Chapter 29 –

Is charming going to be able to catch up to them before they cross the town line? What will they find in the outside world?

Emma looked down at her phone to see it was her dad calling. She knew that she couldn't ignore his call or he would be coming after them so she told the boys to be quiet and shut off the music as she accepted the call.

"Hey Dad"

"Emma, why did you tell your mother that you and Neal were going to go to a movie?"

"Because we are? Is there something wrong with going to a movie?"

"You heard the memo come over the radio on our way to the hospital that the theater is flooded"

"What?! When did that memo come over the radio? I don't remember that dad, honestly!"

"Emma you better not be lying to me"

"Dad I promise I'm not, I definitely was on my phone not paying attention. I guess Neal and I will just have to rent a movie tonight and watch it at his house"

"Emma, where are you right now?"

"I'm with Neal, we're on main street" She actually wasn't lying for the two seconds of the phone call when they actually were on main street

"Emma"

"What dad?"

"Make sure you two are being safe and that Neal is paying attention while he's driving and I want you home no later then 9. 9:01 means you're grounded understood?"

"Understood. Thanks Dad! Love you!"

"Love you to Em, see you tonight"

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"What did she say?" Snow asked as she added the sauce to the pasta

"She said she didn't remember the memo going out over the radio and that she and Neal would be having a movie night at Neal's house" David replied a little shocked that Emma had proven him wrong.

Sadly the couple wasn't used to Emma not lying or trying to pull a fast one over on them.

"I guess it's time we start trusting her David" Snow said

"I guess so, she really is proving that she is trustworthy, but I'm not ready to giver her a license" David said a bit frightened at the thought

"Oh I agree, she hasn't earned that yet. But at least now I don't feel like I have to put a tracking anklet on her" Snow said jokingly although the thought had crossed her mind a few times, especially when Emma crossed the town line.

"I'm not quite there yet" Charming joked back wishing that he could be with Emma every moment to protect her from the outside world

"You ready to eat?" Snow said putting the pasta into a serving dish and heading toward the table

"Starving, let's eat!" Charming said heading her direction.

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"Wow that was close! I totally forgot that the theater was flooded or else I would have come up with a better lie! Good thing my dad bought that one!" Emma said relieved that she hadn't been caught

"Very nicely done Swan!" Killian said placing his hand on Emma's shoulder

"Wow, you're quite the little actress" Neal added

"Why thank you gentleman and for my next act, convincing the dwarfs not to not call my father, although that will be a magic trick instead of a performance" Emma said liking the praise of her peers for a lie well told.

"How is that love?" Killian said not fully understanding the blond

"I'm going to put them to sleep so that way they can't call my dad and let him know that we crossed the town line. Then, when we come back, I'll wake them up give them something that they think my dad sent like a message or a coffee or something, that way they don't know what happened and they think we were simply doing a good deed!" Emma said delighted with her little plan.

"You really thought this all the way through didn't you?" Neal said a bit surprised. He knew Emma had it in her but most of the time she just flew by the seat of her pants

"I rather like it" Killian added giving Emma's shoulder a squeeze

"Alright boys, time to put this plan into action" Emma said as they came up to where Emma could see the dwarfs she used a large burst of light to blind the dwarfs and then blew sleeping powder over them that she had swiped from Mr. Gold's shop a week before.

Her plan worked like a charm and the three were off.

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Charming sat eating dinner with his wife but something just didn't seem right.

"Charming? What's wrong with you? You've barely touched your food."

"Snow something is right."

"Charming you already called her and she told you what they were doing. Is it because she's with Neal?"

"No, actually I like Neal, except that he's the offspring of the dark one. It's just something about how she was talking, it was almost too good to be true."

"Charming I think you're over thinking it. I know it's weird because this is the first time since we all found each other that we haven't been with her but this is natural, it needs to happen"

"Snow it's not that. Call it a gut feeling or a fathers intuition but Emma is up to something"

"If you're that worried just call her"

"If she's up to something she isn't going to tell me Snow" David said a bit more sarcastically then he had planned.

"Charming!"

"I'm sorry, that came out wrong. But it's true, she is one heck of a liar that kid"

"That's true"

"You know, as strange as it sounds, let's call the dwarfs and ask them if they've seen her. She's crossed the town line once before and since Neal was also sent over here through a portal and he cross with him and Emma is pretty good at getting people to do what she wants"

"David, I think we need to trust our daughter. She hasn't given us any reason not to"

"Snow I don't feel good about this"

"Fine, but call her first and give her the chance to come clean before you try and find evidence to prove your point." Snow was getting a little put out with David's lack of trust in their daughter.

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Ten miles outside of Storybrook the trio began seeing signs for a city called Portland. They decided that is where they wanted to go so they followed the signs until the skyline came into view.

Both Emma and Neal had lived in different places but neither of them had been to a big city before. Killian had come to Storybrook shortly after Emma broke the curse so he had never seen anything beyond Storybrook so the whole idea of an outside world was brand new to him.

The first thing Emma wanted to do was find a Chipotle. She had loved Chipotle when she was living with one of her foster parents in Boston but she hadn't been able to have it since she came to live with David.

"So what is this place?" Killian asked having never seen a fast food restaurant.

"It's Mexican food!" Emma said excitedly

"Mexa what?" Killian asked becoming more confused by Emma's explanation

"It's kind of spicy but it's really good! You get rice and then you choose your meat and you get to add veggies and other toppings and then you pay for it and eat it and it's really good!" Emma said not knowing how better to explain it.

"It'll make more sense once you watch Emma go through the line" Neal said realizing the pirate was never going to understand

"Thanks Mate"

Emma went through the line and ordered her Chicken Burrito bowl and waited for Killian because she knew he had no money to pay for it and she had offered to pay for his. Watching the leather clad pirate try and order food was something to behold.

Once the three had consumed their food they decided to go and walk the streets and explore what Portland had to offer. By the time they had walked a good ten blocks none of them had bothered to look at the time and saw that it was thirty minutes to nine and they were still a fifteen minute walk to the car and a good forty-five minute drive home.

Emma decided to see if she could pull off another lie and get her dad to extend her curfew even though she knew there was little hope of that.

The three began to race to the car.