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Arizona
"Are you sure your dad won't mind that you have hunter?" Ashley asks Calliope for what feels like the 100th time.
"Nope, he loves kids. Honestly it will be fine."
"Come on, we have stuff to do." Backs pulls on Ash's sleeve.
"Calliope and I have got this you two have fun doing wedding stuff and we will see you tomorrow morning. Everything is under control." I shoo away Ash and Becks towards the front door.
"Fine." Ashley huffs and kisses Hunter one more time. "You be good for your aunts little man and I will see you tomorrow." Hunter barley acknowledges her being to busy trying to grab Calliope hair in his chubby hands.
"Say bye mommy, try not to have to bad of a hangover tomorrow." I say waving his little hands making Callie chuckle.
"Finally!" I say closing the front door and turning to Callie. "I'm going to get changed for dinner, Jeans ok for tonight?"
"Yeah babe, it's just casual tonight so I'm wearing jeans." We head up stairs and Callie lays hunter o the bed while we get ready for dinner.
Tonight I'm meeting Callie's father, on the outside I'm calm and collected but on the inside I'm nervous as hell. I'm relieved we have hunter with us so if it goes badly we can just leave. From what Callie says about her dad, he seems like a hard man, I've always had problems with authority I can't help it I just seem to cry but hopefully it doesn't go that way. I feel Callie slip her arms around me and kiss the back of my neck. "Tonight's going to go fine babe, no need to be so nervous." She says as her fingers slip under my shirt and draw patterns across my stomach, knowing that's the best way to calm me.
"I can't help but be nervous; I really want him to like me." I say leaning back into her for more comfort.
"Well if it makes you feel any better I think he already likes you because you have your own successful business. He already knows about your florist shop and everything."
"How does he know that?" I ask shocked.
"He always knows what's going on in Miami, its amazing the stuff he knows." She chuckles and shakes her head. "Seriously though, you will be fine." With a kiss behind my ear she heads towards the wardrobe to finish getting ready.
Plonking down on the bed making it bounce to get a giggle from hunter I quickly tie my trademark cons up, bright red tonight, and roll onto my stomach and blowing a raspberries on hunters little tummy. "You all ready for tonight little man? I think we better go pack your nappy bag so you don't get hungry while were out." I scoop him up and head down stairs and quickly pack him a bag of supplies. "I never realized the amount of stuff you have to take when going out with babies, it's crazy." I tell Callie as I hear her enter the kitchen.
"I know, did you pack him an extra outfit?" Callie asks and I look up at her quizzically. "Always pack an extra outfit, I remember when I had Sara with me and poo was everywhere. It went everywhere, all up her back and down her legs. Gross as, she ended up spending the day in a singlet in nappy the poor little thing."
"Yikes! Well can you grab a onsie for him just in case please?" callie races upstairs and grabs one and 5 minutes later were all buckled Into the car. "I don't think I've ever been to amigos."
"You'll love his place, best Mexican around. Dad and I use to come here once a week for lunch when he still worked at the firm." Callie pulls into a parking space and I get Hunter out and the nappy bag while she sets the pram up, that ting is a contraption I have no idea how it goes.
"Good evening Miss Torres, your usual table is ready. Your fathers already there." The hostess says to us.
"Thanks sandy." Callie calls pushing the pram through the restaurant towards a table. When I see her stop at one, the man sitting there is not what I expected. I was planning on seeing a old man in a clean cut suit and button down shirt but this guy has I pair of jeans with just a plan blue polo shirt and the slightest of facial hair. He stands up and hugs calliope, giving her a kiss on the check and what catches' my eye is his shoes. The man has superman converse on, I watch him as he bends down and gently squeezes Hunters cheek and tickles him getting a smile from the little guy. "Arizona…" I hear Callie say and shakes my shoulder.
"What? Oh sorry." I say shaking my head as Callie Carlos laugh.
"Not to worry, I'm Carlos Torres and you must be the famous Arizona Robbins I'm always hearing about." Carlos says reaching his hand out for me to shake.
"Nice to finally meet you Mr. Torres." I say shaking his hand back.
"Oh none of that just call me Carlos. This nephew of yours is a handsome little man how old is he?"
"Hunter will be 4 months next week."
"Hunter, I like that, it's a strong name. Kids are great, I would have loved to have more but three girls were quite a handful. Do you want kids of your own?" He asks making me choke on my water.
"Daddy." Callie warns.
"It's just a question Calliope." The man shrugs and smiles at me.
"Umm yeah, one day I would love to have kids of my own." I say and watch as Callie smiles. We haven't had that talk yet but I have a feeling Callie is going to be the woman I start a family with.
"I think family is the best adventure you could have in life, most people think family begins when you have kids but I think it begins when you pledge to spend the rest of your life with someone."
"Couldn't agree more Carlos." I say and tip my corona to him before taking a drag.
Callie clears her throat. "So dad you hear from Caroline?"
"Yes she called this morning, her and Poppy had just got back to school. She seems good, the house is so quiet without her these days." Conversation flows between us all, Carlos asking about my businesses and how they started out. The man I'm talking to tonight is not the man I was expecting at all. Carlos just seems at ease and laid back, the look Callie has on her face at some of the questions he asks tells me she has never seen the man like this. He even fed Hunter his bottle so we could eat. Half way though dinner Callie excuses herself and picks up hunter.
"I'm just going to change him before he falls asleep." She says quickly pecking me on the lips and grabbing the nappy bag.
"You make her extremely happy, I can tell." Carlos says watching his daughter walk towards the change room.
"I try my hardest and she makes me happy as well." I tell him and he smiles warmly at me locking eyes.
"Your intentions with her?"
"I plan on making her happy for the rest of her life if she will have me and I will protect her from anything because I love her with all my heart." I answer honestly never breaking contact.
Carlos' face doesn't change as he continues to stare at me and I won't step down, finally a smile breaks out on his face and he winks at me. "Good answer kid, when you want to ask my daughter to marry you, you have m blessing, I just ask that you come and see me first. I have Calliopes great great grandmothers ring for her." I sit there slack jawed.
"You hardly know me though." I blurt out. "I mean thank you." I half laugh.
"I know you will look after my daughter and protect her I can see it in the way you interact and I trust my gut." He chuckles.
"I have to say you are not what I was expecting at all." I laugh shaking my head
"I have that effect on my, I was a hard-ass when I was young, and I'm ashamed of how I treated calliope when she came out but I'm thankful she gave me a second chance. I hated being an uptight man but I've learned to relax and enjoy life. Don't get me wrong I love business, always have always will but it's not everything."
"I couldn't agree with you more. And I love your shoes by the way, I have a whole collection of chucks at home." That makes him laugh.
"You're changing him next time that was rank as." Callie says to me coming back to the table and Carlos eagerly takes Hunter in his arms. "What did I miss?"
"Arizona was just telling me about her converse collection. I bought these ones the other day, they are rather comfy." Carlos laughs as hunter grabs his thumb and starts to munch on it as he dribbles everywhere. "But on a serious note, I wanted to talk to you about something before I talked to Caroline." Callie stops mid laugh and looks at her dad.
"What about Caroline?" She asks her voice rather higher than usual.
"Is she dating this Poppy girl?" He asks and Callie sits up straight and stares at her father. "I just want to know, I understand if she is why she wouldn't tell me or more specifically your mother. She's never had a boyfriend and she spends a lot of time with her I'm just curious. All I've ever wanted is for my girls to be happy." I feel Callie's hand slip into my lap and squeeze my thigh and I can tell she doesn't know what to say so I clear my throat.
"She seems happy to me, but I think you it would mean a lot to Caroline if she got to tell you herself." I say as the man nods.
"You could go and visit her, it would be easier for not to be around mom at all." Callie says while wiping the drool off Hunters chin.
"Alright then, I just want her to be happy that's all that matters to me anymore." Carlos says honestly and I can see the tears well up in Callie's eyes at the sincerity in his voice. I slip my arm over the back of Callie's chair and kiss her cheek.
"She is happy, all your girls are happy dad." Callie whispers as she wipes a tear away before it falls. The intensity at the table is broken as a tiny snore is heard and all eyes turn to Hunter who has nestled his way into carols' chest fast asleep.
"You best get this little man home to bed ay." We gather our things and head to the register. "Miss Robbins I highly recommend you put that wallet away before everything I thought of you goes out the window."
I withdraw my hand from my wallet and look up to see a smirk on his face as he hands over his credit card. "Thanks for dinner." I smile making sure to pop my dimples for him.
Callie takes hunter and heads to the car to buckle him in ahead of us. "As far as I'm concerned my dear, you wont have to ever pay for anything again if you keep my girl that happy." He says to me pointing to calliope. In the car park calliope stand with Hunter wrapped in her arms, she has the most magical smile on her face that it makes her more breathtaking than she normally is.
"Challenge accepted." I say making him laugh as he guides me across the car park.
"Alright girls I will be seeing more of you I hope, I had a wonderful evening." Carlos smiles and pulls us both into a bear hug before kissing Hunter on the head and walking to his Limo.
"Your dad is awesome!" I exclaim as we pull out of the car park. "He wasn't what I expected at all."
"Yeah I know, it was like he was a completely new person. He has never taken to anyone I've ever dated." Callie says in disbelief.
"Well I'm glad he liked me." I still can't believe after not even knowing me a whole day he gave me his blessing to marry the woman next to me. I can't help but reach out and grab her hand lying in her lap as she drives us home.
After talking down a very tipsy Ashley, telling her hunter is more than ok I hang up and walk into a dark bedroom and slip under the covers. "Ash okay?" Callie whispers while pulling me into her.
"Yeah she's just tipsy and needed a bit of reassuring." I whisper back and kiss the tip of her nose. Hunter lets out a tiny snore making us both giggle.
"He's so adorable." Callie gushes and lays a strong kiss on my lips. "I love you."
"I love you too. Good night calliope.
"Night." She breathes out and she's out cold.
Calliope
"So everything is set and ready to go, I've given all tour instructions to the staff so we don't have any miss haps. I don't think there's anything else so have a pleasant evening miss Torres."
"Thanks Betty for everything the place looks great." I tell my usual party planner. Two days ago Arizona got a frantic phone call from Becks saying that storm had completely trashed the little beach her and Alex were getting married at so we had to find a new place. Becks just chose my estate saying it was easier if it's just at the same place as the reception so we picked out a perfect spot and Betty got that all sorted for them.
My house and pool house are full of people, as I head back towards the house passing the pool house I hear music and laughter coming from the open French doors. Sticking my head in I find Alex, Daniel and my girlfriend clutching the sides in laughter while trying to play poker. "Hey Callie." Alex calls and Arizona whips her head around with a big dimpled smile.
"Calliope." She says happily, oh yeah she's tipsy.
"How's everything going in here?" I ask walking over to their poker table.
"Well I'm learning my daughter sucks at poker for starters." Daniel laughs as Arizona huffs.
"You two keep forcing me to have shots and I can't handle it." She tries to defend herself and all I can do is laugh.
"Well I was just checking in but I'm going to head in for the night and see what the girls are up to." I tell them chucking my thumb over my shoulder as I watch Arizona and Alex chuck a shot back but Arizona some how misses her mouth completely.
"Take this on with you, she might not make it passed the pool at this stage." Daniel jokes, so I grab Arizona under the arms and lift her to her feet.
"Come on missy, much more and you will be sorry tomorrow. Gentlemen I will see you both tomorrow at the end of the aisle." They salute me as the hold up shots and shoot the back and I make my way out of the pool house with Arizona hanging on me.
"Why won't you show me what your wearing tomorrow?" Arizona whines.
"Because it's a surprise for you and trust me you will love it babe."
"Fine." She huffs out. "I can wait." we stumble into the theatre room where everyone is watching Whip It. "ohhh I love this movie." Arizona says pulling me down onto the couch next to momma and Ashley. Becks is spread eagle on the floor on top of all the bean bags and teddy and Addie are snuggled up in the love seat. I feel Arizona lift my arm and wrap it around her snuggling into my side as we all get sucked back into the movie.
I wake up to the incessant sound of my alarm blaring, I stretch over and turn it off and notice Arizona isn't in bed with me. As I roll over to her side my head comes into contact with paper, pulling back I can see its Arizona's hand writing.
Morning my love,
Gone for a surf with dad and Alex should be back by 8.
Love you xxx Arizona
Lifting my head to check the time, I decide to get out of bed and see if Jet wants any help this morning with cooking. Trudging my way down to the kitchen the rich aromas of coffee making it to my nose and syrup mixed and there. I find Jet and Kate moving around the kitchen with ease and funnily enough momma right in the middle frying away some bacon.
"I didn't know I had three cooks working this morning." I smile as all three smile and say 'morning' in unison and walk to the coffee pot. "Kate long time no see, how are things?"
"Excellent! I thought id help out jet today." She says.
"You just wanted a good breakfast and tagged along." Jet says laughing as he jumps back from Kate's hand flying his way.
"They were just telling my about college. Impressive that they both want to be doctors." Momma says dropping more bacon in the pan. "Where's Arizona?"
"Out surfing with Daniel and Alex, they should be back in an hour. Or maybe there back now." I say as I hear a car pull into the back but see that it's a massive black dodge ram. "Or maybe not." I head out to the car and see Caroline jump out of the front seat as Poppy rounds the back.
"Hola sis." Caroline says running up to hug me.
"Hola, what are you two doing here?" I ask. "And what's with the massive truck?"
"I prefer big instead of little trucks and my dad bought me this for my eighteenth birthday." Poppy tells me after giving me a hug.
"Well its huge, that's for sure." I laugh and then turn to Caroline. "Are you two alright?" I ask wondering what the surprise visit is about.
"Yeah chill big sis, I got a visit from dad last weekend." She says looking at me funny so I motion for them to come inside. "He seems different."
"Yeah I noticed that, Arizona and I had dinner with him 2 weeks ago." I introduce momma to Caroline and poppy, jet and Kate already knowing Caroline so they catch up as I quickly grab plates and cutlery for everyone.
"Did you tell dad I was dating Poppy?" Caroline asks making me jump.
"I didn't confirm or deny when he asked me, I just told him to go and see you."
"Well he showed up out of the blue, weirdest thing ever. He even had jeans and a polo shirt on and get this bright red converse shoes." She says making me burst out laughing.
"Yeah he and Arizona went shopping one afternoon, I got completely weirded out by it." That was one of the weirdest conversations I've ever had when Arizona came home telling me she met my dad at the surf shop so they could get new converse and have coffee.
"Yeah well he freaked me out further by saying he only wants me to be happy in life and that he doesn't care if I date women or men and now were down for the weekend to have lunch with him today. What is going on by the way? What's with the big white tent outside?"
"Alex and Becks are getting married today. House full of people. So I'm presuming you two want to stay here for the weekend?" I smile and Caroline looks at me sheepishly. "The room you had last time is free.
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." She kisses me on the cheek and runs back to the kitchen. As I head into the kitchen I see Alex running in the back doors with Arizona attached to his back laughing her arse off.
"Aro, Pop's come to crash the wedding ay?" she exclaims jumping off Alex's backs and hugging the two girls. By now my kitchen and patio are swarming with people as everyone catches up with each other.
"Alright boys, its time for you two to go to the pool house so we girls can all get ready." Momma swats the boys to the pool house as the hair and makeup artists arrive for the woman. "Zona, where did you put your dress?"
"I put in the wardrobe with Ashley's the others day." She says then continues talking to Caroline and poppy.
"Babe they want you to do your hair now." I tell Arizona as I pop the champagne for everyone.
"'Kay."
"We're going to head out Cal, dad wants to meet us in 15." Caroline says grabbing Poppy's hand.
"Ok, well I'll probably see you two later tonight then." I wave to them.
"You two should come for a dance when you get back later." Becks calls, making them agree before they could leave.
"Alright sweetie I'll see you in a little while, I'm going to get ready. Love you." I peck Arizona's lips but she pulls me back in by the shirt for a stronger kiss.
"Love you too." She winks setting the butterflies lose in my stomach like usual. God I love that woman.
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ok some people got pickie that i didn't say vote for Jessica or Sara and that I'm not a calzona fan or what ever. if i could vote for both i would and if u want to vote for Sara go ahead it doesn't bother me! But I am a fan of calzona because i wouldn't put them with any body else and if there was a couple vote width them in it i would vote for them in a heart beat!