Chapter 10: Making plans for the weekend

"Emma you're back!" Ruby yells seeing Emma enter the school building. Regina was right behind the blonde but the brunette with the red streaks in her hair didn't pay any attention to her. She puts an arm around Emma's shoulders and starts walking with her to the first class of today.

"What happened to your face?" Ruby asks seeing the bruises for the first time. The swelling of Emma's eye had disappeared and had made room for a beautiful bruise. It still hurt but it didn't bother Emma anymore.

"A ran into a pole." Emma lies, it wasn't the full trued but Ruby believed it at that was all that mattered.

"Bummer. But you did miss a lot yesterday. Do you remember that weird guy that asked you for a fake ID?" Emma nods.

"Yeah I gave it to him yesterday, why?"

They enter the classroom and sit down. "So during lunch, when I was waiting for you to come back. Thanks for not calling me by the way!" Ruby says quickly but continues with her story.

"Killian was making fun of him in front of the whole school because the guy and ran into Killian causing his drink to spill all over Killian's leather jacket, Killian made the poor guy cry and Killian broke his nose and said that he had to stop being a pussy. It was so awful no one did anything, everyone was just staring, even the teachers looked away." Emma felt sorry for the guy she knew how hard Killian could hit.

"Oh fuck, why didn't anyone do anything." She takes her stuff out of her bag and puts it on her desk.

"Well no one did and I haven't even seen him today."

The teacher walks in and puts an end to the conversation. The rest of the day went by in a haze. It was Friday and Emma didn't really want to pay attention to her classes and she was still having a bit of a headache.

Emma and miss Mills and agree to meet each other after school at Regina's car so they could drive back to the loft together. Emma was waiting by the car when Ruby came up to her.

"Hey Emma. You are hasty to go home, we forget to make plans for the party tomorrow." Emma had totally forgotten about that. The party Ruby wanted to go to because she wanted to impress this older guy she really liked.

"Yeah right, the party at the rabbit hole, when does it start?" Ruby takes out her phone and looks through her messages until she came upon the message August had send her about the details of the party.

"It start at ten, so I meet you there at eleven?" Emma nods, she could see Regina looking towards them from across the parking lot. She brunette was waiting for Ruby to leave and Emma found it absolutely adorable how the brunette was looking their way.

"Don't forget the ID's! This is going to be the best night of my life." Ruby smiles kissing Emma goodbye.

Regina waits until Ruby was completely gone before going to Emma.

"Hey." She says opening the car door letting Emma inside.

"So what did you guys talk about." Regina asks starting the car and pulling out of the parking lot.

"Well I was just going to talk to you about it. There is this party tomorrow night and Ruby really wants me to go with her. Do you mind?" Regina shakes her head.

"No I don't mind, I actually have plans for that evening." She says.

"What plans." Emma furrows.

"Euh well, I have a blind date." Regina says her voice almost a whisper.

"What date?" Emma asks more firmly that she expected.

"Well this other teacher, I guess I could call her my friend. She's giving me a make-over in the afternoon and she set me up with this doctor." Regina says it in a neutral tone but still Emma can feel herself getting very jealous. She doesn't say anything for the rest of the car ride and when they enter the apartment she heads upstairs to her room and closes the door.

Regina follows the girl upstairs and knocks on her door.

"Emma?" Regina turns the nob but find that it is closed. "Emma open the door." She can hear footsteps and the door is opened.

"What?" Emma asks obvious irritated.

"Are you jealous?" Regina asks entering the room and sitting next to Emma on the bed.

"No of course I'm not. I don't care who you date!" Emma says laying down on the bed and pulling the cushion over her head.

"Then why are you acting like this?" Regina was finding Emma's behaviour childish.

"Because I'm a stupid teenager, why do you even care?" Regina takes the cushion and pulls it of Emma.

"I told you not the call yourself stupid!"

Emma huffs. "You are such a hypocrite."

"Excuse me?" Regina asks shocked.

"You tell me not to put myself down and you put yourself down all of the time. If I tell you your beautiful, you laugh it away. You stand up for me but you don't stand up for yourself. I will stop putting myself down if you do the same!"

Regina just stares at Emma her mouth open. She wants to says something but she can't find the words. She stands up and leaves Emma alone. She knows the girl is right but still hearing the words out of the girls mouth makes it even hurt more. Regina walks into her own room closing the door, she starts crying. Emma is right she is a hypocrite.

"Regina…?" Regina hears through the door.

"I'm sorry Regina I didn't mean it. Regina?" She can hear Emma knock on her door but she doesn't answer the girl. She needs some alone time.

Emma had thought that they were going to be able to talk to each other in the morning but when Regina came done and Emma greeted her the woman ignored her and started the make herself breakfast. Emma couldn't take this anymore.

"I'm going to Ruby." She says taking her jacket not really expecting Regina to talk to her.

"What are you guys going to do?" Regina asks not looking up from the newspaper she was reading.

"I don't know. I just need someone to talk to and clearly you are not that person." She says leaving the loft and closing the door behind her.

Regina looks up at the door that just closed with a bang. She runs her hands through her hair, she's fucking this up.

Regina's mind is a mess. She wants Emma, she wants to let her in but she can't. Student and teachers are not allowed to have a romantic relationship. Emma is too young to know what she wants and Regina has to be the responsible adult and say no. She will help Emma in every way she can but for now she needs to push her away. She can't kiss her anymore even if it's the only thing she wants to do every time she sees those pink lips and those sad green eyes looking at her.

Regina doesn't have a lot of time to throw herself this pity party when someone knocks on her door. Opening the door Regina reveals a grinning Maleficent.

"Hello darling." The older blonde let her eyes travel over Regina. "You're looking like a mess. Hopefully it will be the last time. Take your purse and let's go." Maleficent doesn't wait for Regina to answer her. She turns around and leaves the loft. The only thing Regina can do is follow.

It was already after six when Regina arrives back at the loft. Gone were the black rimmed glasses, the old fashion hair due and the shapeless clothes. Regina was staring in her bedroom mirror and couldn't believe her own eyes. She looked good, she might even start to believe the one thing Emma had been saying to her from the start, she might be beautiful. Maleficent had worked her magic definitely, Regina was wearing a tight red dress with black high heel pumps. She wasn't sure if she was going to be able to walk on them but they made her look really tall.

Regina walks across the hallway to Emma's room expecting her to be home after she had left this morning. But Emma wasn't there, so were none of her things. Regina looks around the room and just like last time she finds a note on the bedside table.

Dear Regina

Thank you for all you help. I'm sorry for leaving like this again but I think it's the best.

Good luck on your date.

Emma

Regina reads the letter over and over again before she decides her next move. She throws her pumps off and grabs her flats before running downstairs grabbing her car keys. She doesn't know why but she has a feeling something bad is about the happen.