So here we go! Figured I'd start things off with a nice and cute chapter before getting into all the awkward. Figured the best way to start off this fic is with a first date story. Enjoy!

CALLIE'S POV

"I have a date tonight," I said as I paced the room of the apartment I shared with my best friend, Mark. I stopped in front of my closet, staring at all the clothes I didn't want to wear. I was already on my fourth outfit so far.

Mark popped his head into my room, "Are you sure you're ready for this? I'm worried for you."

I turned around with a confused look on my face. "You're worried for me?"

Mark walked into the room and sat down onto my bed. "Actually, I'm worried about her. You've been spending a lot of time with me since Erica left. I'm not entirely sure you remember how to talk to women anymore." I walked over to the bed and slapped him. He laughed and stood up to walk out the door. "You look hot with what you have on. Don't worry. What are you guys doing anyways?"

"I don't really know. Arizona just said she would pick me up." I smiled at Mark before he left the room.

Now that Mark brought it up, I began to get nervous about the date. I had been spending every day in class and every night hanging out with the guys in the apartment. I had been extremely hesitant to start dating again. My dating history had been rather rough. My first long term boyfriend, George, cheated on me with his best friend. To this day, it still hurts when I think about him. My philosophy about love is that you truly don't get over someone until you find someone you love more. Erica was the person I loved more, until she left one day without a call or a note. I tried to find her for months, to figure out what the hell happened, but I was never successful. So, for the past six months, I've been struggling to hold pieces of me together with tape and glue just trying to find some sort of normalcy again. Then I met Arizona.

Arizona and I met through some mutual friends at school. I've only known her for a month, but from the second I met her, I knew she was going to be someone special to me. We could talk for hours on the phone even though we saw each other in our classes. Something about her gave me butterflies, but not in the scary "I'm-going-to-throw-up" way. She gives me good butterflies.

Honking downstairs alerted me that the blonde had arrived at my apartment. I threw on my jacket and ran out of my bedroom.

"Don't tell her you love her!" Mark shouted as I ran out of the door.

I ran out the door and down the stairs to the street where Arizona was waiting for me in her car. The cold winter air hit my skin and I wrapped my arms tighter against my body. When she saw me walk out of the apartment building, the blonde got out of the car and walked around it to hold the door open for me to get in. She closed the door after I got in and walked back around to her side of the car to get in.

"Where are we going tonight?" I asked nervously.

"It's a surprise," the blonde replied from the driver, a large smile on her face. She drove a few blocks to one of the busiest streets in town. Parking the car, she opened the car door for me, then walked around to the trunk of her car. She pulled out a small ladder and threw it over her shoulder. Seeing a confused look on my face, she laughed and grabbed my hand to lead me down the street, "Just trust me."

We walked down the street and into a dark alleyway. "This looks like a perfect way to get attacked," I mumbled under my breath.

"What?"

"Nothing." I followed her down the alley until we reached a metal fire escape.

"Shh, I don't think this is exactly legal," She turned around to face me and put her finger up to her lips to signal to me that we had to be quiet. I followed her up the fire escape on the back of a store on the busy street. We reached the roof, and she set up the ladder to climb up onto an even higher roof.

Once I stood up onto the roof, I looked around and found twinkly lights all around me. "Wow." I had no words for how beautiful everything looked. I walked over to the edge of the roof. The bright city lights shone under the dark night sky. The stars in the chilly night sky twinkled brilliantly.

The chilly air made me shiver enough for the blonde to see. She walked up behind me and wrapped her arms around me. Snowflakes began to fall gently around us. "Beautiful, isn't it?"

"Absolutely gorgeous." I turned around in her arms and cupped her cheek with my hand. I leaned in slowly, waiting for her to close the distance. Her lips met mine, and electricity began to flow throughout my body. Her grip around my waist tightened and I could feel her smile instantly at our first kiss.

I swear I could see fireworks as I slowly pulled back from the kiss and rested my forehead against hers. The fireworks instantly faded when I realized that the beautiful reds and blues that I saw behind my eyes were actually the lights from a squad car on the street below us.

Opening both of our eyes, we both panic and dive into the snow on the roof, trying to hide from the police below us. We crawled over to the side of the roof to look down at the street below us. The policeman had stopped a car. We both rolled onto our backs, laughing at the false alarm.

I shivered while still lying in the powdery snow around us. "Come on, let's get you warmed up," the blonde said as she stood up and held out a hand for me to take.

I took her hand and she pulled me out of the snow. We walked back down the metal fire escape and down onto the cement of the ground.

"Hey! What are you doing there?" a man yelled from the back door of the Chinese restaurant next door.

Arizona grabbed my hand and pulled me as we began running down the alley back towards where she parked her car. We stopped once we reached her car and she threw the ladder back in her trunk.

She leaned back onto her car and I moved in close to her body. "Best first date ever." I took her lips in mine one more time, and I couldn't help but smile widely as our lips met again. The feel of her smile on my lips was something I knew would become one of my favorite things in the world.

I'm thankful for first dates with people who you already know quite a bit about. No awkward preliminary questions about their lives and family and stuff. Just fun times. Hopefully you thought this was cute too.