A/N: Here we go!

Halloween is coming up in this fic (as well as the real world.) So any suggestions for what Amelia's first Halloween costume should be will be taken into consideration! As well as Callie and Arizona obviously.

Chapter 13

As predicted, the news had spread quickly through the school, causing quite the stir. After all, whether they knew her personally or not, everyone knew who Callie Torres was. Their school might have its share of little rich kids, but the Torres family made dollars where the rest only made pennies.

Callie held her head high as she walked through the halls to whispers of, "I always knew she was a slut," and "Izzie was right, she sleeps with anything that moves." Those didn't really hurt, because she knew the truth and that's what mattered.

"She probably doesn't even know who the father is." This one came from one of the Izzie's cheerleader lackeys. That one did hurt, because it was the truth, just not for the reasons they said it. Still, she walked tall, pretending it didn't hurt.

A hand slipped into her own and gave hers a gentle squeeze. "Forget about what those bitches say," Arizona whispered into her ear. "Just think about how cute Amelia is." Bringing Amelia's smiling face to mind did help her feel better, but it wasn't the only thing. Having Arizona standing there beside her, their hands held together was helping her much more than it should.

"Not all the talk is bad," Arizona told her later, when they sat down to eat their lunch. "Lexie is in my computer class. I heard her defend you against some of the jocks, and even said how she thought it was great how you were trying to raise your daughter and still finish school."

"Really?" Callie asked. Her and Lexie had never really run in the same circles, so they'd never really spoken to each other. They were both serious about their grades, however, so that gave them a sort of mutual respect for the other.

As soon as school was over, the two girls raced out of the building as fast as they could, never so grateful that it was the weekend.

On the way home, Arizona questioned herself on the decision to have Callie spend the night for the millionth time. It was a little late to take back the invitation, however. Her friend would know if she just made up some excuse and then wonder why. She just had to hope she didn't do something stupid, like kiss her. But damn if she hadn't wanted to for weeks now.

"She's still sleeping," Barbara told them as soon as they entered the side door. "She went down a little later than usual. She was still wide awake after lunch."

"How long she been asleep?"

Barbara glanced at the clock, as if it would hold an answer she already knew. "About two hours."

Callie took the information in, deciding what to do. "I think I'll go get her up. That way she'll go to bed on time tonight," she finally decided, moving out of the room to head upstairs.

Arizona's eyes followed her out of the room, staying focused on the doorway long after Callie had moved out of sight.

"Are you sure about her staying over tonight?" Barbara asked quietly, taking in the longing look on her daughter's face.

"No, but it's not like I can just take back the invitation now."

Barbara put a comforting hand Arizona's shoulder. She wished there was something she could do to help her daughter through this. Her baby girl was in love for the first time, and neither of them knew if it would be reciprocated. Although a part of Barbara hoped it would, she really liked Callie. She was the kind of person every parent hoped their child would find.

"Have you thought anymore about telling her?"

Arizona sighed. "Not really. I'd rather not know, than tell her and be rejected," she admitted.

If she could, she'd protect Arizona from ever feeling that kind of rejection, but Barbara knew it would happen someday. Wrapping her arms around her daughter she gave her a tight hug, holding on until they both heard Callie coming back down the stairs.

"Look who's awake and has a fresh diaper," Callie proudly stated, lifting Amelia up into the air and wiggling her to get a beaming smile. "She also told me we should go for a walk while it's nice and warm outside," she said seriously.

"Oh she did, did she?" Arizona responded, moving to study the smiling baby. "When'd you get so smart?" she asked Amelia.

"Tell her, I'm always a genius after my naps."

"Well I guess we better do what the little Einstein wants then," Arizona teased.

The two girls took turns pushing the stroller as they wandered around the neighborhood. A few of the neighbors were out doing yard work. A few of them were friends with Arizona's mom, forcing them to stop and chat. It seemed like Amelia had become quite popular around the neighborhood in the last couple of weeks. They didn't go that far, but it was still over an hour before they were finally back at the house.

~CA~

"Somebody sure enjoyed her dinner," Arizona teased later that night. Even with a bib, green covered Amelia's face and clothes.

"Yeah I don't think she liked the green beans nearly as much as she liked the carrots. But at least some of it went in her mouth," Callie conceded.

"Looks like you need a bath kiddo," Arizona told Amelia, trying to wipe off some of the green with a napkin.

"Probably a good idea," Callie admitted, standing up, she pulled the tray off of the high chair and lifted her daughter into her arms.

"The bath seat is up in Arizona's bathroom," Barbara informed Callie. It was one of those extras they'd picked up just in case Barbara needed to give her a bath her for any reason, especially for days like today. Now that she was eating real food, there was no telling how each meal would end.

Arizona stayed downstairs talking to her mom, while Callie gave Amelia her bath. Even though they were staying over, Arizona wanted to be sure Callie got the one-on-one time with her daughter that she always craved.

Her bathroom sat right above the kitchen, so as soon as she heard the tub begin to drain, she headed upstairs and took Amelia's towel wrapped body out of Callie's hands. Callie looked at her dumbfounded, and followed her as Arizona took the baby into her bedroom where Callie had set their overnight bags earlier that day.

Laying Amelia down on her bed, she rubbed the towel lightly over her body, drying her. "Hey, baby girl, did you enjoy your bath?" she asked in a baby soft voice. Amelia gave Arizona a big grin, and tried to tell her all about it in baby babble.

"She enjoyed it, just look at my shirt," Callie grumbled, pulling at the bottom hem, lifting her shirt from her body to emphasize her point. "She's getting better at that splashing thing."

"Did you splash mommy?" Arizona laughed, earning another large grin from the baby. Turning to study her friend, she smirked. "The water goes nice with the green you have on your shirt too." Callie just rolled her eyes. "Why don't you go take a shower? Or even a bath if you want. I'll get her ready for bed."

"Are you sure?"

"We got this covered don't we?" Arizona asked the baby. "Go on, go," she all but ordered. "Your mom doesn't think we got this?" Arizona stated once Callie was out of the room.

Grabbing Amelia's bag off of the floor next to her, she set it on the bed and began digging around inside. She crossed her fingers hoping that Amelia wouldn't decide to pee before she could get a diaper on her. Finally at the bottom of the bag she found what she was looking for and pulled the Winnie-the-Pooh decorated diaper out. She was getting good at the diapering thing, if she did say so herself.

Reaching again into the bag, she found the purple bottle of lotion. "Mmm, lavender," she told the baby. Warming the lotion in her hands, she lathered Amelia from head to toe in the stuff. "Bedtime lotion, it's supposed to help you sleep." Peering at the bottle, "not sure that's true though. Now what did she bring for you to sleep in?"

Once again, she moved her way through the bag, finding a plain white onesie and footie pajamas. "Probably smart on your mom's part. The Colonel does like to keep the A/C on high, even though the weather is cooling down outside," she told Amelia as she carefully dressed her.

Since Callie was still in the bathroom, she really hoped she'd taken the hint and decided to enjoy a nice hot bath. Something she doubted her friend had done since before she gave birth. Part of the reason she wanted them to stay over was simply so Callie could just relax a bit.

Picking Amelia up, she made her way downstairs, trying desperately not to think about the fact that the girl she was seriously falling for was in her bathroom naked right at that moment.

"Your bother called while you were upstairs, he's coming for a visit in a couple weeks," her mother told her, as soon as she was settled on the couch next to her with Amelia on her lap.

"Oh cool." She tried to sound nonchalant about the whole thing, but really she was very excited. She'd missed him. "How long is he staying?"

"Five days."

"Well he better not tease me and Callie," Arizona said seriously, earning a laugh from Barbara, because they both knew that was probably exactly what Tim planned to do.

Callie chose to come down at that moment. Arizona really hoped she kept a straight face when she saw that the gorgeous girl was in short shorts and a tank top. It was clear she was no longer wearing a bra. Either Callie didn't know what she did to her, or she knew far too well. Arizona believed it to be the former.

"Her bottle is ready in the kitchen," Barbara said, not even looking away from the television.

"Thanks," Callie told her, striding back out of the room to fetch the bottle. Now that Amelia had moved up to eating baby food, she'd changed their dinner routine up just a bit. Breakfast and lunch she still had food and bottle, but at dinner she mixed her food up with a little bit of rice cereal to give it a little more substance. Then just before bed she'd have her last bottle to fill her tummy up before bed.

Arizona handed Amelia over when she came back in, making an excuse to head up to her room and get changed herself. As soon as she was in the safety of her room, she took a moment to let the vision of Callie take over her mind. "Oh, I think a shower would be good right about now, preferably cold," she told herself. Tonight was so a bad idea.

The shower helped, but only for a few minutes. As soon as she found Callie lying on her bed, she was worse off than before. "Amelia asleep?" she asked trying to sound as normal as possible.

Callie pointed to the baby monitor that now sat on her night stand. "Out like a light."

Arizona went and stood with her back to her desk, trying to look Callie in the eyes and nowhere else. "Cool, what do you want to do now?"

The older girl laughed. "What do you want to do? This was your idea," she reminded Arizona.

"Oh, right. Well, we have games, or we could just watch a movie or something."

"Movie sounds good. This week has been exhausting, be nice to just relax. You know?"

Arizona nodded her head in agreement. With their biology homework on top of their psychology presentations, it really had been a long week. She tried to suggest they go downstairs on the guise that the TV was larger.

"What about your mom?"

"She won't care," Arizona confidently told her.

"Nah, I don't want to move," Callie decided, wiggling to get more comfortable in the bed. She thought Arizona was acting kind of weird right now. She wouldn't really look at her, and she was kind of fidgety where she stood. "Would you rather I go home?" Callie asked quietly, wondering if Arizona had changed her mind.

"No, of course not," Arizona responded quickly.

"Then why are you acting so weird?"

"I'm not acting weird," she paused. "Okay, maybe I am. I've just never done this before," she lamely reasoned. Kicking herself in the butt, she told herself to just act normal and walked over to her movie collection. Throwing a disc in the player, she grabbed the remote and moved back to the bed, sitting on the end.

Callie didn't even bother asking what Arizona had put in. She was too busy studying the blonde girl. Going over everything she knew about her friend, and how she was suddenly acting, things were starting to fall together.

"Arizona?"

"Hmm," Arizona responded, not taking her eyes off the television.

"Relax. Come on, lay back here and relax," Callie told her. Doing as she was told, Arizona scooted back on the bed, but there was still obvious tension on her body. "Arizona, its okay, just relax," she tried again.

Arizona turned to look Callie in the eyes. The look she gave her instantly calmed her down, and she fell more comfortably into the pillows. She had to admit, even under the circumstances, getting to spend this time with Callie was amazing. Between their schoolwork and Callie's responsibilities with Amelia, they hadn't yet had a chance to just sit back and enjoy the things normal teenagers did every day.

Callie decided to test a small theory. Arizona had chosen a scary movie, so when something intense happened, she'd move close to Arizona. Each time Arizona would subtly move further away, until she was hugging the edge of the bed. It was all she needed to know.

Now she just had to figure out how she felt about that.

~CA~

She didn't want to wake up, she was comfortable. In fact she couldn't remember the last time she was so content that she didn't want to move. Without opening her eyes, she knew it was still dark, so she wasn't sure why she was awake. Trying to go back to sleep, she snuggled deeper feeling the firmness of the flesh…that was under her hand.

She cracked her eyes open trying to figure out what was going on, a small bit of light emanating from the TV that was still on. Last thing she remembered, she and Callie were watching a movie. She must have fallen asleep, which led to her snuggling into Callie. She looked down. Sure enough her hand had found it's way inside the other girl's top and was resting on a firm stomach.

She quickly snatched her hand away and tried to scoot back, only to realize she wasn't the only one holding on. A chuckle rumbled from the stomach her hand just been resting on. Blue eyes looked up to see that Callie was awake and watching her.

"Hi," she said awkwardly, not sure what else to say.

"Hi," Callie responded back in the same uncertain tone. She'd only been awake a few minutes more than Arizona, but it never crossed her mind to pull away, and she was trying to figure out why that was. Instead she just laid there watching Arizona sleep. "Seems we fell asleep," she surmised.

"Seems that way," Arizona agreed.

Small noises came from somewhere in the room. It took a minute for Arizona to realize what they were. Glancing at the monitor sitting on the nightstand on Callie's side confirmed it. Amelia was awake, but she wasn't crying, just talking to herself.

"She's been awake for a little bit," Callie informed her. "Sorry if she woke you."

"Nah, it's okay. Are you going to get her?"

"She's not crying, so she'll probably put herself back to sleep." Callie didn't want to admit it, but she also didn't want to move, and it seemed once Arizona realized she was awake, she didn't want to either.

Silence fell over them as they just laid there, looking into each other's eyes. Arizona was gay, Callie knew that, but she'd never really given herself time to think about whether she had any such feelings. She was fairly certain now that Arizona felt something more for her than their friendship. She wasn't sure if it was just attraction, or something more. Either way, it was a good feeling to Callie.

She couldn't stop herself as her eyes wandered down to look at Arizona's lips. What would it be like? She wondered. Unconsciously both girls found themselves moving in to each other. Time seemed to slow down as they did so. So close now, only maybe an inch separating them, expectation was flowing through Callie's body. Just a little more.

"MaMaMa!" came a loud cry over the monitor, causing both girls to jump back.

"Guess I better go get her before she wakes up your parents," Callie whispered, holding back how she was feeling about what almost happened.

After Callie was gone and she could hear her singing Amelia a Spanish lullaby, Arizona laid there wondering what had just happened. How could she have almost kissed Callie? She'd almost ruined everything. "I'm so stupid," she groaned to the room. "I probably just screwed everything up." As soon as Callie came back she'd apologize for the whole thing and then pretend it never happened. It never occurred to her that maybe Callie wanted it too.