7 Years ago

It was a pity none of Ellie's friends were in her P.E class. Without them, she never had anyone to team up with. Of course, the worst part was that Penny Rose and her posse was in her class.

When they got dressed to go back to class, Ellie always went to the far side of the locker room to avoid everyone else. She always used the shower last and always waited for everybody to leave so that she didn't have to walk past them on her way out.

One lesson, something interesting happened. The class was playing volleyball and Penny invited Ellie to play on her team. She was cautious at first, obviously, but decided to just go with it to get the girl off her back. The lesson actually went well and for once; Penny was genuinely nice. Ellie began to think that perhaps she misjudged her all along.

When the lesson ended, Ellie went back to her side of the locker room. Once everyone had showered, she stripped down and grabbed her bar of soap. About one minute into her shower time, the fire alarm suddenly burst out. The screaming alarm got Ellie to jump out of the shower to get dressed, but to her horror, her clothes had vanished.

She panicked at first, but then swallowed her pride and wrapped her towel around her body. She needed to get to safety if there really was a fire. She first stuck her head out of the locker room, to check if the coast was clear. Once she was confident that it was, she started stalking down the hallway.

When she got to the first staircase, she forgot to stop and check if anyone was there, so she just walked right past it.

"SCARFACE!" a high-pitched voice called out. She stopped dead in her tracks. She knew that voice and knew exactly where it was coming from. "Where are you going?" the voice teased. Ellie was too afraid to even turn around.

The entire hallway just filled up with people and every one of them was laughing at her. Some were even taking videos on their phones.

A pile of clothes were thrown at her feet by Penny, who acted as the ring-leader. Ellie carefully bent down to pick them up, hushing the strong urge to cry. She could feel her face heat up like a furnace. If she could've disappeared into thin air, she would've. As she crouched down, someone darted behind her and ripped the towel from her grasp. She caught it before anyone could see anything and covered herself up again.

That was it. There was only so much she could take before bursting into tears. She turned around to run, but her wet feet worked to her disadvantage and she slipped. At this point, she was on the ground, looking up at everybody laughing at her.

Penny stepped forward, her face twisted into a wicked grin. "You didn't think I actually liked you, right?" she taunted her even more.

Ellie shook her head and tried her best to move further away from Penny. "Please, just stop," she pleaded, gasping.

The blond's smile just got wider as she took out her phone. "Say cheese," she teased and just as she was about to take the picture, her cellphone broke into a million pieces.

"STOP!" Ellie screamed, silencing the crude laughter of the school. Penny's feet lifted off the ground, the lights began to flicker and then, there was silence. Everybody watched in horror as Penny started floating in mid-air, chocking on something. It looked like someone was strangling her with their bare hands, but there was nothing.

The blond kicked and kicked and held out her hand for someone to help her. Nobody stepped forward. All it took was one nod from Ellie and Penny flew to the other side of the hallway, hitting her back against the wall. She was unconscious. Everybody stared at Ellie, who had stopped crying and looked just as horrified as everyone else.

The next person was Penny's boyfriend, who was the same guy that tried to remove her towel. Some kind of force grabbed him by the collar and held him against the lockers.

"Jesus!" he cried, kicking and squirming, "you are a freak!"

That last comment was the last straw. The school watched as he hovered toward the ceiling, straight for the light.