I wasn't sure what we were going to do. We didn't really have a plan on where to go. We didn't have much of a plan at all. I didn't know what we were supposed to do about school, but I knew that I couldn't use my real name. I supposed the first thing that we needed to do was find a place to stay for the night. By now it was about 3:00. I couldn't remember the last time that I stayed up so late. I was tired because I was running on like three hours of sleep. It wasn't the easiest to keep walking, even though it was just walking onto a bus.

"Ali, where are we going to sleep?" I asked as we went to our seats.

"I know a few places." She replied. "I have a few connections that I never told you about, but it's good to know people in case you ever have to ask them for a favor. I guess for right now, we can sleep on the bus, but we'll need to set a timer so we don't miss our stop."

"What is our stop?" I inquired. I had let her decide where we going because I really didn't have a clue. I was still having trouble believing that this was real. It felt like it was a dream. I had to pinch myself to make sure that it wasn't.

"Manhattan." She replied. "It'll be after dawn. I think a big city is a good place to hide out and I also know a guy who has a place."

"Are you going to tell me who this guy is?" I questioned.

"I will, just not right now." She promised. "Now we should try to sleep. We'll be there in about three hours."

I set the timer on my phone for 2 hours and 45 minutes, so we would have a little bit extra time in case we got there early. I then went back to sleep leaning against her.

Soon the alarm went off and I could see that we were in New York. I hadn't been there in a while. Soon we pulled into the bus station and we got out. It seemed that we had nothing but the undisclosed amount of money Alison had and our phones.

"Okay, so the first thing that we need to do is change our appearances." She stated as we got off the bus. "People are going to start looking for us soon and we can't have the same clothes or hair."

We headed to a drug store and bought a few things of hair dye. She was going to dye her hair brown and I was going to dye mine blonde.

"I wish we didn't have to do this." She said once we were in the bathroom. "Your hair looks so good, but desperate times call for desperate measures."

"Ali, you still have a lot to tell me." I pointed out as I opened the box.

"Okay, fine, what do you want to know?" She asked.

"Well, for starters, who is this guy that has this place?" I responded.

"His name is Ezra. He goes to Hollis but he's from around here. His family owns a theater that we can stay in at least for a few nights." She explained. I was about to ask how she knew him. "We had a fling in the spring."

"Are you sure that he'll let us stay there?" I inquired. I was not sure that asking her ex for a place to stay was the best idea.

"He will once I call him." She replied. "But we're have to get new phones first."

"Do you think that they'll try to track us?" I questioned.

"Anyone smart will." She answered. "Plus A has my number and it could allow them to find me."

"Why don't we just turn off the GPS?" I questioned.

"We could do that, but then we wouldn't be able to use it for directions." She pointed out. "I'm going to get a new phone, but I guess you can do whatever you want. Even if you keep it, you'll need a new SIM card so Verizon can't find you."

"How long do you think this will take, Ali?" I asked her.

"I don't know." She admitted. "I wish I could tell you that it's going to be soon, but I don't think that it's safe for me to be in Rosewood right now. I don't know who tried to kill me or if it was even the same person that was sending me messages. I think I made some enemies and now they want me dead."

"Have you ever thought about making amends with people?" I asked. I would think that could be an option.

"I can't do that right now." She said. "It's too soon for any of that. It's harder to talk to someone when they want to kill you. Now we should see about getting some new clothes."

I still couldn't believe that I was seeing Ali like this. I had never seen her so vulnerable and so scared before. I wanted to do whatever I could to cheer her up. Maybe I could find a way to make her laugh. Of course, that might be hard since I didn't find myself particularly funny. The two of us then headed to a clothing store. I hoped that it wasn't one of the expensive ones because we needed to save our money for food. Come to think of it, we probably should have gotten some breakfast.

We went to the store and grabbed a red, black, and white plaid shirt with a beige cami underneath and a pair of black jeans. It was definitely different blonde hair and it was also different seeing Ali with brown hair. She had chosen a black and white gradient dress that went to her knees with a black cardigan. She always managed to look good in whatever she wore. We went into the dressing room together.

"So, have you thought about what your name is going to be?" Alison asked as we started to undress.

"I have no idea how to do that." I replied.

"Well I got mine from making an anagram of Vladimir Nabokov, which of Vivian Darkbloom." She explained. "Maybe you could do the same."

"Okay, so Mary Shelley gives me Haley…I think I'll go with a character name. How does Alice Brandon sound?" I asked.

"Since I don't know who that is, I guess it'll work." She told me. How did she not know that?

"It's Alice from Twilight." I declared. Speaking of which, I really hoped that I would get a chance to see that new movie. Ideally, we would be done by then.

"I thought her name was Cullen." She replied.

"That was her name after she became a vampire. Her real is Mary Alice Brandon. Didn't you read the Midnight Sun manuscript?" I asked.

"No, and you're kind of a dork for doing that." She joked. I pouted. "But you're still a cute dork."

From there, we went to get some food. Like with clothes, New York had some expensive places we could eat, but we went to IHOP. There probably wasn't a better place to get pancakes anyway.

"So, are we going to just stay at this theater for the rest of the day?" I questioned.

"Of course not, Darling." She responded. I couldn't help but blush. "We're going to do something fun. I think we should go to the Yankees game."

"But you don't even like the Yankees." I pointed out. "Plus, don't we need to find out who A is."

"That may be true, but it's the best that I could come up with." She declared. "We can't just not have any fun. Every once in a while, we have to do things in between trying to solve the mystery or we'll go insane."

"Okay, but I am not wearing a jersey." I declared.

The game was actually part of a doubleheader, but we didn't go to both games. It looked like Ali had thousands of dollars on her. Now I understood why she bought a purse with a wallet.

"Are you going to tell how you got all of that money?" I questioned.

"Extortion." She replied. "I thought it might come in handy if I ever needed to run away." She answered. "I got it from Ian. Turns out he's a total perv. It wasn't Toby spying on us after all. I guess it's too late now. I would have more, but your dad wouldn't give me any."

"Ali, can we please not break the law?" I questioned.

"We're already breaking the law, Aria." She remarked. I supposed that was true, but I didn't like hearing about it. "But if it makes you feel better, I'll try to do it only when it's absolutely necessary. There will be times when it's necessary for us though."

Once we got to the stadium, Ali decided to ask a woman if she could borrow her phone. I assumed that she was calling Ezra.

"Hey, it's me. I'm sorry about last night, but I need a favor from you. I need a place to stay for a few nights. Can I tell the guards that you said it was okay for me to crash in the theater? Great, thanks." She replied before she hung up and gave the phone back.

The Yankees ended up winning the game as well as the next game of the doubleheader. It was a shame that they so evil because it was kind of fun watching them. Of course, that might have also had to do with the fact that I hadn't been to a baseball game in years.

That night, Ali decided to treat me to a Broadway show. It was something that I had never heard of, but it was still amazing just being there. Maybe she just wanted to show me how amazing New York could be. It was definitely amazing and I actually couldn't wait to see more of it. It almost made me forget the situation that we were in.

The theater that we would be sleeping in was called the Fitzgerald Theater. I seriously hoped that she knew what she was doing. I definitely did not want to get caught trespassing because I knew that would lead to us being sent back home. That was another reason we needed to keep lawbreaking to a minimum.

We didn't have any pajamas, so we basically had to sleep in our clothes. I decided to take my jeans off.

"Thanks for today." I told her.

"You never every day isn't going to be like this." She remarked. "I just wanted to show you something great, but there probably won't be another like it for a while. We are going to need to find ways to make the money last. I'm going to do my best to make sure that we never have to sleep on the street. We'll probably have to leave New York eventually. I know it's very big, but we won't be able to stay here forever. Sometimes, it'll be cold. I just want to remind you that this isn't a vacation. Our lives may never be the same. There's even a chance that we may never go back to Rosewood."

"Do you want to go back?" I questioned. "It doesn't have to be right now, but would you want to go back, especially if A wasn't around?"

"Of course I would." She answered. "I miss my family. I really do love them, even my brother and I miss the girls. I wish that I could tell them that I'm okay, but I can't, we can't. I don't want to do this, but we don't have a choice. We're going to go through this one day at a time. Now, it's probably best for us to get some sleep."

"Good night, Ali." I told her.

"Night, Aria." She reciprocated before I went to sleep.

So, they went to New York and Ezra helped them out. It started out with a day of fun, but the times will get harder. What kind of hardships will they face? Please don't forget to review.