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Arizona was surprised to see her mother's name flash up on her cell phone a couple of hours later. Normally they called once a week, always scheduling a time. Worried, Arizona thought there might be something wrong so she left Callie and Rebecca and went to answer her call.
"Mom" Arizona greeted her mother, the tone in her voice quite urgent. "What's wrong? Is it dad?" she asked, referring to her dad's recent heart troubles. Barbara's laugh put Arizona at ease, there didn't seem to be anything wrong at all.
"No honey everything's fine" Barbara ensured her. Arizona nodded, giving such a huge sigh of relief.
"Then why did you call? I thought we call each other on Sunday's" Arizona added, referring to their weekly hour long phone calls, which her dad always complained were costing too much money. In fairness, Arizona had tried to teach her mother how to text the last time she visited, but Barbara obviously still hadn't got the hang of it.
"I just wanted a little catch up" Barbara told her daughter. "Tim tells me you're writing a song with his first celebrity crush" Barbara added. Arizona finally figured out why her mother had called, Tim must have been in contact and blabbed everything. Sometimes she couldn't believe her brother.
"Uh huh" Arizona responded, already drafting the angry text in her mind that she was going to send to Tim once she'd finished talking to her mom.
"So good that you are doing something with that degree of yours. They don't give you degrees so you pick jobs that are the complete opposite honey"
"I told you mom, English didn't really interest me" Arizona lied. She had to lie to her parents. They would be so disappointed if they found out about the Lauren situation. Although the Lauren situation didn't have a major impact on her degree, Arizona found that any time she wrote afterwards made her feel mad. Nowadays it didn't happen so much, but she was happy with what she did for a living.
"For some Jo Wilson?" Barbara completely dismissed Arizona's previous words and carried on. "Is she a big star?" Barbara laughed. "Nowadays I don't know much about all the young people's music" she continued laughing.
"Same here mom" Arizona laughed. "I didn't even know who Callie was to begin with"
"I imagine your brother wasn't too thrilled at that" Barbara laughed.
"Nope, nope he wasn't" Arizona laughed. "He's met her"
"I believe so" Barbara continued. "Was he star struck?"
"He wasn't so bad, I was expecting a lot worse" Arizona smiled.
"And Callie…is she nice?" Barbara asked. Arizona immediately knew that Tim told their mother what she'd told him not long before.
"He told you huh?" she asked Barbara.
"He just wants you to be happy, we all do honey" Barbara told her daughter. "You deserve someone who makes you happy"
"Things could go either way mom" Arizona pointed out. "After these two weeks I might never see her again"
"Or you might have a chance at a life with someone who makes you happy" Barbara told her the other option. "You don't have to be alone forever Arizona"
"I know mom"
"Good honey" Barbara told her. "So how is this song going then?"
"Good, really good actually" Arizona had a little smile on her face thinking of how well the song sounded. "I'm meeting Jo Wilson myself tomorrow"
"That sounds exciting" Barbara told her. "Young Lena is a big fan"
"I have already promised an autograph" Arizona laughed. "Apparently she's made it into a bit of a competition between Callie and one of her old bandmates and Jo Wilson wants to meet tomorrow and see what we've got so far, which isn't much but it's good…I hope" Arizona rambled.
"A little bit of rivalry keeps things interesting"
"I think this is mostly bad blood between the two" Arizona revealed.
"Well I better not hold you back" her mom told her. "I don't want Callie thinking I'm keeping you from writing a number one song!"
Arizona laughed in reply and said her goodbyes, just as Callie came into the hallway. When her phone rang in the first place, Arizona had left Callie and Rebecca watching the latest pixar movie in Callie's living room. Callie smiled sheepishly at Arizona. With Rebecca here, they hadn't had a chance to talk about their heated exchange which led to them admitting that they found the other one attractive, although admittedly while they both had so much on their plate, it was probably a good thing.
"So I'm thinking of just ordering in tonight?" Callie questioned.
"Okay" Arizona nodded. "What time is Mark picking Rebecca up?"
"She'll probably eat here" Callie glanced at her phone for the time. "I just got a text that they're going to grab something while they're out and then come and pick her up"
"Cool" Arizona responded. "I know we've not done that much on the song today, but I really need to sleep after I've eaten" she yawned, feeling the effects of not sleeping last night. Callie laughed.
"I was actually kind of worried you were going to suggest trying to write another verse or something after dinner" she smiled. "I don't know how I'm still awake" she admitted.
"You do seem to be quite the coffee drinker" Arizona pointed out.
"You're one to talk" Callie shot back her response, still smiling. "So, pizza? Chinese?" she questioned.
"Pizza. Definitely" Arizona replied instantly. There was never not a time where she didn't want pizza or felt like she wasn't in the mood for pizza.
Callie laughed a little at how adamant Arizona was about wanting pizza and took her phone out of her pocket again.
"Well you better come here then" she gestured to the spot right beside her.
"What, why?" Arizona questioned, noticing she and Callie had kept quite a distance between themselves throughout their conversation.
"So I can show you the menu?" Callie added, rolling her eyes slightly. Nervously, Arizona shuffled over to Callie's side as she scrolled through the pizza options.
"I'll have the medium pepperoni pizza please" Arizona murmured, suddenly aware of how close she was to Callie, she could smell the sweet scent of Callie's shampoo and also she could almost feel the heat radiating off Callie's skin. Arizona's stomach began to lurch and she stepped away suddenly.
"Rebecca will just have cheese and tomato and I think I'll go with the chicken" Callie continued, oblivious to the way Arizona was acting beside her.
"I'm going to go…sit with her" Arizona referred to Mark and Lexie's daughter, just desperate to leave the situation she was currently in. She wandered back into the room, to see Rebecca engrossed in inside out. "Is it good?" Arizona asked the young girl.
"The best" Rebecca's eyes gleamed as she turned to Arizona. Arizona had coined this the pixar effect. She'd noticed the same gleam in her niece and nephew whenever they watched these sorts of films growing up. Admittedly, they were quite good films and did seem to cater for all ages…otherwise Arizona may not have agreed to the many pixar movie trips she treated Nick and Lena to over the years.
"So Callie is ordering pizza" Arizona filled Rebecca in, who nodded in response.
"Are you having pizza too?" she asked, intrigued by Callie's house guest, mostly because Callie never seemed to have house guests.
"I am" Arizona smiled.
"Are you living here now?" Rebecca asked.
"Not exactly" Arizona smiled. "I am, but only for a little while and then I'll go back to my own place"
"Are you Callie's girlfriend?" Rebecca asked.
"Rebecca, you ask too many questions" Callie butted in as she came back into the room. Arizona sighed with relief.
Rebecca pouted a little bit, but decided to leave Arizona alone. The three of them watched the rest of the movie together in silence. Callie kept glancing over at Arizona when she thought Arizona wasn't realising. Arizona however did notice and was beginning to get more and more uncomfortable the more Callie's eyes fixated on her that as soon as she heard the bell ring out, she jumped up almost instantly.
"Dinner" Arizona almost cheered. "Finally"
Mark and Lexie came almost immediately after they had finished their pizza which both Arizona and Callie were glad about as they were both feeling extremely tired. They said their goodbyes and almost immediately Arizona was eager to get to bed.
"I'm so tired" she yawned for emphasis.
"Same" Callie murmured. "I think I'm going to go to bed"
Those words sounded like music to Arizona's ears. She smiled at Callie.
"I'll walk up with you" she offered. The downstairs had been cleaned by Arizona so it wouldn't be too untidy in the morning. Callie nodded, allowing Arizona to lead the way. The walk up the stairs was done in silence, things had progressed today and neither one of them knew how to feel about it. Tomorrow was a different day and at least they were going to be with Jo Wilson for most of the day so they wouldn't be alone. Callie and Arizona reached the hallway that connected Callie's room with Arizona's. They both stood at their respective doors and smiled at once another.
"Well goodnight then" Callie gave a half yawn and began to turn into her room, not waiting for Arizona's reply. Arizona called out behind her.
"Calliope" she murmured softly. Callie spun around until once again she was face to face with the blonde. Arizona took a deep breath as she began to prepare herself. "When I was in college I had an affair with my professor Lauren Boswell, my married professor Lauren Boswell" she trailed off, taking a deep breath to compose herself. "At the time when her husband found out I wrote a book" she admitted. "Lauren turned around to me that day and told me that I would never be with her and I would never be an author" she admitted.
"That's terrible Arizona" Callie sympathised, knowing how hurt and closed off the blonde had seemed in the short time Callie knew her.
"I graduated but I never wanted to use my degree again" Arizona admitted. "Two years later I noticed Lauren had a book out…"
"No…" Callie replied, wondering if Arizona was going where Callie thought she was going.
"Little things had changed but I still recognised my own book" Arizona sighed.
"Why didn't you sue her?" Callie exclaimed. "It's plagiarism"
"Because I was a graduate and she was a professor. No one else knew about the book. It was my word against hers"
"That's awful" Callie muttered.
"The point is, I'm telling you because I think I trust you Calliope. And I haven't felt like that in a long time. So you must be really something" the blonde muttered. "I really should get to sleep" she turned away.
"Arizona wait" Callie called out, walking over to where the blonde was stood. She delicately pressed her lips against the blonde's lips without any warning. It lasted only seconds before Callie pulled away. "Thank you for telling me" she backed away and into her room, closing the door before things went any further between them.