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Emma is woken up Saturday morning by her phone vibrating. Mary Margret is calling her and from what she sees, has also attempted texting her, 47 times. "Hello?" Still half asleep, Emma was able to manage some words, "it's 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning Mary. Is it really emergency?"
"Actually... yes. Kinda. Well I think it is. Just come over, please? I really need you guys right now..." Mary Margret's voice was shaky and nervous and everything in between.
"I'll wake Regina and we will be on our way."
"Thank you Emma."
"Emma! Regina!" Mary Margret sounded relieved to see her friends, but her face didn't seem to calm down any bit after seeing them. "Hurry in."
The girls went to sit at the table, where Ruby was already there, still in her onesie and a messy bun.
"I'm so sorry I woke you guys so early on a weekend, but, David accidentally left me a text message, that wasn't meant for me. I've been up all night crying and worried. I don't know what to think and I needed you guys, before seeing him this afternoon."
"What does it say?!" Regina asked, scared for her friend.
She showed them her phone, and bit her nails while her friends read the message.
"I don't think I can keep this a secret anymore, bro. I have to do it tomorrow. I'm nervous for how she is going to react and take it all in, but I think it's time. Five years is long enough. Tomorrow."
"What an ass!" Ruby yelled, so angry she could have woken up the entire building.
"It can't be what it looks like. You guys are too great together!" Emma said frowning, more confused than she had been all week. I mean her and Walsh just ended, the group didn't need another heart break to try and "fix".
Regina stands up to hug her friend without a word, causing Mary Margret's tears to over flow and explode. Nobody could have seen this coming. Mary Margret finally stopped crying after twenty minutes, when she got a text message. "Hey. Still want to get breakfast? Kinda craving waffles."
"He wants to go to breakfast. I don't know what to do. I can't see him, I'm not ready!" Mary Margret sobbed, stressing out and what to do.
Emma thinks quickly, not wanting to see her friend hurt, but knowing she will have to face him sooner or later. "Lunch. Tell him you can't make breakfast, but will see him at two o'clock for lunch. You are going to have to face him, but until then we will stay here and have some rocky road for breakfast and watch cartoons."
"You're right. Thank you guys for coming. I love you guys so much." Mary Margret wiped away her tears and hugged her friends before jumping to the couch, all sharing a big blanket and sharing the tub of ice cream.
And then, before they knew it, "Hey, be there in an hour, just had to get some stuff first, then ill be on my way." David's texts seemed normal, like if he had no knowledge of what he had accidentally sent his girlfriend.
"Want us to go now?" Regina asked, her voice hesitant.
"Actually, can I ask you guys for a huge favor? I have been with David for five years, I don't know how I am going to handle it when he breaks up with me... do you think you guys can kinda follow us and be near by so I can just go to you guys after?" Mary Margret felt so embarrassed having to ask her friends for such an awkward favor. How could she ask for them to follow her and be ready to catch her after the split alert?
"We'll be there." Ruby assured her. "Let me change of course, but count me in."
"Hell yeah, count me in too." Regina told her, smiling to make sure her friend knew she was there to support her.
"We're right behind you." Emma finally saying it, she never thought that there would ever be an end to the dream couple.
"There he is." Mary Margret let out a sigh preparing herself as she started walking towards the little diner where David was standing outside on his phone. "I can't do it!" She turned around when Emma and Ruby grabbed her.
"Yes. You can. And we are going to be right here for you." Regina said, pointing at the coffee shop across from the diner.
Finally finding the courage she needed, or at least what she could manage to obtain, she walked off towards David and the girls to the coffee shop, not wanting David to see them.
They were staring out the window behind a yellow poster that read "Can't Get better Than Us!" clearly a lie. David had chosen to sit outside, probably so Mary Margret wouldn't make a scene, but it gave them a perfect view of them and what was happening.
Regina and Emma get up to get coffee, when Robin and Killian walk in to the shop. "Great." Emma said rolling her eyes at the sight of Killian.
"Hey, what brings you guys in?" Regina said happy to see Robin.
"Uhhm, just here to grab a cup of coffee. What are you guys doing here?" Robin said quickly, looking and the other two girls and back at Regina.
"You hate coffee?" Regina said, not worrying about answering his question. "and I thought you had to study for your quiz on Monday?"
"Actually, lass, the coffee is for me, we were, uh, studying and needed to refuel." Killian jumped in, playing with a camera he had in his hands. "Can't study without and juices flowing." He had a smirk that could fool anyone. Except Emma.
"What are you guys really doing here?" Emma snapped, eyes narrowing on Killian. She had a thing with lies, she always did since she was a kid. Growing up in foster care, jumping from home to home, she picked up on small give aways people have when they lie.
"Why the bloody hell does it matter?" He replied, such smoothness in his voice, hiding his temper from the feisty blonde. "Afraid seeing me is going to make you like me even more?" He winked at her, distracting her from the original question. Emma was ready to fight back, when her friend cuts her off.
"Guys!" Ruby yelped from the table. "they're getting up."
The two walked to the front of the diner, right in front of the big sign that read "Granny's" that was hung on a wall full of white flowers. They all focused on the two, not caring about what the boys were doing there, or what the girls were doing there.
"OH MY GOD!" Ruby cries, causing the whole coffee shop to stare out to what she was talking about.
Mary Margret tears running down her cheeks, hands over her smiling mouth, looks down to see David on his knee holding a beautiful green-stoned ring. Emma turns around smiling, only to notice that Killian and Robin were gone, and outside the coffee shop. They had their cameras in had, one recording and the other taking photographs. The girls ran outside and joined them, only to miss seeing Mary Margret say yes and David putting the ring on her left hand.
"You know, you didn't have to be an ass. Saying the truth would have been fine." Emma told Killian her arms crossed, and smiling as if she won the battle they were obviously in. "Who knew you had a soft side that wasn't annoying." She walked away to hug and congratulate her friends, leaving him with a blank stare.
They all went back to Mary Margret and Ruby's dorm, opened a couple bottles of wine and laughed over the whole situation, making Mary Margret blush from embarrassment of how she thought he was going to leave her.
Mary Margret never expected to start a new adventure as huge as engagement in her senior year of college. She couldn't help but smile and even tear up a bit that night at thought of how great this new adventure, this chance of marrying her one true love, was. More so the joy and gratitude she had to have her best friends with her enjoying the moments like this.
