"Did you ever love me? Or was whatever that was, just a thing so you could skip jail"? Emma couldn't help but let the words flow out of her mouth. She needed to know. She needed answers.
"NO! Emma what we had was real or at least for me it was. I really loved you. I still do but I had to let you fulfill your destiny. I was hoping you would find me after you broke the curse but now I know that you moved on". Everything Neal said was true. He really did care for her.
"Did it hurt you as much as it hurt me, because believe me I was in shock then all at once everything came at me in full force". Once Neal heard this his heart broke just thinking of his small fragile Emma sitting on one of those uncomftorable prison cots.
"Im sorr-".
"How many more time are you going to say I'm sorry! Neal news flash, I don't care anymore I moved on a long time ago." Emma stopped there before she said something she would regret.
"Every time I saw you, I died inside. You are killing me and you don't even know it. Emma I think about you every day and then you showed up here in New York I actually thought I was dead. You wanna know the last thing I thought of? You. I thought of you." Neal was on a roll, he just needed to get everything off his chest.
"What happened to us? We used to be so close." Emma took a step closer and said in almost a whisper.
Neal saw she was finally starting to open up and decided to ask the one question thats been bugging him for years.
"Did YOU ever love me? because I know I did."
Emma took half a step back.
"It hurts too much to love you. Your too much a liability for me to love."
Emma didn't even get to finish before Neal moved in and kissed her right on the lips.
The kiss was slow and seemed to last forever but stopped only because they needed air. Emma looked up and met Neal's brown eyes with her own green.
"It was real for me too." She finally answered with a small smile and kissed him once again but this time never letting go.