Chapter two.
"Arizona, that's not a very common name" I blurt out. She looks at me with a weird expression on her face. It makes me realize that I said that out loud. I start to panic and quickly add "I just mean, never heard of someone that's called Arizona. It's just like the state, you know. Of course you know. Are you named after the state? I'm sorry, you don't have to tell me that. I ramble a lot when I'm nervous."
She now has an amused look on her face. "I do that a lot too," she sweetly says before giving me a small smile. "You know the nervous rambling. And just to answer your question. No, I'm not named after the state, but that's a whole different story."
"I would love to hear that sometimes" I say "the story I mean not the rambling." Actually I would love to hear her ramble but I wouldn't tell her that. "We'll see", she says. "Now take a seat already or do you prefer standing there the entire class…" she laughs.
She turns around and makes her way to the front of the class. I take my seat as the class starts to fill with my fellow students. I smile when I see my best friend Mark come in along with our other close friends Meredith and Derek. As I wave them over, I see someone else walk in. The cold hearted bitch that left me last year, Erica. What is she doing here? She's supposed to be on the other side of the country, at another college. She left me. She left my college for a 'better' program.
As Meredith and Derek take a seat in front of me, Mark comes to sit right next to me. They all look at me and follow my gaze. Mark looks back and forth between Erica and me. Mer's starting to get angry and I can hear her curse. I freeze. Derek looks at me and takes my hand, while saying "She's not worth it. You're over her remember, Cal." I just nod and try to look at something else.
"Not to worry you Cal but she's coming over here" Mark says. And than I hear her voice "Can we talk?" Erica asks. She sounds sad and I look up at her while thinking of my answer. "Get lost." I hear Meredith say. Mer always has my back. She's such a great friend. She was there to pick me up after my nasty break up with Erica along with Cristina. They've put up with a lot when Erica left me, all the crying and yelling and drinking. I would never forget that dark period in my life.
"Callie?" asks Erica. "What?" I answer, getting mad. "You don't get to talk to me. You know why, because I'm over you. You walked away without looking back and left me. You have no idea what I've been through after you left me. So how dare you coming up to me like nothing happend to ask me to talk to you. You're a cold-hearted bitch, so no you don't get to talk to me. Callie freaking Torres doesn't need to talk to Erica Hahn or whatever the hell you want to do." I yell at her.
By the time I'm done with my rant to Erica I see the whole class looking at me. A couple of people are saying things like "alright" and "way to go Torres". And I feel good. I turn my gaze away from Erica towards the front of the class and see prof. Robbins looking at me. She's smiling at me; it's a small, sad smile, as if she really cares about what just happened. Professor Robbins walks over to us and asks if everything's okay over here. I just smile at her and say, "everything's great over here, thank you."
She turns to Erica and asks her to take a seat if she belongs in this class. Erica walks away saying to prof. Robbins that she's in another class and just saw me sitting there and wanted to have a chat with me. With that, she's gone. But I have a feeling that she'll be back.
When everyone is calmed and settled down prof. Robbins starts greeting the whole class. "Good morning class, my name is prof. Robbins. I'm your new class counsellor this year and also your Language teacher this semester."
We have a round of introductions before going through our syllabus. Most of the students aren't paying a lot of attention to what she's saying. They just nod along and pretend to listen. A couple of guys are checking out prof. Robbins. Can't blame them, cause that's exactly what I've been doing the entire class. I can't help it she's just extremely hot and cute at the same time. How can she be this hot and cute? It's not human.
"You're drooling" I hear Mark say. "You're checking out our new teacher? Proud of you Cal!" "Shut up Mark" I say while blushing "I'm not checking her out." "Yeah right Torres. You're totally are." Meredith says. "Oh what do you know" I try to defense myself. "It's okay Cal, I've been checking her out myself." Derek interferes. With that, he earned a slap from Meredith, his girlfriend. After the slap, they all decide to leave to topic of prof. Robbins to what it is and pay attention to what she's saying.
30 minutes later prof. Robbins announces that class is over and she'll see us next class. As I make my way out of the class I hear her calling my name. I turn around and walk towards her. "Are you sure you're okay?" she asks "it's just, you seem a little upset, so I just want to make sure that you're okay." I give her a small smile and say "I'm okay, prof. Robbins. There's nothing to worry about. Just needed to get a few things of my chest, that's all." She nods before saying "I'm here if you need to talk." I nod at her and make my way out of the room.
All sorts of feelings rushing through my body. I'm kind of relieved for having a talk with Erica. Not really a talk but more shouting from my side. I feel free. On the other hand I also feel a lot of other things, like the butterflies for prof. Robbins still being there. As I'm thinking of her a huge smile forms on my face, again. With the hot professor this is going to be a very long semester. I might take her up for that talk one day.