Piper Garvey was born in 17 years ago to wealthy parents. For the first four years of her life, she was a normal little girl. She liked playing with dolls and Fisher Price toys. Her favorite toy was the Special Edition Townhouse. It was three floors of pure pretend living fun. Piper used to sit on the hard wood floor of her bedroom and play for hours with the toy, but Piper was upset that the toys and parts did not move on their own.

She was so upset one day that she asked her mom, why the toys didn't move on their own. Her mother told her that Piper had to use her imagination and pretend that the toys moved on their own.

Piper smiled and went back to her room and examined the doll house carefully. She decided to use her "imagination" to move the toys. Much to Piper's delight, the toys began to move on their own. They walked up the stairs. They turned on the pretend oven. They talked to each other. They took baths.

From this point on, Piper loved playing with her doll house. She even told her mommy that the "imagination" worked. Piper desperately wanted to show her mommy how the toys worked, but her mommy was always too busy throwing parties, or getting ready for work, or doing everything in her power not to notice Piper.

It was when Piper was 5 that the Garvey's hired a full-time nanny instead of the part time one they had had to just feed, clothe, bathe, and put to bed their daughter. This nanny now lived with them taking care of Piper full-time and also homeschooling the girl. No "regular" schools were good enough for their daughter.

The nanny was the first person to notice Piper's unique talents. She informed her parents at the dinner table one night, and they became instantly alarmed. Piper's mother blamed herself. Piper's father had another scotch. This time he forgot the rocks.

By this time, Piper was now 7. She had a tendency to move almost everything with her mind. Instead of getting up to go turn on the TV or pick up the remote, she would use her mind to bring the remote to her. While this was all fun and amusing while Piper was happy, the minute Piper became upset or agitated, things would start flying off the walls.

The Garvey's soon became afraid of their daughter. They took her to numerous doctors trying to find out what was wrong with her. No doctor could figure it out. Piper was an anomoly, a freak, something outside of the natural order of things.

Piper was commited to an institution. Locked away in her room and heavily sedated. The only time Piper wasn't moving things was when she was asleep, so asleep she would be and asleep she would stay.

One morning, the nurse that was supposed to give Piper her sedatives was called away on an emergency on another floor. One of the psyche ward patients had tried to commit suicide. This emergency lasted the whole day.

Piper soon found herself awake, alone, tied to the bed, and unaware of where she was. She could hear the doctors talking outside her door. Parts of the conversation were about the emergency and parts were of Piper herself. Scared, Piper remained still and when the doctor's came in to check on her she pretended to be asleep. She heard them say that her next sedative dose was to be at 8 in the morning, and then she would be moved to a bigger hospital.

Piper knew that she had to escape. She waited until just after the 1:am checks, and began to unfasten her bonds with her mind. Once free, she looked around the room and realized that she was very shaky on her feet and her clothes no longer fit her. In fact, they were tiny compared to her now adult size. She grabbed the chart off the foot of the bed and skimmed through it. Piper was now 17 years old. She had been 10 last time she remembered.

Angry, Piper left the room, she undid the locks on the doors with her mind and simply walked out the front doors after stealing some money from a couple of sleeping nurses and a change of clothes from another patient's room.

Piper was lost and alone and had no idea what to do. She made a living out of picking peoples pockets and she was good at it.She hated people and stayed away from them as much as possible.