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Arizona was a little nervous about meeting all of Callie's friends, even though she'd already met a couple of them already. Cristina couldn't make the dinner after all, Meredith said she was feeling ill and Callie and Arizona couldn't help but smile smugly at one another.
"So Arizona, you're a lyricist?" Meredith asked, as the waiters poured everyone more wine. Arizona took a sip first before she replied.
"Actually I'm a cleaner" she replied. "I just have an English degree"
"Seems like a risky move Callie" Izzie interrupted from further down the table. Callie shot her a glance.
"I'm just glad it paid off" Callie smiled. "I can't believe I'm going to be going on tour again"
"I knew you would get the gig" Mark grinned at Callie. "Although you are going to have to find a temporary manager" he tells her. "No way I can tour with baby Sloan number two on the way" he gives Callie another huge grin as he rubs Lexie's baby bump. Callie turns to Arizona.
"Fancy the gig?" she widened her eyes.
Arizona took a deep breath. She was feeling nervous about what the tour meant for her and Callie anyway so when Callie was offering her a chance to come with her, how could she possibly turn that down.
"You really think I could be your manager?"
"I can give you a little manager crash course" Mark offered. Arizona smiled sweetly at him. She didn't like Mark in the beginning, but he was growing on her now.
"Then, it looks like my answer is…yes" she beamed at Callie who immediately embraced her.
"You're the greatest" Callie squeezed her hands. "I don't know what I would do without you on that tour"
"Luckily you don't have to think about that then" Arizona teased. Things seemed to be moving so quickly between her and Callie that she'd barely had time to process any of it. She wouldn't change anything for the world though, Callie was different to any woman Arizona had ever been with and Arizona could see herself falling harder than she ever had before. Something about Callie made her blush like a schoolgirl and give her butterflies in her tummy. Callie was nothing like Lauren, Lauren hurt her badly and their relationship was nothing more than a bed of lies where Arizona was too naïve to notice that she was being taken for a fool.
Arizona's head immediately snapped up when she heard a familiar laugh from another table. Her heart began to sink. She knew that laugh and the person it belonged to as well.
"Callie" she turned to the brunette. "Please can we leave" she lowered her voice and avoided eye contact.
"What?" Callie smiled. "We're celebrating" she grinned, placing her hand on Arizona's neck. "What's up?" she asked, lowering her voice so that the others wouldn't hear. Luckily they were all wrapped up in their own conversations anyway.
"Lauren" Arizona mouthed.
"What about her?" Callie shrugged, not knowing how Arizona's ex was the reason Arizona wanted to leave their celebratory dinner.
"She's here Callie" Arizona whispers and suddenly Callie can see how affected she is by being in the same place as Lauren. Callie reached for Arizona's hands.
"It's okay" Callie told her.
"I need to at least go to the bathroom for a moment" Arizona whispered. She stood up and excused herself from the table. Callie immediately followed her. She was interrupted by a tap on the shoulder and a squeal coming from behind her.
"I told you it was her" A woman grinned at a man standing beside her. "Miss Torres I'm such a big fan of yours"
Callie blushed slightly at the compliment.
"Thank you" she smiled. "Always nice to meet a fan" she trailed off, knowing she had to get to comfort Arizona at this time. She scanned around the restaurant, wondering what Lauren looked at before she turned around to go into the bathroom. Arizona just emerged, wiping her mouth so Callie presumed she'd thrown up in there. Her pale face went even paler when she came face to face with Callie.
"I was coming but then a fan stopped me" Callie apologised, giving the woman standing behind them a small smile. Arizona stared at the woman for a second, not saying anything to Callie. It took the woman a while to place Arizona, but once she did she was the exact same.
"Oh god" Callie turned to face her fan. "You're Lauren" she stated the obvious. Lauren ignored this comment and focused on Arizona.
"Arizona" she tried to stop staring and make things seem as light as possible.
"Lauren" the blonde replied tight-lipped. Callie reached out and grabbed Arizona's hand to provide some sort of comfort to her, which was something that didn't go unnoticed by Lauren.
"You're a thing? She doesn't seem like your type Arizona" she commented.
"And how would you know what my type was?" Arizona laughed. "You were never going to feel the same way that I felt for you" she spat out the last of her words and made Lauren back away. "You betrayed your husband, you betrayed me" she laughed at the older woman, to try and hide her anger.
Instead of giving Arizona her long waited apology, Lauren just stood there smirking at how obviously angry the blonde was in front of her. Her cheeks had flushed red and her fists were clenched. Callie couldn't help but be proud of Arizona for sticking up for herself instead of running away like she had done at first.
"You were the one stupid enough to sleep with your professor" Lauren smirked.
"I was in love with you" Arizona cried out in exasperation. "You said you were in love with me too, you were my first love and you completely used me" she trailed off. People were beginning to pay attention to the exchange between the two women now. Mark left the table and came to join Callie's side.
"Everything alright?" he whispered as Lauren and Arizona stood a couple of feet apart from one another.
"It's her ex" Callie whispered back. "A lot of betrayal there" she widened her eyes, keeping an eye on Arizona in case she did something she might regret.
"You stole my book" Arizona seethed. "Quite a pretty profit you got for it too"
"You didn't want anything to do with me. I had the book, it seemed a shame for it to go to waste"
"So you just tweaked it and made it your own" Arizona laughed sarcastically. "You know, it took me a while to get over just how much you betrayed me, I closed myself off from every woman out there except the one standing right beside me now. And I'm glad I did, she is a million times better than what you will ever be" she barged past Lauren, knocking her shoulder as she did so. "Loved the chat, but we've actually got a tour with Jo Wilson to prepare for" she smirked, noticing Lauren's face fall as Arizona revealed her profession now. Feeling very accomplished Arizona held her head high and grasped Callie's hand, pulling her away from Lauren.
"That was incredible" Callie exhaled. "I honestly just thought you were going to bolt, I'm so proud of you"
"I feel so amazing finally telling her what I've felt for all these years" Arizona grinned. "But no offence, I know we're celebrating but I'd much rather order a pizza and celebrate in a different way entirely" she raised her eyebrows seductively and Callie quickly got the hint. She smirked at Arizona.
"I do feel a tummy ache coming on" she nodded, clutching at her stomach because she was trying to figure out an excuse to get out of the dinner.
"Poor baby" Arizona cocked her head to the side and felt Callie's face. "You do feel a little warm"
"Hot and bothered" Callie interrupted.
"We better get you to bed straight away because we don't want you to be ill for the first night of the tour" Arizona widened her eyes.
"I think you have all the right ideas" Callie grinned, dragging Arizona over to the table so they could make their excuses and leave.
A few days had passed in a blur. They'd been over at Jo's house so much that they actually ended up sleeping over one night when they'd had a bit too much to drink. The album version of the song was completed and would be released as a single on the day of their tour. Callie and Jo were both very excited discussing the tour together. Jo even gave Callie a couple of spots to sing some of her old stuff that she did with her old band.
Callie couldn't have been happier with the way things had turned out. If someone had told her even three months ago that she'd have wrote a hit song and would be going on a tour and have found someone amazing to share her life with, she would have laughed forever. Now she felt as though she was the luckiest girl in the world. She and Jo were really clicking and maybe once the tour was over more doors would open for them. She'd discussed trying her hand at another album with Arizona's help as Arizona definitely didn't want to clean anymore. Callie was thrilled because she knew that with Arizona's help, she really had a shot at getting her name out there in the music business.
And things with Arizona were going great. It was still the very early days but Callie felt as though she really loved Arizona. She was far too scared to tell her yet though, in case she scared her off. They went for dinner at her brother's house the day after the dinner party to celebrate, Tim insisted. Callie already felt as though she was part of their small family unit. She adored Nick and Lena and the way they looked up to their aunt. She was so so good to them and Callie couldn't wait to see how she would be if they ever had kids in the future.
Finally, the day of the tour came and the first venue they were playing was in their hometown. All of their friends and family were coming because Jo had set aside some front row seats for the person who wrote the greatest song. Arizona would be sitting in the front row too with her brother, Beth, Nick and Lena but only for the first night as it would be their last night together for a while. They were currently waiting backstage, listening to Jo rehearse a couple of songs from her dressing room. The seats were beginning to fill up quickly and Callie was getting nervous.
"I feel excited but so scared at the same time" she smiled, proving to Arizona how much she was shaking.
"We wrote a great song and now you are going to give it a great performance" Arizona smiled, kissing her girlfriend lightly on the lips. "Just focus on me, if you're nervous" she added.
Callie wrapped her arms around her girlfriend's waist, pulling her in closer towards her. Her hands wandered down her back and towards her jeans.
"Calliope" Arizona scolded her as though she was five. "I'm your manager now" she pretended to have a stern look on her face but could only last ten seconds before grinning again. "Break a leg" she told Callie as it was time to go. "I love you" she blurted out, not fully realising what she was saying.
"What?" Callie asked, pulling her back by her arm. "What was that?" she asked, a small smile forming on her lips.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Arizona lied.
"Really?" Callie widened her eyes. "Because I think you said that you loved me" she mused, pursing her lips.
Arizona went bright red before she could lie again.
"I love you too" Callie grinned. "I just didn't want to say it…"
"In case you got scared and ran" Arizona finished off her sentence for her. "I felt the same way" she grinned, embracing her girlfriend. "But you really have to go and I don't want to miss the concert" she smiled, prising Callie's arms away from her waist. "I love you" she told Callie again.
Callie smirked watching her go. She definitely couldn't believe just how lucky she'd been in the past few months. She grabbed her microphone and headed out to the stage, the next chapter of her life was beginning.
2 years later.
"Well I never thought I'd see my little sister becoming a mom" Tim grinned down at the bundle of pink in his arms. "She is a beauty" he cooed down. Callie lay exhausted from labour on the bed.
"I don't know how you managed twins" she joked with Beth. Pushing one baby out was hard enough.
"I'm so in love with her" Arizona smiled taking the bundle from Tim's arms. "And you Calliope, of course" she winked before peeking back down at her daughter.
"You are definitely carrying the next one" Callie grumbled, but couldn't help smiling at the sight before her eyes. Her beautiful girlfriend, holding their beautiful daughter. Their relationship strengthened as the tour continued and Callie was thrilled when they were both on the same page about having children. They both wanted to be involved in the process as soon as possible and it was surprisingly quick when Callie got pregnant once they'd chosen their donor. Nine months later, the baby was finally here. Callie and Arizona were still working on writing some new songs for the album, but were taking a good couple of months off while they both came to terms with motherhood. Mark came through the door, with his two children.
"Another little girl" he grinned. "Awesome" he told his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Poppy who he was holding in his arms. "You're going to have the best play dates, Pops" He told the youngster. "So proud of you" he told his best friend, taking Poppy over to peer into the bundle.
"So do you have a name?" Lena asked, eager to find out what her niece was going to be called.
"We do" Callie smiled. "After many disagreements"
"Many, many disagreements" Arizona rolled her eyes, teasing Callie.
"We decided on Sofia Robbins Torres" Callie revealed, resulting in a lot of gasps and ahh's from around the room.
"Beautiful" Beth commented and everyone else agreed with her. Arizona handed Sofia over to Callie and climbed onto the bed beside her.
"You are amazing Calliope" Arizona whispered to her girlfriend. "And I can't wait a second longer"
Tim and his wife exchanged knowing glances with one another, whereas Mark was completely in the dark. Arizona pulled out a little black box and opened it to reveal a sparkling engagement ring.
"Calliope Iphigenia Torres, will you be my wife?" Arizona asked, tears forming in her eyes as she waited for an answer.
"Of course I will" Callie grinned. She leaned over and embraced her fiancé. "I love you" she murmured.
"I love you too" Arizona smiled, already excited for them to begin the latest chapter of their lives, not just as a couple, but now as a family.