Chapter 3

In the hospital, Meredith was upset that she called Amelia's phone for the millionth time and she still hadn't answer once. (By the way, she had already given up texts or any kind already. She knew Amelia too well that she would only read them and not even bother to reply.) 'Meredith, I need to talk to you,' Owen pulled Meredith to the side. He could tell something was bothering Meredith everything when she frowns and gives that look. 'What?' Meredith hassled. 'Well, it's not important now. What's bothering you?' Owen asked. He promised Cristina that he would take care of her when she's gone and now maybe he need to be her 'person' for a moment to find out what's causing her in such a bad mood. 'Amelia didn't come home last night. I keep calling her and she doesn't pick up,' Meredith explained. 'I bet she spent the night at Robbins','Owen smirked with irony mixed with a little bit of anger in his voice. 'Ok, you know something,' Meredith had retired gossiping in the hospital. She really didn't want to pry into other people's private life, but when that person in question was her sister-in-law, that wasn't snooping, that's merely concern. 'Well, I was in the bar with Carina last night and we saw Amelia kissed Arizona,' Owen continued.

'Okay,' Meredith digested the information and accepted it quickly .'What? You aren't a bit shocked at all. There's no "I never thought Amelia was gay" reaction?' To Owen's surprise, Meredith took the news relatively calmly. 'To be honest, everyone in this hospital, no, everyone seems much more gayish these days so you'll never know. Come on, we all thought you and Nathan were a couple when he first came when you hated each other's guts. Plus, I'm relieved that she did not relapse and died OD on some blind alley in the middle of nowhere.' Despite the indifference (or maybe a little bit sarcastic) she sounded, that was actually her greatest fear. Just by thinking about it terrified Meredith to death. 'Sure, It may seem like an odd pairing with an odding timing, but they had great chemistry together during the Herman case,' she continued and made a little comment. Owen came up with a conspiracy theory, 'You think it's weird too. It seems like they are dating now just to get revenge on Carina and I.'

'First, I never thought I would ever say this but please don't be an egotistical ass and second why do you care so much? You guys are over. You are dating someone else. You moved on so you can't be jealous. You don't have the right to,' Meredith replied while she made a mental note to ask about the nature of Amelia's relationship with Arizona later.

'Yea, I guess you're right. I should be happy for her. I moved on, and so should she. She deserves this. She deserves better,' Owen realized. As much as he didn't want to, they were divorced, he had to let go.

Back in Arizona's house, 'Hey, do you need a glass of water or something? ' Amelia offered after change back into her clothes. 'No, thanks I'm fine, you've done enough for me already, ' Arizona was already feeling sorry that she had not been a proper hostess the night before and now guilt just swept over her. She got up in bed and found her prosthetic laying on her bed on the spot where Amelia slept in. Amelia must have placed it there when she left the bed to save the trouble for Arizona. Arizona had almost forgotten how thoughtful and considerate Amelia could be to someone she really cared about. When she was positioning her prosthetic on her left leg, she could smell the amazing scent of her breakfast being cooked in her kitchen.

'I'm not sure if stupid Koracick has cut something he shouldn't cut and ruined my ability to cook,' Amelia jested. 'He's not me afterall,' she continued.

'And yet you slept with him,' Arizona pointed out. She was not sure if she couldn't stand her cookiness or she was jealous that even Koracick, her insufferable mentor, got to slept with her but she couldn't. She thought all her crushes towards Amelia had been buried deep down to the bottom of her heart years ago. Apparently, they didn't go just go away and now they resurfaced again.

'How do you know? 'Amelia blushed. 'Well, according to the interns, you two were in an on-call room for hours. He certainly didn't cut anywhere that may affect your sex drive,' Oh, gosh, hangovers are the worst. Arizona thought to herself. Stupid inappropriate things just kept slipping out of her tongue. Her mind was not functioning normally and she dreaded to look at Amelia's reaction.

'Anyway, breakfast is ready,' Amelia said in a ice-cold voice. Arizona was able to recognise her stern face. It was the face she saw too many times in Hopkins. She knew she did something unforgivable here and wanted to rectify the situation.

The silence over breakfast was filled with tension. The insufferable silence was almost torturing to Arizona. Just like what she always taught her daughter, Arizona knew she need to she had offended Amelia and she need to apologize for that eventually.

'I'm sorry. It's my hangover. My filter basically just shut down,' Arizona felt like a thousand words cannot help describing how sorry she was. She knew it sounded like she was making excuses, but she had to say something to break the ice.

'Hmm…'Amelia replied, continuing slicing her bacon into pieces. She seemed like she wanted to say something but words just couldn't form. She didn't know what to say. She hadn't feel this powerless with words since she regained her ability to speak English after her surgery. This was something different. Something even more worse. Was she upset by the comments Arizona made? Yes, a little bit. She wasn't her place to say anything like that. Still, she knew a person could never take their words back. She knew it too well because she used to lack filters too, so part of her chose to cut Arizona some slack and forgive her. But all that was just her rational part speaking. The other half of her could not bring herself to not be pissed at Arizona. It was just like residency all over again. She was now infuriated by something Arizona did not on purpose. Why was she feeling like this? She really did not have a clue.

The rest of the breakfast continued with either quietness or exchange of short sentences. Anyone could tell that both walking on eggshells.

'Do you need me to call in sick for you today? 'Amelia asked kindly before she left. 'It's nice of you, but no, my shift start at two this afternoon. My headache should be gone by then,' Arizona respond. 'Yeah, take care then,' Amelia then called a cab and went back to the hospital.