Title: Tale IV
Prompt: "Make Believe"
Character(s): Henry and Regina Mills
He feels her coming before she's even up the stairs. Swallowing the knot in his throat, Henry busied himself with looking presentable for school and collecting his bag as her heels click-clocked angrily up the stairs toward his bedroom. The air grew still, she entered the room, fabled book clutched between her hands. "Where are the other pages?" She demanded, furrowed eyebrows meeting in the center of her head. Henry kept the self-satisfied grin from his face as he remembered Emma throwing the hijacked pages from the book into the fire. Watching them curl into oblivion with no chance of revival simply made Regina's frustration amusing to him.
With a shrug he simply said, "It's an old book, pages go missing all the time." And truth be told, it did. Every other book Miss Blanchard gave her class had at least one missing or torn page, the sloppy manner in which he removed the identity of his mother added to the authenticity of his statement. "And what do you care? Its all "make believe", remember?"
Regina stared him like she'd been insulted.
Pulling the strap of his backpack further up his shoulder, he brushed past her, hoping his dismissive behavior was every bit as biting as he meant to be.
