Title: I Turn To You
Author: gatorgirl2009
Pairing: Callie and Arizona
Rating: R
Summary: AU Calzone love story set in high school. Slightly based on Grease
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fiction, nor do I have any rights in regards to them. All characters belong to ABC and Shonda Rhimes
A/N: This chapter is from Callie's POV. Thanks to everyone who reviewed :D
"Hi Dad! I'd like to introduce you to my friend, Callie."
I watched her father run his eyes over me. Disturbed wasn't even the word to use for what I was feeling here.
"So you're Callie." He said shaking my hand "Arizona talks a lot about you. It's nice to finally meet you"
I was pleasantly surprised to see him acting friendly "The pleasure is mine Sir and Arizona has told me a lot about you as well."
"I invited Callie and a couple of our other friends for a sleep over" Arizona explained to her father.
"That's nice. Callie you must come over for dinner sometime. It would be nice to know you better" Her dad smiled.
"Thanks for the invite Sir. It would be my pleasure."
"Goodnight girls. You should get some sleep" He kissed Arizona on the cheek and turned to walk to his room
"Nice meeting you Sir" I said with a smile.
Arizona and I walked to the living room and lay down next to the sleeping Lexie and Addison in our sleeping bags.
I noticed her smiling at me
.
"You know, I was more than ready for what happened in my room, just now. I wanted to make sure you know that. It was not too fast for me, ok?" she said blushing slightly.
"I know. It felt natural." I smiled back at her. "So come over tomorrow evening. We'll play Wii or something"
"I would love to but I have cheerleading practice" she answered looking extremely disappointed.
I smiled at her pouting face and kissed the tip of her nose "Its ok Ari. We'll take a rain check on that" I mumbled before we both fell asleep.
The next evening I was sitting in my room with my guitar looking forward to practicing my music as I was not seeing Arizona this evening. Addie and Mark had invited me for a movie but I had preferred to stay home to work on my music. I started playing the riffs of my favorite song and got completely lost in the beauty of music.
On the other side of town Arizona was bouncing up and down like the energizer bunny during cheerleading practice.
Lexie was very amusedly watching her "What's up Arizona? Cheerleaders are supposed to be perky and bouncy but you are over doing it a tad. You are acting like you are on crack" she teased.
Arizona grinned in response "I am just excited. I am going to pick up Callie's favorite movie and take out and head over to her house to surprise her. I plan to be at her house in an hour or so".
Unknown to Arizona and Lexie Rachel was eavesdropping on their conversation. She gave an evil smile and thought to herself "Finally I have the chance to end Callie and Arizona once for all" She slunk out of cheerleading practice and headed to her car realizing she didn't have much time to put her plan into action.
I was completely absorbed in my music and starting to practice my fourth song when I was interrupted by a loud knocking on the door. I remembered that I was alone at home so I went to open the door feeling annoyed at being taken away from my music.
I opened the door to find the last person I ever wanted to see standing there
"Rachel, what are you doing here?" I asked with a mixture of shock and anger.
"Can I come in? I wanted to talk" she asked shivering and its then that I realized it was pouring outside and her clothes were drenched.
"Uh ok. Why don't you change your clothes first" I let her in and led her to my bathroom.
Five minutes later she came out wearing my bathrobe and I raised my eyebrows a bit. She noticed my expression and she explained "It was the only thing hanging in there" trying to sound innocent.
"I repeat my earlier question Rachel. What are you doing here?"
"It's been a while and I thought I'll look you up…to see how you're doing. How are you, Callie?"
"Well, it's a little late to ask that. You betrayed me and now you want to know how am I doing? You've got to be kidding me. I want you to leave…now," I was beyond furious. I was finally happy and I didn't need my ex-girlfriend showing up and bringing back bad memories.
Rachel didn't seem to be concerned by my anger as she asked curiously, "So how are things with your new barbie?"
"My life is no longer your business, Rachel. Is there something that you want?"
"Well, I just wanted you to open your eyes. Arizona is so bland and boring,she does nothing for you…"
"You actually think that?" I raised my eyebrows in amusement. "You are obviously even more deluded than I thought you were"
"Look I realize I was so stupid, Callie. I'm really, really sorry. I had the perfect girlfriend, the perfect life and I threw it all away only to realize that you are all I want and need. Could you ever forgive me, Callie? I want you back, baby."
"Don't call me baby. You lost the privilege when you lied to me and cheated on me when I was still fragile after losing my mom. I have a girlfriend who is beautiful, sexy, kind, and trustworthy. She's the only one who gets to call me baby and who is with me in spite of all my faults and imperfections." "Now…if you have nothing else to say, please leave. I'm very busy and frankly, I don't ever want to see you again."
Rachel was stunned into silence as she waited for Callie to change her mind or to say something else. She heard footsteps coming up the stairs and tried again
"Callie, you are absolutely right. I was a heartless bitch but I will try my hardest to change. Just give me one more chance"
"Rachel, you don't know when to stop, do you? Your charms are not working on me so please, stay away from me," I replied and turned to walk away.
Rachel grabbed my arm and turned me around and before I could say anything her lips were on mine. I was so shocked that I let her kiss me for a moment before realizing what was happening and I started to push her away. I heard a gasp of horror and the sound of something clattering to the floor.
I pushed Rachel away and turned around to see Arizona standing at the entrance to my room with a look of horror on her face and the DVD that she had been holding had fallen on the ground. She had tears streaming down her face and she left quickly without saying a word.
I recovered from my daze and walked with purpose in the direction Arizona had gone. I heard a sob from the downstairs bathroom and walked up to the door.
"Ari, can I come in?"
No response.
I tried the door ..locked.
"Ari, please open the door?'
No response.
"Ari, what you saw is not what you think it is. I can explain"
No response.
"Come on Ari, we can fix this. Please come out."
"Ari, please…"
"Callie, …I'll be out in a few minutes…just wait in the kitchen…okay?"
"Okay Ari"
No response.
I walked into the kitchen, sat at the kitchen table, buried my head in my hands and let the tears fall.
After five minutes Arizona entered the kitchen "Hi,…um I don't know what came over me…hormones I guess I'm a bit PMS…"
She walked to the counter and started opening the take out bags.
I sat dumbfounded. I looked at Arizona with tears rolling down my cheeks.
"Ari, please turn around? We need to talk"
She looked at me with anger in her eyes. "Well, Callie, I don't really feel like talking about it."
"Ari , I can explain"
"Oh really Callie. What can you explain? That the evening I wasn't supposed to be here I find you in a lip lock with your ex who is wearing nothing but your bath robe. Can you deny any of this? I maybe inexperienced but I'm not stupid"
"Look Ari, just hear me out. She came here to talk and suddenly kissed me. I was taken by surprise and I did push her away. The only person I care about is you"
"Look Callie, just stop okay. I can't deal with anything right now. I can't believe I thought you were falling for me, I guess I was just another game to you huh" she told me her eyes full of hurt and sense of betrayal.
"Ari, please don't do this."
"Don't do what Callie? Be realistic. Be honest. Callie…please, just let me leave."
With tears running down her cheeks Arizona grabbed her keys off the counter, strode toward the door and left.
I stood there feeling numb until I was interrupted by Rachel "Callie, are you ok?"
I turned around feeling angrier than I ever had in my whole life "Shut up. I want to kill you right now but that would involve touching you which is something I never want to do. Just get the hell out"
After slamming the door in her face the enormity of what had happened hit me and I collapsed onto the floor sobbing.
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