Callie Torres sat on her favorite bench in the park where she always went when she wanted to be alone. Today she had a pencil and her diary that she had just bought. She had bought it because she wanted to remember her teenage days when she was older and because she wanted to just write about how she felt sometimes. So now she sat in the park and was ready to write the first page.
February 7th, 1996
Dear Diary.
My name is Calliope Torres and this is the first time I'm writing a diary (No, I'm not counting that time when I was seven.) I turned 16 two weeks ago. And at the moment I live with the Robbins' family here in Angels City. It's a long story so let's start with when I met Arizona six months ago.
It was one of the last days of summer break and I went to the café here in town to take a cocoa and read a book. After a while a beautiful blonde girl entered the café, she was in my ago and I hadn't seen here before so my guess was that she was a summer guest or a passerby. A few minutes after she had entered the café she came to my table and asked me if she could sit with me and of course I said yes. She told me that she had just moved here and that her name was Arizona Robbins and we were going to go in the same class after summer.
After that day I spent the rest of my summer break with Arizona and we spent almost every day together when school started too. She became my best friend, my first best friend. She was the first person I could talk to about my problems at home. When I had known Arizona for about three months I started to get feelings for her. I was really scared because it was the first time I had feelings for someone and Arizona was a girl. But I accepted my feelings after I had talked to my friend Mark. But I didn't tell Arizona so our friendship continued to be the same. It wasn't until one late November night that everything changed.
Arizona and I decided to have a sleepover, so we went to my place to get some clothes and other things I needed. I don't like to talk about this and I will probably always remember what I saw. But that was the night when my mother tried to commit suicide, we found her on the couch and we called an ambulance as soon as we understood what was going on and then we spent the night at the hospital with Elizabeth. After that Elizabeth decided that I should live with them for a week to start with.
A week after that the next big thing in my life happened. Arizona, Mark, April and I went to our first party, okay it wasn't the first time April went to a party but it was our first party together. It was one of our classmates who had a party without parents and he invited almost the entire school. I and Arizona were a little bit nervous at first because everyone was drinking at the party and so did we. We realized after that it was pretty stupid, but done is done right? And when I think back about what happened because that we were drunk I can only say that I am glad that we did it. Because that was the night we had our first and second kiss. When we walked home from the party I told Arizona that she was beautiful and suddenly she just kissed me and told me that I was beautiful too. And our second kiss was me trying to get Arizona to shut up, I told her to stop talking a million times but she continued to ramble and I just… kissed her. I don't know how I dared to do it but I am once again glad that I did it.
The day after the party I finally confessed my feelings to Arizona, I was really scared and I didn't think that I could do it. But I did, and Arizona told me that she liked me back and that was such a relief. But we were both scared, we didn't want to come out as lesbians because we knew that we'd get too much hate. But we decided that we can come out when we are ready, so we're in a relationship but we're the only ones who knows, yes it's really complicated. Later that day something else happened. Elizabeth asked me if I wanted them to adopt me and this is where the difficult stuff begins.
I love my mother, but I was happier with the Robbins family. So I said yes. Elizabeth and Daniel went to talk to my mother a few days after that, and she was drunk like always so she was like ''yeah of course, do whatever you want.'' And that hurt me. That was also when we changed the plan. Actually it was Daniel's idea. When they came home from my mother they told me, Ellen and Arizona about what she had said and Daniel told us that he had another idea. He told us that there was a really good rehabilitation center just an hour away from Angels City and if I wanted we could get my mother in there and I would live the Robbins' until my mother was okay and until I was ready to move back home.
So we changed our plan and Arizona's parents admitted my mother into the rehab and I moved into the Robbins' house for real. My sister Gabriella moved in with her boyfriend and our relationship got a lot better so we meet once a week and talk and sometimes other things. My mother has now been in rehab for almost three months and I am starting to get really happy again. Today is a special day because I am right now waiting for Arizona to come to the park and after that we are going to her house to tell her mother about us. We feel like we are finally ready to take the first step, I mean I am 16 and she's soon 16 too and we are together so we're not afraid about other people's reactions anymore. Or of course we are but we are ready to stand up for what we believe in. Now I can see Arizona coming, until later diary. – Calliope.
So this chapter is written in a different way and we also had a little time jump. Did you like this diary chapter? Because I really enjoyed writing it and I'm thinking about doing it later on in the story, maybe from Arizona's view then? I don't know, what do you think?