background: according to melanie, alphabet boy was a boy who was in college that she used to date. he studied music and he used to try and "teach" her how to write songs as if there was a formula or that she wasn't writing songs correctly. it made her furious and she wanted to elaborate on that. she told vice that alphabet boy is her and cry baby's break-up song.
after the events of carousel, cry baby decides to break things off. alphabet boy, whom she had previously fallen for, makes her realize he isn't worth her care or efforts to love. cry baby proves she's just as smart as him, if not smarter, after his attempts to put himself above her fails. she leaves him in the end, mentioning she isn't a "little kid now" and can make mature decisions for herself, putting cry baby on the path of her growth and maturity.
storybook art (artist is chloe tersigni):
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