AN: quick update. In goes the angst.

Regina froze. Perhaps she had heard wrong? Emma was whispering after all and she had lowered her voice even more when she had added that last sentence. Regina watched her red cheeks on her reflection and was stunned to find she wanted to have heard right.

She didn't hear Ruby's answer nor what came after, she just stood there, her hair still half wet and the towel on her hand. What could she do now? Should she act like she hadn't heard? Or perhaps she should say something about it. But what?

Regina waited, trying to calculate how much time had to pass before it was believable that she hadn't heard anything. She realized she had made the wrong calculations when someone knocked on the door.

"Regina, did you fall on the shower and die?" Emma said behind the door and Regina rolled her eyes at the lack of tact of her roommate.

"Still alive," she shouted as she gathered the strength to go out. She opened the door and Emma's eyebrows shot up.

"Thank God, you really take your time." Emma walked past Regina and closed the door behind her.

Regina frowned. For some reason Emma seemed upset at her; perhaps she knew she had overheard the conversation? Ruby smiled at Regina and waved a pen from Emma's bed, "So we meet again."

Eyeing the books displayed in front of her, she raised an eyebrow. "Trouble at maths?" she asked like if she hadn't already heard Ruby was there for help.

The girl nodded and sighed, "Yeah. Teachers may go all 'hey, we're cool' but it's the second day and they already gave us homework. Did you already finish it?"

"Yes, I finished at lunch. It was easy," she lied with a shrug. She hadn't had lunch because she couldn't solve the problems and she had been almost late to the next lesson. She wouldn't admit it out loud though; only Kathryn knew and that was because they had lunch together.

Emma appeared on the room and threw a glare at Ruby as she sat on her bed. Regina's lips tugged at one side. "No jumping anymore?" she noted.

But Emma wasn't in the mood, because she grabbed the book and only murmured, "Wouldn't want to break the mattress." Then she leaned next to Ruby and caught her attention before starting to explain a problem Regina could remember from when she had read it that same day.

Regina frowned at Emma's attitude. For once she hadn't done anything wrong—aside from the eavesdropping, but it's not like Emma knew she had done that. She doubted it was because Regina had spent too much time on the bathroom; Emma was childish sometimes but not that much.

Before she could do anything, there was a knock on the door. Emma looked up to her and their eyes locked. "Must be for you." And as fast as their gazes had found each other, Emma looked down again. She wasn't expecting anyone, but still Regina opened the door.

"Sis! It's been so long," Zelena exclaimed as she hugged her sister. Regina let her hug her really tight until she could feel her lungs complaining and cleared her throat.

"What are you doing here?" Regina asked once she was free. Zelena entered the room before being asked too.

"Is that a way to receive—oh, you've got company," she cut off with a smile when she saw the two girls on Emma's bed. "I remember you. You were at the party with her the other day."

Ruby stood from the bed and fixed her skirt, "Yeah." She held her hand, "I'm Ruby."

Zelena shook it, eyeing her without seeming to care the girl could see it. "Zelena. You're the roommate?"

"No," Emma cut in rising from the bed. "That would be me."

Eyeing her as well, she shook the hand Emma held out. "Then it's you who I have to offer my condolences," she chuckled.

"Zelena!" Regina protested behind her, but Emma laughed at the joke.

"Yeah, but I think I'm starting to get her."

Raising an eyebrow, Zelena's gaze traveled from Emma to Regina. "Are you now?" she asked Emma.

"Hardly," Regina replied instead. Emma just smiled at her, suddenly back at being smug around Regina. She narrowed her eyes; what on earth was she playing to? "What are you doing here?" she repeated to her sister.

Zelena smiled at Emma with pity and patted her shoulder before turning to Regina, "I thought perhaps we could have dinner and catch up. Now that we're at the same school again we can spend some time together."

For some reason Regina glanced at Emma and felt her stomach hurt when she noticed the blonde was back with Ruby, hovering over the book. She sighed and nodded to her sister, "Sure. Let me grab the card." After a wave from Ruby and a nod from Emma, Regina left the room with Zelena.

"What's with the long face?" she asked her and Regina looked up.

"What long face?"

Zelena frowned and pouted at the same time, "This face. You look like you just failed a test." Regina glared at her and Zelena nodded, "Well, if you had failed you would be crying by now."

Regina rolled her eyes, "I'm not pulling that face."

"You are," Zelena sang and Regina sighed; her sister knew her all too well.

"How do you know if you like someone?" she asked quietly and Zelena stopped to look at her.

"You like someone?" she exclaimed and Regina looked around, relieved when she saw there was no one near them.

"Did you even listen? I'm asking how do you know you like someone," she almost whispered as they made their way into the dining room. Zelena smiled and passed her arm around Regina. She hated that.

"Well, usually you want to spend a lot of time with them." Regina checked that mentally on the list. "You can't stop talking about them." Check. "Or thinking about them." Check. "You want to get to know them if you don't know yet." Check.

"Okay, stop. I think I get it," Regina stopped before the anxiety made her throw up in the middle of the dining room. She looked down at her plate and grimaced, not hungry anymore. Did she really like Emma? Ever since the girl had mentioned the kiss, she couldn't stop thinking about it. Kissing Emma's smugness off her lips; she'd like that.

"So, who is the lucky person?" Zelena asked, taking a seat next to Regina.

"You're foolish if you think I'm telling you. You're my sister."

"It's Emma, isn't it?" Zelena grinned and Regina spun around to look at her. She could've tried to hide the surprise, but it was too late now. "Oh my God, I called it. I just didn't really think it would take you only two days to fall in love with your roommate."

"I'm not in love."

"But you like her."

"I don't like her…" It sounded as weak for Regina as it did for Zelena, who looked at her pointedly. "…I don't know."

"She's pretty. You don't have such a bad taste after all. I thought I had lost you with Daniel," her sister commented as she devoured her salad. Regina looked down at hers and fiddled with the lettuce on her plate.

Emma was pretty, Regina knew from the moment their gazed had locked on the hallway on the first day, but she was so…Emma. "She may have mentioned she would kiss me," she mumbled quietly.

It was Zelena who spun around, "She did what? When? Why?"

Regina rolled her eyes, but she told her sister about how she had heard Emma and Ruby discussing that stupid game. Zelena nodded as she listened and then stared at Regina, "Then what are you waiting for?"

"What do you mean?" Regina frowned.

"What do I mean? She likes you, you like her. I know you're not good at maths but it's basic two and two makes you making out," Zelena pointed at her with her fork.

Regina felt her cheeks burn, "God Zelena, you're my sister. Don't tell me that."

Her sister rolled her eyes, "Oh come on, don't act so prude now. What do you have to lose?"

"Oh, I don't know. Everything?" Regina snarled suddenly. Her sister just didn't get it.

She didn't get it; she didn't get it was the first time she liked someone after Daniel, that when he had died in a car crash she had built a wall around her, and that Emma had somehow jumped over it only to pinch Regina with a stick at every chance she gets. She didn't get Regina was scared of her feelings developing any further that just liking Emma. Regina knew herself and she knew that once she was into it, there was no going back; when she loved, she did it strongly. Emma, however, just had said she would like to kiss Regina, and perhaps it was just that for her.

Regina stood, leaving the plate untouched, "I'm not hungry anymore. See you around."

"Regina," she heard a sigh from behind her but she didn't stop. She was in no mood. In the last hour she had been in a roller coaster of feelings and it was all because Emma damned Swan.

When she opened the door of her room, she found both beds empty. She checked the bathroom but Emma was nowhere in sight. Good, she thought. She didn't want to deal with her or anyone, so she laid on her bed and forced herself to focus on the book she was reading.

The last thing she remembered was reading the first page for the millionth time before falling asleep.