A/N – Hello lovelies. I am completely in love with this story right now. I am going to write that all so desired chapter very soon. I hope this satisfies your needs for now. Also as a warning, the story rating may be subject to change from T to M. Please don't forget to comment and review. EMMA'S VIEW.

Chapter 7: She's So High

"Oh god no, Emma. But I am not going to share my first kiss with you in my car, I want it to be something special." Her face seemed disappointed, but she understood why it had to be this way. She nodded and got out the car without saying another word. I watched her walk in, and then pulled away with thoughts only of her. When I got home, mother was working, which meant she didn't even realise that I was back. So I went up to bed, and dreamt of Emma.

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(1½ weeks after last chapter. Two days before Regina's birthday.)

Regina and I had been spending a lot of time together over the past couple of weeks. Catching each other before school at Granny's. Meeting up afterwards. We would sometimes head back out to that spot in the woods. I think that has somehow become our little special place for just us. She still refuses to let me drive her to school. She refuses to get into my car. Or go near it for that matter. She is convinced that it is a 'death trap'. And I haven't been able to stop thinking about the first time she dropped me back home. She wants the kiss to be special, I can understand that. But what I think she needs to realise is that what makes the kiss special is the person you're kissing. It has a little bit to do with where and how it is done, but the kiss itself is all about the person you are kissing. Maybe I was pushing to do something big, too soon. She might not be ready. We had barely known each other for two days, and I was practically throwing myself at her. She must think I am some kind of slut. What if she isn't even into women and she just wants to experiment? I guess I would be the right person to that with. I guess I do sort of come across as obvious. Maybe if I just give her some space and let her think things through. She could come around, or turn away just as fast.

"Emma? Hey Emma!" Ruby pulled me from my thoughts from my bedroom doorway. I wonder how long she had been standing there.

"Sorry Ruby. I was off on another planet. What's up?" She came over and sat down on the bed with me. She had a worried look in her eye.

"I was about to ask you the same thing. Are you alright, you haven't seemed yourself for a couple of days now. What's going on with you?"

"Just not used to this town yet. Still trying to get use to everything." It was a crappy lie, and she saw straight through it, I could tell. But she could tell I didn't want to discuss it, so she let the subject die there.

"Okay well listen, Mary-Margaret, Belle and myself were all going to head down to The Rabbit Hole for a few drinks. Do you want to join us? It might cheer you up a bit." She stared at me with a hopeful look in her eye. I opened my mouth to answer, but Ruby continued. "You can invite Regina if you want." Her voice was strained and the words came from her mouth as if someone was pulling them out through clenched teeth. I thought it over and decided against it.

"Sure I'll go out with you guys, but let's not bring Regina."

"Oh, are you two fighting?" Her voice had a subtle hint of glee about it, and I knew I had to knock her down a peg.

"Are you majorly crushing on Belle?" her face turned pale for a moment before anger showed in her eyes. "Don't cross me, I can read people like a book, no matter how closed they want to try and be." If looks could kill, I would be six feet under by now. "And for your information, we aren't fighting, I'm just trying to give her a bit of space. We spend almost every waking moment together. I think she might get a bit sick of me soon if I'm not careful."

"What are you going to do about her birthday in two days?"

"I don't know. I haven't even got her present yet. I don't know what to get her. Any bright ideas?" Ruby mulled it over for a second, then it was as if a switch flipped.

"What about getting her a fairy tale book?!"

"What are you talking about? Isn't that something you would get for a four year old?"

"No no no. Regina loves reading, especially fairy tales. She thinks it is sweet how people always find each other. However, the stories she really wants to read is the original fairy tales stories. You know where most characters died, or the character who was supposedly good, turns out to be a bad guy."

"Two things. One, how the hell do you know what she would want? And two, where the hell would I find a book like that, do you have any idea how rare those things can be?"

"I know what she wants because I used to work for her and she used to talk to me all the time. Some of what she said stuck. And didn't you say the other day that one of your families used to own a book shop. Wouldn't they have one of the books?"

"Oh yeah. Okay, I could give them a call. It couldn't hurt. At least they were one of the nice families. I guess some times moving around a lot does have its perks. And plus they don't actually live that far from here. Assuming they have one, I could go pick up tomorrow ready for Regina's birthday the following day."

"See, that wasn't so hard. Now. I am going to have a quick shower, I suggest you do the same." She really needs to learn when to shut up. "And then we are going to go pick Belle and Snow up."

"Snow?"

"Oh yeah, you don't know about Mary-Margaret's nickname. Basically, we always tell all these dirty jokes around each other, and she never got any of them. So she was always so innocent, and have you seen her? She might as well have stepped out of the story book this morning. She literally looks like Snow White. So rather than saying her long name, we all just call her Snow."

"Okay cool. Alright, you go get ready, and when are we leaving?"

"I was thinking around 7:30. It's only 6 now, so it gives us plenty of time."

"Fine by me. See you down in the diner at 7:30." She left the room without another word. This night could either be awesome, or horrible.

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"Okay, so I thought we could play a little game." Leave it to Ruby to take a good night out, and turn it into her own amusement. We had only been at the bar for 30 minute. We were barely even tipsy yet. At least I wasn't. Belle, was getting there. Snow hit the wall after her second shot. She was definitely the light weight of the group. Ruby hadn't even finished her first drink yet, but she was building up a decent buzz. I had already downed my third drink, and still holding strong.

"What did you have in mind?" Belle reminded me of someone who had a very posh upbringing, but she acted as though she grew up on the streets. She didn't care what people thought of her, and she always did what she wanted.

"I thought we could play truth or dare. Not the worst game we could play right?" Might as well jump in where I can.

"Guess not. Okay then Ruby, you want to play? Truth or dare?"

"Dare. Duh. Good luck getting me to choose truth." We all looked from one another, trying to think of something to get her to do. Snow was the first to speak out.

"I dare you to go up to Leroy, grab his ass, and then walk away without saying a word."

"Easy." She waltzed away, towards where Leroy was stood. His back was to her which meant she had a better chance of doing the dare. She grabbed his ass and with those nails I am surprised she didn't draw blood from stabbing him.

"Wow, hey. Watch it sister. I'm always up for a good play time, but you better make sure you know what you're getting into." I could tell even from across the room that Ruby was struggling to keep her mouth shut, but she wasn't allowed to say anything. So she clenched her jaw and strode back over to the table.

"Okay, maybe not so easy." We all burst out into laughter. As we started to settle down, the look on Ruby's face began to soften. "Okay, my turn. Belle. Truth or dare?" She took a second to choose. Clearly worried about what Ruby could ask, or have her do.

"Truth. At least that won't be physically humiliating."

"Okay, Belle. Out of us three," Ruby gestured to Snow, herself and me. "Who do you think is the hottest?"

"Oh come on, you have to make the questions at least a little bit hard. You of course." Maybe she was tipsier than I thought. That or she is bolder than I had originally assumed. However I don't think anyone was expecting that, least of all Ruby. She was going as red as a strawberry. And I could see that even in this rubbish lighting. "My turn to ask someone. Snow, seeing as you are off your head already, who at school do you see yourself being with?" Snow was as giddy as a child on Christmas. She couldn't stop smiling. It was quite funny to see. I was just glad that the girls hadn't asked me anything yet. I suck at lying.

"David Nolan." Snow exclaimed without even stopping to think about what she was saying.

"Wait, you want to go out with Charming!?" Ruby practically screamed over the entire bar.

"What? He's cute, and kind, and he really is a true gentleman. Sure he might have a slight sense of arrogance to him, but I can knock that out of him." She all looked at each other trying desperately not to laugh our butts off. Then my eyes caught hold of Ruby's and all I could see was that devious look she gets when she is trying to plan something.

"Emma. Truth or dare?" Oh shit. Ruby, I am going to kill you for this.

"What the hell. Dare." She seemed disappointed. She must have thought I would choose truth in the hopes of avoiding embarrassment. But then a spark grew back in her eyes, and I started to get scared.

"I dare you to unlock your phone and hand it over to me, and let me have it for 10 minutes." It sounded strange, but if I denied it, the girls would pick on me all night for it. Why did I agree to play this damn game? I pulled my phone from my pocket and handed it over to Ruby.

"I don't have a lock on my phone, I never saw the point, so you can just turn the screen on." She drove straight in and got to work on something. I couldn't see what she was doing, but she needed to get her phone out for a minute. As we continued playing the game, Ruby was on and off my phone the entire 10 minutes. I called time, and she reluctantly gave me my phone back. I looked through it trying to see what she had done to it. The first thing I did was check the photo albums. Nothing new there. Doesn't look like anything is missing either. I checked the internet history in case she tried to download or buy something. Again nothing. Then when I checked messages, my heart stopped, and I felt all the blood drain away from my face.

"Are you alright Emma?" Belle laid her hand on my forearm and brought me back to reality.

"You were texting Regina! Are you kidding me?!" I was fuming. Any angrier and I think steam would have been shooting out my ears. Ruby however found something to be very amusing. "What are you finding so funny?"

"Oh nothing. Have you actually read the text messages though?" Come to think of it, I hadn't looked at the messages yet. Maybe they aren't as bad as I could think. I opened the conversation up and scrolled to the first message.

Hey Regina, it's Emma. I hope it's okay, I got your number off Ruby.

Hello Emma. I didn't even realise Miss Lucas had my number, but it is quite alright.

Anyway, Snow, Belle, Ruby and I are down at The Rabbit Hole, and we were wondering if you wanted to come and join us.

I didn't even look at the answer before I jerked my head up to look at Ruby once again.

"I swear to god I am going to kill you."

"Keep reading." I did as she said and looked back down to the phone.

I'm afraid I can't make it. If my mother sees me leaving the house this late, she won't let me out the house at all for a week.

Well, that's a bummer, I was really hoping to see you before your birthday on Monday.

I'm sorry. I really want to see you too. Maybe we could meet up at some point tomorrow.

Sounds good. Shall we meet up at 5 tomorrow evening? I have something I need to do first tomorrow. We can meet at the docks.

"What do you mean 'I have something I need to do tomorrow'?"

"Well you got a text from someone saying you could pick the book up any time you want tomorrow."

"Oh Mr Beast must have the fairy tale book then."

"Mr Beast?"

"Yeah I know. But that was what he always had us refer to him as. And it just sort of stuck okay." I looked back down at the phone and finished reading through the texts.

That would be amazing. If you like we can still chat now, I'm not actually doing anything.

Yay. So how is your mother's campaign for re-election going?

Not too bad, but she doesn't really want me to discuss it with anyone.

So you can't go out. Can't talk about the campaign. What can you do?

I can talk with you all night long.

That was the last of the texts. Ruby must not have been able to send another message before I took the phone back.

"Okay, I am going to go outside and give Regina a call to explain to her what is going on. Don't even think about following me out the door. I grew up around boys that enjoyed fighting. I learnt quickly." The threat was certainly clear enough for them to get the message. My gaze ended on Ruby and I gave her a glare just for good measure. When I made it through the door I called Regina's mobile. She didn't answer straight away, but she was there quick enough.

"Hello?"

"Hey Regina, its Emma."

"Oh hello Emma." Her voice seemed so cheery, but my words kept catching at the back of my throat. "Was texting me boring you?"

"No, actually those texts weren't me."

"What do you mean?" I could hear the panic beginning to grow in her tone.

"Well, I am at The Rabbit Hole with everyone. However we are playing truth or dare. I chose dare and Ruby picked what I had to do. She just said I had to give her my phone. I didn't think too much about it. I thought she might just take a bunch of embarrassing photos or something. Then I took my phone back and saw all the messages. I think she was trying to piss me off more than do anything to you." There was silence from her end of the line. Did she hang up? "Regina?"

"I'm still here. I just don't quite understand everything I am hearing. Why would texting me, annoy you?"

"Well, earlier Ruby asked me if I wanted to invite you out tonight. But I said no." Why can't I learn when to shut my mouth?

"Oh, okay. You didn't want to see me then."

"No! No, no. I thought that we had been spending too much time together and that you might have wanted a bit of alone time, so I thought I would give you a free evening. Trust me I wanted to see you, but I thought you had seen enough of me."

"Trust me Miss Swan, I could never get enough of seeing you." I could practically hear her cheeks flushing red right now.

"Excuse me?!"

"I am not repeating myself, you heard me the first time." Her tone was playful, and I loved every minute of hearing it. "Emma?"

"Yeah?"

"On Monday afterschool do you want to go somewhere with me?"

"It's your birthday. Aren't I meant to take you somewhere?"

"Would you have any idea pf where to take me?"

"Not really. Okay then. So where would we be going?"

"That is for me to know, and for you to find out."

"Wait but that's not…"

"Goodbye Miss Swan." She hung up the phone before I could say another word. Does she basically just ask me out on a date? I walked back into the bar and strode back over to the table, a grin plastered on my face.

"Well, looks like someone is in a good mood." Ruby was clearly in a teasing mood.

"Don't push it. Now come on. Whose turn was it?"

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I hope this chapter satisfies everyone's Swan Queen needs for the moment. So far people have said that they want the kiss to be written from both views. So it will be written from both women but alternating between the two as it is happening. Is everyone cool with this idea? Obviously can't please everyone, but I always do my best. Comment and review, and let me know what you think.