AN: Let's see what happens now...
Flashback – General POV:
It was a warm Sunday which was weird for this time of the year. As they usually did on Sunday afternoons, the Torres sibilings were at the park enjoying their time together laying on the soft grass looking up to the sky and watching as the few clouds suddenly transformed into dogs, dragons and what five year old Callie could swear was a flying monkey, with wings and all.
Since their mother's death a few years before they found the strength to move on in each other. Callie could barely remember her mom, she was too young when everything happened. But the few things that she remembered were the happy moments they spent together like on her birthday morning. Javier and Aria, her older sibilings, always made sure the little brunette remembered who their mother was and how good she was, if not by showing her pictures it was by telling stories, and if she could be honest, she really enjoyed the stories more than only looking at the pictures. The stories made her feel like her mom was still around her, the way her sibilings talked about Lucia Torres, made her feel like she had never left. They kept her alive in their heart and in their stories.
As for their father, he was a business man, rarely found time to spend with his kids. And that was something Javier had promised to himself he wouldn't do to his kids. The night before that enjoyable Sunday, Javier had had a huge fight with his father, he was glad the girls weren't home to see it. He knew his father had a point but he couldn't let him win. He knew what he was doing was wrong, that he should stop but he just couldn't. And all because of one girl, one mistake.
"Do you girls want some ice cream?" He asks, after a while staring at the clouds got really boring.
"Yes!" The five year old Brunette squealed. "Ice cream!"
"Yes, Calliope, ice cream." He said, laughing at his little sister. "How about you Aria, want some?"
"Yes, sure." She answered not as enthusiastic as her sister.
"Is everything okay?" He asks, Aria always loved ice cream.
"Can I ask you something?" She asked as she watched him lift Callie up and sit her on his shoulders.
"Sure. Unless it's about boys, I'm not ready to have this conversation with you yet."
"No, of course not." She says blushing a little. Of course Aria had a crush on a boy from her class but there was no way she was going to talk to her brother about it. "Are you going to leave us?" The girl's question makes Javier stop on his tracks with wild eyes. "Dad told me this morning before we left for the park, he said you talked last night and you're leaving home." She explains with sad eyes.
"You leaving us, Javi?" Callie asked with her voice full of concern. She had already lost her mom, she didn't want to say goodbye to her brother.
"How about we go get you girls your ice cream and we can talk about this back home?" He suggests, ignoring his sisters' protests.
Once they arrived at home, he tried to go and hide in his beroom. How was he supposed to tell his sisters their father had kicked him out the night before? That he was there just to get his stuff and leave. He hurried up the stairs but the girls were right on his track.
"Are you going to tell us?" Aria asked from his bedroom door. Callie right behind her with her beautiful brown eyes already filled up with tears.
"I-I don't know how to do this." He says with defeat. He didn't want to do this. If he could choose, he'd leave and not say goodbye. Farewells are always hard. But if he could be even more honest, he wouldn't leave. He would stay and take care of the most important people in his life. "I... yes, I'm moving out."
"No!" Callie screamed now letting the tears run down her face, running into her brother's embrace hooking her little arms around his neck. "Javi, no! You can't leave us!"
Aria just stayed frozen. She wanted to go and hang on to Javier just like her sister but she was too shocked to move.
"No, Calliope, I am not leaving you." He says, running his hands up and down his little sister's back to try and calm her down. "I will never leave you."
"But you just said-"
"I'm leaving this house." He explains. "But not you. I will come visit you and I will call everyday, you won't even notice I'm not here, you'll see." He tries to cheer her up. "I promise."
"No." Aria finally says. "You-you can't go. Who's going to take care of us? Who's gonna... you can't go." Finally letting her façade drop, she allows her feelings to speak up and the tears to fill up her eyes.
"Come here." He says, stretching one of his arms to hold her and Callie at the same time. "You promise me something, you'll take care of each other."
"But I'm only five, I can't take care of Aria." Callie says, not understanding what her brother meant.
"You're the strongest five year old girl there is, you can do this." He says, placing a kiss on the top of her head. "Will you take care of her?" She just nods her head yes. "And you Aria, will you take care of her for me?"
"I will." She says, taking a deep breath.
"Okay then, why don't you help me with getting my stuff together, huh?" He asks, getting up and starting to pack his clothes.
They played more than helped, trying to ease the mood. Javi watched as his sisters started arguing about who he was going to miss more, he had to laugh. He was for sure going to miss them. He just wished things didn't have to be like this.
"Well, that's it." He said as he ziped his last bag.
"Are you leaving already?" Aria asked.
"You can't, dad is not even home. Maria said we're having chocolate cake with ice cream for desert, it's your favorite. I'll even let you have mine if you want. Please stay, Javi!" Callie begged, making her brother's heart break into little pieces.
"I already said goodbye to dad." He lied. "And I'm not hungry, you can have my part."
"Javi, please stay for dinner." Aria asked, but the look coming from her brother told her he wasn't going to change his mind.
"I can't. But I'll come back on Sunday to take you girls to the park again, okay?"
"It's too far, Javi!" Aria protested.
"Aria, please..." He pleaded, he needed her to help him, she was the older after him, she had to stay strong to take care of Callie.
"Javi..." Callie said with a small voice, almost crying again.
"Let him go, Cals." Aria said, trying to keep her face straight. "He'll come back to see us soon. Let him go." She said as she approached her little siter and put her hands on her shoulder.
"You girls stay awesome." He said putting a kiss on the top of each of their heads before starting to walk away.
"Javi, no!" Callie cried, she tried to run to her brother's direction but the hand on her shoulder didn't let her go. "Aria, let me go!" She tried to get out of her sister's strong hands but couldn't.
"No, Callie... Callie, stop!" She said lifting her sister up and sitting her on her waist. "He'll be back soon." She softly said, trying to believe in her own words. "He will."
The next Sunday he did as promised, he took them to the park and had lots of fun. The time to say goodbye was a little better than the last time. After that Sunday, the same happened for the next three weeks, but after that he spent almost a month without making an appearence, and it went like that for about a year. After that they found out he had moved to another country and he would only call, every Sunday Callie would sit next to the phone waiting for her brother's call. The calls became rare and rare until it came to the point that he didn't call at all.
He was gone.
Callie's POV:
All of those memories hit me like a train when my eyes fell upon my brother. I wanted to be happy because he was here but after all these years I can't. So I just blink, hoping that this wasn't happening. I blink, wishing that when I open my eyes again he will be gone and I'll get to go back to my date with Arizona.
I could notice Arizona watching me from the back of the room. The look on her face tells me that she isn't understanding what's going on. I see that she tries to say something but she closes her mouth as soon as she opens it. She's lost. And to be honest... so am I.
"What? You won't even give me a hug?" He says, with this smile on his face. The same smile that used to make me feel better when I was sad. His smile hasn't changed with the years, the only thing that changed was the effect it had on me. Instead of making me feel better, it irritated me. "Come on, Calliope." He says with inviting open arms.
"Don't call me like that!" I snap. "You lost the right to call me like that years ago." I say after a deep breath. I can feel my heart pounding as if it was about to jump out of my chest right then and there.
"Callie, is everything okay?" Arizona asks with her voice full of concern.
I wanted to tell her I wasn't okay. I wanted to tell her how my brother appearing out of nowhere messed with me. But this just isn't the right time. "I'm good." I say. "I'm good."
"Who is this beautiful friend of yours?" He asks turning to her, looking her up and down. "You girls going out for a girls night?" He looks back at me.
"This is none of your business." I say sharply.
"Hey little sis, you didn't use to be this harsh. What happened to you?" He asks, making himself at home and taking a seat on my couch.
"Life happened, Javier." The cold tone I used surprises me. "Get up... you're not welcome here. Get up and leave... leave and never come back. Just go, leave me alone. I have no interest in talking to you. Whatever you have to say, I don't care."
"Callie, I don't know what's going on but maybe it's important. Your brother wouldn't come here for no reason." Arizona says, trying to ease to mood.
"That's exactly right... he wouldn't." I say, turning my eyes to the stunning blonde in front of me, suddenly feeling a little calmer. It's amazing how her blue eyes can calm me down. "He is here because he needs something. If he wanted to see me he would have come sooner. Sooner like twenty-six years ago."
"Calliope, I can explain."
"I already told you to not call me that!" I repeat. "And I am not interested in any explanation. I am not that five year old girl who would do anything her big brother wanted her to do. I'm a grown woman. I have a house, I help my father with his business, I have friends, Javier. I like my life the way that it is and I don't want it to change. And I don't want you in it because it took me a long time for me to be myself again the last time we saw each other. So now, please, get up from my couch and leave."
"I am not leaving, you'll have to listen to me." He says, abruptly standing up and taking fast steps towards me, making me take a few steps back to keep distance.
"Hey, you heard her." Arizona says in a protective way. I can feel in her voice that his attitude scared her. "Leave, or I'll call security."
"You can't make me leave my place." He says, now turning to her. "This place is mine too, I bet this is one of dad's fancy apartments."
"No, it's not. This apartment is mine and I am telling you to leave. Now." I say going to the door and opening it to show him that I meant what I said.
"You wouldn't call security..." He challenges me.
"Try me." I say, looking at him dead in the eyes.
He gives Arizona one last glance, once again looking her up and down. "I hope to see you around, pretty." He winks at her. "And you, little sis," He says approaching me. "we're not done yet. You'll listen to me."
"Leave!" I yell and he does as I said, making me slam the door shut right behind me, making the walls shake because of its impact.
"Callie?" Arizona asks, her voice so far away as I am hit with a flow of emotions. Not being able to stand my body's weight anymore, I let myself fall to the floor with my back still against the door. The next thing I know is that there is someone sitting next to me and when I look to my side, I see those mesmerazing blue orbs. "Come here." She says, gesturing to me to get in her embrace. I feel her arms wrap around me in a conforting way. Being in her arms makes me feel calmer, it feels just like home after a long trip. "You wanna talk about it?" She asks.
"No..." I say in a whisper, with my head laying on her shoulder. "I can't talk about it right now."
"I'm sorry I let him in, he said he was your brother and I thought you'd be happy to see him." She apologizes, making me lift my head up and look at her straight in the eyes.
"You didn't know, it's not your fault." I say, giving her a small smile. "There are so many things about me, about my past, that you don't know and I'm afraid when you find out you'll leave."
"You won't get rid of me that easy, if that's what you're thinking." She says taking a smile from me. "I have my own demons that I have to fight every once in a while. Maybe we could help each other out." She says with a soft tone that warms my heart.
"That would be nice."
"You know, we can go out for dinner another day. After what happened I don't think you're in the mood to go out." She says.
I hate to admit but she is right, I'm not in the mood to go out. Javier appearing just ruined what was supposed to be a great night. I had everything planned, dinner, wine, some small talk... then we'd come back and have some make out sessions. But I just wasn't in the mood anymore.
"I don't want to go out anymore but... I don't want you to go." I say, taking her hand in mine and interlacing our fingers. "Stay with me for a little longer? I have wine and... maybe we could watch a movie?" I ask.
Please say you're staying!
"Sure, I'd love to spend more time with you... as long as you let me go to the couch, this floor isn't comfortable at all." She plays, making a real smile cross my face.
"Sure, you go get the wine and I'll put on a movie. Which one you wanna watch?"
"Do you have "Just Go With It"? I love that movie and I feel like we could use some comedy." She says as she heads towards the kitchen that isn't very far away from the living room.
"Sure, I do. That's the one then." I answer as I start looking for the DVD.
"You know, Callie, it's the first time I'm at your house and I'm in the kitchen to get the wine and all... but I have no idea where you keep it." She says laughing.
"Oh, wait a second, I'll go get it. Come here and set up the movie." I say as I go the the kitchen and she goes to get the movie started. "What would you say about pizza? I know it's not an appropriate first date dinner but since it's not going how I planned..."
"Sure... I like pizza." She says, giving me a wink and making my heart flutter.
I walk back to the living room with a bottle of wine and two glasses in my hands. I set everything on the table and open the bottle pouring each of our glasses with the red liquid.
"Here," I hand her her glass. "I hope you like red."
"I prefer white but red will do, thank you." She says giving me a peck on the lips.
"So I think I better start buying some white wine too then."
"Yeah," She says, taking a sip of her wine. "or you can get more of this red one, I have to say, it is amazing."
"I'm glad you like it." I say, taking a seat on the couch.
"All set." she says as she takes a seat next to mine.
Before than a half way through the movie we are both laying on the couch in a comfy position. I have Arizona between my legs with her head resting on my chest. Her laughs duing the movie warms my heart. She said she'd watched this movie a million times, but the way she was laughing it seemed like the first time. Just like a kid watching a Disney movie for the thousandth time and still getting surprised by its magic.
"You really like this movie, huh?" I say as she lets out another full laugh.
"Of course I do. I mean, we get to see Jennifer Aniston using a coconut bra!" She says animately. "And she still looks hot."
"Umm... I see you have a thing for Jennifer Aniston?" I say, playing with her hair.
"I do, I think she is very hot." Not hearing any answer coming from me, she gets her head up to look me in the eye. "Don't worry, Calliope. You're pretty good yourself." She plays with me, taking me by surprise.
"Excuse me, but I am pretty hot, okay?"
"Yes, you are." She turns on our embrace, with her full body upon mine. "Really, really hot." She says as she starts kissing my neck, making me have goosebumps.
"You're hot too." I say as I throw my head back to allow her to have more space to explore.
"You know... yesterday morning there was no way I could imagine I'd be here with you tonight... on a date." She says with open mouthed kisses.
"Me either." I say, enjoying the feeling of her lips against the soft skin of my neck. "I wish we could've talked sooner."
"Me too... me too." She answers.
I fell her soft lips on every inch of my neck, making my insides go crazy. Her blue eyes now dark, full of desire. She places soft kisses in each side of my cheeks and finally on my lips, making me crave for more.
"Stop playing, kiss me for real." I say and before I could ask again she gladly does what I asked. Movie now forgotten, she attacks my lips like never before in a very hungry kiss, I feel her pressing her body harder into mine and I try to adjust our position the couch to offer better access. She's now on the top of me, her mouth assaulting my neck, my mouth, and going south to my chest. I feel her hands start to slide under my shirt as my hands go straight to the back of her thighs pressing her body harder against mine.
"Are we going too fast?" She asks as she stops with her hand amost touching my left breast, offering me a way out if I want to. And it's there I realize we're indeed going too fast. I don't need to say anything for her to comprehend my words. She takes her hands out and stands up from the couch.
"Arizona, please don't be mad at me." I say, afraid of what she's thinking. "It's just... I... I'm not... sorry."
"Mad? I am not mad." She says, sending me a dimpled smile. "I understand Calliope, really. I want it to happen, so bad... but I think it's soon too."
"Thank God." I breathe out.
"What kind of horny monster do you think I am?" She asks playing a fake hurt expression.
"You're not a monster." I say laughing. "Horny, maybe. But not a monster."
"Yeah, you got that right. I'll probably have to take care of it later by myself." She plays, making instant images of her pleasing herself go through my mind making me even hotter. "Who's horny now?" She asks.
"Can we go back to the movie?" I ask, trying to dismiss the subject.
"Yes, we can." She says, taking her seat back.
"Did you notice it?" I ask as I run my fingers through her golden hair.
"Notice what?" She asks me confused.
"The way he looked at you. Javier."
"Oh..."
"He looked like he was eating you with his eyes."
"You don't have to worry, he won't have a chance. And you wanna know why?" She asks me getting closer and whispering with a husky voice in my ear, "Because you're the only Torres that I want."
"Good to know." I say, kissing her passionately on the lips. "I'm sorry you had to see that."
"Don't worry about it, you don't have to apologize. I'm glad I was here to support you."
"I'm glad you were here too." I say, squeezing her into my arms.
"Now come on, no more talking. Jennifer is about to take off her clothes."
"I think I should really be worried in case you meet Jennifer Aniston one day."
"Possessive much?" She plays.
"What can I say? It took me too long to get where we are right now and I kind of like having you around."
"Oh don't worry, all you have to do is put on a red bikini for me and Jennifer will be forgotten."
"That easy?" I play.
"Yep, that easy." She places a kiss on my cheek and we go back to our comfy position on the couch.
AN2: Any ideas of what happened to Javier? Are you enjoying the story? Let me know, your feedback has been awesome!