Hey everyone and welcome back to "Runaway Home" I'm here with your host… Nah I'm just kidding, thanks for reading this story that's been stuck in my head for a while. Hope you like the next few chapters.

A chapter a day is going to be kind of hard to do when I get back to school but I'll do the best I can in these few days left…

No more interruptions, on with the story.

So at least I knew I was heading out to Salt Lake City Utah, it was as far as I hoped from this little town in Texas. I read the letter a few more times and that was all I needed, I was leaving this place for good.

The first thing I did was count the money, Dr. Martinez said in her letter that it was just a little help. To me it was the first time that I had seen that much money. There was easily about two fifty maybe three hundred dollars.

I put it all in my jean pocket and headed up the stairs. Sam's room was the first I had to enter. I went straight into the closet and found an empty duffle bag, but before I left his room I spotted a silver rectangle at the edge of the bed.

It wouldn't hurt, he wouldn't miss it at all. I took the small IPod and the white headphones as I walked out of the room. I needed to have something to do the whole bus ride so that was my excuse for taking it.

Next I went into Lissa's room that was also supposed to be mine. The good thing about her being somewhat my height was that I could borrow a few pairs of jeans and tops. I went through her drawers and found a few pairs that fit me, the tops though weren't really my style, all sparkly and pink. To my surprise I found a few I liked, dark green and light blue, even a red one that had a pattern of wings on the back.

I spotted an off the shoulder shirt and a sparkly pair of shorts. If people were looking for me I would have to dress like someone that didn't look at all like me. I bit my lip and changed into the shorts and shirt, I also had to borrow some heels to look the part.

Make up would also be something that had to be done even though there was no one to teach me it wasn't that hard, a little mascara and lipstick my hair in a high ponytail and I was a whole different person. I'm not going to lie I actually looked quite nice.

I made sure the money was safely hidden in the duffle bag since I wasn't wearing my jeans anymore. I put some extra clothes in a backpack, just so I could change in the bus, this skirt wasn't that comfortable.

Lastly I walked into Jeb and Anne's room. I was pretty sure they had all the adoption files of me in the safe just inside the closet. I'd seen Anne place the code a few times so it wasn't that hard to get into. This could be the last thing I needed to be able to find Ari, maybe there was something about him on my file also.

I pushed in the correct combination and looked through a lot of papers. Jeb had a lot of top secret stuff in here, but I really didn't care I was looking for my papers.

As if on cue the doorbell rang. I froze for an instant and kept on looking through the stack of papers. No one was supposed to be passing by to visit or anything so I could probably ignore it. I found what I was looking for but it looked like I didn't have time to go through it.

"Max!" it was Greg at the door "You better be home, I let it slide last time but you could get us both in trouble" he called.

"Shit" as quickly as I could I put everything back in order and placed my folder in the duffle bag. He couldn't have had better timing. "I'll be right there!" I shouted before he could ring again. What was I going to do? He would see me all dressed up like this and wouldn't let me out of his sight.

I had to get my stuff out of here first. Making sure my mother's Diary was also inside the bed I tossed it through to window into the back yard. I tossed the heels after it. "Max?!" Greg called again, well he wasn't in a giving mood.

"Be right there" I called again but on the inside I was panicking, how the hell was I going to get out of here without him noticing something was wrong. There were a few windows I could get out of that faced the back yard. It couldn't wait. I walked downstairs and unlocked the door and thought about the first excuse I could find.

"Max?" he asked again and I saw the doorknob jiggle a bit as he was going to open the door.

"Dammit Greg, I was in the shower!" I shouted as the door opened slightly "I'm kind of wrapped in my towel right now so could you give me a minute?" from where he could see my bare feet were only visible.

"Oh I'm sorry" he called and closed the door again. "Get back into the bathroom and I'll come in and wait for you in the living room."

"Thank you" I said and ran up the stairs the only bathroom that had a window facing the back of the house. I could hear him come in the door and walk around.

"Need anything?!" he called.

"For you to leave maybe?" I muttered under my breath "I'm fine, just make yourself comfortable I guess."

The window was very small, not to mention I were on the second floor. Why did my life have to be so complicated! I pulled the window open as wide as it could get and took off the springer making as little noise as possible.

Just in case Greg came up to see what was going on I turned on the faucet so he could hear water flowing.

Taking a deep breath I pulled myself out of the window and stopped where I saw where I would land. The living room was exactly under me and the huge window was right there. Distraction was the only thing I could think off. I looked around for something breakable and let it fall into the bathroom floor, it made a huge glass breaking sound and I knew Greg was coming up the stairs.

"Max are you okay in there?" he called through the door.

"I'm fine" I called and took one last deep breath as I made myself hang from my hands, I tried to convince myself that the floor wasn't that far down. I closed my eye and let myself fall back. My feet hit the ground first and then I fell on my butt but it was over.

Greg was still upstairs trying to find out what had happened. Without thinking I grabbed the duffle bag and heels and jumped the fence to the neighbor's house and then the next till I was as far as I could get form the house.

All I had to do know was get to the station by foot before Sam's game was over…

Hope you liked it. Kind of just a fill in chapter for stuff that's going to be happening later on. Thanks for reading, I hope you review, it would be great to hear what you think of it. See you next time…