Chapter One

Six Years Later

David POV

My wife and I and our ten-year-old baby daughter Emma was finishing packing to be ready for our road trip tomorrow.

We lived in Phoenix our whole lives. Till I got a better job offer in a small town called Storybrooke, my friend from high school Robin Locksley Jones lives there and told me all about how peaceful, wonderful and a great place to raise a family in and make good friends.

When I heard that I couldn't pass the chance up, I wanted what best for my family and I wanted to raise Emma in a good home and hopefully to make friends.

I am David Nolan I have shady blonde hair and blue eyes. My wife Mary-Margaret has dark brown hair and green eyes and our daughter Emma has blonde hair like me and green eyes like her mother.

I met Mary-Margaret in college and you can say it was love at first sight. We got married after college and had Emma two years later.

We finished packing our last few boxes in our old house.

Emma POV

Storybrooke... I know, I couldn't believe my ears. But there is where we are moving and I am not happy about it. About any of it, going to a new home and to a new school. I don't make friends here and thinking about not making any friends there… well, I don't want to talk about it.

I sighed.

"Look, sweetie, I know you are not happy with this moving. But I do believe that this could be good for us." My mom said. I looked at the box in front of me to her.

"Yeah, just think about it. A bigger house, new school and who knows maybe you will make friends there." My dad said.

"I won't be making friends because no one will like me there. No one likes me anywhere" I pouted. Just thinking about being rejected. I just want to run into my room and cry.

Ever since school started, I have been alone.

"Why would you think that?" dad asked

"Because no one wants to be friends with me," I said as dad picked me up.

"Well, if they don't want to be friends with you. It's their loss. You are a fantastic kid and anyone would be happy to be friends with you."

"You only saying that because you are my dad"

"But what I am saying is the truth." He said.

I put my arms around his neck and hugged him. After what felt like hours, dad put me down.

"Why don't you go a check your room?" dad asked and I run off to my old bedroom.

Mary- Margaret POV

David and I always worried about Emma. She can never make any friends and it's not her. It's the other kids, they take one look at her and they walk away. She comes home crying because no one wanted to play with her and it hurts us seeing her like this.

Emma Ruth Nolan is the sweetie's little thing. She never asks for anything and when she doesn't it's very rare.

But we always made sure we have what's best for our daughter.

"David, I am really worried about Emma," I told my husband. He walked over to me and put his arms around my waist.

"Look I know, I am too… but what are we supposed to do about it? We just have to wait and hope about this new place. Would be good for her." David let go and walked over to the boxes and tapping them up.

"I don't want to see my baby girl upset up," I said

"Emma is a smart girl, she knows that we will always be there for her." He said

"Still, I don't like seeing her unhappy"

"I know"

"There, that is the last box," David said putting the box on top the others.

We all have the heavy furniture packed in a truck. The truck driver will be following us to Storybrooke tomorrow. We are planning to go to sleep in a hotel tonight, instead of sleeping on the floor. We just need to finish with the last boxes in the car and we are off.

"Can't believe we're leaving Phoenix, we were born here, we grew up here, this was the where we first met, where we got married and it's the place where Emma was born and this house. It's our first home and the place we raised Emma" I said having all these memories flashing through my mind.

The house isn't big, it's a small single-story house. But it was David and my first house together and it was the perfect house to start having a family and it was perfect for the three of us. But once Emma was getting bigger, we released we need more space.

"I know, but we will be going to a better place, somewhere that can give us a better future and also give Emma better education and hopefully to make friends." He said

"This will be good for all us"

"I know it will be, I have hopes about it" David pointed at.

"Daddy" Emma came running back into the room.

"Daddy, my room is clear," she told her father.

"Great, now let's put these boxes in the car and we can grab something to eat," said David. David and I grabbed a box and took it out to our car. With Emma's help of course, even though she is very little. She helps a lot.

Once the car was packed and the house was empty and locked up. We got into the car and slowly drive past it. Remembering our home, before we go on our new adventure.