Chapter 10

Callie leans against the counter of the ER working on some charts. She bites her pen and removes everything she just wrote down. She sighs and throws the chart on the desk.

"Hey stranger!"

Callie turns around. A tall red-haired woman stands a few feet away from her. Her big grayish eyes look at the latina.

"What's up, babe? Not happy to see me?"

Callie walks towards the woman and hugs her tightly. "Oh Addie…" Callie starts to cry and buries her face in the collar of Addison's coat.

"Honey, what's wrong?" She takes Callie's shoulders and pushes her back a little.

Callie looks at her and wipes away the tears off of her face. "I just don't know what to do, Addie."

"About what?"

"About… I just don't know what I want."

Addison looks surprised. "What do you mean, Cal?" She takes her by the arm to the nearest bench. "Sit!" Callie falls down on the bench and sobs. Addison takes a seat beside her. "So, tell me." Addison looks at Callie who fumbles a paper over and over again.

"I'm in love with a woman. A wonderful woman, a sweet, hot, stunningly beautiful woman and-"

"I'm sorry, what?"

Callie looks up. Her eyes sparkle a little. "Arizona Robbins. I was in love the second I saw her when here daughter was brought in here. Really, Addie."

"But, what about Mark? He's a wonderful, sweet, hot, stunningly beautiful… Especially hot man? You're getting married to him, Callie!"

Callie nods. She knows Addison is right, but she honestly expected a little more support from her best friend. Tears start running down her face again.

"I know. Well, actually, I don't know. She wanted me to tell him, but I couldn't. I really don't know what to do."

Addison crosses her arms and legs and looks at the Latina. "Is this a fad? Or, I mean, do you really want to go for this?"

"For her, you mean?"

Addison nods.

"I find her miraculous. I'm someone else when she's around."

"You look happy when you talk about her." Addison smiles. "I'm not a big fan of the whole idea, Cal, but if you're happy… But please think about what you're gonna lose."

Callie nods and takes a few seconds to think.

"Addie?" Mark walks around the corner, spreads his arms and quickly walks over to Addison and Callie. "What brings you here?"

Addison gets up. "Mark! Hi handsome!" They hug tightly and Mark puts his arm around Addison's waist. "I'm here because I miss you guys, very much."

Callie stands up and smiles. "Hey cutie." Mark kisses her and looks at Addison.

"You booked a hotel?"

"Well, I secretly hoped that-"

Mark laughs loudly. "You're always welcome, Addie!" He kisses Addison on the check and gives Callie a peck on the lips. "Hot stuff, I need to go back to work. See you tonight?"

Callie nods. "I think so." Mark walks away and waves when he turns around the corner.

Addison looks at Callie looking at Mark. "You shouldn't leave him, Cal." Callie sighs and stays silent. "You'll find no one like him, you guys are made for each other."

"Well, maybe you should be with him than. I have to go back to work." Callie turns around and walks away.

xx

Cal, I want to talk about this, okay? Love you.

Mark will be home around 9, I need to do a last minute surgery tonight. Just go inside. I'll talk to you later.

xx

Arizona throws a bag of candy in her shopping basket and reaches out to the chocolate chips cookies on the other side of the aisle.

"You're Arizona Robbins, right?" Addison takes her place beside Arizona and looks at her.

"Uhm-" Arizona looks back at her. Addison offers her hand.

"I'm Addison Montgomery, Callie's best friend."

Arizona nods and shakes the hand of the beautiful redhead. "Hi, uhm, yeah I'm Arizona. But… How-"

"She talks about you, all the time." Arizona lowers her eyes and puts her hands in the pockets of her jacket. "Okay, and I followed you from your house to the store, sorry for that." She smiles. "But I don't want to blend into the whole situation, I don't say I agree with her choice, but she adores you. She's scared to contact you, but… Yeah."

Arizona looks at Addison and scratches her nose, because she doesn't know anything else to do. "The last thing I heard was that she's getting married."

"She has no idea what she wants right now, but she wants to talk to you. I know her well enough to notice that." Arizona nods. "And, again, I'm not really fond of the idea, but it kills me to see Callie like this. So, please, contact her, okay?"

She turns around and walks over to the exit. "Oh, and another thing." She glances over her shoulder into Arizona's surprised eyes. "Don't tell her anything about this. Cal doesn't like it when someone bosses the hell out of her." She winks and walks away.

It takes a few seconds before Arizona gets herself back on earth. When she turns around to continue doing her groceries, someone grabs her shoulder. She turns around and looks straight into the sparkling grey eyes of Mark, the eyes she knows so well.

"Hi, uhm, Arizona Robbins, right?" Arizona nods and hangs the shopping basket on her other arm.

"I've seen you around her a lot lately and, at least, I thougt it was you. But now I knew for sure, it could've been no one but you." He looks at her and smiles. He's still very handsome.

"So, how are you?"

Arizona nods again. "Fine, yeah, fine. Very busy, but eh fine." She's nervous. Does he know?

"You have a little girl, right? At least, I saw you with a little girl. She looks just like you and I thought-"

"That's right. Her name's Live and she just turned eight."

Mark takes a few seconds to think and nods. "Are you seeing some one?"

Why does he want to know? "Uhm, no. Not really. I've been single for a while now. I had a eh girlfriend, for four years, but not anymore. No." Why the hell does she tell this to him?

Mark nods. They look each other right in the eye and a uncomfortable silence fills the air. Arizona bites her lip and looks aside.

"Is your daughter also mine?" Arizona immediately looks up. "I mean, shit, I didn't mean to just throw it in your face, I-"

"Yes."

"What?"

"Yes, Liv is yours. She has your eyes." Mark's jaw drops. "I love women, I'm a eh lesbian, since forever. Do you remember Jamie? Yeah, I was so in love with her when I slept with you. During too, actually. And after that eh too. But I was so drunk, so unbelievably drunk."

"Why haven't you told me, ever?"

Arizona looks at him and shrugs. "I-I don't know. I didn't want things to get even more complicated." She lowers her eyes. "I'm sorry."

Mark grabs her hand. "It's okay, I get it, I guess. I couldn't have been there for you and her. I was so… Mark Sloan."

Arizona smiles. "It was so stupid, what we did."

"But you ended up having a great little girl, right?" Arizona nods. "Can I meet her, Arizona?"

Arizona eyes widen. "Really? You want to meet her?"

Mark nods and looks at her with his puppy eyes.

"Stop looking at me like that! Liv definitely got this from you." Mark takes a card out of his pocket and hands it over. "Give me a call to plan a date."