Chapter 11

Callie's P.O.V.

'Callieeeeee...I'm getting married!', Aria's excited high pitched voice made it very difficult for Callie to hear.

'Yes Aria I know, clearly since I'm your made of honor so you can stop with the screams', I tell her.

'And I am SO glad that you are here'

'Where else would I be Aria?'

They both shared a smile before Aria began to speak again.

'So Cal, I here the you brought a beautiful date at my wedding. Is that the one I have been hearing about non stop for months?'

'Yes Aria. It is Arizona. And she is my girlfriend!'

'What? Since when? Why didn't you tell me?'

'Well you were busy with the wedding and it was going slow between us so I just thought I could tell you in time.'

'You seem to like her very much to bring her here, all the way.'

'I do Aria. I really really do', I say with a smile.

'Good! About time you met someone who treated my baby sister well.'

It has been a crazy one month. My lovely sister's wedding is finally here. 7 months back she told me that she is getting married. The last one month, she literally dragged me to different ends of the city to make sure that everything was fine and organized. Since she had the financial support of my father, it wasn't going to be a low-profile wedding.

She called more than 200 guests and made the best arrangements for all. My dad loved her and he would spare no expense for her wedding. The best part about this wedding was that it was in L.A. Nope, the best part was that I was in L.A. Attending my sister's wedding, with Arizona. Of course I had the pressure to avoid any contact with my father and mother. They never stood by me and abandoned me after my marriage with George didn't work out and I suddenly became interested in women.

They cut me off in all ways possible and never looked at me without a sense of disappointment. Aria was the only family that supported me. At first she didn't try to contact me either but she came around eventually. And now all I had to do was spend one day ignoring my parents. Shouldn't be very difficult to do. I have already told Arizona all about it and I have her support all along. The only thing I am scared of is what everybody might say to her.

I really don't want her to feel bad in anyway and I even told her not to come to the wedding. But she insisted on coming and honestly, I'm glad. She does really make me stronger.

The wedding was very pretty. I managed to ignore everybody except my girlfriend and my sister. My sis had requested me to sing a song at the wedding reception, so here am I, all ready.

'Ok here is a song for the newly weds also for someone special to me', I say that as I send a wink to Arizona.

Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear

You give me fever, when you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever in the mornin', a fever all through the night

The song has a jazz beat which allows me to sway my body a little. I watch Arizona looking at me and now I am all the more interested in swaying.

He gives me fever with his kisses
Fever when he holds me tight
Fever, I'm his missus
And daddy won't you treat him right?

Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made
Cats were born to give you fever
Be it Fahrenheit or centigrade

They give you fever when we kiss them
Fever if you live and learn
Fever till you sizzle
Oh what a lovely way to burn

What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
And what a lovely way to burn

After the song ends, I walk towards my girlfriend because all I can think of is kissing her. Arizona stands as I reach her and I take her by the hand but a tap on my shoulder tells me that it needs to wait. I turn around and see the burning eyes of my father. My mother is standing behind him and she stares pointedly at Arizona.

'Calliope, your mother and I would like to talk to you. Come with us alone.' His cold eyes and stern voice made me feel vulnerable. I looked at Arizona and she smiled at me indicating that it was okay.
As we enter an empty room, my father comes to face me.

'Calliope, you shouldn't have brought her here. And you never should have expressed your feelings on stage like that. Everybody in the family is talking about you and your woman? Do you even know how big a sin you have committed? You are going to hell mija, do you really want that?'

Tears were falling down from my face but he showed no mercy. My mother gave me a disgusted look and I stood there, listening to him talk and breaking me, all over again.

'We gave you everything you wanted mija, everything. We sent you to the best school and we gave you the best facilities. And this is how you reward us? With your sin? And let me not even begin with the amount of sins committed by that woman. She is definitely going to hell and she will be punished for the wrong doings and...'

'That's enough! Her name is Arizona and I will not stand here and listen to you talk about Arizona that way!', yeah! I wouldn't just stand there and let him speak about her like that. I could take the bullet he sent at me, but not Arizona.

I knew I felt strongly about her, but even I was amazed at the lengths I could go for her. 'Arizona has taken away all the pain that you and mami here put me through. She has been supporting and loving, something you didn't do for me. I love her and I will keep her by my side for as long as she will have me. And when it comes to me committing a SIN, I don't think you should be the one speaking. You are supposed to love and support your child which you failed to do, you abandoned me and Jesus will be ashamed of you. Both of you.' I finally got the anger out of my system, gave them one last threatening looking and turned to leave.
I saw Arizona by the door, smiling sadly at me but her eyes told me that she was there for me. I took her by the hand and started to walk away.

'Calliope Iphegenia Torres! You are making a mistake...', barked Carlos

Arizona slipped out of Callie's grip and went to stand in front of Carlos.

'Your daughter is amazing, honourable, supporting, caring and lovable. I love her and I am so proud of who she is. And one day you will realize that she is and always will be the person who you raised her to be. One day you will realize that YOU made a mistake.'

With that we walked off and reached an empty passage way.

'You love me?' I asked even though I had just heard her say it.

'You have made me the happiest that I have ever been and stood up for me in there. So yes, I love everything about you Calliope. I LOVE YOU.'

'I love you too.'

Arizona's P.O.V.

The sound of the waves pushing past each other to reach the shore is so soothing. I could live here in this moment forever. I have the most beautiful woman in the world sitting right next to me, sitting in a bikini which currently makes her the hottest woman in the world. She is sitting with one leg folded over the other and is reading a magazine. I also have the sun right above me and an endless sea to look at. If someone comes and kills me, I will die happy and content.

We have a few hours before we get on a plane and go back to our apartments…which is opposite each other… and go to work… where we work in the same building and see the other one very often. Well now that I think of it, I could die happy even in the normal routine of my life. Loving Calliope is what I came for and I achieved it.

I knew that I loved her a while back. But with all the singing and standing up for me against her father (which was totally hot by the way), just forced me to say it out aloud. And I am glad I did.

'A penny for your thoughts…!?', she says.

'I am thinking about how happy I am with you. I love you.'

'I love you too Arizona'

'Have I mentioned how sexy you look in that bikini?'

'You might have told me that around 7 times now', she said with a chuckle. 'But I am not complaining.'

'You better not. Because I am going to say that a lot more times.'

'I know, love. I like to hear it. Now come here!'

We fit our bodies well on only one of the pool chairs and start fooling around. Our time is spent well with a lot of touching, running on the beach, jaw-dropping moments when the other one is running-or is in the water and comes out fully wet, with a LOT of tickling, laughing every minute, drinking, clicking pictures, swimming and a lot of kisses.

We relax into each other's embrace drifting off to sleep, at peace. Callie had already made my fantasy come true on our way to L.A. so I can rest on our flight home.

General P.O.V.

Three weeks since Aria's wedding, Callie and Arizona were madly in love and crazy adorable. Things between them were stable and smooth. They hate dinner plans at Callie's again, just the four of them. Five, if you include the double food that Alex eats.

'Babe, I love you, but you almost burnt my dish the last time you tried to help. So….. Don't come any closer', Callie said with a quick kiss on Arizona's cheek then on her pout.

'But I want to help too, Calliope.'

'Umm…. You can get the drinks ready. I bought tequila for Cristina.'

'Don't you think you are pampering her with all the tequila and the cooking? Both of them actually. You are spoiling them Calliope!'

'They aren't 12 year olds, love!'

'Umm…. Are you sure? Sometimes the way they behave just makes me wonder if they are just not kids in adult suits.'

Callie chuckles in response, 'you have a wild imagination babe!'

'Come on! Let me help…', she is cut by the phone ringing.

'The drinks babe. And then you can cut the onions for me.'

Cutting the onions was a task. Arizona couldn't stop her eyes from burning and due to the lack of concentration, she cut her finger.

'Oww!'

'Arizona? God! No more knives for you'

'Calliope… now I am not the 12 year old'

'Seeing hoe clumsy you are, I would say differently. Come on now. Put it under the tap'

'It burns!', Arizona said with a cute pout.

'Aww…here, let me kiss it and make it all better'

'Well in that case…', Arizona picked up her knife and passed it over her lips, 'I cut my lips too. Could you maybe heal it with a kiss?'

'You are definitely 12!', with that they share an endless, passionate kiss. They break apart when the phone rings.

'Hello', Callie answers the phone and motions for Arizona to not touch anything.

She is gone a good five minutes and Arizona is getting restless. She gets up and reaches for the spoon to stir the gravy. Just as she manages to hold it, she spots Callie.

'Calliope, I didn't do anything…. I swear….', she stops to look at her face. 'Calliope what's wrong?'

'Umm…. That was…that was my sister Aria. She said that one of her husband's friends saw the video of me singing for her. And… and… he has record company. They want me to meet me Arizona… to make an album!', she says still surprised by what just happened.

'Oh my GOD! That Is amazing Calliope', and she is pulled in a big hug.

'My own album', Callie thinks to herself, still shocked.

Song: Fever by Sara Ramirez