A/N: This is inspired by the movie Life As We Know It which is currently available on Netflix. As I was watching it I couldn't help but imagine what if it's Calzona? Anyway, this will be a pretty short story, it will go as the movie went with probably some scenes and lines borrowed from the movie itself and GA. I'm already a few chapters ahead but I will post one chapter a day. Or maybe not. LOL hope you like it!
PS: I don't know if somebody already made a fic for Calzona regarding this story but I, personally, haven't read one yet. This is my take on it! ️
1
She was sitting in the corner room, watching the clock tick by. She already hates this.
She's one hour late.
Her best friend, Mark has set her up with a date with his Girlfriend Teddy's best friend.
She has been against the idea since she just came out of a relationship but Mark and Teddy insisted, to her defeat, she just went through with it.
All she knows about her date tonight is that she's meeting this new pediatric surgeon in town with the name of Arizona Robbins.
Callie was nervous and she never gets nervous, she could ace a date and have a man fall head over heels for her at the end of the night but that's the problem. This date is not with a man but with a woman, it's not her first time to date one but the first and only time she did, she got her heart shattered into tiny million shards. She was left by her first girlfriend because she had to move interstate, but she knew it was just a lie, she could have moved there with her but she's never gotten the invite, the truth is, she was left by her ex-girlfriend because she's just kinda lesbian and she's not for it. This explains her lack of confidence with this date.
She has just accepted and now enjoying herself as an out and proud bisexual woman and she's loving the freedom she's feeling inside. She can now stare at a beautiful lady without fighting her center core against it and second-guessing herself. She's had hookups and one night stands from different men and women that she met at the bar after getting her heart broken in the parking lot but still her confidence level with actually dating a woman is down to zero.
So when she heard the knock, she took a deep breath and straightened the fabric of her little black fitted dress. It hugged her curves perfectly and she knew no man could resist it, hope it works with Arizona as well.
When the door opened, Callie felt her breathing stop. This woman was gorgeous. She immediately noticed the way those blue orbs stared at her chest. She couldn't help but smirk. At least it worked. She had a minute to study the blonde that was standing in front of her, hair is curled and messy, she has her fitted white shirt layered with her leather jacket, fitted washed jeans and a knee high boots. This woman shouted sexy in every way but then she felt her cheeks flush... she was definitely overdressed for this date having have gone for a little Audrey Hepburn look.
"Uhm, you must be Calliope?!" The woman asked in her perky voice. Callie shivered with the mention of her whole name. She didn't like it.
"Callie." She corrected.
"Callie." The blonde repeated.
"Callie. Everybody calls me Callie."
"Well it's nice to finally meet you Callie. I'm Arizona. Just Arizona. Am I late?" She asked. Is she late? Is she kidding me?
"Uhm, just an hour. But I just finished getting ready and Teddy said it was your first day at the hospital today so..."
"Mark said you'd probably say something."
"Haha. Oh. Did he? Oh... okay." Callie made a mental reminder to hurt Mark when she sees him. Arizona chuckled when she saw the latina flush.
"Should we go?" Arizona broke the silence and asked.
"Yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's get some dinner. It's been like, an hour." She couldn't stop herself.
The walk out from her apartment was quiet and awkward. She could feel the tension from the blonde mirroring hers. It's not a comfortable silence that they share, it's actually a deafening one.
"So, uhm, I heard you just moved to Seattle." Callie tried to start a conversation.
"Yep." The blonde quickly answered and then followed by another silence. Callie figured she needed to use her A game on this date.
"How long have you known Teddy?"
"Since high school."
"Oh, high school. So you're a military brat too." She tried to sound all friendly and interested.
"Yep." Callie tried to hide her frustration. Her date's not a talker so she will be the talker.
"Uhm, I've known Mark since College. Our sorority usually parties in their frat house. I know, crazy. Then we went to med school together." She shared.
"Wild." Arizona commented. In which Callie took offense but decided to just brush it off.
"Where's your car?" She asked the blonde. Mark told her that her date got everything figured out so she's just going along with her plans.
"Right here." Arizona motioned and pointed her head over a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle.
"Here you go." She reached for Callie to grab the helmet in her hand. Callie's mouth suddenly went dry.
"Oh." Was all Callie could say.
"Come on, hold on tight. I promise I won't read into it." Arizona teased and gave her a wink before she started to rev the engine of her ride.
"I-I'm not really dressed for a 40 mile an hour—" Callie tried to shout on top of the roaring vehicle so Arizona could hear her.
"What?" The blonde asked.
"I'm not really dressed for a 40 mile an hour winds." She said, her shout fading as the engine goes off.
"Sorry, I mean cool ride but I don't even think I could get my leg up over it." Callie awkwardly said as she pointed at her tight fitting dress that goes til below her knee.
"But I'll drive! My car's right here." Callie pointed at her light blue classic thunderbird.
"Hmmn sweet ride." Arizona just said and hopped on the car without arguing.
"So?!" Callie asked before starting the engine.
"Huh?" Arizona asked her back.
"So where shall we go? Uhm... where did you make the reservations that you said you were gonna make?" Callie was now definitely annoyed. Arizona just stared at her.
"You didn't make them?" Callie was trying not to laugh at this super bad joke of a night.
"I said that? Okay. I'm sorry, I was just, it's my first day today and I was too preoccupied. You just, choose a place, we'll grab a table—"
"You know what, it's cool. Whatever. We can go anywhere. How about Joe's, you've ever been there?" Callie has already accepted that this was her worse date ever. She felt disappointed, she was really attracted with Teddy's friend but Callie always falls in love with personality more than the looks, and this, whatever this Arizona is making her feel. She's not really into it.
"Sounds good." The blonde shrugged.
"Joe's. That's where every person in the hospital go—"
I like big butts and I cannot lie...
Callie was interrupted with the loud music.
"It's just my cellphone I'm sorry. Damn Teddy." Arizona was trying to keep herself from laughing. Teddy's pranks are the worse but they always get her.
"I figured. You can answer it if you want to."
"No, no. It's fine. It could go to voicemail." But it didn't. Her phone continued ringing.
"Okay. So I was saying, Joe's is the— you know what?! Go ahead answer it. It's fine."
"Yeah. I probably should. It's too loud. I know. I'm sorry." Arizona notices her date was obviously pissed now so she did grab her phone to answer.
"Hey you." She said as she give Callie a glance over.
"Well, you know me, I'm always in the middle of something."
"Yeah, yeah. Okay. Eleven?!" She went and check her watch.
"Yeah. You know what, why don't we make it 10:30? Alright. I'll see you later." Callie couldn't believe what she heard. This woman is something else.
"I'm sorry, it's a sick friend." Arizona explained when she felt Callie stare at her in disbelief. Callie could hear the lie in her sentence.
"You know, we don't have to do this." Callie finally gave in.
"We don't?! Okay." Arizona's face lighted up. She really didn't wanna do this.
"Oh my God are you serious?"
"Okay, I wanna be honest. You're hot. Incredibly hot and gorgeous. But you are Mark's best friend. Basically like his family. And he is my bestfriend's boyfriend, and Teddy is like a sister to me. I now work in the hospital that you work in, head of ortho right? And I'm head of peds, we're both department heads which means we'll probably bump butts all the time. Our connections" she waved her hand as if pointing at a line that's between them "Our connections are too tight and close and I don't do people this close to my circle. It's just gonna get complicated in the long run."
"Then why did you agree to have a date with me?"
"Cause our mutual friends set this up so I think we owe it to them—"
"To what? Spend a few hours faking small talks?!"
"Fine, I owe a lot to both Mark and Teddy, if not because of them I wouldn't have moved here. Okay look, best case, we get drunk and we hook up."
"You stood me up for an hour and you made a booty call in front of me. What made you think I'll end up in your bed?"
"Or your bed." Arizona kept playing, this mad Calliope in front of her makes her smile. She's really cute.
"What kind of an asshole are you?" Callie's voice is now a pitch higher.
"Look, it's saturday night, you go do what you do and I'll go... fend my sick friend."
"And what? Heal her with your magic fingers?"
"Maybe. We're surgeons Calliope. We save people with these fingers."
"Callie!" The latina corrected.
"Callie. Okay fine, you know what if you wanna go out, we'll go out—"
"Oh my God no! I'm not going out with you! What are you?! Crazy? Get out of my car!"
Arizona jumped out of the Ortho surgeon's car and gave her her biggest grin, showing her dimples that are to die for. Callie almost gulped when she saw it.
"Goodbye Calliope! See you at work!"
"It's Callie!"
Arizona just twirled around, her hair moved as she bounced and gave Callie a wink before putting her helmet on. Callie was sure that Arizona had her slow motion moment as she twirled. She was attracted to the blonde for sure, and she wants to curse the universe for doing this to her. Somehow there is a strong magnetic pull between her heart and all the wrong people she falls in love with. Woah, wait, what's this got to do with love?
Walking back to her apartment, Callie who was now red and almost in tears gave her best friend a call. She was mad because she put her effort for this date. She had her best dress and make-up on. She was just going along but deep inside she was actually hoping for a nice night out,
"What were you thinking?!" She shouted over the phone once Mark answered.
"How was your date?" Mark cheerfully said, ignoring her friend's possible wrath.
"This is the worst night ever, probably even worse than when Erica left me. I feel so little and so offended. How is she friends with Teddy? Is this one of your pranks? What did I ever do to you Mark?"
"Come on. It shouldn't be that bad. Maybe you're too uptight. Give her a chance. Okay. I'm sorry, you know what?! I'll let Ted talk to her."
"Oh yeah Mark? Give her a chance? How about this?! The only way you can make this up to me is if you promise...
That I'll never have to see her again."
"Callie you know she works with us now right?"
"Yeah?! Then that's your freaking problem, Mark!"