While waiting for her groceries to be bagged Callie glanced at the time on her phone. 'Oh, nooo, no, no, no.' She mumbled and turned to Arizona, who was in line behind her, with an apologetic look on her face "Would you mind going straight to my place from here? I just…lost track of time and he's going to be there looking for me soon…I mean, if you don't want to…or if you wanted to have Kels at your place, or – "
Arizona stood there with wide eyes, lost in the rambling. To be honest, she'd just been watching Callie's lips since the second or third word. "Callie…Callie…Callie…" She sighed but couldn't hold back the amused smile that Callie was still going, she gently placed her hands on the other woman's shoulders and gave a gentle squeeze "Callie…it's okay…seriously, I'll just follow you from here…it's fine, really."
"Are you sure? My place is pretty tiny, like really – "
"It's fiiiine" Arizona said in a sing-song voice and grinned, sneakily switching carts so she was pushing the cart with little Kelsie in it.
"Are you really sure? I – wait," she realized what had happened "did you really just steal my kid?" She ran to catch up so they were side by side again. Oddly enough the two women were parked fairly close together and Arizona couldn't help but notice she seemed to have a lot more groceries but shrugged it off, figuring that Callie was probably just picking up a few things.
x-x
As they climbed the stairs to Callie's apartment, Callie with Kelsie, and Arizona carrying Callie's groceries as well as anything she had bought that would need to go in the fridge. Arizona was trying not to think of the woman in front of her, and definitely trying to keep her mind off of how sexy she was; obviously that wasn't going to stop her from admiring the view, and boy was it a nice view, but she kept reminding herself to keep her thoughts PG, the woman was clearly straight.
After what Arizona considered a forever of climbing stairs, they were finally at the door of Callie's apartment. Callie slowly swung the door open – she tried to be a confident person but being a single mom, coming home to a studio apartment…and to leave her baby girl with someone she (barely) knew in high school, to go on a date…she wasn't exactly bursting with confidence at the moment. She watched as the blonde looked around and began trying to think of things to say as an excuse for her situation; there was something about the woman that made her want to tell her the whole story of Calliope Torres, but now was certainly not the time for that.
"Told you it was tiny…" she laughed and gestured around to the small apartment; and it really was tiny, Arizona looked around and saw a double bed in the corner with a crib close by, a small black couch across from an old tube tv with a small cabinet as a tv stand, and a small kitchenette that looked like it was put to good use. It was actually quite impressive what Callie had managed to do with the small space.
Just as Arizona was about to say that it was cozy and she liked it, there was a knock at the door. Callie quickly handed off Kelsie to Arizona and went to answer it, realizing as she opened the door that due to the small size of her apartment she would have to introduce everyone. 'Damn manners'
"Hi Dave." She smiled and saw Arizona moving to the kitchenette – maybe she could just make a hasty escape without awkward introductions. She turned her head back to Arizona and offered a small smile "Uh, so…Normal babysitter stuff I guess, try not to keep her up too late…bottles are in the fridge…no boyfriends – err, sorry…usually my sitters are teenagers… " She trailed off and Dave poked his head in and a wide smile spread across his face, boyfriends wouldn't be an issue, he turned to Callie "So, you have a thing for PEDs, eh?"
Callie just looked at him with confusion etched across her face "What?"
He gestured between himself and Arizona, who had turned upon hearing a familiar voice "PEDs nurse and PEDs surgeon, both devilishly good looking, and incredibly charming, if I do say so myself. Hopefully she's not my competition though; I could never win against ." He grinned.
"Dave!" Arizona had turned a little red and came closer with Kelsie still snuggled in her arms.
Callie looked back and forth between them, worried that her date might have the hots for her babysitter – they clearly had a history. "I…you know each other? Am I missing something?...this isn't some, like, long lost love thing is it?"
Neither Dave nor Arizona could contain their laughter and Dave affectionately patted Arizona on the child-less shoulder "Not unless you're talking about a long lost bromance – not only taught me everything I knew about PEDs; Everything I know about treating a lady right, I owe to Arizona here!" He smiled remembering his days at Seattle Grace.
Arizona's heart sank finding out that Callie's date was her old wingman, Dave. It was hard enough to think of Callie going out tonight, but now she knew that her date was honestly a good guy – and she should be happy for him, for both of them – but she just couldn't bring herself to feel that way. She had enjoyed spending time with Dave, and he really was a great guy, but something was pulling her towards the beautiful brunette; obviously, she was the Head of PEDs and here she was, babysitting, on a Friday night, no less.
The three exchanged their goodbyes after a little more playful banter between Dave and Arizona. Arizona tried her best to seem genuinely happy for the pair and kept trying to reason with herself; it was only a first date, Callie wasn't hers, technically they weren't even friends, so she shouldn't be getting herself worked up over it. She sighed and went over to pick out a movie with Kelsie and, as gracefully as one can manage with a smile child, flopped onto the small couch after loading Open Season into the dvd player and locating the remotes.
"We'll just relax, huh, little lady?" She wiggled against the cushions settling herself in and tried to focus on the movie and little girl, absentmindedly running her fingers through the dark curls atop Kelsie's head, slowly lulling both of them to sleep.
