AN: Just a little heads up that this is a short chapter and that the drama is going to start soon. You've all been warned! Enjoy. Oh, and thanks to everyone who reads/comments I really appreciate all of you.

"I'm going to do it," Callie put her tray down on the table and sat across from Mark.

"Do what?" Mark asked, chewing the bite he just took from his apple.

"Ask her to move in,"

"Bad idea,"

"Why?" Callie took a bite of her salad.

"Well it's too soon,"

"For you maybe, but she practically lives at my place already," Callie leaned back in her chair.

"No," Mark took another bite from his apple.

"No?"

"You've been dating for a few months, you have to give it space,"

"We said-" Callie leaned over the table towards Mark, "We said 'I love you' already."

"Even more reason to give it space!"

"You are the worst person to give relationship advice, I'm doing it," Callie sat up from the table and began to walk away.

"Space Torres, space!" Mark shouted across the cafeteria as Callie exited through the doors.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Callie walked around the hospital looking for Arizona, she had paged her twice but there was no response.

"Have you seen Dr. Robbins?" Callie asked a nearby nurse.

"I just saw her come out of OR 3,"

"Thanks,"

Callie's hands were shaky but if she was going to take this step it was now or never, while she still had the nerve to do it. She turned the corner and saw Arizona walking a few steps ahead of her.

"I need to ask you something," Callie caught up to Arizona and stood in front of her.

"Okay," Arizona stopped in her place and waited for Callie to speak.

"This is important,"

"Okay, I'm listening..."

"We've been dating for, what, four months now? Things have been going well, and fast. You love me and I love you-"

"Oh God, please tell me you're not proposing," Arizona interrupted.

"What? No! Willyoumoveinwithme?" Callie felt the words fall out of her mouth and she stood there, wide-eyed waiting for Arizona to say something.

"You want me to move in with you?"

"Uh, yeah..." Callie watched as Arizona's gaze shifted to the ground and then back up at her.

"I want to Callie, I do! But..."

"But...?"

"I still have a few more months left on my lease."

"Oh," Callie's eyes fell to the ground.

"I want to," Arizona lifted the brunette's head and looked into her eyes, "I want to, but I have a lease."

"Okay,"

"Okay," Arizona kissed Callie's cheek, "I'm feeling under the weather so I'm going to go lay down. How about later tonight I pick up a bottle of wine and a pizza and we watch a movie at your place?"

"Sounds good," Callie gave the blonde a crooked smiled, "Feel better."

"Thanks,"

Callie turned, feeling a little shut down and began to walk away.

"Calliope," Arizona called out to Callie.

"Yeah?" Callie quickly turned around.

"I love you,"

"I love you too,"

-.-.-.-.-.-

"She asked me to move in with her," Arizona laid down on one of the beds in the on-call room as she spoke to Teddy on the phone.

"What did you say?"

"I said I had to finish up with my lease," Arizona massaged her forehead with her free hand.

"When is your lease up?"

"Two months,"

"You're going to have to tell her the truth at some point."

"I know," Arizona hung up the phone and closed her eyes.

-.-.-.-.-

"I told you it was a bad idea," Mark spoke to Callie over speakerphone.

"It wasn't a bad idea," Lexie interrupted, "She has a lease that's all."

"Okay so when should I bring it up again?" Callie paced in the hallway as the other side of the phone stayed quiet.

"Well her lease is going to run out and then she'll come to you," Lexie spoke hopefully.

"Okay so I just wait?" Callie asked.

"You wait Torres, let the woman come to you!" Mark's voice moved further away from the phone.

"Okay, wait, got it," Callie hung up the phone and put it back in her coat pocket.

Callie went about the rest of her day feeling off. She couldn't pinpoint what she was feeling but she knew she was feeling something. Hurt, sad, disappointed? No, those weren't quite the right words. Yes, she was a little sad, hurt and disappointed about Arizona not wanting to move in with her, well, not being able to move in with her. She had taken the first giant step and fell flat on her face. But if Callie Torres only ever learned one thing in her life it was that love wasn't easy and when you fall you have to pick yourself back up and shake it off. And that's what she did. She came home to a quiet apartment, wanting nothing more than to sit on her couch and put up her feet, but instead she tidied things up in anticipation for Arizona's arrival.

As she was cleaning she noticed the little red light flashing on her phone, which meant she had a message waiting for her. She picked up the phone and let the message play;

"Hey Callie, sorry I'm going to have to cancel tonight. This headache just won't go away. I think I've caught something and I don't want to give it to you. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye."

"Great," Callie mumbled to herself as she put the phone down and got ready for bed.