A/N: The new idea. No Curse/Magic. Just a typical romance story.
Chapter 1: Regina's Coffee Shop
In New York City, the daily life of the brunette woman was truly hectic for her to take along through her sights in her routine, she was the owner of her coffee shop when she was 24 years old and had started her business while she was working in small jobs. Finally, she built her shop with her investment and her pride. The owner of the coffee shop was Regina Mills, 25 and she had a license being an owner and barista. She always was open to everyone for her best advices, listened to everybody's stories and shared her experiences through her past with her family and friends. Everyone loved her coffee shop and always buy her best coffee. She was very graceful that she opened her coffee shop in New York City and had a good profit. She always smiled to everyone who greeted her in the front of her coffee shop and supervised the servers for few months with her inspection.
For her past with family and friends, the other side of Regina Mills that everyone didn't know and it was very confidential of her to tell the story. To her, the wealth was the biggest part of her life, she didn't care about the money and status but she had wanted to be her own life to make the choices for herself without their help. Her parents were Cora Mills and Henry Mills, the famous businesspeople in Storybrooke, Maine and invested their business in The Mills Wineyard then made billions for shipping their best wines in all over the world. In the brunette's growing up, she had few friends who were still there for her through her difficult life and went through the phrase in coming out as the lesbian in her family. She had only been there for few years to stay with her parents working on the wineyard while she was in college for being a businesswoman but had a dream for opening her coffee shop in the city.
The dreams were coming true for Regina to reach on her path to arrive until she had her shop in New York City, moved out from the state to the state and lived in her small loft with her Japanese Red/White Akita, Regal Mills. She had her life in a nice neighborhood of the wealthy people. Her parents bought her apartment for her graduation gift and Regina didn't worry about paying the bills and it was paid off from her parents to pay her apartment. She had only focused on her work and pay the bills for the water, electricity, gas and food for her and Regal. It was very carefree and peaceful.
Until, one day, Regina was working on the counter, talking to the man who was a regular in her coffee shop and listened to him for his stories in Vietnam War. The bell rang through the door, it revealed the tall blonde woman in her black blazer, white ruffles shirt and black pantsuit with red stilettos and she wore the sunglasses to cover her eyes. The blonde curls were flowing easily over her shoulders and she looked so beautiful in her posture. Regina finished her duty, heard the bell from the door and looked over at the blonde woman who stood against the counter next to few ladies away from the Vietnam solider then her jaw hung open when she saw the beautiful angel on her counter. Her world was spinning and wild. Until, the blonde woman interrupted Regina by saying, "Are you okay?" The brunette woman went frozen while she was hearing the angelic voice from the blonde woman and blinked several times until she realized that she was on her duty to serve on the counter. She strode down to the blonde woman and nodded.
"Yes, I am okay. Thank you for asking. So, what can I get for you?"
"Can I get a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino, please?
"Ok, I'll get it for you so what is the size?"
"Oh, it will be Grande. Thank you." The blonde smiled and Regina felt her heart beating rapidly when she saw a beautiful smile. She nervously did her work on Vanilla Bean Frappuccino while she was not looking at the blonde behind her. The Vietnam solider looked at the interaction between them and giggled. Regina finished making the Frappuccino for the blonde woman then handed it to her.
"It will be $5.38." The brunette spoke in her barista's tone. The blonde woman smirked and tipped ten dollars then spoke.
"Keep the change and you always get a better tip if you make my drink to taste it better than Starbucks." She winked at the brunette woman and left the coffee shop like she owned her business. Regina gaped in shock, looked at ten dollars on the counter then grabbed it and heard the Vietnam solider next to her cashier.
"Oh. That's a big deal for you right now. Do you know that woman?"
"Yes dear, I know. But I don't know who she is."
"Oh my Lord! You don't know who she is!? Oh, please help her." The woman who had her plain black coffee and sat down next to him. Regina was confused on her conversations with her regulars.
"Tell me who that is?" The brunette woman grabbed her rag towel from her shoulder to clean on the counter and looked over at them.
"That woman is a goddess of the businesses, her name is Emma Swan and she own her business in uptown." The woman said. The Vietnam guy nodded and sipped his coffee.
"Emma Swan? She seems familiar." Regina replied.
"Yes, you know that she is the business owner of her own company and built from the scratch when she was 21 years old. Can you imagine that she was 21 years old in building her own company? She barely got out from her graduate school when she was 18 years old. In few years later, it went boom and she is currently multi-trillionaire. Everyone knew her in the entire of New York City. You should check it out on the New Yorker magazine in the internet. It has a nice face of her." He said.
"21 years old? Multi-trillionaire? Wow. I'm impressive. What made her to be that wealthy?" The brunette woman spoke. The regulars looked at each other then looked over at her.
"Well, no one knew her biography and she is very well-reserved person." The woman who sipped her plain black coffee said.
"Yeah, one time, I heard that Emma have a son but I'm not sure if it is accurate." The woman in her flower dress sat down next to them.
"Oh I don't know about that." Regina arched her eyebrow and spoke.
"Wait a min? The blonde woman have a son!?" The Vietnam Solider said. The regulars included Regina whisked to look at him. Some giggled at him.
"Yeah, you should check it out on Google and find out about her. I'm not sure if she have spouses in her life." The woman in a flower dress replied.
"Oh… Who are you then? Are you stalking on Emma?" The Vietnam Solider said.
"I'm Mary Margaret. I happen to be Emma's sister." The woman in a flower dress replied. Others hung their mouths open. She giggled. Regina blinked several times and continued.
"Well, you knew her enough so, what are you doing exactly?"
"I'm here for my coffee but well, I actually am here for checking it out around here and I'm staying here for few weeks with Emma. So, ignore the news, magazines and newspapers or social media about her. All of that are not true. But, yes to your few unanswered questions, Emma is very well reserved person and have a son. But no spouses at this time. Ok, see you then." Mary Margaret left.
"Who hell is Mary Margaret!?" The Vietnam Soldier said.
"Then who hell are you?" The woman who sipped the plain black coffee replied back. Regina giggled.
"I'm Rumple Gold, actually Sergeant Gold in US. Marine for 25 years and currently on retirement. What about you?" He said.
"Why, God bless you, Mr. Gold. I'm Kathryn Nolan. I'm a novelist and a best friend of Regina."
"Well, you just introduced to each other so I don't worry about it. I better check it on inventory and will be right back with your coffee soon." Regina replied and left them conversing about the blonde woman. She smiled at the angel on her counter and wondered if Emma comes on regularly to get her Vanilla Bean Frappuccino. She was looking forward to that day and kept her busy with checking the inventory then got back with the coffee. The day went simply good until she closed her shop for the rest of the night. She went home to see Regal and finished her errands then went to sleep.
A/N: I got this story for few days but wasn't sure that I posted this story and I'm not regretting that story. I just had that idea for somewhat long. I have million ideas to make the stories about Regina and Emma. But I should make the one-shot stories then I let you readers to choose the story to make it interesting. Also, I just wasn't sure about that either. Now, you have it right away. Other stories are on hiatus. For you readers, who are looking forward to have new chapters from other stories I created. There are still in works for a while. ;-D Please enjoy this story.