Isle of Storybrooke

Family Dinner

Evie's POV

Ok so its the fourth night, I had no idea how else I would avoid coming home, so I spent hours in the diner, helping, but this evening my nightmare became reality.

Carlos was off that night so Ruby and Jay worked in the diner, I was sitting in one of the booths calculating how the diner could earn tonight, when the door opened. In comes my mom, aunt, and grandma,Robyn was held by Grandma and Rolan smiles when he saw me. "Evie, join us." he grins.

I looked at the papers scattered on the table. I sigh, "Why not I need a break?"

Mom smiled as Rolan and I walked towards the booth. I frowned, "Don't get to happy, I just needed a break."

Aunt Zelena made space for me beside her.

As the evening went on, I felt uneasy and it only got worst when Doug and his halfbrothers walk in the diner and sat on the booth next to us. We were back to back, my heart started to beat faster and faster, my palms became sweaty, and I felt my cheeks heat up. Neither mom nor grandma noticed but Aunt Zelena did.

"You ok?" she asked.

"Um... yeah." I sighed.

"You sure? You look really pale?" Aunt Zelena said, "And plus he just walked in."

I glared at her, "Drop it."

"You know I won't." she smirks, "So you better start talking."

I looked at Ruby desperately. She seemed to understand for she started walking towards us. "Evie, Jay asked how to organically clean the stove? Like which chemicals could potentially be harmful to the environment and stuff?"

"O ok," I nodded, "will you execuse me?"

I didn't return until two hours had passed, they had eaten their meals and was ready to leave that is until Roland informed them that he was going to wait for me so mom decided it was best to wait.

I was on my way out when mom called, "Evie, let's go home."

I crossed my arms, "No, thank you!"

"Where are gonna go?" mom asked.

Good question, mom, where will I be staying for the night? I huffed, "I'll figure it out."

"Evie!" mom called out as I started to walk away, "Why are you being so stubborn?!"

I got dizzy all of a sudden and my vision got blurry. The next thing I knew was I was back home in my room.

"What happened?" I groaned.

"You fainted." mom said. "When was the last time you ate?"

"The night before." I admitted.

"Why do you do this to yourself? Why do you starve yourself?"

"When your out there on the streets the last thing in your mind is food. I wondered a lot about what would happen to me, where I was to stay?"

"You don't have to worry about that you are staying here."

"What about..."

"She went back to Wonderland." mom sighed. "She wanted you to have this." reaching out she handed me an envelope.

Here's the gist of the letter, Grandma is really sorry for everything and all she wanted was for me to be happy. She also said if I do love Doug that I should tell him. Easy for her to say, right? I don't even know if I'm in love with Doug. My heart had skipped a beat just thinking about him. Maybe I do love him.

I giggled, "I need to go!" I got up and ran down the stairs.

"Evie!" Aunt Zelena exclaimed, when she saw me running down the stairs.

"I wanna thank you," I smiled at her.

"For what?" she asked.

"For telling grandma about Doug." I smiled, knowing fully well that no one in this town would ever tell my secret in fear that I'd get back at them. No, only Aunt Zelena had the courage to tell my secret.

"I'm sorry if I over stepped my bounds ..."

"Aunt Zelena stop. Because of you, she gave me the best advice ever. You really are the best aunt."

"Um..." she looked very confused when I hugged her, "ok?"

"Now I need to find Doug." I stated, when I let go, "What time is it?"

"Quarter to ten," Henry responded, "you better hurry up, Evie, you only have til midnight to find your prince and the mice turns back."

I ran out the house and ran towards the mine in the pouring rain. I had to let Doug know how I feel, even if he doesn't feel the same way. I've been putting up walls to keep out the hurt but I've also been keeping out the love. I need to tell him I love him that I want him back, if he doesn't feel the same way I'm gonna be crush but who cares!