Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.

A/N : Thanks for the support, I am really grateful that you guys like the story.

Chapter 4

Arizona trotted toward the apartment, saw a shadow sitting on the step leaning against the door flame of the front gate from afar, took a deep breath she prepared herself.

"Hey…"

"Oh my god Arizona, I am so worry about you, you didn't answer the calls or messages…" Colleen jumped up when she saw Arizona appeared, quickly grabbed the blonde in a hug.

"I am sorry, I had my phone in the bag and didn't check it. Look, we need to talk."

"OK, let's go up to your apartment so we could talk… or whatever you want to do." Colleen leaned over to whisper into Arizona's ear and tried to clasp their hands.

"Um… Colleen, I am sorry." Arizona stepped backward tried to keep the distance between the flirty woman. "I… I am not looking for anything serious right now. We had great time together and I thought we had an agreement that we were not going toward anything but a fling, I am sorry that I gave you a false idea, I really do. Colleen you are a wonderful woman, I am truly sorry that we are not in the same page, it's not you, it's just me, I don't think we 'click'…" While rambling the breakup speech, all Arizona could think about was how sucked it was to breakup with someone whom actually had nothing to breakup with.

"What do you mean we don't click? You surly didn't complain about that when you had your tongue in my mouth!"

"Colleen…"

"NO! I don't understand, we are together for 5 months, we have great sex, I know the feeling between us is real, I care about you, I love you Arizona! I know you are scared but I am here and I won't let you push me away, I won't leave you because you are scared of the feeling." Tears started to fall from Colleen's big brown eyes, she reached out her hands to try to grab Arizona's, but the blonde took another step backward.

"Colleen, I am really sorry that I misled you, we had a great 5 months together that was right, but I wasn't… We weren't …. I… Look, it wasn't because of I'm scared or something, I just didn't think we are or we were an item. I misled you, I am truly sorry about that."

"I will do anything you want Arizona, please… please just give it another try, OK? We… we… let's go to movies, candle light dinners… or we can go on a trip together, I still have some holidays, we can go away… We are great together, I love you I really do love you, I love you from the bottom of my heart, I … " Colleen sobbed out her pleading and dropped on the ground, it broke Arizona's heart to witness someone broke down, especial she was the reason of this.

She knelt down in front of the brunette, gently stroked the sobbing woman's arm and tried to explain again. "I am sorry… I just…"

"I knew you are sorry, you just keep saying you are sorry, why can't you just love me back, Arizona? Huh? You are a coward, you are a coward, you are a coward…" Colleen burst out her anger toward the blond, but she lost her voice in the middle of it.

Arizona tugged the miserable in a tight embrace, they remained the pose for the awhile, no one said anything except Colleen's sob and hiccup.

Eventually, Colleen spoke up. "So it was just sex."

"Colleen…"

"Say it!"

Arizona released the woman from her arms and stood up, the other one followed suit.

"I am sorry, I really thought we had an understanding that it was just sex." Arizona tried to put on her best apologize face, but apparently Colleen didn't buy it.

In a split second, a shrewd slap landed on Arizona's left cheek.

She was in shock, but she knew she deserved it.

Blue eyes met teary brown eyes, Arizona fixated on the teardrop that followed the previous trace slowly falling down the cheek, when it reached the corner of the lips, she heard Colleen's voice. "I really do love you, remember that Dr. Robbins."

Arizona didn't return to the pub after seeing Colleen jumped into her car to drive away, she just wanted to go home, take a shower and get some sleep, after all, 'breakup' was exhausted.

It's 10 in the morning and Arizona was sitting on the couch reading the morning post with a cup of coffee in hand, today was her day off and she was glad to stay away from the hospital, because the thing with Colleen? No doubt that was spreading around there right this moment.

The nurses had a strange kind of bond that liked to share information, not professional details, not their own matters but the others, especially about the doctors. She still couldn't believe that she learned about Mark and Lexie not from the lovers themselves, she got the information from her scrub nurse, who heard from another nurse in derm when she went over to pick up some cream, and the derm nurse knew that from a nurse in plastic when they passed on a report of a patient, the nurse in plastic overheard that from a couple of nurses in the cafeteria, apparently some interns saw Lexie grabbed Mark into an on-call room…

Daydreaming about what kind of rumor she may get into, suddenly there was a light knock on the door, she went over to open it, there was Mark with a polite smile plaster on his face.

"Hey, can I come in for some coffee?" Mark asked, and Arizona didn't answer him but stepped aside to let him walked in the apartment.

"Is she still here?" Mark whispered and tried to look if there had any sign of a third person in there with them.

"If by she you meant Colleen, no, she didn't come up here." Arizona placed a cup of coffee on the coffee table, gestured Mark to join her in the couch.

"There was more than one she you meant to meet last night?" Mark couldn't help to tease. "What had happened then? You didn't come back to the pub. Callie and I thought you got lucky."

"Mark, you told Callie? God can you stop being such a terrible gossip?" Arizona gave the man a glare. "No wonder the hospital is like a freaking gossip mill."

"Hey, I'm an excellent gossip. Just tell me, what had happened?"

"OK, she was downstairs, threw herself to me when I arrived, I told her that we didn't work and I didn't know we were anything but sex friend, she started to cry and told me she loved me and thought there was something going on between us. I told her it wasn't and she slapped me. She left, I came home to sleep." Arizona took a sip of her coffee after she shrugged her shoulders.

"Holy hell, she slapped you?"

"Ya, she slapped me, ha ha. Just drop it, it's over now, finally."

"Well, luckily she's an ortho nurse, you won't have much direct contact with her." Mark took a long sip of the coffee, then breathed out a satisfied sign, he always knew Arizona made the best coffee in the morning. "You have to aware of the nurses though, don't know what kind of story they'll talk about."

"Tell me about it." Arizona leaned her head against the back of the couch, in deep thought for a while then turned to face to Mark.

"I don't understand, you slept with half of the nurses, couple of doctors and countless of drug reps., how come you never had any episode?"

"Oh honey, you have a long way to learn." Mark gave her a wink and pet on her knee.

"Oh no no, I had enough drama, I don't think I am going to go after the nurse anymore, not going to learn anything from that."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I am not going to let myself involve to anyone for awhile, take myself off the market. Have to concentrate on my job anyway." She stood up and walked toward the kitchen to pour herself another cup of coffee. Mark's gaze followed her with an amaze expression.

"Don't tell me you are buying those celibate craps, regular sex could help you concentrate, you know. Sexual frustration won't do anyone any good."

"That's a guy's point of view, I can handle it."

"How? How do you handle it?" Mark had the biggest naughty smile on his face, that earned a cushion slosh right in his face. "Owww… see? Sexual frustration!"

"Perv!" Arizona raised her fist about to punch Mark in his arm…

"Fine fine fine, I am not going to talk about this for now. I'm here to see if you have any plan today, I need help. Actually Callie needs help. I promised to go with her for furniture shopping, but Lexie called and said she have a half day off and we didn't spend much time together lately, so…"

"So you ditch your best friend for a chance of having sex with your girlfriend."

"Can you blame me?" Mark said all innocently, liked it was the most sensible matter, Arizona couldn't come up with an answer but laugh out loud. After a couple of seconds, Mark added "You know what? If in the future there has anything ever happen between you and Callie, and I have to choose between you two, I promise you I'll pick you to return this favor."

"No I don't think you'll pick me, Callie slept with you, I never and will never do that, so I won't be surprised that you'll choose her side if we have problem with each other."

"Hmm… never say never… " That earned him another punch on the arm.

"Fine, I go shopping with Callie, tell her I'll be there around noon."

Arizona arrived Horizon a little before 12, followed the stairs to go to the loft, surprise that it was opened.

"Hmmm…. Callie, are you there?"

"Ya, come on in."

She stepped in the apartment, found that the brunette was busy in the kitchen preparing some salad.

"Mark told me you are coming instead of him, I see that he found the way to get away with shopping with me, sorry that you have to take the place. So, I make us lunch before we head to shop. I hope you like salad."

"Oh you don't have to, I like shopping and I thank you'll find that shop with a woman is way better than go with a man, especial a Mark." Arizona answered while she sat down on a stool in front of the kitchen island, peeked at the vegetable mix she said "a lot of green, you thought we doctors use to eat extremely health?"

"Well I don't know a lot of doctors but both Mark and Addison eat crazy healthy, I think Mark only eats apples for lunch, right?"

"OK I admit, a lot of doctors pay extra attention to what they eat, but umm… I don't." Arizona blushed a little bit because this is kind of embarrassing to confess her bad eating habit.

"Oh really, like what?"

"I eat donuts, a lot. And I love pound cake, rich, buttery pound cake."

"Mmm…"

"What? I told you I don't really eat healthy."

"OK, this lunch we are going to eat this healthy green salad, I'll get you something unhealthy next time." Callie made a playful wink and continued. "Actually I knew how a pain in the ass Mark could be, so I am really glad you don't mind to go with me. It's your day off right? You don't mind to spend the day with me?"

"Don't worry, I don't really have a plan or something, I am totally free today."

"Great, let's eat before we started." Callie handed a plate to Arizona, and placed another plate next to her, then turned around to the refrigerator to get them something to drink. "Is soda OK? I don't really have time to run the grocery, otherwise I could run down to grab something from the pub. And sorry that as you know, I don't have many furniture yet, so we have to eat on the kitchen bar."

"It's fine, I am not difficult. Just relax, sit down and enjoy our lunch, this dressing is really amazing! How do you know to make food like this good?"

"Long story, the short version is I am gifted."

"Oh how modest! Then why bartender but not a chef? Not that you don't mix good drinks, but you can cook as well. Like this? Sure you'll be a successful chef in a great restaurant." Arizona couldn't help but took another big forkful of food, she really appreciated good food, and it didn't go unnoticeable by the maker.

"Well, being a chef I would have to stay behind closed door in the kitchen, being a bartender standing in an open bar, people could see my beauty."

"Oh my god, you are just so modest!"

The two fell in an easy atmosphere to talk and kid like a pair of old friend through the lunch, after Arizona insisted on helping with the dishes, they headed out to the furniture store.

"Come again? How many states you had been lived in over the years?" Callie looked at the blonde next to her wide-eyed.

"Oh don't be so dramatic, that was the life of any army family, either lived without a parent or moved in every 18 to 24 months." Arizona said nonchalantly, eyes roaming around the furniture store.

"That means you had to move again after barely settled in, the school, friends, the neighborhood."

"It wasn't a big deal for a child, especially I grew up with a brother, we had each other, and both our parents. Oh this dresser is pretty, what do you think?" Arizona looked at Callie.

"Too colorful, I don't want any flashy color in my bedroom. And it wasn't hard to say goodbye to your friends? For a child, friends were important." Callie walked away from the sky blue dresser, the other one followed her with a small pout.

"Not really, I knew all along that we won't stay long. I made some friends but no, no hard feeling when we parted. I had my brother."

"Had?"

"Oh oh oh, look at that, you should have this entertainment unit in your living room, look how beautiful it is!" Arizona exclaimed and ran toward a white entertainment unit with flowers decorated on the side, and multicolor glass windows.

"No no no you come back here, I won't have that in my home. Where the hell are we anyway? You took me to a children furniture store? What's your problem? Take that pout off of your face, we are leaving."

"But you haven't seen the pink princess castle bed yet!" Arizona called after the Latina who was running out of the store.

"So, you had 3 different pubs in 3 different cities within 10 years, impressive." Arizona said while flopped onto a big red couch that Callie set eyes on once they stepped in the fifth furniture store.

"Not in the same time, and I had my reasons." The brunette sat next to her new friend, "I'll take this one."

"Are you sure? We spent like 2 hours in the 4 other stores and you hate every other couches, a minute in here you decided to buy this one?"

"What can I say, I'm a romantic, believe in love at first sight." Callie winked at Arizona and then gestured the staff to note down the order.

"Well, you do look like the impulsive kind of person." Arizona waited while Callie was giving the instruction to the clerk, once the brunette returned to her previous position, Arizona couldn't help but asked "So, to relocate your pub, another impulsive decision?"

"What do you mean?"

"As a surgeon, we tend to study every move we are going to make, or to cut before we actually cut it. I assume running a business should be the same, no? I mean you wouldn't like, woke up in the morning and decided that you didn't want to stay in New York then you just closed the pub and moved."

Callie's face slightly fell, she looked down to the floor for a couple of seconds, in the meantime, Arizona was mentally slapping her own big mouth.

"3 months ago, I woke up and asked myself what was I doing in New York, I wasn't happy in there anymore. The same day I called everyone of the staffs and told them that the pub was closed, I wrote everyone a check to cover their 3 months salaries, paid an extra month rent to the landlord, left everything to the attorney to handle, the next morning I was in LA. Yes it was an impulsive decision, but can you call me irresponsible …"

Arizona put a hand on Callie's forearm to stop her "I am sorry Callie, I didn't mean to interrogate you or judge you, I didn't. Stupid me just asked a stupid question, I am so sorry."

Callie closed her eyes, took a deep breath then looked at Arizona again with a small smile on her face, "No I should be the one to apologize, it had been quite a difficult year for me, years actually, turned me to an irritable bitch."

Arizona squeezed the hand that was still on Callie's forearm, and said "Everyone said I am overly perky, maybe we should hang out more to even out each other."

Callie couldn't help to turn her small smile to a full belly laugh, "Ya right, I have no doubt about that. Come on Perky, I still have to get a dining table." She stood up from the couch, held out a hand to the blond, and the other happily caught it.

"No problem, let's go Frowny."