"You did, huh?" Xander frowned a little at that. "Y'know, running away? Only works well when you've got the scary chasing after you. And I mean vampire scary, not 'hey my life is getting kinda complicated' scary. Because that kind of scary is something that you're supposed to just suck it up and deal with."
He felt like he was giving her bad advice with that, so Xander quickly added, "A friend of mine ran away before. She took off and didn't come home for a while because stuff got rough for her. It was probably the worst thing that she could've ever done to herself."