Chapter 8

Robin sat in Granny's staring at the mug in his hands. He was still furious at Regina and Emma's stunt. He felt like a fool for not seeing through Regina's charade. He should know better than anyone how Regina operates. The minute she started going on about jealousy should have been an enormous red flag.

"Where's your better half?" Granny asked pouring more coffee into Robin's mug.

He snapped his head at the question. "Regina is at the office," he answered coolly. "Busy day for her."

Granny picked up on his agitated tone. "Trouble in paradise?"

Robin arched his eyebrow. "Don't you have other customers to serve?" he snapped.

"Yep. Regina has certainly rubbed off on you," Granny stated. "Excuse me then." She walked away from the table.

Robin felt some remorse for his behavior. He started to call Granny back over to apologize when the chime from the door got his attention. Neal walked through searching all the faces before landing on Robin's. He made a beeline for him and sat across from him.

"Hey," he greeted. Neal looked agitated to say the least.

"Hey yourself," Robin said. "You look like you need coffee more than I do."

"I need something stronger," he muttered. "I'm still having trouble wrapping my mind around it all. Emma being a willing participant in this. I expect Regina to do this…no offense," Neal continued.

"None taken," Robin said. "Regina wouldn't be Regina if she didn't come up with some plan."

They stayed in silence for a few moments before Neal spoke again. "So I take it things at home are pretty tense."

"You can say that," Robin replied. "What about you and Emma?"

"Same. I'm a little mad. To step up a fake wedding just to rub my mistake in my face…that's just insane. I bought her tears," he said. "We're not exactly speaking to each other this morning."

Robin nodded his head in understanding. Robin's phone buzzed and it was Regina. "Speaking of Regina," he said holding up his phone to Neal. He hit the ignore button and dropped the phone on the table.

Regina stood in her office looking out the window after Robin rejected her call. He left without saying anything to her. They even slept in different rooms the previous night. She decided to call back and it went straight to voicemail.

"Robin, it's me. We need to talk. I'm sorry for what I did. Just call me back so we can resolve this. I love you," she said and hung up.

The doors opened and she thought it was him. Instead she was met by Emma. "Emma," she said.

"Hello. I see you are in the same boat I am," she guessed.

"And what boat is that?" Regina asked.

"Robin not talking to you. Neal is pretty pissed at me," she related. "I guess the whole wedding thing was a bit much."

"Perhaps but it was clever," Regina responded. "Although I would have liked it if Blue wasn't there."

"Who else would I have used? My mother? Tink?" Emma questioned.

"You have a point," Regina said and sat in her chair.

Emma sat in front of her. "I guess I have you to thank for this mess but I have my own part to account for. I didn't think they would react this way."

Regina tilted her head. "I didn't either. So what do we do now?"

"Beg for forgiveness," Emma said. "Where do you think they are now?"

Regina looked at her watch. "Granny's."

"Ok. If we leave now, we can catch them," Emma said.

Regina crossed her arms. "What exactly are you going to do?"

"I don't know yet. Trust me, this plan won't be as out there as my last one," Emma reassured.