Gabrielle Ford

When Gabrielle "Gabby" Ford was a baby, she lived in Virginia and even Iceland for a short while when her Air Force father was stationed there, but now she is a Texan.

For 14 of her 16 years, she has lived in the Lone Star state.

Although everything is bigger in Texas, Ford found that Samuel Clemens High School is small and unknown to many.

In the fall, she will be a junior and on the staff of the Clemens Correspondent, the school's newspaper. She also freelances for the Schertz Tales magazine, a publication of the City of Schertz.

Although she believes herself to be boring, she enjoys listening to the East Coast rock band My Chemical Romance.

Her admiration for the band, especially for front man Gerard Way, began when she was in seventh grade, and since then, she has bought all their music from iTunes.

Ford had hoped to attend a My Chemical Romance concert during a 2007 tour, but the local show date fell during TAKS week so she had to miss it.

Her favorite song is "I'm Not OK," the first song she ever heard by My Chemical Romance.

Ford said the lyrics speak to her: "Another line without a book, I held you close as we both shook."