Chapter 2: The Runaways
Year: 1987

It was five years after the Evil Queen enacted her dark curse. Pinocchio and Emma were still at the orphanage Pinocchio was thirteen and Emma was five. Pinocchio was just sitting at his bed one day trying to figure out how he is going to convince Emma that she is the daughter of the two biggest fairy tale heroes ever! Emma walked up to August and said" August, why do you look sad?"

"I'm not sad I'm just, wondering something."Pinocchio replied.

"What are you wondering about?"Emma asked the teen.

"Its nothing."August said with a smile.

"Okay"Emma said as she ran off.

"How is that little kid supposed to stop a dark curse?"August inquired to himself.

The two of them hated the orphanage they lived at. The people there didn't really care about them or any of the other children except for maybe one or two people. August just wanted to be eighteen already so he could adopt Emma and get them both out of here. Emma looked up to August, it made sense too, he kept being true, brave, and unselfish. August didn't see it that way though, he doesn't know how he'll tell Emma or if she'll even believe him. He realize that she most likely won't believe a word he says and think she has been living with a loon her entire life. He realized something at that moment, Emma might get adopted. He would be happy and let her but the curse was stopping him. August didn't know if what he was going to do was right, wrong, or something else all together.

That night he woke Emma up making sure no one else was asleep. "What is it August?" Emma said still drowsy.

"We have to get out of here." Pinocchio told the five year old.

"Why?" Emma wondered.

"I'll tell you when you are a good bit older okay." August replied not wanting to get caught by anyone.

"Okay."Emma told him.

She then got up and the two of them escaped the orphanage but they had no idea where to go. The two were walking through the streets for about the entire night, well one of them might have taken a nap in the other's arms. They saw a bus and the two of them were walking past people who were about to get on said bus."Well we don't have enough money for ticket so what do we do?"August said aloud.

"We do this."Emma then said.

Emma walked through the group of people and snatched two tickets from a young couple without them even noticing. Emma then came back with the tickets and handed them to August."Where did you learn how to do that?" August asked.

"Its not that hard." Emma said as the two began to walk to the bus.

"That's not what I asked."August told the five year old.

Emma then walked on the bus with August behind her. August then asked the bus driver "Where are we going exactly?"

"New York City."The bus driver replied.