the mayor

party girl

REGINAS POV

I wake up to a dark and cold room, wrapped in my sheets and cover. The first thing that comes to mind is what Emma said yesterday.

I try hard to quickly get it out of my head. I don't want to think about it and ruin my day already. I get up from my bed and go downstairs to make some coffee. I walk down the stairs in my red 40's robe and walk twords the kitchen. As I get close to the kitchen I hear my house phone ring.

I grab the phone and answer it.
"Hello?" I answer. " did you just wake up? you got that voice thing going on." Kathrine asks. "Yes, Kathrine."I eye roll. "Really? It's 1:00pm." She shockingly asks. "Yeah, it's my day off. I slep in." I say rubbing my eyes. "Did you want something?" I ask. "I wanted to know if you were still in for our plans today." She responds. "I completely forgot, what did we plan today?" I ask. "Regina, it's your birthday. We were throwing a party at my place." She shockingly says.
"I'm not really in the mood for a party today. I'm sorry" "it's your birthday. Are you just gonna stay home?"
"That's the plan." I say and hang up.

I shouldn't have done that. That was mean, I'll text her and apologize later, but right now I need coffee. As I feel bad for hanging up on Kathrine I put the phone down and walk twords the kitchen. I start to make the coffee until I hear a nock at the door.

"Who the hell could that be?" I ask to myself. I'm not expecting anyone.

I open the door and am met with a skinny, excited, middle aged man.
"Sydney?" I ask confused. "Why are you at my home." "Nice robe, mayor mills. Is it for the new sheriff?" He asks. Now I'm creeped out. I then notice something in his hand. "Excuse me?" I ask confused and aggravated. He then trys to take a picture of me but I block my face with my hand from the bright flash. "Sydney, what the hell?" "There's a roomer going around that you and the new sheriff are secret lovers. As soon as I gather all the right things, this photo will go great with the story." He quickly says then rushes off.

What the hell was that. How could he possibly know anything? I don't even know anything myself. Who told and why did Sidney show up at my home?

This is to much to feel with right now. I haven't had my coffee yet and am already angry.

EMMA'S pov:

I can't believe I told Regina that. I don't even know why I said it. Of course I don't love her, we just met. But then why did i say it? Thoughts about that moment have been racing through my mind all day.

"Boss?" Gram asks. "Uh, yeah, sorry" I say snapping out of my thoughts. "Are you doin ok? You seem a little out of it." He asks. "I'm fine, what were we talking about?" "The guy in cell two. He wants another blanket." "He killed a woman in cold blood. We should take the one he has." "Agreed." He says laughing.

"Get back to work Gram, you're break is in 15 minutes." I say. "Yeah but first did you hear the rumor about the mayor and some guy" Gram asks excitedly. "What? What do you mean?" I quickly ask. " Joans told me that he heard that someone seen the mayor leaving some blonds apartment yesterday afternoon." "That could mean anything." I try to explain. "He said she was holding her heals and limping." He laughs. My heart starts pounding. If she wasn't mad at me before she definitely is now. But they think I'm a guy. It should be fine for now. Hell, what I'm I gonna do?

"I wonder who it is? Whoever it is, is one luck guy. I mean the mayor is definitely one sexy woman. Those dresses she wear are tight in all the right places. If she didn't have a mouth on her I would have been inside her months ago." The way he talks about Regina makes my blood boil. "You shouldn't talk about your superior like that. I'm sure she would never go with a guy like you anyway." I angrily say. "what's that supposed to mean? I'm a nice guy." He defends. "It really doesn't seem that way when you talk like that."

"Sorry." He scuffs walking out my office. I quickly grab my phone and head to my car. On the way I start to dile Regina's number. Before I finish I start to think. She probably doesn't want to talk to me. If was her I wouldn't want to talk to me either.

I Erase the number and call Kathrine.
I sit in my car and shut the door, then start to hear my phone ring.
"Hello?" She answers. "It's me, Emma. Have you talked to Regina today? I ask. "This morning, why?" "I was just told something I think she'll wanna hear." "What is it?" "Someone seen her leaving my apartment last night. Now there's a rumor going around that she's sleeping with some guy." "She's going to kill you, And I mean literally kill you. How did this happen?" "I don't know. We were safe that nobody would see us." "Well obviously not enough." "Shit!"After a few moments of silence.

"Did she seem upset when you talked to her this morning?" "Yeah, she seemed stressed, but she always does. Did she seem mad or angry.?" I ask. "no, but she did cancel her birthday."
"Today's her birthday?" "Yeah, she didn't tell you?" "No" I sigh. "did you do something to her?" "Why do you ask that?" "I don't know. It just seems like you two have something going on."

"Oh" "well, I'm gonna stop by her house on my way to the office. I'm gonna fill her in and see how she's doin." "Ok" I hang up and drop my head to my steering wheel.