Chapter two

'Calm down', Henry signed with a huge smile on his face.

Emma gave her little brother a dirty look, but the boy didn't back down.

'She asked me to go out, in public, with her,' she signed back furiously.

The deaf boy rolled his eyes and replied, 'so?'

'So…' Emma's fingers paused and she considered what the problem could possibly be. It was quite obvious, spending time with the brunette had turned her crush into full blown infatuation, and she had to admit that it was rather a painful experiences while the cheerleader had a boyfriend.

Her brother sighed and stood from his bed, pulling the blonde to stand with him, 'what are you going to wear?"

Emma shrugged and replied, 'this', pointing to her current outfit.

The fifteen year inspected his eighteen year old sister and shook his head, 'put on your red jacket.'

'Why?'

'Just trust me, she'll forget about Daniel,' he smiled.

'Aren't brothers not supposed to want that?' she laughed.

'It's gross, but you deserve it,' Henry replied sweetly.

He knew that without his sister he would have been sent to some foster home hundreds of miles away from anyone that he knew. She had fought to keep them together, and the day that she had turned eighteen, she became his legal guardian and used their inheritance to keep them afloat. It was just enough that she didn't have to get a job just yet, but not enough so that they could both go to college and if he knew her as well as he thought he did, he had a feeling that she was going to just try and get a job and allow him to go instead of her. If anyone deserved to spend time with their crush, it was his sister.

Emma smiled at the only person she could hold a real conversation with and pulled him into a hug, after he playfully pushed her away, she went to her room in search of her favourite jacket.

"Regina?"

The brunette blinked and then turned to her boyfriend, "what?"

Daniel tilted his head in confusion and replied, "do you not like this episode?"

Regina looked at the screen upon which Friends was playing for the hundredth time and shook her head, "it's fine, I've seen it before."

Daniel laughed and brought his arm around her, "of course you've seen it before, we've watched every episode at least three times."

"I know," Regina mumbled and was slightly relieved when it became clear that he hadn't heard her, "I'm supposed to be meeting Emma soon, so I should really go."

"Skip it, just pretend you're sick or something," he sighed, "I've barely seen you in a week."

"I can't skip it, Daniel," Regina replied rather defensively, "I barely have four months to redo all of my school work, do you not want me to go to college?"

"You already have a cheerleading scholarship," he laughed, "it's not as if you need to know all of that useless crap to wave pom-poms around."

Daniel's eyes widened when he realised he had just completely put his foot in his mouth and tried to add, "I didn't mean it like that, Regina."

The brunette rolled her eyes and grabbed her bag, "it's fine, Daniel, but I really need to go, I would hate to keep her waiting."

"Why?" he laughed, "how can that retard possibly teach you anything?"

"That 'retard' has a higher GPA than you could ever hope to have, just because you are able to speak, it doesn't make you any better than her. In fact, I would like you a lot more at this moment if you couldn't talk."

"Regina…"

"I don't have time for this, I'm going to spend time with someone who doesn't deeply irritate me."

'What's wrong with you?' the robotic voice asked.

Regina smiled up at the blonde and shook her head, "there's nothing wrong."

Emma raised her eyebrow and Regina deflated, "Daniel irritated me, it's nothing."

'It doesn't seem like nothing.'

Regina tilted her head and considered the last time that her boyfriend had been this concerned about her wellbeing. Most of their interactions involved making out and watching TV.

'Maybe you should just try and focus on your work rather than him.'

Regina arched her eyebrow and thought for a moment how the robotic voice could possibly have just revealed bitterness, maybe it was the way that the blonde had typed at the laptop.

"That is exactly what I was trying to do before you interrupted me," the brunette teased.

Emma smirked and they were really interrupted by someone coming over to them.

'You didn't leave me any dinner.'

Emma rolled her eyes and turned to her brother, 'your fifteen, you should be able to make yourself something.'

Regina watched in awe as Emma moved her hands, she was able to fluidly communicate with this brunette boy who she vaguely remembered seeing around town.

"Is everything okay?" she asked.

Emma turned as if she had forgot where she was, and quickly typed and then signed as the voice read out, 'this is my brother, Henry Swan.'

Regina nodded and smiled at Henry, "Regina Mills."

Henry looked to Emma and she quickly signed it out, to which he quickly signed back, 'this is the love of your life.'

Emma's eyes widened, and then she finally realised that Regina didn't know sign language, 'shut up Henry.'

'You could just tell her the truth.'

Regina looked between them and looked expectantly at Emma who finally typed out, 'he said it's nice to meet you.'

"It seemed like he said more than that," Regina laughed.

Emma quickly pulled some money out of her pocket and handed it to the lanky brunette, 'go and eat, far away from here.'

Henry gave his sister a triumphant smile and walked away.

"What was that about?" Regina probed again.

'You need to focus remember?' the voice retorted which was accompanied by Emma's adorable grin.

"Right," Regina smiled, "what's next?"

'To Kill a Mockingbird, did you read it?'

"Of course I did," Regina smiled rather charmingly.

'Really?'

"Well, my tutor told me to."

A/N Hope you guys enjoyed, I would love to hear what you thought XD

I should probably note that I have nothing against Daniel, if I knew how this chapter was going to end up I would have used Robin instead (no offence to anyone who likes him, I just really don't). So Daniel is completely OOC for this fic.