After the second date with her new family, Regina returned to the office and tackled on new budgets for January - March. Her secretary went forth and back to give some paperwork for her boss. The meetings went well with a lot of information based on the school year and Mr. Gold's proposal on the new investment for renovation on the tower clock at the library.

Her thoughts went to Emma for the years since the blonde superstar returned with new surprises on her sleeve. Regina remembered when she was hanging out with Ruby back in Columbia University on their senior year. It was when it happened that Emma disappeared from New York University and they were supposed to visit her. Regina barely remembered that night with Emma when they came back from the diner. It was a good blur through them.

- Flashback: Fall 2008 -

Of course, Emma didn't show her face in the news and any paper in New York City once she became an actress. Regina promised herself to see her new show when Emma was in the business. Also, Regina was clueless that Ruby had been contacting with Emma through the private text and went to see her without telling her. Emma made her promise to not tell Regina that she had her newborn son.

So, that was an exactly day when it happened. Ruby came back in their apartment and sent her a small smile. Also, Regina found out that Emma was madly in love with her for the years since their freshman year of high school. It shocked her more lately when it came to Emma. Therefore, Regina packed her bags and took herself to see Emma in her apartment.

But Ruby halted her and made her sit down on the couch. Regina was confused. Ruby swallowed a lump in her throat and started to talk. The brunette lawyer was waiting for her flee to find Emma.

"Emma is gone."

"What do you mean by that? She is here?"

"Gone and Gone. You can't find her anywhere in New York City. I'm sorry, Regina."

"Ruby! I want to talk with her and confess that I'm in love with her."

"What the fuck!? You are with Daniel!"

"I know, Ruby. I'm confused on which sexuality leads me on the path. Please tell me where Emma is." Regina begged. Her feet placed on the ground when she stood by the couch. Ruby looked up at her and gave a sad smile then replied.

"I'm really sorry. It's a truth that Emma is gone. I just asked her college friends and they said that Emma left the college. Be honest, I don't know where she is too."

"Stop lying! You made it worse!"

"No, Regina! You both did it worse than I did to Belle years ago. You ladies never confessed it to each other for years. Excuse my good listener, I kept getting tired of it for your both asses and I waited for so long."

"No! No! It can't be. I have to find her!"

"N-"

It happened when the doorbell rang on their apartment. The ladies stopped arguing and looked at the front door. They crossed their fingers that it was Emma on their door but it wasn't.

"Baby, it's Daniel."

Ruby almost missed Regina's frown when she nearly smiled if it was Emma outside on their door. Until, her boyfriend answered outside and caused Regina to be sad. Regina sighed and dropped her things then answered it.

Daniel smiled when she opened the door and kissed her right away then noticed Ruby there in the living room. He waved his hand with a smile. Ruby rolled her eyes and fled to her room. The boyfriend of Regina took her out for the special dinner.

Few hours later, Regina cried on her pillow after leaving the restaurant with her boyfriend. Ruby called her on the phone while she found out that Emma was moving to somewhere. The brown-haired woman cuddled with her pillow under her duvet. Ruby was there to comfort her while sending Daniel away.

Regina felt that she wished to tell Emma right before the blonde woman left town for her audition in New York City one year ago. She altered her lips to be sad and stared at the wall. Her homework assignments started to pile up when it alerted Regina on the laptop.

Ruby was tired of Regina's moping and always got fussed by her when she greeted her by her door before serving the breakfast together. Regina barked some cuss at her and stayed angry.

It was a long time since Regina and Ruby found out on their senior year of Columbia University. Also, it was a same year for Emma to leave New York University and stayed off-grid for a while.

- Flashback -

Regina felt someone shaking her up in her office and blinked several times to contact eyes with Emma in front of her. The blonde actress was concerned about the brunette mayor and spoke in a soft tone.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I mean. Yes, I'm good. Sorry."

"Dozing too much?" Emma smirked. Regina rolled her eyes with a chuckle and mentioned.

"No, I was thinking about that day when Ruby told me that you were in love with me while I was in my senior year and dating Daniel."

"Oh. I thought y'all were engaged on that year?"

"No. It was a bit little late right after few months of moping in my room."

"Oh. How was his proposal?" Emma asked with her curiousness. Regina smiled and continued.

"It was a lame proposal. He proposed to me in the small shed behind his father's old house in Vermont. It was on Christmas Eve."

"Oh shit. What about Graham?"

"He didn't propose and just asked for a break up before I went to Columbia." Regina gathered her paperwork in her bag while explaining with a smile. Emma was a sweet woman to ask about her past life and Regina really liked it because Emma wanted to get to know her better than to just know that they were best friends in the past.

"It was not nice of Graham to ask you like that."

"Very funny." Regina mocked her right away before holding Emma's waist in her arms. Emma laughed and pecked her lips with a quick kiss. They smiled at their kiss and interwove their fingers together. The ladies started to leave Regina's office and sent a goodbye to the secretary.

Regina felt happier that Emma picked her up after a long day at the office. She asked Emma for her day. The blonde woman chattered right away about her son and the tour of Storybrooke with Neal.

They abandoned their cars in the parking lot and kept walking toward Regina's house on Spanish Rose Rd. It was still cold outside but the ladies didn't mind that they cuddled each other while walking on the sidewalk. It was partly cloudy with sunny and clear sky too. The people started to notice on their mayor and Emma. It caused them to smile bigger and waved their greetings.

Emma was half confused but went with a flow. Regina asked her again about vanishing in the busy city. The blonde superstar sighed and rubbed her hand along on Regina's arm then replied.

"Well, it was a year later after we saw each other and I hid myself from you. I didn't want you to see my fucked up life. I almost lost my home and everything else except our son. He is my rock from the start and it healed me to find myself for revealing myself on the risky business."

"How come if you find us to help you? And, to tell me that I have a son?"

"It's a difficult situation where I stood in the past. It was a choice that the Social Services came to my house and planned to take Henry away from me. It's because of a wrongful conviction that I was mistaken for a blonde woman who stole the diamond necklace from Tiffany Co. It's why I disappeared on that day when it came out in the news and the police found some facts between me and her. They believed that I was not her and kept me hidden. For Henry, I was lucky to have him as the facts came out in the trial in the court and the people at jury believed that I'm innocent and the social services were charged for the wrongful information by the reporter."

"It's horrific!"

"I know, Regina. I am grateful that I survived through it and just vanished until the court dismissed that woman to be guilty. So, here we are."

"Why didn't you call us for help?" Regina said with a sad pout. Emma smiled at her and simply explained in few words before kissing her lips.

"I was coward, that's why. We are here at your front door."

Regina stared in the emerald eyes with glistening twinkles and slowly nodded before kissing her back. She smiled with her teeth out and gathered her house keys to open the front door. Regina looked over her shoulder and asked.

"Come in?"

"Sure, I have no plans today. My mom just annoyed the men to go shopping for the Christmas presents and our son requested himself to help them out. Even though, he is still ten years old and I don't understand him either."

"That's my genes you are talking about. I love shopping."

"Gimme a break."

"No, not yet. Regina gripped the bottom hem of Emma's sweater to pull her inside and gave a meaningful kiss. Emma felt tingle into their kiss and deepened it. The ladies slowly walked to the den where it was in the back right next to kitchen. Regina pivoted them around to the couch and pushed them down.

In the den, Regina and Emma tried to help each other to rip their clothes but the noise of the person sitting on the leather chair was Cora. The ladies nearly screamed when Cora shrieked loudly. Regina pushed Emma aside on the couch but the golden-haired actress crashed herself onto the living room table and tried to look presentable on the floor.

"Porn!"

"Mother! You scared me out of hell! What are you doing in my house?" Regina scolded her mother while taking care of Emma from incident with her coffee table. Cora breathed deeply and replied.

"I just got a message from Zelena that you and Miss Emma were on way to here so I guess that we should have a conversation between you both and me."

"Miss Emma? I am formally introduced by your own mother which I knew for years." Emma annoyed herself when she looked back at Regina with a pout face.

"Hush yourself!" Cora demanded with a glare. Emma whisked her head at her with a pale look. Regina rolled her eyes and sat down then continued. It was her mother's polite way to quiet the people's mouth from blabbering too much in front of her.

"What is that, Mother?"

"The sex." Emma fastened herself to stand up and held her hands up with a reply. Regina and Cora looked at her with their raised eyebrows but for the brunette mayor's face looking grim.

"Whoa! We know what kind of sex is. It took long time ago in our high school. And, we are aware of it."

"Be quiet, Miss Emma! I know that you both are aware of the sex education. I'm glad that you both are acknowledging that lessons but I'm not talking about that part."

"Well, I'm relieved." Emma said with a sheepishly laugh then stopped laughing when Cora glared at her. Regina was quiet in that conversation while looking at her mother with her pale blush look.

"So now, are you fucking crazy that you had sex together with Regina's penis!?"

"Mother!"

"Well, we did that long time ago and ummmm, I mean... You see, we were drunken with four bottles of wine that night and we went on."

"What the fuck?" Cora and Regina slowly spoke in unison. Emma nodded.

"Oh yes. I think you had that video from the security room at your old house. We actually recorded the sex tapes and decided to drop somewhere in our luggage. I found it when I was in my apartment in NYC."

"Fuck!" Regina screamed with her flee from the den and left others in that room. Emma looked at Cora who shriek constantly with her hands covering on her ears. The blonde superstar chuckled in an awkward way. They heard Regina cursing around in her house.

"Shit! Fuck! Son of Bitch! Motherfucker!" was repeating in all rooms when Regina dug everything to find it. Cora wiggled her hands while screaming, "Porn!" and ran around in the den. Emma crashed her body on the couch where they almost got fucked each other before Cora's voice came out and palmed her face. It was a perfect time when Henry Sr. came in with his perplexed look.

Regina finally barged with her red-face look and her hand was gripping the tapes. Her father looked back and forth between his family members and asked Emma. Cora pointed toward the sex tapes and screamed with a flee. Emma slowly looked up at the man who raised Regina in his arms and spoke.

"What's going on here?"

"I told them that I found our sex tapes and put it in our luggage long time ago. Regina freaked out and searched for it in her house. Cora kept ripping my ears with her bloody scream!" Emma glared at the mother of Mills family with her arms crossing on her chest. Regina fell down on the rug and mumbled.

"I'm screwed."

"No, Regina. You are not screwed. You know why? I didn't put it in the public." Emma told her with her rolling eyes. Henry Sr. raised his eyebrows high and smirked. Cora finally got quiet and whispered.

"Can I watch it?"

"No!" They chorused in a loud voice. Cora was startled by them and held her hands high in the air with her reply.

"Okay! Geez!"

After an hour in Regina's house, the parents finally left with no words. Regina was in the kitchen, cooking the late lunch for them and kept thinking about the sex tapes. Emma was reading a book in the den and relaxing herself for few minutes. They found themselves to have an intimate time together soon as they thought it would be.

Regina brought food in the den and closed the door behind her. Emma looked up at her with a smile and replied. The brunette mayor found herself to like Emma's smile and flashed her best smile back. They went in silence to eat their lunch together and cuddled together. Emma unconditionally rubbed Regina's arms while whistling a tune of "Seasons of Love" by RENT movie.

A/N: Man, this is my favorite chapter of all times.