Chapter 2: Changes

A/N: Alright, here's another chapter for you all hope you enjoy!

~EC~

When Regina arrived to work the next day, she saw Emma laying on a lounge chair in front of the pool. They still had 30 minutes before they officially opened so Regina decided to go say hi. It wouldn't hurt for her to be a bit more social.

As she got closer to the blonde she heard the faint sound of snoring.

Emma was asleep and drooling all over the lounge chair. Regina chuckled loud enough to rouse the blonde from her deep sleep.

"5 more minutes." She groaned and turned on her side, facing away from Regina.

"I'd be all to happy to let you sleep however, I don't think people will appreciate sitting down and finding themselves covered in your drool." Regina laughed.

Emma groaned once more before reluctantly sitting up. She rested her elbows on her knees and placed her face into her palms.

"Rough night?" The brunette teased.

"You have no idea." Emma mumbled.

Regina sat in the chair across from Emma. "Wanna talk about it?"

Emma sighed and raised her head up to lock eyes with Regina.

"My brothers a dick." Emma grumbled.

"Who's your brother?"

Emma didn't respond, she simply pointed in the direction of the food court where David Nolan could be seen with his tongue down another woman's throat.

"David is your brother?" Regina asked, shocked.

"Sadly." Emma sighed again.

"So what did he do?"

"I walked in on him in bed with the woman that he's making out with over there, her name's Katherine." Emma ran her hands over her face in frustration. "He's dated, well dated is not the right word, he doesn't 'date' people. He has slept with her so many times before and every time they start hooking up again, she always causes trouble."

"If she causes him trouble all the time then why does he keep doing it?" Regina frowned.

"Because he's immature and doesn't think about consequences. I don't think he has a brain in that thick head to be honest." Emma chuckled.

"I kind of know how you feel." Regina chuckled.

"You do?"

"Yeah, my older sister Zelena used to bring all of these wild guys over to the house whenever my parents were out of town." She sighed. "I don't really want to get into it but...she's not in a good place right now because of all the choices she's made." Regina explained. "If there's anything you can do to help your brother, then do it. He'll never be happy if he doesn't try to change."

Regina sighed. "Sorry, you probably think I'm being demanding."

"No it's okay, I appreciate the advice." Emma smiled. "Thank you, Regina."

"Your welcome." Regina said as she smiled back.

~EC~

David felt like a stalker. He hadn't been able to keep his eyes off of Regina all day.

David just couldn't understand why she wasn't interested in him. He was going to get her to talk to him.

She was on her lunch break right now so he decided to go see if he could eat with her again. He found her sitting at a table away from everyone else, eating a sandwich and small salad.

"Hey!" He greeted.

"Hello." She said looking up at him.

"Do you care if I sit here?" He asked nodding towards the empty seat across from her.

"No." She shook her head causing her beautiful long brown hair to fall in front of her face.

David watched her pull it back into a small bun on the top of her head and secure it with the hair elastic that was around her wrist. How she made such an act look so enthralling he would never know.

"David?" She questioned when she realized he hadn't moved from his place.

"Oh right." He stuttered as he sat down. What was going on with him? He was drooling like a lovesick puppy.

"So how has your day been?" She asked.

"Okay so far, it just got better." He smiled.

It was a very cheesy line but Regina couldn't help but find it adorable coming from him. Not that she would ever admit that. Ever.

"How was yours?" He asked.

"It's been fine, I'm just excited for the day to end so that I can go swimming." She laughed.

"Your going to stay after and swim today?"

"That was the plan." She confirmed.

"Would you mind if I joined you?" David smiled at her.

"I can't stop you." She laughed. "You work here too, you are free to do as you wish."

"Hey!" He exclaimed feigning offense. "I'm a gentleman, if the lady doesn't want me to stay then I will kindly go home and cry into my pillow thinking about how she didn't want me to swim with her."

"Jerk." She laughed and threw a unused straw at him.

He laughed along with her.

In that moment she realized how kind and sweet he was. He only had one downfall, but who's to says she couldn't help him change?

~EC~

That afternoon, after everyone had left the pool except David and Regina, they decided to have a competition and see who could swim from one side of the pool to the other side the fastest.

"Ready?" Regina asked.

"Whenever you are." David replied with a smug look.

Regina smirked. "Ready. Set. GO!"

They both dived into the pool. Each of them moving their arms and legs as fast as they could.

Regina tried to focus on getting to the end, but was struggling to keep herself from looking to see where David was.

Regina finally made it to the end and stopped taking deep breaths. She looked over to find that David was not by her side and was just now approaching the end.

When he surfaced her had a pout on his lips.

Regina burst into uncontrollable laughter.

"Not funny." He grumbled.

"Upset you got beat by a girl, Charming?" She teased.

"Charming? Really?" He raised an unimpressed eyebrow.

"Yeah that's your new nickname!" She teased.

"If you get to call me charming then I get to call you something." He suggested.

"Fine, what would that be?"

He thought for a second before replying. "I'll let you know when i come up with something."

She laughed. "Okay."

They both sat side by side on the edge of the pool in a comfortable silence.

"So your sister is really nice." Regina didn't want to tell David what Emma said because she felt like that would be betraying the woman's trust however Regina was hoping she could here what David had to say about their situation.

He scoffed in disbelief. "Are you sure we're talking about the same Emma Nolan?"

"Yes I'm positive." Regina chuckled.

"I suppose she can be nice, when she's not hounding me of course." He sighed frustrated.

"Hounding you?" Regina prompted.

David didn't necessarily want Regina to know about Katherine or the other women in his life but the thought of confiding in someone (mainly Regina) didn't sound to unappealing.

"There's this woman, Katherine, we've uh slept together many times on many different occasions in the past." He said awkwardly. "And she can sometime cause some problems and we end up fighting and stop seeing each other but we always somehow end up together again.."

"So Emma doesn't like that?"

"No." He laughed. "Emma and Katherine went to the same school in 11th grade, they were best friends until one day they had a falling out and now they absolutely hate one another. But it's not even that, I think Emma is just being the mature sister she usually is and is trying to look out for me."

"She's trying to make sure you don't repeat the same mistake, by sleeping with Katherine?"

"Yeah." He sighed.

"Well are you going to listen to her?" Regina asked.

"I don't know." He answered honestly.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Of course." He said and turned to face her.

"If you know that things won't end well with Katherine, why do you keep having sex with her?"

David frowned and thought for a second. Why did he?

"Do you care for her?" She added.

"I-I care for her in a friend sort of way. I don't want to date her or anything. To be honest, I don't know why I keep sleeping with her." He rubbed the back of his neck.

"I don't want to be rude or overstep, but do you think maybe it's because your...lonely? Is it maybe the comfort of just having someone there?"

He frowned deeply. "I'm not lonely."

"Okay well it was just a question." She defended.

He sighed. Maybe he should just be honest with Regina. He really liked her and she seemed trustworthy however, who was he to decide that after only knowing her for two days?

"The truth is I'm..terrified of relationships." He let out an uneasy laugh.

Regina had definitely not expected that. So that why he was with many different women? He didn't want to be tied down or date normally?

"Oh." She said.

"Yeah."

"Well that's understandable." She smiled.

He looked at her questioningly.

"I used to be the same way." She laughed. "When I was 17 I dated this guy named Daniel. He was so sweet and charming." She raised her eyebrows teasingly and David laughed.

"The first date he took me on I was so nervous!" She laughed. "I just knew he wouldn't want to go out again after that night, from the beginning I thought it would be a total fail and he would never call me again. You wanna know what happened?"

David nodded quickly.

"He called me and asked me to go on a second date, but because of my fear of dating, I told him no. So there you go, I let my fear of dating drive me away from what one would call, the perfect guy." She laughed. "Nevertheless, I overcame that fear."

David chuckled along with her.

They sat, once again, in a comfortable silence. The sun was starting to set and the sky looked beautiful. David turned his gave towards the brunette beside of him.

She was looking up at the sky. He took in her beauty. The water had washed off any trace of makeup and her hair had dried into soft perfect curls. He wondered how anyone could be more perfect.

He really hadn't ever met anyone like her. It made him feel, for once, that he might be able to overcome his fear and go on a date. She would be worth it.

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