As they entered the diner, Emma slipped her hand out of Snow's and subtly edged behind her. She pretended it was so they could fit through the door more easily, but really she was just hoping to delay the inevitable. Snow waved at Ruby and hurried over to give her friend a hello hug. Emma self-consciously looked around the diner. No one had noticed her yet. Her mother was chatting enthusiastically with the redhead, so Emma took a seat at a nearby table. Luckily the diner's chairs weren't quite so high as the stools in their kitchen, so she managed to climb up without drawing any attention to herself. Feeling a little nervous, she opened up the menu started studying it.

Glancing up after a minute, she caught her mother looking around for her. Their eyes met, and Snow smiled at her. Red followed her friend's gaze to the small blonde child at the table. She looked around the diner, and then looked back at Emma in confusion. She stepped over to Emma's table and dropped down to a squat beside her chair.

"Hi there sweetie. Where are your parents?" Red asked with concern.

Emma rolled her eyes at the talking-to-a-small-child tone she heard in Red's voice and pointed over her shoulder at Snow. Red turned and saw only Snow. She looked back and forth between the two, growing even more confused.

"Snow? Do you know who she belongs with?"

Snow laughed.

"She's mine."

"You mean one of your students? Isn't she a little young for school?"

"No, she's mine. As in my daughter. It's Emma," Snow said, grinning as she watched the realisation blossom on Red's face.

Red turned back to Emma, and her jaw dropped.

"Hey Ruby," Emma greeted.

"No way!" Ruby leaned down to inspect her more closely, "What happened to you?! You're tiny!"

"I drank from the 'drink me' bottle," Emma told her.

Ruby looked at Snow in askance.

"Magic," Snow shrugged.

"Oh, of course," Ruby nodded in understanding. "Potion? Curse?"

"She did it herself while she was practicing."

"Unlucky," Ruby said to Emma sympathetically. "I've heard of worse though."

Ruby stared at Emma for a minute.

"Hey Snow, she kinda looks like you, if you ignore the hair."

Snow smiled so widely Emma thought her cheeks must be aching.

"You think?" she asked, her eyes on Emma.

"Definitely. She has your eyes. And your chin. And she is such a cutie!" Ruby gushed.

Snow glowed with pride, and Emma dropped her head onto the table and pulled the menu over her head.

"Hey Emma, can I pick you up?" Red begged.

"NO!"