Emma runs as fast as she can to the Rolly Joger as soon as her last class ends. Killian is ready with their lunches when she arrives.

After they finish eating their lunch, Killian starts to lead Emma to a different part of the woods that she wasn't aware existed. She'd been here in Storybrooke for four years and is ashamed to admit she didn't take the time to find out about the town during the time she spent alone.

The duo continue to wonder until they come across a perfectly sized waterfall. They find a spot inside the waterfall that's dry and Killian asks, "So how did Neal break your heart as well as your trust? You don't have to say if you don't want to, Emma."

"No, that's alright. I trust you enough to want to say it. It's just hard. Basically, he robbed a different small town jewelry store and set me up to take the fall. I almost got sentenced to jail for eleven months. The cops quickly figured out it wasn't me and let me go. I tried to track down that dishrag only to find out he moved on with someone else. Never been with anyone else since."

Killian stated in a low voice, barely concealing his rage, "Well that bastard is a bloody fool for using you the way he did."

Emma smiled at him in gratitude before asking him about his heartbreak, if he had one.

Killian sighed before answering, "Yes, I've had my fair taste of heartbreak. Milah and I had been together since our junior year of high school. She ended things between us in freshman year of college when life had gotten hard for us, stating that there was only so much that her heart could take. Never could bring myself to move on since."

"Well, that coward is just as much of a fool as my ex for being willing to let you go."

Killian smiles gratefully at her. Emma asks him, "So is it alright for me to ask you about your family? You already know about mine."

Killian heaves another sigh before responding, "I suppose that's fair, Swan. Long story short, my mum had died when I was five. My father had abandoned my brother, Liam and I when I was seven and he was 15. We spent three years in the system until Liam was eighteen and had gotten enrolled in the Navy. I was seventeen when I had learned that he was killed in action while protecting his comrades during an attack. I then drowned myself in work and the occasional rum. One day, I saw my father along with a woman and a young lad and they looked like they were happy. As soon as that man called his son by my brother's name, I knew what my place in his life had been as well as what it meant. That's my family story."

Emma was absolutely speechless by this confession as well as amazed.

"Killian, I don't know what to say about that except that you're the most admirable, incredible, and strongest person I've ever known."

"So are you, Emma Swan. So are you."

For a moment, they gaze intently into each other's eyes, emeralds meeting sapphires. They meet each other halfway to their first kiss with each other. It was nothing and everything they dreamed about when they had imagined a first kiss. For a while they kept chasing one another's lips in between breaths of air.

When they finally stopped for air, Emma and Killian breathing heavily stated that they didn't know what this was. Emma came up with an idea.

"Let's just take a small break for a while. To see if we still feel this way afterwards. If not, we can still be friends, right?"

"Aye, Swan. That does sound like the best we can do."

"So does that mean you'll be my date for the Camelot Festival and Ball in a week and a half?"

"Aye. Does that mean our break will be over on that day?"

Emma nodded and it took everything in her to not capture his mouth with her's again. So she instructed him to not follow her and to wait several minutes after she leaves, to which he states, "As you wish." This leads to Emma smiling softly.

When she enters her apartment, Emma immediately heads off to her room, pointedly ignoring Mary Margaret and her prodding. Emma decides to go to bed early, only to be kept up by the fear of not being able to make it through the week and a half without Killian. She finally goes to sleep with the comforting thoughts of Killian being on the exact same page as her.