Callie's POV
I'm always the freak, the one in the back of the classroom chewing her hair. Yup that's me. For once I thought that maybe I wouldn't be the freak. Starting at a whole new school, not knowing anybody at all should help right? The fact that no one knows you and doesn't know that you're the hair chewer helps. I was forced coming to this rich kid's school and the plan was to talk to as few as I can. I'm rich too, I'm just not the girl who wants to be rich. Then I met Arizona, my sweet, precious, lovely Arizona, which I feel so strongly for. So strongly that I almost don't know where to put the feelings, it's scary actually.
What soothes me is that I know how she feels about me. I know that she won't cheat on me with her best friend. I can't be sure about that of course, but she's different. Today when she asked me what she was it was so hard to answer that question. We've known each other for one day; I don't even know when her birthday is. I do however know about her brother, a subject she often probably avoids.
When Lexie told us that the meeting was in 5 minutes, it kind of made me hyperventilate. Good thing Arizona was there to calm me down. However running to the auditorium dressed like homeless people isn't really helping me staying calm.
When we reach the auditorium I can see that we are pretty late. The whole auditorium is packed with girls. Arizona pulls me by the arm.
"Look Calliope, there's Lexie. She saved us two seats." We wave to Lexie and start walking. I'm still looking at Lexie so I'm not really watching where I'm going. Before I know it I crash into someone.
"Watch it Calliope." I hear Arizona say; too bad she was two seconds too late. The person I walked in to is a short, angry, afro-American woman. She looks very very pissed.
"What the hell… you fool look what you did to my shirt!" I see an ink stain on her white shirt. It must be from the pen she was holding when I walked in to her.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to." As I try to wipe away the stain I instead smudge it. Now it's worse than it was. Shit
I look over at Arizona and I can see that she's trying real hard not to laugh. The woman pushes my hand away from her.
"Just stop it okay? You just made it worse. I'm Miranda Bailey your guidance counselor. Before you take a seat can you give me your names so I can check you on the list?" She looks between us and I can see Arizona's smile fade away. Now she just looks scared.
"I'm Arizona Robbins, nice to meet you Miranda!" She says with a perky voice, however the other woman does not appreciate it.
"It's Mrs. Bailey to you." She looks down the list and checks her name. "Arizona Elizabeth Robbins, what in the hell kind of a name is Arizona? Don't say you were conceived there or something."
I can see that Arizona gets a little pissed off by Mrs. Bailey's comment about her name.
"Actually Mrs. Bailey" She emphasizes her name "I was not conceived there, I'm named for-"
"Shush I don't want to hear it." Mrs. Bailey interrupts her.
I look over to Arizona and she's becoming red from the anger like she's going to explode. I can also see some tears, is she crying? Before she gets the chance to start a fight with a member of the staff I say my name.
"Mrs. Bailey my name is Callie Torres." She looks in the list for a long while before saying.
"Calliope Iphigenia Torres? You're even more messed up than she is." She laughs at us, but soon the laughter stops when she sees what we are wearing.
"What the hell are you two wearing? Did you not read the letter you got in the mail?" Okay she's angry. I feel like I should keep my mouth shut and let Arizona do the talking.
"Well Mrs. Bailey, actually we didn't read the letters. We just read the part that said 'Congratulations you've been accepted'" I should have done the talking. She gives Mrs. Bailey her famous dimpled smile, but it isn't really helping. Bailey is really pissed now.
"You did what? You are useless. If you would have read the letters, you would have seen that the school uniforms are to be worn at ALL school activities! This is a school activity!" She takes a deep breath before continuing. "There's no time to change now, so go sit in the back." She gestures to the back row.
As we're walking up the stairs I turn to Arizona and whisper.
"Very smooth Arizona. Don't you know how to lie? You could have said that we forgot or something."
She scoffs.
"Well why didn't you do the talking? Oh no you were too busy staining her shirt."
"Yeah well it is what it is, us fighting about it isn't helping." I say trying to forget about the whole thing.
As we're continuing to walk up the stairs I can see that the girls are staring, pointing and some laughing. I guess it's the clothing.
We go up to the last row and sit down. I can see Lexie down in the second row waving at us. All I can do is point at my clothes.
"Calliope, I just realized something." She says all excited.
"What?" I really don't see what could have made her this excited.
"We've had our first fight!"
"Yeah that's true, now we really are a couple aren't we." I smile at her. Wow a fight that didn't involve a boyfriend spending too much time with his friends. Sometimes it was even worse; it was about him sleeping with his best friend.
Down there I can see a man in a suit. He looks like he's maybe in his mid 50s. The auditorium becomes silent when he starts to talk.
"Hello everybody, my name is Richard Webber and I am your headmaster." A man being the headmaster at an all-girl school? It doesn't really feel appropriate. I look over at Arizona and she turns to give me a look that says that we are thinking the same thing. Mr. Webber was talking about himself for a while and welcoming us to this prestigious school so I didn't pay much attention.
"Well now we are going to go through some of the rules. I don't want to bore you too much, but I'm just going to go through the basics. The rest is in the handbook. Firstly there is zero tolerance to alcohol and drug consumption. Same thing goes to weapons of course. Lights are out at 10 pm on weekdays, on weekends it's at 1 am. You are not allowed to have love relationships with anyone, neither the staff of course nor your fellow students. It is not because you are all girls, its policy for this school. We are conservative here. If you break the mentioned rules you can get a warning, suspension or even expelled depending on how severe you've broken the rule."
Arizona's POV
"You are not allowed to have love relationships with anyone, neither the staff of course nor your fellow students. It is not because you are all girls, its policy for this school. We are conservative here. If you break the mentioned rules you can get a warning, suspension or even expelled depending on how severe you've broken the rule. Well that would be all. Thank you for attending and have a nice day before classes start tomorrow."
What? Did he just say what I think he said? This is just great, now I have to hide my relationship with Calliope. I look over to her and I can see that she is being normal. Isn't she bothered by this?
When we walk back I keep my distance. I feel a bit hurt over the fact that she isn't even caring about the fact that we have to keep it a secret. When we get back to the room I take my laptop to bed and I'm checking my Facebook. Calliope walks in and sneaks her way next to me. She starts kissing my neck, but I ignore her. She doesn't notice immediately but after a few attempts to kiss me with no luck she gets that something is wrong.
"What's wrong Arizona?" I can't believe her.
"Well Callie, how about you guess what's wrong and I'll say if it's hot or cold?" I say with sarcasm. Now she looks angry, but I don't care she's not going to win this one.
"Well Arizona, I would guess that you're maybe angry over the fight we had in the auditorium. However you were excited over the fact that it was our first fight. Did I do something?"
"No you didn't do anything." I yell. "It's the fact that you did nothing that's the problem." I mutter, but she heard it.
"I didn't do anything?" I can see that her head is working on full speed trying to figure out what the problem is. "Well Arizona can you please tell me what I did, or didn't do?"
"Did you hear what headmaster Webber said?" She nods her head with confusion. I should clear it up. "About the whole love relationship thing?"
"Oh that, yeah I heard what he said, so?" What? Did she just say that like it was the most normal thing to say.
"So you don't find that as a stupid, ancient rule Callie?"
"No not really, I did see it coming though. It's not like we're really affected by it." Umm what?
"What do you mean we're not affected by it? We're in a love relationship right?" I can't believe I'm asking her this, has she changed her mind?
"Yes we are, but we're keeping it a secret right?" There it is.
"Yeah for now, but I mean we weren't planning on keeping it a secret for three years right? And even if we did, now I have to be afraid of someone finding out because I could get expelled."
"I don't know how long I was planning to keep it a secret. I do know that they would never expel you, you're too cute." She smiles and leans in to kiss me, but I'm still mad. I have to keep my body's feelings aside, this is a matter of principles. So I won't let her kiss me.
"It's not funny Callie, at all. You would know that if you weren't such a newborn." I can see her becoming angry, but I don't care. It was a matter of principles. I walk in to the bathroom to get myself ready for bed. It's still pretty early, but I'm exhausted after the previous night with nightmares. I can only imagine what will happen when I get out of the bathroom.