A/N: Here is the Chapter 2. Enjoy it.
Chapter 2: Just Emma
While in Regina's bedroom, a blonde woman barged in the room, it was Regina's best friend, Maleficent. She was excited to meet Princess Emma and just wanted to announce to her friends in the room by breaking the silence.
"Everyone's going downstairs to take a look at Princess Emma." Maleficent said happily and sat down on the end of the bed doing her make-up.
"Oh I've already seen her. I think I'm just gonna take a shower." She struggled to get her watch off on the wrist and searched for her clothes on her way to the shower but stayed longer to chat with her friends. Other blonde woman in the green shirt and black dress pants who was sitting next to Maleficent.
"Was it thrilling? Did you faint?" Tinkerbell said. Regina rolled her eyes and scoffed.
"Um, I managed to stay on my feet." She sat down and picked her causal clothes.
"I heard there's girls and boys who came here just to meet and marry him." Maleficent shrugged and did her works on her face. Tinkerbell arched her eyebrow and Regina giggled.
"How optimistic." Regina gathered her clothes and shower supplies.
"Or how pathetic." Tinkerbell mumbled.
"And unrealistic." Cruella DeVil in her black and white dress checked on her lipstick stains. "There's a very specific kind of girl or boy that princess is going to marry. Very few girls and boys meet all of the qualifications." She smirked.
"Which are?" Maleficent crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows to her hairline.
"Money, intelligence and beauty are a given. But you'll also have to have the appropriate pedigree." Cruella spoke in a manner. Other women giggled.
"Well, I just want to take a look at her, not take vows with her." Maleficent rolled her eyes at Regina. She went to check in her purse.
"It's just the truth. Royals only marry royals. I've known Princess Emma – Em—Since we were little. I've attended her birthday parties for years." Cruella got up and turned around in her proud ways.
"She's just a lady." Regina pressed her lip into a straight face and shrugged.
"Right. She's just a lady who happens to be beautiful, sexy, rich and the future Queen of Maine." Cruella defended her point. She nodded and walked away.
Maleficent rolled her eyes and got up then mocked on Cruella's talks. She strode out from the room. Regina and Tinkerbell laughed at the priceless expression from their blonde friend.
The room was full of the student to be crowding over Emma. Some were whispering and chattering about her sitting in the audience. Emma felt nervous, got her schoolwork out from her backpack and checked if she had a pencil but she didn't. The girls between her in the middle pocketed their pencils to her and Emma got them then smiled. In her thoughts, how fantastic were the girls to help her out for pencil. Anyway, I am so excited about taking over this class as an ordinary student. I hope the crowd get out of here and I can have some peace. It never happens. Regina was sitting behind her in two rows back and giggled on Emma's embarrassing moment.
The professor entered his classroom and looked around at the crowd. He was confused about the classroom full of the students. He understood that situation because of Princess Emma in his class. He sighed. He walked to the podium, opened his schedule book and looked through the agenda for his first day of teaching.
"Quiet, please. Quiet please!" The crowd went into a silence. He was relieved that he mastered the silence. "Good Morning. Good Morning I see we are standing room this semester. I can only assume it is due to my incredibly riveting teaching style."
The crowd laughed at his joke and shook their heads. The professor smiled and continued, "This is Introduction to the Great Masters of the 19th Century. You will be put into groups of four, each group will be responsible for presenting a comprehensive look at one artist. Some of you may have relatives who portraits were painted by one of the well-known masters." He looked at Emma and arched his eyebrow. Emma snickered and looked down on her books. The class resumed by his lecture in the class until the bell rang.
During the lunch hour, Emma was walking through the line to get her food on tray then checked out for paying a meal. She turned and saw her new friend, Ruby who stood up and waved her hand to come here to her table.
"Emma, over here." She paused and waited for her to come then wrapped her arm around on her shoulders. She looked over a brunette man who was sitting across from her seat. "This is Will Scarlett."
Emma nodded and gave him a handshake. "Hello Will."
Ruby continued to introduce her to her boyfriend, Graham Hubert who was sitting next to Will. Emma shook hands to him and said 'hello'. Finally, a brunette with red streak woman smirked and welcomed her old buddy, August Booth.
"August Booth, you already know from Storybrooke." Ruby finished her introductions and sat down. Emma walked around the table and gave him a hug. August embraced her back and they sat down.
"Hello old lady, how are you?" August said.
"Hello buddy how are you?" Emma smiled.
"Good. You've put on weight." Her foster brother observed on her body and she nodded then continued, "Well, yeah." She nibbled her bread and looked around her. Until she looked back at Ruby and heard her speaking up, "Hey Emma, does this happen everywhere you go?"
Emma looked again at the crowd then looked back to her and shrugged. "Usually, They'll get bored of me after about a week." They ate in the silence. Ruby shrugged and continued, "God, I hope not! I love being the center of the attention." She fiddled her fingers to a girl next to her table and mouthed, "Hi". Others giggled at her actions and she looked around to her friends then said, "What?".
August shook his head and spoke up, "You do know it's not you that they're looking at?". Ruby scoffed and smacked his arm then said, "Allow me the delusion."
He rolled his eyes and looked at Emma, "So Em, what clubs are you gonna join?" Emma had some thoughts about the clubs and continued, "I think soccer for now."
They arched their eyebrows until August broke the silence, "Good idea, we can be co-captains. Let's sign up today." Emma giggled. "Really? You? You're gonna get up at crack of dawn for practice?"
August scratched his neck and shrugged. "Absolutely. Yeah, theory, yes." He paused. "Yeah, in reality, no, it's never gonna happen." They laughed. He waved his hand at his joke. "Don't even bother."
Emma ate her lunch until she looked at Elsa walking to the utensils area. She sighed loudly, "Excuse me. I'm gonna grab a new fork." She walked toward Elsa and had a chat with her for a while then shook the hands. Meanwhile, August looked at her and back to Ruby, "One of our housemates of Storybrooke sold photos and personal information on Em to the tabloids. It was a huge scandal at the time."
Ruby gaped in awe and continued examining him with the answers. "I remember that. That was awful." Others agreed. He nodded, "Yeah and between us, she's still really paranoid about it." She looked at Emma and rubbed her temples. "Really?" Emma went back to her seat after chatting with Elsa.
Ruby was not sure about approaching Emma with her status then decided to stand up then speak out for herself. "I want you to know that you can trust us." She paused and waved to others. "We have your back and we will never sell information or pictures of you." August tugged her sleeves to sit down and glared.
"Thank you." Emma knitted her eyebrows and continued to eat her lunch. Ruby chuckled, "Sorry I just—It must be difficult not knowing whom you can trust."
Emma nodded and smiled. "When I meet someone now who I'm not sure about, I tell them some lie about myself. Nothing huge but something crazy enough so it'd be fodder for the tabloids. If they're particularly dodgy, I tell them a really big lie. And then if it turns up in the tabloids, I know who gave it to them." Said Emma. Others nodded and Ruby spoke up, "That's clever." August shrugged and said "Yeah". It went into the silence and Emma smiled at her thought of a joke. She leaned closer to the people on her table and continued, "By the way, my best friend is a mouse named Theo."
Others laughed and continued to discuss about their classes then finished with their lunch. Emma smiled and felt comfortable around her new friends. She thought that she liked that school already and looking forward to it.
Outside the classroom, Emma, Regina and other two people are in a group for their art project went on the stairs to their classes but paused for a while to discuss about their project. Emma was not sure to ask something that she don't want to mess it up in the group.
"So I guess we should choose an artist to focus on and then meet and discuss how to proceed from there?" Emma asked. Others nodded to agree with her suggestion until Regina broke the silence, "Right. No—Yeah, that's an excellent idea. Yeah.
Regina felt nervous toward her classmate, Emma and fidget her book cover. Emma looked at them for a while and looked away.
"So maybe we should exchange numbers." She said to others but Regina interrupted her suggestion, "Yeah, that's – no, I already have everyone's email address, so I'll just send everyone a preliminary study schedule. Others nodded and looked back and forth between Emma and Regina.
"Good. Good." Emma smiled.
Regina paused and continued, "Oh. All right." They parted their ways. Regina and Emma walked together toward their classes and took their time by chatting before they left for their classes.
Emma looked at the people who were passing them on their way until Regina stuttered, "So who's your favorite artist?" She glanced over at Emma.
"I like Monet and Cezanne. I love the way they play with light." Emma answered. She was impressed with her answer on that question.
Regina chuckled and paused to introduce herself. "Regina Mills."
"Emma Swan" They shook hands. "Yes, I know who you are. Everyone knows who you are. In fact, you're very popular." She giggled. Emma shook her head and continued, "It's not me they like. It's the idea of me they like."
Regina paused and thought about what she said then looked at her with a confused look. "Must be very weird." Emma laughed and said, "You have no idea." They walked on their ways but the brunette woman saved her to step on the tile of the memorial on the sidewalk.
"What?" Emma said in confused tone. She rolled her eyes and nodded with her sentence, "Sorry, but I just saved your life."
"Really?" Emma arched her eyebrows. Regina shook her head.
"Yes, Um, see those initials? They stand for Patrick Hamilton." Regina indicated to the tile on the sidewalk where they stood.
"Who is?"
"Who was a martyr who was burned at the stake in the 1600s. Legend has it that if a student steps on the stone, they will fail their degree. The only way to lift the curse is to take a May Day dip in the Atlantic Ocean." A brunette woman answered her question. Emma exhaled for air and continued, "Thank God, you were here." They laughed.
"Mm-hmm." She agreed. They stopped and locked their eyes for while until somebody yelled Regina's name. She looked over at his boyfriend, Robin Hood, a brunette man with his archery backpack stood and waited for his girlfriend to come with him. She glanced over at Emma and said, "I have to go." They nodded and parted their ways.
Regina strode toward her boyfriend, "Hi Darling." She pecked a kiss on his lips. He wrapped his arm on her shoulders and examined, "He's in your class?" She nodded.
"Yes. We have an art project together." He raised his eyebrows up on his hairline. "Really?"
"Mm-hmm."
"What's he like?" He asked again.
"He seems pretty normal." She was sure that her answer is valid.
He scoffed and continued, "The whole family's bonkers. Give it time." They laughed and walked on the way.
Emma and Elsa were on the table and discussing their conversation. The crowd were staring at her and a blonde woman who were in the deep conversation. On their dinner break, Maleficent broke the silence and spoke up, "Why do they stare at her like that?" Regina looked around in the cafeteria and saw the crowd staring at Princess Emma.
"Who?" Regina was eating the salad with her boyfriend. Maleficent looked over at her brunette friend, "Emma."
Robin giggled and continued, "They're curious. They want to see what she's gonna do next. Maybe she'll drop her drawers and give us a royal moon." Regina smacked her boyfriend's forearm and glared. Tinkerbell and Maleficent laughed.
"Uh, we should be so lucky." Tinkerbell said.
Regina sighed and placed her fork on the plate then ran her fingers into the brown locks. "Leave her alone." She barked in silent tone.
The afternoon sun was reflecting through Emma's bedroom. Maleficent and Regina came in from the stairs and walked past Emma's.
"Don't worry about it –" Regina talked to her friend and paused then looked at Emma for while. Maleficent looked away and saw Emma in her bedroom then said, "Hi" to Emma.
"Hi." Emma waved. Maleficent was not sure if she can leave Regina and Emma alone in their conversation so she made her decision to leave and continued, "I'll see you at library."
Regina looked away and continued, "Yeah. All right." She paused and watched her friend walk away then looked back to Emma. "You weren't in class the last two days. Were you ill?" She smiled.
"No." Emma shook her head. Regina understood, looked away and saw the pictures of the map and others.
"Chile. I spent my gap year there in the Raleigh Program." The blonde shrugged.
Regina was surprised that Emma went there in Chile and realized that she went there too. She continued, "Me too. We must've just missed each other. The kids were fantastic." Emma agreed and giggled.
"I know. Right?"
"Yeah" The brunette resumed by looking on other pictures on the board. Emma broke the silence, "Those are all the places I'd like to visit."
Regina looked around and said, "You love to travel." They smiled. The blonde nodded and continued, "Oh I love going new place and seeing how everyone lives." The silence paused in the air and they were not sure about the conversation goes by. Until Regina realized that she was planning to leave.
"All right. I better go to class. Mal's waiting." She walked away but paused on her way. "When you missed class, what were you doing? Just having a lie in or watching telly?" They laughed.
"No, I had to attend a state dinner. With my grandmother." Emma said.
"Oh right. Yeah Mm, I'm gonna go. But I'll see you in class." Regina smiled and walked away.
Emma watched her and smiled. She thought that Regina was a nice lady and not sure about her feelings toward her. But she knew that she will see her soon. She resumed by reading a book.
A/N: I will post Chapter 3 by this week because of the works on the movie, I had to change some actions from that movie into a chapter. Enjoy it.