"Emma."
"Regina."
"I'm not ready."
"Yes you are."
"I'm not."
"You promised me Regina."
"Fine."
Emma beamed at that word, and Regina swore that she had never seen Emma so happy, and over such a simple thing. If she knew how happy agreeing to try cinnamon hot chocolate would make her, then Regina would agree to it every day. When Emma asked her to try it yesterday, it was late at night and she was almost asleep, when she heard a whisper in the darkness asking her to try a cinnamon hot chocolate at Granny's the next day. Regina had said yes straight away, because she thought it was a dream and forgot about it until Emma had brought it up while they were getting ready to leave to go to Granny's for their weekly lunch date, and Regina not remembering had caused a small argument between them. But no matter the confusion and arguments they went through, it was all worth it to see Emma smile like that.
Regina held out her hand for Emma to take and shouted upstairs to Henry to come down because they were leaving. He ran down the stairs while still doing something on his phone and Emma got him in trouble, fearing that one day he would fall down the stairs, but that did not matter to Regina, she was just glad that her family was finally together and she could experience all of this. Squeezing Emma's hand, she ruffled Henry's hair, said goodbye to him and her and Emma left the house, heading for Granny's.
The walk to Granny's was uneventful, except that they did not bump into anyone who wanted to talk to them for five minutes, delaying their food, which Regina was never happy about. But they arrived at Granny's, sat down in their usual booth, ordered their food, and Regina had once again, forgotten about her promise to try the hot chocolate until the mug was sitting in front of her.
"Regina? You don't have to try it if you really don't want to." Emma reached over and placed her hand on top of Regina's and that's when she realised she had been staring down at the hot chocolate in front of her.
"I have to confess something." Regina did not want to look up at Emma's face to see her reaction. "I've never had hot chocolate before." Regina held her breath waiting for Emma to respond but she was just laughing.
"That was it? I thought you were confessing to being evil or cheating on me or something, not that. You're from the Enchanted Forest, it's natural to have things you haven't tried yet from this world." Emma leaned in and kissed her cheek, "Go on and try it, you'll love it"
And so, with a squeeze of Emma's hand, Regina picked up the mug of hot chocolate with cinnamon on top, and brought it up to her lips to try. It was wonderful. It somehow was everything that she associated with Emma, and then she realised something while setting the mug back on the table.
"I have tried it before."
"What? But you just said you never have."
"Yes, consciously. But Emma, every single kiss I've ever had from you has tasted like cinnamon hot chocolate." She smiled at Emma and leaned in to kiss her so she could realise what it tasted like on someone else's lips.