Chapter three
"Why are you brooding?" Zelena asked with a small laugh as she walked into her sister's room.
"I'm not brooding, I'm studying," Regina replied despondently.
The older girl raised her eyebrow before she walked over to the brunette and turned the book she was reading around.
Regina blinked a few times, before she sighed and threw the book aside, "I'm fine," she tried unconvincingly.
Zelena sat on the end of the bed and just waited.
Just as she predicted, her sister continued, "I mean I never realised that Daniel was such a jackass, but I'm fine."
"What did he do?"
"He called Emma a retard," she mumbled.
Zelena smiled slightly, she never liked the fact that her little sister was living in such a cliché relationship, and if she were honest, it was adorable how much Regina smiled after each of her study sessions.
"He's just jealous," Zelena said as casually as possible.
Regina shot up and looked at her older sister with narrowed eyes, "what are you talking about?"
"You like Emma and he can't handle the rejection."
Regina shook her head and said adamantly, "I am not gay!"
"How can you possibly be homophobic?"
"I'm not homophobic, I'm just not gay and neither is she," Regina replied with all of the conviction she could muster.
"Stop fighting it, Gina," Zelena laughed, "try and tell me that you don't want her in that way."
"I…don't, we're barely even friends."
"Right," she replied disbelievingly.
"Why are you in here anyway?"
"Because I care about my little sister," she replied with a hand over her heart.
Regina tilted her head, and Zelena added, "plus mom told me to get you for dinner."
Emma yawned and continued to look at her AP English book.
She was used to spending her free period alone in the library, but now she had gotten used to studying with Regina. She pretended that it didn't hurt when Regina had texted her and said that she wanted to spend time with Daniel. Each time they were apart, Emma had to desperately remind herself that Regina had a boyfriend, meaning she was straight, and she probably had no idea that the blonde was even gay.
Letting out a small puff of air, she turned the page and continued to pretend to read about story structure.
Someone fell into the chair opposite her and she instantly rolled her eyes. Thankfully this didn't happen as often as it once did, but it still irritated her when it did happen.
Looking up over her book, she saw Daniel sitting with Killian and Robin standing behind him.
The blonde just gave them a questioning look and made to pick her book back up.
"What did you do to Regina?" Daniel asked.
Emma rolled her eyes and grabbed a post-it note and handed it to him a moment later saying simply, 'nothing'.
"Then why would she rather spend time with you then me?"
'Because you talk too much?" she wrote down and passed to him.
He instantly crumpled up the post-it note and threw it over his shoulder, "look you little freak, stay away from my girlfriend or you'll regret it."
Emma just raised her eyebrows not even showing the slightest bit of fear, she couldn't help but wonder whether Daniel realised he was the most non-threatening bully she had ever had the displeasure of listening to.
She simply shook her head and Daniel's nostrils flared.
Standing he said, "Look you little retard…"
"Daniel!"
The colour drained from the footballer's face and he looked up to see Regina approaching the table.
"Regina, I was just…"
The brunette instantly held up her hand and said, "what the hell is wrong with you?"
"She was taking you away from me," he said almost pathetically.
"Actually she's just my tutor, you're the one who pushed me away by being a complete and utter moron," she almost growled.
"But…"
"No, Daniel, we're done, now leave Emma and I alone to study."
Tears shimmered in the boy's eyes, but with his friends behind him, he adamantly refused to allow them to fall and just stormed off like a child, closely followed by his fellow footballers.
Regina let out a sigh and fell into the chair next to the blonde, "sorry about him."
Emma hand her a post-it and the brunette looked down at it, 'no worries, are you alright?'
"I'll be fine," she replied, "sorry I cancelled our study session, is it too late to salvage?"
Emma looked down at her watch and showed her that they only had ten minutes left and for a moment she could have sworn she saw regret pass across the brunette's face.
'We'll just carry on tomorrow," Emma wrote with an endearing smile.
Regina suddenly remembered that she had cancelled that night's study session because she was supposed to be going out with Daniel and she felt a rush of relief as she realised that she was actually completely free.
"I'm free tonight," she said after a moment of hesitation. Emma furrowed her brow and Regina quickly held up her hands, "I understand that you probably want a break from constantly studying, I was thinking maybe we could just watch a movie…to say thank you for all your help."
The bell rang and Regina quickly stood up, "can you come to my house at the normal time?"
Emma quickly nodded and watched the other girl walk away. Dropping her pen, she fell back in her seat and smiled broadly.
"What is wrong with you?" Zelena asked and placed her hands on the smaller girl's shoulders to stop her frantic pacing.
Regina looked up the red head and sighed, "I broke up with Daniel."
"So…you're pacing because you want to get back together with him?"
"No," Regina replied instantly, "I'm pacing because I invited Emma over."
"She comes here almost every day, what's the problem?" Zelena laughed with a huge grin because she had an idea what the problem was.
"I asked her to come and watch a movie."
"Is that really something you do with someone who you're 'barely friends' with?" Zelena teased.
Regina narrowed her eyes at her, "I do not like her in that way, Daniel called her a retard to her face so I wanted to do something to say sorry."
"Did she really looked bothered by his comment?"
Regina bit her lip and remembered Emma's calm expression and she fell onto her bed realising that the blonde was probably used to it.
"No…okay so maybe I want to be her friend, but that's it."
"Okay, whatever you say," Zelena muttered and began to walk away.
Regina quickly grabbed her arm and said, "what should I wear?"
A/N Hope you guys enjoyed XD I would love to hear what you thought
