Light patters carried over the front porch steps and in through the door, as Henry made his way inside. The dark haired woman could tell her son was home from school by nothing else but the slam of the screen door as he made his way into the huge mayoral mansion. Sitting in her office, she silently chuckled to herself wondering when he would ever learn how to close a door quietly. Pushing the thought from her mind, the mayor gracefully stood up from her desk, and walked out from her home office to go greet her son. She entered the kitchen to find him ravaging though the fridge looking for food. Henry was basically a endless pit now that he had hit his teenage years, so the mayor made sure to keep her house stocked with food, although most of it being organic health food, which Henry truly detested, she occasionally let him sneak in some snacks. "Dear, how was school today?" she asked. Henry turned around midway through his response he glanced up from his pile of food to see his mother glaring at him. "Sorry" he muttered, mouth still full of food. A slight smirk appeared on both his and his adoptive mothers face. He swallowed the cookies he was chewing and started again.
"It was good..you know a normal school day. I've got a ton of homework though so I was just gonna grab a few snacks then go up and start it."
" Okay dear, just don't eat to much. Remember dinners at 6."
" Got it mom" he countered, quickly racing upstairs.
The mayor watched her son go up the steps two at a time, wondering why it seemed like he was in a hurry to end their conversation. Now that she had thought about it he had been acting like this for the past few days. Whatever it was she would keep an eye on him. On the walk back to her office she passed by a picture of henry from a year after she first adopted him. It was when they visited Coney Island, he was on the carrousel smiling from ear to ear, as she looked at her 3 year old Henry, all of her worries were alleviated.
As Henry ran into his room, he launched himself onto his bed, excited to start his newest operation. Operation Momma Swan. He was off to find his birth mother. Not that he didn't love his adoptive mother he just wanted to found out what his birth mother was like. Operation Momma Swan had started a few weeks ago, his constant excuse of homework was wearing thin and he knew it, luckily he had made some definite progress so he wouldn't have to use that excuse much longer. He could feel his mothers suspicious glare after the 10th time he used that same excuse, but tomorrow step one of the plan would be set in action. Tomorrow was the big day. Lost in his train of thought, he barely heard his mother call him down for dinner.
"HENRY DINNER."
"COMING"
"I called you several times, were you really that focused on homework that you didn't hear me?" Regina questioned him, her suspicion once again growing.
" Yeah Mom I was just really focused" Henry returned desperately trying to keep his cover.
"Hmm..okay. Now lets eat before it gets cold."
The rest of the dinner was filled with small talk. Henry was acting giddier than usual. As soon as he finished his meal he asked to be excused once more with the excuse of "homework". As the teenager left the mayor finally decided there was definitely something off about her son, and she vowed to find out exactly what it was.