Chapter 4

'Party'

Later that day Emma, Neal and Henry were getting ready for the party. After 1 hour everyone had turned up apart from Lara. Everyone was talking when there was a knock on the door. When Emma answered it she saw it was Lara. "Hey Lara." She said giving her a hug. "How are you?"

"Good you?"

"Good thank you." When Emma looked at her she noticed Lara's lip was cut. "What happened to your lip?"

"Oh I woke up from a nightmare the other night and fell out of bed." She said laughing. The she realised she had something for Neal and Emma, "Oh I forgot to give you this." She said while holding up a present.

"Oh Lara you didn't have to."

"No, no I insist." Lara said giving her the present.

"Thank you." Emma took the present and put it on the table with the other presents.

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After about an hour of meeting new people Lara was about to leave when she bumped into someone. "Oh sorry."

"No problem are you Lara?"

"Um...yeah."

"I'm Regina the mayor of Storybroke I was just wondering if I could talk to you?"

"Sure."

"So how do you know Emma?"

"Well the night I came here we bumped into each other."

"I've got to say you two do look similar." Regina said.

"Do you think?"

"Yes you both have similar eyes."

"Well I wonder if we both have the same weakness." Lara said with a sigh.

"Why what's yours?"

"Mine? Well... its if something bad was to happen to someone I care about. I learnt that the hard way."

"What do you mean by 'learnt that the hard way'?"

"Well...if you don't mind but I would rather not talk about it."

"Ok."

"Well it was nice to meet you." After that Lara left the house and started to walk back to the inn. But what she didn't know was that Ruby was following her.

Ruby prov

Why was Lara walking out? I didn't know what to do. The only thing I could think about doing was following her. When I was walking down the road I came close enough for me to call her. "Lara!" When she stopped and turned around I started to jog up to her. When I got to her I said "How come you left."

"I just got tired."

"Listen I overheard you and Regina talking about you losing someone, I was just wondering who that 'someone' was."

"I don't want to talk about it." She started to walk away, I knew I had to stop her.

"It's happened to me to." At that moment she stopped and turned around. I started to walk to her "I lost someone close to me to."

"He was my boyfriend." She was looking to the ground so I couldn't her face but I had a feeling she wanted to talk.

"How did you guys meet?"

She let out a little laugh and looked at me. "I was leaving the hospital after having wrist checked because that month after falling over, I was in a rush because of the bus, I was running round the corner when I bumped into someone and we both broke our noses. We were lying in a hospital bed when we started to talk, laugh and he said his name was Jack. We stated to date for a bit, found out he was a singer his self. Everything was great."

"What happened then?" I asked her.

She let out a sigh "He told me he was going to Africa to see some friends and that he would be back in a couple of months, he was going to call me but he never did so I waited the next day and when I was about to pick up my phone it fell out the window and lost his number. I was hoping he would send me a letter but instead of it being him it was from someone that knew him and apparently the plane crashed landed and there were no survivors." At the end of telling me this she had tears in her eyes.

"Well did you find someone else?"

"No because anyone I get close to I lose, even my family I know who they are I've even seen them not that long ago and they don't know I'm there daughter."

'Seen them not to long ago'? What does she mean? "Hang on what do you mean by that?" She was just looking at me and then I realised. "Wait do you mean...? Is Emma you're...? Are you her sister?"

"As long as I'm still alive long enough to tell her."