AN: Hi! Welcome to my second fanfiction! I must warn you that this chapter is not beta read so there might be some mistakes grammar wise but I'm posting this to see if people are interested in this fanfic. If so, I will continue writing and go search for a beta reader (if one of my readers would like to be my beta reader for this fic, please contact me).

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Chapter 1.

There she was, on the passenger seat of her dads car, driving through a town called Storybrooke. She hates that name and she hates the town already. She could feel her dad's eyes burning in the back of her head as she looks out the window, watching people walk by their car as they waited for the stop light to turn green.

"Your hair is longer then the last time I saw you." Her dad says and she rolls her eyes. "Yeah, you know, it's been 4 years seen you have seen me, David." She answers him, refusing to call him "dad".

Her so called dad left her and her mother when Emma was 11. She came home from school that day and found her mother crying in bed. She knew something was wrong, her dad was nowhere to be found and in the closet there were empty spots of where her dad used to keep his clothes. She hates him from that day on and with each day her dad didn't made contact with her, her hate towards him had grown.

Last year, when she was hanging out with her friends Graham and Ruby, her phone rang. She didn't know the number and usually she doesn't answer strange numbers. She had given up on hoping her dad would call her so she picked up out of curiosity. At first she was in shock when she heard the man on the other end of the phone saying he's her dad. But quickly she told him to screw himself and hung up.

A few weeks later her phone rang again, her display saying "coward" was calling. Coward was the name she had given her birth father, a coward who left his family behind when things got to hot underneath his feet.

But David didn't give up so easy, he kept calling and texting her every now and then. Even though she hates him there was also a small part inside of her that wanted her dad back. She didn't go easy on him, giving him short answers when he asked her a question and hang up after a minute or so.

And now, her mother and her boyfriend, were going on a six week cruise and they forced Emma in staying at her dad's. She begged her mother to let her stay with Ruby while they were away but her mother refused to give in to her. "No Emma, your father is already counting on you and the plane ticket is purchased already. And it's not refundable, end of discussion. Now, pack your bags. You have to leave in an hour." Her mother told her yesterday and she cried. She cried her eyes out because she couldn't say "goodbye" to her friends. Because she felt betrayed by her mother. Because her mother didn't ask her if she wanted all of this. She is 16 for God's sake, she is perfectly capable of making decision and such.

When her mother hugged her at the airport, wishing her a safe flight, she just stood there. She could see in her mother's eyes how much her attitude at the moment hurt her but Emma didn't care, she was the one sending Emma away.

"Alright Emma, I know neither of us are a sort of happy with this situation." David's voice snapped her back out of her thoughts and she chuckles. "That's an easy way of discribing this", she moves her finger between the both of them, "situation". I'm starting to wonder when you will walk away since that's something your good at." She says sarcastic and turns her head around to watch out the window again.

She hears David sigh as they drive past a diner called Granny's where a group of teenagers left the place with a teenager amount of noise. She rolled her eyes as she watched the group, she kinda hoped their wouldn't be any cocky teenagers but how wrong could she be?

After a few minutes they stopped in front of a small house. David parked the car and looked at Emma who returned his look with a sarcastic expression on her face. "So" David started, not knowing how to talk to his daughter. Emma let's out an annoying sigh, rolls her eyes and opens the door to get out the car. She waited at the front door for David to open the door and as he did so, she looked around the place.

The room was pretty basic, a few pictures on the wall but other than that it was a real guys place. "Where's my room?" She asks him. He turns around and points to a door at the end of the hallway. "You're room is right there." The both of them walked towards the door and when Emma steps into the room she sees something she didn't expected to see.

She expected to see a little girls room, a room filled with things that she didn't need anymore. Like stuffed animals and things to play with, things to make up for what he did. But instead she sees a big bed where two persons easily would fit in, a desk with room for her laptop and a desk lamp on top of it. She places her bags on the bed and lets her fingers slide over the sheets. "I didn't really know which colors you liked so I asked the woman from the store for some advice and we came up with purple. I hope that's okay?"

David looks at her with a shy expression on his face which was new to Emma. She remembers her dad as a cheerful, easy going guy but somehow not only Emma changed, David changed as well. "Yeah, it will do." She answers with a tone of ignorance and David takes that as his cue to leave. "I'll be down the hall if you need me, dinner is at six." He says before closing the door.

When he is gone, Emma leaves out a breath of air, not realizing she had been holding it in. She opens her bag and takes out her laptop, placing it on the desk and turning it on. She puts on a hoodie as she was feeling cold, which was funny since it was mid-summer and there was a heat wave going on. She sits behind the desk and opens up her email to check.

Her mother left her an email right before they got on the cruise, whishing her fun with David and saying she should take the opportunity to bond with her father again and make some new friends. She huffed, she didn't need new friends. Her friends at home were enough for her. She quickly emailed back that she landed safely and opened up a new email to send to her friends.

Hey guys,

I made it to this stupid town (Seriously, who calls a town Storybrooke?) alive and I'm at David's place right now. From which I have seen so far this town, and it's inhabitants suck so these six weeks are going the be a HELL! Miss you guy's loads and if you don't hear from me every day, please call the police because I'll be dead of boredom. Or I have become one of those cocky teenagers I saw on the drive her. Miss you guys already, please tell me you haven't forgotten about me already?

Big hugs,

Em

She looked at the clock, it was only 4PM and she had to wait two hours till dinner. Not that she was hungry anyway. She can hear David moving around the place and she turns on some music so she wouldn't hear him anymore. She puts her laptop aside, Ruby wouldn't email her back that quickly, and she takes out her favorite book from her travel bag and sets herself on the bed. Surprisingly, the bed was comfortable and as she places the pillows up a bit, she unfolds the book to the page she ended.

She is reading her favorite book, Pirate Latitudes. She's reading it for the hundred's time already, there was just something that attracted her to pirates and piracy. She remembers reading it for the first time. She was in the library, looking around for some titles that were on her reading list for school, as she stopped in front of the book. Mesmerized by its cover, an ocean with a skull, she took out the book and started reading the summary on the back of the book. Intrigued by the story she took it home, forgetting about the titles for school and started reading after dinner.

The next day at school she fell asleep during her fourth hour, suffering from the lack of sleep after reading the entire night. Once she got home she went straight to her room with the intention to get some sleep before she had to eat but with the book on her night stand, her eyes couldn't let go of it. So she started to read again. After the second time she had fell asleep at school again, the principal called her mother and her mother returned the book back to the library.

Emma was not happy with that and a few days later, when the addiction to the book took over her body, she went back and loaned it again. Only this time she was able to let go of the story and lay it down for the night, but only to pick it straight up in the morning again. Her mother didn't bother to threaten to take it back anymore, she knew Emma would go straight back to the library. When Emma had enough money saved up from her allowance, she bought her own copy of the book. The cover was turned up by now but Emma didn't care, the pages were still attached.

Completely forgotten about time, she jumped as David knocked on the door. "Emma? Dinner is ready. Are you coming?" She sighs but puts down her book and comes of the bed. She opens the door, David already back in the kitchen and setting up the table. "I hope you like hamburgers and fries" He says as he continues placing the plates on the kitchen table. "Everybody loves hamburgers and fries." She responds sarcastic and sits herself down on the chair opposite to David's. She thought she wouldn't be hungry but when the smell of the food in front of her found its way into her nose, her stomach let's out a strong moan of appetite.

"Dig in." David says and she bites of a bit of a French fries. The both eat in silence for several minutes, an awkward atmosphere hanging between them. She watches him eat and realizes that he hasn't changed that much, his appearance is the same as she remembered him. A tall, handsome man with short hair and a clean shaven face. Emma inherited his blond hair but she got his green eyes from her mother, David's are blue. Ruby once said that Emma has a thing with blue eyed boy's cause of her dad's eyes. Emma laughed when she said that and called her an idiot.

"So, how are you Emma? How's school going?" David suddenly asks and Emma almost chokes on a piece of her hamburger. "Seriously David, you want to know how I am doing and how school is." She rolls her eyes and looks down at her plate. "You do know you can call me dad, right?" Her eyes meet his quickly, staring intensely at him. "Like you know you could have stayed 5 years ago, right?" She says rebellious.

"Okay Emma, I get it. You clearly do not want to be here and I have to admit that this is very awkward. When your mother asked me to take you in for six weeks I couldn't say no, I miss you Emma." Emma chuckles, she sits back in her chair and places one of her arms over the back of the chair. "After 5 years you finally realize that you miss me? Five freaking years?" She chuckles once more and David sighs as he rubs his hand over his face

"That's not how it is Emma. I started contacting your mother after a year we've divorced, asking her time after time if I could talk to you. But she kept me away from you, saying you didn't want to talk to me. And when I finally got your own cell number out of her, I was too afraid to call. What if she was right, what if you didn't want to talk to me? So it took me 4 months to gather enough courage to call you. And when I heard your voice I was mad, mad at myself for not calling you sooner. So yeah Emma, to you it might look like 5 "freaking" years but I've missed you from the moment I walked out the door."

Emma has been staring at him the entire time he was explaining himself, not knowing what to say in return. She somehow feels some weight falling of her shoulder after hearing this but that didn't make it all right. They still had a lot of work to do and Emma was still mad at him for leaving her behind. So she shoves her plate back, not so hungry anymore and excuses herself from the table. David knows he can't force her to stay at the table so her let her go, placing his head in both of his hands.

Emma grabs her red, leather jacket and her purse and walks out the door with a quick goodbye to David. She looks down the street, deciding if she should go left or right and when she turns right she can see her father looking at her through the window from the corner of her eyes. She quickly continues to walk towards the center of the town, leaving her dad behind with his own regrets and sorrows.

She reaches the center, which was almost empty now that the shops had closed their doors. For a small town they have a lot of shops here. She spotted a clothing shop, a pharmacy, a pawn shop and even a vet. They only noises were coming from the diner they passed earlier today, "Granny's", where people enjoyed their dinner outside.

When she walked up the three steps towards the diner's front door, she could feel the people staring at her. She rolled her eyes, opened the door and enjoyed the quietness inside. As loud at is was outside, it was quiet inside. There was literally nobody inside other than the elderly lady behind the counter and Emma assumes that this was Granny. "Hello sweetheart, what can I get you?" The lady politely asks her. "Eh, I would like a chocolate flavored milkshake, please?" She says skeptical and they lady nods before making her order.

As she was waiting for her milkshake, the front door opened and girl not much older than Emma walks in. Emma recognizes her, she's one of the cocky teenager she spotted this afternoon. Emma takes a good look at her, her pedicured feet in some fancy looking flip flops, miniskirt and a tank top. Exactly the kind of girls Emma avoids and she rolls her eyes as she looks back at Granny. "Here you go sweetheart" Granny says and handing her the ordered milkshake. Emma smiles at her, gives her enough money and says that she can keep the rest, which earns her a kindly smile back from Granny.

Before she opens the door out, she chuckles as she hears the changed tone in Granny's voice as she greets the girl, apparently named Regina. Once outside, the people didn't notice her anymore. They were eating, laughing and drinking some beer, clearly having a great time. Seeing these strangers hanging out and having fun made her think about her own friends and how much she misses them. She gathered that Ruby has emailed her back by now and she starts to walk to David's place faster. Just when she turned around the corner she could feel someone else's body against hers and her milkshake falls out of her hand.

The lid of the cup bursts open and the milkshake lands on her shirt. She jumps as she feels the cold liquid touching her body and tries to get it off of her with her hands, which obliviously did not work. "I'm sorry love, did see you coming there." A foreign accent drawing her attention and as she looks up, she sees a tall boy with dark hair and a nice scruff on his face staring down on her guilty. She looks further up to him, meeting his eyes and grasps some air. His eyes were blue, bluer than she had ever seen and she starts to breaths heavily. He smiles at her and when he asks if she is okay, she has lost her words, completely mesmerized by his ocean like eyes.

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