A/N: This chapter is for them, who have term final exams and who are frustrated due to their snobbish Profs…
"You know, we don't have a birthday cake". Callie says a little frustrated.
"But we have dinner." Arizona points towards the table.
"You got food for me?" Callie jumps out of the bed like kid and runs towards the center table.
Arizona too follows her with the biggest smile ever. She likes the child like nature Callie has- she hasn't realized that such small thing can make Callie so happy.
"You got my favorites…. I truly love you, Arizona…" Saying this she starts bringing out the food, even not realizing what just has she said. But, it is enough to make Arizona to stop her world. Her ears start buzzing and for the first time ever she feels her breathing are at halt. Even now too Arizona knows that Callie didn't mean what she said, but she had felt all those words said to her. Each of them. Still now she can relish those words in her memory. Controlling her running emotions, Arizona takes the next chair to Callie, "you know, you should ask me too?" Arizona teases her.
"Ummm?" Callie's mouth is full of food. "I thought… you had food." Then Callie looks at the food, "Don't tell me that I have to share them with you."
Arizona finds this Callie so adorable. "You are just a kid, you know! I wonder what will happen, when we will have real kids." Arizona smiles while taking a bite from Callie's place.
"Kids? Now you want kids too? I hate them." Callie makes her big eyes bigger dramatically. Arizona immediately realizes what just has come out of her mouth, but she plays along.
"Yes! But I want a few of them." Arizona takes another spoon of food from Callie's plate.
"A few of them?" Callie now shoves the plate away from Arizona, so that she cannot take anymore.
"Yes, maybe 8 of them?" Arizona again pulls the plate towards her and starts eating.
"eiiiiight? No way….who will carry them?"
"Of course you…" Saying this Arizona keeps eating.
"First of all, give my food back". Callie now takes the plate from Arizona and finds that she has eaten half of the food. "And second, I'm not gonna carry any of them… you'll carry."
"See, woman, I can give you discount on my birthday… not 8, I want 4 of them…now be happy that I gave you 50% discount." Arizona makes a super serious face.
"Shut up and let me eat.. you already have eaten half of my food".
For the first time ever, both the women spend a night laughing on silly things, teasing each other, discussing foolish plans and not doing anything else.
"I need to talk to you about the new deal. Can we meet during the lunch?" Arizona asks Carlos at the breakfast table.
"Umm..! sure… Just come to my cabin. I'll order some Chinese food." Carlos gives Arizona a heartfelt smile.
"Order for me too." Finding Callie cutting the conversation in, Arizona looks up at the stairs only to find the biggest surprise of her life. Callie standing on the top of the stair wearing a blue business suit with a matching pair of blue pants. The white shirt underneath the blue jacket just matches her the best. Arizona slowly stands up from the table, not trying to hide her surprise.
"What!" Arizona just breaths out.
Carlos and Lucia also are watching the whole scene sitting on their chairs, but there is a forming smile in some corner of her lips.
"I'll go to office with you... sweetheart." Callie climbs down with the most seductive smile on earth. Arizona notices the top two button are open showing sight of Callie's cleavage. She has never thought that she would find any other woman so hot in business suits. Callie knows that Arizona is watching her out, so she also enjoys Arizona's surprising look. Once she is in front of Arizona, she murmurs, "close your mouth." Arizona quickly closes them embarrassed.
"So, people…" Callie starts dramatically, "this is to officially inform you that Callie Torres is going to work from today." Then she gives a victorious smile to Arizona. By this time, Arizona has got back to her heels, "Okay, Callie Torres, let's go." Saying this, she starts walking towards the main door. Arizona still cannot believe that without even doing anything Callie has agreed to go to office. But, she knows that the biggest challenge is going to start from today, once Callie steps into the office.
Entering the Cabin, Callie does a little whistling, "Good Cabin, Ms. Robbins Torres".
"Thank you." Arizona takes her seat.
"Have you seen, how everyone was greeting me?" Callie is visibly puffed up. "Show me, which one is mine? And please give me a nice one…" Callie starts whistling again while looking around.
Arizona watches her from her seat for a while before calling Adi.
"Hey, Cal, you are here?" Adi gives Callie a warm hug entering the room.
"Yea…yeah… somebody told me to earn to pay the bills…" Callie snorts a little eyeing at Arizona.
"Adi, please show her the work station… she will take over Jane's place." Arizona asks Adi.
"Jane's place?" Adi is little surprised.
"Yes, she would do Jane's work. Since Jane has been shifted to a new department, we need someone to do the reporting."
"Okay… am I going to take over Jane's department? … Good… let's go Adi… tell me where to sign."
Adi looks at Arizona for the last time and turns back, "yes… let's go."
Once both leave, Arizona leans back on her chair a little thinking what would be her next move, as she knows that Callie is going to come back right away. Before she could finish her thoughts, Callie storms back to her room and starts yelling, "Arizona? What the hell is this?"
"Pardon me?" Arizona asks naively.
"You want me to sit in that small cubical, with fifty other people working around me? Where is my cabin?" Callie asks folding her hands on her chest.
Arizona knows that it is not going to go well with Callie, but she has to do that. Secretly, she inhales a long breath in and replies, "yes… if you want to head any department, you have to start right from there… working with fifty other people."
"You are kidding," Callie shakes her head.
"No, I'm not."
"See, I'm the owner of the company, you cannot do this to me…" Callie says adamantly.
"Right now, I'm the only person, who can take any decision." Arizona replies in stone cold voice.
"So, just because of that you want me to do something like that?"
"Do you think that it is so easy? And if you don't like, you may leave." Arizona plays a little hard just to push Callie, "I don't think you can take such challenges." She finishes the sentence with a tone of mockery.
"Arizona…I can do that…. I'll prove you wrong…" Saying this Callie turns on her heels and stops just in front of the door. "I thought something was changed last night…" Callie says in an inaudible tone, but Arizona hears each of the word.
Once Callie leaves the room, Arizona lets a breath to pass, which she has been holding for a while, "yes, Calliope, something is changed since last night… you are right…"
Once lunch break starts, Arizona hears some noise is going on outside of her cabin. After she comes out of the room, with astonishment Arizona finds that the central working place of the office has turned into a party place. There are boxes from five-star hotel and cans of beers are sitting on one of the central meeting table. Before she could go, Adi comes to her.
"Callie is giving treat to the staff."
"But, she cannot order beer inside the office." Arizona strongly nods her head. "This is against the office rules. "Adi, either you ask Callie to stop all these, or I'm going to throw all these out of the office."
"Arizona, you can talk with Callie about this later…but please don't create any office drama right now."
"Adi… this is not an office drama… you too know that we cannot do this…"
"If you do this right now…you'll give everyone an opportunity to talk about you two in the office, specially when Callie is working under you being the actual owner of the company." Adi states plain.
Before Arizona can process anything, Callie comes up with smiling face, "hey…wifey… you see, how I have turned your boring office into a happy one?" She gives Arizona a victorious smile while taking along sip into her beer, making Arizona's blood boil like water in the kettle. Then, she gives a slip to Adi, "hey…. This is the bill…"
"Bill for what?" Adi asks.
"For all these." Callie turns back, but Arizona stops her, "Callie…"
"Yes…"
"The office is not going to pay anything…"
"What?" Callie makes her big eyes even bigger.
"You heard me… YOU. ARE. JUST. AN EMPLOYEE. The office will not pay anything." Arizona starts having a tough time controlling her temper.
"Ari…"
"And second, next time you do such things like bringing alcohol inside the office… I'll not tolerate this."
"This is a $15000 bill…"
"This is your problem… Adi, not a single penny will be paid from the office. And ask all of them to finish this party by lunch time."
Arizona starts walking towards the other end of the building to meet Carlos. She is feeling so lost because of Callie's childish behaviour. She feels like hitting herself with a brick for marrying such a moron. "O God! How am I gonna spend rest of my life with this woman?" And instantly she realizes what she just has thought… Arizona quickly shakes her head in attempt to think clearly. What the hell, why am I thinking like that?
Isn't it strange, how that one person becomes the only person you want to be with… even if you are angry… ?
A/N: So… are you ready for some office drama between CalZona?