Unlike in the case of Christine Hargensen or Mark Bing who discovered their victim's terrifying abilities after they had pushed them past breaking point, it would appear that Pricilly Dawn and her gang discovered Annie Jenks ability after an incident in the hallway when they pinched her diary. It was the one in which Annie had made logs about her telekinetic abilities. Intending to humiliate her they read out the contents out loud to all the students nearby.
Laughing and taunting they said things like:-
"Oh look people Annie's going to kill us all with her insidious mind control powers"
"What's wrong Annie are you going to rip off a Carrie"
"So she's not just a freak, she a total head-case as well"
"Is there a headshrinker in the house"
This was accompanied by the usual chorus and crackle of several unpleasant laughters,
They then tossed and passed her diary around from person to person forcing Annie to chase after it and tripping and restraining her to impede the effort. Finally deciding that she could not take much more, for the first time Annie used her telekinesis in plain sight of everyone to get her diary back. She flexed and the diary flew out of a startled Janet Luna's hands back into hers leaving some bystanders in awe while others continued to laugh.
Annie flexed another time catching Pricillia Dawn by surprise as she caused the locket around her neck - her stolen locket - to rip itself off and fly back into her hands. With a frightening and deep penetrative glance aimed directly at her tormentors she proudly and triumphantly took it and then fastened it back on her neck.
An icy smile lit Annie's face as for the first time she confronted her tormentors and replied "maybe I will, maybe I should have done it a long time ago – and this -" she said securing the locket she had retrieved " - does not belong to you" With that she turned around picked up her belongings and walked away in a huff.
This display did unsettle some of her tormentors and the students unfortunate enough to witness this phenomenal activity. Subsequently Pricilly's group was divided into two. Some were now nervous. They weren't entirely ignorant about Carrie White and Rachel Lang, they had heard the stories and didn't want to end up like their victims.
Other such as Pricilly herself and her main henchwoman Viv Dusk were dismissive. Not only dismissive but delighted. This little incident gave them more ideas and new inspirations on how they could torment Annie some more. For a few more weeks they continued to play with fire and in the end they would pay for this with their lives.
Clarissa Ryan along with a few friends was nearby she saw everything. Up till now she was probably the only at the student in all of Bates High who knew about Annie Jenks telekinetic abilities. She shuddered at what she saw. Before her eyes were all the hallmarks of another Carrie White tragedy in motion. It was now only a question of when? Rather than if?
It is said that Annie used her telekinetic powers a few more time before reaching meltdown. This time after a routine humiliation in the canteen where she caused several trays ladened with food and drink to fly into the air and their contents to rain on Pricilly and the girls who had teased her moments earlier. They retaliated by giving her a severe beating until they were pulled off by a teacher who intervened.
Another incident was during the science lab session. Since attending the Bates High School a girl named Cassandra Belle persistently enjoyed tormenting Annie. Day in and day out it was a requirement for her that she reminded Annie how ugly she was in the only way that she would ever be as attractive and pretty as Cassandra was in her dreams. It needs be mentioned that Cassandra or Cassie as she was known to her friends was unaffiliated with Pricilly Dawn and her group. A popular but insecure girl she resorted to tormenting Annie after observing that the latter was fairly weak-willed and unable to stand up for herself.
During this particular incident the students were having a chemistry lesson. Mr Everest the science teacher was instructing them to be particularly careful as the chemicals being prepared for this experiment were hazardous. Following yet another routine insult Annie used her telekinetic powers to cause a flask ladend with the mixture to leap off the workbench and then shatter in close proximity to Cassandra's face seriously injuring her.
The teacher was very angry and admonished her for not being careful. Cassandra's presumed actions resulted in a major lesson disruption and she had to be taken to hospital. Much to Annie's bemusement no one noticed her actions. Years later after the tragedy had come to pass Clarissa Ryan and a couple of Annie's surviving classmates had their suspicions.
Cassandra was fortunate than most of the other students as this incident forced her to be absent from school on the day the cataclysm hit. Despite being temporarily disfigured her physical injuries would heal. Her psychological wounds were another matter and it would take several years before she would have made a full recovery having learned her lesson.