When the alarm went off at 6:45am Emma knew that day was not going to be fun at all. She slowly turned the annoying beeping off without even opening her eyes, turning around between her light purple bedsheets and trying to fall asleep once again. She had almost made it when a loud knock at her door made her jump.

"Morning, morning, rise and shine Swan!" the door was opened to reveal a way too happy Belle, still on her pyjamas that ran inside the room to sit on Emma's bed.

"How can you even be awake?" Emma asked, regretting it a second later since she felt a sharp pain in her head, like someone had just hit her with a hammer. "Oh, shit." She whispered.

"Well, I didn't drink as much as you girls." Belle smiled before taking the bedsheets to pull them from Emma's asleep and cold body.

"No…" the blonde one grunted.

"I'm giving you five minutes to get up or I'm coming back to sing Mamma Mia at the top of my lungs." The short girl added before showing herself to the door. "The aspirins are in the second drawer of the kitchen counter." She said before fully leaving.

Emma heard her run upstairs and knock on Ruby's door, not getting a response. She waited until a loud scream let her know the blue eyed brunette had decided to tickle Ruby until she got on her feet. Belle knew her friends too well, she knew she had signed up to be their "mother" on the flat and she did not care, she loved them too much to be mad at their laziness and screams in the morning.

"Why is morning a thing?" Emma sighed and finally got up, grabbing some random clothes of her closet. Looks like a monkey chose your outfit, is what Ruby always told her. The tall brunette was like a fashion goddess, as Emma called her sometimes, so she already knew she was going to get one of her comments as soon as she took a look at herself in the mirror.

She was wearing her old, comfortable, favourite jeans, her black converse, a stripped black and white t-shirt and her red leather jacket, which she made sure to wear as much as possible since it gave her confidence and, according to Belle, it made her look so badass. Basic, she could hear her friend's voice in her head as she smiled and grabbed her bag to exit the room.

"Guess you didn't want to hear my angelical voice this morning." Belle announced coming downstairs already dressed and dragging a sleepy brunette with her.

"You know I love your voice, but I didn't feel like getting my ears broken today, thank you very much." Emma played along, knowing her friend wasn't as bad of a singer as she wanted everyone to believe.

"I made you both pancakes, so get your asses to the kitchen." Belle said after laughing at Emma's response.

Ruby and Emma sat at the kitchen table while Belle was placing two pancakes on each plate and reached for some coffee mugs, claiming she didn't need any help and that she didn't want the kitchen to set on fire. Emma looked at her friend, who had decided to rest her head on the table, her eyes closed.

"So, Rubs, I think you owe me dinner at a fancy restaurant." The brunette opened her eyes and looked at her confused.

"What? Why?" Emma laughed at her before answering.

"The hot woman last night, I won the bet! She bought me two drinks and we talked for more than one hour."

"You didn't get her number, though" Belle said placing the plates in front of the hungry girls.

"That was in addition to the actual bet, so I won anyways." Emma quickly replied before Ruby got the chance to argue with her.

"I didn't tell you I'd buy you dinner." Ruby complained before taking a bite of her pancake, grabbing it with her hands and getting a warning look from the short girl who pointed at a fork with her right hand. "Sorry." She whispered.

"Exactly, we didn't agree what my reward was, so I choose a fancy dinner." Emma said taking a bite of her own pancake covered in chocolate syrup.

"Well, I think that woman was reward enough, I mean, did you see her?" Ruby asked, trying to get away from that dinner, knowing her friend would not hesitate in ordering the most expensive dish in the menu so she learnt not to mess with her again.

"Oh hell yes, I did. She was gorgeous and breath-taking, Rubes, how could I ever forget her?" Emma replied, getting lost in her memories. She was not aware of it yet, but that woman had hit her hard; her voice was stuck in the blonde's mind, her words repeating over and over again in her head.

They had talked about random topics such as the city or their favourite movies and passion for literature. Emma had tried to learn her name or the kind of problems that could have lead the beautiful women to end up drinking alone on a Sunday's night, but every time the conversation became too personal, the black haired lady would just give her a big hypnotizing smile and change the topic of conversation into something more general or random. The night had finished with Emma knowing nothing about that woman, other than the fact that she made her feel all her problems had disappeared for a moment, like everything was perfect by her side. Emma only knew one thing for sure, somewhere deep inside her, a quiet voice told her she needed to see that woman again, she needed to get lost in those deep brown eyes once more.

"Emma!" Ruby yelled at her, waving her hand from right to left two centimetres away from the blonde's nose. Emma winked, shook her head and looked at her friend. "Jeez, you scared me, thought we lost you there for a moment." She said while getting up from the table and taking her now empty plate to the kitchen.

"Sorry, I'm still half asleep." Emma said with a weak smile.

"I was saying we could order some pizza and let you choose the film tonight, that's your reward." Ruby said while the blondie ate her last bite of pancake and got up from the table.

"Seems fine to me."

"Girls, we're seriously late." Belle rolled her eyes while tapping her right feet on the ground. "Can you hurry up?"