Alicia Rivera

Alicia Rivera

Age	14
Nickname	Leesh
Screenname	HOLAGURRL
Hair Color	Dark brown
Eye Color	Brown
Family	Len Rivera (father) Nadia Rivera (mother)
Relationships	Josh Hotz (ex-boyfriend)
Affiliations	Octavian Country Day Pretty Committee Body Alive Dance Studio Soul-M8s (formerly) Unbelievably Pretty Committee (formerly)

Alicia Rivera is the beta or second-in-command of the Pretty Committee in the The Clique series by Lisi Harrison. She is portrayed by Samantha Boscarino in The Clique movie and modeled by Samantha Betzag on the book covers.

BACKGROUND

Alicia meets and becomes best friends with Massie Block, Dylan Marvil, and Kristen Gregory in the prequel Charmed and Dangerous, which takes place three years prior to The Clique. Throughout the series, the four girls and Claire Lyons attend Octavian Country Day (OCD) together, where they are known as the Pretty Committee and considered to be the most popular girls in their grade. Alicia is the beta of the group, despite being the most attractive and having the wealthiest family.

Alicia lives in Westchester, New York with her father Len, a successful lawyer from Brooklyn, and her mother Nadia, a former model and Spanish immigrant. Their home, the Rivera Estate, is a gated 6-bedroom mansion with a private dance studio, a movie theater, and Alicia's Moroccan-inspired bedroom. The Riveras often visit their extended family in Barcelona, Spain for holidays and summer vacations. This includes Alicia's maternal grandmother, aunt Marina, uncle Fabian, and cousins Nina, Celia, and Isobel Callas.

APPEARANCE

Alicia4 — Alicia as portrayed by Samantha Boscarino in *The Clique* (2008)

Alicia is described as being extremely beautiful, with others referring to her as an "exotic beauty", a "10", and a "hotter version of Penelope Cruz with a better nose". She is also considered to be the prettiest member of the Pretty Committee.

Alicia has perfect tan skin, dark brown eyes, and glossy, straight, dark hair. In many of the early books, her hair is described as black, but in later books it is sometimes referred to as dark brown. She also has a pert nose, full lips, dance-sculpted abs, and large C-cup breasts.

Although Alicia follows fashion trends, her signature style is more classic and tailored than her friends'. Most of her described outfits are in a neutral-toned color palette, and she regularly wears pieces from Ralph Lauren, her favorite designer. Her style is also described as flirty, and she sometimes takes inspiration from Spanish fashion trends such as open-toed ankle boots. She also frequently wears silver rings, diamond stud earrings, red nail polish, and pink lip gloss. Her signature scent is Angel Eau De Parfum by Mugler.

PERSONALITY

Alicia is a talented dancer and regularly takes after-school classes at Body Alive Dance Studio. She is known to hate all other sports, especially ones that involve running. She also acts as the official OCD "news DJ" due to her passion for gossip and dream of becoming a famous TV reporter. Her duties include reporting lunchtime announcements from the DJ booth and presenting speeches and awards at school events. She also enjoys shopping (especially at Ralph Lauren) and spending time with the Pretty Committee.

Within the Pretty Committee, Alicia is known for leading the group in gossip points and using signature catchphrases such as "Point!", "I heart _", "Opposite of _", and "Given". She also has a habit of using Spanish words like 'loco', 'amigo', and 'fiesta' after coming back from trips to Spain. Due to her father's career as a lawyer, Alicia is knowledgeable about law and legal jargon, which she sometimes incorporates into her speech.

Parents and teachers love Alicia for her "sweet" personality, but like the rest of the Pretty Committee, she can be cunning and insensitive at times. However, she is less judgmental than Massie and more preoccupied with her own insecurities.

Alicia loves the Pretty Committee, but she also dreams of becoming an alpha and is secretly envious of Massie’s natural creativity and leadership skills. She describes feeling as though dance is the only thing she can beat Massie at, and she grows resentful and jealous of her peers’ idolization of Massie. This desire to feel admired and special sometimes causes Alicia to temporarily sacrifice her friendships with the Pretty Committee girls in search of validation from other friends and boys.

Aside from her beta status, Alicia’s biggest insecurity is the size of her breasts. She dislikes when others draw attention to them and wishes that boys would show interest in her for who she is rather than for her body. She is known to cross her arms over her chest when she is feeling particularly self-conscious. She is otherwise secure in her appearance and makes a point to walk slowly and never rush for anyone due to her father’s assurance that her beauty makes her “well worth waiting for”.

HISTORY

Charmed and Dangerous

Alicia performs with the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad at Merri-Lee Marvil's New Year's Yves Party, where she takes over as the team captain and later meets Massie, Dylan, and Kristen.

The Clique

Alicia purposefully gets red paint on Claire's white jeans in art class to embarrass her.

Best Friends for Never

Alicia befriends Olivia Ryan at Massie and Claire's boy-girl Halloween party. They team up for the OCD "Fashion Week Uniform Contest" and propose that the students wear Ralph Lauren blazers, jeans and strappy sandals.

Massie, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire team up and get more votes than Alicia and Olivia. In a desperate attempt, Alicia cheats by switching the two teams' ballot boxes. Massie discovers what Alicia has done, but doesn't say anything to her and chooses to lay low and strike later.

In the end, the Pretty Committee (which now features Claire replacing Alicia) confronts the principal about what Alicia did and convinces her not to switch to uniforms so they don't have to wear Alicia's outfits.

Revenge of the Wannabes

Alicia decides to form the Unbelievably Pretty Committee with Olivia. They recruit Strawberry McAdams and Kori Gedman to join them as replacements for Dylan and Kristen.

She also manages to get a modeling contract with "Teen People" for their holiday edition, but everything flops when Massie crashes Alicia's modeling party. Alicia ends up making amends with Massie and rejoins the Pretty Committee. She ultimately abandons Strawberry and Kori, but still remains friends with Olivia.

Alicia attempts to set up Claire and Cam, who like each other, but Massie (who has a crush on Cam) gets in the way. Alicia falls for Cam's older brother, Harris (who is four years older than her) and tries to make him like her by getting him free tickets to the Strokes concert, but Harris ends up taking an older girl named Angela to the concert and Alicia realizes that she'll never have a shot with him.

Invasion of the Boy Snatchers

After a long vacation in Spain, Alicia returns home with her cousin, Nina, who begins attending OCD with her, but she's later revealed to be a thief as she not only steals items from most of the girls at OCD, she steals the Pretty Committee's crushes as well.

In a subplot, Alicia ends up doing something about her crush, a new student named Josh Hotz and in the end, she humiliates Nina, sending her back to Spain.

Claire ends up kissing Josh by accident, but Alicia is unaware of this and still likes Josh.

The Pretty Committee Strikes Back

The Pretty Committee heads off on a camping trip with the boys from Briarwood. When Alicia discovers that Claire kissed Josh, she gives Claire a taste of her own medicine by not giving Claire's "Change of Plans" note to Cam and tries to kiss him.

In the end, the girls end up getting expelled from OCD because they ran away from the field trip chaperones: Dylan's mother Merri-Lee and Mr. Myner.

Dial L for Loser

Alicia, Massie, and Claire head to Hollywood with the hopes of winning a role in the movie "Dial L for Loser."

When Claire starts getting attention, Alicia and Massie become amateur reporters on behalf of "The Daily Grind" and plan to expose her. She and Massie lie and trash Claire's bathroom with items such as tampons & athlete's foot cream, and also claim that Claire has body & beauty issues.

After that, Alicia and Massie invited to the house of Claire's co-star and end up on the cover of "US Weekly," but then they discover that the photographer was just getting embarrassing photos of them (such as Alicia with a booger in her nose and Massie picking a wedgie).

Later, the girls make up in the hotel room as they bond over the free clothes that were given to Claire. When they come home, there are cutouts of Alicia & Massie made by the girls of OCD.

It's Not Easy Being Mean

Alicia tries to help Massie get the key to the bomb shelter by getting a list of boys that Skye has kissed.

Sealed with a Diss

At first, the girls don't understand what's so good about the room, but then they discover the television that shows the boys from their ESP class & they even ditch class to escape the room.

At first, Alicia is bothered by Josh's freakishly clean room, but she starts developing a relationship with him after discovering that his sister was the one who did all of the cleaning.

At the end of the book, Alicia is the only person with a legitimate date to Skye's party.

Alicia (Summer Collection)

Alicia goes to Spain on summer vacation expecting to hang out with Nina's older twin sisters, but they ditch her and become GR girls.

She accidentally runs into a statue that is treasured by Spain and finds herself having to pay off the bill by working with Alicia.

Alicia also deals with an annoying boy who keeps wanting to talk to her. In the end, she becomes friends with Nina and discovers who the annoying guy was & they fall in love with each other.

Bratfest at Tiffany's

When Alicia sees Josh, she's reluctant to hang out with him because she swore off boys in the 8th grade, but is unable to resist the temptation and begins secretly seeing him.

When Massie discovers that Alicia is dating Josh, she kicks Alicia out of the Pretty Committee, but she ends up re-joining them by the end of the book.

P.S. I Loathe You

In order to stalk her crush, Dempsey Solomon, Massie forms a cheerleading squad called the Socc-Hers.

Alicia is thrilled about this, but not for long. She tries to give Massie ideas for cheer routines, but Massie refuses to listen to her, so she forms her own cheerleading squad called the Heart Nets.

Near the end of the book, Massie finds out about the Heart Nets and kicks Alicia out of the Socc-Hers & the Pretty Committee. Alicia tries to explain that she's only trying to be the alpha in dance, but Massie doesn't listen and leaves.

Boys R Us

Tired of Massie's controlling ways, Alicia quits the Pretty Committee.

In the beginning of the book, Principal Burns announces that Briarwood Academy has reopened which leaves Alicia's cheerleading squad, the Heart-Nets with no purpose, so she decides to form a boy-girl clique called the Soul-M8s which includes herself, Dylan, Kristen, Claire, Derrick Harrington (Dylan's new crush\boyfriend), Cam, Josh and Dempsey.

Even though Massie's new clique, MAC is beating Alicia's clique, she plans group activities which end up failing. Alicia plans a dinner party for the Soul-M8s which also fails when they leave for Massie's charity.

In the end, the Pretty Committee reforms in Bark Jacobs (the store that belongs to the mother of Massie's new crush, Landon Crane).

These Boots Are Made for Stalking

When Alicia realizes that she doesn't like Josh because they were the same clothing size, she upgrades to a 9th grader.

My Little Phony

Alicia is not allowed to shop between Thanksgiving and Christmas if she wants to go to the Spanish Rivera. She also never leaves Massie's side.

A Tale of Two Pretties

Alicia gets her fortune told by Hermia (the woman who predicted that the Pretty Committee would come together in the first place) and finds out that she will be the alpha of the Pretty Committee which scares her.

In the end, Massie moves to England and Alicia becomes the new alpha of the Pretty Committee.

LOVE LIFE

Best Friends for Never- Alicia and Olivia are rumored to like Derrick Harrington, who they chased around the Halloween party all night and then emailed and texted him all throughout the week.

Revenge of the Wannabes- Alicia develops a crush on Harris Fisher. However, Harris only used her to get concert tickets and was going out with an older girl named Angela.

Invasion of the Boy Snatchers- Alicia develops a crush on Josh Hotz and plans on asking him to the Valentines Dance, but Alicia's cousin Nina steals him for her own. At the end of the book, Claire kisses Josh, but Alicia does not find out yet.

The Pretty Committee Strikes Back- Alicia finds out that Claire kissed Josh, so she tries to kiss Cam to make Claire jealous. Josh still likes Claire but Claire likes Cam, so Josh starts to like Alicia.

Sealed with a Diss- After spying on the boys through ESP, Alicia stops liking Josh because he has a bizzarely clean room. Then it is revealed that Josh's sister is the one that cleans his room. So Alicia starts liking him again; she and Josh go to eighth grade alpha Skye Hamilton's Famous Couples end-of-the-year party. She and Josh are the only couples in the Pretty Committee that don't break up at the party.

Alicia (Summer Collection)- Over summer break in Spain, Alicia falls for the Spanish popstar !i!, but he is never mentioned again after she returns to Westchester in August.

Bratfest at Tiffany's- Alicia and Josh secretly start dating and she doesn't want Massie to know because The Pretty Committee is on a boyfast. Massie finds out and kicks Alicia out of the clique briefly, but Alicia is then allowed to rejoin when Massie calls off the boyfast.

These Boots Are Made for Stalking- Alicia and the rest of The Pretty Committee (besides Claire) upgrade to ninth-grade crushes, and Alicia starts to like one of Landon Crane's friends.

TRIVIA

Alicia occasionally has chapters from her point-of-view beginning in the third book, Revenge of the Wannabes
When Claire first saw Alicia in a picture in Massie's room, Claire asked if Alicia was a model.
She and Olivia Ryan are known as "The Twenty" since they're both tens, Alicia being the exotic and sultry beauty, and Olivia being the all-American hottie.
Her real last name is Rivers, not Rivera, because her dad changed it to make Nadia's mother approve of their marriage. Alicia is humiliated and cries when Massie finds out and calls Alicia "Fannish" (fake Spanish) in Revenge of the Wannabes.
In two of the books, she tries to form her own cliques. In Revenge of the Wannabes, she fails to make a clique called the Unbelievably Pretty Committee, and in Boys R Us, she makes BOCD's first boy-girl clique, the Soul-M8s, which also fails. She wants to be an alpha but doesn't really have what it takes.