Hey guys sorry for the extremely long wait I just lost the motivation to write but I'm going to try harder over summer. I will be away for 3 weeks so all stories will be put on hold again. Enjoy!
~Kiki
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After much debate Regina finally caved on the idea of getting one dog. They decided to pick the dog when it was Henry's birthday and today was finally the day. The small family made their into the kennels reception area where Henry spotted David Nolan. "Hey David!"
"Hey Henry." he walked around the front desk and greeted the small family. "Ah Mr Nolan I see you took this job then"
"Yeah I did. Thank you by the way for helping get this job." He smiled a little too kindly towards Regina for Graham's likely so he held his fiancée closer. "Oh it was no problem. I'm happy to help in any way."
"So what can I help you with?" he asked "well its Henrys birthday and he would like to adopt a puppy."
David quickly grabbed the keys to the kennels "well if you would like to follow me I can show you what we have." He led them to the back where all the canines are kept. There were so many dogs, scruffy ones, fluffy one, tiny ones and also big ones there were so many to pick from.
"Well choose well Henry" Graham said as he watched the boy look around in amazement. With that said the boy set off looking for the special puppy that was going to come home with him. While Regina waited she decided to look around the kennels.
She walked along the cages peering into some to see what was in there most of the animals inside coward away from her. When she came to a cage at the end she noticed a blanket moving around the cage with little tiny barks coming from underneath it. She couldn't help but giggle. The blanket turned around and she saw the face of a pure Dobermann puppy with its pointy ears holding part of the blanket up off its face.
The puppy noticed her and came bounding over tripping on the blanket while doing so resulting in the little thing face planting the floor. Its tail was wagging furiously at the sight of her what impressed her the most was the fact that it wasn't cowering away from her like the others.
She opened the cage and held the puppy up to her eye level. She looked into its eyes as if looking into its very soul. She saw many things she saw love, kindness, happiness and loyalty in the young pups eyes she knew this was the dog that would be coming home with her. "Yeah you're good. You're coming home with me."
The pup then took it one step more by starting to lick her face causing the mayor to laugh. Henry then came rushing over with another Doberman under his arm "I pick this one mom!"
Once he announced his chosen companion Graham came over being followed by a fluffy black and white Chihuahua. It was the only one out of the three dogs that wasn't a puppy it looked around the age of 3. "This is Burrito and I think we should choose her."
"Oh you just want it for its name put it back." Graham chuckled at being caught out "Fine I'll put her back but it's a pretty good name though isn't it" Regina laughed "it's wonderful now put it back"
When Graham went to pick the dog up to put it back in her cage it started to whimper and cry. It quickly ran over to the mayor and scratched and licked at her legs as if to beg her to pick it. She couldn't bare the cute puppy eyes it showed her.
Just then David came over with the forms they had to fill out to adopt the puppy they were going to take hope. "Here's the forms. Have you decided on which pup is the lucky one?"
"David I'm afraid we are going to need more forms." Both Henry and Graham looked at her with a look of shock on their faces. "Of course I'll be right back."
"I thought you said just one dog?" Regina rolled her eyes "well change of plans." She cuddled the pup to her chest Graham wrapped his arm around her and tugged her closer and kissed her on the lip soon the pup started to join in too. "Guess someone felt left out" Regina laughed.
Graham then picked up Burrito and cuddled her. "So I'm calling my pup Hunter. What are you going to name you're pup mom?" Henry questioned. "Well I was thinking of calling her Regal."
"Here we are three forms for three dogs." David had arrived back with all the forms and two pens. Graham filled his form for Burrito and Regina filled in her forms for her and Henrys pups. After all the paper work was finished they then went out to buy all of the supplies they would need such as beds, food, collars and leads.
Once all the dogs and supplies were put into the car they made their way back to the mansion. When they walked in through the front door all of Henry's class mates jumped out "SURPRISE!"
"Oh my gosh! You guys scared me!" Henry laughed.
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The party saw really starting to kick off henry was playing twister with Lilo, Ava and Nickolas. While she was munching on the food Granny had supplied. She started to notice that all three of the dogs had all sat in front of her watching her eat, waiting for her to drop anything.
"Shoo go you aren't getting anything!" small whines was what she got back for ten minutes "Fine! Go now!" she threw a piece of chicken each to the dogs "I saw that!" Graham wrapped his arms around her "I thought we weren't allowed to feed them any of our food?"
"But they were giving me the look and crying!" Graham wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into his embrace "I do believe you are going soft Mayor Mills." Regina pouted and snuggled her head into the crook of his neck.
Just as she was about to speak the doorbell rang. That was odd she thought all the guest were her unless it was a complaint about all the kids were making. When she opened the door she was greeted with the sight of the one only Miss Swan. "Miss Swan can I help you?"
Emma looked passed her into the house and saw the party going on "I was wondering if I could speak with you in private?" Regina was the desperation in the blonde woman's eyes and gave in to the woman's request. God she really was going soft. "Follow me"
She led the woman up to one of the guest rooms. Nobody had a reason to come into the room so they would be able to have their discussion in privet. "So what did you want to talk about?"
"I wanted to apologise" Regina blinked in surprise at the other woman's words "it's just I've been alone basically my whole life I didn't have any really family being in the foster system and then Henry shows up. God… he showed me how good it was to have someone to love and to love me back."
The mayor smiled at those words "I just didn't want to lose him and I noticed he was growing closer with you and I thought I was going to lose him. I thought he was going to leave me like all the others did" Emma was crying now
"I don't know how to share so my first thought was to take him all for myself which was stupid and wrong… I just didn't want to lose him" Regina wrapped her arms around the sobbing woman pulling her into a hug.
"It's ok shh it ok" her words seemed to have a calming effect on the blonde and her cries started to lighten she was like a defenceless child and Regina's motherly instincts started to kick in. Regina leaned back and wiped the tears from Emma's eyes. "I know how you were feeling Emma that's how I felt when you came here. I felt like I was losing him too but trust me Henry is a loyal and loving boy and will always stay with you."
"But he hates me." Regina sighed yes there was that slight problem with Henry's fall out with Emma. "Why don't you try and speak to him and explain to him about what you did like you just did with me. He's a very understanding person just try and speak to him."
"Ok" the two women just started to notice their position they were in. Regina removed her arms from around the blonde and the Emma detached herself from Regina. "I also wanted to apologise about being jealous of you and Graham I was extremely out of line."
"It's ok you were in a very sensitive and emotional state you didn't know what you were doing." Emma was now making her way to the door "Thank you Regina this talk really helped"
"I can assume you will not speak a word of this conversation and my kindness. I cannot let my reputation decrease any more than it already has." Once Emma left the room Regina checked her outfit for any flaws and only saw a couple of tear stains but nothing noticeable.
"Regina?" Graham called out into the room "Yes Mi amor?" Graham walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her "I just saw Emma leaving this room what were you two doing?"
Regina was fiddling the buttons of Graham's shirt "She wanted to apologise" Graham smiled "Well that was very good of her."
They walked back down the stairs hand in hand. Regina looked to the side and saw both henry and Emma hugging.
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"Thank you so much for forgiving me Henry. You don't know how much you mean to me already." When they pulled back from the hug Emma held out a wrapped up gift to henry.
"I knew it was you're birthday… so I got you something… you don't have to keep it if you don't… like it." Henry unwrapped his gift and saw it was a big leather bound book it looked very similar to his story book except this book was blank. "I thought maybe you could write your own story. Why not make yourself the hero."
Henry hugged Emma around the waist "I love it. Thank you"
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Soon the cake was brought out and henry blew out the candles. Soon all the children crowded around the cake along with the dogs hoping some of the delicious dessert would make its way onto the floor.
Regina was exhausted by the time she was finished giving out cake. She flopped onto the sofa beside Emma who was cuddling with Burrito. "I can't believe you got three dogs. What's this one's name?"
"Burrito" the brunette replied "Regina I know you are going to have cravings with this pregnancy but seriously what's the dog's name?" Emma laughed.
"The dog is actually called Burrito" Regina laughed. Emma couldn't contain her laughter she hugged the fluffy dog to her chest. "It was the only reason Graham wanted it."
At that moment both Hunter and Regal jumped up onto Regina's lap and started to settle down to go to sleep on top of her. "This is Hunter he's Henry's and this is Regal and she's mine. Burrito belongs to Graham."
The two women chatted away through the party acting like they have been friends for life and weren't at each other's throats a couple of days ago.
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The party was over and all Henry's presents were stored away in his room. Regal and Hunter were asleep at the foot of her and Graham's bed and Burrito was sleeping in beside Henry. Regina was now massaging moisturiser into her legs while Graham was climbing into bed "Today went very well didn't it?" he said.
"Yeah Henry loved it. He had so much fun." Graham watched Regina rub the cream into legs just admiring the wonderful woman that he had the privilege to call his Fiancée. Regina noticed him staring "What?"
"Come here" Graham held his arms out for Regina which she gladly fell into. "I love you so much Regina." He kissed the top of her head and she cupped his face in her hands "I love you too" they both started to snuggle down to go to sleep. Graham stretched over to turn the lights off "Goodnight, love"
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