Chapter eleven

-One week later-

"Regina, it has been a week, mom said that you have to go to school," Zelena said with an exasperated sigh as she looked at the blanket firmly brought around her little sister.

The blanket shifted slightly as the brunette shook her head and the red head walked further into the room, perching herself on the edge of the bed.

"You can't miss school just because one person refuses to have anything to do with you."

"I feel sick," Regina mumbled, "it hasn't got anything to do with Emma."

"Has she replied to any of your messages?"

"I think she blocked my number," Regina replied in a hoarse voice, "I'll go to school tomorrow."

"You said that every day last week, mom said that you have no choice today."

Regina sat up slightly and pouted at her sister, "I really do feel sick."

Zelena inspected her for a moment and sighed. It was rare for even her to see Regina without makeup, but it was even rarer to see her with the puffy eyes revealing just how much she had cried, she was clearly missing her tutoring sessions.

"You need to go and talk to her, just go to school, she's probably calmed down by now."

"Or she still hates me," Regina mumbled as she fell back onto her pillow.

Zelena rolled her eyes and stood from the mattress.

Walking out of the door, she saw her mother waiting expectantly for an answer as she had every day for the past week, they figured that it would be kinder if Zelena went instead of Cora so that Regina didn't feel pressured to go to school, but the approach clearly wasn't working.

"One more day," Zelena sighed and leaned against the door, she was sick of this and came up with a plan, she just had to go and talk to a certain blonde and try not to strangle her as she had thought about doing.

Cora sighed in return and nodded, "very well, but I am making her go tomorrow."


"I still don't understand the issue," Henry signed as his sister drank a hot chocolate, as she did most days, she had taken out the scholarship letter and was re-reading it.

"How is it fair that I got the place over someone else just because I know Regina?"

"But that's not what happened," Henry returned, "you refused to apply for college, so she did it for you. Granted, she should have asked you first, but you still got in on your own merit."

"How could you possibly know that?" Emma asked, she had thought more than once that she may have overreacted and that Regina had done something incredibly considerate, but she couldn't help the doubts telling her that she was just some pitiful excuse for a human being to the rich girl.

"Because the offer is conditional, if she had rigged a place for you than why do you still have to get a perfect GPA?"

Emma blinked a few times, that was a very good point and honestly she had stopped being mad at Regina a couple days after their little blow up. It was just out of pride that she couldn't go crawling back to Regina, she had thought about unblocking her number from her phone, but each time she was too afraid that she would find she had no messages from the cheerleader. She was afraid of finding out that she didn't care about her as much as she had been led to believe.

"Why didn't you mention this before?" she finally replied.

Henry rolled his eyes and signed back, "because every time that I tried to start a conversation, you just got all broody and closed off. I've been trying to tell you this all week!"

Emma took a moment to stare at the letter that sat on the table, and finally allowed herself to become happy about its contents, "I'm going to college," she signed excitedly.

Henry returned her broad smile but still rolled his eyes, "about time you realised."

"I should go and talk to Regina, right?"

Henry was about to agree, but was interrupted when the door violently slammed, a red head stalked over to their table, with a deep set scowl upon her face.

"You broke my sister!" she growled.

Emma's mouth fell open, she actually felt genuinely afraid as anger radiated off the older girl, and she just about remembered that she had a blank note book in her backpack.

Pulling it out, she wrote, 'what?'

"She has been despondently lying her bed all week claiming that she feels sick. Why should she feel like crap just because she got you into college? How is it her fault that you was too much of a coward to apply?"

'I wasn't too afraid,' Emma wrote defensively.

"I don't care why you didn't want to go, the fact is that you could have just said no instead of blowing it out of proportion, she gave you the option! If you haven't noticed it's pretty difficult for Regina to actually do something nice, which means she really likes you. But you just took her heart and crushed it. She won't even say more than one sentence, she barely even eats, because you decided that she did a terrible thing when most people would have been happy!"

Emma was about to write something, but Henry waved to get her attention, once he did, he signed, "she's right, you screwed up."

"Thank you, Henry," Zelena replied.

The blonde blinked a few times, she wasn't even aware that they had met.

Once her shock fell away, she wrote, 'I'm sorry.'

"I am not the person that you should be saying that to, even if you don't make up, at least be her tutor again, she will literally give up on life if she flunks senior year."

Emma nodded and wrote, 'how do you want me to do it?'

Zelena grabbed her pen and wrote 'sorry' in capital letter, "give her that."

The blonde smirked slightly at it and then turned to see Zelena staring expectantly at her, 'right now?'

"Yes, right now Swan, or you will not survive long enough to actually use that scholarship."

A/N Hope you guys enjoyed, I would love to hear what you thought XD