A favorite trick of the Alpha Bitch is to tell the Ordinary High School Student that the High School Dance will be a costume party and that everyone has to dress up as, say, a pirate. She is, of course, lying, but the heroine believes her due to Genre Blindness. Therefore, the heroine shows up at the dance dressed as a pirate (or, more likely, something impossibly elaborate and completely bizarre, such as a pirate ship) and thus looks like a complete dweeb. Either Hilarity Ensues or the heroine discovers how to take this rather cruel Practical Joke and make the most of it, much to the Bitch's dismay. (In either case the heroine will be so Genre Blind, or so sweetly naive, that she fails to notice until she's at the center of the party and surrounded by people that she's the only one in cos