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Chapter 19: Don't Know What to Believe
By the time Arizona's shift was over, she had made up her mind that she was going to follow Callie tomorrow. She had no idea how, seeing as tomorrow her shift didn't end until six o'clock, but she was going to find a way. As Arizona was heading out, Teddy stopped her.
"Hey, so how is everything going with Callie?"
"Not good. I found out she was hanging out with Erica yesterday and I think she is going to meet her again tomorrow at six o'clock."
"If she is meeting her again then Callie is an idiot for sneaking around like that. Where are they going to meet?"
"I don't know but I plan to follow her, I just need someone to cover my shift for me starting at five."
"You can probably get Karev to do it. He is your prodigy or something like that, right? And if he needs help in anything that he can't handle he can just page you."
"That's a great idea! Alex would totally do it!"
Alex, who was passing by, heard Arizona.
"I would totally do what?"
"I need a favor. Can you cover my shift from five to six tomorrow?"
"Why?"
"Just please?"
"What do I get if I do cover your shift?"
"How about this? If you help me I won't kick you off my service." Arizona told him as she gave him an innocent smile.
"Dude, you're evil. Fine, I'll do it. You're just lucky I really love working on Peds." Alex agreed as he walked away.
Before he walked out the doors, he turned around to say one last thing, "Oh and you both better not tell anyone that I said I loved Peds."
"So Callie is really cheating on you?" Teddy asked once Alex was out of sight.
"She's not cheating on me; she is just hanging out with Erica as friends."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes… no… I don't know. I'm just so confused right now."
"If Callie was hanging out with Erica as friends then why would she be sneaking around and lying to you?"
"Because I don't like Erica and Callie knows that. If she told me she'd know I would not approve and she'd feel like the only way to make me happy is to ignore Erica. She just got her friend back; I can't be the one to take her away."
"Well are you going to talk to Callie about it? You know tell her you know she's lying?"
"No."
"Arizona! Why not? You have to say something!" Teddy yelled, receiving a few stares from the people passing by.
"Teddy shut up! Come on; let's discuss this at my apartment."
Once they got to Arizona's apartment, Teddy continued.
"Why aren't you going to say something?"
"Because I trust her-"
"Obviously you shouldn't if she's lying to you." Teddy interrupted.
"You didn't let me finish." Arizona sighed a little annoyed.
"I trust her even though she's lying to me-"
Teddy was about to interrupt again but Arizona stopped her.
"No interrupting."
Teddy closed her mouth and sat on the couch, ready to listen to her friends reasoning.
"I trust her even though she's lying to me because I have been with her for over a year. I know her and I know she would never do anything intentionally to hurt me. She's been cheated on before, she knows how it feels. She would never cheat on anyone else, especially not me."
"But-"
"And I know the whole thing about her sleeping with Mark while she was with Erica but I don't really blame her. She had been with men her whole life and then suddenly she had feelings for a woman. I would freak out too. I know Joanne did the same thing to me as Callie did to Erica but Joanne slept with two men and one other woman while we were together, and I'm the one who found her in bed with a man. Callie only slept with Mark and she told Erica when she did so Callie is different from Joanne."
"Yes, but-"
"Callie would never cheat on me. She's not that kind of person."
Finally Arizona stopped talking and looked at Teddy. Teddy just looked back at her sadly.
"Okay first of all, I didn't know about most of the stuff you just told me and second of all, Arizona, are you trying to convince me that Callie would never cheat on you, or are you trying to convince yourself?"
Arizona didn't know how to answer that. A few minutes passed by and Arizona still hadn't answered the question.
"I think we both know the answer to that question." Teddy said, "Arizona it's obvious that if you can't immediately answer that question it's because you know deep down you are not 100% sure that Callie is not cheating on you. You deep down that there is a chance that Callie might be cheating on you and you just don't want to accept that because you don't want to lose her."
Arizona, who had tears in her eyes but was holding back from crying, sat down next to Teddy.
"You're right. I just… I can't lose her Teddy. I love her, she's my whole world. I know that if she is cheating on me then I have to break up with her but I can't handle the thought of doing that. I don't think I'm strong enough."
"Look Arizona, I'm here for you. It's okay."
"I don't want to break up with her Teddy."
"Hey, hey, hey. Look at me. Don't talk about that. We're not even sure if she is cheating on you. Maybe they're just hanging out as friends like you said."
"But what if Callie is cheating on me?"
"Well if she is, then we will deal with it. If she is cheating on you then she's an idiot because you are hot and there is probably women lining up for you."
Arizona chuckled.
"You know I told her that once. That I was hot and there were women lined up for me."
"Really?"
"Yeah. It all started the day after one of our dates. She was taking extra shifts in the ER and I kept on asking her why she bailed on our date early. I told her that there were people lining up for me because I'm hot and that maybe what we were doing was just a fling that ran it's course and she agreed with me. Of course I wasn't going to let her get away that easily so I ended up confronting her. In the end, she told me what was going on and we worked it out."
"Well, what was going on?"
"Since her father had cut her off she needed money so that's why she bailed. She was worried about how she was going to pay her half of dinner but I paid for everything. I guess she just panicked."
"See, you guys have been through so much, you'll work it out but I still say you need to confront her about this whole sneaking around."
Just then they saw the front door open and Callie walk in. Callie immediately noticed that Arizona was trying to hold back tears and Teddy glaring at her.
"What's wrong?"
AN: This is the last chapter that I have pre- typed so I might not update as quickly as I have been updating but I do have chapter 20 written already, I just need to type it so I probably won't take that long to update. Remember reviews make me happy... and encourage me to update! ;)
