A/N I am going to try and upload a new chapter each evening, so I can finish it by thw weekend hopefully and get on with my other unfinished stories. Also, thanks to those of you who have followed/faved this story I appreciate it.


Three Weeks later.

"You know, your gonna blow everyone away at your fortieth aniversery party" Emma tells her neighbour, Ms Buffay. As she sits in her neighbours lounge, after going through a song with her, for the past hour.

Ms Buffay smiles at the compliment.

"If I sing to him, without making any mistakes...he will know how hard i've worked and how much I still love him, after all these years" she then tells Emma shakily.

"Well, I hope forty years from now, that I can be just as happy as you" Emma then tells her happily.

"Oh, you will be. I just know it"

"Yeah?" Emma tilts her head, curciously.

"You have a good heart" her neighbour tells her honestly and Emma chuckles.

"Thanks" she then tells her neighbour and ooks to the clock on the wall. "Uh, it's nearly five. I better get going" she stands up.

"What about you payment?" Ms Buffay asks, anxiously.

"Oh. I'll have it to go, if thats okay?"

Ms Buffay nods and goes to make her way to the kitchen and says "Of course...your such a good girl, letting me pay you with bearclaws"

"Um, well, they taste so good Ms Buffay. Its more than enough" she shouts and then the 4foot nine, elderly woman appears with a bowl of bearclaws.

"Thanks" Emma then says happily, taking the bowl.

"Now, take a bite so I can see you enjoy them"

Emma smirks and picks one from the bowl and takes a bite. Ms Buffay smiles and is happy with Emma's reaction.

"Okay, well I'm going to leave now" she steps towards the door.

"Your such a good girl Emma. Thank you for teaching me this song. Your going to make someone a good Wife one day"

"Thanks, I hope so" Emma chuckles.


Meanwhile, across the city. Regina is stood in her old room, of her parents house, looking out the window, at nothing in particular.

Her mother walks into the room, wearing her usual black suit and sporting, a soar look upon her face.

"Did you hear, that girl who always has her hair plated from across the road, is getting married next weekend?" she tells Regina seriously.

Regina frowns at this and continues to look out the window, blankly.

"Your much prettier than her dear."

Regina now turns her head, to look at her mother.

"What's being pretty, got anything to do with being married mother?" she asks.

"Everything! You got to get married before you get the size of a house and start getting facial hair" Cora says seriously.

"Well...I will get married soon mother, there is no rush"

Cora sighs and goes to leave the room, as she knows she won't get anything else out of her daughter, regarding her wedding.


Back across town, Emma steps into her appartment, which she shares with Ruby, her bestfriend. She walks to the kitchen, where there is a note waiting for her. She opens it.

Emma.

I can't do this anymore. I've been talking with friends and I figured it out. I am not in love with you now, as I was, when you were in your band a year ago, things have changed and I relized, your never going to leave this place and we've both changed so much over the past year. So, I'm going back home. Please don't call me.

Lily.

Emma swallows and reads it again, in disbelief, before saying "What a load of crap..I can't believe this"

"Everything alright?" Ruby shouts from her bedroom.

"No, of course its not! Lily has left me" Emma shouts back and Ruby suddenly appears and goes to read the note herself.

"What a bitch"

Emma heads to the fridge and opens a beer.

"Don't call her that. Cos when we get back together, things will be werid between us if you call her that"

"Ems...don't take her back. She's so not good enough for you anyways"

"Yeah, I know things havent been that great between us for the last few months Rubes...but I thought we might be turning a corner, you know.." she swallows the beer down, to drown her sarrows.

Ruby shakes her head in disagreement.

"You can do better Em's. I've told you a dozen times. That she never treated you well"

"Yeah, but I...I really liked her Rubes" her eyes started to water.

Ruby frowned.

"Come lets go and watch TV or somehing and if you wonna talk about it some more, were do that" she smiled.

"Okay" Emma sniffled and downed some more of her beer and make her way to the sofa, where her and Ruby started to watch some reality show, about cheaters.


Five more days later, across the city. Regina is standing in her kitchen, cooking a lasagna for her and Robins dinner.

"These are for you" Robin says smugly, upon arriving home with a bunch of flowers and hands them over, to her.

She smiles and says "Thank you" before looking for a vase.

"I also, have something else for you" he tells her.

"Oh?" she raised an eyebrow.

"I brought us two tickets to Paris, so we can get married there"

Regina froze and gaped momentarily.

"But why?" she asked, confused.

"Our honeymoon. I set the date for our wedding too"

"You what?" she clenched her fist at her side, as she hated surprises and this was the worst.

"Set a date for our wedding" he confirmed.

Regina's eyes darted left and right.

"I see...may I ask, what prompted this sudden decison, without discussing it with me first?"

"Your mother. She said, you wanted to set a date but wasn't sure if I would want too yet. So she suggested I surprise you"

Regina clenched her jaw and cursed her mother's interference.

"She said, Paris is the romance captial of the world and that you have always wanted to go there" he added casually.

"When I was a teenager" she huffed and ran a hand, through her shoulder length hair.

"Oh, do you not want to go there now?" he asked and frowned and looked, to her breasts.

"It would be nice, yes. but I would of liked to been consulted before you went and done it" she said sadly and thought. do you really have to look at my chest right now!

"Well okay. It's the 18th of October is that suitable for you?" he asked a little annoyed and Regina started to panic internally. Yes she wanted her happily ever after, but was this really it! especially when the guy only seemed to be interested in her assets, most of the time.

"Actually Robin. I would prefer it to be here, with family"

He puts down at the tickets, on the kitchen unit.

"Thats fine. Were get married here and then, have the honeymoon in Paris?"

"Okay, Thank you" she mutters and continues to arrange the flowers in the vase. That she had found under the sink and she thinkis, what the hell, am I going to do now.


Emma meanwhile, hasn't left her appartment in those five days. She's laying in her bed and wallowing.

Ruby knocks on her door and opens it.

"Hey Ems...you alright?" she asks.

"Hmm"

Ruby rolls her eyes.

"Listen Ems. You got to go to work tonight. You said you'd do that wedding remember? you can't let them down and you need the momey, to pay your haf of the rent"

"Leave me alone" Emma snaps and stares at the wall, blankly and Ruby changes tactics.

"Theres going to be lots of available girls there, you know" she tells Emma, who frowns.

"I've got nothing to offer anybody" Emma then mumbles. "I havent done jack shit, since high school and what girl is gonna want to marry me?"

Ruby stares at her momentarily, then says "Who said anything about marrying you. I meant someone to get your frustrations out on" she crosses her arms.

Emma groans and three hours later, she is on the stage, at the wedding venue, looking rough, after downing a couple of beers before performing.

"If we took a holiday...take some time to celebrate...just one day out of life" she sings out loud and out of tune and with no effort at all and Mary Margaret sings "Oh yeah, oh yeah" whilst looking at the blonde strangely.

Emma then looks to Ruby and sings "Everybody spread the word...I live with my best friend, in her appartment"

"Oh god" Ruby then mutters and hurries off, to see if she can stop this disater, before it gets worse and then, moments later, Emma looks to the bride and groom and says "Hey you guys, your off to a great start...at least she showed up, right!"

"Were not paying you for your thoughts" the grooms father shouts out and she looks at him with narrowed eyes.

"Listen buddy. I have the microphone, so your listen to what I have to say"

They all stare at her, in disbelief, but she doesn't pay it no attention and continues...

"You know, its funny. Some of us, wont ever find true love. apparantly it should be magical and wonderful. Well not for me...and I'm pretty sure its not for most of you in this room either" she smirks.

"Oi lady, your the worst wedding singer in the world" The father of the groom then shouts and she glares at him once more and says "Do you want me to come over there and strangle you with my microphone! cos I will"

And with that, Ruby, jumps on the stage and drags Emma away. Whilst Mary Margaret tries to salvage the situation, by singing...Do you really want to hurt me...


So yes, Emma's in abit of a dark place at the mo, but it gets better next chapter, as Regina and Emma bump into eachother again. Yay :)