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Chapter 14

Emma awoke feeling groggy with her head thumping, she blinked trying to adjust her eyes to the light. Then she looked around the room, it wasn't her room, where the hell was she? She sat up, still confused looking around for any clues on where she was.

You've truly screwed up this time Swan.

Then it hit her, Regina. She was at Regina's. Bits of the previous night started coming back to her, she'd drank after the meeting, in fact she'd got drunk and at some point Regina had joined them and she had looked after Emma.

Crap, she'd cried on the woman.

Groaning Emma flopped backwards onto the pillow, she'd made a show of herself, more importantly she'd made a show of herself in front of Regina. She'd been so rude to her.

Emma leaned over to the bed side table to find a glass of water with two asprin next to it. As well as her phone, her car keys and a note. Emma picked the note up and read it

Miss Swan

I hope you aren't feeling too rough this morning, I text Snow for you last night so she didn't worry.

Hope you are alright

Regina

Emma smiled at the note then cursed herself even more. She'd had royally screwed up. Emma drank some of the water taking the asprin, then she quickly located her clothes getting changed, leaving the pyjama pants folded up on the bed. She grabbed her keys, located a pen and wrote a reply to Regina

Regina

Sorry about last night.

Thank you

Emma

Emma walked out the bedroom peering around the door, there was no sign of anyone. Quickly Emma walked down the hall towards what she hoped would be the exit. She didn't pay much attention to anything around her till she turned the corner and saw the front door. She walked towards it till she heard a voice

"Ah so you're awake then"

Emma turned to see Maleficent leaning against the wall a huge smirk on her face

"What are you doing here?" Emma asked

"I, dear, live here, you on the other hand" Maleficent replied taking a drag, then the smell hit Emma, marijuana.

"Well I was just leaving" Emma turned towards the door

"Don't mess her around"

"What?" Emma turned back to face Maleficent

"Regina. She's been through enough, don't mess her around" Emma looked down at the floor before turning towards the door and leaving "have a nice day" Maleficent called after her.

Emma was relieved to find that her car was indeed in the driveway of the house, she got in the car and quickly drove off.

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"What time did Emma leave?" Regina asked as she sat down to dinner with Maleficent

"Around ten"

"How was she?"

"Embarrassed by the looks of it"

"You didn't make it worse did you?"

Maleficent shrugged.

"Great" Regina sighed.

Regina sat on her bed and called Emma, it rang a few times before going straight to voicemail.

"Still no answer?" Maleficent asked, walking over to sit next to Regina

"No"

"I'm sure she'll call you back, she's probably just really embarrassed that she got that drunk that you had to look after her"

"I don't know, she seemed really mad at me"

"Why what did you do?"

"I don't know"

"Then maybe she wasn't, you know as well as I do, that when you make a mistake like that you push away the people you feel the closest too"

"Maybe" Regina sighed as she put her phone on the bed. Maleficent smiled weakly before walking out the room leaving her alone. Maybe Maleficent was right, but Regina couldn't help but think that there was more to this than that.

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"So where did you stay last night?" Snow asked Emma when she returned home from work that night

"At a friends, like I said" luckily for Emma Regina hadn't deleted the text message she'd sent to Snow the previous night.

"what friend?"

"Just a friend from the support group"

"Is this the same friend that you've been going on dates with?"

Emma didn't reply, but the silence was all Snow needed in conformation.

"So things are going well then?"

"They were"

"Oh?"

"I don't think it's going to go anywhere"

"Why not?"

Emma didn't really want to talk about it, but she knew that Snow wasn't about to let it go that easily.

"I think they're interested in someone else"

"Oh" Emma could tell by the look on her face that she was struggling to come up with something to say, some words of comfort "you'll find someone who is more suited to you Emma, it just wasn't meant to be. You'll find your happy ending Emma, just have a little hope"

Emma scoffed, she loved Snow, but sometimes she was just too positive for Emma to handle.

All weekend Emma couldn't stop thinking about how much of a fool she'd made of herself in front of Regina. She hadn't called Regina back even though Regina had left her a couple of voicemails all of which Emma had ignored, she'd also text her a few times, which Emma had also ignored.

Did Regina really think she could play her like this after the conversation she'd heard her have with Robin.

Wednesday night Regina text her again

Miss Swan

Hope to see you tomorrow and I hope you have found a nice restaurant for afterwards ;)

Regina

So Regina was expecting her to go out with her afterwards? Did she really think that Emma was that stupid and could be played like that? Or did Emma have it all wrong? Maybe she'd misheard Regina, or maybe Regina had declined Robin's offer. But she always seemed to encourage his infatuation with her.

Emma tossed and turned that night unable to sleep, the conversation she'd over heard running through her head. Emma may not know what Regina now thought of her after her drunken night, or what exactly was happening between Regina and Robin. But she didn't want to find out and one things was for sure there was no way she was going to that meeting tomorrow.