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Sorry translation can be rough, I'm French and my English is not so good


Chapter 5: Doubts

Callie emerges from the bathroom wearing a simple bath towel, Arizona hastens to look away. Imagine the naked body of the beautiful Latina, covered with this tiny sponge really did not help to put distance.

- Do you have any things planned today? Because I have to go to the hospital, I have files to deal with, colleagues to see.

She had been aware of Arizona's discomfort when she woke up, as she had promised herself, she was not going to rush things.

In order not to increase the pressure, she invents this alibi to get away. She should not dream, Arizona had taken the decision to live in

New York for Sofia, nothing more than may be friendship would now be possible between them.

Their experience was too heavy, too dramatic and we would inevitably have to talk about painful moments, she was really not sure that

neither she nor her ex-wife, would still be able to do that. If they were friends and co-parents it was already good, finally already

better.

Strangely, Arizona doesn't feel as relieved as she might have thought, suddenly the idea of having space no longer appears to her also

crucial. However, she takes her biggest smile to propose:

- Ah okay, so I can take care of Sofia. We need to get back in touch with her school. She'll be back in two weeks I think, and then I'm going to put her back in dance classes, okay? She really seems to want to

-Perfect! Can you really handle all this?

- Of course, I'm super efficient as always! And then I... I'm going to start looking for an apartment.

She had uttered her words in a feisty flippancy

- Oh, okay retorts Callie concealing her disappointment. The prospect of leaving Arizona grieves her more than she imagined, she enjoyed so much in the last few hours, those stolen moments of happiness. She had enjoyed regaining feelings which she had no longer felt for years, which she had certainly buried by trying against all odds to mourn her history with Arizona. Wasn't she, too, an empty shell all this time?

- There is no fire, you don't bother me and I know at least one person who loves your presence here.

- Thank you Callie, but I think that even for her it will be clearer.

- If you say it, it's the way you want it, it's up to you.

Changing conversation voluntarily Arizona asks Callie

-You could set me up with your boss. I would have to meet him, I have to start looking after my professional future as well. Nicole won't be here for three months, I'm going to advance the "Robbins-Hermann Center" project, but I need to resume pediatric surgery until our center is up and running.

- Okay, I'll do that and I send you a text, as soon as I get the date agrees Callie

- Great! Thank you

This exchange of banalities removes the anguish of awakening, the exacerbation of the emotions of these last days, thus making the beginning lighter morning, that's what they needed.

Throughout the day, everyone goes about their business. Arizona, although much sought after by Sofia and by all the steps she must take, is a little concerned. She keeps looking at her phone. Oh it's not, that she's worried about her appointment with the Mount Sinai chief, her job interview is just a formality, but she just wants to ...euh she just needs to hear from the brunette. She blames herself for this feeling, it really doesn't correspond to the resolutions taken this morning. Since her arrival in New York she is a mountain of inconsistency ... the beep of her phone takes her out of her thoughts.

"It's okay for tonight 6:30 p.m. with the chief. I'll be in the lobby at 6:15 p.m.

to pick up Sofia.

She regretfully reads the rather impersonal text message. She had certainly made a film for herself. What she had taken for flirt was

all about her ex's "rough-mannered style". She knew Callie so well, she didn't bother with frills, she delivered her intimate thoughts in

front of anyone, with a disarming naturalness. At first she had often been shocked and even annoyed by this attitude, with time it had

charmed her, and then she was a Latina, she was handsy, exuberant and so cuddly and attentive… No, no really she had wrong way,

what she had mistaken for flirting was in fact nothing but the normal functioning of her ex, from which she had simply unaccustomed

during those years of separation. Callie had stopped loving her, years ago, and their relationship was friendly, for

Sofia, it was obvious. She picked up her phone and chose to send back an emoticon.

But, she had received a military education she had been taught to say at least - hello - thank you - goodbye -

She can't help but send another message

"Thank you- see you -kiss."

She was really tortured! she would have to put her head in order one of these days.

But not now, not now... Taking care of Sofia, WARNING her STAYING ON TRACK...


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