Arizona took in a huge breath as she thought for certain that her heart was shattering into tiny pieces and sinking to the bottom of her chest. She slowly let out a shaky, quivering breath.

"Arizona, this is Cameron. Cam, this is Arizona, my new friend and study buddy." Callie smiled as she looked between the two.

"It's very nice to meet you Cameron."

Cameron smiled and extended his hand to the petite blonde.

"It's always nice to meet one of Callie's friends."

He wrapped his free arm around Callie's shoulder and squeezed her into him. Callie leaned up and gave him a small kiss on his cheek. Arizona's faltered smile fell altogether, but forced it back before Callie could see.

"Don't you have class now? It's the first day Cam, you can't start skipping already."

Cameron chuckled lightly and mocked insult.

"No, I am not skipping. My professor cancelled class." He turned to Arizona. "Do you see how she talks to me? Gives me no credit at all." Arizona brought up a small smile and Callie gave him a playful slap on the chest. "I just came to see if my girl wanted to get something to eat with me."

"Oh, I'm sorry baby; I'm going to eat with Arizona."

Arizona could see that Cameron was kind of confused, not understanding why Callie didn't want him to go too. Arizona though relieved, was a little surprised herself.

"I really don't mind if you come. You can come. Not that you need my permission, of course if you want to you can come. You should come."

Cameron's face lit back up as he smiled widely.

"Well thank you Arizona. At least someone wants me around." He was being playful again. Callie didn't even know why she had said that. Something about Arizona left her nervous, she was acting strange.

"Sorry Cam, I didn't mean it like that."

Cameron just chuckled and they started towards the dining hall. Arizona lagged a little behind watching the couple interact. Of course Callie was straight, she just forgot sometimes that not every girl she was interested in wasn't necessarily gay. She could usually tell after talking for even a little bit though. If Cameron hadn't come along she'd still be planning out dates, thinking about kissing her lips. She could understand why Callie was attracted to him. He's tall, at least six feet, with soft light brown hair. He's muscular, he probably plays football. The school is really big on football. Her thoughts stopped when Callie looked back at her with a big smile. She shook out her thoughts and smiled back.

"So, did you guys meet here or did you come together?"

"We've been together since high school." Callie looked over at him as she spoke.

"Together about two and half years."

The couple smiled at each other. Two and a half years. Any hope Arizona had left in her unconscious slipped away as she smiled at the adoring couple. Arizona didn't know anyone at school yet, except for Teddy, and could use another friend. Friends. She could do that. It helped that Cameron was being so nice to her. He even held the door open for her as they entered the building the dining hall is in. And he didn't even check out her ass like so many guys already had that day. She knew she had a great ass, but she didn't want oversexed horny guys lusting after it. They took a table in the middle of the room and Callie and Arizona went to get their food while Cameron got drinks for them.

"I'm sorry Cameron tagged along."

"You don't have to apologize. I invited him, remember?"

"Right."

"I'm sorry if I overstepped, I just figured you wouldn't mind."

"Yeah. No. You didn't, and I don't. It was nice of you." Callie sighed as she looked around.

"What is it?"

"It's just a lot. All of it. The classes, all the choices."

"Change is always hard, classes will always be hard, the balance is hard, but once you know what you want, all you have to do is get it. Making a decision, making the commitment is the hard part. So make sure you try a lot of new and exciting things you wouldn't expect yourself to do. Have fun, forget about things sometimes. Let go once in a while. Freshmen year isn't about having control."

"Wow."

"Sorry. That was too much."

"No, it was perfect. I just didn't expect it. You're very contemplative." Callie was smiling so wide her face was starting to tingle. Arizona had been smiling too, but now wore a playful smirk.

"You thought I was a dumb blonde, huh?"

"No, definitely not. I just didn't realize it ran so deep. You seem so bright and perky."

"I think about a lot of things Calliope. I worry, and I don't always know what I want, or what I'm going to do. I get overwhelmed by possibility, but I accept it and I figure out what to do. Little things make me happy and I appreciate them."

"I appreciate you."

Just then Cameron came up and put his arms around both of their shoulders. Arizona's face flushed and she felt her face go pale. When she looked over to see if Callie's face read guilty like she was certain hers did but was surprised to see that it hadn't changed at all. Arizona was sure they were having a moment. Not a friend moment. Callie just has flirty personality and that was going to make their friendship much harder.

"Did you just call me Calliope?"

Arizona's pale turned to blush. "It's a beautiful name."

Callie just stared at her with a raised eye brow until Cameron spoke.

"Callie doesn't like it." Cameron removied his arms from their shoulders and led them to get in line for food. He leaned as if to whisper in Arizona's ear, but spoke at a normal volume so Callie could hear. "In high school some people-"

"Some people?"

"Okay, I and some people used to give her a hard time about it, but pouty Callie is too cute to resist."

Arizona could see that.

"And how could we not with a middle name like-"

"Cameron! You finish that sentence and I swear!" Callie's voice turned into a growl.

"It couldn't be that bad."

"Oh but it is that bad." Callie could see that Cameron was about to say it. "Cameron you say it and no sex for at least a month."

Cameron instantly shut his mouth and they got their food and went to their table to eat. When they were almost finished eating a tall, lean, blond haired guy came up to their table and started talking to Cameron. Cameron introduced him to Callie and Arizona.

"Casey, this is my girlfriend, Callie, and our new friend, Arizona."

As soon as he looked at Arizona he extended his hand and leaned in toward her.

"It is really nice to meet you Arizona."

Arizona shook his hand as politely as possible and couldn't stop herself from scoffing and rolling her eyes. Instead of backing off he thought she was trying to give him a challenge, like so many guys do.

"Cameron are you going to Ole on Thursday? Most of the team is going." Even as he talked to Cameron he kept his eyes on Arizona.

"Uh, I don't know. Callie do you want to?"

"That sounds like a lot of fun. Arizona what do you think?"

"Yeah Arizona, what do you think?"

She ignored the persistent boy and focused on Callie.

"No I don't think I'll come with you guys, but thanks. I really don't want to get behind in my classes."

"C'mon its syllabus week."

Why was this guy still taking? Arizona shot him a look that asked just that. Callie realized Casey was making Arizona uncomfortable so she leaned across the table and into Arizona's ear whispering. "We won't go with this ass. Just us. And you could invite other people. We'll have a few drinks, go out, dance-"

"Yes."

Callie pulled back to look into Arizona's eyes before sitting back down across from her. Arizona's pulse became rapid. Had Callie said "just us?" Did she mean the three of them or two? Did she stop and look at her lips or was that all in her head?

"I'll just text you Casey, or talk to you at practice."

"Okay. Nice to meet you Callie. Arizona I'll see you soon, I hope."

"Don't hold your breath."

"Feisty! I like it." With that Casey left. After Arizona rolled her eyes they landed on Callie. She was giving Casey a death stare that might've killed him if he saw it. It was protective and full of hate, and Arizona kind of loved it.