 Following the arrival of Josie Trent at the school in 2002, Vaughn accidentally peeks at Josie's journal, which mentions suspected wormhole activity on the school grounds, as well as the accident at Pearadyne labs that killed Vaughn's mother.Vaughn informs his father of this, who orders Vaughn to steal Josie's journal and bring it to him.Vaughn reluctantly does so, but it is stolen out of his bag by the Janitor.