Henry was upset.

That was very obvious.

Since when I reached the castle he didn't say much, I tried to ask somethings but he would just mumble an answer completely out of context, so I just stayed there making some company to him and staring at the ocean for a little bit when I saw Emma coming up. She was out of Henry's sight, carring his book and I thought she might wanted to talk to him all alone, so I lept out of the castle and made my way to her.

"Hey blondie" I caught her attention before she could reach Henry's ear range.

"Hey freckles, what's up with him?" Apparently she's got the joke and went along.

"He's upset, I've tried to talk to him but he just won't answer me anyway" She chuckled and looked his direction "I think you'll be better company right now" She shook her head.

"Why me? I mean, he barelly knows me" Was she an idiot or what?

"I guess that's because he made a really big effort just to bring you here, all because of the curse, and apparently nothing has changed" She looked away, she probably felt guilty about all this "C'mon, just go there, he doesn't need me right now..." I looked down for an instant, as hard as it was, I'm not his mother anyway "He needs you, and I'll leave you two alone for a second, I'm going to take a stroll by the beach, if you need me just shout"

With that I passed by Emma, going towards the sea. I knew how important privacy was...

After a while kicking stones and throwing wet sand on the ocean I heard Emma calling for me as she was jumping of the castel, but while I aproached them I realised they were having some sort of agument.

"Just stay with me for a week. It's all I ask" He was pratically begging "One week and you'll see that im not crazy"

"I have to get you back to your mom" Emma replied as I got closer.

"You don't know what it's like with her, my life sucks!" At that I stopped on my tracks and waited for them to end it.

"Oh you know what sucking is? Being abandoned at the side of a freeway, my parents didn't even bother to drop me off at a hospital. I ended on the foster sistem, and I had a family until I was three, and then they had their own and sent me back" That was so hard and deep that I even felt that I souldn't be there at all "Look, your mom is trying her best, I know it's hard, and I know you've come to think she doesn't love you, but at least she wants you" Both of them were crying at this point "You even have your sister..." Henry cut her right through her sentence.

"Your parents didn't leave you at the side of a free way, that's where you came through" He said.

"What?" She was as confused as I was, and visually disturbed.

"The wardrobe, when you entered the wardrobe you appeared in the street. Your parents were trying to save you from the curse" She gave up as she saw that she couldn't really argue with him, and also I felt that it was calmer for me to aproach them.

"Of course they were..." She smiled simpatically at him as I put a hand on his shoulder.

"C'mon Henry" She said.

As we got closer to my house, I knew I was grounded, so as soon as Emma stopped the car I ran inside, pushed my mother aside and climbed to my bedroom and caught my emergency pack, which was an old bag full of extra clothes and anything I needed for a sleepover and some food and money, and ran to the service door while my mother was very occupied arguing with Emma at the front door, so I circuled the house from outside of the living fence and got to Emma's car, which was out of the front door's view. I shoved my pack at the back seat and jumped to the passanger seat.

While I waited for Emma, I sent a text for Henry explaining my plan for the night so he wouldn't be concerned about me. As I hit the button 'send', Emma opened the driver's door, and to be honest, the face she managed was one of the best I've seen on a while.

"What the hell kid?" she looked back and forth staring at me and the house behind us "How...?" she was really confused "How?"

"I know, I'm some sort of ninja, just remember that, and I though you'd like some directions to the nearest hotel, right?" As I said that her eyebrows got higher and higher...

"No. No, no, no, I'm not staying and you should get inside now" She said that in whispers, making sure my mother wasn't hearing it, but I didn't give a damn.

"Emma, c'mon, don't you tell me that everything my mother said about you staying away from Henry didn't make you want to stay" I paused and smiled "And what can one week do?"

"Okay, but I can't just go away and take you everywhere"

"No need to worry, once we got to the hotel you won't need to worry about me, as I said, I'm a ninja" With that she just sighed and took the driver's seat.

As we made our way to granny's hotel I was thinking about how things would be now on, with Emma around, even just for a while, that was when Emma started making questions

"So, has he always been like this?" She said "I mean, kind of a trouble maker?"

"No, actualy he was pretty much the oposite, extremely shy and, somehow... depressive" I said leisurely "You see, I made my best but mom never went easy and he's sensitive, sometimes he didn't even consider us a family, there were days that he would just sit alone on a bench at the entrance of school, watching parents drop and pick up kids there..."

"I get it, somehow" She paused "I did the same things but it was in foster rooms, I saw kids leaving with their new families, at least he had somewhere to go"

"I also get it, I mean, I'm not diferent from you guys, but I just think that I deal better with things, I've argued with my mother for a long time but I've just realised that is not worth it..."

"Haven't you ever looked for your parents or anything?"

"Yeah, once..." I stared straight trough the window without expression "Got no luck, both of them appear to be unexistent, but I'm ok with that, I've realised that I already have a family here, may be not the best but it at least exists" I paused "But as long as Henry needs me, I'll be there"

"That's..." She inhaled deeply "Unusual to hear from someone at your age, like, aren't you more preocupied on dating and stuff like that..?"

"Nah... That's for losers" I let out a sarcastic laugh "There, first at left"

As soon as Emma parked the car, I got my stuff from the backseats and went inside, followed by the blonde.

When we got inside, I realised Ruby and Granny were both arguing about Ruby's relationships with the entire east coast, which I thought kinda funny, but Emma certainly looked uncomfortable.

"Excuse me, I'd like a room" She said announcing our presence.

"Really?" Granny snapped out of the conversation with Ruby and straightened, moving behind the counter "Would you like a forest view or a square view? Normally there is an extra tax for the square but since the rent is up to date it won't cost anything"

"Square is fine" Emma said.

"And what about you Olivia?" She gave me an preoccupied look "Your mother again?"

"Yeah, is it okay if I stay like, two days?"

You see, Granny and I had this deal that when my mother and I had a fight, Granny would let me stay for a while, knowing tha my mother wouldn't be stupid enough to argue with her.

"Of course miss" she turned to Emma "Now, your name?"

"Swan. Emma Swan"

"Emma, what a lovely name" Said Gold as he entered the estabilishment.

"Thanks..." Emma said as she looked uncertain. I've got to admit that he was kinda creepy sometimes, but mostly missunderstood, I faced him as he got the rent from Granny and smiled at me for no aparent reason as he left.

"Who's that" Emma asked.

"Mr. Gold" Ruby answered.

"He owns this place" Granny explained.

"The hotel?"

"No, the town" I said.

"So, how long will you be with us?" asked Granny.

"A week" Emma paused, looking at me "Just a week"

"Great" Granny said as she handed Emma her keys "Welcome to Storybrooke"