Regina, who's in the middle of a bite, lifts her hand in a motion for Emma to wait. She chews the food slowly, as if nothing has happened, though her confused frown suggests otherwise.
"What do mean?" she finally asks, voice calm and collected.
"Well," Emma scratches the back of her neck as she tries to navigate through her thoughts, suddenly doubting herself "Why else would you request a talk?"
"I don't know" she feigns a thinking face just for a moment, then her gaze is on Emma "Maybe to tell you that Kathryn and I have seen how hard you work and we don't feel that it's necessary for us to wait four more weeks to officially hire you."
"I..." Emma stammers, surprised at the turn of events.
"Welcome to the company, Miss Swan" Regina raises her glass as a salute and takes a sip. She takes another small bite, chewing delightfully as she waits for Emma to process the information. The blonde, in turn, takes her sweet time to wrap her head around the fact that she's an official Mills' employee. When it finally sinks in, a broad smile settles on her face.
"Thank you!" she breathes out, and her smile broadens even further into a full beam accompanied with gleaming eyes. Her happy expression isn't lost on Regina, who at first, is surprised at the show of emotion from the usually reserved Emma. She then bites her lower lip, eyes jumping all over Emma's face, taking her in.
"You are very beautiful when you smile, Emma," she states, as a matter of fact, lifting the glass to her mouth "you should smile more"
She takes a sip as she waits for Emma's response. But Emma has no idea how to respond, currently channeling all of her energy to breathing properly.
Did Regina just? Oh my god, did she just call her... Beautiful?
She feels the blush conquering her throat on its way to her cheeks.
"I-"
Thank her!
Her mind screams. But out of all the possible responses she could voice out that moment, starting from thanking her all the way to shrugging it off, Emma's mind chooses to conjure the most idiotic one.
"And when I don't smile?" is blurted before she can stop it, and she immediately winces.
Regina, on the other hand, doesn't seem bothered in the slightest. Instead, she smirks and answers without batting an eyelash "Still gorgeous"
And if Emma thought she couldn't get any redder, well, that moment she's proved wrong. Not sure how to handle the compliments coming for Regina, no less, she practically flees the table.
"Excuse me"
She makes a beeline to the bathroom. When in private Emma allows herself a moment of swooning, an idiotic smile and dreamy look on her face, followed by self-reprimanding, ordering herself to calm the fuck down.
Five minutes later, she steps out of the bathroom to the sight of Regina handing a credit card to a waiter.
"Hey!" she protests as she edges towards the table.
Regina looks up innocently.
"What?"
"Come on, Regina," she sighs, shaking her head "I can't just let you pay for me."
"Of course you can, I asked you to join me"
Emma retakes her seat, hand reaching for the wallet she previously placed on the table. But Regina is not having it, apparently, as she places her hand atop Emma's.
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Skyline of concrete dreams- SwanQueen
Romantik"The way Emma looks at it, she has two options: she could either start dating men and wait for her confusion to disappear, or she could gather up some courage and open the can of worms with the label 'girls' on it." Fresh out of foster care, Emma Sw...
