Hey guys!
Few things, I don't know when could I be updating this new thing but I just have to write this so I could write the rest.
This is just an entrance for the fic. You'll figure out what movie I'm going to use this time in the next update. Also I think I should warn you that this sequel will not be easy neither to read nor write, so I give you that little warning. Of course, I hope you join me in this journey that is determined to last seven long and heartbreaking days.
Please let me know what you think so far.
Seven Days
Prologue
They sat on the fancy sofa in the middle of a deafening uncomfortably eerie silence. Each one of them sitting at either end of the expensive furniture. The therapist waited for one of them to say something, but none of the two women didn't dare to say a word. This was the third session and hadn't made any progress with the couple so far, the first two sessions were about heated arguments between the two of them and now was silence.
The unflattering and uncomfortable silence.
"Callie, Arizona." The therapist decided to take the first step. "You are aware of the importance of speaking either between you two, or at least express your thoughts aloud, right?" She remembered even tone.
"There's nothing to say." Arizona crossed legs and arms. Obviously defensively.
"Then why come here?" The therapist leaned back in her chair and looked expectantly at the two women before her.
"Arizona wanted to come. I'd rather be studying, I have my final exams in a few days." Callie said quietly, looking at her lap.
"Yeah, because it's all my fault and you're forced to sit here." Arizona snorted looking at the window.
The therapist could almost see the giant walls that were dividing the two women. "Do you want to tell me what happened this week, starting from the last session until this morning?" She tried this time.
"Nothing." Callie hurried.
"That's actually the matter here, nothing! Nothing ever happens between us." Arizona raise her voice this time speaking directly to the therapist. "No communication, no intimacy-"
"There is intimacy." Callie interrupted her wife. "I remember there was this morning in the shower." She was more explicit.
"All right! There is that kind of intimacy, but you never talk with me."
"We talk, Arizona." Callie interrupted her again.
"I mean to talk about something besides Sofia or your college classes. You're almost never home, always left early in the morning before I woke up and then you come home late in the night when I'm usually asleep. Always avoiding me." Arizona reproached with scorn in her voice.
"Med school is hard, Arizona. I have many classes this semester and many study groups, is not easy, I can't spend all my time following you around like a puppy. Between Sofia and my classes, and I have little time, sorry if you aren't my priority number 1." Callie quickly defended.
"So I'm not important, that's what you're saying?" Arizona didn't know whether to be angry or hurt by her wife's words.
While the therapist listened carefully to the usual exchange of the couple.
"I never said that." Callie countered. "I'm just saying I have a lot on my plate right now." She crossed her arms too.
"Sure you do."
Silence again.
"Can I go now? This is a waste of my time and I have classes in an hour." Callie didn't wait for an answer she just picked up her things and prepared to leave.
"Callie ..." Arizona's voice softened when she saw the brunette standing up.
"The session is not done yet, Callie." The therapist reminded the stubborn Latina.
"It feels pretty done." And after that Callie was gone.
Arizona sighed heavily and shook her head. She became used to see the back of her wife in recent times.
The blonde understood the brunette's attitude or at least understood at first. Her wife had been through a traumatic event. Lauren bled to death that day in the living room of their house and Callie had constant night terrors after that, awakening agitated and afraid. That's why Arizona felt it was better if they moved out from that house, that's when Callie suggested a place closer to her parents.
So the couple moved to Miami all their life, Callie asked for an external transfer for college and Arizona returned to her roots as a writer and took the job as publicist for a local magazine in Miami.
When things didn't improve Arizona suggested Callie to go to a psych but Callie said no and then things got complicated. They stopped talking to each other, they even spent days fighting about everything and then tidied up in bed. Arizona got tired of that mechanism so she insist on couples therapy, again Callie was not on board to that idea, but she came to the sessions anyway.
Obviously it wasn't working yet.
Arizona sat on the same sofa the next week, she played with her sweaty hands as looked at the clock every 5 seconds. Callie was late, as usual, but this time she was late almost half an hour in the session. Arizona somehow still kept hoping that her wife would appear, but she knew better. Callie wasn't coming.
"How are you feeling today, Arizona?" The therapist asked. She had been trying to get the blonde said more than 3 Guided words.
"As I am the most pathetic woman in the world." She laughed bitterly.
"Why is that?" The therapist pushed.
"Because I know she's not coming and yet here I am pathetically waiting for her to cross that door and give me another of her excuses." Arizona looked at the therapist. "But she won't, she won't come and I seriously had to tell her something important today. But I guess she doesn't care." Her eyes filled with tears. She was more sensitive these days.
"I'm sure she had a drawback." The therapist offer.
"Sure, she has a lot on her mind right now." The blonde said sarcastically, stand up and leave the room.
Arizona adjust her reading glasses as typing on the computer on her legs as she leaned back on the bed. It was late, Sofia was already in bed a few hours ago and Callie still hadn't come home. This time Arizona didn't even bother to call her or leave messages, Callie was terribly careless and she never answer a damn text.
The blonde stopped her typing as she heard the stealthy footsteps up the stairs, she listened intently how her wife first went to their daughter's room and then slowly made her way to the main room.
"You're awake!" Callie said surprised loudly than it should.
"Is that bad?" Arizona didn't bother to make eye contact with her. She continued to write.
"Of course not. It's just that you're usually asleep when I get home." Callie said quietly walking into her room and go to the bathroom, take a quick shower and get ready for bed.
"Where were you all afternoon?" Arizona asked point blank when her wife entered the room again. She had finished with her work, only now she was sitting against the headboard waiting to hear the lie that come straight from the brunette's mouth for sure.
"Umm… in class and then they took us to a practice in one of the most vulnerable medical centers of the city, was actually enriching -"
"And you didn't remember the therapy session that you had with your wife?" Arizona wasn't interested in finding out whether what Callie said was a lie or not. She was just pissed off.
"I had no choice." Callie said through clenched teeth. She was tired and wanted to go to bed, but the angry face of her wife almost repulsed her by the idea.
"And you couldn't send a text or something letting me know? You had to let me there, waiting for you like an idiot."
"It was last minute, I had no chance. Besides, I thought I said I didn't want to do that stupid thing anymore." Callie closed the bedroom door. She knew there would be some shouting so she took precautions to prevent their almost five years old daughter to wake up.
"So you admit that you had no intention of going?" Arizona breathing hard. "You're not interested in saving our marriage at all." Her tears began to fall. Damn hormones, she thought.
"You're exaggerating here, Arizona." Callie countered. "We don't need that, we're good on the way we are." Not even herself believed that. "I mean, you and I can work things out without a third person. Also you know I don't have time for that kind of shit, I'm busy and so are you and everything is-"
"I'm pregnant!" Arizona interrupted her wife's tirade. Her heart running full speed as the words left her mouth. "I was hoping to tell you in the session, I went to the doctor this morning to be sure and the blood test was positive. I'm pregnant." She concluded waiting expectantly for the stoic and shocking brunette's answer standing in front of her eyes.
"What? I mean… How? ..." Callie was at a loss of words.
"I called the fertilization agency we used to have to Sofia and made all the arrangements here, a week ago was my first attempt and it turns out my uterus is a happy place to keep a baby inside me the following nine months." She chuckled, but her smile faded when she saw the frown on her wife's face.
"Why did you do that?" Callie was beyond both confused and angry. "This is a big deal, we were supposed to do this together, not you going behind my back and then drop the bomb. That's not how things are made."
"I thought it would be a good thing between you and me. Something good to focus on- "
"It's crazy, that's what it is." Callie countered immediately. She couldn't believe that Arizona has made such a thing without even asking her opinion.
"We were going to do it before you started med school anyway, why not do it now?" Arizona lowered her voice.
"Because it's a damn crazy thing, that's why!" Callie regretted her words as soon as it left her mouth.
"Well, don't worry, I'll schedule an appointment with my gynecologist and make all the arrangements again." Arizona could swear that something died in her to hear the contempt in the brunette's words.
"Arizona, what are you saying? I-"
"Well it's pretty obvious, you don't want this baby so ..."
"That's not what I said! I'm sorry, okay? Sorry for being such an ass, but you have to understand that all this takes me by surprise." Callie approached her in bed.
"So do you want the baby?" The blonde asked bluntly.
"I-" She didn't know what the right answer was. If she said no Arizona would be heartbroken if she said yes, Arizona would know she was lying, which would break her heart anyway. She chose silence.
But then it made it worse.
A gasp left Arizona's lips as she could read through her silence. She angrily wiped her tears and turned in bed unable to face with the brunette, but it was in vain, her body shook with sobs and tears that wouldn't stop.
Soon she felt arms wrap her from behind, she wanted to leave the embrace, but instead she found herself grateful for the contact even when the person who gives her comfort now is the same that led to her unhappiness. She was that bad.
"We'll have the baby. Just let me get used to the idea." Callie whispered in her ear.
But there was no remedy. Something broke that night and sometimes something is so broken that it can never be fixed.
All mistakes are mine.