Chapter 2
"Let's go to a gay bar." Joey suddenly blurted out while eating his medium rare, rib eye steak, his favorite meal.
"What?" Emma's eyes widened at her son invitation, she almost choke on her pasta.
"You've heard me, Ma. I want to go to a gay bar, with you." Joey has finished his steak and sipping his drink slowly, he waved his hand to the waiter to ask for dessert.
Granny's Restaurant is Emma and Joey's favorite restaurant in town; they've been their costumers throughout the years. Granny's meal was to die for, according to Joey, truly finger licking good and they'd always give free dessert for Emma and Joey, a gift, for being their loyal costumers, beside, Emma has always tipped very well.
"Why would you want to go to a bar, with me? And a gay bar? Are you serious?"
Emma still hadn't believed what she's heard, what on earth was on Joey's mind, asking her to go to a bar, a gay bar to be exact.
"Nope, I'm not toying with you, come on, it'll be fun, I promise. I know you've been tense lately, mostly because of your works, loosen up a little, ma." Joey give his best puppy eyes to his mother, he knew that Emma couldn't resist.
"I don't know kid; I don't feel like going to a bar, let alone a gay one, beside, you're not even 21. How the hell you're gonna get in there?" The blonde trying to reason with his only son, she feels too old to go to a bar, she just wanted to go home and rest. But, apparently, Joey knows how to get her to say yes, every time.
The blonde loves him too much and puppy eyes have been one of his old tricks to get what he wants.
"August made me a fake ID some time ago, I haven't had a chance to use it though, and no, I'm not going to drink, or maybe just beer, whatever.
I just want you to have some fun, ma. You have to go with me, just for this night."
"What? You had a fake ID? Oh you're so not going to get away with this, young man. But, okay, fine, I'll go." The blonde hesitantly agree with her only child invitation, honestly though, she's been thinking about going out, but, she hasn't had time, works been in the way most of the time and she keeps postponing her night out with Ruby and Belle.
"Yes! I promise you, this is going to be fun." Joey throws his fist into the air, wide smile around his face.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. This better be good, kid."
Emma shook her head, she doesn't know why she'd let Joey talked her into this kind of thing.
Joey parked his Toyota Highlander in front of The Wonderland; he'd never go to a gay bar before. He simply doesn't like crowded places. He was doing this for her mother sake; he wants the blonde to have fun for a while.
"Let's go ma." She entwined her arm with her son's and walks through the bar's front door.
Much to Emma's surprise, Joey has passed the bouncer smoothly with his fake ID.
"I'm still going to punish you for your fake ID, you know."
"Ha ha, whatever, Ma. We will talk about punishment tomorrow. This night is about us having fun." Joey grinned in victory, he had succeeded at convince Emma to go to a bar, a gay bar.
After an hour of drinking and dancing, they got tired. Joey decided to sit down for a while, ha hasn't really been drinking, supposed that he'll be the sober one to drive.
Emma, on the other hand, has started to feel dizzy, and wanted to pee.
"I'm gonna go to the rest room, you wait here, right?"
"Yeah, okay, do you want me to go with you?" Joey offers his hand to his mother, but Emma shook her head.
"No, I'm fine kid, I'll be right back."
"Okay ma, be careful." Emma start to walk to the rest room, the dimly lit bar has made it difficult for her to see anything; she bumped into several people on her way to the rest room.
Emma tripped on her heels and because of her unsteady position, she almost fall, that's when she felt an arm around her, prevented her from embarrass herself.
"Be careful, Blondie." The mysterious woman with delicious raspy voices has helped Emma to stand back on her feet.
"Thank you, I'm sorry." Emma fixes her blouse and skirt immediately, when she turns her face into the source of the voice, her eyes met this gorgeous brunette with medium-length hair and pretty brown eyes. Even in that dark bar, she could see how pretty this woman in front of her.
She's wearing a tight black leather jacket with some kind of grey-ish tank top, dark blue skinny jeans, and low brown boots.
"It's fine, where are you going anyway?" The mysterious woman asks and suddenly Emma feels like stuttering.
"Ah, eh, I..I am going to go to the rest room, but I can't seem to find it."
The blonde sigh when she's finally got her normal voice back. She had bewitched by the woman in front of her. She felt a butterfly on her stomach; she can't control her breath and kind of impossible to move.
"What the hell?" She mumbled, she really doesn't trust herself in this kind of state.
"Come with me, I'll show you where the bathroom is."
The brunette offered her hand to Emma, and without hesitation Emma takes the other woman hand and walk through an ocean of people.
Emma felt sick at the bathroom, her stomach churning and her mouth was dry, she's running to one of the open stall and pours all of her stomach contents to the bowl.
"Wow, rough night?" The brunette walks closer to Emma and held up her hair so they didn't fall into the toilet bowl.
"Yeah, it's been a long time since I had that amount of alcohol."
She's finally done vomiting and reach for the tissue the brunette gave to her.
"If you'd come with me, I have a mouthwash at my motorcycle. It'll help with the bitter taste on your mouth."
For the second time that night, this mysterious brunette had offered her hand to the blonde and helps her get up from bathroom floor.
"I'll take that, thank you so much."
Emma and the brunette beauty walk side by side and made their way out from the bar to the dim alley where the brunette had parked her motorcycle.
"Whoa, nice motorcycle you got there." Emma studied the brunette beautiful Norton Command 961 Café Racer, the bike looks so shiny in the dark.
"Yes, thank you, I had it made by special request. It's my baby. Here."
The brunette handed a bottle of mouthwash and pack of tissue to Emma.
Regina reach her back pocket, looking for cigarette pack, when she's found the pack she took one and lit it, the brunette took a long drag and blew the smoke.
"Thank you, I'll get it back to you soon." Emma gives the brunette a wide smile, she feels like a giddy high school teenagers in front of the brunette and this look hadn't missed by the other woman, but she chose to ignore it.
"I'm sorry I haven't caught your name, I'm Emma, Emma Swan."
"Its okay, you can have it. I'm Regina, Regina Mills. It is nice to meet you, Ms. Swan." Regina shook Emma's hand and gives the blonde a small smile.
"Nice to meet you too, indeed, Regina."
Neither Emma nor Regina notice that Joey has been eyeing them since they got out from the rest room, Joey smirked, he's never seen her mother acting like this his entire life
