AN: friendly reminder English is not my first language, so I'm sorry for the mistakes you may find. Also the educational structure is different than mine, so I'm kind of making it up as I go trying to get it to be as realistic as possible.


The second her alarm rang, Regina turned it off and smiled as she stretched in her bed. It took her a moment to realize she wasn't in her bed anymore. She opened her eyes and saw the other bed; Emma was lying sprawled on her stomach, facing away from her, but her arm was hanging out of the bed. It looked like the most uncomfortable position ever, but she could hear the deep breathing of the other girl from her own bed.

She rolled her eyes and got up, pulling out the uniform out of the closet and hanging it in the door before heading inside the bathroom. A few minutes later, she heard banging on the bathroom door.

"Please, open up," she heard Emma's muffled voice from the other side.

"Wait for your turn," Regina shouted, her hand reaching for the shower.

There was banging on the door again. "Regina please, I gotta pee. It'll be quick."

"You should have thought it earlier. I'm about to get a shower," Regina argued with the door, crossing her arms.

She heard grunting and a loud thump against the door. "It'll be a minute. God, it won't kill you," she heard closer now, as if Emma was leaning her head on the door.

Regina glared at the door and finally sighed, turning off the shower. She opened the door abruptly and Emma fell forward over her. When they managed to switch places, Regina stared at her, "One minute."

Emma closed the door in her face and Regina clenched her fists. She had a routine, every morning the same. Shower, dress up, breakfast, class. Everything on its perfect time. And now Emma was just messing the routine up.

She crossed her arms as she waited, looking at the bathroom door. When a minute passed, she let it go and gave her another minute, but when she suddenly heard the shower running Regina opened her eyes wide.

"Emma!" she knocked on the door.

"Just a minute!" she heard beneath the sound of the water running.

Regina grunted and stared at the door, "I'm never letting you in again!" When she got no answer, she decided to take a breath and move onto other things. She made her bed and checked her bagpack was all set, and finally Emma opened the door, letting out the steam.

"I hope you didn't waste all the hot water," Regina glared at her before entering the bathroom and closing the door behind her a little too loudly. Finally on her schedule again, she took a breath and got into the shower, determined to not to let her morning be disturbed.

The shower had relaxed her and when Regina left the bathroom with a smile, it faded when she saw Emma wearing her uniform. "What are you doing?" she stared in horror how Emma was stretching her shirt on the back.

The blonde looked up and blinked, unaware of what she meant. "That's my uniform."

Realization hit Emma's features as she opened her mouth, "Oh that makes sense. I thought I had gotten the size wrong. Sorry, I'll take it off." She started to unbutton her shirt and Regina rolled her eyes before looking away.

"God, just grab yours and change in the bathroom."

Emma laughed softly and Regina looked at her, "You don't like to see flesh. Noted." She got her uniform and disappeared behind the door again. Shortly later, she appeared and let Regina in to change. When both of them were done, Regina grabbed her bagpack to leave and Emma followed her.

"Hey I know we started on the wrong foot. Let me buy you breakfast to make up for all the tripping and the uniform and…," she scratched the back of her head and smiled, "And the key last night."

Regina stared at her, "It's okay. I can buy my own breakfast." She kept walking but Emma didn't stop.

"I know you can. I just want to," she insisted.

Regina stopped and turned to look at her, "Just grab your key and leave me be the first to the bathroom in the mornings and we're even."

Emma narrowed her eyes, "But what if I really need to pee?"

Crossing her arms, Regina lifted on eyebrow, "Like this morning?" Emma smiled and sighed, holding out her hand.

"Okay. With one condition: we take turns to be the first to the bathroom." Regina eyed her hand and considered ignoring it, but in the end she shook it, satisfied with the deal.

"Hey Regina!" they heard behind them, and they turned to find Kathryn. Regina smiled and Emma just stared. "I was just about to get breakfast. Wanna join?"

"Sure," she said entering the dining room and leaving Emma behind. Kathryn pointed back and frowned.

"Did I interrupt something important?"

"Emma?" Regina waved her hand, "No, it wasn't important. So tell me, did you get Frederick's number?"

Kathryn started to tell her all about the previous night, after Regina had left while she listened to her new friend, unaware of Emma's frown as she watched the two girls walking away.


Regina was a person of methods. She liked to be in control of everything, because that way there wouldn't be any unwanted surprises. That's why she was rushing into her room anxiously when she should be at the first class. When she opened the door, she saw Emma on her bed, reading a book, and she lifted her gaze from it as she entered the room.

"Have you seen my schedule?!" Regina almost yelled. Emma stared at her, watching how Regina didn't wait for an answer and started to empty her bag on her bed. "It has to be here. I know I put it in yesterday."

Emma glanced at the desk and noticed the schedule hung in front of it and her lips drew a smile. She closed the book and sat on the edge of her bed. "Is it all colourful, with the words Regina's Schedule on the top?"

Regina turned to look at her, "Yes! Have you seen it?"

Emma looked at the desk, containing her laugh, and Regina followed her gaze until she saw what she was looking for right in front of her. She snatched it and released a breath, looking down at it.

"With your sense of control I'd thought you'd known which classes you have by now," Emma sneered.

Regina shot her a glare, "Shouldn't you be at class too?"

"It's still 8:15. We still have time, relax." She laid back on her hands and closed her eyes.

Regina rolled her eyes and grabbed her bag, "It's past 9 already, you idiot. We're late."

Suddenly Emma opened her eyes and jumped from the bed, "What? But my clock says…," she glanced at her watch and opened her eyes wide. "Shit. I can't mess it up this time." Regina watched her collect her things and both of them hurried out of their room.

"Which class should you been at?" she asked as they made their way out of the dorm.

"Biology," Regina grimaced; she didn't like to see Mary Margaret first thing in the morning. For some reason she didn't like all that 'good teacher' pose she had.

"Cool. Me too," Emma smiled. "Race you! The first one gets the first turn tomorrow morning."

She took off, running towards their class, leaving Regina dumbfounded. Reacting a little late, she took off too. She'd be damned if she let Emma get the first turn two mornings on a row.

Regina caught up with Emma, but arrived at the same time to the door. Emma smiled at her breathlessly, "I wouldn't have guessed you have it in you. I had a hard time keeping up with you."

"Well, you should know who you're dealing with before challenging someone to a race," Regina said as breathlessly as the other girl, holding her head high and fixing her hair.

"It was a tie though, so we'll have to rock, paper, scissors it," Emma shrugged.

"Or even better, I get to be first tomorrow because you had it today."

Emma rolled her eyes as she reached for the doorknob, "You're no fun."

Regina was ready to retort but as the door opened everyone turned their heads to look at them. She cleared her throat and pulled her better innocent smile. "I'm sorry, Mary Margaret. We got lost and couldn't find the classroom. May we come in?"

The teacher smiled warmly and nodded, "Of course, it usually happens. And please, call me Snow."

Regina nodded and entered the class, Emma following her behind. She noticed there was only one free table and concealed the groan as she realized she would have to share the table with Emma.

"I just told the rest of your classmates that, for environmental reasons, this year we're limiting the number of books, so every lab couple will have to share a book." Snow left a book in their table and turned to come back to the front of the class to keep teaching the lesson.

Regina pulled out a notebook and grabbed the book, opening it by the page Snow was teaching about. "So," Emma whispered. "Lab partners."

Not looking away from the whiteboard, Regina raised her eyebrows, "Yes. I don't seem to get rid of you, Miss Swan."

"Miss Swan? What are you? My boss?" Emma laughed softly, earning a glare from Regina, but that didn't falter her smile. Regina only hushed her and Emma rolled her eyes. She watched by the corner of her eyes how Emma just leaned her chin on her hand and listened, not making any notes, and her lips curled in disapproval.


When the lesson finished, they left the classroom and found Ruby outside waiting for Emma. "Hey Ems, hey Regina."

Regina nodded and smiled politely, but as Emma started to talk to her friend, she took the chance to escape the blonde. She was infuriating, but there was something about her that made Regina's curiosity surface. During the whole lesson all Emma had done was sit there and watch Snow. To Regina's eyes it seemed like if she wasn't even paying attention but when Snow made a question, Emma quickly raised her hand and answered correctly, entering into a conversation about bacteria with the teacher.

It had surprised Regina how Emma seemed to actually listen and learn as much as she had done taking notes. The bell interrupted the conversation and also Regina's trance, realising she had been staring at Emma all the time.

When the teacher dismissed them, her partner turned to look at her with a smirk, "You almost made a hole in my face with your stare."

And that definitely broke it. Regina rolled her eyes and gathered her things, grabbing the book as well. "Since you seem to lack of any bag, I'll take it for now," she murmured as they stood.

"Okay, but take care of our baby." Regina stopped her tracks and blinked at Emma, who laughed when she saw the expression on her face. That was when they had found Ruby, and Regina was glad to have a moment to herself. She had an hour and a half of debate ahead and she doubted Emma had picked that class.

As she made her way into the classroom, she caught a glimpse of a different blonde. "Kathryn," she called.

Kathryn turned and smiled at her, "Regina! Come here, this place is free." Regina took a seat next to her and started a conversation, but she was cut off when she heard Emma's voice.

She turned and saw her entering the room along with Ruby, taking seats in the back of the class, "Oh God, no."

"What is it?" Kathryn asked following her gaze. "Oh, that's your roommate, right?"

Regina sighed, "Yes. She's everywhere; I can't get rid of her."

"I thought you guys got along. You know, this morning you seemed okay."

"She's infuriating. Always with that smugness all over her," Regina growled as she turned back to the front. "It's like nothing got to her."

"You barely know her. Perhaps all you need to do is get to know each other," Kathryn offered. Regina looked at her and considered it. True, she knew nothing about Emma Swan, but as she shot another glance at her and saw her loudly laughing with Ruby, she shook her head.

"I don't think that would make it better."

The door closed and everyone turned to see a small man struggling to hold a stack of papers, an umbrella and his coat. "Good morning class. I'm sorry I got a little late. I'm Archie, your debate teacher." He managed to get to his desk in one piece and dropped everything on it, releasing a sigh.

"Okay, so I know you're expecting this class to be all politics and economics and such, but I've got something better. If you're able to debate seriously about, let's say, what's better between ketchup and mayo, you'll be able to defend any topic. So that's the line of this class. Now," he pulled out a list and eyed it. "Regina Mills?"

Regina straightened her back in her chair, "Yes?"

He smiled at her, "Please come up to the stage, as I like to call it. You'll defend that dolphins are better than sharks. Now for the sharks' side we have," he eyed the list and stopped near the end. He looked up and Regina's heart skipped a beat when he said the name, "Emma Swan?"

Emma hopped next to Regina, behind her lectern. "Hello again. Fate seems to keep throwing us together," she smiled in a way Regina thought was meant to be charming.

She rolled her eyes. "More like bad karma," she murmured to herself.

"Okay, so Regina, you go first then Emma you can reply to her. Ready?" The two girls nodded and he lowered his hand, "Go."