Chapter 2

As the glass elevator flew over an Atlanta suburban housing division, Willy Wonka looked at a map in one hand and a phone book page in the other. "Now wheres that adress?"

Charlie nudged Wonka and said, "I think we don't need this map to find our way. Look there."

Sure enough Charlie was pointing at a group of elementary students throwing stuff at a smaller figure wearing a track suit, gloves and a ski mask, all the while repeating, "Freak girl! Freak girl!" The figure ran away from them, ran between two houses, did a double gainer sommersault over the fence behind and ran into the forest behind the division.

The glass elevator dropped Charlie off on the edge of the forest. Charlie pointed at the kids, and said, "Make sure we're not inturrupted, right?"

Wonka smiled cleverly, then landed the elevator near the kids, and called out. "Excuse me kids, I'm Willy Wonka, head of Wonka Candy Company, and would you like to try out some of my new extra sticky taffy?"

All the kids at the thought of a new Wonka product turned and ran, as Wonka held out a handful of taffy pieces, he halfhartedly said, "One at a time please, and only take small bites." But each of the kids grapped several and stuffed them all into their mouths. Each taffy pieces when chewed upon exploded into enough taffy to flow out their mouths sticking the kids to each other, and to the ground. Willy Wonka said, "Don't say I didn't warn you!"

Charlie, meanwhile had an easy time searching the forest, as his target was filling the forest with the sound of her crying. He located his target sitting next to a brook. Charlie kneeled next to her and said, "You're a blackbelt. Why do you let those kids get away with that."

Violet replied, still wiping the tears from the holes in her skimask, "That's what I did for awhile. You can't believe the trouble I got myself into. But then all the people I thought were my friends joined into the picking, and I just didn't have the will to fight." That last phrase hit too close to home for Charlie, and his feeling sorry for himself was only inturrupted by Violet saying, "What are you doing here, anyway?"

Charlie took out the new mint and showed it to Violet saying, "Try this mint. I believe it should put some pink into your cheeks." At that phrase, Violet couldn't get the mint out of Charlie's hand and into her mouth quickly enough.

It didn't take Violet long to finish the mint, and slowly walked over to the brook and removed her skimask and letting her golden hair flow down for the first time in a long time. She looked at herself in the brook, than said through her tears. "It's over. I'm me again." Charlie steped forward to comfort her, but stopped when she turned around, and she suddenly had this absolutly vicious smile on her face. She said "You did this to me." Charlie was suddenly very frightened of Violet, and stumbled back nearly tripping over a log. Violet looked at him, the intense smile on her face never wavering, and said, "I'll give you a five-second head start. I love a challenge. Five.. Four.. Three.."

At that, Charlie ran, but head-start or not, He was no match in a running competion agaist a champion of track and field. In a few seconds, Violet had caught up to charlie, lunged at him, pinned him down, then pressed her lips against Charlie's own. It took ten seconds of struggling before Violet finally realeased Charlie, then said in a calming voice. "Thank you."

Mr. Wonka was talking to Violet's mother when the two kids returned home. Mr. Wonka showing a scared smile he usually wore when dealing with Mrs. Beauregarde. Violet's mother was yelling, "You were going to feed my daughter another experimental candy? Do you even know why the oompa-loompa's turned back?"

"I just thought you ought to know about it, and can you-uh really argue with success?" He said pointing to Violet's arrival. As Mrs. Beauregarde looked at her daughter with awe. She yelled excited, "I'm sorry. Oh, my baby's back!" Mrs. Beauregarde ran toward Violet, picked her up into a spinning hug. Charlie couldn't help but smile, even though Mr. Wonka did his best to look bored.

As soon as the spinning settled, and Violet was finally able to disengage from her mother, Violet said, "Mom, Charlie says he and Mr. Wonka are leaving on a trip to Africa. Can I come?"

Mrs. Beauregarde looked shocked and said, "Absolutly not. Africa's a scary place! Full of icky things!"

Mr. Wonka said, "Were pretty much full anyway, Little girl."

Violet put on a whiney tone, and said "But mom, I don't want to be stuck here all summer. Can't we go someplace?"

Mrs. Beauregarde said, "Violet, paying for that private school where they don't pick on you has cost us alot. It's your fault, for putting that gum in your mouth."

Violet yelled out, "I DON'T RECALL YOU TRYING TO STOP ME!" Then ran up the house stairs to her room.

As soon as Violet got to her room she plopped down by the windowsill to sulk, but found herself looking out the window to the tree outside. She put her ears to the door, and heard her mother not letting Charlie and Mr. Wonka leave until they've tried some of her cookies. That drew her back to the window. She saw herself looking at the branches of the tree and they reminded her of her gymnastics bars. She then looked down and saw the glass elevator with the giant steamer trunk inside it, and a mischivous smile creped on to her face.

As soon as Charlie and Willy Wonka were finally able to get away from Mrs. Bearegarde, they were in such a hurry to leave to notice that the steamer trunk was slightly open. It was a pity that they were allready in the air, and heading out over the Atlantic ocean that they noticed the flashing light blinking "EXCEEDING MAXIMUM WEIGHT"