Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.
All mistakes are mine, sorry about that.
"She ran into the house, shouting from the top of her lungs - Nick will never pull the streamers off of my bikes ever again." Barbara laughs between sipping the wine from the glass in her hand. "And she showed me the adorable ring that was made of crabgrass on her finger. You should see the look on her face. She was so happy of marrying Nick."
"I was happy that he promised to never break my bike again." Arizona sticks out her tongue toward her mother. "It was Tim's idea. He said that Nick would be nicer to me once he became my husband. I have to say, it was really yucky to kiss him by the end of the ceremony."
"Was he the first guy you ever kissed?" I ask the woman snuggling up to me on the couch with amusement.
"And the last one." Arizona wrinkles her nose before finishing up her glass, as if using it to clean her mouth. I chuckle lightly while reaching out the bottle on the coffee table, refilling the glasses for the two Robbins women.
After dinner, we retreat back to the cabin that we're staying in for a night cap. Since we're all on vacation after all, a drink turns into a whole bottle of wine. Without noticing it, we're on our way finishing up the second bottle.
"I really thought you and Nick would make it real, you know." Barbara slumps back into the couch opposite to us after I filled up her glass. She has had more wine than she'd usual have and her voice becomes slightly slurred. "You two were so close while growing up. It would be so nice to have him in the family."
"Barbara..." Colonel gives his wife a warning stare before glancing at me.
"What? You agree with me..." It takes a couple of seconds for Barbara's intoxicated brain to catch on. She stares at me with widen eyes and stammers out. "Oh... oh... I don't mean... I was just saying... they were very cute together..."
"And you don't think that we're cute?" Arizona purses her lips, challenging her mother. She is not as drunk as Barbara, but clearly she has reached her limited. I don't think she realizes that she has pressed her whole body up against me on the couch, and the hand close to me is stroking my knee in the last 10 minutes. She tiles her head looking at me with a pout. "Tell my mom that we're cute, Calliope."
"I am not cute, Arizona." I couldn't hold back a laugh. I'd never describe myself as cute, but damn, the woman in my arm is absolutely adorable. "You know that I have a reputation to uphold."
"Yeah I know. You're not cute." Leaning deeper into my body, her hand shifts from my knee to my inner thigh as she arches her neck, pressing her lips against my ear. "You're hot."
"Okay." I quickly grab her wandering hand, subtly sliding it back on my knee. Not that I don't enjoy her hand on me, just... not in front of her very solemn looking father, and not while she is so tipsy. "I think that we should call it the night."
"No, it's still early." The mother protests instantly. And she holds up the glass in her hand. "I haven't finished my wine yet. And this is our last night together. I haven't told you the time Arizona brought her first girlfriend home yet."
"This is the last night with Callie in this trip. I'm sure that we'll meet again soon." The colonel corrects his wife before taking the glass from her hand. "I know that you're having a blast, but right now I think is time to take you to bed."
With a little resistance, and a promise from me that we'll do this again sometime, Barbara follows her husband to their room, leaving me and Arizona in the living room.
"Hey, you're not sleeping on me, are you?" I shrug my shoulder, nudging the blonde head that is silently resting on me.
"No." She answers me softly. "It's just too comfortable in here."
"Yeah." I look over to the red flames in the wide open fireplace as my hand stroking her arm up and down. The cabin is warm and quiet, and cozy. I'd love to stay in this bubble a little longer, but I know that Arizona must be tired. "You should go get some sleep."
"You're coming with me?" She asks me after reluctantly getting up on her feet.
"In a minute." I give her a small smile. "You go ahead using the bathroom first."
I stay behind, putting out the fire, rinsing the wine glasses and making sure that the doors are locked before going into the room that Arizona and I share. As I enter, she just comes out from the bathroom in her sleeping clothes. A set of slim cut tank top and a boy short that leaves almost nothing to the imagination. I try not to stare, but her moving around in the room really is not helping.
"What are you doing?" I question after pulling my set of PJ from my overnight bag.
"I..." She looks between the pillow and the thin comforter in her hands. "I'm doubting that I should take the armchair or sleeping on the floor..."
"What?" I frown at her.
"I couldn't book us a twin beds room because it would've looked weird. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable in here with me." Arizona says as she lays down the comforter on the floor and the pillow on top of it. She stares at her makeshift sleeping place without looking at me. "After the couple times that you fled from my house in the middle of the night, I sort of get the idea that maybe it is because you are... well, that you don't want to be so..."
"For crying out loud..." I roll my eyes before walking toward her. Yes, I am nervous of sleeping next to her while she's wearing that little, but to hell that I would let her sleeping on the cold wooden floor. I pick up the pillow and throw it back on the bed. "It's not like we haven't shared a bed before. We have slept together in on-call rooms and I have never seen you chose to sleep on the floor. Stop fishing, Arizona. Get in the bed and I'll be there after I freshened up."
There is a pout on her face while settling in bed, but the smile in her eyes is too bright to hide.
I pick up my things walking toward the bathroom, Arizona calls after me.
"My parents adore you."
"That was the idea though, right?" I answer her before closing the door.
I haven't taken much time in the bathroom, but it is still a surprise that Arizona hasn't fallen asleep yet when I return, considering that it was a long day, and she has had quite a lot of wine earlier.
"Why ain't you sleeping yet? You can hardly open your eyes." I turn off the lights before crawling in beside her. She looks at me with her drowsy eyes and a lazy smile around her lips.
"I'm just keep thinking that my parents like you." She emphasizes her words with a nod of her head. "Like really, really like you."
"They're lovely people, I'm sure that they'd like everyone." I prop myself up on an elbow facing her. "Your mother seems still prefer Nick more than me though."
"Nah, my mom loves Nick as a son." Arizona lets out a big yawn between talking. "She loves you because you're my girlfriend."
"Yeah." I sigh, flopping back against the pillows. Of course I know that the Robbins like me, and I like them too, a lot. I can't imagine how upset they would be finding out that this is all a fraud...
"It's gonna be okay." Arizona breathes out. I look to the side, seeing that the blue eyes are closed and a small smile tugging at the corner of her lips. She's drifting off to sleep.
I watch the peaceful face of Arizona for a couple seconds and then I close my eyes as well. Suddenly, I feel the person sleeping next to me starting toss and turn, apparently trying to find a better position on the bed.
Without opening my eyes, I stretch out my arm to my side. It doesn't take more than 2 seconds for Arizona to take the invitation and snuggle up to me.
"How do you know that I need a cuddle?"
"You were like a koala bear each time we snuggled up on the couch." I wrap my arm around her. "It doesn't take a genius to know that Dr. Robbins like to cuddle."
"Shut up." She laughs as she wraps her arm around me. Pulling me in as close as she can and presses one of her legs between mine, nuzzling into my neck and is once again fallen asleep within seconds.
The last thing I remember before falling asleep too is that Arizona's soft lips pressing lovingly against my skin.
Our positions have shifted somewhere over the night. When the alarm goes off, I find myself being the big spoon wrapping Arizona in my arms, and my face is buried in her golden locks.
"Why did you set an alarm?" Arizona groans sleepily.
"Because..." I let go of her, rolling to my side of the bed to shut off my phone on the nightstand. "Your father has planned to visit one more place because we take off to the airport, remember?"
"No." She groans again and too rolls to my side of the bed, clinging onto me like when we fell asleep last night. "I'm way too comfortable here to get out of bed and get on a trail."
"This is their vacation. You know that they'd like to spend more times out there." My hand falls to her hip. The tank top that she's wearing has rolled up slightly, my palm is resting on her bare skin, her incredible smooth skin.
"This is our vacation too." Her warm breath tickles my neck as her hand lazily drawing patterns on my side. "I say, we stay in bed a little longer."
"Okay, you stay here. I'll go get the breakfast ready." I press my lips on the top of her head before slowly pulling myself out of her embrace, but Arizona doesn't like this idea.
"You stay here too. I need my body pillow." She moves to lay completely on top of me with her face burying in my neck, effectively avoiding me from getting out of the bed.
"You do know that I break bones for a living, right?" I laugh at her antic, and my hands are holding her on her hips. "I can easily fling you off to the floor."
"No, you wouldn't do that to me." Not lifting her head, Arizona says with a positively triumphant note in her voice.
"Oh, you want to bet?" I say teasingly, but the blonde doesn't move a bit. So, I knead her hips with my hands pretending that I'm about to nudge her off of me.
I could feel and hear her giggles, and then, she blows raspberries against my neck.
"No Arizona! Stop!" I laugh and squirm under her. Of course I could have easily thrown her off of me, but I don't want to hurt her. And my neck is always my sensitive spot, her attack has me weak on my knees. All I can do is to beg for mercy. "Please stop it... Okay... okay, I'll stay! I'll stay!"
Satisfied with my surrender, Arizona brings her face hovering over mine with a cocky smile.
"You're a bully." I am still laughing, and trying to catch my breath in the same time. She tenderly brushes the few strands of my mess hair out of my face with her finger tips.
"I love seeing you laugh." She grins at me. "Your smile brightens up the whole room."
The atmosphere around us changes dramatically all in a sudden. Arizona's face turns serious as the finger tips that she used to brush off my hair is now tracing along my jaw line. Her piercing blue eyes drift down to my lips and I run the tips of tongue over them instinctively. The tension between us can be cut with a knife until she slowly lowers her head...
Suddenly nervous and very aware of the little voice in the back of my head asking myself if I'm sure about this, I subconsciously bite my lower lip, my breathing becoming fast and shallow. Arizona seems to sense this and pauses, her lips merely centimeters from mine.
"Do you want me to stop?" She whispers.
I want to yes, but my body has its own mind to ignore that little voice. I bring my hand to the back of Arizona's neck to pull her to me.
I know instantly that the little voice in the back of my head was right to question this move. No one that I had ever kissed before had even come close to make me feel the way when her pillow-y lips capturing mine. The world ceases to exist, blurred and indistinct as all my senses are surrounded by Arizona. For a split second, I am fear that any kiss that I'm gonna share with anyone else would just become insignificant.
We have shared kisses here and there, but those could identify as quick close-lips pecks at most. This one, this kiss feels different.
Arizona takes her time nibbling my top lip ever so lightly, as if she's savoring the most delicious ice-cream. My hands pushing her tank top higher and higher up as my wandering hands caress her back freely... I couldn't hold back a moan feeling her soft skin under my touch. Pressing my tongue against her lower lip, I feel her lips curve to a smile and then they part, inviting me in.
Our tongues meet, my heart's pounding so hard that feels like it's about to beat right out of my chest when she swiftly push her leg between mine...
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!
"Arizona, Callie, are you up yet?" Barbara's voice rings through the door.
My body stiffens as soon as I hear the knocking and look at the door with my eyes bulged while Arizona casually rolls out of bed and opens the door a fraction.
"Mom," she says to her mother in a low voice. "Yes, we've woken up already. But I'm not gonna see my girlfriends for a couple of days, could you mind... maybe give us a few minutes? We'll join you for breakfast later?"
Barbara mumbles something that I couldn't really hear, but she is gone instantly.
"Okay..." Arizona slowly closes the door and walks across the room, sitting back on the bed and her hands reaches out to cup my face. "Where were we?"
My mind feels like it's in overdrive as the loving blue eyes gazing into mine. Minutes ago kissing her had felt like the most natural thing in the world... maybe even the best thing that had ever happened to me... but now I almost wish it has never happened.
I love her. I know I do but I also know that she doesn't feel the same way. We're comfortable around each other because I don't mind settle to be her best friend. If we cross that line, things will be different and I probably would reduce to just one of the notches on her bed pose. Does a moment of lust really worth risking that over?
Arizona leans forward to kiss me again and I back away from her slightly. I can't even bring myself to look at her as I speak.
"Your parents are already up. We really should get ready. I don't want them to delay... You know your father has a precise schedule..."
"Oh, okay..." She is a little surprise, and pulling away from me.
"I'm gonna use the bathroom." I gesture toward the bathroom as I clumsily get out of the bed, still not looking at her.
"I go help mom with breakfast." She turns away without another word. I watch her walking out of the door, the hurt etches into her features makes my heart feel suddenly so cold and empty...
We continue the sightseeing after breakfast. The colonel and Barbara are still in their cheerful holiday mood but I can't say the same for Arizona and me. We try our best to act normal around each other but if anyone has paid a little more attention on us, they would see the awkwardness oozing from our body languages. We smiles to each other but the smiles don't reach our eyes. We hold hands only knowing Barbara has her eyes on us. We make conversations with the parents so that we don't need to talk to each other...
And the ride to the airport is not any less agony.
Like yesterday, I'm on the wheel and Arizona is sitting next to me in the passenger seat. The parents in the back are the only ones that are talking. They are chatting away about this trip and planning to come back in another season... probably, I haven't really listened to what they are talking. All I could focus on is that Arizona's hand resting on mine, and her grip getting tighter the closer we get to the airport.
We arrive in the airport with a little time to spare. Arizona helps her father getting the baggage out of the trunk onto the trolley, and Barbara comes over to me giving me a bear hug.
"I'm so glad to get to know you, Callie." She says with her arms wrapping around me tightly. "And I'm so happy that Arizona has found you."
"I'm glad to have known you too, Barbara." I hug her back and bury my face into her neck, trying to hide my choke up voice. This lovely sweet old lady has grown on me tremendously over these few weeks. I just wish that she wouldn't be too mad if she knew that I have been lying to her...
"Don't be a stranger, give me a call..." Barbara pulls back from the hug. And she wraps her arms around me once again when she sees my redden eyes. "Oh honey, we'll see each other again very soon. Or you and Arizona can come visiting us during holiday."
I just nod against her shoulder.
"Yeah, we definitely are gonna spend thanksgiving together. You're the only one that can bring Arizona to help in the kitchen." The colonel comes standing next to us. Barbara lets go of me so her husband can give me a goodbye. I know the man is not a hugger, but he gives me a warm, fatherly hug nevertheless. And he whispers out of earshot of his wife and daughter. "Thanks for taking care of my Arizona. I've never seen her as happy as she is whenever she's with you."
Words couldn't come out of my mouth, I just kiss him on his cheek before he let go of me.
The father and mother get the trolley and go in to check in first, saying to give Arizona and me a few minutes of privacy to say our goodbye properly. After watching the Robbins disappeared behind the slide doors, I turn around and find Arizona leaning against my car, hands in her pockets, looking down at the ground.
Slowly, I take the few steps to close the distance between us.
"Arizona..." I open my mouth, still trying to find the right words to explain how I feel, but Arizona doesn't give me much time to think.
Abruptly, she lunges forth, grabbing the lapel of my jacket and her lips are on me in an instant. I stumble back a step due to the suddenness, but the hands on my jacket pull me back. And in the next second, I find my back against the side of my car and Arizona's whole body firmly pressing into my front, with her lips still attaching to mine.
I hardly have a moment to react before she pushes her tongue to the seam of my lips. It doesn't take long for me to reciprocate in the kiss. Out tongues meet and fight for domination - she wins the battle as she aggressively sucks my tongue into her mouth, leaving me buzzing with desire.
My hands go to her hips holding her tight, forcing the kiss to deepen and we moan into each other's mouth.
A loud honk coming from somewhere breaks our spell.
I pull back from the kiss with my eyes widened, having no idea what just happened. Arizona and I are both drawing in big, heaving breaths but she still has her eyes closed.
Slowly, her eyes open and they gaze at me instantly. Staring deep into her ocean blue eyes, the swirls of emotion I see there make me gasp.
Her mouth opens and closes a couple times striving to talk but no sound comes out. Finally, she gives me a bitter smile and then turns around toward the airport.
Second time today, I watch Arizona walking away from me with her shoulders slumped.
The impatient driver behind my car honks again chasing me out of my thought. As I get back in the car my stomach feels as though it is tying itself in knots and my chest feel strangely heavy.
The drive back home passed in a haze. I keep reminding myself that this is a fake relationship and it is over now. I know what I have signed up for and I shouldn't feel this heartbroken, but the tears just couldn't stop streaming down my face.
I still couldn't figure out the looks that Arizona gave me after our last kiss. But it doesn't matter anymore. When she returns after tomorrow, things will go back to where it was...
It has to.
I have to try.
A/N : It's getting close, believe me.