Surely it's not good to be staring at the phone waiting for a call, not when you're a sheriff and the phone is the one people use to report problems (you know, usually BAD things...). Yep, it's definitely not a good thing to be doing, but Emma was just so bored! Nothing new ever happens is StoryBrook, and while she was happy to be raising her kid in such a lovely and secure town, it sure was driving her crazy... She doesn't know how David does it, always happy and cheerful every time he comes to work, no matter the shift. But then again True Love must make you happy every time, because since David and Mary Margaret met, she never saw them sad or mad (but True Love isn't for everyone...)
Emma was awaken from her train of thought by the ringing of the phone, and she sighed has she picked up the station phone and realized it was her cell phone that was ringing.

"Hello?" Emma answered
"Emma, Happy Birthday!" An overly excited Ruby screamed
"Birthday?" Is it my birthday? What day is it?
"Yes Emma..." Sighed Ruby in a 'I knew you would forget' kind of way "I can't be the first person to have wished you a happy birthday!"
"Just ...wait a second" Emma asked as she put the phone on speaker and scrolled through her messages, and sure enough, there were plenty of them, from Mary Margaret, from David, from Regina and a couple from town people.
"Actually, you weren't Ruby, but I haven't seen the texts until now" Emma answered as she cringed internally. Being in the foster system had a way to make you hate your birthday and all the other holidays. It was better now that she had Henry but her birthday was still a sore spot.
"Henry has not given you his present yet?" Ruby asked astonished
"No, I had an early shift because Neal is sick, so David had to go home earlier. And once today is a Saturday Henry went to sleep at Regina's so he could sleep in a little" Emma said, but actually, thinking about it he said he had a big surprise for her before she dropped him at Regina's yesterday...
"Oh ok, that explains it... But anyway, dinner at Granny's tonight!" Ruby commanded
Emma started to complain, but was quickly cut off by Ruby "I'm not taking a no for an answer. I already made plans with everyone so don't even think about it..."
"Fine, but I don't want a big thing okay? " Emma asked
"It would be just the gang, I already talked to Mary Margaret and she found a babysitter for Neal because he doesn't have a fever anymore and David will direct the call to his phone because he is technically on duty tonight. Is all arranged so don't worry about a thing! Just show up at Granny's at 9pm, ok? Now, I have to go cause Victor is making me pancakes... Bye" and then she hung up.
Typical... It was her birthday, but Ruby was the one receiving pancakes while she was here dying of boredom... Not that she wanted anything for her birthday, but sometimes she wished she would have someone to make this little things for her, that wasn't her eight year old son. She shook her head to stop her thoughts, she had Henry and a crazy family of friends and that was all that mattered. She wasn't happy like Mary Maragaret and David but she was content with her life.
She went home after her shift ended at 6pm and ran straight into the bathroom. Emma needed some relaxing bath to take the stress from her day, away. (They really needed to find a deputy for the station, even with nothing happening besides some missing cats or petty theft, they needed someone at the station 24/7 and just David And her wasn't enough). She filed that thought for latter as she stepped into the warmth of the bathtub. Henry was going with Regina to Grany's so she only had to worry about getting herself ready. She had to give Her son's Godmother a gift for making sure her son was okay when she went to work.

When she got here 9 years ago, 5 months pregnant with a child, she was so lost and broken, she didn't know what to do... Being a single future mother, sleeping in a room above granny's and paying rent by washing the dishes wasn't the ideal scenario, but after everything that went down with Neal (Henry's father, not David's son... coincidence that Mary Margaret's late father was named Neal) she wasn't really in the right mindset. That, until the day she met Regina. It was a rocky start when Emma went to serve a coffee to a costumer and accidentally spilled some on Regina's blouse. No matter how many apologies Emma said, the other women went crazy and started calling all sorts of names at Emma, who put professionalism on the side and answered in the same way. They hated each other for a month until they both stayed trapped inside Grany's late one night because of a blizzard and they started to argue again which lead to Emma asking what was so wrong in Regina's life to make her such a bitch! After all, she was rich, beautiful and was the mayor... That's when she found out about her fiance Daniel, that died in an accident with a horse, not long before Emma got to town. They tried to have a baby even before the wedding because they were so in love. But when Daniel died all dreams of ever having a happy ending went down the drain and Regina closed herself to happiness. After hearing her story Emma felt compassion towards Regina and shared her own story. How she was found at the side of the road, how she lived in the foster system, having her belongings in a trash bag like she wasn't worth more than that, how she ran away when she met Neal and he promised her love and a home... She told her how she was so naive that she believed Neal when he said his business were legit (even when her laying radar told her otherwise...) How he ran away after a deal gone wrong and the cops suspected her, how she found out she was pregnant while she was being held in police custody and how she decided to keep the baby anyway because he was the only family she ever had...
In the end they were both sobbing and drinking hot cocoa.
After that day, Emma became nicer to Regina who surprisingly enough wasn't that bad once you stayed on her good side.
When Emma was 8 months pregnant Regina almost forced her to go live in the mansion until she had some stability. Once Henry was born, both women changed completely, Emma now finally had someone who she loved unconditionally and Regina had a nephew to make her forget about everything that went wrong in her life.
Even Emma's job was thanks to Regina, who pull some strings to make Emma's record disappear so she could apply for a job as a deputy. And when Gramm, the local sheriff died with a heart attack, Emma was the best qualified for the job.
When the time came, she couldn't choose someone else to be Henry's Godmother.

She got to Granny's five minutes late. Locking throughout the window, she saw that her son and her friends were already inside laughing at something David said. She took a deep breath to steady her nerves and went inside.
"Happy Birthday Emma" all of them shouted when she arrived at the table
"Thanks guys" Emma said, trying her best to look happy so she wouldn't disappoint her friends
"Hi mom, how was work" Henry asked with a smile from ear to ear
"You know, the same. Nothing happened... And you kid? How was the night at Regina's?" she said
" Oh, it was so cool mom. We ate pizza and saw the last three Harry Potter movies and then Regina and I wrote a spell for your present... Ups I wasn't supposed to say that yet" he said face bright read as everyone started laughing.
Making eye contact with Regina, Emma mouthed 'Thank you' to which Regina replied with a simple nod.
"Once Henry is so anxious to give you his present, I think we should start giving you our presents" Mary Margeret stated. "This is from David, Neal and I" Mary Margeret said as she gave Emma a rectangular shaped present.
"Thank you guys" Emma said when she saw a photo, from Neal's baptism with a smiling Emma with Neal on her arms and Henry by her side, on a silver frame.
"This one is from me" Henry said has he gave her an envelope with a paper inside that said 'Recepy to find True Love'
"Thanks kid, but I already have my One True Love since you were born" Emma replied kissing her kid
"That doesn't count mom" Henry said as he shook his head

"Happy Birthday Emma" Regina smiled has she She got to Granny's five minutes late. Locking throughout the window, she saw that her son and her friends were already inside laughing at something David said. She took a deep breath to steady her nerves and went inside.
"Happy Birthday Emma" all of them shouted when she arrived at the table
"Thanks guys" Emma said, trying her best to look happy so she wouldn't disappoint her friends
"Hi mom, how was work" Henry asked with a smile from ear to ear
"You know, the same. Nothing happened... And you kid? How was the night at Regina's?" she said
" Oh, it was so cool mom. We ate pizza and saw the last three Harry Potter movies and then Regina and I wrote a spell for your present... Ups I wasn't supposed to say that yet" he said face bright read as everyone started laughing.
Making eye contact with Regina, Emma mouthed 'Thank you' to which Regina replied with a simple nod.
"Once Henry is so anxious to give you his present, I think we should start giving you our presents" Mary Margeret stated. "This is from David, Neal and I" Mary Margeret said as she gave Emma a rectangular shaped present.
"Thank you guys" Emma said when she saw a photo, from Neal's baptism with a smiling Emma with Neal on her arms and Henry by her side, on a silver frame.
"This one is from me" Henry said has he gave her an envelope with a paper inside that said 'Recepy to find True Love'
"Thanks kid, but I already have my One True Love since you were born" Emma replied kissing her kid
"That doesn't count mom" Henry said as he shook his gave Emma a Spa voucher "
"Happy Birthday" Regina said has she handed Emma a Spa voucher "You need a good massage and I'm going with you to make sure you relax" Regina said before Emma could complain
"And this one is from me" Ruby announced and gave Emma a black printed paper
"What is this?" Emma asked confused
"That my friend is a gym membership" Ruby stated
" We have a gym in StoryBrooke?" Emma asked
"It just opened near the docks and I heard it has the most amazing Kickboxing class with a really hot teacher. And since you need to kick some ass to alleviate stress you have to go" Ruby explained
In normal circumstances, Emma would argue she didn't need no class to relax, but she was really bored in the last couple of months and maybe that would be good for her to release some energy.
"Thanks Ruby" she said sincerely and laughed at the astonished look of everyone at the table "Ruby is right, I have to release some Energy" Emma explained.
Dinner went by as normal and even singing Happy Birthday didn't freakmma out like it usually did.

Once home Henry wouldn't go to sleep until Emma cooked whatever he and Regina invented "It's not made up. We saw it in a magic book from Regina's great great grandmother. She was a witch! And it has to be today because it's a lunar eclipse" Henry ranted
It was a surprisingly easy recipe, just some herbs she used for cooking, some essential oils, a strand of her hair and a crazy list of male qualities that she and Henry made up. After they burned it, she finally convinced Henry to go to bed.

Monday afternoon Emma decided to go to her first kickboxing class while David was at the station and Henry was in the Library.
The still new smelling gym was almost empty, probably due to the fact that most people were still at work. She headed to the locker room and saw a group of five women getting dressed and gossiping about how hot the teacher was. Emma shook her head to herself 'poor housewives that have nothing better to do than come to a class just to check out the teacher, that probably wasn't that hot...'

Emma was wrong! Oh so wrong! She thought as she stepped into class... The guy was HOT! Raven black hair, piercing blue eyes and a killer body.

"Afternoon lasses" he greeted
'Great, he has an English accent too...' Emma thought
"I see some new faces, " he said "I'm Killian and I'm the instructor of this kickboxing class. So let's get started."
The class wasn't overly difficult, Emma was in a good shape and kicking was something she was used to doing back in the day when she was training to become a deputy, but it was a good class to release some stress.
When it was over Emma was finally relaxed, cleaning her sweaty face and her drinking her water
"Those were some mean punches you were throwing" an English male vkickboxingd her.
Emma turned to face Killian much more close that she was expecting
"Comes with the job I guess... " she replied "Sheriff Swan, nice to meet you" she introduced extending her hand
He took it and Emma felt a shock the moment their hands touched. He felt it too, she could tell by the blush appearing on his cheeks.
"Nice to meet you too Sheriff" he replied
"You can call me Emma" she insisted
"Well, Emma, I can now say I feel much safer knowing that you're in my class. Sometimes I think I'm going to be attacked by those women." he stated with a smirk
"Wow, you think you're so looking" Emma answered, struggling to keep a straight face
"I prefer to think of me as a dashing rapscallion" he replied winking
"Sure you do" Emma said, rolling her eyes. It was weird how they could banter like they knew each other for years.
"So, Swan, what do you think of going out for a coffee after you shower?" He asked
"Sorry buddy, but that is not going to happen. And right now I have to go pick up my son from the library" she answered
"Sorry, I didn't knew you were married..." he said and Emma could swear he looked more than a little disappointed
She couldn't resist, before she reached the door, she looked back and said "I'm not" and she walked to the locker rooms before she saw a genuine smile on his face.