Here's a new one for you in honor of my birthday!
This chapter I am dedicating to Lee Thompson Young from Rizzoli & Isles.
The next morning, Momma dropped me off and I unpack some more in the apartment. I grabbed my phone and texted Alex, Derek, Meredith, Owen, and Cristina and told them to meet me here. They showed up around 12.
"Okay, there is a reason I brought you all here." I said while looking at them.
"And that would be?" Meredith asked.
"I talked to Mom last night and she comes in tomorrow."
"Okay. What do you want us to do?" Derek asked.
"April is picking Mom up at the airport and I am gonna be here with Momma. Just…when she's at the hospital, try and talk to them about each other, but don't be too - what's the word I'm looking for - conspicuous. I'll handle everything else here." They all nod their heads.
"So, 'operation Calzona' is a go?" I asked them.
"Yes." They all said. The next day, I sit in the apartment with Momma and April texts me that she is on her way with Mom. The door opens ten minutes later and Mom comes in with her suitcase.
"Hi Mom." I walk over and hug her. I hiss in pain when she hits my shoulder.
"Sorry. Let me see it." She takes a look at my shoulder.
"Well it's just bruised." Mom turns and sees Momma standing there.
"Hello Arizona."
"Hello Callie." I look at my watch and do the fake yawn.
"Well look at the time. I'm tired. I'm gonna go to bed. Good-night my parents." I walk to my bedroom and close my door, but not all the way and I spy on them.
"She did a great job unpacking the place." Mom said.
"Well, she did have help from everyone at the hospital." Momma said. Mom walks into the kitchen.
"Are you hungry? I can make pasta."
"Great. I mean, that sounds great." While Mom is making pasta, Momma sits at the island.
"So, are you ready to work at Grey Sloan Memorial again?"
"Yeah. I am." Mom said.
"It'll be great having you at the hospital again. Everyone misses you over there." Mom just smiles.
"Callie, I uh, want to apologize."
"For?" Mom looks at Momma.
"For what happened to Sofia and Lauren. I didn't know that Lauren was jealous of mine and Sofia's relationship."
"Arizona, I get it. Even when Sofia was a baby, I was kinda jealous of your relationship with her."
"But still-"
"Ari." Momma stops her movements. I guess that was her nickname when they were together.
"I accept your apology." Momma smiled. I walk back out to the kitchen and sit next to Momma and she rubs my back.
"Hey you. I thought you were going to bed?" Mom asked when she saw me.
"Well, I smelled the pasta and got hungry." I said.
"You missed it yesterday, Callie." Momma said and I start to blush from embarrassment and Momma smiles at me.
"What did I miss?" Mom asked.
"Our daughter gave Dr. Boswell her own good man in a storm speech. Oh, here." Momma hands Mom her phone.
"You got it on tape?" I whispered to Momma.
"I didn't, but Uncle Alex did and he sent it to me." I look up and I see tears in Mom's eyes. She hands the phone back to Momma and walks over to me and hugs me. I sat down across from Momma at the table and we ate together as a family again. While we were eating dinner, my parents kept stealing glances at each other. I stand up and placed my plate in the sink and head for my room. I get ready for bed when Momma and Mom walk in.
"We came to say good-night honey." Mom kisses my forehead and Momma does too.
"Night baby." Momma said.
"Night." I said and my parents walk out of the room.
"I have to head home. I have to work in the morning." Momma said.
"Let me walk you to your car." They leave and I walk to the living room and look out the window and I spot them walking side by side. They talk for a few minutes then Momma gets in her car and Mom watches the car drive away and her shoulders slump. I walk back to my bedroom and turn away from the door and let the tears flow.
The next day, I walk over to the hospital and head for Momma's office with her favorite coffee while wearing sunglasses. My eyes are slightly bloodshot from crying all night. I walk in and she's looking at some charts and looks up and smiles.
"Hey you. What are you doing here?" I hand her the coffee.
"Well, I thought you could use a pick-me-up." I said.
"Thank you." She takes a sip and looks back at the chart. I take off the sunglasses and place them on top of my head.
"I told Zola that I would meet her in the café. I'll see you later." I said and I walk out of her office and head for the cafeteria. I grab breakfast and sit down with Zola.
"Hey, I'm glad your back." She said.
"Me too." I said and played with my food.
"You're upset." She stated.
"Yeah. I wish my parents are together like yours are." I said.
"I know. Mom and Dad said that their doing everything they can to help." I sigh and I feel a presence behind me.
"Zola, who's behind me?" She looks up and smiles.
"Hi Dad." I sigh with relief.
"How's everything going?" He asked.
"It's going okay, Uncle Derek." I said. I eat my breakfast then I see Momma. She sits down and take my fork and has a bite of my eggs and hands me the fork back. I look down and she ate off my eggs.
"I take it you are hungry?" I asked and she looks at me.
"No. Why?"
"Because you ate all of my eggs." She looks down and gives her sympathetic smile.
"Oops. Anyway, I was wondering if you would like to go out to lunch?" Momma asked.
"Sure. Anywhere in particular?"
"No."
"Okay. Mom has a meeting with Uncle Owen around lunch time." I said while cutting up my pancake and handing half of it to Momma, who smiles.
"Your mom's here?" Zola asked.
"Yeah. Mom and I have officially moved back." I said with a smile. Zola hugs me.
"That means we can go to high school together." Zola is a year older than me.
"Great. Excuse me. I have to go and do…something." I said and I walk out of the cafeteria while Momma looks on. I walk around the hospital then I make it to the landing and lean up against the rail and look outside. I am standing there for about 5 minutes when somebody stands next to me. I look over and it's Aunt Bailey and I look back outside again.
"So, how does it feel to be back in Seattle?"
"It feels good. It's better than being in Miami. Anywhere is better than Miami." I said. She looks at me.
"You know, I have this special gift that I can sense something wrong with someone." I look at her then look back outside.
"I just wish my parents were back together, Aunt Miranda." I said.
"I know you do. Even I do too, but it's up to them. We can steer them in the direction that we want them to go, but they're the ones who decide whether or not to be together." I nod my head in agreement.
"How's Uncle Ben?"
"He's good. He actually works here as a General Surgeon."
"Wow. And Tuck?"
"He's off to Wisconsin doing God knows what with his current girlfriend." I smile.
"Anyway, what are you doing here?" She asked.
"Mom has a meeting with Uncle Owen around lunch time and I thought I would come visit with Momma." I said.
"And why aren't you with her?" She asked.
"I thought I would just walk around. She's doing some research on a surgery and I thought I would not bug her." I said. I look to my left then jerk my head forward again.
"What is she doing here?" I asked under my breath. Aunt Bailey looks and it's Lauren.
"To be honest, I don't know." I look at her.
"You're suppose to know everything!" I said. I feel a hand on my bruised shoulder and someone dragging me away.
"Will you let go of me?!" I yelled because I knew that it was Lauren.
"Dr. Boswell! Let go of her!" I hear from Aunt Miranda. She drags me but stops and pushes me onto the floor. I scramble up and I see Momma, Mom, Uncle Owen, Uncle Derek, Aunt Meredith, Aunt Cristina and Uncle Jackson standing there with their arms crossed over their chests. I carefully touch my shoulder and I feel a dislocation. Aunt Bailey walks over and checks it out while the other 7 deal with Lauren.
"You never ever touch our daughter again." Mom said.
"Actually Callie, I have an idea." Jackson said. I hold up my good arm to stop him.
"Wait, Uncle Jackson, I know what you are gonna say. Before you say it, let me say one more thing to her." He nods his head and I look over at her.
"You can dislocate my shoulder, you can pay an ungodly amount of money for me to leave Momma and Seattle forever, and you can try to tear me down, but you…you're a coward." I said.
"And there are divorce papers on your desk. Sign them and get the hell out of Seattle and stay away from my family." Momma said.
"Dr. Lauren Boswell…you're fired. Effective immediately. Security, please remove this woman off hospital property." She walks away and Mom and Momma walk over to me.
"Are you okay?" Mom asked.
"She dislocated my shoulder." Mom checks out the shoulder and motions for the Momma to hold me down.
"Okay, on three. One…Three!" She pops my shoulder back in.
"OW! What happened to 2?!" Mom checks it again.
"It looks okay now." She said.
"Momma, can we have lunch here today?" I asked her.
"Of course, baby. Come on. You can lay down in my office." Momma wraps her arm in mine and we head to her office while Mom looks on.
NO ONE'S POV
They all look at Callie and see a small smile on her face. Owen stands next to her.
"You miss her?" Owen asked.
"Of course I do, but she cheated on me. I don't want to get hurt again if she and I get back together." Callie said.
"The day that she told us that you guys were coming back to Seattle, she was more perkier than ever." Jackson said. Callie turns around and looks at them with curiosity.
"What are you all up to?" They make up excuses and walk away in different directions.
"Somebody better tell me soon!" Callie called out.