*Arden's point of view *

"Ellie grab all your things and let's go" I softly said as a tear escaped from my eye.

"okay but first" Ellie replied as she tightly hugged me "Arden, we will find somewhere one day."

I knew she was right, but I was still worried and doubting that. We carried on hugging for a minute or so until we got interrupted with a loud shout coming from Mrs. Anderson

"COME ON YOU LITTLE RATS GGET DOWN HERE NOW AND DON'T LEAVE ANY OF YOUR THINGS UP THERE"

We did what she said and collected all our few things. Then we checked that we hadn't left anything behind. We then made out way down stairs, as I was walking down the stairs I noticed Ellie and I were both doing the same thing. holding our matching necklaces, that were around out necks, tightly to make sure we didn't leave them behind because they were the most valuable thing we had other than our phones. We were down stairs a few minutes after she had shouted us.

"get in the car, I will be there in a few minutes" Mrs. Anderson commanded.

Mrs Anderson watched us out the house with our few bags and then walked somewhere we couldn't see her.

"Arden" Ellie whispered to me "follow me"
she had started running before I could even reply so I didn't question her, I just ran with her.

*Ellies point of view*

I don't know why but I thought running would be the best option at that time. To be fair Arden and I are 11 years old and we have had the experience of looking after ourselves .so I just carried on running knowing Arden was following me.

I kept running till we got to a bus stop.

"Ellie what are we doing" Arden panted

"just trust me" I told her

"ok" she replied

We waited for the next bus then got on it. The bus driver was a man who looked like he was in his thirty's and there was only 2 other people on the bus. They were an elderly lady and the other one was a middle-aged man.

"two tickets?" the bus driver asked us

"yes please" I replied before Arden could say anything "also where is this bus going"

"storybrooke, Maine" he responded

"ok thank you" I added before grabbing a roll of money from one of my bags and giving the bus driver the right amount of money, then grabbing our tickets and then going to take a seat. Arden just followed me, but I knew what she was going to ask. "I stole the money but please don't get mad we need it"

I could see Arden still didn't get what was going on, so I was about to explain more, but she replied before I could "we are running away aren't we" I just nodded.

*Arden's point of view*

Ellie and I just sat there for a while quietly. Then I got my phone out and looked up storybrook, main but nothing came up and I tried lots of different things but noting came up, so I gave up and just fell asleep for a while, holding my necklace in my hand as usual to get to sleep.

"Arden wake up" ellie shouted but not too loud and she was shaking me.

"what Ellie" I said looking around confused and then it came back to me.

"we have to get off and walk the rest because the bus has broken down, but I have been told how to get to this storybrook from here, so let's go"

I grabbed all my bags a got off the bus and started to walk.

*end of chapter*