Happy birthday, greysxx! Here is a short chapter for your bday! enjoy!
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The following week, Callie wouldn't even look in my direction. She was crabby in class, her face constantly pinched. I would raise my hand to ask a question and she would look in the other direction. She avoided my gaze at all costs, especially when I was actively trying to make eye contact with her. "You must have done something to piss her off" Leah whispered to me numerous times over the next week. Yes, I thought, YOU.
But I kept my mouth shut and nodded, avoiding having to explain anything to Leah. I couldn't even think of a legitimate excuse that I could tell her at this point. One thing I did know, was that this petty avoiding eye contact and ignoring my questions thing, had to end.
Ater lab that week, she exited the room immediately after she had dismissed us. I gathered my things quickly and told Leah that I had an errand to run. Before she could offer to come with me, I had already run out of the classroom in pursuit of Callie. I saw her make a sharp right and enter a stairwell. I picked up my pace, quite literally chasing after her. When I entered the stairwell, she was already approaching the top of twenty or so stairs. Man, she was quick for a pregnant woman.
"You can run away from me as quickly as you want, but I don't have a ten pound baby hanging off my abdomen. You might want to just stop and talk to me" I yelled up at her. She stopped, hesitated briefly, then turned around slowly. Her expression was stern; she did not find this funny at all.
"What is going on?" I asked, completely exasperated of this charade.
"Nothing" She said flatly as she crossed her arms across her chest.
"Nothing? Really? Because you have been avoiding me and honestly, borderline rude since you saw Leah and I together the other day" I said. Her eyes narrowed.
"If you want to sleep around, don't let my judgments get in the way of that" She said.
"Sleep around? Are you kidding me?" I said, utterly furious that she would assume I was 'sleeping around'. She knew I wasn't that kind of person.
"Well first it was me. Then Dr. Karev. Now Leah? Who's next? Teddy? Jackson? Or maybe you will go back to Dr. Karev..." She said curtly. I felt my blood boiling beneath my skin, my heart fluttering with anger.
"You don't get to do that" I said firmly.
"Do what?" She asked.
"You don't get to call me a whore. Not now, not ever"
"I am just calling them as I see them" She said aloofly. I stared at her, trying to break her. But she was stone cold, so angry that she meant what she was saying.
"No. You don't get to judge me and you most definitely do not get to call me a whore. I thought you were the one. Did you know that? I really believed you were the one I was going to spend the rest of my life loving. Despite everything, all the obstacles, your marriage, the age difference, all of it. I felt that strongly about you; I loved you that much. So all of the moving, and restarting and constant uprooting that plagued my whole life was finally over. Because I had found you. You made my world stand still" I stopped, feeling myself being to choke up.
"YOU left me. YOU chose Owen and that bullshit fantasy life you always wanted. I make no apologies how I choose to repair what YOU broke" I yelled at her. I kept my eyes on hers and she dropped her gaze, finally releasing the tension in her jaw.
"This thing between us is finished. Whatever it is or ever was, it's done" She said, turning her back to me.
"Finally" I said breathlessly. And for the first time since I met Callie, I didn't take the time to turn around and watch her walk away from me.
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"Are you sure you want to go, babe? You have been really...edgy all week and seem extra down tonight" Leah said as she wrapped her arms around me, her breath against the back of my neck. I had just grudgingly slipped into a long back dress for the Seattle Grace Annual Staff Celebration that Leah has invited me to earlier this month. After the fight with Callie, I had been exceptionally pissy with anyone and everyone. Every time I saw Callie in class, I felt my chest tighten and my jaw clench. This anger was noticeable to most everyone, particularly Leah, who thought I was just PMSing since we also hadn't had sex since the fight with Callie. Because of this, she was extra nice and extra extra cheery, which only seemed to annoy me more. As much as I wanted to skip this stupid celebration that would inevitably result in me seeing not just Callie, but Callie AND Owen, the better part of me knew I had to suck it up for Leah. She had been too excited about this for too long.
"Yes! I said as enthusiastically as I could, but my exclamation was half hearted and she knew it. Her smile drooped slightly and I kissed her cheek.
"I really do, Leah. I am sorry I have been pissy lately...I just..."
"It's okay! Believe me, I can get PMS too. Let's just have a fun night though, okay?" She said with a hopeful look in her eye. While my dress and make up were adequate, Leah had gone all out. Full hair, makeup and shimmery short dress in tow. And she did look pretty. I knew I should feel lucky and I was tired of disappointing her. But I could not shake this anger...
"Okay" I said with a smile.