Hello there! This is my first time writing once upon a time fan fiction so please bear with me :D this is a basic romantic comedy with family fluff on the side so no curse or magic but there will be a lot of cursing and some personality changes, so please forgive me.
So this is just the test chapter not much humor. I would love any feedback I can get so thank you!
Prologue- It's just for the weekend
"Moe, you can't just call me up and ask me to watch the girls!" A very irritated Regina Mills growled into the phone. Regina Mills was a stunning woman in her mid twenties known to own one of the most coveted wineries in southern California. So it was no wonder that a woman surrounded by wine would be skeptical to watch three girls who were all under the age of ten.
"Please Regina!" Moe begged through the phone. "It's just for the weekend. Zelena wouldn't want her daughters to watch me spread her ashes. Do this for their emotions."
Regina gave a defeated sigh; she knew that the death of her sister had taken its toll on her three nieces. "Fine; just for this weekend." She muttered.
"Thank you so much, Regina, you don't know how much this means to me… and the girls!" he replied.
The phone went quiet and Regina hung up. She looked to her house to make sure that the guest rooms were ready. While she lived in a fabulous manner, her sister had lived poorly with Moe French and their three girls.
If it had not been for Emma, Mary Margaret, and Belle; Regina would have gladly cut her sister out of her life. But of course, wanting to break free of the curse of their past with their own mother and her abuse and their inability to connect with other relatives, she kept in contact making sure to provide for the girls what their parents could not.
She looked at a picture that she had taken with them at Disneyland. Mary Margaret and Emma both loved snow white so they wore her dress while little Belle was donned in the famous yellow dress from beauty and the beast. She gave a half smile and looked at it. Those girls were the only family she had that she could put up with seeing as her sister was now dead.
She and Zelena did not have a good relationship to begin with. Zelena had constantly accused her of trying to outdo her in every single thing and because of that Regina became determined to do more with her life than give in to teenage drinking and of course a teen pregnancy that resulted in miscarriage.
Then Moe came into the picture. He arrived shortly after their mother had killed herself in a drunken rage and had been everything Zelena needed to calm down and what Regina could use as an escape.
"Miss Mills?" a dark skinned man called from the door.
"Hmmm?" Regina responded snapping out of her thoughts. "What is it Sid?"
"Were you on the phone right now with Moe?" he asked.
"Well if you must know I was. The girls will be coming here for the weekend. Now go do something useful for once." She replied with a scowl.
"Yes…" He replied snidely.
Regina huffed and stood up from her seat. She looked at her picture again; it was a short weekend after all. Nothing wrong with that.
It was probably eight when Moe arrived with the girls in tow. He gave a quick smile and jumped back into his car before anyone could say anything. The three girls watched him with curious eyes
They walked in quietly. None of them spoke to which Regina didn't question them as they walked on.
The weekend went by slowly and Regina was glad, the girls and her lazed around in her room watching movies. It was then when her phone rang.
"Hello." She snapped.
"Regina…" Moe said quietly. "I… umm… there is no easy way to say this."
"Moe…" Regina hissed. "What's going on?"
"I'm sorry. Tell the girls I love them… all their papers are in their bags… I'm sorry." He said hanging up.
"Girls…" She said quietly. "Do you know where your father is?"
They looked confused.
"He said he couldn't tell us but it had to do with mommy." Emma replied tilting her head in confusion. "Why?"
"Girls…" she whispered guilt filling her face. She had two options at the moment: she could lie and tell them their father had died or she could tell them the truth. She looked at them and decided in that moment.
"Your father is abandoning you." She said holding her head up. She watched as their face twisted in confusion.
Belle was the first to speak, "Does that mean he doesn't want us."
"Probably." Emma muttered bitterly.
"What did he say?" Mary Margaret asked timidly. Tears began to form in her eyes as the words finally set in.
"he said he loved you and that he was sorry." She replied.
"Liar! If he loved us he wouldn't leave us!" Emma yelled.
"Girls…" she said quietly sitting down and looking at them. "I know it's hard when your dad leaves you, honestly I thought tell you he was dead would have been easier but it would have hurt you more."
"D-does the feeling ever go away?" Belle sniffled.
"It does." She replied pulling them into her arms. "It'll be okay, you girls have me."
The three nodded in cried in to her arms. Regina wound up crying with them. They were too young for this and they didn't deserve to have their hearts broken after their mother died. At least they would have each other.
Well this was depressing… don't worry it does get funny though. Next chapter should be much more amusing.
Please tell me what you think!