Chapter 2
The next day Meredith and Maggie were walking into the attending's lounge when Meredith noticed that Arizona was standing in front of her locker putting on her lab coat. "Hey Arizona, do you want to go to Joe's tonight after work for drinks?"
Both Maggie and Arizona looked at Meredith like she had grown two heads.
"Um, no thanks... I have an early start in the morning." said Arizona as she turned to leave. Meredith then said "What about tomorrow then?" Arizona just stared at Meredith and then back to Maggie who looked just as confused and said "we'll see" as she hurriedly exited the room before anything else could be asked of her.
Meredith looked up and said "What?" because she could feel Maggie's eyes boring into her. Maggie said "Well that was weird. What was that about?" "Nothing really, Alex just brought it to my attention that we could all be a little bit nicer to Arizona especially since she is all alone now."
"Who is all alone? Said Bailey as she walked into the attendings lounge to get a cup of coffee. Meredith sighed and said "Arizona" Bailey squinted at Meredith and said "What are you up to? I don't need you doing anything that's going on to drive her out of this hospital. There have been people sniffing around here for months trying to recruit Robbins and I don't need you interfering. Don't be starting any trouble. We don't need any trouble around here."
Meredith became exasperated and said "I'm just trying to be nice!" Right then a screeching noise went off as both Maggie's and Meredith's pagers went off "911 to the pit" she said and as they were running out of the room Bailey hollered after them. "Don't start any trouble Grey".
Later in the day Arizona and April were in the cafeteria eating when Arizona brought up her encounter with Meredith earlier. "What do you think that was about?" Arizona asked. April said "Maybe she was just being nice?" "But why? I mean she's never been mean to me, but she's always been Callie's friend...Oh my God! Do you think something is wrong with Callie? Or Sofia?" She said in a panic. "Arizona! Nothing is wrong with Callie or Sofia. Don't you talk to Sofia every night?" "Yes, I bought her an iPad so we can FaceTime every night. I guess if something was wrong I would know...but it was just really weird." April asked "Are you going to have Sofia for Thanksgiving?" "No, Blake has to work and Callie is taking Sofia to Miami."
"What are we talking about?" says Meredith as she placed her tray down and sat next to Arizona. "Um, Thanksgiving?" Said April, looking awkwardly at Arizona. Now she understood what Arizona was saying earlier "Oh! we should all spend it together this year. Have a big thing at my house? Maggie can cook. " said Meredith smiling at the two. "Oh well, I'm not sure if I will be working or not" said Arizona and Meredith looked up and said "Arizona...we are on the board so we don't have to work on holidays, so it's settled then, Thanksgiving at my house."