead of getting offended, however Clarisse decided to take control of her life. She started eating healthier and dressing more flattering. She even got her barber to get her a more flattering haircut. She won with a landslide.
"But the bullying didn't stop, because the kids still bullied her, and the prank still went as planned. So she had to switch schools. Because she didn't look any different from the other popular girls, she was able to assimilate well and even became Connie D'Amico's best friend.
"You know what, Meg?" she told her. "There's hope for everyone."

"Are you telling me I need a makeover?" she told her. "That happened to me before. It...ended badly."/p
"No, not like that! All You need to do is to follow everything that they say in Seventeen," /emshe said, pulling out a magazine with Kelly Clarkson on the cover./p
"Oh, I see," said Meg, taking a look. "No makeover, then?"
"Unless you really want to," said Clarisse. "And since you're Alvin's pet mom, you don't have to."
Meg said nothing, but she merely smiled in appreciation of her "new" friend. Wait until Peter himself heard about this!/p