A/N: This is just the introduction to characters and Violets life.

Violet Baudelaire, 15 year old girl living a normal 15 year old girls life. Happy cakes full of rainbows and smiles right? Wrong!

Violet went to a normal school, with normal friends, like any other teenage girl. Her friends, her brother Klaus and sister Sunny could tell she was working on a solution to one of lifes problems when she tied her hair back with the hair bobbin she always kept on her wrist.

Tying up her hair was a sure fire sign that she had a lot on her mind and was about to set to work to solve something.

Violet was the go to girl in her group of friends to sort problems out. She had a motherly nature, and a level head on her shoulders as her dad had said.

Any adult looking in on Violets life would see her as a happy, smart giggly young girl. They were half-right. Violet was overall a happy child, but there were times when she just wanted to escape, to be held and to be told everything was going to be ok.

She was lucky enough for all her own problems to be minor, and mostly revolved around boys. She had a collection of weird relatives that she preferred to distance herself from.

Aunt Olivia Olaf, was her weirdest relative. She had a strong hatred for Violet –stronger than the mutual hatred for most children she knew- that she never attempted to hide. Though it some how disappeared after a few sherries.

Then there was Aunt Josephine, her favourite but also the craziest relative she had. She was obsessed with grammar and afraid of well everything. There wasn't a phobia she didn't have. She was scared of; open spaces, closed spaces, too much brightness, too much darkness, people, social encounters, spiders, everything.

Mrs. Poe was her favourite teacher, and somewhat of a parent figure for her at school. If there was something seriously wrong, she knew that she would go to her. She was lucky enough, so far, to not have needed to talk to Mrs Poe about anything other that her schoolwork.

There were her parents Beatrice and Bertie Baudelaire, they seemed to be forever arguing with her and picking little things to give out to her for. She put up with it though, for the simple reason they were her parents and she loved them. Also because they seemed to be a bit more lenient on her than her brother and she liked that. She definitely looked like her mothers side of the family.

Klaus was by most people's standards a nerd. He liked to read, did well in school, and spend an extreme amount of time on the internet and playing computer games. Violet was proud of her nerdy little brother. In her eyes, everyone was different and that's what made the world such an interesting place. She liked having someone to help with her homework, maths was not her strong point, but she did occasionally feel a little strange asking a twelve year old for help with advanced maths.

Then there was Sunny, their younger sister, she didn't do much, sleep eat and chew toys. Violet loved her little sister, but hated that her parents treated her as a live-in unpaid babysitter.

Violets best friend was Joyanna Strauss. They hadn't been close for very long, but Joyanna was the best friend she had ever had. They told each other everything, well Violet told Joyanna everything, she had a feeling it wasn't mutual sometimes.

Joyanna had her sad moments, but put it down to being a bad day. She didn't say much about her problems. They spent most of their time talking about boys and school lke most teenage girls. They had codenames for the boys they liked, and the girls they didn't, so no one knew what they were talking about. That was just how they worked.

They were young, happy and giggly and relatively care-free, for now.