Ten more minutes. Only ten more minutes, then Violet would be free. The teacher's insepid rambling would be cut short by the bell and she could finally get outta here for the weekend. She anxiously drummed her fingers on the desk and stared at the clock. It only seemed to be going backwards. Would this nightmare ever end?

After what possibly could have been years the bell rang and Violet sped out of the classroom, down the hall, and to her locker. She didn't really have anything that was particularly exciting to do but just getting out of school was enough enjoyment for her.

She gathered her books and hurriedly threw them in her backpack. Around her, people were coming to their friends' lockers before stopping at their own. Violet had a couple of friends, but she'd never done that before. They weren't really close, they were just the people who didn't have any other friends in the school so they had to hang out with each other so they didn't look weird.

Finally she set off down the hall, smiling at people(even though she didn't know them, it probably made her look nice, she figured) and just damn relieved to leave.

She walked home, even in the winter, so she made extra sure to wrap her scarf around her as tightly as possible and snuggle into her down jacket before braving the five block walk back home. Violet loved the winter months, the way big fat snowflakes came down in what could only be a magical way, the intricate designs of frost on a window pane, the wreaths..It was so wonderful.

Violet stepped outside, breathing in the crisp winter air. She was lucky- hurrying had helped her catch a view of the fresh fallen snow. She headed down the front steps of the school carefully. The last thing she wanted was to fall down on the icy steps.

She took her time, enjoying the snow in all it's glory. She'd have to go to a park or something later to get some good pictures.

Her reverie was interrupted when a group of rambunctious upperclassmen bustled out of the building behind her. Oh well, she sighed, she'd have many other days to enjoy the snow. Violet turned down the street and began to trek home.

To her surprise the group of seniors started to trail behind her. There was only a couple of students who lived down this way and even though there was an ice cream shop open all year round down this way it wasn't very popular in the winter months.

Violet tried to relax; they were probably just out to admire the snow too. God, she hated how suspicious she could be.

She turned down the road to her house..only to have them continue follow her. She could hear them giggling and whispering.

Jeez, maybe they were following her. Violet really wanted to turn around and see if they were staring at her or something, but obviously then they'd know she knew they were following her and that'd just start whatever they were planning to do to her faster.

She started to speed up a bit and to her horror the group hurried up as well.

"Hey! Violet, right?" One of them, a boy, called out. Here it comes.

Violet turned around and looked at them, trying to look bored. "Yeah."

"Why'd ya run out on us so fast, huh?" A girl spoke up this time. Violet had seen this group before but she wasn't really familiar with them..or their reputation.

"Uh..I wasn't under the impression you were waiting for me." Oh, slay 'em, Violet thought to herself.

"Oh, of course we were, we wanted to talk with you." A second girl who appeared a bit nicer than the rest(which still wasn't very nice) spoke. The entire group kind of inched towards Violet, circling around her like a bunch of vultures.

"Uh...about what?" Violet stuttered and stepped back. She'd never talked to these people before, what could they possibly want? She wasn't doing their homework for them, if they thought they could bully her into it. She wasn't even in the same grade!

"Have you ever..done anything strange?" Another, one with a bunch of piercings and a short haircut and therefore an unidentifiable gender questioned.

"I don't think so?" What sort of strange? She wanted to ask. There was a lot of strange things that could have been done by her.(She wasn't saying she did it, but she had done some pretty freaky things before and was worried they had found out about it.)

The first girl, a brunette, rolled her eyes. "Nothing? Nothing at all? Nothing strange has ever happened when you get mad or upset?"

Violet simply stared at them. Was this girl implying she was some sort of freak? Like..a mutant? What was wrong with this girl?!

"I-I'm not- What are you saying?"

"I think you get what we're saying, Violet. We've noticed you're different." The second girl said.

This time Violet took a couple steps back. "You guys are crazy. I'm not..different."

"We aren't crazy!" The boy growled. "We know you're a mutant. We can tell."

Panic overwhelmed Violet. She wasn't a mutant. Mutants weren't even real!

"I'm not a mutant. I'm not! A-and don't run around spreading your l-lies to everyone!" Violet tried to sound harsh and threatening, but she sounded more scared than anything.

"Listen to us! We're trying to help you!" Brunette snapped. Violet began to turn around- she'd had enough of this.

"Cam, stop her," Brunette girl hissed behind her back, and suddenly a loud buzzing sound filled Violet's ears. She tried to resist and run away, but the sound was overbearing and pretty much paralyzing. She fell to her knees, covering her ears with her hands in a desperate attempt to block out the sound, but the sound only got stronger. It burned into her brain, each note ringing over and over, blocking every other thought out of her mind except for "stop". She couldn't stand it- if she had to listen to the noise for much longer she knew she'd go crazy.

"Stop.." Violet mumbled. The noise got louder. "Stop," She spoke, a bit more insistent this time, and when the noise only continued, she yelled. "STOP!"

And then, the buzzing ceased. It was gone. She turned around back to the gang, who were staring at her. The person named Cam, the one with the piercings, had their face scrunched up like they were still trying to make the buzz. Their hands were outstretched, and their fingers were curled up like claws towards Violet as if trying to force more waves of the sound towards her. "H-how did you...no one has ever been able to..."

Violet didn't stick around to hear what, exactly, no one had ever been able to do before and ran all the way down to her house. Little did she know, this was only the start of many, many strange things.