CAP 11

Well the overdose of fresh air only helped to confirm what I ended up discovering and accepting last night; I'm in love with Regina and I've been an idiot not to notice before.

I still don`t want to go home. So I'm going to Granny`s for a beer.

The road to the cafeteria feels weird. Maybe because when there is no magical threat this town is damn peaceful. Or maybe it's me; and the memories that this place brings me from her.

I sit at the bar and suddenly remember when I convinced Regina to change tea for shots.

- "What can I get you?" –

Granny surprises me with her question.

-"I am? Yes, ummm ... a beer? "-

I say stuttering. –

"Are you ordering me or are you asking me? Because if you're asking me, I think you need something stronger. "-

She says smiling.

- "Isn't it too early for something stronger?" –

I ask her.

- "In my experience it doesn`t matter the time to have a good drink, and even less if it is what you need." –

- "Yes, but; what will people think? The Savior drinking on a Sunday afternoon. "-

I tell her without understanding why I would be sharing my concerns with Widow Lucas.

- "I tell you again; it doesn`t matter what others say. Only what you want and need. "-

She says looking me in the eyes.

- "But if it leaves you more at ease; usually Sundays are bored there`s only a few people who come. Especially at this time. "

- "So I ask you again, what can I get you?" –

She says smiling.

- "Vodka will do then." –

Finally someone who understands the need for a drink.

- "Coming." –

She assures me.

When I ask for the second, she approaches with another glass and the whole bottle.

She serves the two and stay in front of me.

- "It's not that I want to interfere Emma, but are you okay?" –

- "I don't know." –

Hell, I'm surprised, but I really need to talk to someone.

- "Have you ever felt that everything is supposed to be, let's say normal, but you have that strange feeling that it is not what it`s meant to be?" - I ask her, since she wants to talk, let's talk.

- "Only once." -

She answers.

- "For 28 years." –

-"Right; the curse. "-Regina.

-"And how was it?"-

-"Different. It is hard to know what`s wrong when everything is as it`s supposed to be. But I think both Ruby and I felt that something was odd. Maybe it was our wolf talking to us. But it was an unpleasant felling."-

She ends up serving another round.

-"And you? When did you feel that way? –

- "When I got married." –

Again I can`t contain myself with my answer.

-"Oh darling. Again, maybe it's my animal nature. But I could see that happiness wasn`t yours. In my opinion that pirate did you a favor by walking away from you. "-

- "But he was my happy ending!" - I say stubborn.

- "Not if that happiness wasn`t yours. Maybe it was the happy ending that everyone wanted you to have. But that doesn`t make it yours. "-

I never would have believed that Granny had such wisdom despite being so tough.

-"And now what do I do?"-

- "I don`t know for sure. Maybe but maybe you should stop asking those questions to other people and start asking them to yourself?"-

She says looking me dead in the eyes.

- "But I can tell you 2 things." –

She continues while I finish my drink.

- "Whatever you do from this moment on must be to and for you. You have to look for your happiness in your own way. "-

She says looking at me over her glasses.

- "And the other?" - I ask anxiously.

- "The other is that if you get one more drink you'll have to rent me a room because there's no way I would let you drive." –

She smiles at me again.

-"True. The good thing is that alcohol has only calmed me down. But it has not made me drunk so I can drive. "-

-"Right; the company had nothing to do with it. "-

She jokes.

- "The company has given me clarity." - I tell her sincerely. I pay her and I get up.

I take my keys from the bar and go to the door, I open it and Granny calls me from the entrance to the kitchen.

- "Emma." –

She tells me with tenderness.

- "Regina is a different person, with a lot of courage, but at the same time with many demons. They have ... We have hurt her too much. Please; Take care of her. "-

And while I'm left with my mouth as open as the door she disappears into the kitchen.