A/N Can't even say how sorry I am for not updating for so long. I'm in my third year of university now so shit is getting INSANE. Needed a break from writing my dissertation so I wrote you guys a (very late) chapter.
They heard a knock at the door which made them both release breaths they didn't know they were holding.
"I'll get it." Teddy said, standing up.
"No, I'm coming too." Arizona followed her to the door.
Teddy's jaw dropped and Arizona gasped when they saw the person on the other side of the threshold. The newcomer spoke.
"You guys really need to figure out what the hell happened on Thursday night."
"Alex?!" Arizona exclaimed, pushing her way past Teddy to put her arm around the unexpected visitor and gingerly help him over the threshold. "Jesus Christ! What the hell happened to you?" Both of his eyes were black and his right arm was in a sling.
"Alex, what did you do?!" Teddy reiterated, staying well out of the way as Arizona led their friend carefully to the sofa. Alex eased himself down beside Arizona and grimaced in pain as the movement jostled his bad arm.
"I got punched in the face by some guy who tried to sell me a lizard."
"Excuse me?!"
"What?!" The girls replied at the same time, thoroughly confused by the absurdity of Alex's statement.
"Yeah. So that was this eye," he replied, pointing to his left eye with his good arm, "but I have no clue what happened to the other one, or what happened to my arm."
"Shut up, Alex. How do you manage to get yourself into these situations?!" Arizona exclaimed, still utterly perplexed.
"I have absolutely no idea." Alex replied.
"I do," Teddy interjected, "you drink too much."
"Says you who woke up naked in bed with Callie and have no clue how," retorted Arizona.
Alex snorted, evidently unsurprised with this new piece of information, "classic Teddy."
"How is that classic me?" Teddy said, clearly offended. "Name one other situation where I have woken up in Callie's bed with no clothes on."
"Well, obviously that exact situation hasn't happened before, but tell me you haven't ever woken up naked in someone else's bed with no recollection of how you got there," Alex replied, smirking. Teddy sat down on the one-seater, knowing that she could already think of at least three. Alex took in Teddy's lack of response and the rather sheepish look on the blonde's face as his answer, "hmm, thought so," he said, still with a cheeky grin on his face.
"The subject of my questionable sexual encounters is not the issue right now," Teddy shot at Alex, "the most pressing matter is who the fuck did you piss off?"
"Teddy, if I knew that, why do you think I would be here? I was hoping you two would know something since, you know, you hosted the party."
Arizona finally spoke up, having been listening to Teddy and Alex abuse each other with a twinkle of amusement in her eyes. She really enjoyed their love/hate relationship. "Alex, me and Teddy were tipsy before everyone started arriving, we're probably not the best people to ask." She stood up, careful not to knock Alex's arm and, on her way to the door of the flat, announced, "I will leave you two to figure out what predicament Alex has got himself into this time, but I am more concerned about my current situation with Callie." She flung the door open melodramatically, spun around to face the two figures in the living room, bowed to them and spoke the words "fare ye well, friends, I bid you… a good day," then slammed the door behind her.
Alex and Teddy sat in a bewildered silence for a good ten seconds before Alex spoke.
"She is fucking weird sometimes."
"Yeah." Teddy said, still staring at the door Arizona had just left through. "Don't know how I live with her really."
They made eye contact and simultaneously burst out into peals of hysterical laughter. When they finally regained their composure it was Alex who spoke first.
"Trust Arizona to cheer both of us up by being such a weirdo."
Teddy shook her head in agreement, "god, I love that girl."
"Callie!" Arizona yelled for what felt like the hundredth time. Her knuckles were raw from banging on the older girl's door for the best part of five minutes.
"Callie, I know you're in there I can see your car parked outside. Stop ignoring me."
The door flung open and Arizona was revealed to Callie with a surprised look on her face, hair dishevelled and her fist still clenched, about to knock on a door that was no longer closed.
"Hi." Arizona said, lowering her hand. "Can I come in?"
"I don't think that's a good idea." Callie said with a look of worry on her face, blocking the entrance to her home with her arm.
"Okay," Arizona took a moment to compose herself, "I'll talk here."
"Callie, you didn't sleep with Teddy. April called, she said you guys went straight home to yours from Joe's, had a little chat in your bed, sang songs, danced, you know, girly shit. So you couldn't have slept with Teddy. You're fine, stop worrying."
"Well then why did we wake up naked?!" Callie yelled, her thoughts were reeling, she was almost 100% sure that she had taken Teddy against the wall of that cubicle in Joe's. She could faintly hear Arizona responding to whatever question she had just asked but her thoughts were too loud and there was a ringing in her ears. 'Unless,' she thought, 'unless it wasn't actually Teddy…'
"Shit." Callie said, out loud, interrupting Arizona, as her mind was immediately flooded with a barrage of memories from that fateful night.
"Shit, what?" Arizona asked, looking very confused.
"It wasn't Teddy." Callie said, a look of pure horror on her face. "I was hungover… or still drunk… or, or something but I think the thoughts in my head got muddled up. It wasn't Teddy that I had sex with in the bathroom. It was…"
"Callie! Who's at the door?" A perky voice shouted from somewhere in Callie's apartment. The voice's head came into view a few seconds later.
"April." Callie whispered.
Arizona's jaw almost hit the floor as she looked between the two women standing in front of her at the entrance to Callie's apartment. She tried to ignore the simultaneous little pang in her chest. 'Who am I to get annoyed at who Callie chooses to bed,' she thought. 'At least it wasn't Teddy, right?' she tried to rationalise as she tried to wrap her head around the fact that Callie had fucked sweet, innocent, overly religious April. The same April who was currently in Callie's home.
"April, can you give us a sec?" Callie addressed the redhead who was still peering over her shoulder and closed the door so that she and Arizona were now standing outside the apartment, alone. As soon as the door was closed Callie grasped Arizona's shoulders in pure panic, forgetting, in the moment, that this new information would have hurt Arizona as much as it had shocked Callie.
"Arizona, what do I do? Does she remember? Do you think she knows? Is that why she keeps begging me to be her 'study buddy'? Did I take her virginity? Oh dear god I did, didn't I?" She paused for a second and the panic in her eyes momentarily turned into something that resembled pride, "did I turn her gay?" Callie pondered for a moment and then seemed to suddenly snap out of whatever reverie she was in. She shook her head violently from side to side and squeezed the blonde's shoulders, "Arizona, help!"
Arizona decided to push the pain in her chest down for a minute and give Callie some advice; after all, they were, first and foremost, friends.
"Firstly, ow!" Arizona said, prying Callie's hands from her shoulders. "And secondly, this information is as new to me as it is to you so…" Arizona spun Callie around so that they were both facing the door and placed her chin on the brunette's shoulder so that her mouth was very close to the other girl's ear and softly said, "I suggest you go find out." Arizona gave her a light push towards the door then paused and added, as an afterthought, "then come to mine and tell me everything."
Callie turned her head to face Arizona, and with a smile that could equally have meant 'thank you' or 'sorry,' pushed the door handle down, entered her home and then closed the door behind her.
Arizona turned, rested her back on Callie's door and slowly slid down it to fall in a crumpled heap at the bottom.
"Well, fuck."
A/N Please favourite, follow and review! And sorry again for such a long wait!