Chapter 18
Knock…Knock…..Knock!
"Go away!"
"Little sis?" Zelena just opened the door. She saw Regina standing over her bed where there was her luggage with clothes in it. Regina stopped packing and turned toward her door where Zelena was standing.
"What are you doing?" Zelena closed the door behind her as she asked.
"What does it look like?! I am packing. I can't stay here, I have to leave" Regina answered.
"You can't leave Regina. Mother will be furious and she won't let you leave" Zelena tried to change her mind.
"It doesn't matter anymore. And what did you come in here for?" she tried to change the subject.
"I came in to ask you again to come down for dinner. You didn't come the first time one of the maid's asked you for dinner…..I am serious Regina, don't do anything stupid" Zelena knew her sister can be quite stubborn when she wanted to be. But she feared what their mother would do if Regina did something stupid.
"I won't don't worry." Regina assured her. "And I don't want anything to eat, I don't feel hungry" at the admission Zelena started checking her sister's forehead to see if she was coming down with a fever or something. "Are you feeling alright little sis?"
Regina just pushed Zelena's hand away "It's nothing just tired".
"Oh uh okay" Regina just stared at her sister in question trying to figure out the sudden change in her tone.
"Well then you should rest I can ask someone to bring you the food to your room if you like?!"
"No that's okay. I really don't feel like eating at all" after hearing that Zelena left Regina's room to the dinning room.
(Em & Red)
"I am glad you ordered a take out from another place, the food here is horrible" they both had just finished eating their take out food from an Italian restaurant from few miles away from the hotel. Emmett was really pleased with the food.
"I am just glad you are in your good mood again" Ruben could deal with so much but didn't really want to spend the night babysitting an angry Swan.
Emmett just laughed at his comment. "Phew!..I just feel sorry for her. But I never imagined that her mother would take me to be that kind of a man. Do I look that low of a person to you?"
"Hell no! You are not that type of a man Emmett; I have known you all my life. I know you better than that woman. She must be out of her mind for saying that or much worse crazy. Just let it go man. We are leaving tomorrow anyways" he was glad to be out of this mess.
"You are right but for some reason I can't stop thinking about her. When I was holding her, her eyes were trying to speak to me I just don't know what were they saying. Ughhh man I can't get her eyes out of my mind. I want her out of my head, out of my life!" Emmett got up and started pacing again.
"For goodness sake would you stop pacing already" Ruben screamed at him. "Look we will be out of here tomorrow I was able to book a night flight for us so lets go to bed and sleep for now maybe then if you slept you can stop thinking so damn much" Ruben suggested.
Emmett didn't say anything he just decided to take his advice and go to bed.
On the other side of the town, the Mills mansion was also sound asleep except for Regina.
'I don't care what Zelena says or what mother thinks. I need to get out of here as soon as possible. But….how?' Regina was trying her best to come up with a plan to escape from her mother's grasp. "I was able to hold off Zelena but if mother came to know, she will definitely imprison me here" she predicted her future.
" Ughhh" groan "surely marrying him isn't the only way out of here!" she started thinking about Emmett. She knew if she let her mother do whatever she wished she will not be happy with the results.
"I guess the only way to go about it is to run away and try finding Robin" that was her only option for now.
Thud! "You sure that is a wise thing to do!" at the sound of her door closing, she looked at it, she saw her father standing there.
"Daddy"
"Regina, my baby" Henry came up to her and just hugged her.
Regina hugged him back. "Daddy, you know I can't do what she wants me to do, it's not right".
They broke out of their loving hug. Henry looked at his daughter and said "I know it is not the right thing to do but what about your future?"
"Don't you worry daddy, I will find a way to look for Robin. I hope you also don't believe what mother said about him" if she wasn't going to her mother by her side then she needed her father by her side.
Henry sighed and sat down on her bed. He also didn't want to believe Cora but it made sense after how they found their daughter. "Regina I do believe that Cora is at least right about betraying you" he wanted her to accept the truth as well.
"So…y-y-you believe her?" she sat down by Henry and put her hands on her face trying to hide the tears that were coming out of her eyes. Henry tried to comfort her but she pushed him away. "Good night, daddy. You can go now" that was all she said.
Henry tried one more time to comfort his daughter but as he was about to reach for her he stopped and got up to leave.
When Henry was gone, Regina lost it and broke down with more tears. "W-why daddy? Why? Y-you were my last hope. Why did you take her side?" she cried out as she fell on her bed and let the tears out.
