Being a teenager can be hard, but it is especially hard when you feel different from all of your classmates. This is what happened to Lillian Skinner, who didn’t fit in with the other kids at her school and quickly found herself becoming an outcast.

When the nominations for her school’s homecoming queen were announced, Lillian was stunned when she was one of the girls nominated. The nomination completely caught her off guard, but she could not but be flattered and excited that she might finally be fitting in with the other students in her class.

Sadly, Lillian was devastated when she soon learned that her nomination was just a cruel prank. In reality, Anahi Alvarez and Naomi Martinez were the real homecoming queen nominees. The two girls had known Lillian for years, and when they heard what their fellow students had done to her, they decided to take action.

Both Anahi and Naomi promised to hand their crown over to Lillian if one of them were to be declared homecoming queen. Sure enough, Anahi ended up winning, and she immediately gave her crown to Lillian!

This beautiful act of kindness soon came to the attention of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who was touched by it. Ellen loves having people who do good deeds on her show, so she decided to invite all three of the girls out to California to appear on her program! Of course, Ellen also had a surprise for the girls that they never saw coming.

Find out what their surprise was in the video below!