Hidden Exceptions

They would restrain you, break your legs, drug you, and brainwash you until you can't think better than a helpless toddler-just to get that gift of yours. Do you understand what we're dealing with now, Ellie? Those people would stop at nothing when they hear you're one of us now.

For ten years, Ellie believed her life was as it seemed, perhaps a little different since she was living with her best friend. But for so long, everyone had been keeping secrets-the kind everyone in her small town seemed to know but her.

Yes, there have been many unexplainable things in her life-like walking in on her best friend and her best friend's brother casually throwing furniture at each other, or her neighbour suddenly appearing in the living room out of nowhere, or that one time she found the kitchen utensils floating and organising themselves while she was supposed to be asleep. But she was told these were just dreams, and so far, she believed that.

Until her 15th birthday, when she received a gift-her mother's old ring, which her parents explicitly bequeathed to her.

You think high school is difficult?

Try surviving high school with superpowers.