Hanging By A Moment
Hanging By A Moment
Paring: Callie/Arizona
Rating: M
A/N:While I wrote this chapter I was listening to Under The Table by Banks, I think much of that album will influence the rest of this story. Highly recommend listening to that song before, while or after reading this chapter. Chapter 12 is on the works already, hope to post it in the next few days.
Chapter 11:
Callie and Arizona were lying on the bed kissing slowly as if they had all the time in the world. Whatever was happening tonight, there was no need to rush it. Arizona sneaked her hands under Callie's shirt; rubbing her back softly she dragged Callie fully on top of her locking her legs around Callie's hips. An incessant buzz coming from the nightstand beside the bed brought them out of their haze.
"Is that yours or mine?" Arizona asked from under Callie.
"Let me see." Callie reached over to the nightstand; it was Arizona's phone the one buzzing. "Yours." She handed Arizona her phone. "Is it your parents?" Callie asked.
"No. Its Teddy." Arizona said. "I'll call back later." Just when she said that the phone stop buzzing and a single buzz indicating a text message came through. "She knows." Arizona read out loud. "She knows?" She repeated, confusion evident in her voice.
"Oh fuck." Callie said moving from her position on top of Arizona. "I think she means Aria."
"What should we do?" Arizona asked.
"I don't know." Callie said. "I told you we should have told her ourselves."
"No, I think your words were that I should have told her before she found out from someone else." Arizona said.
"Semantics." Callie mumbled.
"You know what?" Arizona said putting her phone aside and grabbing Callie so that her girlfriend was on top of her again. "Let's not let that ruin our night. We can deal with that later."
"You sure you don't want to call Teddy to make sure everything is alright?" Callie questioned.
"I just want to be with you right now. Everyone and everything else can wait until later." Arizona said grabbing Callie's neck in order to bring their mouths close together. "They can wait." She almost whispered before sealing their lips in a heated kiss.
No more words were exchanged about the subject. Callie carefully tasted the boundaries as she let her hands roam freely through Arizona's body. Clothes came off hesitantly before they knew it Callie was only wearing underwear and Arizona's bra was coming off.
"Are you sure?" Callie asked before taking the item off of Arizona's body.
"I am." Arizona said in a rough whisper threading her fingers through Callie's hair.
"Okay." Callie nodded kissing her way from Arizona's neck to her breasts paying close attention trying her best to make Arizona enjoy this as much as possible. Arizona's little grunts and moans were signals that she was doing things right. Hesitantly, Callie let her hand travel south down Arizona's body reaching the hem of her underwear, sensing Callie's hesitancy Arizona pushed Callie's hand inside her underwear. The feeling of Callie's bare hand on her was both terrifying and exhilarating, her heart was beating so loudly that she was afraid that Callie could hear it.
"Fuck." Callie whispered as she felt Arizona in this intimate way for the first time. "Is that okay?" She asked.
"Yes." Arizona breathed out. "Keep going please."
"I'll keep going." She almost chuckled against Arizona's ear lobe before she nibbled on it. "Can I try something I been dying to do since I met you?"
"What's that?" Arizona asked as Callie kissed her way down her body.
"Just trust me, okay?" Callie said looking up from Arizona's belly button.
"Mhm." Arizona could only nod in response.
Carefully and slowly Callie removed Arizona's underwear and positioned herself between Arizona's legs spreading them open further. Callie kissed the inside of each of Arizona's thighs, slowly working her way up to Arizona's center, once her lips made contact Arizona let out a loud encouraging moan.
Aria was pacing the floor in front of Teddy who was drunk and trying to steady herself.
"Where do you think they are?" Aria asked for what felt like the hundredth time in the last few minutes.
"I don't know, Aria." Teddy said. "Arizona didn't mention anything about where they were going."
"How long has this been going on?" Aria asked. "Be honest with me."
"I don't know. A few weeks? Around a month?" Teddy said. "I don't know, I'm not keeping track."
"So since Callie's been back?" Aria asked.
"More or less, yes." Teddy said.
"And you've known from the beginning?" Aria asked.
"Yes, Aria, I've known, okay?" Teddy said frustrated. "Why do you care so much anyway? This is like a fucking inquisition. Its not like Arizona is your girlfriend or anything so just fucking chill."
At Teddy's words, Aria's eyes started getting teary until she full out started sobbing uncontrollably. She was crying so hard that she was almost choking on her own sobs. Teddy was at a loss as of what to do. After thinking about it for a second she wrapped her arms around her friend and just held her until she was calm enough to be able to talk about what was happening to her.
A few minutes went by with Teddy's arms wrapped around Aria before she was calmed and able to talk coherently about the reason of her abrupt reaction to Teddy's words.
"I love her, I love her." Aria said in between calmer sobs.
"Its okay, I love her too. You're not going to loser because she has a new girlfriend…who just happen to be your sister…" Teddy said completely missing Aria's point.
"No, shut up." Aria said. "You don't love her like I love her. Callie will never be able to love her like I love her. No one can love Arizona the way I love Arizona."
"Oh shit." Teddy said, the weight of Aria's words hitting her like a ton of bricks. "No, no, no, no, no. This is not good. This is actually the opposite of good. This is bad, very, very bad."
"I know, I know." Aria said. "My mom is going to flip, she's already had enough with Callie being so flamboyant with her gayness."
"Okay… are you gay?" Teddy asked hesitantly.
"I…I don't know…?" Aria said.
"That's fine…if you are…or if you're not." Teddy said. "Maybe this is just a thing with Arizona? Maybe you're just Arizonasexual."
"This is not the time for your jokes." Aria said seriously.
"Just trying to lighten up the mood." Teddy said shrugging her shoulders.
"Does…is…is Arizona in love with my sister?" Aria asked afraid of the answer.
"That's…is not my place to answer that question." Teddy said. "All I know is that Arizona is really into Callie and from what I know the feelings are pretty mutual."
"Oh god." Aria said new sobs coming out of her.
"I'm sorry." Teddy said hugging Aria tightly. "I'm sorry you're feeling this way."
"I should have said it before, maybe if I had told her before…" Aria said.
"It wouldn't have made things any different." Teddy said. "People feel the way they do and there's no explanation as to why. Just like you can't help feeling what you feel for Arizona, neither can Arizona help what she feels for Callie and neither can Callie help it, no matter how much you forbid her from seeing Arizona."
"Its not fair." Aria said cried into Teddy's shoulder. "Its not fair."
"I know, sweetie, I know." Teddy said tenderly stoking her hair.
"Callie will only break her heart." Aria said.
"You don't know that." Teddy said.
"I do. She's my sister." Aria said. "She's not going to stick around for long. She's just using Arizona."
"How do you know that?" Teddy asked.
"My dad is opening a new branch in New York and he wants Callie there to run it." Aria said. "I heard him arguing with mom about it before they left. He's waiting for Callie to decide. She's toying with Arizona, she never intended to stay here in Miami."
"Aria, are you sure of what you're saying?" Teddy asked.
"Yes. Of course." Aria said.
"Aria, you can't tell any of this to Arizona, okay?" Teddy said.
"Of course I'm going to tell her." Aria said. "She needs to know."
"No, she'll only hate you for it." Teddy said. "You can't tell this to Arizona, is not your place. "
"I'm not going to sit around and watch my sister break her heart." Aria said.
"Let me talk to her about it, okay?" Teddy said. "I'll talk to Arizona, if you love her like you say you do, you need to stay out of this."
"No. Fuck it. I'm going to tell her that I love her and that she should be with me instead of my sister." Aria said. "I'm just as pretty, if not more, and I come from money just like my sister and I'm not leaving her like my sister is."
"You can't do that. Not right now, not if Callie is leaving, she'll hate you if you do." Teddy said.
Callie laid exhaustedly beside Arizona; the blond was catching her breath and trying to form a coherent thought. After finally catching her breath, Arizona started kissing Callie's neck wanting to make Callie feel as good as she had felt moments before.
"I want you do that to you." Arizona said against Callie's neck.
"You do?" Callie asked and Arizona only nodded in response. "Right now I just want to hold you like this." She said putting Arizona's leg over hers while her other hand played with the blonde's hair.
"Callie?" Arizona said softly after a while of silence, the sound of Arizona's soft voice brought Callie out of almost falling asleep.
"Yeah." Callie asked in a sleepy voice.
"I really liked what we just did." Arizona said brining a big grin out of Callie.
"I really liked it too." Callie said brushing some hair out of Arizona's face.
"I'm glad I waited for you." Arizona said. For a minute Callie was at a loss for words as if just now she was realizing the extent of her feelings for the girl resting in her arms.
"You've changed me." That was the only thing Callie was able to say at first. "I'm not the same person I was when I met you. You completely changed who I was."
"Is that a good thing?" Arizona asked moved by Callie's words.
"Yes." She nodded. "Its a great thing."
"So we've changed each other…" Arizona said. "I've enriched your life in many ways…I can live with that."
"You have." Callie said with a chuckle, even though she knew by Arizona's tone that she was kidding, she couldn't help but agree with the statement.
"Things are going to change once we're out of this room." Arizona said referring to the message from Teddy.
"Most likely." Callie said.
"You're going to be with me no matter who says you shouldn't?" Arizona asked.
"Hey, look at me." Callie said looking into Arizona's baby blue eyes. "I'm going to be with you until you don't want me there any more."
"You promise? You promise you're not going to walk away?" Arizona asked her eyes fixed on Callie's.
"I promise." Callie said meaning those words with everything she had.