"Rollerskating… seriously Calliope? Rollerskating?" Arizona asked when they pulled up to a roller rink. Jo and Addie pulling up alongside them in Arizona's car that she had borrowed them for the day.
"There's an 80's disco on. Starts at twelve" Callie shrugged.
"Mom… you know mama only has one leg right?" Sofia scoffed from the backseat.
"Really Sof… no I didn't know that!" Callie glared over her shoulder at her daughter who raised her hands defensively. "If she can skate around on those stupid Heeley's then she can skate on here…right?" Callie snapped then glanced at Arizona hopefully, praying that she hadn't messed up again.
"80's disco…. Woo" Arizona cheered happily, hoping that her nerves weren't showing through.
"I even have a bag full of fancy dress in the boot… it's a themed disco" Callie smiled shyly as she heard the girls jump out of the back and run to the boot to begin picking their outfits.
"Did I just completely fuck up? I know you love the 80s and you used to love skating…" Callie asked nervously.
"Hey… I haven't rollerskated since I had two legs… but you are right, they are two things I loved so I'm going to go in there and give it a go… just don't leave my side cause I may suck at it now and need your help" Arizona begged.
"I wasn't planning on leaving your side Arizona… in fact I was kind of hoping it may give me an excuse to hold your hand again without our daughter looking too much into it" Callie smiled shyly.
"Your cute" Arizona whispered.
"Umm I may have also hired a photographer too… actually I may have prepaid for ten sessions with him. I thought for Sof's birthday we could give her a family photo album together… and so I wanted to get plenty of photos of the three of us that aren't always selfies. They will upload all photos to my phone within 3 hours of the end of the session" Callie informed her.
"Babe that's so thoughtful. Sof will love that… I love that… thank you for doing that, it must have cost a fortune" Arizona grinned widely.
"Whats the point of money if your not spending it on the people you love… do you umm... realize that you just called me babe?" Callie asked with a dreamy smile.
"I didn't… whoops, sorry" Arizona blushed slightly.
"Don't be sorry… I missed you calling me that… and many other things" Callie offered.
"Me too..." Arizona admitted in a whisper "Babe" she smiled to show Callie the truth behind her words.
"Come on 'honey' we should go" Callie beamed, rolling her eyes when Arizona laughed at her obviousness.
-oOo-
"Calliope I'm going to fall" Arizona screeched for the hundredth time in the ten minutes since she put the roller boots on.
"I have hold of you already, your not going to fall just keep hold of my hands" Callie offered as she glanced at the blonde and felt her heart pounding. Arizona was wearing a pair of stone washed blue skinny jeans with fluorescent pink leg warmers up her calves. She wore a black shirt which hugged the edges of her shoulders showing two black spaghetti straps, unsure of whether they were bra straps or singlet straps they teased her non the less, she wore fluorescent pink wrist straps and a matching head sweatband which looked adorable amongst her blonde ringlets.
"I'm gonna let go, you can do this" Callie smiled supportively.
"No don't Cal, I'll fall" Arizona begged.
"Ok ok… I won't, but I'm gonna grab your hips and stand behind you… but I wont let go ok?" Callie waited for Arizona to nod before she moved behind her, she wasn't the best skater, but she certainly wasn't the worst on the rink, and holding Arizona's hips under her fingers caused a rush of desire to shoot through her.
"This is the best day ever" Addison grinned as she flew past them backwards, spinning eloquently in front of Arizona and slowing down until the blonde caught up and grabbed her hand.
"Why the hell are you so good at this?" Arizona pouted at the redhead who had taken to the 80's stall the proprietor had set up and was decked out in as much white or fluoro garb as she could wear.
"Ice skating lessons as a kid… and ballet…fencing… horse riding... they are all linked" Addie shrugged playfully.
"I hate you right now" Arizona tried to frown but couldn't help but laugh at the youthful broad grin on Addie's face.
"Hey guys, this place is awesome" Jo grinned as she skated long side them and Arizona's hand reached out to her so she could hold on to her friend. Jo had also bought some garb from the stall and was sporting a white off the shoulder shirt that had 'Frankie says relax' in pink fluoro with all the matching, leg warmers, looped earrings and wrist and head sweatbands.
"You've picked it up quickly. You fell over a thousand times in the first five minutes" Callie laughed.
"Addie gave me a few pointers" Jo grinned proudly as she let go of Arizona's hand and spun herself until she landed backwards and grinned as she stayed upright, grabbing onto Addie's hand to not fall over as she smiled proudly at the blonde and brunette that she was now facing them, only to be met by matching glares.
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" Jo shrugged with a smirk. Suddenly the lights dimmed and laser lights and a UV lights came on it's place as the music turned up, a playlist of popular 80's songs began.
"Oh my god this is the best place ever" Sofia beamed as she and Stacy skated past the group whilst dancing to the music. Noticing her mothers shy smile, Sofia skated closer so she could grab her mamas hand and laced her fingers, squeezing them proudly.
"Having fun mama?" Sofia asked as she watched Addie let go of her mothers hands, spinning around to face forwards as she grabbed Jo's hips and began pushing her backwards faster, guiding her expertly around people while Jo shrieked nervously at the speed they were going.
"Yeah baby, its just hard with my leg" Arizona admitted.
"Come on mama, just pretend your wearing your Heeley's, it's no different" Sofia smiled hopefully and for the next half an hour, Callie, Sofia and Stacy helped Arizona gain her confidence as she pushed herself to skate alone.
"Look at you go Robbins" Addie grinned as she glided gracefully past her, Jo not far on her heels but the brunette slowed down to match Arizona's pace and watched Addie bump into Callie a few meters ahead deliberatly.
"Having fun" Arizona smirked knowingly.
"Between you and me, I am scared about the fact I'm a fair chunk younger than her but I am seriously really struggling to keep up with her" Jo scoffed.
"Addie keeps in great shape you know" Arizona winked causing Jo to blush deeply.
"Stop it, we're just having fun… any way shes going back to LA in a few days" Jo said, trying to keep the disappointment from her voice.
"And what if I was to tell you that I recently found out that she is going to be spending a lot more time in Seattle" Arizona smiled at the huge grin spreading on Jo's face before the brunette tightened her face and tried to look uninterested.
"That's good for Callie having her best friend so close" Jo offered, ignoring the playful smirk on Arizona's face.
"Your terrible at hiding things from me Josephine" Arizona sung.
"You suck… leave me alone" Jo pouted, laughing when Arizona wrapped her arm around the brunettes shoulder.
"We can so totally double date" Arizona smirked knowingly as she studied her friends reaction.
"Double date… wait… you and Cal?" Jo glanced at her excitedly.
"Don't say a word to ANYONE… we are keeping it to ourselves for just now… I'm only telling you because you told me about your juicy gossip this morning" Arizona winked.
"Oh my god. I am so happy for you" Jo beamed.
"Don't tell Callie that you know" Arizona laughed.
"Don't tell Callie that she knows what?" Callie asked as Addie guided her backwards with her hands on the Latinas hips.
"Don't tell Callie that she knows about your secret obsession with camping" Arizona offered lamely.
"Ahh that's right, you promised to go camping. Thanks for reminding me" Callie grinned as she saw Arizona's face fall with the realization that she had just dropped herself in it.
"I'm with Arizona on this, camping sucks" Addie laughed already knowing the private joke from reading Callie's messages.
"Wait, you don't like camping? Either of you? What the hell!" Jo asked shocked.
"In my defense I had to live in a trailer in the middle of nowhere with my ex-husband for almost a year, that's enough camping for a life time for me… I got stung by poison ivy in a place nobody should EVER get stung by poison ivy!" Addie grimaced at the thought.
"But when you camp your at one with nature… and the open fire… and the stars… and the s'mores…" Jo pointed out with disappointment.
"See, I'm right with you Jo, camping's the best" Callie grinned triumphantly that she may have just found herself a camping buddy.
"How can you love camping so much? Camping sucks" Addie groaned.
"Well I spent pretty much all of my teen years camping every single night… some nights I'd have a car, others it would just be me and the stars…its hard to look up at the stars and be reminded just how expansive the universe is, yet still feel like your problems are huge" Jo shrugged.
"You were homeless?" Callie asked softly, smiling sadly when Jo nodded.
"I'm sorry I didn't know" Arizona added, wondering why Alex had never told her, then wondering if Alex even knew.
Jo noticed that Addie was being extremely quiet, she glanced to her nervously seeing a sad smile on the red heads face before glancing away shyly, Addie whispered something in Callie's ear before helping the latina spin around to face forwards again before she skated and danced around till she was behind the Jo.
"You ok" Addie asked softly in her ear as she took told of the brunettes waist so that neither of them would trip the other up. Jo watched as Callie pulled Arizona towards a gate and the two women sat at a table and laughed about something happy and oblivious to how completely obvious they were being.
"Yeah… I just… you know, its embarrassing that when talking about my past I have to admit that I was kicked out of so many foster homes I ended up running away and coming from being an unwanted homeless kid" Jo grimaced as Addison left go of her hips, appearing before her seconds later backwards as she grabbed onto the brunettes hands to join them and stared seriously into her eyes.
"You know what I'm embarrassed about… here I am in the same position as you, and you had to go through hell to get here and I come from some rich privileged family where I got everything I ever wanted and did ballet and ice skating and horse riding. I'm embarrassed that I take all of those things for granted when you didn't have them and I'm ashamed that up until this exact moment in my life, I never actually realized how easy I had it and how lucky I am… don't ever be embarrassed or ashamed of who you are and where you come from Jo, because I guarantee you, its impressive as hell to know how much of a fighter you are" Addison smiled softly.
"Thanks… that means a lot" Jo smiled nervously.
"I mean it.. your very impressive Jo" Addie smiled self consciously, barely containing her eye roll in mocking of herself.
"Your impressive too Addie… really impressive" Jo sighed.
"So I have to head back to LA… but I'm actually going to be packing my stuff and move back to Seattle. I'm hoping to be back within two weeks, I was wondering when I get back, if you'd like to hang out… just the two of us" Addie gulped nervously.
"Yeah I would like that. I'm glad you decided to hang around in Seattle" Jo tried to control her grin.
"Me too… just so we're clear, because I am so bad at doing this and am so god damned nervous… when I said hang out… I meant like a date..." Addie trailed off feeling like a complete idiot.
"I cant wait" Jo finally said after running through a thousand replies in her head and groaning at each one before falling on the one she had uttered.
"Me too… wanna grab a drink with those two subtle idiots" Addie smirked as she nodded at the two women sat at a table who were obviously flirting and teasing each other.
"They really suck at being subtle" Jo laughed as she let Addie guide her towards the gate.
-oOo-
"We have got to do that again sometime" Sofia grinned as she jumped into the car with a huge grin.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it baby" Callie grinned.
"Whats next" Arizona excitedly.
"Well i was speaking to my dad the other day and found out one of my cousins has opened a restaurant in the city. So were gonna head home and get cleaned up and ready and head out to his restaurant. Apparently they have a dance floor and live band every night from nine so I thought after dinner we could just hang and have some drinks and a dance" Callie smiled, she had already invited Addie and Jo, but Jo had to work and Addie needed to pack, so it was just going to be the four of them.
At seven they arrived at the restaurant, Addison dropping them off so that they could all drink and offering to pick them all up afterwards.
"So this place is Mexican?" Arizona asked as the aroma wafted out towards them.
"Sure is, was that not obvious when I said that MY cousin owned it" Callie winked playfully.
"Shut up… I could have been any type of food… like I don't know Cuban perhaps smartass" Arizona slapped her good shoulder playfully.
"I was wondering why you hadn't been drooling over the thought fajitas since I told you" Callie laughed.
"Hey I like fajitas… but none of them compare to yours. I've actually really really missed your fajitas Calliope" Arizona batted her eyelashes.
"I will make you fajitas soon… but so you know, Alejandro uses my grandmothers recipe too, it's a family dish… so his will probably taste like mine only better" Callie smiled proudly.
"I can almost taste your fajita right now" Arizona closed her eyes and imagined the last time she had tasted the favorite dish of hers that Callie cooked.
"Mama that sounds incredibly rude… I don't want to know about mums fajita" Sofia smirked, it had taken a while for her to get used to the open, playful banter that her parents seemed to live for when they are in the same room, but now she was comfortable with it and used to it, and felt lucky that she got to see this side of them that she had lost out on growing up.
"I have a reservation for Torres" Callie smiled at the greeter warmly before she glanced around the interior of the restaurant, it was far from the standard tacky Mexican replica restaurants, instead it was upmarket, refined… enough authentic Mexican atmosphere to offset its elegant design.
"Calliope, imagine my surprise when I look at the bookings list and see Torres on there. I didn't even know you were back in Seattle" a tall man beamed as he pulled his cousin onto a tight embrace and kissed her cheek affectionately.
"This place looks incredible Primo (cousin), I had to come try it for myself" Callie grinned as her cousin turned to Sofia and hugged her tightly.
"Sobrina (niece) look how big you've gotten" Alejandro beamed as he pinched her cheek affectionately. "last time I saw you, you were still in high school, you've grown into quite the beautiful young lady" he grinned when Sofia blushed.
"Thank you Tiò (uncle)… this is Stacy my girlfriend" Sofia introduced nervously, smiling at the dirty blonde who looked more nervous than she felt.
"Stacy, it is a pleasure to meet you" Alejandro kissed the young woman on both cheeks before turning to the blonde that he knew of but had never met before.
"And you must be the infamous Arizona, finally we meet" he smirked as he pulled her into a hug before kissing both of her cheeks.
"Buen Prima de trabajo ella está fumando caliente" (nice job cousin she is smoking hot) Alejandro winked at Callie before grinning at Sofia who was guffawing at his comment much to Arizona's confusion. Callie threw him a playful smirk before changing the direction of the conversation. "Arizona is looking forward to sampling your attempt at Abuela's fajita's, be warned though… she loves my version so you have a lot to live up to" Callie laughed when he threw her a competitive smile. "Oh Prima, you are in for a treat…" Alejandro smiled kindly at Arizona before turning back to Callie "now go sit and I will send some drinks over. I need to get back to the kitchen now but I will come and see you before you leave" with one final hug to his cousin he skipped away to the kitchen, determined to make his fajita's better than ever before. -oOo- "So Prima how did you enjoy Abuela's fajita's?" Alejandro asked as he pulled a chair to sit at the table and motioned for the waiter to bring another round of drinks over. "I really can't decide whose are better, yours or Calliope's" Arizona gushed. "Oh that's easy… mine are" Callie offered playfully. "Keep dreaming Prima, you still have a lot to learn about Mexican cooking" Alejandro grinned playfully as he glanced around the table. "¿Dónde está la cabeza roja esta noche?" (where is the redhead tonight?) Alejandro asked with a raised eyebrow. "No sabría que terminamos justo después de que volví de New York" (I wouldn't known we broke up after we returned from New York) Callie smiled knowing how happy her cousin would be, he had never hidden his dislike for Penny, never referring to her by her name only as the redhead. Callie threw an apologetic smile to Arizona, knowing they were being slightly rude by speaking Spanish in front of her and excluding her from the conversation, but she couldn't help but smirk at the dreamily aroused look on Arizona's face as she watched Callie's lips intently as the Spanish flowed over them so naturally and exotically. She reached her hand under the table and patted her thigh to get her attention, raising one of those sculptured eyebrows questioningly when the blue eyes raised from her lips to her eyes. Arizona just shrugged, not at all embarrassed about being caught perving and gushing over the Latina. "Gracias a Dios por eso, por favor dime que vas a volver a estar con esta magnífica criatura" (thank god, please tell me you are getting back together with this magnificent creature) Alejandro smirked having caught the exchange between the two women. "Todo a su tiempo mi amigo, primero necesito recordarle por qué merezco que ella me ame" (all in good time my friend first I have to remind her why I deserve for her to love me) Callie smiled sheepishly, unable to refrain from glancing sideways and seeing that hungry look written all over Arizona's face. "Sorry Prima, we are being extremely rude. It's hard not to fall into old habits of speaking our families language when we are together" Alejandro offered. "Oh that's fine... I don't mind at all. Its always fascinated me just listening to how naturally another language comes to Calliope" Arizona smiled. "Spanish is a very beautiful language" Alejandro offered. "perhaps you would consider learning it sometime" he offered with a kind smile, Arizona nodded and smirked.