Killian and Emma walked through the front door of their house and Killian inhaled the savory scent of pot roast dramatically.
"Ah! That has to be almost done. I wonder if Raelynne's home yet."
"She should be; school ended about an hour ago."
"I'll go see if she's up in her room." Killian walked up the stairs to where everyone's bedrooms resided.
In front of Kaitlyn's twin's room, a black cat with glowing green eyes was scratching at the closed door meowing up a storm.
Killian drew his eyebrows together then knocked on his daughter's door.
"Raelynne, honey? Bonny wants to come in."
No answer.
"Raelynne?" Killian knocked on the door again, "Sweetheart?"
Again no answer.
Killian turned the knob and opened the door.
There on her bed with her head stuck under her pillow Raelynne laid on her stomach. Bonny meowed gleefully and trotted over to her bed and hopped up on it purring.
"Raelynne, what wrong?" Killian walked over to her bed and sat on the edge.
"Go away," Raelynne said tearfully.
His eyebrows shot up. Raelynne had never said anything like that to him before. She was unlike her sister in every other way including how she spoke to people. Something was wrong.
"What happened."
"Nothing."
"Well, it's obviously something to have you sticking your head under your pillow crying."
Raelynne pulled her pillow off of her head and sat up and began petting her demanding cat. Her eyes were red and her face was tear streaked from crying. Killian felt his heart tug at the state of his little girl. She looked at him pleadingly as Emma appeared in the doorway.
"Promise you won't kill anybody, Daddy?"
Killian felt his over protective father senses kick in.
"Depends. Who hurt you?"
Raelynne looked down to Bonny who had settled into the nook of her crossed legs. Emma walked in and placed her hands on their daughter's shoulders.
"Adrian and I broke up."
"What?" Killian and Emma said in unison. "Why?"
Raelynne rubbed the tip of her finger over Bonny's head.
"I was walking from chemistry to history when I caught Adrian…kissing another girl."
Killian drew in a sharp breath and suddenly wished he had his hook on hand.
"He was doing what?"
"Who was it he was kissing?"
"Clair Booth."
"Isn't she a freshman?" Killian raised an eyebrow.
"Yes. Dad, please don't kill him!" She looked up at him with wide blue eyes.
Killian drummed his fingers on the bed, already thinking up creative torture methods for the boy who had broken his daughter's heart.
"I'll restrain myself from slaughtering him on sight when I see him next."
"Thank-you."
"Did you honestly think I'd kill him?"
"I wasn't sure. No one's ever cheated on any of your daughters before."
Killian tilted his head.
"True."
"Please don't torture him and make it look like an accident either."
He sighed.
"Well there goes my master plan. But I'll comfort myself knowing that his parents are probably taking care of that for me."
Victor and Ruby Frankenstein narrowed their eyes at their son.
Adrian laughed nervously.
"Come on, Dad! I thought you'd say 'That's my boy', for scoring a kiss with a freshman. Eh, heh."
Victor rolled his eyes.
"He is my son, isn't he?" He asked his wife while looking the other way.
"Yes. He is." Ruby agreed.
"Unfortunately."
"Uh huh."
Adrian's nervous smile disappeared as his father looked at him.
"Why in the world do you think I would condone you cheating on your girlfriend?"
Adrian groaned.
"I wasn't happy, Dad. She was too…boring. Too sweet. Too nice. Too much let's-try-and-help-this-person-out-Adrian. It wore on me after a while. I wanted something else."
Victor covered his eyes.
"If that's how you felt, then why didn't you break up with her before you tried to steal a kiss with Clair Booth?"
Adrian shrugged.
"I don't know. I just did. We were talking, she was right there in front of me and…it just happened. Unfortunately, you-know-who was walking by at that exact moment."
Ruby shook her head in disappointed.
"And her heart is broken for two reasons now instead of just one. And did you really just break Captain Hook's daughter's heart?"
A deer-in-the-headlights look developed on their son's face as it just dawned on him of what he had just done.
"Congratulations, son. The only worst thing you could have done was cheat on Rumpelstilskin's daughter. But if Mr. Jones doesn't try to thrash you, I will." Ruby knelt down until she was leveled with Adrian sitting on his chair, "It's the first night of the full moon, buddy. So you'd better watch your back tonight."
Adrian snapped his head up to his father for support who was found instead nodding in agreement with his wife. Adrian groaned.
"Now get back up front, Adrian Gerhardt Frankenstein; we've got customers to take care of."
Adrian got up eying his mother suspiciously and went to the front of the diner to take care of the next customer. He smiled when he saw Annabeth Gold's little French blue hat sitting on top of her dark blonde hair.
"Good evening, Ms. Gold." He smiled flirtatiously and leaned in front of her on the counter. Annabeth looked up at him her smiled face guarded as she pulled out her little handbag.
"Hi, Adrian. I'm here to pick up that ice cream cake that my family's having for desert tonight." She fished for a ten dollar bill and a couple of ones.
Man, he loved her accent.
"Oh. Right." He walked to the refrigerator and opened the door. He took out the cake labeled Gold and brought it up front where Annabeth was waiting for him with $12.
"Here you go." She said crisply.
Adrian raised his eyebrows as he opened the cash register. Beautiful girls he never had a problem interacting with, and Annabeth was more distant than usual. She looked as if she couldn't wait to get away from his presence.
"I heard about you and Raelynne." She said.
Adrian subconsciously gulped.
"Oh. Right. That. You shouldn't believe everything you know. There's two sides to every story."
"Oh, I know. But there's only one of you two that has a problem with lying."
Adrian smiled nervously. Even when she said lying, her voice sounded like a melody.
"Eh, heh, heh." He handed her a penny, "1 cent is your change."
"Thank-you." Her voiced rose when she said you. "Have a nice day. No, wait. I hope you tremble with fear when Killian and/or Kaitlyn Jones comes for you." She nodded once, then left the store with her cake.
Adrian groaned then cover his face with his hands. He should've known how much this would backfired when he kissed Clair Booth.
The shop bell tinkled as Annabeth stormed through the door.
The nerve of that-that-oh she wasn't even going to think it!
Behind the desk her father raised an eyebrow at her stormy expression.
"Stressful outing, sweetheart?"
"I guess you might say that." Annabeth walked by him into the kitchen in the back of the shop.
"Ah, there you are, love." Her mother turned to her from the stove, "What's wrong."
"Well," Annabeth whipped off her hat and hung it on the stand then set the cake on the counter, "Adrian Frankenstein broke up-no wait, cheated on Raelynne Jones, and you know what he was just doing? Flirting with me as I'm trying to get desert for tonight! The nerve of that guy!" She took off her blue and black coat and hung it beneath her hat then crossed her arms. "Needless to say, I won't be sorry when or if I hear that he got a thrashing from Killian Jones himself!" With that, she walked off to go up into her bedroom.
Belle watched her daughter storm off then looked to the doorway as her husband peeked through.
"Everything okay?"
"Oh," Belle gave a short laugh, "Teenaged drama."
"Ah." Rumple nodded, "Well, if you don't mind, I'll stay in front of the store avoiding it." He smiled at her before leaving and Belle turned back to the chicken dinner.
