Since Emma's abscond, Regina felt ambivalent and left herself alone on the driveway. She glowered when it happened to her few times in ten years. The brunette mayor exhaled and turned around to come inside the mansion.

She closed the door and has her wonders in her head while walking back to the kitchen where the voices were raising in the room. It was her parents and Zelena. They argued about which wine they wanted to drink during their celebration of Christmas festival.

It happened once a year when it came to their favorite tradition of the year. Cora was the first woman who established the Mills Christmas traditions. It went in a spur of a year since it started when the brown-haired mayor was 15.

Regina had no idea when it started when she was young but it brought herself to remember that day when Cora decided to invite the Nolan family into her mansion. She slowly smiled when the picture came into her daydream when she picked her plate from the dishwasher.

Flashback – Christmas 1999

The snow kept falling down toward the ground. The cars kept running through the streets as they hurried to get home before the storm got worse. It was the worst snowstorm of the history in Storybrooke. But it didn't bother Regina when it came to her favorite season of the year. Also, it was her favorite day of her life because she found out that her best friend came to celebrate with her on the Christmas Eve.

It brought her to smile when she looked through the window while she was waiting for the Nolan family. Regina waited patiently and looked forward to see her best friend. She was sitting on the window bench and her face was flattening on the window glass. It caused her parents to laugh at their young daughter.

That was the time when Regina had become a single girl since the prom night. She finally got over her secret crush, Robin and moved on to get her own life. The brown-haired girl finally addressed her best friend when the Nolan family walked through the briskly snow.

She fired up her energy to run through the front door which it was opened by her mother. Regina yelped when she tried to jump on her best friend. Others went horrified when the brown-haired teenager did on her action to Emma.

The blonde girl chuckled when she saw Regina dashing through the rooms to catch her outside. She opened her arms to have her brunette best friend. After that happened, the parents went relieved when Emma got a hold on her while she grounded herself. Neal was beside her and he was 6 years old at this time.

The best friends finally released themselves and walked inside the mansion to get warm. Cora scolded on her young daughter and smiled weakly at Emma. Mary Margaret was holding her last child's hand while laughing at the oldest brunette woman. Henry Sr. shook his head before coming to shake his hand with David Nolan, his sheriff of Storybrooke.

Regina smiled at herself when she blabbered about the Mills Christmas traditions and spent her time to be with Emma in the family room where the kids hung out while watching a Christmas movie.

It happened when she walked inside the kitchen to get something from the refrigerator and saw her parents laughing with the Nolan parents. Emma came in behind her and waved her hand at Zelena who was eighteen years old who was growling at her daddy. Cora was drinking a white wine while smirking at her husband who was annoying with their oldest daughter.

Regina tilted her head at the wine bottles on the kitchen counter and asked her mom about it. The blonde girl was snickering at Zelena who was frustrated about her date with her boyfriend to ask her permission if she could go out with him on the next day after Christmas Day.

"Mom, what is that bottle?" The brown-haired girl indicated to the bottles on the kitchen counter. The oldest brunette woman smiled at her daughter and continued.

"It's a wine. You couldn't drink it because you are too young. So, when you get older, you could drink if you want."

"Ok, how old will I be when I get a drink like you?"

"You will be 21 which it is a legal age to drink. But I have a rule for you when you are under our roof. You can't drink any alcohol and it is dangerous. Is it clear?"

"Yes, mom. Why are you having that wine since it is dangerous?"

"It's a part of the tradition for the adults to celebrate Christmas together." Cora explained with a smile. Mary Margaret guffawed when she heard her speaking to Regina who was perplexed. Emma shook her head at the red headed teenager and looked back at her best friend who was confusing with the situation. She decided to help her to understand it clearly and better.

"Regina, it is dangerous to drink those alcohols because it could damage your liver if you drink too much. That's why they don't want us to drink that since we are too young to do that. Just let them be and have fun together."

"Ok." Regina nodded with a retort. She casually dropped it and walked away. Cora was relieved that Emma clearly explained and gave a nod of thanks to her. The blonde girl beamed and left quickly before catching the brunette girl in other room.

Flashback

Regina was smiling at herself when she emptied her dish by eating her favorite dish – mac and cheese. Zelena was bewildered when it came to her sister and spoke lightly. Cora and Henry Sr. decided to retire to their bedroom. It was the red headed woman's duty to clean it up before finding her sister with her daydream.

"Regina?"

"Oh, I was drifting away and I apologize for it."

"That's ok, mom and dad just went back to the bed. So, tell me about your daydream while you could help me out with the dishes in the kitchen."

Regina nodded at her oldest sister and helped her out by cleaning out on the dining table then went inside the kitchen. She dumped every waste in the trash while explaining everything on her moment in the memories. Zelena smiled at her sister while listening to every word she said.

After several hours later, they retired to their bedroom and said their goodnight. Regina came in her old room and sat on the bed. She was wondering how she could find Emma and have a conversation together. It came up in her head when she unconsciously grabbed her phone and scrolled through her contact list.

The brunette mayor wondered that Emma has an old contact number so she could contact her via text. She shrugged and found her old contact then composed a message then finally sent it. She hoped Emma received it but the alert caused her to frown at herself.

It was an error message that she received from her phone and it was a wrong number that Emma has from ten years ago. Regina decided to put it away and decided to take herself to plan everything before meeting Emma in person again. She tried few times on the blonde superstar's other numbers but it didn't work at all.

She realized that Emma changed her number since her departure of ten years. The brunette woman sighed and put her phone away. Regina laid her head on the pillows and turned on her side to see the beautiful view on her window that the stars were shining brightly. In her wonders, she was thinking on her one of the memories that she had her first sleepover with Emma when she was 7 years old and other was 6 years old. It was on her birthday.

Her parents allowed Regina to have one sleepover on the first weekend. The brunette girl did invite few girls from their school but decided to have Emma on the board. She got excited about her first sleepover with Emma alone. It pulled them to be on the board together and remained to be their best friends for the years.

They went to get their sleepover, gossips, entertainment and vacations together with their families for the years. Despite their fights or the silences from each other, they got along together to support each other until they left off to the colleges when it started to fell apart.

A/N: It's coming... :D Please review. If you want me to continue 'Damages' Fanfiction of Patty/Ellen and let me know if you want me to do that.