Chapter 4

'I'm so, so, so sorry,' April rushed to Amelia's side when she first saw her entering the hospital elevator. 'I would never have sent you last night if I knew she was in Joe's. Drunk,' she said with great sincerity but the way she squeaked in her high-pitched voice just made Amelia wanted to laugh so badly.

Amelia resisted her urge to laugh and hid all that under a small grin. 'You know what? I was the one who offered to find her so it's not on you,' she tried to comfort April.

'Still, I'm sorry,' April said in a much more calm and normal tone this time. 'I'm ok. Still clean. Not a drop of alcohol in my system so don't be too hard on yourself,' Amelia said before she exited the elevator when it reached the neuro floor.

Just when she thought all this melodrama in her life ended, and she could finally get back to work. She bumped into Meredith.

'Mer, what a lovely surprise to see you here. Need a neuro consult?' Amelia wondered why her sister-in-law would be waiting for her in the neuro department.

'Cut the crap. Amelia, you can't suddenly go from 'dark and twisty' to 'perky and bubbly' just by dating Robbins,' Meredith said half-jokingly. She knew there was no faster way than cutting to the chase and get Amelia to answer her questions directly. She knew she's no Addison and would never get Amelia to talk to her heart to heart just by starting with small chats.

'Who told you I'm dating Arizona?' Amelia giggled. This officially topped the time when Eliza thought her name was Amilio in both the scores for surprise and hilariousness.

'Owen,' Meredith knew she would have to give up her source in exchange for an answer. Amelia thought for awhile and made the verdict. She decided that it was better for the whole hospital (and even her own sister) to be mislead to convince that Arizona and her were dating, rather than having the whole hospital looking at them with pity and colleagues and friends constantly nagging them to date. What is wrong with these people anyway? Don't they have a job to do? Can't they ok with the fact that a person can survive just fine without a mate? Amelia did weigh her options and decided this might indeed be a better one.

'It's complicated,' she finally gave this vague answer. 'Ok, but just for your own sake, sort things out with her as soon as possible, ' Meredith advised. Amelia knew Meredith was not going to invade her privacy in the beginning. She had heard that Meredith and Derek were the Brangelina on the hospital gossip train so she knew she would understand. She just asked to check if she was fine.

The day was long without any interesting case surfacing. Even much longer when you found yourself becoming the center of the latest hospital gossips. Apparently, Owen and Carina were not the only two present to witness that kiss. A handful of interns were also there and contributed a lot in the spreading of the rumour.

'I heard they were banging since Dr. Herman's case but then, they broke up,' one of the interns or residents (Arizona really didn't remember that) was chatting with her peers so loudly as if she thought there was nobody around in the cafeteria. 'So Dr. Hunt was just the rebound? 'the other one asked. 'Of course, he was, she just married him to agitate Dr. Robbins to get back with her,' another one joined in. 'Wow, marrying the rebound. That's dedication,' the first one said. 'I heard their thing went way back. They both did their residency in John Hopkins. The same year, even.' Finally, this one seemed to notice Arizona's presence and his voice faded out and he tried to signalled his peers.

'Dr. Shephard, a moment please,' Arizona found Amelia waiting for her coffee near the register and grabbed her out to an empty hallway.

'What? 'Amelia pulled her poker face. She was obviously still bothered by the incident in the morning.

'Why did you tell Meredith that our relationship is "complicated"? Now, the whole hospital just assume we really are a thing. It's just purely ridiculous because it's not even halfway convincing. You're not even gay, 'Arizona found herself talking really first while trying not to redden in front of Amelia. She swore she would never fall for a straight girl again and yet here she was, harbouring all her feeling for Amelia, clarifying to both Amelia and herself that there were nothing happening between them just to remind herself of let go of her false hopes.

'First of all, for your information, I'm bi. How can you not know for these many years. There must be something wrong with your gaydar,' Amelia smirks. 'Second of all, how did you know about my conversation with Meredith? 'she asked.

'Well, an neuro nurse eavesdropped on you and shared the information with a bunch of other nurses. And you know how this kind of news travels. I guess that's is why the whole hospital know about our "complicated" relationship by now,' Arizona said with a bit irk in her voice.

'I'm sorry. I thought it would be get people off our back about dating. I didn't thought it would become something this big. I'm sorry that it cause you any trouble, but I get we are even now. Two for two,' Amelia beamed.

'Two for two? 'Arizona's mind was still processing what Amelia had just said. She's bisexual, which means, she could actually have a chance with her.

'The kiss last night and this whole mess,' Amelia explained. 'Get even with the things I said this morning?' Arizona interrupted.

'Probably,' Amelia let out an awkward grin.

'Hmm...sounds fair, 'Arizona answered in her usual perky voice. 'But how are we going to deal with our 'complicated' relationship? Are you going to continue giving those vague answers? ' she asked.

'Seriously, I don't know. I think this little prank has already gone too far by now. It doesn't matter what we do or say. Besides, I don't know about you but I really don't want anyone to pressure me into dating anymore,' Amelia sighed.

'Huh, you're telling me,' Arizona could not agree more. 'Dating is way overrated. They're just exhausting and time-consuming and I don't even have time to catch up on the recent issue of neonatal journal.'

'We don't even have to do anything at this point,' Amelia teased.

'Yea,' Arizona responded.

This sounds like a pretty smart thing to do so effortless, so easy to achieve their aim, but is this really their aim? When you think of it, this is just a stunt that two cowards too scared of admitting their feeling for each other pulled. A delicate lie came up fool everyone but not themselves.