Chapter 4 Take on Me
Callie lay her head down on the antique oak counter. In her inebriated state she had not considered the layers of alcohol that were currently soaking their way across the work top, as the substances joined with the old stained varnish. In a loving alliance, Teddy massaged, before effectively slapping Callie on her back. The move, Teddy hoped, would aid her recuperation from the liquid that had recently coated its way down her throat burning all identifiable taste buds in their path.
"Good job." Teddy congratulated.
"Oh god! I am going to see that again!" Callie exclaimed, as she lifted her head her long cascading hair clung to the side of her beautiful face as a result of the sugary alcohol remnants that coated the bar. "That burns!"
Teddy considered the condition of her comrade with one eye open as she made efforts to remove the entangled hair from Callie's rosy cheek. Callie meanwhile continued to whisper to herself "oh dios mio!" (Oh my god).
"Hey it's all good… More!" Teddy cried out as her hand collided forcibly with the bar, the unforgiving motion drew Joe the bar owners' attention as he took in the vision before him with a smirk.
"Hey Joe, another two. Callie again, yeah?" She queried. Looking at the wave of sickness that drew over Callie's face, Teddy giggled. "Joe make it doubles!"
As Joe placed the newly measured double shots in front of the friends, Callie took a deep inhale of oxygen for bravery. Teddy motioned Callie to lift her glass in a toast as they then charged their glasses together double downing the tequila contents.
Teddy made attempts to stand up from her bar stool as she softly subsided during her endeavours. Callie whose head was currently situated within her own lap, made grabbing attempts with her hands. Teddy finally steadied herself and turned. "Come on Cal!"
Teddy tossed her loose coins into the jukebox; with a vacant expression and double vision she made her selection, thrashing the required numbers into the key pad. As the first key notes of the song struck and thundered through the speakers she jumped forward with her hands in the air.
As the music began to play, Teddy and Callie stared at one another, jumping forward in unison onto the dance floor. In an almost catwalk fashion, well, catwalk mixed with drunken stagger, they jerked their derriere's together in harmony to the synthesiser tones. In one consistent and mimicking motion their arms flew up into the air, swaying from side to side and in unity they mouthed the words to their chosen track.
"Talking away, I don't know what I'm supposed to say….."
Almost as if they were paid dancers in a backing record for a music video, the dance floor became busy with other customers, as they bobbed their heads and swung their hips to the beat that was playing.
With their imaginary music video instantly coming to fruition the friends continued their song…. "I'll be gone in a day or twooooooooo…!"
As the music continued Callie took a moment mid song, feeling the pulsing beat take a hold of her, she bent over and gave Teddy a little twerk. Spying her mates manoeuvre, through one eye, Teddy proceeded to catwalk stagger her way over as she jestingly threw down several spanking motions towards Callie's booty. The movement in itself caused several spontaneous combustions to take place from numerous customers surrounding the bar area.
An hour after their awesome dance routine Callie and Teddy could be found at the seated booth nearest to the window of Joes Bar. Teddy maintained that the chosen booth required to be in easy reach of Joe himself for their beverage orders.
Teddy leaned forward from her position and studied the gathering of what looked like white confetti, in an envious expression.
"Not fair! You are such a cheat Latino! That twerk of yours sent every mammal in this place into overdrive."
Callie lifted her head from its resting position in her hands and spied the indeed, hefty supply of paperwork in front of her. She beamed at the thought that they contained a magnificent number of telephone numbers from both the male and female of the species. Callie hazily looked up at Teddy and gave her an award-winning smile, then stuck out her tongue, in retort Teddy rolled her eyes whilst flipping Callie the bird.
Within half an hour they were in deep discussion regarding Teddy's most recent ER rotation.
"Honestly Cal, honestly! It was a truly beautiful sight to behold. You are just jealous you missed it" Teddy exclaimed.
"But seriously, they were like stuck, stuck together, like they couldn't move?!" Callie queried.
"I swear to god Cal, cross my heart, when I moved the curtain back from the examination room it was a sight to behold. There was a totally naked guy stretched out on the bed with the skinny brunette straddled over him in her hot black lingerie. It was amaaaaazzziinnngg! apparently, they had been doing a lot of drugs and having wild sex when her muscles cramped up and he couldn't pull out, ha-ha. I had to give her a muscle relaxant and wait for them to separate, unfortunately for them; they have now been charged on drug related offences. Talk about a stiff night!" Teddy declared.
"Oh god how could I have missed that!" Callie sadly conceded.
An hour later the friends were huddled outside of Teddy's apartment as she alternated from foot to foot. Her tongue hanging to the side of her mouth whilst she was in deep concentration trying to fix her key into the lock. When she finally gained entrance they both fell through the door and onto the hard-wooden floor whilst letting out heart curdling chuckles. Teddy picked herself up off the floor and made her way to the kitchen, picking up a bottle.
"Wine?" She gestured at Callie.
Still on the floor in the doorway, Callie lifted her head and spied out from the small opening in her hair, considering the offer and nodding in agreement.
"See Cal, I told you. We are fucking hot! And we rocked Joe's tonight! They did not know what hit them!"
Dry. So very dry. Desert dry. Callie endeavoured to tease her tongue out from within the confines of her mouth in order to attempt to coat her dry lips. However, her tongues consistency and feeling were that of being superglued to the roof of her mouth. It took a moment or two, before she began to regain a sense of her surroundings when she managed to flick one eye open. She could not manage to open both of her eyes. Dear god no! even with one eye, the room that she currently occupied was rotating uncontrollably. As she continued to grimace out of one eye it was difficult to get a fix on the floor in order to stabilise her spinning head. It took some time for her head to allow her vision to focus as she regarded the location she presently found herself. She concluded that she was currently positioned upside down on Teddy's sofa with the majority of her body spread eagle. Callie looked across the room to find the dirty blonde in question with her face taking up residence on the hard-wooden floor.
Water. God I need water. Callie internalised as she got to her feet and slowly, steadying herself, made her way into the kitchen.
After taking some time to come to and wake up, some reminiscences of the night before came creeping back as the wave of mortification drew over her. There was definitely an image of Teddy dancing close to the bar area, with her blouse open and bra on display to the horde of drooling onlookers, another wave of reflections glided over as if a dream. There had definitely been some kind of dancing, corny chat up lines and a lot of numbers being handed her way. Callie rolled her eyes at the thought oh nope, should not have rolled the eyes. With that Callie ran from the kitchen hastily making her way to Teddy's bathroom and dramatically slammed the door closed.
Teddy, shaken by a loud noise, lifted her head from the floor in a startled wake up call. "What? What happened?"
Several hours later and after a banana bag each to aid in their recovery, Callie and Teddy found themselves slumped over a coffee cart at Seattle Grace as Mark walked up and greeted them, inspecting their dishevelled appearance he chuckled to himself.
"Ladies! Good night was it?" He moved back slightly to gauge their reaction.
"Christ Mark! I am not doing that again." Callie exclaimed.
"Look on the bright side Cal. You won, now you get to wreak your revenge. Also you have to at least make contact with one of the unknown numbers you were given." Teddy specified.
"Oh god! Do I have to? I have no idea who anyone is or even if they are remotely attractive. I could literally pick a chimpanzee as a date from the list and I would have no idea."
With a wide grin on his face Mark took into consideration the debate that was taking place before him. Having known about the challenge before the girl's night out, Mark found himself unashamedly proud that Callie had won. My girl is back in the game, he thought.
"Tell you what Cal, why don't we all do take out tonight round your place and we can pick a number at random and get with the chat ups." Mark suggested.
Taking the offer into consideration and looking towards a now animated and clappy Teddy, Cal gave her friends a smile and nodded in agreement. Why do I let myself get into these situations? She scolded herself.
I'm still wearing the smile you gave me… ;)
Really. Well it would be nice to see it in person again. How about dinner?
Sounds perfect. Let me know when you are thinking?
I'll make reservations. I'll be in touch with the details.
Sounds good babe. :)
Mark attempted to quickly discard Callie's mobile onto the coffee table as she made her way back through to the livingroom. Only for it to smack hard against the side of the table and fall with a thud onto the wooden floor.
Inspecting the scene in front of her Callie raised her eyebrow and pursed her lips as she glared in Mark and Teddy's direction, they both sat bolt upright on the sofa their gaze being anywhere but in Callie's direction. Teddy pushed her lips together in an attempt to look innocent by whistling a lullaby.
"Why are you two looking so suspicious?" Callie enquired as her eyes fell to her mobile phone that was now slumped on the floor. "Why is my mobile on the floor?"
As if she had been smacked in the face by a tidal wave of reality, a sudden and sickening realisation took over. They have just had me!
As Mark watched visually, the realisation that was currently taking over every inch of Callie's face, he quickly spoke up in defence.
"Look Cal, you would never have contacted any of them. So we just made the call for you. It's all good; you have a lovely date arranged with Alex. They will be in touch with the details."
Looking at Mark and then turning to Teddy with frustration and irritation sweeping across her face. Teddy added. "We also have no idea if Alex is male or female, given we have no clear recollection of said person and the name is used for both sexes. So yay! Added blind date!" She concluded with a massive grin.
Callie took a step forward and threw herself onto her armchair before bringing the cushion up against her face and hiding herself away from the world. Why me!
A/N: Hey guys, thank you for all the amazing feedback so far. I hope you like the chapter, which I have chosen to post a little ahead of schedule. Let me know what you think.
I think you will guess the soundtrack for this Chapter but just in case:
Take on me by Ah-ha
The track is the original version but I did come across a great remix by Kygo. Well worth a listen.