A few days later, more than 100 sketches covered Emma's room and the rest of the mansion. Every now and then Emma thought about leaving and going back to New York to get some inspiration – but Emma lived there for the last 3 years and she never understood how people could use a hectic and crazy city as the Big Apple as their inspiration. She knew her only inspiration that ever worked was - Regina. So even if it was hard for her she had to suck down her feelings and get to know the brunette better.
Regina never asked about what Emma said a few days back. But it still was on her mind. Maybe if they become friends she could ask the girl to show her more of her work.
Emma usually woke up at 8 am. It was still weird for her to have Regina around. She loved the woman since she first discovered the show and now the same woman was around her all the time.
The mansion smelled awesome when Emma walked down the stairs and followed the smell of bacon, hot coca with cinnamon and toast. She saw Regina sitting at the kitchen island eating. "Morning, you are up early" Emma told her.
"Yeah, I'm never one for sleeping too long. Would you like some breakfast? I can fix you some?" she gave a brilliant smile.
Emma's knees went weak and her instincts told her to run. But she didn't. "Sure this looks delicious" – nearly as delicious as you, Emma added in her mind. It was so surreal; before she arrived here she planned a trip with Ruby to a convention at the other side of the world to meet the Evil Queen. And now she was just at the other side of the table. It was crazy how little time it took for them to get comfortable with each other. But since they were the only ones who had holidays and stayed at the mansion during the day, they hung out together quite some time. She knew Regina only from her role in "Happy Endings" and some small independent movies she filmed before. She also saw some videos on YouTube about fans meeting her, from interviews and from all the tweets she followed and commented on. But sitting with her over breakfast felt amazing. They talked like old friends with usually trivial topics like the weather, food, TV Shows and the news. They never included their professions in their talks during the last few days. Even if both of them would love to talk about the job the other did.
During that day Emma worked really hard on her new dress. Ruby was there almost every day to help with the fitting and motivated Emma a lot. They missed fangirling about "Happy Endings" but since they never knew when Regina could hear them, this topic was off limits at the mansion.
Emma was much disciplined; she always woke up at 8 in the morning to get her work for the day done. But of course secretly she longed for breakfast with Regina. Her dad usually left very early and Zelena was often at her boyfriend's place – and if not she slept in till noon.