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It wasn't until Henry had gone home that I had time alone with Emma. Time to tell her that running from my past was more important to me than her. I was such a terrible friend. Though in my defence moving into a parallel world where fairytales are just old children's stories should have been good enough; but apparently not. "Emma" she turned around with a smile and two hot chocolates in her hands. I had to word this right. I couldn't hurt her when she's already in so much pain.

"Yes"

"I have to go back to Boston tomorrow." Well at least that wasn't a lie.

"Why?" she asked as she handed me one of the hot chocolates.

Don't lie, don't lie, she'll know if you do. I thought to myself. "I miss Boston." True, she looked at me strangely; she could tell that I was hiding something. "Small towns and me don't get along." Well that is at least not anymore.

"I thought you said you grew up in a small town." She was going all detective on me. This is why you don't let your friends join the force.

"That's the point. I had a hard childhood. It brings back all the memories which I just wanted to pretend never happened." You can't more truthful than that.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know. If you ever need to talk..."

"Thanks." I cut in. Great now I felt like I owed her some sort of reasoning. "One night my mum dragged me out of the house with her. She made me run away with her to a different town where she got remarried and well he didn't like me."

"Did he..."

"No, he just slowly turned my mum against me. They kicked me out when I was fourteen." Well more like they took me into another town and volunteered me for the Ogre Wars, but she didn't need to know all the details.

"I ran away when I was fifteen."

"Yeah well I've been running my whole life." Which was so much longer, than the twenty-seven years she believed I had lived for.

She smiled back at me with her milky moustache. "So have I but that's why I have to stay, to stop running away from life and just live it."

"And Henry"

"Obviously, but maybe you should stop running."

"Well I can't do that here."

"Too many memories?"

I nodded "Besides I'm the best psychologist in Boston. I can't leave all my patients with psychologist that aren't up to my standard." She laughed.

"So true, but just think about it."

"I will, but since I'm only staying one night I thought we should make something of it."

And that was how I ended up in Granny's talking to Ruby aka the girl who reminds me of Amy. I was starting to think that name was too long for her so I found out her actual name from Emma. "So you're in?" I asked after explaining the plan.

"Of course" she smiled "There's this great club just down the road."

"Sounds fun, meet there at nine?"

"Perfect" Tonight was just falling into place wonderfully.

Took another sip of my tea as someone grabbed my hand and whispered "Hello dearie"

I dropped the mug and it shattered as it hit the ground, but not before the tea splashed all over my t-shirt. It just wasn't my day. I glared at him as I pulled my hand out of his. "Don't you dare touch me! Not after what you did!" I growled at him before running off to the bathroom.

I could hear Ruby as she snarled "What did you do to her?"

I could just hear his faint whisper "I don't know." It seemed so unlike him, but then he growled "If anyone is staring at me by the time I've finished talking. I won't hold back in telling the whole town about that think you don't want anyone to ever know. And if you're thinking I don't have anything on you; just remember I know everything that goes on in my town."

He hadn't changed. I leant against the tiled wall as I fell into a heap on the floor and cried. I had to get out of here. If this was really his town, he would find me. It wouldn't matter where I went, he would find me. I couldn't let him find me. I couldn't forgive him for what he did. Thank goodness for Rose, she had saved me from that nightmare. But now I was back here, reliving my nightmares. All this time I had thought that I would never see him again and now he's here in my world. I had to get away. I had to get out, before it was too late.