Chapter 6

April 2007

Killian arrives at his apartment carrying a box and has the biggest smile on his face, to find Emma studying again while sitting on the sofa, with her books basically spread out everywhere over the apartment he wondered how one girl could be so messy. He was glad she was there though he had exciting news to tell her.

"Ooh what's in the box please tell me its food." Emma realised the time when Killian came in and noticed she hadn't eaten in over 5 hours.

"Yes its food and funny enough its also for you." he said setting the box on the kitchen counter.

"Yummy." she headed towards the box, but Killian stopped her.

"Sit down and close your eyes, till I get it sorted." he told Emma.

Emma done as Killian said she sat in one of the seats at the counter in the kitchen, she could hear Killian searching the kitchen drawers for something. Then she eventually heard a clicking noise.

"Open your eyes now" he said.

Emma opened her eyes and saw a cupcake with a number one candle on it.

"Whats this for?" she asked

"One year ago today a this blonde girl came up to me in a bar and asked me to kiss her."

Emma smiled at him. "Well that blonde girl wants to kiss you again."

Emma leaned forward to kiss Killian, it became a deep passionate kiss just like the first time they kissed, both their hearts were racing, that spark they had was still there. Emma ran her fingers through Killian's hair, and then she pulled back from the kiss.

"Still the same." she said getting her breath back from the kiss. "You need a shower you stink of fish."

"Sorry love thought you'd be used to it by now."

Emma blows out the candle on the cupcake, and starts taking of the wrapper so she can eat it.

"l feel bad I never got you anything, I don't consider this are first anniversary." she started stuffing the cupcake in her mouth.

"It's ok I don't need anything, having you is good enough, but you never know maybe when I go to freshen up you could join me." he smirked

Still eating the cupcake Emma says. "You know what I have learnt in this past year I totally wear the pants in this relationship." she joked with Killian.

"Oh I love to swoon over my woman everyday." Killian put on a girly voice and pretended to flick his hair.

Emma spat out some of the cupcake from laughing at him.

"Someones in a very good mood tonight." she added

"That's what I want to tell you, I bought that little place down near the docks today, its the perfect place to open our restaurant." Killian was so ecstatic telling her about it.

"I thought you were going to think about it a bit more?" she asked walking to the bin to throw the wrapper away.

"I kept passing it and I can see this vision of our restaurant in there."

"Our restaurant?" Emma was confused.

"Well I'm hoping you will help me run it, when I get it started, maybe we could eventually run it together." he was full of so much hope but he could see Emma wasn't thinking the same.

"Killian you know I'm going away next year to study aboard, I have exams coming up as well I wouldn't have time to help you at all."

"What if you take a year out, give yourself a break from all this." he points at all the books around the room. "You deserve a break Emma."

"I don't want to take a year out you know what I had planned, you know what my big plan was and you were fine with it" she started to nag at Killian.

"Calm down it was only a suggestion." he snapped back at her.

"You see this, this is why I didn't want to get serious with anyone." Emma voice started to get louder.

"Have you ever considered plans change, have ever thought maybe I don't want to go away aboard while you study." he also started to raise his voice.

"I haven't asked you to go away with me!"

"Then what was going to happen to us then if you decided not to ask me to go."

"I don't know long distance or something I'm sure we would have worked something out." she was becoming very angry with him this was the first time they had really started to argue over all thing off Emma studying abroad.

"Oh, yeah can see long distance working out for us, see each other once in the whole year trying to find time to call each other when we are free and when the time difference is good for the both of us. We would bearly make it through half a year with long distance!"

Emma started gathering her stuff, she could feel tears coming to her eyes, she started packing all her books away.

"You not going to say anything now, you know I'm right." Killian continued to shout at her, this was also the first time he ever felt so angry at her. She never once was going to take in what he wanted to do with his life.

"You don't know some people have long distance relationships that do work out I know that not all couples survive it but I thought we had something that would beat those odds!" she yelled at him and head toward the door.

"Running away from the problem now great its not going to sort anything out!"

Emma slammed the door behind her as said that, tears had started to fall from her eyes and down her cheeks she couldn't argue back to more with him. She then heard him slamming his fist of the door as he was full of rage.

It had been a few hours since there argument. Emma lay on her bed in her student apartment she knew he was right in a way she wasn't going to take into consideration his dream off owning his own restaurant. He was right also that she could take a year out from her studies she had been working so hard these past few years. A year off wouldn't be so bad to have some fun and be carefree. She needed to make a decision in the next few months but right now all she wanted to do was be with Killian. When she was upset he would be the holding her and comforting her, but this time he was one that made her upset. She turned and looked at her clock it was almost 11 pm. She knew he was most likely in bed now, but she couldn't wait till the morning to see him to say sorry.

Killian's apartment was a 20 minute walk from her apartment, but early when Emma was upset she thought she never going to get back it felt like forever. When she got to Killian's she tried the door, but it was locked he was definitely in bed then. Emma went over to the fire extinguisher in the corner and lifted it up its were Killian kept his spare key. She unlocked the door and quietly closed it behind her. The place was in darkness as she headed to Killian's room.

She crawled up onto the bed beside Killian, who was sleeping on his back, she put her hand on his chest, and she started to snuggle into his body, it was then he started to wake up. He smiled when he saw Emma.

"Sorry for waking you." she whispered.

"It's fine" he replied half asleep, wrapping his arm round her bring him closer to him.

"And I'm sorry about earlier." she said looking into his beautiful blue eyes. "I'll think about it as well" she added.

"About what?"

"Taking a year out next year."

"Even just to hear you're going to think about it makes me happy enough." he kissed her forehead.