The burning in her face wouldn't stop as the entire class seemed to stare at her; the new girl. From his seat right in the middle of it all, Tony Rydinger found himself unwilling to look away. He couldn't exactly see what she looked like as the girl hid behind a curtain of silky, raven black hair. Just that faint brush of red across her cheeks and the distinct impression that she had a pretty sort of face. Her arms clutched her school books to her chest like they were a lifeline; the rest of the room set about to whispering in undertones and sizing her up. Mrs. Adler glared at them all from her position in front of the chalk board.

"Quiet down! Hush now!" Mrs. Adler turned to her students with an icy hardness in her face. She looked over to the new girl, her expression not softening one bit. "You're Violet Parr, correct?" The girl hesitantly nodded, seeming to shrink down into herself as the class erupted in another fit of frantic whispers. "Hush now! Shut up! This isn't your first rodeo-" Adler liked to make comments like that, but at this point Tony wasn't sure who she was referring to; the class or the new girl?

The girl-Violet-stood there shyly in the doorway, looking small standing there all by herself.

"Well?" Adler impatiently asked the girl. Violet looked at her through her waves of black hair, unsure just what was being asked of her. Adler let out a huff of hot air and exasperatedly ordered the girl to "Sit down or get out of the room. Stop wasting my time." The girl nearly tripped over herself to get to an empty desk. As it was, she stumbled quite noticeably on the corner of Adler's desk. A chorus of laughter ensued. Tony frowned.

If it was possible, and it apparently was, the girl's face-Violet, he tried to remember-darkened. Her head seemed to sink a little lower into her shoulders as she blushed, her hair shrouding her face like a mask. He watched her out of his peripheral vision as she walked slowly towards the back of the room. His classmates jeered at her, and a couple piled on their books and supplies on nearby empty desks. Violet almost seemed oblivious to it, although it was quite obvious that she wasn't. She stiffened whenever someone tried to meet her eyes and flinched when one of the other girls in his class offered her a seat. Shaking her head almost imperceptively, Violet sat instead in the farthest back corner of the room by the windows overlooking the school's parking lot. The girl who had offered Violet rolled her eyes and made some comment like "ungreatful little bitch". Everyone else continued to gossip and stare.

While Tony considered his entire class inconsiderate rude baboons, and willingly accepted the fact that he counted himself among that number. He was still staring at the girl. His curiosity peaked and he felt an anxious desire to see what it was she was trying to hide. He found himself wondering about the color of her eyes. When Mrs. Adler commanded attention towards the front board again, Tony had to force himself to look away. He paid meager attention instead to his earth science teacher for the duration of the class; which was broken every now and again by the hushed whispers of the other students as they reminded him of his curiosity in the back of the room. Every now and again, Tony couldn't help glancing back at her every now and again to try to see her face.

During one such occasion, as Tony turned back to look, the new girl delicately tucked her soft looking black hair behind her ears. He caught a flash of pale porcelain skin and the deepest pools of blue that he had every seen before she realized he was looking. That wave of hair came back in an attempt to hide her face from him. He still caught another blush.

For the remainder of the class, Tony imagined what her face actually looked like; a set of ocean blues on the palest skin he'd ever seen; a blush cutely adorning her cheeks; a heart shaped face framed by the blackest ebony he'd every seen. He fancied her looking up shyly at him from under thick, dark eyelashes, the barest hint of a smile on her face. Something about that picture seemed right, even though he'd imagined what she looked like all wrong. He hadn't really seen her face. Just hints of what was there behind her mask. His curiosity was still eating at him.

When the bell rang, signaling the end of class, Tony immediately stood and turned back to find Violet. His eyebrows scrunched in frustration; Violet was gone.

His friend David tapped on his shoulder, "'Yo, Tony, you comin'?" He signaled to the door. Looking around the room one more time for a streak of black hair, all Tony found was Adler glowering at them from the doorway. There wasn't anyone left in the room besides them. Tony reluctantly conceded to the fact that he must've just missed her and sighed. "Yeah," he said, unaware of a third pair of eyes on him. "Let's go."

Violet watched as the teacher walked out after the boys before shutting and locking the outside of the door. Once the coast was clear and Violet had adjusted to the semi darkness of the room, she let her body slowly reappear. She shouldn't have risked turning invisible in the middle of all the students, but it had become too much for her to handle when she'd noticed the boy staring. She had just barely had the time to dive behind Adler's desk before she disappeared. Violet Parr might've felt just the tiniest bit guilty from hiding from the boy when he so obviously wanted to talk to her, but she really couldn't risk him finding out about her powers. That and, despite the fact that she and her family had now moved more times in the past year then she could count on her hands, Violet really wasn't that great at meeting new people. In fact, she really wasn't all that great at talking to people she knew either.

Introversive and shy, Violet told herself she had to hide from other people to protect the family secret.

Cute boy or not, she really didn't want to have to move again.

She watched the boy from the window as he walked across the quad to the cafeteria. Her new school was pretty big. As if he felt her eyes on her, the boy turned to look up to where Violet was standing. Instinctively she shifted invisible and let her hair fall into her face. Even from here, the boy looked kind of confused and like a kicked puppy. He had a legion of people surrounding him. He was popular. People noticed him.

No one noticed her.

A.N.:

Yeah, yeah, I know. Full of grammatical errors and a confusing shift of past tense to present tense and back again. Sorry, I would've written better but for the fact that I'm exhausted. I spent a little over three hours taking an exam for class today, and I've been working my butt off like a crazy person.

Anyway, don't know why but I was recently reminded of The Incredibles, so I got it into my head that I should read some fanfics. However, I noticed the utter atrocity that were the fics there, and the distinct lack of Violet and Tony pairings. Some of the other fics were actually quite disturbing. So I decided to remedy the issue with this. Don't worry, it's gonna go on for a bit longer at least, though I'm making no promises. I wrote this on a whim and have no idea where it's going.

I'll get about to fixing this sometime later. Sorry if this seems a little AU or OC; I didn't feel like rewatching the movie in order to write this, so it's stemming off my memories right now.

But listen though, it's tres importante if you want this fic to continue. I need to know that people still read The Incredibles fanfics, so if you could just leave a review and let me know that'd be great. I don' want to write this fanfic when I'm exhausted for nothing, you know?

Thanks for reading!