I know. Know you all hate me and I'm a little bitch. My toothache is gone, and I now only have a sniffily nose! And it's been about 9 days since I updated so you all hate me. But that's okay, I deserve it. So this is longer – the next chapter will be longer than this – I promise!

But anyway, its 7:44am, and I kinda need to go to my lessons soon...

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Chapter eleven

Regina and Adeen arrived back at the mayor's house at precisely eight thirty three that evening. Carrying bags among bags of different items of clothing with Adeen wrapped securely in a black coat with leather patches on the elbows and with a fur trimmed hood. Much to her annoyance, she also was puffing out her cheeks at the fact that Regina threatens her not to take it off until they got in the house.

Once they got in they placed the bags down and took off their coats, and hung them up in the coat rack followed by taking their shoes off, and neatly stacking them on a shoe rack.

"Come along then." Regina picked up her set of bags once more and walked up the stairs with Adeen behind her with a set of bags.

Once they came inside the room which Regina had given the girl they began putting away clothing in drawers and the wardrobe. They had pick out a series of underwear with Adeen blushing and trying not to make snide remarks, along with a few pairs of skinny jeans, loose fitting jeans and two pairs of black trousers if the girl were to work, all were dark except one pair of ripped blue skinny jeans. There was also random bunches of t-shirts, long and short sleeved which followed a theme of dark or grey, with only a bit of colour with skulls, wolves, bands or anything remotely similar, however most of the long sleeved tops were plain. There were then shirts that were either plain white, or dark, or shirts that were plaid. There were also two waist coats, one black with silk on the back, and the other fully silk and teal.

And of course Regina had also stocked her up with socks, jumpers, a few hoodies, a new black scarf with a skull and cross bones at the end, a pair of dress shoes, and a new pair of converse with one of girl's favourite DC comic characters on; the joker.

The woman also made her choose a few things that would make the room, hers. So a few posters consisting of 'green day', 'a rocket to the moon', 'avenged sevenfold' and 'my chemical romance' would be hung up in the room's walls, there was also one poster that said 'Earth is full. Go home.' Regina had also brought without the girl knowing a few books that had caught the girl's attention when they were walking around, along with a sketch book the girl could use.

Once everything was in place and the posters were hanging on walls in the way which Adeen wanted them, which was surprisingly straight and neat, on an OCD level. The girl noticed the books and looked at the woman who was smiling at their handiwork.

"I... eh... Thanks 'Gina... For ya know." The girl looked at the woman before looking away and scratching her head. "Everything."

"You're welcome, Adeen." The woman looked at the girl and walked in front of the girl causing her to watch her. She moved slower than she normally would considering Adeen's past and brought the girl into a hug, a warm tight embrace. "I promise you I will never throw you out."

Adeen nodded and slowly hugged the woman back. She then pulled away to look away sighing gently. "You didn't have to do this..."

"You're not to be looking scruffy whilst I'm your guardian." Regina smiled and cupped the girl's face. "I'll get dinner started, have you got any homework to do?"

"Surprisingly; no." She shrugged and didn't lean in to her hand nor did she bat the hand away from her.

"You'd best not be lying."

"I'm not!"

"Alright." She spoke in a tone that would settle any arguments.

Adeen nodded and then shrugged. "I'll find something to do..." She looked to the woman, resisting herself to lean into the hand cupping her cheek. It was strange, that she trusted someone this much... No. She didn't trust Regina... She just compelled to be thankful to the evil queen because she intentionally saves her from her home.

It wasn't that she trusted her, not at all. Adeen looked at the supposedly evil queen and picked up the sketchbook, inspecting it. "Would... Would it be alright to sit in the kitchen whilst you cook...?"

Regina looked at the girl and smiled gently, picking up a few pencils from the girl's dresser. "Of course, although try not to cause trouble."

Adeen grinned and bound down the hallway with her new sketch pad.

"Adeen! No running in the house!" She called after the girl and walked swiftly to catch up to the girl, whom she knew hadn't slowed down her pace. A small smile found its way to her lips, even though Adeen was a growing teenager, she could act like a child at times.

Once she got down the stairs she saw Adeen sitting crossed legged on the stool at the breakfast bar, she placed the pencils down on the bar, next to the girl, and began to bustle around, collecting ingredients to make another dinner, it couldn't take too long, for the girl would have to be in bed soon.

Every so often she would look up from cooking to seeing girl absorbed into her sketchpad, either rubbing her finger on the paper, or actually using pencil. Once dinner had been prepared she looked at the drawing to see the girl had done quite a detailed sketch of her over the stove cooking.

Perhaps a rebellious teenager wasn't so bad after all.