In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
- Madame de Stael
"Did you know that there is no concrete definition of happiness?" Arizona thought aloud. They were currently lazying around at the far end of the school's soccer pitch, Arizona's body stretched out perpendicular to Callie's with her head nestled in the dip of the other girls cross legged seat. Callie was waiting for soccer trials to begin and while she knew she had a spot as the team's right wing, she couldn't help the nerves bubbling up.
It was a particularly cloudy day, not enough to bring a jacket but it made Callie glad she would be having a trial in decent conditions. The grass had been freshly cut for the new semester, goal posts freshly painted and markings redone. Taking a large breath of fresh air, Callie smelt the grass and something unfamiliar in place of Arizona's usual hair product.
"Did you change shampoos" Callie asked incredulously, her brows scrunching down in her signature confused look. When the blonde didn't answer her, she moved a hand from behind her to run it through loose locks and bring it up to her nose.
"I think the most interesting question would be, did you just smell my hair?" Arizona smirked, shifting her upper body weight onto her arms "I mean that's like a level 5 to 7 on the creep scale. Oh! fun fact, animals use this thing called pheromones, it's basically a unique smell attached to every one, kind of like an identifying smell. And they would use this to know when others in the pack or herd were ready to mate" Arizona supplies helpfully
"I don't even want to know how you know that or what spurred on that particular google search but that's not the point Brainy." Callie laughed, her fingers still weaving through blonde locks "what did you find out about your other shampoo?"
"Nothing." Arizona simply said, shrugging her shoulders when skeptical eyes looked at her before turning her body back around and moving into the comfortable position that she was in before "As I was saying... Happiness doesn't have a definition. I even tried to look it up. I mean it has a definition technically... all the religions have different interpretations and yet still no concrete answer." Arizona says perplexed
"Babe, Happiness is an emotion, there doesn't have to be a definition for it, it just is." Callie smiles when she finds Arizona looking up at her with a look she can't decipher just yet "What?" she asks causing Arizona's cheesy grin to grow larger
"Carol Bruess and Judy Pearson wrote a paper on pet names being used in relationships and they believe that it can lead to happiness in a relationship, granted her participant group were married couples" Arizona spews out "She said and I quote 'If we can't laugh at ourselves and with each other in the relationship, we're less likely to sustain that relationship in a positive way over time'. Also it's said that seventy six percent of couples that use pet names in their relationship say that they are very happy"
Callie let her upper body fall back into the grass as her whole body shook with laughter "Is that your way of telling me you like it when I use pet names with you?" she managed to say between breaths
"when you use it, it means we're happy in this relationship, right? Arizona says and when Callie continues to laugh, she tilts her head, slightly confused.
"Numbers don't lie Callie, it's in the research. Seventy six percent consider their relationships as very happy, I mean it's not the highest number but it's pretty up there" Arizona huffed sitting up
"Hey" Callie says sobering up "Arizona, what's going on?" her confusion morphed into worry when Arizona flinched away from her touch and started fidgeting with her fingers, forcefully mangling them into odd positions
"Are you in the other twenty four percent?" Arizona quietly asks
"Other twenty four percent? Arizona what twenty four percent?" Callie replies taking Arizona's hands into hers, knowing the blonde needed touch as comfort. She smiled when pale fingers gently started to play with her own tan ones
"Callie, you're happy with me?. This" Arizona gently tugged their hands gesturing to both of them " us" she whispers "you're happy with me?"
"Of course I am Arizona" Callie smiles bring their joined hands up and places a soft kiss on Arizona's "what's bringing on these thoughts?"
Arizona shyly looks away "I overheard some guys that were talking in the library saying I was your 'palette cleanser'; you were tired of dating cheater jocks so you wanted someone... someone who" she gulped and whispered "a geek who you could use as an ego boost before you started seriously dating again" she finished without looking at Callie "We can go back to being friends if you want, Callie. I just can't lose you..."
"Arizona" Callie speaks over the blonde to get her attention, before softly kissing her hoping to convey her feelings "I love you. Those idiots are jealous because now they have absolutely no chance with me"
"Promise?"
"Pinky promise! you're stuck with me brainy" Callie smiles and is about to kiss Arizona again before the shrill of a whistle stops her