It was Arizona's second day at Seattle Grace Mercy West high and she was walking along to the teachers' lounge like the previous day. She had butterflies in her stomach with the thought of seeing Callie again. She knew she was being irrational and acting like a teenager. She had only met the women yesterday and didn't even have a proper conversation with her. She couldn't stop herself thinking of the beautiful Latino. She pushed open the door, her blue eyes immediately fell on Teddy, Mark and a ginger man who was laughing at something Mark had said, a good looking man who had great hair and a women with dirty blonde hair who was looking over papers in her hands not paying attention to the group she was sitting with. Teddy tilted her head back in laughter at Mark who had whispered into her ear. Teddy noticed Arizona and smiled warmly at her. "Hey Arizona" She said still smiling.
Arizona walked over and smiled at the group of faces now looking at her. "Hello" She said greeting the group. Arizona sat down next to the ginger male. "Hey" He said rather awkwardly. "Guys this is Arizona, Arizona this is Derek" Teddy said pointing to the man with the great hair. "Hello" Arizona said again. Teddy pointed to the blonde who was now looking away from and her work and now looking at Arizona. "This is Meredith, Derek's wife and the man sitting next to you is Owen" Arizona flashed him a small smile before addressing the other two new colleagues. "Nice to meet you all" She said crossing one leg over the other. "So what do you teach Arizona?" asked Derek. "Um..English and what about you three?" She asked as she opened up her paper bag which contained her lunch. "Well I teach maths and Meredith is my TA." Answered Derek glancing at his wife who now marking tests. "She is a very good teacher's assistant as you can see" He said smiling fondly at his wife. "What about you?" Arizona asked turning to Owen. "I teach chemistry" Answered Owen before taking a sip of his coffee. "You will like it here" Owen said smiling. "I already do "Arizona said as she jabbed her fork into her salad and smiled.
The door of the lounge walked open, Arizona imminently looked up hoping it would be Callie and it was. Arizona couldn't stop a grin from framing her lips which hadn't gone unnoticed by Teddy. Callie walked over along with a small Korean women. "Good afternoon" Callie said smiling at the group, she pulled over a vacant chair and sat next to Mark. "So you must be Arizona" said the Korean women who perched herself on the armrest of the sofa. Arizona looked up and nodded. "Yeah that is me" She said smiling. "It is nice to meet you…" She said as she waited to be told the women's name. "Cristina. I'm Teddy's TA" She said as she quickly glanced at Teddy then back to Arizona.
Callie sat watching Cristina and Arizona's conversation; she had told Cristina all about Arizona when she got home to the apartment which she shared with her and Owen. "Don't worry Call, Cristina won't say anything about your major lady boner for blondie over there" Mark whispered into Callie's ear. Teddy and Derek both smirked hearing what Mark had said. Callie choked on her coffee. She growled at Mark and elbowed him in the stomach. Cristina and Arizona spoke about the classes they both taught. Cristina liked Arizona already she was a bit too perky and said awesome more than any person should but she could see why Callie hadn't stopped speaking about all last night. "I think we should all take blondie hear out for some drinks" Cristina said to the group of people. Arizona glanced over at Callie which was the first time since she had entered the teachers' lounge. She smiled fondly at her new found nickname. "Yeah that sounds like a good idea" said Teddy smiling. "We could go to Joe's" She said looking at her group of friends. They nodded and replied with a yes. "Good idea babes" Mark said smiling and kissed Teddy on the cheek. "Yeah the only pub which sells good and cheap beerin a three mile radius" Cristina replied with an eye roll. "Are you coming Callie?" asked Teddy smirking as Arizona took another bite of her salad. "Yeah I could use a drink" She said with a strained smile. "Okay Joe's at six?" Asked Mark and everyone agreed. "Excuse me but where is Joe's?" asked Arizona looking up at Mark and Teddy. Arizona had moved to Seattle only two weeks before starting at the high school and hadn't had time to really see the city. She planned to do all tourist related things during a free weekend. "Callie will take you over, won't you Callie?" Asked Teddy looking at Callie. Callie rolled her eyes, Teddy couldn't be more obvious. Arizona's blues eyes were looking up at Callie. "Yeah I could pick you up at your place?" she asked Arizona. Arizona nodded her head and smiled showing off her dimples. "That would be awesome" Cristina groaned. "Really, awesome again?" Cristina said looking at Arizona.