The how-to-get-over-the-love-of-your-life handbook
Personal note: Chapter 11 is up. I'm so sorry for the wait, but my computer broke down, so it wasn't really possible to update.
Enjoy! : )
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Chapter 11: How to have couples dinner
Callie walked into the hospital cafeteria and quickly spotted Mark sitting alone at a table eating an apple.
Did he ever not eat apples? Seriously that guy had some fruit issues.
Callie thought as she made her way towards his table. She picked up some food on the way and sat down across from Mark. Mark followed her with his eyes the entire way, she looked happy and sort of peaceful.
"Hey Cal, you look happy today? I'm guessing the ring-thing went well? Something that you, by the way, haven't explained yet." Mark said as he smiled to his best friend.
"Yeah. The ring-thing went well." Callie said a smile tugging her lips.
"Soo… You wanna elaborate that please?" Mark said with a curious look on his face. "Well not dirty details but, ya'know, the ring-thing? If it wasn't engagement what was it, 'cause the timing sure seemed wrong."
"First of all Mark, you are the biggest gossip. And second of all, what happened to dirty-mind-man-whore-Mark who always... And I mean always… wants dirty details." Callie said and laughed slightly.
"Well, first of all, I am not the biggest gossip… Unless of course it's good stuff… And second of all, my man-whore days are over. I'm with Lexie now." Mark smiled at the thought of him and Lexie. He had never thought he would settle down, but Lexie had certainly changed his mind. She was the one, he knew it. And he was not going to mess it up intentionally by sleeping around.
Callie had a horrified look on her face, she looked at Mark like he was an alien.
"What did you do to my best friend?" She threatened with a playful smirk.
Mark still had a satisfied and happy smile on his face. He took a bite of his apple and looked at Callie.
"Well, I guess he fell in love." Mark said as a small blush showed on his cheeks.
"Aww… I guess he did." Callie answered smiling back at Mark.
"Well Cal, I still need to know what happened though." Mark said after a moment of silent smiling.
"I know, and I'll tell you… I wanted to show Arizona that I'm in this, and that I made a big mistake judging her… So I kinda changed the purpose of the ring and made it into a commitment ring." Callie smiled as she told the story of the morning she had had. When she was done telling Mark everything, except the dirty details, Mark looked at her with slight confusion.
"So no engagement?" Mark said as tried to figure out what Callie meant.
"No engagement. Later there will, hopefully, be engagement, but for now it's commitment." Callie tried to explain.
"Yeah, well, it's sort of the same thing, so… Let's celebrate. Couples date at Joe's tonight!" Mark said with excitement in his voice. This was a part of being in a relationship that he had yet to explore, the couples date. He had never done it before, but he guessed it should be fun, since all the couples did it. And with a happy couple as Arizona and Callie now were, it should be fun.
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"Are you serious? With the guy who almost broke us up with his meddling?" Arizona said with slight disgust in her voice.
"Arizona… He's my best friend, and he's finally happy… And we are happy, I mean, at least I am…" Callie hesitated, she knew they still had to work on gaining each other's trust again, but she was still happy, very happy.
Arizona took a step forward so that they were only mere inches apart.
"I'm happy too." She said as she leaned up and gave Callie a quick kiss. "But I mean, I don't know if I trust him."
"I know, but he was only trying to protect me… He's a great friend, he just has a weird way of showing it sometimes." Callie tried with a small smile and a tilt of her head.
"Fine… But if he…" Arizona was cut off by Callie's lips on hers.
"I know, but he won't." With that she got an unconvinced look from her girlfriend. Arizona had her eyebrow lifted in response. "Well, he might, but I'll deal with it then okay?" Callie tried again, kissing her girlfriend on the lips one more time, before turning away to grab her bag.
"Ready to go?" Callie asked and grabbed Arizona's hand intertwining their fingers.
"Sure… What's the worst that can happen, right." Arizona said as she shrugged and followed her girlfriend out of the apartment.
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Mark and Lexie were already at Joe's when Arizona and Callie arrived.
"Hey." Callie said as they approached the table where the other couple was seated.
"Hey Cal and Blondie." Mark smiled as he greeted the two girls.
Arizona quickly shot Callie a glare and Callie laughed slightly at Arizona's attempt to make her see what Mark had done.
"Mark, please, not that me and Arizona is committed and everything, can you just try to not call her Blondie?" Callie said with a bit of seriousness on her face, but really she was trying not to laugh.
"Oh, sure. Roller-Girl it is then." Mark smiled and nodded at Arizona.
Arizona just gave him and evil look and took a seat opposite of Lexie.
Callie went to get drinks and the conversation flowed well between the couples. Well until Arizona tensed up and stopped participating in the conversation. Callie quickly noticed this and turned to look at Arizona with a concerned look.
"You okay, babe?"
"Ehm… Yeah… Sure… I'm awesome." Arizona tried and gave Callie a small, not at all convincing, smile.
Callie didn't believe a word of that, and really, no one would have.
Did I do something wrong? Did Mark say something? Everything was going to well, what the hell happened?
Callie started to panic slightly, she was afraid that she had done something wrong, and she needed to know, now. So she got up and offered Arizona a hand.
"Ari, will you please join me outside?" Arizona looked up at Callie, still slightly spaced out.
"Huh?" Then she saw Callie's hand and the words registered in her mind.
"Sure." She grabbed Callie's hand and followed her.
"Uuhh, Sexy time." Mark called after Callie.
Callie turned around and shot him an evil glare.
"Don't." She said as she walked out of the door to Joe's.
When she got outside Arizona was leaning on the wall of the building. Callie walked over and stood right in front of Arizona, but she kept some distance, because she still didn't know if she were the reason that Arizona was upset.
"Arizona, what's wrong?"
"I… Ehm… Lexie, she…" That only made Callie even more confused, what could Lexie possibly have done to upset Arizona? Except from the fact that she was the one who found the ring. Oh shit.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't know that you were mad at Lexie for finding the ring… Stupid Cal… I should really have thought of that… I'm sorry." Callie said with a frown and a slightly frightened look on her face.
"No… No, it's not that… I'm not mad… Well, I was at first, but not anymore…" Arizona said as she shook her head.
"Then what's wrong honey?" Callie asked, still very very confused about the whole situation.
"She's eating again Calliope." Arizona said as she looked into the brown eyes of her lover.
"What do you mean she's eating again?" Callie questioned, still not understanding what Arizona meant.
"She's eating… In there… Right now… And not just a couple of peanuts, she had practically emptied the bowl…" Arizona said as she tried to explain the seriousness of the situation to Callie.
"So? She is eating… We are all eating peanuts." Callie was still not understanding where this came from.
"No… Calliope, listen to me." Arizona took a deep breath and looked into Callie's eyes. "She's eating again… A lot… After the bowl of peanuts, she took out a Snickers-bar… Calliope, you know what that means right?"
As realization dawned on Callie her eyes widened.
"Oh my God… She's eating… again?" Callie said, she needed Arizona to confirm it one more time.
"Yeah, she is eating again." Arizona confirmed. "So… either she is pregnant or Mark did something bad, like really bad." Arizona searched her girlfriend's face for any kind of response, but when none came, she continued. "I think you need to talk to Mark… 'Cause I fix things, and when the things that I fix break up again, well, that's no fun… Calliope you need to talk to him… If he did something he needs to fix it. Lexie is a good person and a good friend… And I don't want to see her hurt again."
"So that's why you froze in there?" Callie said still wide-eyed.
"Yeah." Arizona sighed.
"Oh thank God!" Callie said and Arizona jumped slightly in surprise.
"What? Are you happy about this?" Arizona questioned, growing a bit angry.
"No, no. Of course not… I just… I thought you were mad at me, so I'm just… I'm relieved." Callie smiled and kissed Arizona. The kiss was happy and passionate, but Arizona pulled away way too soon for Callie's liking.
"As much as I wanna continue this Calliope." Arizona said with a smirk. "You really need to talk to him." Her smirk turned into a frown as she spoke.
"I know…" Callie sighed and looked into the beautiful blue eyes of her girlfriend. "I know."
"But…" Callie tried as she kissed her girlfriend one more time.
Arizona laughed at Callie's attempt to push the issue.
"Calliope." Arizona giggled between Callie's butterfly kisses.
"Yeah?" Callie asked with a smirk on her face, still not stopping.
"You need to…" That was as far as Arizona made it, because then Callie reached the sensitive spot on her neck, and there was no way she could refuse Callie when she did that.
Then suddenly, after a couple of minutes of making out, Callie stopped. Arizona pouted as she looked up on her girlfriend who had a smirk on her face.
"I need to talk to him." Callie said.
"What? Now?" Arizona asked and received at nod from Callie. "That's just mean!" Arizona continued to pout.
"I know." Callie said with the biggest smirk ever. "But you'll just have to wait. After all you were the one that said I needed to talk to him." With that Callie turned on her heel and walked towards the entrance to Joe's.
"Tease!" Arizona yelled after her as she pushed herself off the wall and followed her girlfriend.
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Well, Callie and Arizona are finally doing okay, but now there might be trouble in the other paradise.
Spoiler:
Callie's talk with Mark.
Surprises to come!
Personal note:
Sorry again for the late update. Don't hate me. ; )
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