That night, Callie found herself at the town fair sitting by the open air bar looking at all her old friends dancing. Her best friend Addison came up and sat next to her.
"So, you have lots of fancy new clothes now I see."
"Addie, hi. Yeah I design them."
"Well that's nice."
"So, not a lot has changed here."
"Well you weren't here to even know. Arizona's not the only one you ran out on."
"Addie, I'm sorry. I had to get out. I didn't want to hurt anyone."
"Well you did. You hurt me, my best friend disappeared."
"I'm sorry, really. We can be friends again, actually I was wondering if you would be in my wedding?"
"Again?"
"Yes, again."
"Yeah I guess so. As long as I get a fancy dress."
Callie laughed, "Sure thing, I'm designing them."
"She's not okay you know," Addison said after a few moments of silence watching Callie watch Arizona.
"Huh?"
"Arizona, she's not okay. She hasn't been okay since after you left. She threw herself into work and booze. We had to intervene after she came back from New York. Literally, had to drag her off the floor of the bar."
Callie looked at the woman who seemed to be fine, "I wasn't okay either."
"Yeah, but it was your choice to leave. I'm afraid we won't be able to help her this time."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean when you leave again and get married, then all the hope she has been carrying around will be gone. Then, I don't think she will even want to live."
Callie's throat dried up thinking about that, "I don't want to hurt her anymore Addie, but I've moved on."
"You may have, but I don't think she ever will. Everytime she gets wasted, she cries about how you were the love of her life and she will never forgive herself for letting you get away. She owns half this town now you know."
"What?"
"After you left, she busted her ass and turned her families farm into the most profitable one. Then, when everyone else was going down because of the economy, she bought everything up. It helped everyone, but it was all for you."
"Wow, um thanks Addie, excuse me for a minute."
Callie approached Arizona on the dancefloor and cut in.
"Hey pretty lady, can I have this dance?"
Arizona smiled and pulled Callie closer to the stage. Just then it turned into a slow dance. They hesitated for a minute, then Callie pulled Arizona close and they began swaying to the music.
"I went to see my parents," Callie said in Arizona's ear.
"That's good, I bet they were happy."
"It was okay I guess."
"Well, I'm glad anyway. We all missed you ya know."
"I know, I missed you too."
They danced for another few songs, then Arizona felt herself about to cry. It was too hard being this close to Callie. All the feelings that she felt everyday were intensified. She couldn't take it anymore. She pulled away and said, "Excuse me," then took off away from the crowd.
Callie followed her down the street to the high school softball field and found her laying on the pitchers mound.
"Arizona, are you okay?"
Arizona turned around and you could see hurt and tears all over her face.
"No, Calliope, I'm not okay. You're here and your perfect and I'm a mess. I have been dreaming about you coming home for years. Except in my dreams you didn't serve me divorce papers and plan on leaving me again."
"What can I do?"
Arizona thought for a minute and then decided to put it all out there.
"You can come home?"
"You want me to move here? I don't think Jade would survive."
"No, not with Jade. I want you to come home to me. I've changed. I promise I'll be better and do whatever you want. We can have as many kids as you want and you can remodel the whole stupid house if you want. I'll drink light beer and cook every night. Anything you want," Arizona pleaded now face to face with Callie.
"Arizona," Callie breathed out.
"Seriously, Calliope. Just tell me what you want and it's yours, please."
Callie thought about it and she wanted to say that she wanted Arizona back and that she didn't even need to change. She wanted to say to hell with it and just be with her, but instead she said the one thing that broke Arizona once again.
"I want you to sign the papers."
Arizona let out a sob, then composed herself a little. Then she leaned and placed a ghost of a kiss on Callie's mouth.
"Okay Calliope, I'll send them over tomorrow."
And with that she left, off to spend another night using alcohol to forget her wife, or ex-wife now.
Back at the house, Arizona sat out on the dock with a bottle of whisky. She had the divorce papers in front of her and she was crying all over them. Great, just great, now Callie would see tears all over them when she gave them to her. With regret in her heart, Arizona signed all the dotted lines. Then, she drowned herself in whisky.
The next morning, Callie woke up to a knock on her hotel door. When she reached the door, she saw and envelope slid underneath the door. She opened them to find that Arizona had signed the papers. Then, she looked closer and realized there were tears all over them. Callie fell back on the bed, stuffed the papers back in the envelope, and then jumped up to get ready to leave this place forever. She just had to say goodbye to her parents first.
