The girls had been enjoying their day of doing nothing. It was now late in the evening but neither had said anything about cooking dinner as both were enjoying doing absolutely nothing. They were content, not starving after having snacked all afternoon and not overly tired since they both snoozed throughout the afternoon as well.
"Oh, how about we order pizza for dinner?" Callie said excitedly from her place on the couch all spread out.
"Sounds fine to me." Arizona said from across the room on the loveseat.
"What would you like on our pizza? I can order it right on my phone" Callie said lifting her phone above her head and looking at the screen.
"Um… Pepperoni okay with you? We should puts some veggies on too that way it is somewhat healthy for the baby." Arizona replied looking over at Callie as she rolled onto her side.
"Alright… Veggie pizza with some pepperonis." Callie said entering the order into her phone. "Alright it's all ordered. What do you say we get a new movie started while we wait?"
"Sounds fine. What do you want to watch? I grabbed the remote from you earlier when you were sleeping." Arizona said lifting the remote from behind her head where she had laid it on the table at the edge of the loveseat.
"Um… Something sappy and cute… But not too corny. I want something with a happy ending though." Callie said smiling.
"Well that's going to be hard to do something sappy and not corny… Let me see what is on I guess" Arizona said reluctantly.
Arizona was still flipping through the channels while Callie ran off to the bathroom to relieve her bladder. She was not enjoying her need to use the bathroom every hour and a half especially at night when she was trying and usually failing to sleep. It seemed every time Callie would finally drift off to sleep she would have to get up not ten minutes later to pee.
Callie had just came back into the living room when the doorbell rang. Callie made her way to the door and received the pizza. Returning to the living room she sat the box on the coffee table in front of the couch and patted the seat next to her indicating to Arizona to come sit with her.
"I'm not in the mood for doing more dishes either. What do you say to eating straight from the box?" Callie said.
"Sounds fine to me. Reminds me of all the late nights in med school. I hate to admit it but I couldn't cook yet and ordering out was my main form of nutrition. I became a pro at eating pizza out of the box and chinese using actual chopsticks. I despised dishes then and I still am not a fan of them now." Arizona said with a slight smile as she remembered being in med school.
"I remember eating pizza from the box in law school too." Callie said eyes glazed over as she remembered back to law school five years ago.
The girls ate in silence through their first piece thinking back to the time they each spent in college.
"College feels like forever ago" Callie finally said. "So much has happened since then. I used to be so reckless. I didn't give a care in the world. I used to go out every night and gosh could I drink."
"It was forever ago Cal" Arizona laughed. "I remember being fairly wild myself. I was a serial dater. I slept with anything that had a vagina. It was so bad that it kinda became a game. I used to see how many girls I could get in a month and then I went for a week and then a day. Once I slept with three different chicks on the same day. I'm not even sure that one of them was gay."
"Wow Zona… I figured you would be a player in college but I never expected serial dating. Making a game out of it… doesn't sound like the person that I remember from high school." Callie laughed back slightly thrown off by the person Arizona just described.
"Well when I first got to college that is not at all what I was like. I looked for long term relationships and searched for a women that would make my heart whole but everyone I dated just wasn't right. I even dated this woman named JoAnne for a little over two years sophomore and junior year only to find out at the end of junior year that she had been cheating on me with one of my close friends Samantha. After that I started the serial dating… It started as serial dating anyway… I would date until they would want me to commit and then I would move on to someone new. Eventually I just started seeing how many women I could sleep with without taking them on actual dates. I was so emotionally detached it was pathetic. That all changed though after… well after the accident." Arizona said suddenly turning sad and looking down at her hands that were playing in her lap.
Arizona wasn't keen on sharing this part of her life. She hadn't willingly told anyone about the crash, just the doctor her old job in Boston forced her to see after breaking into tears and running away when faced with fixing a young boy whose parents had already died in the car crash that landed him on her table.
"What accident?" Callie asked quietly not sure that she was ready to hear what Arizona was about to say.
"The one that killed my parent's" Arizona said with melancholy keeping her eyes downcast on her hands so that she was not looking into Callie's eyes.
Callie reacted on instinct. She clutched Arizona's hands and squeezed. "Oh my gosh! Arizona what happened?"
"They were hit by a drunk driver on their way out to dinner to celebrate their anniversary. They had been married for 35 years. My dad was so excited to take my mom to dinner. He had called me earlier to get my opinion about what he should do for my mom. He wanted to make it so special… but… but" Arizona was breaking down quickly. "but they didn't… they didn't even make it to the dinner reservations that he had made before..." Arizona broke down completely. she cupped her hands to her face and sobbed uncontrollably.
Callie pulled Arizona into her body and held on to her, arms wrapped around her as though trying to keep her grounded to the earth. Arizona cried and cried and cried. She hadn't cried about the accident in nearly two months, she tried to steel herself to what had happened but being with Callie had brought all of the feelings she was having back.
"I've got you Arizona" Callie said rubbing up and down her back. "I've got you."
Trust was a scary thing and Arizona trusted Callie with what had happened that night. It was a huge step for her. Arizona didn't trust easily and Arizona didn't tell the story of what happened to her parents ever before that very night. As Arizona calmed she began to take deep breaths and closed her eyes willing herself to relax into the embrace that Callie was currently providing her. Arizona felt the safest and most love she had felt since the crash right their in Callie's arms and she hoped that the feeling would never end.
Callie continued holding Arizona until her body became limp and her breathing evened out. Looking down at Arizona who had cried herself to sleep leaning against her Callie moved to put Arizona on the couch in front of her, holding her body in a hug of sorts with her front against Arizona's back. She reached onto the floor in front of them and grabbed a blanket spreading it over their bodies as they lay together.
It was early for sleep but Callie was content lying with Arizona. In Arizona's arms she felt safe and loved. Callie just hoped that she made Arizona feel as safe in return.
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