Meanwhile, Emma fell on her old full queen with the black and white themes. She used to be a goth girl in her teenage years. Mary Margaret always glared at her when the blonde woman came up with a raccoon-faced and wore the rock clothes.

It reminded her of her worst days before she had a conversation with Regina at that time. Also, Emma didn't realize that she was coming out to be gay. No one knew her business except Regina.

The golden-haired flipped herself to face the ceiling fan. She stared at it for a while. Her mind took herself to the memory lane with Regina in these moments. She remembered that day as she felt like it was yesterday.

She unconsciously realized that she had a smile on her face when it came to the beautiful brunette woman in her life since their childhood days. To herself, she was lucky to have her but until the college days, they fell apart.

Emma didn't understand why they fell apart when it happened in their college days. For her knowledge, she was sure that she had nothing to do with their friendship except sabotaging it. The blonde actress sighed and had one of her memories being a goth and rebellious teenager.

Flashback – 1998

On the morning of the Autumn, the leaves fell away from the twigs and it looked more colorful in those brown, orange and red. Some of them had a speck of yellow. It was beautiful outside.

At this time, it was Emma's favorite month and it was October. When it happened, the blonde teenager decided to be a goth for a month and no one understood her at all. She bought everything black and red.

The golden-haired woke up and got in a shower for a while before she heard her mother yelling about breakfast. It took a while when she finished hers and came out to her room before her father said 'hello' to her in the hallway. It sent her to growl at him.

It caused David to whip his head up to hear a noise from his daughter. He went startled then concerned in two seconds flat. The blond man decided to turn around and went downstairs to inform his wife about Emma.

Emma grinned at herself when it happened and went to get dressed. She wore 'Raven Palatial Sheer Maxi Skirt', 'Dead AF black t-shirt', and 'Voltage Chrome Bolt Heel'. Her hair was very messy with the red streaks and the makeup look was the pale skin and black eyeliner with eyeshadows. The blonde teenager finally put her red lipstick on her lips then grabbed her black backpack and her red leather jacket.

She completed her goth look and came downstairs. It caused Mary Margaret to turn around and scream in the kitchen. David bolted away to catch what's going in the room. Emma raised her eyebrows at her parents and took a breakfast muffin then left the house from the front door.

When the school got closer, the blonde teenager was listening to the rock and roll music on her headphones and searched for her best friend, Regina in her prissy looks. Every individual stared at her like they grew two heads. All the kids from Storybrooke High School knew each other from their childhood. They would identity which ones were their former friends or current friends.

Emma sent her glare at whom were drooling on her and they easily got scared from her glare then ran away to their classes. She scoffed and walked up to Regina who was snuggling with her boyfriend, Graham Humbert, a brown-haired guy in a football jersey and khaki pants. He looked adorable on the outside but a creepy side when he checked out on the asses of the beautiful ladies who passed through him.

The brunette teenager chuckled when Graham tried to tickle on her waist and heard a noise behind her then turned around to face Emma with a shriek. Others went startled and they were Kathryn and Ruby. Regina clasped her hand on her chest when she looked at the blonde girl in front of her.

Emma scared her out of the hell and sent her a smile. Graham was horrified when he saw the Taylor Momsen look. The brown-haired woman exhaled after studying on her best friend and looked back at her boyfriend who was scrunching his face when it came to Emma's weird day. The blonde teenager took a glimpse over Graham and gave him a mean glare before she was busting by her brunette best friend. Regina sent him a look to walk away while she had a moment with Emma. He nodded and gave a quick peck on the plump red lips then left with his friends.

"What's going on with you today? What is that goth look?" Regina answered with a straight look. The golden-haired woman shrugged and retorted.

"It's October so I thought that I could be goth for a month."

"Oh, why is that?"

"Well, my birthday is coming up soon!" Emma slowly beamed her smile when she loved this month because of her birthday and Halloween on the same day. Regina rolled her eyes while smiling at her best friend and grabbed her wrist to tug away to their classes before the bell rang. The brunette woman scoffed and replied.

"I know, it is coming. But for that look you made my boyfriend to be terrified of you."

"I'm not sorry about that. I don't like him at all. That's a truth of it." Emma shrugged and pulled her wrist away from Regina. It left the brown-haired girl gaping at her. She wondered how Regina liked him since she was depressed over her crush on Robin from her middle school. It was a truth that Regina and Graham dated for three weeks and they were not really serious on their relationship.

Emma rolled her eyes and came inside her classroom when she found that she had Ms. Ashley for English class in the first period after the homeroom. She checked out on her classmates and groaned when she saw Killian Jones, a famous prankster. The blonde girl finally sat down on back of the classroom and tried to avoid him and Robin.

Lily was there beside her and waved her greeting to her neighbor. Emma liked her since she met her for the first time when Lily moved in Storybrooke. She found out that the brunette girl was deaf and mute. Emma felt bad for her because she found out that her parents were struggling with her since they found out that Lily was deaf before moving in a new town. The fact was that Lily was in the car accident when she was a same age as Emma.

Now, the brown-haired woman was 17 years old at this time but just became 18 recently. They got along with the conversation on the paper and pen but they used Lily's interpreter, Mr. Jefferson Hatter, a queer man who loved being a drag queen every night at the club and a day job being a sign language interpreter. He was hilarious when it came to his day being a drag queen. Emma loved his stories when it came to their free time in the class.

The blonde girl smiled at her and raised her hand to her forehead then forward in the air. She was saying 'Hello' to her. Lily flashed her smile when she saw the greeting sign from her friend and signed in a normal pace that Emma could understand her clearly. The golden-haired smiled at her friend and told her that she was good and excited to take theatre class this year. It ended up that they were laughing at their embarrassing moments on the stage when they performed 'Hairspray' last year.

After her day being done in the school, Emma was exhausted to stay awake in her classes and chatted with some friends from middle school she knew. They were taking same classes together in their fall semester. They were excited about theatre because it was so fun to play those weird characters. She found out that they would perform 'Midsummer Night's Dream' by Shakespeare and auditioned for Titania the Fairy Queen.

Her teacher, Mr. August Booth was a huge fan of Shakespeare and knew everything by the old text. He was searching for a right person to play those characters in the show. He wanted everything to be dark and gothic kind. Until he looked up at Emma and had his idea when it came to his several favorites then asked her to audition for Titania.

Emma was grateful when she had a chance to play out in her favorite character and sang one song of Titania's lullaby. She used her low key voice with a gritty and edgy kind. August was surprised that his student knew by her heart to sing that beautiful song. The golden-haired girl flexed her hands when she had her angry look toward the audience and she was thinking about her expression of love toward Regina. It was unexpected when it came to the love.

Regina was there as well because she was in same class with her best friend and sat there in the front row with Graham and Lily. Some of others were there as well to audition for few parts in the play. But to them, they were in awe of Emma's singing voice as Titania, the Queen of the Fairies. It finally ended when Emma finished her song and got a part as that character for her performance. August clapped his hands and nodded at her. The blonde girl fisted in the air and beamed at herself.

Flashback

A/N: Here you go. Sorry about no post in a month... I'm embarrassed.