Chapter 1

Results are scary

Callie didn't want to open the letter, she had gone to the university to pick up her final year results earlier that morning and had come home to open them with nobody around. She had been sitting at the kitchen table for what felt like hours now but as she looked up at the clock hanging on the wall it had only been about 10 minutes since she had sat down to open her results.

Her whole future was in that envelope, she had already been offered the job at Seattle Grace hospital but it all depended on what was in that envelope. She had been top of her class every year through university, and everyone had told her she had nothing to worry about with her exams but she still sat there staring at the envelope that held her future.

She sat there for another 10 minutes until her phone buzzed. Before she looked she already knew it would be Mark Sloan, her best friend from the beginning of university. They both got their results today and Mark had opened them straight away and had passed with flying colours, getting the job he had been offered, also at Seattle Grace. Mark was one of the cleverest people Callie knew but no one else would have known that by looking at him or even talking to him, he liked to party and have a good time and no one would believe that he would also work his arse off to make sure he knew everything there was to know about his courses.

Callie answered the phone but had no time to say hi before Mark started talking.

"Callie Torres, that envelope must be open by now and you just haven't called me yet because you were too busy celebrating to even think about me!"

"Mark go away and I will call you when I've opened them, just like I told you I would"

"I will be at yours in ten minutes, if you haven't opened them by then I am going to open them and then we are going to go celebrate together before we have to start our new jobs next week"

"How do you know I've got the grades to go to Seattle Grace, Mark? What if I have flunked everything and I'm going to have to move back in with my parents and become a stripper just to get some money"

"So you would be a stripper for random people but would never even consider giving me a nice little strip tease, even for my birthday"

"Shut up Mark"

"Okay sorry not the time, but Callie you know that you are the smartest person in our class, you have passed these exams with flying colours and you know it so just open the envelope so you can call the hospital and tell them that you and I will be there next week to kick some doctor arse"

"Fine I will open them now"

She puts the phone on loud speaker and picks up the envelope, her hands are shaking and she needs to remind herself to breath. She slowly opens the letter and starts reading from the top, she gets to her results and relief sets over her, getting high 90's in all of her exams. She had smashed those exams and she was going to become a doctor with Mark.

"OHHHH MY GOD, I've done it Mark, we've done it. We are going to Seattle Grace"

As she said the final sentence the doorbell to her apartment rang, she ran to the door and opened it with such force that she is surprised the door didn't fly of its hinges it. On the other side of the door stood Mark who as soon as the door opened chucked the bags he was carrying on the floor and gave Callie a massive hug.

Mark put Callie down and picked up the bags that had been dismissed on the floor. He knew that Callie would have passed all of her exams and wanted to start the celebrations as soon as possible.

"Okay so now you know just how amazing you are can the celebrations begin, I have alcohol, and I told Derek and Addison that we will meet them and the rest of the class in Bucks at around six, so that gives us about 5 hours to drink before we have to leave"

Bucks was the local uni pub, which was their usual starter pub for a night out before they ended up in a nightclub somewhere in town.

Callie knew that starting to drink now wouldn't end well for either Mark or herself, especially since neither had eaten all day so she suggested that they go for lunch before they start drinking. It took a bit of time to convince Mark that they needed to eat but after about half an hour they were both sitting in their favourite Italian restaurant reading over the menu before they ordered.