Hey there ;) this is my first story, i hope you will like it. Im sorry for any mistakes - my wordchoise is probably not as good as from english nativ writers - but i hope you will like the plot =)

Thanks to my beta

I dont own Once upon a time.

Somewhere in Maine, Regina Mills woke up in her luxury mansion at 6 am, often she wondered why she is doing this day in day out.

She is 26 year old and High School teacher at Storybrooke High, most of the time she hated her job, sometimes she didn't even know why she is doing it. Regina has a wealthy background, her Mother is Mayor of Boston and her father owned one of the best restaurants in town. Regina always dreamed about being independent and on her own, she doesn't wanna be just "the daughter" so she choose a career as a teacher, because even when she was in High School herself, she loved to teach the younger kids in their neighborhood. She started early to earn money with teaching, so for her it was clear really early that this is her vocation.

Her time at the university was pretty boring, Regina was a total nerd, her grades were the most important thing in her life. She wanna prove to the world that she is more than just "the daughter". So she finished with the best grades in her year and every school would love to have a teacher like her she could choose where she wants to work.

Regina always hated the big cites, and when she read about a free position at a small School in Storybrooke called Storybrooke High she was more than happy that she found this cute little town, within a 2 hour drive from Boston.

Her parents, especially her mum thought she would waste her knowledge for a small town school but Regina didn't care, this was all she ever wanted. She hoped all her dreams would came true. Her father Henry encouraged her to live her dreams so he paid for a "small" mansion in Storybrook. She hoped to find her luck there, a nice house, finally meet some people maybe even make some friends or better, find someone to love.

Regina never expected Storybrooke to be as crazy a place as it is. The biggest problems in this community was that there are not enough jobs and if there are jobs available – mostly after someone died – there is nobody who can fill it because of the little perspective in their lots of students aren't really motivated to make something out of themselves. They don't wanna leave their families or Storybrooke, but they had to if they wanna have a good job. That's one of the main reasons why there are lot of drug and alcohol problems at Storybrooke high. Regina saw it as challenge to help young kids with problems to get through. She took some extra classes at university for problem cases and in her mind she was pretty good in talking with young people.

When Regina first arrived everyone was very nice and welcoming. But after a week she wasn't the new girl anymore she wasn't exiting enough and it was really hard for her to make friends in a small town like Storybrooke. Everyone has known each other for years. They had their friendships and it seems that nobody there was single. Lots of people seam to be jealous of her and Regina had no idea why it is hat way.

But after a while she found out that property is rare and a lot of people tried to get the Mansion she lived in, but even if money wasn't a problem the condition to see it was to replace the old literature teacher – so she was the only one who got a chance to buy it.

Regina lived and worked there now for 3 months and she wasn't sure if this was the right decision – but she has a 2 year contract so she couldn't give up anyways. On the one hand she didn't wanna ruin her own reputation as a teacher and on the other hand she doesn't wanna show weakness in front of her mom. She was always against this profession. She couldn't understand why Regina had not just married some rich guy and played the housewife. Get a bunch of children and celebrate her life. Cora introduced so may handsome men to Regina but none of them were good enough for her – that's how her mother put it. In reality, most of the guys wrinkled their noses when they saw Regina. She isn't exactly what rich handsome guys are looking for. She isn't a trophy wife or a beach beauty. She is just Regina.

Regina is what most people would call a nerd. She has thick rimmed glasses, wore most times no make-up. Loved her old fashioned skirts and blouses or dresses, mostly flower print – it's hip right !?

She never been interested in fashion and how she looked. There was never someone who told her how to be stylish. Her mother was way too busy to even realize she is there. Her older Sister Zelena was 7 years older and when Regina was at the appropriate age for make-up, Zelena already was out of the house and didn't really often visit the family because she had a boyfriend at every finger. So Regina tried to learn from classmates or her mom – which probably weren't the best role models for a 16 year old Regina. That's the reason why most times it looked like she tried to hard.