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Emma Swan had never planned to fall for Regina Mills, or sleep with Regina Mills, or even talk to Regina Mills, but nothing ever went to horribly right for Emma Swan and all of those things happened.
Now she was stuck in love with one of her best friend's girlfriend and didn't know what to do.
Regina never wanted to go out for obvious reasons but she loved planning at home dates for the two of them and when Emma had followed her out of the diner, they'd both walked back to Regina's house and she started setting things up for a movie night.
Her favorite movie was Snow White and the huntsman, her favorite character was the evil queen, and Emma had seen it enough times by now to quote the entire movie backwards but it made Regina happy, and Emma wasn't going to say no to it.
"So what do you think? Licorice, popcorn, chocolate covered pretzels, and apple chunks in vanilla ice cream?" Regina asked with a smirk, she knew Emma loved all of those things.
"It sounds amazing, what's dessert?"
"Let's see.. No parents tonight.." She smiled tossing her arms around Emma's neck. "No little brothers either.. And Ruby is doing that stupid library thing with the bookworm."
"Regina.." The blonde asked slowly. "When are you going to.. I don't know- Do something about Ruby, or with Ruby, or whatever.."
Regina sighed and tucked her head into the crook of Emma's neck.
"Ruby and I have been through so much.. She was the only one who was really there when my dad died, and when my mom got remarried, and when Peter and Neil and Gold moved in. Even before that I was with her when her mom died and when everyone was beating on her for joining the hockey team with the guys.." She paused and tried to blink away her tears before they fell. "She's been my best friend, I love her way too much to hurt her like that, Emma, but I'm in love with you.. I really am. I just don't know how to fix all of this without losing somebody that I care about.."
"You can take all the time you need to figure it out.. As long as you're trying. You've lost enough people that you love.. I get that. I love you, Regina. I just don't want to have to lie to my best friend-"
"I'm sorry that you have to.." She whispered.
"We'll figure it out." Emma assured her with a tight hug. "Lets get the snacks and start the movie while we wait for the pizza okay?"
"Okay." Regina nodded slowly before Emma practically carried her into the living room.
Belle yawned as she turned the page of her current book, she was nearly at the end and the only thing that stopped her reading was Ruby's head moving off of her lap.
She looked up to see about five people handing her friend money.
They were all currently sitting in one of the hallways of the library, avoiding the patrolling reading monitors, as Belle was already enough supervision for the group.
"What are you doing, Pup?" She asked the tall brunette.
"We all had a bet going to see how long it'd take for you to get tired." Red smiled. "I had the latest time slot so I won."
Belle looked incredulously at the group before her, Henry, Peter, Ariel, Mary Margaret, and Will all ducked their heads while Red just smirked.
"Cheer up, Beautiful. I now have sixty eight dollars to spend on you at the book fair in the morning." Ruby smiled.
"I specifically remember telling you that you didn't have to buy me anymore books after you gifted me the Harry Potter book set that J.K Rowling signed herself." Belle gushed momentarily.
"Yeah, I remember that too." Red nodded. "Which means that all of the wonderful reading adventures I'm paying for before we go home will be given to you because I want to, not because I have to."
Belle blushed.
"Get a room." Peter whispered as the one of the monitors passed by the hall they were in.
"Shut up, Goldie." Red said before kicking his foot away from her own.
"Hey Ruby, wasn't Regina supposed to come too? She said you were bringing her that's why she didn't want Neil to drive her." Henry asked over the top of his book.
"I haven't talked to her since she stormed out of the diner, kiddo." Red shrugged.
"Is Emma with her?" Mary Margaret asked. "I haven't seen her since then either."
Belle shot her a look, hoping that Ruby wouldn't think much of it.
"I dunno, they might be working on that project for science. Emma says she's barely even started, do you guys have yours done?" The green eyed girl asked.
Belle relaxed.
"Mine's been done thanks to that study date with Belle." Will winked toward the girl and Belle shifted further toward Ruby.
Pretty much everyone except Ruby knew about Will's crush on Belle, but pretty much everyone except Will knew that Belle was most certainly not interested.
"Mine's almost done but my swim meets keep getting in the way of study time." Ariel sighed. "How 'bout you and David, Mom?"
"Ours are both done." She smiled looking down the hall to where David was sitting with Cassidy and Whale.
"Henry helped me do mine." Peter answered.
"You realize that Henry's in the grade below you right?" Ariel asked incredulously.
"You realize the only reason he's in the grade he's in is because Henry's been helping him with his homework since their parents got married." Red teased and everyone laughed before getting shushed by one of the monitors.
Belle yawned again, leaning her head against Ruby's shoulder before looking back to her book.
Everyone got back to reading and Belle read quietly to Red.
A/N. Well, now we're caught up to the summary, aren't we?
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