Prologue

It was 3:09 AM. At 3:09 AM, everything changed. Zig Novak's tired and drunk mother had just gone to bed at 2:49 AM. Once she closed the door behind him, Zig Novak whipped out his cell phone to call his girlfriend Tori Santamaria. She answered groggily at 2:50 AM, like anyone else would, and he blurted out that there was something he needed to tell her but... in person. So he hung up at 2: 55 AM. And he knew he'd find the door open when he came to her house at 3:08 AM.

"I'm running away." was all he said when she answered the door before Tori put her hands over her mouth and stifled her scream.

"Where are you running to?" Tori said quietly, even though her parent's weren't even home tonight. They went to her cousin Tami's wedding in Ontario for the weekend and she promised she'd hold down the fort till then and they let her have a couple of non-Zig friend sleepover, aka Maya or Tristan. "What the hell are you running from?"

"Pennsylvania." Zig answered her, as sure as anything and ignoring her last question.

Tori scoffed. "And why there? Zig! We live in Toronto. Which means Canada, not America."

"...My dad lives there." Zig whispered and Tori's face softened and she nodded.

"Oh." was the only response she found suitable at the moment. She rubbed her hand on his back. "But sweetie..."

"No buts, Tori! Look, I've been saving up for this ever since sophomore year! Every penny I ever made went into this trip, and this summer I plan to take it."

"But, Zig...we only have our learner's permits and no one we know can or would drive us all the way to Pennslyvania."

Zig opened his mouth to retaliate when he realized what she said. "We...? What do you mean we?"

"If you think I'm going to leave you alone on a big adventure like this, you're out of your mind Novak."

A sudden scuffle came from upstairs and Tori gasped. She had forgotten all about Tristan and Maya. The two in question rose from their crouching position and looked like they just heard the most legendary thing since Barney Stinson. Maya was the first to speak up.

"What's going on?" She asked timidly, afraid of the answer. Beside her, Tristan scoffed, much like Tori did.

"You're not going to run away." Tristan hissed, more to Tori than anything else. "I need you this summer. And your parents would kill you and... and... you just can't okay?" He hurried down the stairs and folded Tori into a big hug. Tori sank into it, sighing.

"He can't go alone." she whispered into his chest. Tristan still managed to hear her. Maya and Zig exchanged troubled looks.

"I'll go with you." he answered and Tori shook her head no repeatedly at his proposal.

"Please, Tori! Either I go with you or... or... I'll tell your parents right now. I don't care if mine kill me, I'm not letting you go around the world without me yet. I'm not that ready to let go." Tristan said and Tori gasped, leaning back to glare at him.

"You wouldn't dare." Tori whispered and Tristan shrugged.

"You're right. But I'm still coming..."

"You guys! You don't have a car or a license and Zig can't have that much money for something like this and... and... this is just crazy, I can't-" Maya said but then Tori gasped, interrupting her mid-rant.

"We don't have a car but I know someone who does..." Tori beamed up at Maya who furrowed her eyebrows in confusion before she groaned.

"You're kidding, right?" Cam whispered. It was the middle of the night, he thought something really bad happened to Maya or something. But no, something worse happened... she lost her damn mind. He was not, repeat not, going to drive three other people in the middle of the night for her friend and bandmate to meet his father in Pennsylvania, for whatever reason he had. Maya better be joking.

"I knew you would say no!" Maya answered, like she was relieved he did. "I'm glad you have common sense."

"Well, tell him goodbye then. You need to pack." Tristan's voice took control of the conversation. Cam's heart stopped as he sat up in bed.

"Wait, you're still going? Maya, I can't let you go! I'd die if something happened to you." Campbell whispered into the phone. He could pratically hear the indecieveness radiating off his girlfriend. She swallowed before she answered but he interrupted her anyways.

"I'll be at Tori's house in five minutes."

"I love you, you know that?"

"Yeah... I love you too."

At 3:30 AM, Campbell Saunders found himself driving his girlfriend Maya Matlin, her friend Tori Santamaria, her best friend Tristan Milligan, and her boyfriend Zig Novak to the train station. But by the time they got there, everyone was asleep. So he parked somewhere close and waited until morning.

At 3:30 AM, you aren't really thinking about how much your life was about to change. Especially when your girlfriend is sleeping on your shoulder and it's kind of uncomfortable but she just looks so pretty, even when you were dead tired.

That's why when he woke up two hours later, he really didn't grasp how much one trip could change a life.

AN: Well, here we are. Now, I've never ran away from home and I don't know the deal that is going from Toronto to New York or something but, I do know a little something about runaway movies, books, episodes, and the actual running away process. This may not seem realistic but this is just a prologue, so it doesn't have to be.