Hey guys! So here's one of the one-shots that I wrote and I am telling you now that this is definitely just staying a one-shot lol. This idea came for a prompt that I found on Tumblr.
Prompt: As little kids, Person 1 makes a promise to Person 2 saying they will take them on a date when they "grow up". Person 1 moves away, however, but Person 2 never forgot. One day when they are both grown up, someone approaches Person 2 with a bouquet of roses, and Person 2 doesn't recognize them at first. It's person 1, they kept their promise.
As you'll see when you're reading, I kind of changed up the prompt some as far as age is concerned but I hope enjoy in nonetheless.
When I was younger, my abuelo would always say, "Just like pie crusts, promises are made to be broken but there are some that are meant to be kept." I never really knew how much his words rain truth until I lived it.
Growing up, I wasn't the prettiest girl in the world. People would comment and make stupid remarks that hurt my feelings as they would any person. Once I got to high school, I thought things would get a little easier, but it only proved to get worse which made me become somewhat depressed. At least that was until I met her.
Arizona Robbins was all you could want in a person. She was your typically blonde with beautiful blue eyes. Taking that and combining it with dimples, an out of this world personality and you have a rare form standing in front of you. She was two grades ahead of me and one hell of a lacrosse player.
At the time of her transfer to Miami High, I was a freshman and she was a junior. We met by chance one day, she saw this group of cheerleaders outside of the cafeteria picking on me and immediately jumped to my rescue.
**Flashback**
"Where do you think you're going geek?" Lauren, one of the head cheerleaders asked, stopping Callie in her path.
All she wanted to do was get her lunch and go out into the quad so she could eat alone just as she always did. "I am minding my business." The brunette huffs, trying to push past the girl and her two friends.
"Hold up there Cantaloupe."
"That is not my name."
"Oh well, too bad but anyways, I'll make this short so you can get on with your pathetic little life. Some people have brought it to my attention that you are a little dyke who likes to perv on us in the locker room."
Eyes widening the brunette says, "W-What? I-"
"Save it freak. I am going to say this one time and one time only, stop perving on my friends and I or I'll-"
"Excuse me, is there a problem here?" another voice cuts in, causing all attention to turn to the new presence.
Looking to the new arrival, Callie notices that it's the new girl that everyone has been talking about. Quickly averting her eyes, she looks down at her shoes.
"Oh, Arizona, hi. There's no problem, we were just having a chat with little Cantaloupe here" she green-eyed blonde says in a sickening sweet tone, patting the brunette on the cheek.
Glancing at the brunette, the blonde notices that she is on the verge of tears, sighing, she steps closer, "Well I think that's enough "talking" for today."
Lightly touching the brunette's arm, Callie's eyes quickly finds blue orbs staring back at her. "We have to get to lunch, right Calliope?"
Breath catching in her throat, the brunette wonders how the blonde even knew her name. For a brief moment she wondered why she was even trying to help her but decided not to question it. Nodding her head she says, "Y-Yeah."
Smiling, the blonde reveals the dimples that had been hiding causing all four girls to silently swoon, "Let's go then" she says, pulling the brunette along with her. Still confused at the happenings that just took place, Callie glances behind her only to find Lauren and her two friends standing in the same spot, glaring at her.
Making it into the cafeteria, we grab our lunch which she pays for without hesitation. "So where would you like to sit?" Arizona asks.
"Yo Arizona, over here!" a voice calls out.
"Um, I usually eat out in the quad but your friends are calling you so I'll just take my food and go-"
"Ah-ah, you're not getting rid of me that easily ma'am." The blonde smirks.
"Arizona!" the voice calls again.
"Seriously-" not letting the brunette finish her sentence, the blonde begins walking toward the doors that lead to the quad leaving behind both a confused brunette and a confused table of people as they watched her leave.
Sighing, the brunette follows the blonde out the door, finding her under the Oak tree that she normally sits under. "Well it's about time you showed up" she smiles, "This is where you usually sit, right?"
Nodding slowly, Callie sits down.
"Here you go" Arizona says, handing her a sandwich and a bag of chips. "I got a water and a apple juice, which do you want?"
"Water is fine" the brunette replies in a low tone. Handing her the bottle of water, the two sit and eat their food in silence.
"You know-"
"Why-"
They both say at the same time, "Go ahead" the blonde says.
Clearing her throat, Callie places her sandwich down, "Why are you being nice to me? Y-You've been here for about a month now and you choose today of all days to talk to me?"
"Well, Calliope, I've seen you around a lot and I've seen how people treat you. I don't think it's right."
"B-But"
"But?"
"You're one of them."
"I'm sorry? Who am I one of?"
"Them. The "it people". The first day that you arrived, they immediately swooped you up and claimed you as their own."
"First off, you should know that I am my own person. Secondly, I was new, I wanted to get to know people and they were the first people that said anything to me so yes I became friends with a lot of them but that doesn't make me anything like them."
"But, why me? You could be sitting with anyone right now but instead your sitting out here alone with me."
"Well like I said Calliope, I've seen you around and something keeps pulling me toward you. I want to be your friend."
"Won't that ruin your friendships with everyone else?"
"So what if it does?" Arizona shrugs, "If this makes them not want to talk to me, then they weren't actually my friends to begin with." She finishes chuckling.
Accepting that answer, the brunette continues eating her food until she looks back up, "How do you know my full name?"
"Well, I was talking to Ms. Garcia one day about the Spanish homework that we had a few weeks ago and she referred me to you saying that if I was having too much trouble that maybe you could help. In the process of that, she let your full name slip out saying that she doesn't understand how such-"
"a beautiful person hides such a beautiful name." the brunette finishes.
"Ahh so she has said this to your face before?"
"More times than you know." The brunette sighs.
**End of Flashback**
Eventually I loosened up more and we began to talk about any and everything. Hanging out became a regular thing for us after that day. As we got closer, we would literally be together all of the time whenever she wasn't hanging with all of her other friends or when she wasn't at practice once it began. She would try to get me to tag along with her and the other's when they'd go out somewhere, but I was always too scared of being humiliated so I'd come up with some lame excuse to get myself out of going.
As time went on by, I found myself developing feelings for the one person that had actually shown some genuine interest in me, but I never said anything, too afraid that it would ruin our friendship. Sadly, the summer of her senior and my sophomore year, her parents decided to move once again to Washington, D.C. since her dad got a promotion. I will never forget the day that she told me. It was the saddest and happiest day of my life.
||| Flashback |||
It was a nice Saturday evening, Callie was laying on her bed watching a show called the Walking Dead that she had recently gotten hooked on.
"Come on Rick, don't let Neegan-" Interrupted by a knock at her door, she pauses the tv, yelling for the person to enter.
"Hey there" says Arizona as she smiles, sitting down on the brunette's bed beside her.
"Hey" the brunette smiles, "What are you doing here? I thought you were having dinner with your family tonight?"
"Yeah I did. It ended rather quickly" she mumbles.
"Everything okay Zo?" Callie asks, sensing that something was wrong.
"You know that you're like my best friend, right?" she suddenly asks.
"Um, yeah. Why-"
"Cal… my parents told me that we are moving."
"W-What? When?" the brunette asks, tears springing to her eyes.
"Two days."
"TWO DAYS?! B-But what about all of our plans we had for the summer?"
"I know Cal and I am sorry. I said the same thing to them, but they just brushed it off saying that if there was another way then they'd take that route instead of uprooting my life yet again. Especially after meeting you."
"So I am going back to having no friends." Callie says, wiping her tears with her shirt sleeve.
"Hey, no. We are going to talk every day, it'll be like I never left."
"You promise?"
"Pinky swear" the blonde says, holding out her pinky.
The brunette quickly attaches hers with the blondes before a smile breaks out on her face at the sight of the blonde placing a kiss on their interlocked fingers.
"Will you help me pack tomorrow?" Arizona asks the brunette.
"Of course. We have Mass in the morning but afterward, I'll be right over."
"Awesome. If you don't mind, I'd like to stay for a little while." The blonde tells the brunette, as she moves around trying to get comfortable.
Starting the show back, they continue watching the show.
After about twenty minutes of going back and forth with herself, Callie sighs. Not being able to take it anymore, she grabs the remote, once again pausing the television. The blonde looks at her with confusion written all over her face.
"There's something that I need to tell you."
"Oh yeah? You know that you can tell me anything Calliope."
Looking to the blonde oN her right, the brunette sighs, "Ihaveacrushonyou"
"Huh?" Arizona chuckles
"I-I like you."
"I like you too."
"I know that I have really bad timing and you probably don't- wait, what?"
"I said, I like you too." The blonde smiles.
"Maybe you didn't hear me right Arizona. I don't just like you. I like, like you. As more than a friend."
Chuckling the blonde replies, "I like, like you too Cal. As more than a friend." She smirks.
"Wha- Really?" The blonde nods.
"I also knew that you liked me. I never said anything though for various reasons. One being that I knew that there was always a possibility of me moving away again and I knew that it'd be ten times harder on the both of us if we were in a relationship."
"Wow…" the brunette sighs. "Not only am I losing my best friend, but I am also losing a chance at something more." She says, eyes tearing up again.
"Hey, no" the blonde reaches out, wiping away Callie's tears, "Cal you still have a full three years ahead of you to meet someone else and don't even get me started on when you get to college."
Scuffing the brunette rolls her eyes, "Please, we both know that no one will be lining up to be with me any time soon."
"Not with that attitude they won't." Arizona tells her, "I know what people may say at school but Cal that's because they see how beautiful you are but they also know that you don't see what they see so they play off of that to keep your self-esteem at an all-time low so you won't become the beautiful Latina that you are meant to be."
"You really think so?"
"I know so." Taking both of the brunettes' hands, Arizona looks Callie in her eyes. "I tell you what, one day when we get older and we're both surgeons rocking it in our respective fields, I am going to take you on a proper date. You know, as long as neither of us are in a relationship."
"Arizona do you know how far away that is?"
"I'm a patient person."
"No you're not."
"Okay I'm not but for this, I will be." The blonde says, winking at the brunette.
|||End of Flashback|||
After Arizona moved away, we did just like she said, we talked every single day. It was almost like she was still in Miami but then as the new school year began, I got busy with school work and applying for early college programs. Arizona's new school did not have lacrosse but they did have field hockey which is similar to lacrosse. She tried out and made the team, quickly adjusting to the way the game was played. Time continued to go by and we went from talking every day to every other day eventually to once a month then texts went unanswered, calls were missed and everything was just at a standstill.
Before I knew it, it was my senior year in high school. Over those two years that had passed, I hit an immediate growth spurt causing me to go from 5'4 to 5'9 and my body began to fill out a lot more. My boobs and ass got bigger. The summer before my senior year, I lost 65 pounds and traded in my glasses for contacts. This immediately gained me some attention from boys and girls but the only person that I wanted to see these changes was the one person that I had not talked to in about a year and a half or so.
I graduated and went on to college at Duke where I met my now best friends in the whole wide world Mark and Addison. Addie was born with the confidence of a thousand people. She quickly taught me how to be more confident and to show off my "rocking bod" her words, not mine. We went on through undergrad together and on to complete med school at Stanford and now we are currently completing our residency at Seattle Grace Hospital.
The years went on by, I met various people and Arizona slowly began fading into the back of my mind. Her promise always stuck with me though and there are times when I find myself wondering how her life turned out, like now.
"Torres we've been looking everywhere for you"
Breaking out of my thoughts, I look up to see Mark and Addison standing beside me.
"You okay hun?" Addison asks me.
"Yeah I'm fine just thinking that's all."
"Well quit that and lets go get some food before Bailey gives us more things to do."
Finishing the chart that I was supposed to be finishing, I hand it to the nurse before walking off to the cafeteria.
"Oh hey, have you seen the new peds surgeon?" Shaking my head, no, he continues "Oh man, Torres she is hot and word around the on-call rooms is that she bats for your team" he finished wiggling his eyebrows.
"Mark you'll sleep with anything as long as it has a vagina, so I don't really trust your judgement when it comes to women being hot. Also, I've told you about listening to the gossip that goes around this hospital. Only about 25% of it is true."
"Well I wouldn't listen to it so much if you and Addie would let me live vicariously through you, now would I?" Choosing not to answer, we grab some food and sit down.
Just as we begin eating, all three of our pages go off causing us to groan. 'There goes lunch.'
"Dr. Robbin's you are needed in the pit." Nurse Colleen tells me, as my pager continuous to beep. It's my third day here and I've going nonstop.
"Okay I am just about done here. Dr. Shane can I trust you to finish up here?"
"O-Of course Dr. Robbins."
"Good. Page me if you need me." I tell him as I remove gown.
Making it to the pit, I see that there is a lot going on.
"Someone page Peds?"
"Dr. Robbins, over here" Another doctor that I know as Dr. Grey calls me over.
Walking into the trauma room, I see a little boy laying on the gurney, "What do we have?"
"Seven year old complaining of stomach pains. Symptoms appear to be that of a ruptured appendix."
"Get me a portable x-ray machine please." I tell the nurse before moving up the head of the little boy that is crying his eyes out.
"Hi sweetie, I am Dr. Robbins. I know that your tummy is hurting right now but we're going to make it all better soon. Right now I need you to be a brave little soldier for me while I fill around your stomach. Can you do that?"
Receiving a small nod, I begin placing a little pressure on his stomach receiving a scream in return.
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry sweetie." I say trying to sooth him, "Where's that portable x-ray?!"
"Here you are doctor!" the nurse says, rushing back into the room. After checking, I am able to confirm that it is indeed a ruptured appendix.
"Let's get him to an OR stat! Grey, call and let them know that we're on the way then come scrub in." I tell the intern as the patient is rolled out of the room. Turning to follow the gurney, I pull out my scrub cap not looking at where I am going and knocking into someone.
"Sorry" I say quickly.
"It's okay, I shouldn't have been running anyway" she yells just as she starts back running toward the pit, supplies in hand.
Stepping on the elevator, I watch as the person disappears into a trauma room. Chuckling, as the door close, I think, 'Her voice sounds so familiar. Almost like- nahh. Focus on your patient Robbins'
Exiting the OR an hour and a half later, I am exhausted.
"Torres come on you gotta go out with us tonight. It's the first night we've all had a night off in a while." 'Torres? Wow, I haven't heard that last name since high school' I think to myself.
"I know Mark, but I am tired. I just want to catch up on my sleep before we have to be back in tomorrow night."
"Cal come on, please" 'Cal? As in Callie? As in Calliope Torres?... No. it can't be.' I say to myself, moving behind the desk to grab an iPad to update my patients information. Chancing a glance up, that's when I see her face. She's too engrossed in her conversation with the guy that she doesn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh my god… it's her.' I think to myself. I'd know that smile anywhere.
Continuing to watch her walk down the hallway I can't help but check her out. "Damn puberty was definitely good to her…" I groan, looking at her ass, "…that ass does not quit." I mumble.
"I would have to agree with you on that sister" a voice says, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"What? Oh my God, did I say that out loud?"
"Yeah you kind of did." The woman says, sticking out her hand, "Teddy, Teddy Altman, cardio."
Shaking her hand, I introduced myself also, "Arizona Robbins, peds."
"Nice to finally meet you Arizona and don't be embarrassed, you're not the first and definitely not the last person to check Callie Torres out" she chuckles.
Glancing in the direction that she went, I say, "Oh yeah? What can you tell me about her?"
"Well she's one of the most promising residents that we have. Word around the hospital is that she's a lady lover and a fireball in the sheets. I mean of course I wouldn't know because I am stickily di-"
"Is she seeing anyone?" I cut the blonde off.
"Not that I know of." She replies, "but I-"
"Good. See you around Teddy!" I tell her as I walk off heading to my department.
All the way back to my office, I could not get that brunette out of my head. It was literally just like high school all over again. Until this day, I still hate the fact that I lost contact with Calliope. After I moved way, things got really hectic at the new school I was at. One night I was out, met this girl and we began to get to know each other a little. At the time, I really couldn't get Calliope out of my mind so I was honest with the girl. I told her that I was still stuck on someone and that I really didn't see me and her being anything. Well, she didn't take it well. She took my phone, smashed it and told me to go to hell. Yeah so after that, my parents made me change my number once I got a new phone and because I had long ago ran out of storage, all of my things had not been backed up in a long time, Calliope's number being one of them. I tried to find her on social media, but it was just my luck that she had deleted her Facebook and I never got her Instagram or anything. So I had to live with the fact that I would never talk to her ever again. I was really sad at first and I could only imagine how she felt with our conversations just stopping out of the blue but it got easier over time. I finished applying to the colleges of my choice and got accepted into Johns Hopkins which was my dream school. I ended up staying there for med school, and my residency. I was even an attending there until this great opportunity came along to head my own department and I immediately jumped at the opportunity.
After seeing Calliope again, I kept trying to figure out how to approach her and that's when it came to me. She's single. I'm single. I made a promise to her that I fully intend to keep. So, for the past two days, I've been slightly stalking Callie trying to establish a good time to put my plan into effect. Surprisingly we haven't crossed paths since we bumped into each other that day, so this is going to be good. I was able to get a glance at the OR board and saw that she is going to be scrubbing in on an ortho case at three meaning that she'll probably be in the cafeteria getting a meal in before heading to the surgery so that is when I will put my plan into motion.
"Hey guys" I smile, sitting my tray down as I take a seat at the table in the cafeteria receiving several greetings in return. "Wow I can't remember the last time that we all ate lunch together." I chuckle.
"Yeah.. don't get use to it." Christina and Alex grumble at the same time causing us all to laugh.
"So Yang you have your first solo surgery coming up, you nervous?" Mark asks
"Why would I be nervous? I'm awesome" she scoffs and he rolls his eyes.
"So Grey I heard that you worked with the new peds surgeon. How is she?"
"Oh Dr. Robbins is awesome. She was actually teaching me. I like her."
"I still haven't met her." I tell them. "I am not on my peds rotation until next week"
"Well I happen to think that you'd like me." A voice from behind me says causing me to immediately turn around. Once my eyes take in the sight in front of me, I smile. Something seems oddly familiar about this woman.
"Dr. Robbins, it's nice to meet you," I hold out my hand, "It's nice to meet you."
Smiling, I see her right arm which I now realize was behind her back, move to reveal a bouquet of red roses. Eyebrows knitting together, I slightly frown until she says, "I think you mean that it's nice to see me again Calliope." 'Calliope? How did she- WAIT. Robbins, blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, dimpled smile?!'
"Ari-Arizona?" I breath out.
"In the flesh" her smile widens, revealing said dimples even more, "These are for you." She tells me.
Tears springing to my eyes, I take them from her, standing, "You look even more beautiful than I remember Cal."
"I could say the same... you cut your hair." I gush, touching her shoulder length curls.
Chuckling she says, "You like it?"
"Absolutely." I smile. Arizona is here. She's standing in front of my after over ten years of not seeing each other. Ten years of not talking or seeing each other. I think to myself and the next thing I know, I am hitting her on the arm with a frown on my face.
"Ouch" she groans, "What-" she goes to ask but sees the glare that I am giving her, "Calliope you have to let me explain."
"Explain how I haven't heard from you in years Arizona. Years. Yes, you need to explain."
"And I will. Can we talk later?" she asks, showing her dimples and would you look at that, they still make me swoon. So much so that I can't contain the smile that breaks out on my face.
"Okay" I agree, smelling my flowers.
"So page me when you're free. I don't have anymore surgeries for the rest of the day." She says, slowly backing away from me before turning around to walk away.
"Arizona." Stopping, she turns around, looking at me.
"Is there something that you, maybe, wanted to ask me?" I smirk.
Seeing her lips once again curl up in a smile, she walks back toward me, "Calliope Torres over ten years ago I made you a promise. One that I always intended to keep when I saw you again. I asked around and found out that you are indeed single and so am I so will you do me the honor of going out on a date with me?" she asks.
Staring into her eyes, snicker as I pull her into me, connecting my lips with hers kissing her like my life depended on it. Hearing gasps from what I guess is my friends who have been silent throughout this whole ordeal, I make a mental note to explain myself to them.
Finally pulling back after what seemed to me a lifetime, she has a dreamy look on her face, one that I am sure that I am sporting too. "As if you don't already know the answer" I whisper.
"So that's a yes?"
"Of course, it's a yes you weirdo." I say, nuzzling my nose against hers, "But you still have some explaining to do." I tell her before pulling back completely, turning to my friends who are looking at us like we both grew an extra head.
I chuckle, "I guess I have some explaining to do."
"You think?!" Addison says, as her eyes go back and forth between Arizona and I.
Saying goodbye to Arizona with a promise to see her later so we can talk, I sit back down ready to answer the questions that I know they have. Once my blonde is out of sight, they all start talking a mile a minute but instead of trying to listen, the only thing I can think is, 'I guess some promises really are meant to be kept.'
The End
And that's a wrap folks! I hope you all enjoyed this one-shot. Don't forget to hit that review button! Til next time, Britt :)