The next morning I woke up with one thing in my mind. I was gonna see Arizona today. Wether I had to convince her to drive down to Seattle, or I had to go to Tacoma myself. But I was gonna see her today.

Mark didn't spend the night as usual so I let Sofi sleep with me. If only it didn't give her bad habits I would do it every night. It was nice having someone to cuddle with even if that someone was less than 2 feet long.

It was now 11:47 am. Sofi was down for a nap and I was on my phone getting ready to call Arizona. I've been meaning to call her earlier but I decided not to so I didn't sound too desperate. Who was I kidding though? I was desperate! In fact I've never been so desperate in my life.

Finally I gave in and called. As the phone rang my heart raced a marathon.

Come on pick up

"Hello love."

Phew

"Good afternoon beautiful." I smiled at the thought of her beautiful face.

"What's up?"

"I was wondering if you could come visit today." I replied nervously.

"I'm sorry I can't, I returned the car I rented yesterday."

I sighed loud enough that I'm sure she heard it.

"-but I'm sure you can drive here? My hotel rooms pretty big and Sofi can play-"

"No no, I mean.." I really wanted some alone time with Arizona. It's been way too long. "Her grandma really wants to spend some time with her so I'll drop her off at her house."

She giggled at my foolishness. "Right. But you gotta promise me to bring her over some other time."

"I promise."

There was a short pause. It was a sweet one though. As if we were both taking in this wonderful moment.

"So when are you coming?"

Right now. As soon as possible!

"Hmm, what time would be convenient for you?"

"I should be asking you, you're the one with the baby." We both chuckled.

"How about I leave my house in an hour? I'll drop Sofia off at Kate's house and then I'll head to Tacoma. So I'll be there in like two hours."

"That's perfect. I'll be sure to order something for us to eat."

Sofia's cry started to fill the room.

"Okay see you there, the little monsters awakened."

"I'll text you the address, Goodbye Calliope." My heart flipped before I got to hang up. Nothing compared to when she called me by my first name. Only she could do it as perfect. The crying finally woke me up from my Utopia and I went to get Sofi.

"You look beautiful Hun." Kate complimented me when she opened the door of her house. "Is there a special occasion? Are you and Mark going out somewhere." She still thought her son was an angel.

I was wearing a coral colored chiffon shirt with some khaki skinny pants. On my feet I wore nude Steve Madden flats. I finished off my look with a classic pony tail.

"Thank you Kate. It's really nothing. And no I'm just going to see a very good friend whom I haven't seen in a while." I kissed Sofia before handing her over. "Be good princess, mommy will try to not be too long."

"Don't worry about it, I miss having her over."

I smiled. "She loves being over, I'm sorry I can't bring her more often. By the way I'm going to Tacoma so I'm really sorry if I get here too late."

"No worries Hun, if you want you can leave her overnight, I'm not working tomorrow."

"I'll call you if I can't make it in time. Again, thank you so much I love you!" I hugged them both before I returned to my car.

40 minutes later I'd arrived at Arizona's hotel. I was a little nervous but mostly anxious. My hair had taken another toll so now it was more of a messy ponytail. I tried to fix it but I ended up leaving it like that.

"Arizona Robbins." I answered to the receptionist.

"5th floor, room 502."

"Thank you." I headed to the elevator. As the elevator went up I played with my fingers. Why was I so nervous? If there's anyone I'm most familiar with its Arizona.

Bleep

I took a deep breath and then walked a long the long corridor. It was pretty bright since all the lights were on. I looked at the first door labeled 500 and kept walking. When I reached 502 I stopped in front of the door.

Do I look okay? I reached for my phone and tried to see my reflection on the screen. Ugh my hair was a mess. Maybe I should redo it. I opened my purse and looked for a brush.

"Where the hell are you!" I yelled to myself.

The door in front of me opened slowly.

"Calliope." She smiled as she hid some front hair in back of her ears.

"Arizona." I chuckled patting down my hair.

"You look...beautiful."

"Don't lie to me." I kept digging into my purse.

"I could never lie about that. Seriously...wow."

I stopped looking into my purse and looked into her eyes. "You really think so?"

She took a few steps forward and placed her hand on my face. "What do you think?" She closed her eyes and leaned over to kiss me. "Come in." She grabbed my hands and led me inside the hotel.

"So instead of ordering the horrible food they serve here I thought we'd eat some of this pound cake I have here. Plus I want to take you out to dinner and I don't want you to be too full." She opened the fridge and pulled out perfectly cut slices of pound cake.

"Sounds amazing." I grinned at the deliciously looking cake.

Arizona smiled and pat a stool so that I could sit next to her on the kitchen counter. I went timidly and we were now facing each other. We stared at each other for a while like two awkward teenagers on their first date. After all this was the first time we were alone knowing we both felt the same way about each other.

"Mmm, I love pound cake. Rich, buttery pound cake." She started as if she were trying to break the ice.

"Yes, mmm, delicious!" I replied awkwardly arching my eyebrows.

We looked at each other for another 30 seconds before Arizona started again.

"What are we doing?" She put down the slice of cake.

"We're eating delicious pound cake." My mouth was half full.

"You know what I mean! What are 'we' doing? For 'us'. Am I just supposed to go back to Boston and leave you and Sofia again?"

I put my elbow on the counter and rested my head on my hands before letting out a sigh. The whole time I kept my eyes on her. "I don't know. All I know is that I want to be with you. And I want Sofi to grow up with two loving parents. Now I know that that doesn't necessarily mean Mark."

"When are you gonna tell Mark about us?"

I covered my face with hands and sighed again.

"Callie...you are gonna tell Mark about us, right?" She looked at me in disbelief.

"Ofcourse Arizona! But I need time."

"Well how much more time are you gonna need?"

"I don't know okay, I don't know how he's gonna take it."

"Are you scared of him or something?"

I looked at my hands and twiddled my fingers.

"Callie look at me." She placed her hands on my chin and looked into my eyes. "Are you scared of your boyfriend? The father of your daughter? The man you live with?"

I couldn't lie to her baby blue eyes.

"I, I just... Look he gets drunk a lot."

"You shouldn't be with someone you fear Calliope. Even if you're not gonna be with me right away because you haven't come out to other people, I want you to leave him. If you don't feel safe with him you shouldn't be with him."

"I know, but Sofi..."

"Don't even start with that, He's not even a good father!"

"I need time!" I yelled out.

Arizona stared back at me.

"Okay...I'm not gonna force you to do anything." And she looked away.

I stood up from the stool and stood close to her. I brushed my fingers through her golden locks. She looked at me with hopeless eyes.

"I'm so sorry, just give me time to figure out where I'm gonna stay. Please love."

"I understand." She stood up in front of me. "I do, you have Sofia...it's not easy. But I'm here for you, for us."

I nodded bitting my bottom lip. She put her warm fingers under my chin and pressed her soft lips against mine. She felt heavenly. The moment felt heavenly.

"For us." I replied softly in between a kiss.

Sorry I took forever to upload! I am stuck between college applications but just to let you know I have not abandoned this story, Im just super busy! Thank you everyone for reading! -AN