The next morning, Regina woke up alone in bed. It was quite early but Emmett had already left. The water was still in the bowl so nothing needed to be worried about. They had talked last night before sleep took over. Both lying in bed, staring up at the celling. Although it was just Emmett mostly do the talking while Regina laid besides him and listened to his nonsense babbling, the brunette listened intently to stories of him doing stupid things.

She laughed at his idiotic behaviors. Every time he turned to her to return her smile, her heart skipped a beat. She turned back to stare at the ceiling right away. She needed to calm down or sleep would never come to her. Soon, the talking died down as the man had fell asleep. She turned to her side, head resting on her folded hands, watching him sleep peacefully under the moon light. She loved watching his face, so relaxed while deep in sleep. Then she closed her own eyes, and the smile never left her face, listening to his light breathing until she succumbed to sleep as well.

Getting out of bed, she started her day like the day before. From the experience she had yesterday, she needed to be super early or super late at night if she wanted to use the bathroom alone. Of course she could use Tink's bathroom but it would be a bit far away.

"Shit." The milk got spilled on her shirt when her mind traveling through the memories of the past few days. She was having her breakfast in the room after her trip to the bathroom. She tried to clean it with the towel in hand but that didn't change the fact that she needed a new shirt. She didn't want to go back to the bathroom because it would be crowded now. Without better option, she took off her shirt in the room to change it.

Just her luck, someone opened the door when she was naked from the waist above. She swiftly grabbed the blanket from the bed and draped it over her shoulders to cover her body before Emmett could see anything.

"Why are you holding the blanket?" Emmett asked curiously while grabbing books from the shelf.

Seeing Regina had not moved from her spot, Emmett walked to her, putting down the books on the table on his way. Regina walked backwards until her back hit the wall. Her grip on the blanket got tighten. When he reached out his hand to her, she was about to kick him in the crotch to protect herself.

"Are you alright?" He extended his palm to check her forehead then her cheek. "No, not fever."

The warmth of his touch lingered on her face. Startled at his caring touches, she let her composure slipped and gasped. Regina cleared her throat as she tried to regain her compose.

"I am fine. I am just changing my clothes."

"Then why are you still holding the blanket? Hurry, the class is about to start." Emmett pulled the blanket from her and Regina tightened her hold, struggling to keep the blanket.

"I like to get change in private." She said anxiously.

She rose her left perfectly defined eyebrow at him when Emmett didn't release the blanket right away. Her head nodded to the door, signaling him to leave.

"Oh, okay."

That seemed strange but okay, maybe rich people did that. He didn't know what difference would it make if he changed his shirt in private since they were both men. But that was none of his business and he didn't really care. So after the blonde raised an eyebrow at her and shrugged it off with his shoulders, he released her blanket. He walked around the room to gather their books as he intended to do before he entered the room.

"I will see you in the classroom then." Emmett said and gave her a smile before walking outside, closing the door behind him.

Regina exhaled a breath of relief. Was it wrong to share the room with him? No, that was the right thing to do. But, she didn't know how to tell Tink about it.

[x]

Her brows fell into deep furrow as Regina tilted her head. She stared at the man, his mouth moving, hissing out words that she did not understand.

No, she knew the meaning of every words her teacher said but after combining it, it made no sense to her. She was lost. She didn't understand a single thing he was saying. She hadn't heard of anything about this subject before.

Emmett seemed to notice her trouble, he slid his notes to her.

"I can help you if you want." Looking at her, Emmett told her with a smile.

She read the notes and it was surprisingly good. It was well organized, neat and easy to read. She read pages of the notes and found that all the main points were captured. She was starting to understand a bit of the class by reading the notes from its very beginning.

The school bell rang for lunch and all the students hurried towards the doors. Emmett got up from his seat, stretching his arms.

"Finally." He muttered.

Regina had been reading the notes the entire class. His voice brought her back to the present. She looked up from the notes and turned right to Emmett.

"Lunch already?" Regina asked.

His smile was embarrassed as his stomach growled audibly right after her question.

"Yeah. I am hungry." Emmett answered, blushing while rubbing his stomach.

[x]

"Good afternoon, Miss Fisher." Emmett said cordially.

"Emmett, I told you to call me Sarah."

"Good afternoon, Sarah." He said with a bright smile.

"Good afternoon, Emmett." Sarah returned his smile.

Sarah Fisher was the one and only female faculty in this college. She was the part time kitchen staff who adored Emmett. She liked his personality, nice, charming and hardworking. She also had a weakness for his heart-melting smile.

Emmett adored Miss Fisher, too. When she was on duty, Emmett would always get a big meal for lunch instead of the leftover.

Standing beside Emmett, Regina grimaces at the sight of the greasy food, watching in disgust as the beautiful woman in front of them filled up Emmett's plate with a large pile of unhealthy food. She could not believe anyone would like to eat that until she turned to look at the boy.

His eyes widened and sparkling with happiness, like a child about to get his sweets.

"You like eating that?" Regina asked him with a disgusted face. She didn't know how he can maintain his toned body eating all these fat, greasy foods.

"These are Emmett's favorite food." Sarah answered her with a chuckle. "Who are you? I haven't seen you before."

"He is Daniel. The new student and my best friend." Emmett answered proudly while receiving the plate from Sarah. "Thank you, Sarah." He said with a thankful smile. Emmett nodded his head to thank her again before leaving. She caught him smiling brightly at his lunch on his way out, satisfied at the meal.

Sarah gave Regina a look over.

"Look at you, you are too thin and short. You need to eat more."

"No. No. No. I am not eating that."

"I am not gonna give you those greasy foods. How about some vegetables and chicken meat?"

"Yes, thank you."

Grabbing her plate, she turned and saw Emmett had already sat down in one of the table, across from Tink. Bright smiles on their face as they talked enthusiastically. Watching them talking and smiling to each other, she had this strange feeling stirring in her chest. She walked to them and sat down besides Tink.

"Hello, Regina." Tink greeted, still smiling.

"'s brother, Daniel." Regina added. Tink looked down to her plate, avoiding her glare.

Regina looked at Emmett to see if he caught the slip. The answer was no. He was too busy preparing to devour his lunch, oblivious to the world surrounding him.

"Shall we?" Regina asked once she picked up the spoon.

Once again, he was shoving his lunch down his throat like he hadn't been eaten for days. He was starving. He was just waiting for everyone to be ready. He was like the most furious competitor in the race, already gotten the 'On your mark' signal. He had crouched down on the line with his bum in the air, waiting for the starter pistol fire.

"He's cute." Tink leaned close to her and whispered.

"He's not." Regina said, annoyed at her comment. She didn't know why, but Tink feeling the same as her about the blonde was bothering her.

"Don't act like you are not attracted to him."

"I am not."

Tink lifted her left unamused eyebrow at Regina.

"I mean, look at him." Regina tried to defend herself, hands stretching in front of her to present the man sitting across from them to support her counter argument.

"He's stuffing his face with his lunch like a chipmunk." Which Regina found it to be extremely cute.

"Sorry." The chipmunk apologized.

Since Regina was no longer whispering, he could hear what she said. He swallowed the food in his mouth, then wiped his mouth clean. He started eating like a gentleman instead of a chipmunk, slower and politer.

"He's totally your type." Tink said in her ear. They were back to the whispering.

"No." Regina insisted, still denying her attraction to the blonde.

"You always drawn to good looking blondes."

"I don't like blonde."

"Really? I am blonde and you like me."

Regina rolled her eyes at the unblushing statement.

"I am going to town tomorrow. Is there anything you want me to buy for you?" Emmett asked them, smiling contently from finishing the big meal. Today was a good day for him, not much work and a big lunch. Despite he had slowed down in the middle of it, he could still finish his meal in record time.

"Going to town?" Regina asked, interested from the information.

"Yeah, to buy some supplies for the college." Emmett then asked his classmate with hopeful eyes. "You want to come with me? It could be fun."

"If you insist." she said while shrugging, still acting like she wasn't interested in the blonde man in front of her friend.

"Yes." He replied, giving Regina a charming smile that made her heart flutter and saw butterflies.

Her reaction to the smile was not lost to Tink. She liked his smile, too. But she would not stare at him like Regina did.

"I know the best bakery in town. They sell the most delicious apple pie ever. You must try them." He told her excitedly.

"Sure." Regina answered with equal excitement because she was eager to have their little adventure.

"You want to come as well?" Emmett asked Tink with the same amount of eagerness.

"Nah." Tink rejected with a shake of head.

"Okay." Emmett shrugged.

"I don't want to be the third wheel here." Tink whispered in her ear again.

Regina not so accidentally step on Tink's foot elicited a scream from the injured girl.

"Are you okay?" he asked the girl in pain worriedly.

"Yes." She answered after receiving a scowl from her friend. "I just remembering something."

"What is it?"

"Regina loves apple pie."

"She does?" Emmett asked, happy that he had something in common with the brunette.

"Yes." She said while nodding.

"Daniel, we must buy her some then. I am sure she will love them because they taste really good. Like really good." Emmett told his best friend, closing his eyes at the end of the sentence and smiling as he was lingering at the memories of tasting the tasty dessert.

"Of course." Tink confirmed, then lowered her voice to mutter. "Regina will love whatever you give her."

Regina gave her a side eye as she said "Eat your lunch, Tink."

[x]

"So, I heard you said you just had your birthday last night." Regina asked.

"Yes, I am 18 now." Emmett said proudly.

After lunch, they decided to have a walk around the playground since the class would not start for another thirty minutes. Tink had used some lame excuses to leave them alone, said her lunch was too much for her and now she was too full to do anything for the next few hours.

"Enjoy your date with the chipmunk." Tink had told Regina before the maid ran from her friend's attack.

"My birthday is the day before yesterday. The day I met you and your sister."

"Oh. You've had quite a birthday." Quite a birthday she gave him. The bruises were still visible on his face and arms. She had been regretting that she had hit him that hard, leaving all these marks on his beautiful face.

"Meeting you two is the best birthday present I got this year." Emmett said sincerely.

"Even though we hit you."

"Yes."

"Because you don't have any presents this year."

"You got me." He laughed.

They sat down on a nearby bench, watching their classmates played catch. The young man in the middle was blindfolded, and had to catch the others. Before he could start, the blindfolded person was being spun around until he was disoriented.

A sudden breeze brew through the air. October weather was setting in, and at the open area like the playground, it could be quite cold. Regina shivered as she felt the cold breeze sweep over her. However, she didn't have her coat with her. She had rushed out of the room that morning so she wouldn't be late for class. She shivered again when she felt another cool breeze blow past them.

"Are you cold? You can have my coat." Emmett took off his coat right away and hand it over to her.

"Thanks."

She put on the coat which was a bit too big for her. She felt warm and comfortable wearing it.

"Having trouble at class this morning?"

She nodded sadly.

"I understand it could be hard for you to catch up as you just transferred here. It may take some time to settle in. But I believe you will overcome it eventually. Don't worry."

"Thank you."

"I can help you to catch up in classes." Emmett smiled at her.

"That would be great." Regina gave him a grateful smile.

After several moments of silence, Emmett turned his head to his left again to ask her.

"When is your birthday?"

"6th March."

Emmett nodded his head while he calculated.

"That would be around 4 mouths from today."

"Right." She answered absentminded.

Emmett looked at her, stared into her beautiful chocolate brown eyes, and she stared back at him, neither moving or making a sound. Regina felt like his green eyes can stare into her soul.

"How come you two have the same eyes?" He asked softly.

"We're twins, what do you expect?" She answered with a tight smile.

"You two have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen." Emmett breathed, getting lost in those eyes again.

Regina blushed at the words that were directed at her. Her heart was thumping like crazy, and she was getting all flustered. She stood up abruptly and started walking back to the classroom.

Her reaction snapped him out of the trance, he followed her silently, not understanding what just happened.

The grabbing hands were reaching for Regina when Emmett pulled her by the wrist and kept her behind him. The grabbing hands of the blindfolded person reached for Emmett instead. He felt Emmett's face and body, like he was trying to guess who he is.

"I am Emmett, Killian. Go catch someone else."

Killian yanked off the blindfold, looked at the man in front of him.

Was that a yearning look? How could he? No, why would he look at Emmett like that?

Regina felt like she should stop this- thing. Nothing had actually happened but she felt like she couldn't stand it anymore. It felt like ages to Regina even through the whole exchange just lasted for a few seconds only.

"Emmett, let's go. The class is about to start." Regina didn't know the time actually but she had to get her best friend away as soon as possible. She pulled on his arm, trying to get him to walk with her.

"Okay." Emmett answered, still oblivious to what just happened.