Happy New Year guys! I hope you all had and awesome 2014 year! Thanks for the great reviews and I hope you all enjoy this chapter! (I used line breaks in this one)
~8Ball
Regina smirks, accepting the challenge. "Well then, lets start off with what your last name is?" She asks. "If I'm going to call you anything then I'll call you by your last name." She can hear the kids warming up out in the field with the assistant coach.
"Emma is my name, and you can call me Emma." Emma narrows her eyes. She can tell by the way Regina talks that she is used to getting her way. "Now Miss. Mills, you may continue with your questions."
"Is this your only job?" She asks, intent on getting some answers. Emma was different, she was less afraid of Regina than anyone else was.
"Oh, no, it's not." Emma says simply, knowing that it will drive Regina crazy to not have all the details. "Well Miss. Mills, I do believe the game will be beginning soon." She smirks and then walks away to the field.
The team ends up winning 6-2 and Henry made the winning goal. After he kicks the ball into the net, Emma runs over and spins him around in the air as everyone else on the team gathers around to celebrate. She doesn't care about how ridiculous she looks, getting excited about a bunch of six year olds. Emma gets the kids to their snacks and then walks back over to Regina, who had been watching the game like it was the most important thing in her life. If it involves Henry, it is the most important thing to her.
"Anymore questions for me?" Emma says, smiling playfully. "Cause we could finish at dinner one night." She adds. "With Henry of course." She says quickly, trying to make up for what she had said about them having dinner. She feels like smacking herself in the face for acting like such a fool. 'It's not like you've never asked a woman out before, damn Emma.' She says to herself.
"Emma..." Regina sighs and try's to hide the blush that had spread on her cheeks. "Henry's doing well right?" She asks, changing the subject. Regina glances over Emma's shoulder and smiles subconsciously when she sees Henry playing with some of his friends. Quickly, she snaps back to attention, hoping that Emma didn't see her smile.
"Uh, yeah." Emma says, once again wanting to slap herself. 'Where'd all that confidence go, Swan?' She asks herself. Emma watches Regina carefully and notices the smile form on her lips. "Um, I have to go, I'll see you next Saturday." She says frantically before she begins to walk over to a group of mothers.
Regina watches Emma walk away and thinks about how strange the blonde woman was turning out to be. Henry walks over to Regina with the straw from his drink dangling from his mouth.
"So what'd you think mama?" He asks, his words a little distorted from the straw.
"I think you did excellent." Regina says, smiling down at the little boy. He shakes his head.
"No, about Emma." He smiles softly. Regina's mouth opens slightly, as if she was going to say something, but then she decides against it.
"She's...fine." Regina sets her hand on top of his head and ruffles his hair. "Now, lets go home."
Emma stood with the other women but wasn't listening to anything they were saying, she was to busy watching Regina leave the field. She was still pissed off at herself for acting like an idiot. For some reason, she acted differently around Regina, she was no longer the cool and composed Emma Swan, who was able to get all the ladies, at least, that's what she told herself. She shakes her head and looks back up ahead of her. 'Just forget about it.' She tells herself. Maybe it's best if she does. Slowly, she pulls out of the parking lot and drives home.
The only thing Regina can think about on her way home is Emma. She doesn't get why, but something about Emma is different then anyone else she's ever met. She's more...defiant, and a little confident. Usually, people's confidence cripples when they talk to Regina, especially when it has something to do with a business disagreement.
Halfway home, she realizes that Henry had been awfully quiet the whole way back. She glances into the rear view mirror and smiles softly when she sees the little boy passed out in the back seat with his head leaning against the window. She wasn't going to wake him up when they got home so she decides to just carry him in.
After arriving at her small apartment, she goes through her stuff and finds Regina's contact info. Texting Regina was risky, especially at this hour, but Emma was prepared to take that risk. She doesn't even know what to say, hell, she doesn't even know why she's texting Regina in the first place.
-Hey, it's Emma, my last name is Swan and my second job is as a teacher at an elementary school. Those are the answers you wanted, aren't they?-
There, it's sent. Now there's no take backs. She waits nervously and impatiently for a reply, even though she knows that the chances of Regina actually answering are one in a million.
Regina had just put Henry down in his bed when her phone rang, alerting her that she had a message.
"Shit." She mutters, hoping the noise didn't wake up the sleeping child. Thankfully, he doesn't move. Gently, she kisses his cheek and then leaves the room, making sure the door is closed behind her. 'Please don't let it be a text from work.' She couldn't go into work, not now. It was so late and she couldn't leave Henry alone, even if he's asleep.
Once she's downstairs, she checks her phone. 'How did she get my number?' She asks herself. It was the parent forms, the ones that the parents had to fill out when they were singing their kids up. The phone numbers were only supposed to be used for emergencies though.
-Hello Miss Swan. Aren't these numbers only supposed to be used for emergency purposes only?-
Regina smirks, glad that she will no longer have to call Emma by her first name. Not that she didn't like the name, she just thought it was too casual to be calling Emma by her first name on a daily basis.
-It's Emma, just Emma, and in this case, I've made an exception. Unless, of course, you have a problem with that, Miss Mills?-
Emma had answered immediately and after sending the message had cringed at how she hadn't waited a little bit to reply. She didn't want to seem desperate. She knows that Regina wouldn't say that she had a problem with it. Emma had asked her like it was a challenge and Regina never backed down from a challenge. Especially not now.
Regina growls, realizing that she hasn't won just yet. Emma, to her, was almost infuriating. She was interesting though, and that's why Regina had been giving her so much attention.
-I have no problem with it at the moment-
Regina sighs and goes to sit down on her couch. It had been an interesting day. It feels like forever since she's been able to actually sit down and relax. Work, for the past week, had been especially annoying. Busy days without any break, and a couple of clients had been difficult to deal with. People got on Regina's nerves, she couldn't help that most people weren't on her level of intellect. She had another question for Emma though, and this time, she expected it to be answered without any delay. She was done playing games with Emma.
-What do you teach at the school?-
Emma hadn't even had time to reply the first time Regina had sent her a message. Regina was fast and Emma was still trying to keep up with the woman.
-Henry knows-
Emma can almost picture the look of frustration on Regina's face. She grins, glad that she's able to make a challenge for Regina. She sets her phone down and goes to shower. Gone for a good thirty minutes, she gives the brunette a long time to calm down from whatever furry she was in. Emma was having a damn good time of pushing all Regina's buttons.
Regina was frustrated. She didn't want to have to keep asking the same questions over and over again. She sighs heavily and bites her bottom lip in frustration.
-Miss Swan, I do find it odd that you keep telling me to ask you questions, but you continue to avoid the answers.-
She waits a couple moments for an answer, and then when her waiting comes to no avail, she gives up and turns her phone off.
"Mama?" Regina jumps, startled by the sudden break of silence in the large house. Looking up, she sees that it's just her son standing at the foot of the stairs rubbing his eyes. Absolutely adorable.
"Yes?" She stands up and starts to walk over to the tired boy.
"My tummy is speaking to me." He says seriously. Regina smiles and nods, trying not to laugh.
"Is it really?" She asks playfully as she scoops him into her arms. For a slight moment she completely forgets about Emma and is just focused on Henry.
"Yeah, it's saying that it wants food." This time, Regina can't help it, and a quiet chuckle escapes her lips.
-I give you answers, just not the ones you want-
Emma was late with her message, and after Regina doesn't answer, she decides to go out and get some food. She'll go to Granny's and get something small since she isn't that hungry. She should go out anyway, so there's no harm.
Everyone that works Granny's pretty much knows Emma since it's the only place she ever goes for anything really. Michael, an old friend of hers, is there too and he comes over to sit with her.
"Hello Mickey." Emma says happily when he sits down across from her.
"Jeez woman, you know that I hate it when you call me that." He shakes his head, but he's smiling so it's ok.
"Yeah, I do." Emma smirks and shrugs her shoulders. They'd been friends since high school and sometimes, she even looked up to him like she would an older brother.
"So, how's soccer going? Any single moms for you to flirt with?" He teases, knowing that Emma does that frequently.
"Nope, none for you." She says, pretending like he asked her if she got any women for him to have. He rolls his eyes.
"Not me. Did you get one Emz?" He smirks and leans closer, putting his elbows on the table. Emma just looks down at her glass of water and plays with her straw.
"No, but I did kind of embarrass myself. I think I'm slowly making up for it though." She looks back up at Micheal. He's laughing his ass off.
Agh, it's finally done! No, not the whole story, just this chapter. We still have quite a lot more to go through. Don't worry, even when I run out of role play, because yes, it is over, I'll continue it. I will let you guys know when I get to the end of the role play so that you'll know that the rest of it is mine. Anyway, I hope you all had a happy new year! What were your resolutions? I know one of mine was to write more fanfiction! I hope 2015 brings smiles to all of you! Wow, it's already 2015. Ok, I'm going to stop blabbering now, thanks for reading!
~8Ball