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The next day Regina was back to work, Emma did everything she could to not cross the brunette's path, but they finally met each other in class and there was nowhere for Emma to hide.

However, Regina seemed not even notice the blonde girl, she seemed calm, cold and Emma knew immediately that she was wearing her mask once more and that broke Emma's heart a little more.

During the class Regina didn't look at her not even once, she talked to the class with her usual neutral voice and when the bell rang Emma walked out of the room, looking back at Regina but the brunette didn't take her eyes off her papers.

Emma had to control the huge desire of running to the teacher and kiss her right there but left without a single word.

The days passed, Emma and Regina rarely spoke to each other and when they did it was only during class and with small sentences.

"She must hate me" Emma thought several times during that month.

The blonde never saw Regina again at the library and her office's door was always closed, every night Emma walked to the bar with an empty hope of seeing Regina from afar, to be able to look at her, but the brunette never showed.

Every night Emma sat on the exact same place, hoping to hear an "Is this seat taken?" that never came, hoping to see those brown dark eyes that she knew she had lost, but they never appeared.

At school her grades dropped quickly, she couldn't focus on studying and she started skipping classes, all of them except her Literature and Poetry ones. Despite the pain of seeing Regina treating her with a cold shoulder, she couldn't help looking for her eyes across the room.

A month had passed and Emma realized that Regina had lost weight very quickly.

She wanted to call Kathryn to ask about Regina but she didn't have her number and asking Regina herself was out of question.

"Emma you have to stop" Ariel said to her after they left the Poetry class "You're torturing yourself"

The blonde sighed sadly "I know, but I can't stay away from her"

"The semester is almost ending, then you can finally tell her all the truth" Ariel said caressing Emma's shoulder but the blonde shook her head.

"She hates me Ariel, I can see it in her eyes" Emma let out.

"But you need to tell her the truth! When the semester is over Zelena can't do anything against you two"

"Yes she can Ariel, even after the end of the semester, if she tells someone that Regina and I were together while she was still my teacher, her career is over" Emma said in angst.

Ariel shook her own head "That decision it's not yours, Regina needs to make her own choices, if she wants to stay with you she deserves to have the chance to chose"

Emma was shaking her head.

"What are you so afraid of?" Ariel finally asked "This is not only about Zelena or Regina's career.." she pointed.

Emma knew Ariel was right "I'm afraid Ariel" the blonde let out "I'm afraid that she won't chose me, I'm afraid to find out that she really hates me or worse that she forgot about me" she continued "I know it's selfish but it's what I feel" she finished and looked at Ariel who was smiling at her.

"You're in love Emma"

Emma nodded "I know, I've known from the beginning" she finally admitted to herself.

"Does she know?" Ariel continued.

Emma looked down for a moment "I never told her" then she looked back up "How I wish I had told her"

Ariel was amazed by Emma's feelings, Emma was always the person that never trusted anyone besides herself, that never gave her heart to anyone, and there she was, giving her heart to Regina without thinking twice.

"Get up Regina!" Kathryn said pulling Regina's sheets making the brunette groan.

"It's cold! Let me sleep!" the brunette yelled throwing a pillow against her friend almost making her fall on the floor.

It was Saturday and Kathryn had decided that she would get Regina out of her mansion even if she had to force her.

"Get up! I'm not letting you stay in bed the whole weekend again!" Kathryn yelled throwing the pillow back at the brunette "The only time you get out of bed is for going to work, you don't even eat properly" Kathryn sighed sadly, she was really worried about Regina.

Regina raised slowly her head "You're NOT my mother" she said sharply "she was right, love is weakness" the brunette finished.

"You really love her" Kathryn let out in a whispered but Regina didn't answer to her, and the answer wasn't needed.

Kahryn was being tortured, knowing what really happened and not being able to tell Regina was killing her inside, she couldn't bare seeing two women that loved each other broken like that.

So she decided she had to do something.

"Go take a bath! NOW!" she screamed at Regina and the brunette got up annoyed and walked to the bathroom slowly.

When the brunette closed the bathroom's door, Kathryn grabbed her phone that was on the bed and searched Emma's number, writing it on a paper before Regina could realize it.

Emma was in bed, it was Saturday morning and she wasn't in the mood to get up, she was trying to go back to sleep. Sleeping was the only thing that didn't hurt her, it prevented her from thinking about Regina, in her dreams there was no Zelena, just love, just Regina.

When she was almost back asleep her phone rang and she answer the call annoyed "WHAT?" she yelled at the machine.

"Emma, is Kathryn" the other voice said making Emma jump on her bed.

Emma thought about a thousand thing to say but only one thing came out of her mouth "How is she?"

"Probably just like you" Kathryn said immediately.

Emma took a while to answer "Does she hate me?" letting that sentence out hurt Emma a lot more that she expected.

"This is crazy Emma, you need to tell her!" Kathryn said annoyed but in a low voice.

"Why are you whispering?" Emma asked already knowing the answer.

"She's in the bathroom, I'm in her room" Kathryn answered "You need to tell her!"

Emma shook her head knowing that the other woman couldn't see it "I need to go, bye Kathryn" the blonde finished turning off the call.