Chapter 4
Something beautiful
It was a late Sunday night when Arizona slipped between the sheets of their queen sized bed. Callie groaned at the sound waking her up but the smaller woman softly gave her reassuring kisses against her temple that made her wife go right back into slumber.
Arizona had her doubt that their boy had started asking about how they met, but the previous encounter had just confirmed it. She wasn't too keen on it, she didn't want her kid to take it the wrong. That impulsivity and desire will get you whatever you want in life it had just worked out that way for her.
When Arizona was 18 years old, freshman in university, her family was in a car accident that had no mercy. Surprisingly, young Arizona wasn't mad at the world for taking her loved ones. Instead, she opened up to it in a different way. She changed programs and went into the medical field a week after, were she felt she could truly shine. Day by day, she began to speak her true emotions and live life to it's fullest. The accident made her realize that life is short, but it is also the longest thing you will ever accomplish. That's how she got the woman of her dreams. Her wife, Calliope.
Cuddling closer to her sleeping wife, she kissed the back of Callie's shoulder, whispering to herself « It's always darkest before the dawn. »
General POV
«Look, I know i'm getting cleared today and we didn't get a chance to see each other much. I understand, you're a surgeon, i'm a surgeon, I get it. But I am picking you up, the second your shift ends and we are going on that date. » Arizona smiled, showing her best dimpled smile
« O-okay » Callie answered blushing. She had warned Mark that tonight was possibly the night she would get to go on a date with the woman she's been gushing about all week. Luckily, the man had accepted to take Benjamin for the night.
Arizona was waiting in a cab right in front of the hospital. Due to her recent injuries, she couldn't drive and had to support herself on crutches until the bone was complete heeled. Looking out the window stained with rain, nerves started to crawl into her system. She might have been confident with Callie ever since she met her, but she really wanted this to work out. Seeing the tall, curvy woman walk out of the hospital in a crimson red dress stopped Arizona's lungs from working. Never, had she felt beauty until today. The ortho surgeon looked like sunset after hiking the highest of all mountains. Even though the sound of the city was blaring behind them, Arizona swore she heard the sound of her own heart beat as Calliope reached the cab.
« I swear i'm going to spend the rest of my life with you. I don't want to look at anything else, other than you. Ever » Arizona spoke her thoughts out loud, like usual. Except this one was meant only for her to hear.
Callie blushed deeply, nerves were getting the best of her tonight but Arizona made everything more comfortable. A simple thank you escaped her lips and they got into their cab, in direction of what will be a memorable night.
« Seriously Ma, you are way too cheesy. I can't believe mom fell for that ! »
« Hey ! I am a hopeless romantic Benjamin. It's just how I felt, and I dove right into it. I agreed to tell you the story but you can't judge me. » Sticking her tongue out to her son, Arizona grabbed her wife's hand. The two of them were eating supper before their night shift and Benjamin had joined them after returning from Hockey practice.
« So, what happened on that date ? »
The couple arrived at the town's carnival shortly after their cab ride. Arizona, who supported her leg crutches didn't want her surgery to stop them from having the best first date could possibly have.
« The carnival, uh ? Didn't take you for that kind of girl. » Callie laughed as her cellphone rang. The ringtone for their home alarmed Callie. Mark knew how badly she wanted tonight to work out, he knew not to bother her. This had to be an emergency. Quickly excusing herself to Arizona, she pulled the phone to her ear « It's Benjamin. » Mark spoke as Callie's face went white.
