AN: So this chapter is really challenging to write. I tried a different approach here, also POVs aside from Callie's and Arizona's. Warning though, dark content.

Timothy's POV

So here I am, on my way to "Calliope's'" house as requested by Arizona. She called me in the middle of the night all worried and panicky because her girlfriend is sick.

Her girlfriend….she called me the day that they became official, and told me all about the amazing surprises that Callie had for her, and the romantic way she asked her to become her girlfriend. I can literally hear Arizona beam through the phone, and I haven't heard her that happy ever since….ever since they broke up years ago. I bet if she was telling me this in person she'll have a grin reaching from ear to ear.

Of course I had my concerns when she told me. Perhaps Callie was declared as by my father as his arch nemesis being the woman that 'corrupted' her little girl. He blamed her for everything, even for the NIGHT that turned Arizona's life around. At first, I did too, but then I realized, it's more of our fault, Arizona's family. And ever since my realization, I swore to myself that I'll be there for my sister every time she needs me, I'll help her heal, I'll help her try to be happy even without Callie, and now that they're back together, I'll be their biggest supporter.

And now, 2 days after, I'm driving to the Torres mansion with a bowl of chicken noodle soup from Bertha a breakfast burrito and a custard cake. It's such a weird combination of food, and it's even more freaky that my sister knows Callie that much even her weird palate.

I ring the doorbell of their really large home, and am greeted by Conchita. I've had to pick up Arizona from here many times before to know some people living in this household.

"Hi Conchita, is Callie there? Arizona requested me to bring her something" I speak to the very nice lady politely.

"Oh Mr. Timothy. Miss Callie is upstairs, she's not really feeling well so you can just go right up and knock on her door. It's the 2nd door from the right of the stairs" Conchita replies to me sweetly.

I give her a warm smile "Thank you Conchita", then I head up the stairs to Callie's room.

I knock 3 times, and I wait for a while for the door to be opened.

I was shocked with what greeted me once the door has opened.

Standing before me is not a sick Callie, but a freshly showered Addison only wrapped in a robe with a towel around her hair, and I can see from over shoulder Callie sprawled out on bed on her stomach only in her underwear.

The initial shock was then changed to anger. I can literally feel my blood boiling. I am in the same year with Callie and Addison, and I've heard numerous times that these 2 used to date.

"Oh….gosh, I'm sorry, I thought you were Conchita" Addison stammers out as she clutches on her robe and tightens it around her.

I walk past Addison, barging in the room, not even caring that Callie's almost naked.

"What the fuck Tim?" Addison growls then she closes the door and walks after me.

Callie seems to be startled by Addison's outburst. She opens her eyes and sees me in the room. When it hit her that I was there while she's just in her underwear, she started to fumble for the sheets to cover herself up.

"So my sister calls me all worried about her sick girlfriend, asking me to bring her favourite 'get well' food, then I see this? What the fuck Callie, If you weren't a girl I'd be strangling you right now" I seethe at Callie still slightly dazed by the turn of events.

"What the hell are you talking about?" She groans, and Addie's just standing in the corner obviously too afraid to approach a raging me.

"This! THIS! Arizona tells me that you're too sick to even stay on the phone with her or to call her or text her, but I it looks like you're not really sick, and I guess you're just too busy cheating on my sister!" I growl at Callie, and I drop the bag of food I'm carrying. This seems to get her attention, and she's wide awake now.

"WHAT?" She asks incredulously. She looks at Addison with a confused expression while Addison looks at her too seemingly confused as well. After a few seconds of just staring at each other, it looks like something clicked.

"NO! NO! I'm not cheating on Arizona!" Callie screams back.

"Oh really? Because from what I can see right now, you're a lying, cheating whore!" I yell at her with my fists clenched tightly on my sides.

"Woah woah woah. Hold up there! You have some nerve on going here, then accusing Callie and calling her names! You better watch it Timothy" Addison buts in and she's now standing in front of me.

"Accusing? I'm not accusing when I caught you two red handed!" I yell back, not backing down from Addison's intimidating stare and stance.

"I'm not cheating on Arizona ok? I may be a lot of things Tim but I'm not a cheater, and nor is Addison. Addison's not that kind of person" Callie furiously shouts while she's hurriedly tugging a shirt over her head.

"Then what's all of this?" I ask, gesturing to Callie's and Addison's almost clothe less forms.

"If it weren't for your sister, Callie wouldn't be drinking til her liver gets fried, and she wouldn't be so hung over that she can't get herself off the bathroom floor. If it weren't for your sister, Callie wouldn't be throwing up all over herself and me while I try to pull her head out of the toilet. " Addison says in an equally angry voice.

"Look, my sister has been nothing but concerned, you don't get to blame her if Callie here decides to be reckless" I tell her. Still fuming and refusing to really listen to them.

"You have some nerve calling me reckless, a liar and a cheater when it's your sister who's a liar. She's the one who's been lying to me all along!"Callie yells out, and now she's off the bed and fully clothed.

"Don't try diverting the blame on my sister when you're obviously trying to cover up your unfaithfulness" I yell at her.

"I did not cheat on Arizona. I may be mad at her, I may be hurt, but I will never do that to her." She growls…..

We stand there, glaring daggers at each other. Addison has now stepped aside leaving Callie and I to our stare down.

"Tell me Tim, what was Arizona doing in Bradford when she, and everyone in your family told everyone else that she went to Italy?" She speaks in a menacing tone.

I'm rendered speechless by her statement. How am I supposed to respond to that? How did she find out? And apparently without it coming from Arizona.

"See, I'm not the liar in our relationship" Callie says in a voice mixed with anger and sadness.

"I kind of knew that she'll never be able to tell you" I tell her, my voice now almost a whisper, a really great contrast to my shouting earlier.

"And that's what hurts the most Tim. I entrusted my heart to her again, and I love her so much. She tells me she loves me back, yet she can't be fully honest with me. It hurts every time I talk to her, even on the phone, because I know she's actively hiding something from me." she tells me in a defeated tone.

"It's not easy for her Callie…" I tell her.

"It should be easy for her to tell me because I'm her girlfriend. She should be able to tell me anything and everything. I've been trying for the past 2 days to drag myself out of bed and just go and talk to her, but I'm scared. I'm scared that she's going to lie to my face again, and that's gonna be like a big slap on the face. I'm scared that I might blow out on her and I end up saying or doing things I'll regret. So here I am, trying to blow off some steam, preparing myself for a confrontation I never expected to have with my girlfriend who supposedly loves me so much." She continues, and I can hear the how defeated and sad she is.

Callie and I hardly noticed Addison leaving the room, giving the two of us privacy.

"She has her reasons Callie-" I try to reason with her. I really don't know what to say right now. It's not my secret to tell, but I know that it's very difficult for Arizona to divulge this part of her life, especially to Callie.

"Reasons? We've been through hell and back Tim, I think I can take whatever she has to say. Tell me, did she elope to Bradford with an ex?"Callie says in a voice increasing in intensity once again.

"It's not that-" I try to say but she cuts me off.

"Was she arrested there? Robbed a bank? Assaulted someone?" She continues now caught up in a screaming rant.

"Did she leave a secret love child there? Did she get married?"

"No Callie-"

"Did she fall in love with someone over there? Someone she loves more than me? And maybe she's just got back with me to make that someone jealous?" She continues and the things she's saying are getting more and more absurd.

"Was she sent there as a punish-" she tries to continue but I'm just so frustrated because of loss of what to do at this point.

"No!" I scream at her.

"I'm her girlfriend for fuck's sakes. She should be able-" she is screaming back at me now.

"It's hard for her to tell anyone especially you!" My head is buzzing right now, the frustration and influx of memories are making me shake on the spot.

"Why? Why is it so hard to tell me? Maybe because she's playing me now and-"

"She tried to kill herself!" I scream at her, and with that, we both freeze on the spot, both wide eyed and shocked at this explosive revelation that burst from my mouth.

Flashback April 8, 2008

General POV

They say a few drinks will help me to forget her

But after one too many I know that I'll never

Only they can't see where this is gonna end

They all think I'm crazy but to me it's perfect sense

Callie downs her nth shot for tonight while her friends, Addison and Mark, sit beside her nursing their one bottle of beer each. The empty shot glasses and bottles of beers on their table probably all belonged to Callie as Addison and Mark really came along to watch out for their friend than to drink with her.

It's been their routine for the past 3 days. They would pick up Callie from her house, and they would sit with her on this same booth while she drinks til she passes out. The passing out was the easy part, because all they have to do is drag or sometimes carry Callie all the way home, the shouting and screaming, and crying, and throwing stuff was the hard part, and it's about to come with the number of emptied glasses on the table.

And my mates are all there trying to calm me down

'Cause I'm shouting your name all over town

Mark and Addison didn't expect the worst though. After almost getting into a fight with an equally inebriated really big guy after Callie almost hit him with a bottle, she made a dash out of the bar door. For a drunk person, Callie sure moved fast.

So I stumble there, along the railings and the fences

I know if we're face to face then she'll come to her senses

Every drunk step I take leads me to her door

If she sees how much I'm hurting, she'll take me back for sure

Before Mark and Addison could make it outside, Callie has already hailed a cab. She drunkenly directed the cab driver to Arizona's house. Knowing too well where she's headed, Mark and Addison waited for another cab, so they can follow her.

Callie stumbles out of the cab, and walks, well more like sways and crawls and trips over a couple of times, to the Robbins's backyard. She grabs a handful of small stones from the ground, and starts throwing them at Arizona's window, enough to alert the room's occupant but not too loud to startle the entire household.

After going through about 6 stones, and still no one opening or even approaching the window, Callie pulls out her phone.

And I know that I'm drunk but I'll say the words

And she'll listen this time even though they're slurred

So I dialed her number and confessed to her

"Arizzoonnna…..baby….I'm outside your housseee right now…right by your window" A drunken Callie starts, slurring her words, and fighting through the tears and sobs to get it all out.

"Please baby….I need to see you….please don't leave me….I'm sssooorry if I did anything to hurt or offend you….if you felt that I was rushing you….I'll wait….I'll wait forever….please baabyyy…" Callie cries out through the phone, her knees giving out because of her drunken state, so she's now down on her knees with her other arm supporting her weight and while her other hand is struggling to keep her phone against her ear.

Her body is now being heavily wracked by sobs, her head down, eyes closed, as she fights against the haze to say what she needs to say.

"I love you…..I love you sssooo much baby…I can't live without you…..you're my everything…...please talk to me…..I need to know that you still love me….please….I love you…" She finally gets out before her whole body was taken over by sobs.

I'm still in love but all I heard was….

Her body is slowly giving out, but her right hand is still tightly gripped on her phone. She's not going to let go until she hears her voice, the only voice that could heal her. She waits….and waits…..but…

Nothing

The broken wails of the shattered woman cut through the eerie silence of the night. She drops her phone on the ground as her body gives out. The only thing that her mind and body would let her do now is sob.

Her two friends arrived and their hearts break as well upon seeing their friend so broken. They pick her up, but her shattered heart remains scattered on the ground.

Little did they know that peeking through the blinds of her window and witnessing everything through tear-blurred vision, with her phone clutched tightly in her shaking left hand while her right hand is clasped tightly against her mouth trying so hard to muffle the sobs coming from within her is a woman whose heart is equally shattered. A young woman who feels she's got nothing left.

So she stares at the bottle whose contents would end her misery. With nothing left to lose aside from the pain that seems to consume every cell of her being, she picks it up.

Am I better off dead?

Am I better off a quitter?

Song: Nothing by the Script

AN: Did anyone see that coming? I know some may be put off by the idea of self harm, so I'm sorry. So yeah, the drama begins. Don't worry though, I won't linger much on the act itself. It'll be more about how the girls will get past this new revelation.

So what's Callie going to do next?

I don't know when I'll be able to update next. Hopefully soon, but I got probably the worst week of my life ahead of me.

You're just so great so I had to update tonight.