Messenger and her best friend from childhood were those kids: the ones who stole all the frogs from the science lab in seventh grade and released them into into the local marsh. As much as they were both interested in dissection, the fact that they would have to ether their own frogs and watch them die was too much for the 13 year olds. This, coincidentally, is how they wound up meeting the witch that would become their guide and teacher outside the hell of public school. Messenger also took the fall for this episode, but never told her friend that that was the cause of her detention.