Chapter 6

They had decided to have their study date, or was it not a date, on Saturday at 2. Regina had planned it all out 2 o'clock gave her two hours with the blonde and then an hour of leeway to clean up before her mom got home from her meeting. It conveniently worked out that Emma had to work at 5 so she too would have to be home before then. For once Regina's plans were shaping up perfectly.

When Emma arrived she'd rang the doorbell and Regina had almost tripped running down the stairs so fast. She'd fix her hair and checked herself over in the mirror before opening the door and inviting the blonde inside.

Emma had evidently tutored before and had brought a whole book bag of sticky notes, pencils, and colored pens. Regina felt mildly under prepared but it hadn't matter. They sat down beside one another on the couch and Emma had just opened the textbook and dove in, "So let's start with this unit we're working on right now; exponential derivatives. Basically it all has to do with this number e, which is approximately 2.71828, and its exponential derivative..."

As Emma continued to explain the concepts of natural logarithms, Regina looked over her shoulder at the notes Emma was drawing out for. She leaned her head comfortably on the soft the shoulder. Regina was actually understand what the blonde was explaining but after an hour her mind began to wander, damn she is so cute when she's talking math. Maybe I would have been more interested in the course if my teachers looked that darn cute in glasses. Oh crap she's staring at me! Did she ask me something?

"Sorry I kind of zone out," Regina said vaguely, maybe Emma wouldn't notice the star struck look she had in her eyes. Of course that was not the case. A warm smile spread across the blonde's face. Regina became very relevant of their proximity. Her heart rate quickened, she hoped Emma hadn't noticed. But once again that was not the case.

"Is that what happened?" Emma mocked, "Maybe we should take a break." Her tongue quickly ran across her lips as she shut the textbook she had been holding.

Regina hummed in response. She hadn't realized how close she'd been leaning in towards the blonde, it must have happened when she zone out. There was something magnet pulling her towards the other girl. She was drawn to her lips and couldn't take her eyes off of them.

Regina's attraction didn't go unnoticed by Emma. A small smile crept across the blonde's face as she leaned in for a kiss. She kept it brief, much to Regina's displeasure. The brunette's hands grabbed hold of Emma's head and brought her in for another kiss. Her lips were on fire, she'd waited too long to kiss Emma again. One of Emma's hands held the back of Regina's head while the other was on her lower back bringing them close together.

The need for contact was so strong, Regina lifted her leg to properly straddle the blonde, never breaking their kiss. Emma ran her tongue along Regina's lower lip and the brunette immediately allowed her access.

Emma's hands roam up and down Regina's body. Her hands begin to wander under the brunette's shirt, but just as she's about the remove the shirt altogether the lock on the front door opens with a click. The sound causes Regina to practically jumping across the couch from Emma. She smoothed out her mostly neat brown hair and grabs the textbook just in time for her mother to enter the room.

Cora Mills was an intimidating women to say the least. The way her eyes bore into Emma's soul caused shivers to run up her spine.

Regina remained cool on the other end of the couch. "You're home early mother, you said you wouldn't be back until 5." She almost questioned.

"Yes I know, my meeting ran short. Who is this and what is she doing in my house?" Cora spoke as if Emma wasn't sitting there. The blonde's brows furrowed in annoyance but she dared not say anything and let Regina handle the situation.

"This is Emma," She said gesturing casually to the girl on the couch, "and we were just working on calculus together." Regina held up the page in the textbook they were on, thankful that Emma had left her notebook open in it so it looked like she had actually done something.

Cora merely scoffed, "Regina darling you really shouldn't be tutoring the less fortunate." Before Emma can make a nasty remark Cora is already out of the room. When Emma lets out an angry huff Regina places a comforting hand on her arm.

"Maybe I should get going," Emma begins collecting the pencils she had laid out on the table in front of her. Regina attempts to tell her to stay but it doesn't come out convincingly because she knows everything is different now that her mother is home. So instead she offers to give Emma a ride home.

"I'm really fine walking, I'm not very far." Emma reasoned. She collected all her stuff into the book bag she had come with and exited towards the front door, Regina following close behind.

They walked in silence to the door. Regina opened it for Emma and then followed her out to say goodbye privately.

"Sorry my mom cut this short." Regina apologized nervously scratching her arm while looking at the ground.

"It's alright, I need to head to work soon anyway" Emma shrugged. When she looked up and saw the sad expression on Regina's face she placed a finger below her chin and lifted the brunette's face to hers, "And besides it gives us a reason to hang out again and finish what we started." Emma's smile spread all the way to Regina's face.

Emma leaned down and gave her a quick kiss. She so wanted to kiss the adorable brunette deeply but she feared that her mother might come out and interrupt them again if they were too long.

"Goodbye Reg." Emma waved as she walked down the long driveway.

Regina waved back blushing at the nickname. She stayed outside until the blonde turned the corner on the street and Regina could no longer see her. When she walked back in, the first thing she did was text Emma to plan when they would be "hanging out" again.

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