A/N: I received this prompt like years ago, but I really liked it and it kept nagging away sooo here we go, not sure how many chapters it will end up.
Prompt came from BFF22: Given that Callie is bisexual, she meets and starts dating Tim. She really likes him but then she meets Arizona.
So, after much debate with myself, I've decided to set this when Arizona and Callie are at high school, for the start of the story, Tim and Callie are both a year older than Arizona, at 16, and Arizona is 15 in the year below them at high school. Although the Robbins have moved around a lot, they've been in Seattle for a couple of years now, Callie and Tim started dating before the summer break, so no one other than them knows about their relationship. Arizona hasn't come out yet.
This fic will start off very Arizona-centric and will concentrate on things mainly from her point of view. I've written quite a few chapters and so will try and keep the updates regular, maybe once a week, to give me time to continue to write so that you hopefully aren't waiting too long for updates.
As I'm from England, my knowledge of the American education system is limited but I'll try my best, any errors are my own.
Thanks to my girl Char for beta-ing and talking through ideas and generally being awesome :P
'Come on kid we're gonna be late!' Timothy Robbins called up the stairs to his little sister, he was meant to be driving them in for their first day back at school after the summer and he was itching to get back. Football and his girlfriend were waiting for him, not necessarily in that order.
'I'm coming!' A flash of blonde appeared at the top of the stairs, bounding down the stairs two at a time before Arizona was stood in front of her brother. 'Why are you in such a hurry anyway?'
Tim shrugged, 'I got things to do, people to see.'
Arizona rolled her eyes, her and her brother used to be so close; they'd tell each other everything, but over the summer she had noticed a difference in her brother; he would rarely spend time hanging out with her and whenever she went to talk to him he always seemed distracted. When Arizona had spoken to her Mom about it, she'd just told her not to worry, that Tim was just growing up and she just do the same. And Arizona had; she'd discovered a lot about herself over the summer and she needed to talk to someone about it. That someone would always have been Tim in the past, but with how he had been acting she'd just kept her discoveries to herself, going over and over them with only herself for company. 'I just need to grab my soccer boots.'
'I'll be waiting in the car,' Tim said, making his way out of the house.
Arizona rushed into the kitchen, 'Hey Mom...Bye Mom!'
'Have a good day!' Barbara called after the disappearing form of her daughter; the day her kids slowed down couldn't come quick enough.
Arizona ran out the house, jumping in the passenger seat of Tim's jeep as he hit reverse and headed out to travel the relatively short distance to their school. Arizona glanced sideways at her brother; he'd not just changed personality wise over the summer, physically too; he'd filled out, his puppy fat replaced by muscle. Arizona had herself toned up over the summer, burying her frustrations on the track as she went into overdrive keeping herself in shape for the next season of soccer.
When they'd first arrived in Seattle due to their Dad's latest career move, they'd once again been the new kids, the outcasts; within a few months, Tim had become one of the cool kids, as he always did, whilst Arizona retreated to her usual form, splitting her time between books and the soccer field. 'I've got soccer tryouts after school so I'll see you at home,' Arizona said as Tim pulled into the school parking lot, already hanging out the window and waving to his main group of friends.
Arizona rolled her eyes and sighed when she got no response, slamming the door shut as she swung her bag onto her shoulder and headed in search of her best friend.
'Arizona!'
Spinning round, Arizona's face broke into a wide smile as she saw her best friend Teddy Altman heading towards her, 'Hey you!' The pair embraced in a tight hug, Teddy had been on vacation for the last month of the summer holidays, so Arizona hadn't seen her in too long. 'How was Germany?'
'Amazing!' Teddy exclaimed as she went on to fill Arizona in on every detail about her holiday with her parents. 'How about you? Get up to much?'
Arizona shook her head, 'It was so boring without you Teds, all I did was train...I swear Tim's got his head so far up his own ass lately...it's like I'm just an inconvenience to him.'
Teddy shrugged, 'He is a senior now...maybe it's just phase.'
'I really hope so,' Arizona said. 'We always used to be so close, I used to talk to him about everything; now I feel I can't approach him about anything.'
Teddy sighed, 'You know you can always talk to me right?'
Arizona nodded, of course she did, she knew Teddy was her closest friend, but she was still reluctant to tell her about some particular events of the summer; she didn't want to risk losing her best friend over something that she didn't fully understand herself yet. 'I'm so glad we're still in the same classes.'
'Me too,' Teddy agreed. 'I-
'Zona!' Both Arizona and Teddy whipped round, seeing Tim wandering over to them, Arizona's boots in his hand. 'You forgot these, moron!'
'Gee, thanks...and I thought I told you, quit it with the Zona?'
Tim smirked, 'Yeah whatever.'
'Thanks Timmy,' Arizona replied sarcastically.
Tim's eyes squinted, 'Alright, alright, I'll stop with the Zona.'
'Awesome,' Arizona said, going to turn around, a wolf whistle stopping her.
'Hey T, your little sis got hot over the summer!' Mark Sloan's voice sounded across the grass, one of Tim's 'posse', and one that Arizona severely disliked.
Looking behind Tim, Arizona took in his groups of friends; Mark stood there with an awful grin on his face; he was a total jackass and man-whore who thought he could get any woman he looked at, Arizona included. Stood next to him was Derek Shepherd, his perfect hair making him look like he'd stepped straight off a hair commercial. Addison Montgomery was next; she was hot, tall, thin, long red hair, team captain of the cheerleaders and generally a bitch. Then, Arizona made a mental note not to drool, Callie Torres. If Addison was hot, Callie was smoking hot, gorgeous and beautiful. Arizona had barely said two words to her but she couldn't help but stare every time the Latina's curvaceous form sashayed past; she was captain of the baseball team and was apparently one of the best players the school had ever seen.
Regaining her composure, she threw a sickly sweet smile at Mark, 'Still out of your league little Sloan.'
'Arizona, cut it,' Tim said, knowing that getting into a battle of wit with his sister was a bad move. 'I'll see you later.'
'Jerks,' Teddy said, coming to stand next to Arizona as the group of older students turned and walked away, both Teddy and Arizona not missing the way that Tim's hand ghosted along the small of Callie's back as the pair shared a look. 'Are those two...?'
Arizona shrugged, resisting the sudden urge she felt to throw a brick in her brother's direction, 'For Callie's sake I hope not.' Tim had recently been following quickly in Mark Sloan's footsteps, breaking hearts left right and centre as he moved from one girl to the next faster than Arizona could keep up.
'From what I hear she can look after herself,' Teddy said.
'Yeah?' Arizona asked, trying to act a lot more uninterested than she actually was.
'Uh huh,' Teddy continued. 'Apparently over the summer her sisters' much older boyfriend tried it on with Callie, he ended up in the ER with a broken nose thanks to a swift right hand.'
'You're kidding?' Arizona replied. 'I've never really met her sister.'
'Aria,' Teddy supplied. 'Apparently she's a bitch.'
'She's in the year below us right?'
'Yeah,' Teddy nodded. 'Cheerleader...bit of a Montgomery wannabe I think.'
Arizona rolled her eyes, too many girls at their school were 'Montgomery wannabes', 'Eurgh, enough about them, let's get going.' Arizona started walking off only to find she was alone, turning she saw Teddy had remained where she was; following her gaze Arizona soon realised that Teddy was undertaking in some drooling of her own; Owen Hunt being the subject of her affection. Owen was in their year, but went out with Cristina Yang in the year above, Teddy had been crushing on him for as long as Arizona could remember. 'You know it would be a lot easier if you took a picture or something...it would avoid the awkward drooling.'
A blush spread over Teddy's face as she realised she'd been caught out, 'Sorry, can you blame me? He's so hot Arizona.' Arizona's shrug apparently wasn't the right response, 'You don't think so?!'
Arizona quickly re-collected herself, 'Um I mean...he's a bit quiet?'
Thankfully Teddy seemed to accept Arizona's reasoning, 'Hmmm...that just makes him all the more mysterious.'
'Come on,' Arizona said, practically dragging Teddy along to their form for registration.
X
The day went by pretty fast for Arizona, she enjoyed school on the whole and with Teddy always by her side, she was happy enough. Now she found herself in the changing rooms, a mixture of soccer and baseball players milling around as both sports had their tryouts at the same time. Arizona was getting changed next to Teddy, both lost in their conversation about their last class of biology as they discussed how glad they were to have Professor Bailey for the class; she was the best.
Arizona's thoughts wandered from the conversation however when she heard two of the baseball girls talking on the other side of the partition, 'You seen Torres?'
'Nope, maybe she's not trying out?'
'Yeah right...come on, Cal's the best, she's probably just swapping saliva with Robbins.'
'I can't believe he went for her...'
'Come on Izzie, just cause your sour he turned you down.'
'She's a bitch and she's...fat...he'll shit on her soon enough like he does every other girl that opens their legs for him.'
'I dunno, word out is that they've been seeing each other secretly for months...seems pretty serious to me.'
'Arizona?'
Arizona shook her head, 'I'm sorry what?'
'Where's your head at?' Teddy asked.
'Nowhere...sorry,' Arizona said again, sitting down to lace up her boots as she silently mulled over what she'd just heard, trying to ignore that little voice in the back of her head that said she was mostly angry because it was Callie. Arizona shook her head, she needed to put that one out of her mind completely; she'd barely come to terms with her sexuality let alone coming to terms with having a crush on her brother's apparent girlfriend. Lost in her own thoughts, Arizona didn't see the figure rushing around the corner until she had ran straight into her. 'Crap...s-s-orry,' Arizona's words became stuttered when she saw that she had ran into the very subject of her thoughts. 'Sorry,' she said again.
Callie stepped around Arizona, throwing her bag onto the bench and quickly starting to change, 'It's cool, my fault, don't want to feel the wrath of coach.'
Arizona gave a small smile, her mouth going dry as she turned back and saw Callie stood there in just her underwear trying to hop into her shorts. How that Izzie bitch had said Calliope Torres was fat...Arizona made a mental note to not be nice to Izzie Stevens anymore. 'Know the feeling, good luck with the tryouts...not that you need it...'
Callie stopped what she was doing, her kit firmly in place now, 'Thanks, you too.' And with that, Callie left out of the door onto the fields, Arizona left to stare at the closing door like the idiot she was.
Shaking her head, Arizona tried to clear her thoughts of Callie Torres as she pushed open the door and headed out onto the soccer pitch to join the rest of the tryouts. The usual suspects were there along with the a few new faces, Arizona listened to the coach before they were sent to warm up, running round the field next to Teddy. Coach put them through their paces, Arizona pleased with how both herself and Teddy had performed; easily out-performing the other forwards that tried out. They were dismissed, the usual process of the team and reserves going up on the notice board by the end of the week.
'Think we did good?' Teddy asked, walking slowly back to the showers with Arizona.
'Course we did Teds,' Arizona replied, playfully nudging Teddy's hip with her own.
'That new kid looked good.'
'Lauren? She's not a kid Teds she's older than us!'
Teddy nodded, 'Whatever, she looks like the spark we need in the midfield to take us all the way this year.'
Arizona agreed, 'She does, and that Erica looked good in the net.'
'The one that came from New York? God she was a bitch.'
Arizona shrugged, 'As long as she does her job.'
'You need a ride home?' Teddy offered as usual, knowing her Dad wouldn't mind.
'Sure it's ok with your Dad?'
'You know it always is,' Teddy replied with a smile.
'Awesome, I just need to grab my stuff, see you out front,' Arizona said, running into the locker room and towards where she had been changing. In her hurry she dropped one of her converse, finding someone else bending down to pick it up before she got chance. 'Thanks,' Arizona said with a smile, realising that it was the new girl Lauren who had helped her out.
'No problem,' Laruen replied, handing the shoe to Arizona, her hand lingering there a little longer than would be considered normal. 'You were on the team last year right?'
Arizona nodded, 'Yeah, striker.'
Lauren nodded, 'What do you think my chances are?'
'Good,' Arizona replied honestly. 'Me and Teds were just saying that actually.'
'Really?' Lauren asked, 'Teds your girlfriend?'
Arizona's eyes went wide, 'What? NO! Teddy's my best friend, I mean I'm not g-...she's my...'
Lauren just chuckled, a confidence rolling off her that Arizona couldn't help but find attractive, 'You're cute when you ramble, anyway, I'll see you around Arizona.'
Arizona watched, still open-mouthed as Lauren headed out of the door in front of her, Arizona giving herself a minute to breath before she followed her out, quite relieved when she only found Teddy waiting for her out the front.
'Take your time why don't you?!'
'Sorry,' Arizona said, avoiding Teddy's gaze. 'Lauren caught me and...introduced herself.'
'Cool!' Teddy said, climbing in the car with Arizona following closely behind. The short ride home, Arizona was lost in her thoughts, going over and over again in her head the conversation she'd just had with Lauren. She was just being friendly, Arizona decided. She called you cute. Did she? Arizona had to admit, Lauren was pretty cute herself. There it was again, Arizona looking at another girl and thinking she was hot, thinking she was sexy. Saying her goodbyes to Teddy and her Dad, Arizona headed into the house; throwing her kit straight in the washing machine.
'That you Arizona?'
'Yeah,' Arizona replied, heading through to the living room and greeting both her Mom and Dad in turn. 'Dinner ready yet?'
'Ready in about half an hour sweetie, that ok?'
'Sure thing, I'll get cleaned up,' Arizona said, heading upstairs. Throwing her stuff in her room, Arizona sat on her bed with a sigh, her legs bouncing up and down. She needed to talk this through, she needed to work this out with someone and the only person that she could do that was with was Tim. She was so confused, angry, upset; angry at herself, angry at the world for making her this way. But above all, she was scared. Tears collected in her eyes, the moisture gradually spreading and falling down her face. Screw it, she didn't care if Tim was in an ass mood, she needed her big brother no matter if he was being a grade A knob.
Heading out of her room, she ignored the usual rule of 'knock first' as she barged straight into her brother's room. 'Tim, I need you to get over yourself being an ass because right now I need y-...' Arizona's words stopped as she finally looked up, her eyes quickly taking in the scene in front of her.
'Shit Arizona...get the fuck outta my room!' A topless Tim was quickly off of the bed and onto his sister, hustling her out of the room and slamming the door in her face, never even noticing the tears streaming down her face.
Arizona recoiled, running into her room, slamming her own door behind her as she slid down onto the floor, the tears falling fast now as she furiously rubbed at her eyes trying to rid herself of the fucking awful image of her brother on top of a half naked Calliope Torres.
