I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Week 2

These arms of mine
They are lonely
Lonely and feeling blue

**

"So," Emma says as she enters the studio the next morning, "do we have a song?"

"We do." Regina holds up a blank white envelope. "Production delivered it a few minutes ago. I was waiting for you."

Emma drops her things next to Regina and heads over to where Regina is already sitting near the CD player. Leroy follows her with the camera.

"Well, let's open it up and check it out!" Emma is sort of excited in spite of herself.

Regina moves as though to open the envelope, but Emma grabs her hand. "Oh, wait! Let's tweet this. Hold up the envelope and get in here." She holds the phone out to take a selfie.

Although she's never really been that into social media – and is still very leery after all the things she's seen tweeted at her since the reveal yesterday – Lily has been drilling the importance of it into her head. Building the fanbase is crucial, and if them posting pictures will help, Emma's going to try it. She wants to make it past the first week, after all, if just to prove all the haters wrong.

Regina rolls her eyes, but smiles for the picture regardless.

Emma pulls up a new draft and quickly types "About to find out our song for our Viennese waltz! #TeamSwanQueen can't wait to dance for you!" and attaches the picture. She's been given the all clear to release what dance they are doing, but that's it. Everything else has to be kept under wraps.

"Alright, let's do this." She nods when the tweet is sent off into cyberspace.

Regina opens the envelope and looks at the CD. There's a look that flits across her face when she first sees the song title. Emma can't place it, but it almost looks like pain.

"What is it?" She leans forward, trying to catch a glimpse of it.

"These Arms of Mine." Regina says and her voice is monotone. Emma's brow furrows at that reaction.

"Like, from LOST?"

"What?"

"Otis Redding, right? It played on an episode of LOST."

"Well, then, yes. Like from Lost." Her voice is still monotone and Emma can't help the feeling that there is something very wrong.

**

"What is your damn problem?" Emma asks after Regina snaps at her for the fifth time in as many minutes.

"Excuse me?"

"What is your damn problem?" Emma repeats, not willing to back down. "You've been a total bitch to me all morning and I want to know why."

In the back of her mind, she knows that all of this is being filmed and could potentially end up on the show, but honestly at this point, she doesn't care. Ever since Regina opened the CD with their song on it, she's been like a different person and Emma's not liking it, at all. If this is the way it's going to be, then Emma's positive she'll be voted off first because she can't deal with this.

"My problem is that you cannot seem to put one foot in front of the other today and you certainly aren't listening to anything I'm telling you! This dance has to be perfect and at this point, I don't think I can teach you anything because you aren't even listening to me!"

"Perfect?" Emma huffs. "It's my first freakin' dance. No one has ever had a perfect first dance. There's such a thing as an attainable goal and perfection is not it with me."