Hanging By A Moment
Hanging By A Moment
Paring: Callie/Arizona
Rating: M
A/N: Once again I'm really grateful for all of your support. I know this story is a bit slower than the original but just you wait. Things will get interesting very soon. I promise.
The next day at school when Arizona and Teddy got a moment alone without Aria, she told her everything about her night with Callie. She had to stop herself from gushing. She spent the whole night reliving her moments with Callie, making up scenarios for their first kiss. She wondered if it would ever happen, when and where, she wondered about how Callie's lips would feel against her own.
"She totally likes you. You need to make a move." Teddy said.
"How?" Arizona asked.
"Text her, invite her to your party tonight." Teddy said. "If I know one thing about Callie is that she never says no to a party. You'll be there; she'll be there. I'll distract Aria while you two get your smooch on."
"Okay, I'm texting her right now." Arizona said taking her phone out of her book bag. "What should I say?"
"Give me that." Teddy said taking the phone from Arizona's hand. "Hey, Cal. What are you up to tonight?" She said as she typed in the words. "There. Now we wait."
A few seconds passed before they got a reply.
"I don't know, waiting to see what pops up. Why? Do you have plans for me?" Callie texted.
"Maybe." Teddy said adding a wink emoticon for good measure.
"Elaborate…" Callie texted back a second later.
"Tonight, Mark's bar. I want you to be there." Teddy typed; Arizona gave a nod of approval before she pressed send.
"What time?" Callie asked.
"What time?" Teddy asked Arizona.
"Around twelve? My dad gave me until two to be out." Arizona said. "It has to be late enough for Aria to be drunk and distracted and early enough so Callie and I can spend some time together."
"Twelve it is." Teddy said before she sent the text out.
"Perfect. I'll text you when I get there." Callie said.
"Great. Looking forward to it." Teddy typed adding another wink.
"Me too." Callie responded.
"See, she so wants you too." Teddy said as she handed Arizona her phone. "Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about me. Let's get me laid."
"I don't think you'll have a problem with that." Arizona said pointing discreetly at Owen Hunt.
"You do make a fair point." Teddy said making eye contact with Owen. "I wants me some of that ginger."
"You're gross, Teddy." Arizona said with a laugh.
The bar was filled with friends and acquaintances of Aria and Arizona. They had convinced Mark to close the bar for the night so that they could have a private party. Arizona thought the party was going to be just a small get together but was she wrong about that? It seemed as if their whole school was there. There was even a line at the door.
"I thought this was going to be a small thing, Aria. This is not small. At all." Arizona said. "This is the opposite of small."
"I know." Aria said throwing her arm around Arizona's shoulder. "But you deserve it. These people are here for you. It should be flattering."
"Or you know, here for the booze." Teddy said. "Lets not kid ourselves, Arizona doesn't even know half these people. They are here for the free drinks. You don't even know half of these people."
"Okay, semantics." Aria said. "The point is we're here to let loose, have fun and celebrate our dear friend Arizona."
"Is that part of your speech?" Teddy asked. "Are you making a speech?"
"There better be no speech." Arizona said.
"Let's just go in, okay?" Aria asked getting annoyed.
"Yeah. I need a drink." Teddy said.
"Right there with ya, sister." Arizona said as she followed her friend into the bar.
Callie arrived to the party when it was a little after midnight. She had her doubts about coming to the party. She didn't want problems with Aria. There was also the excuse of coming over to hang out with Mark. That wouldn't be too out of character. People were well aware of their close friendship.
The first person she saw when she entered the bar was Mark who was making sure things were running smoothly. He even was making sure his bartenders checked for IDs before handing out drinks. It was a pointless effort but a responsible one nonetheless.
"Torres!" Mark yelled when he saw his friend. "Let me get you a drink." He got behind the bar and mixed a drink for his friend. "One vodka tonic for the lady."
"Thanks, Mark." Callie said taking a sip of her drink. "Always the gentleman."
"You bet." He said giving her a wink.
"Have you seen my sister?" Callie asked. "I want to make sure she's not too plastered."
"I haven't seen her in a while." Mark said. "But if its any help, last I saw her she was doing fine."
"That does help." Callie said taking another sip of her drink. "How about the birthday girl? Seen her around?"
"Just did actually." Mark said. "She was looking for the bathroom."
"Thanks, Mark." Callie said before she made her way out of the bar and towards the bathroom line.
It took Callie some maneuvering around drunken teenagers and couples making out but after a few minutes she saw Teddy standing near the line to the bathroom.
"Teddy, hey." Callie said looking over for Arizona but trying to play it cool.
"Callie! You made it." Teddy said obviously drunk.
"You look like you're having fun." Callie said amused.
"I am." Teddy said giving her a sloppy smile.
"Have- have you seen Arizona around?" Callie said.
"She was looking for you." Teddy said.
"Well, where is she now?" Callie asked.
"Beats me." Teddy said with a shrug.
After a few minutes of idly searching for Arizona, Callie decided to just text her to meet her at Mark's office. She wanted to kick herself for not thinking about just texting her before.
"There you are." Callie said when she opened the door and saw Arizona leaning against the desk.
"You made it." Arizona said with a smile.
"Yeah." Callie said drying her sweaty palms on her jeans.
"Come here." Arizona said quietly.
Callie took a few steps forward until she was inches away from Arizona.
"I got you a drink." Arizona said handing Callie a glass with some red-ish liquor in it.
"Ms. Robbins, have you been drinking?" Callie asked with amusement.
"Maybe." Arizona said giving her a coy smile.
"Mmmm, interesting." Callie said taking a sip from her drink, after she took a sip she had to stop herself from gagging. "What the fuck is this? Is horrible."
"Is not that bad after you've had a few." Arizona said.
"Oh so you've had a few of these." Callie asked.
"Mhm." Arizona said nodding. "You look very nice." She said playing with the lapels of Callie's jacket.
"Thank you." Callie said getting dizzy on the smell of Arizona's hair. "You look very nice as well."
"Yeah?" Arizona asked in a low whisper. It was obvious all the alcohol had lowered her inhibitions. Somewhere deep down a part of her was conscious of this. She knew that fully sober she would never be this forward with Callie. But she had been waiting for a moment like this for what felt like forever. She had to know if Callie felt the same as her. She had to know what Callie's lips against her felt like.
Arizona rested both her forearms on Callie's shoulders allowing her hands to play with Callie's stray hairs. They looked into each other's eyes. Callie knew where this would lead if she didn't stop it. A part of her was telling her to take a step back, that's all it would take to break the moment; just a step back. But another part of her was telling her to fuck it, to go for it. What's the worst it could happen? She knew she had been dying to taste Arizona's lips.
"Yeah." Callie confirmed in an equal low whisper. Callie leaned her head a bit forward wanting Arizona to meet her halfway. Arizona bit her lower lip as she rested her forehead on Callie's. Her hands wrapped around Callie's neck and in a split second their lips joined in a soft kiss. It was almost chaste at first but Arizona pressed her body flushed against Callie wanting to feel more of her.
As their kiss deepened Arizona tangled her hands in Callie's hair. Callie wrapped one hand around Arizona's waist while the other stroked Arizona's jaw. As their kisses kept getting more and more heated Arizona slipped Callie's jacket off her, Callie in turn lifted Arizona unto the desk.
"Wait, wait." Arizona said sobering up.
"What's wrong?" Callie asked confused and worried. "Did I do something wrong?"
"No, no. You're perfect." Arizona said stroking Callie's face.
"What happened?" Callie asked.
"Its just… I'm not really ready for things to go any further." Arizona said. "I-I'm not really what you call… experienced…"
"Oh so you're a…" Callie said and Arizona nodded.
"Yup." Arizona said.
"Okay." Callie said helping Arizona off the desk. "You should get back to the party, I bet your friends are looking for you."
"So that's all?" Arizona asked. "That's all you're saying on the subject?"
"I'm sorry, Arizona." Callie said. "I just don't know what you want from me."
"I don't know, Calliope." Arizona said honestly. "I know I like you a lot. And not just in a friends kind of way. But I also know that I'm not ready to, you know, do it."
"I understand." Callie said not really clearing anything up for Arizona.
"And?" Arizona said expecting Callie to say something more.
"I'm very attracted to you." Callie said after a moment of silence. "I like you. I really do. I think you're fun and smart, you are pretty awesome, Arizona. But you're also seventeen years old and I'm… not."
"I know that." Arizona said avoiding eye contact.
"I don't think this is the place or the time to have this conversation." Callie said. "Let's talk about this some other time. We can go to lunch tomorrow or something. We can talk about this then."
"Okay, good." Arizona said giving Callie a dimpled smile.
"Yeah." Callie said. "Shall we go back to the party?" She said offering her hand to the blond.
"Just a second." Arizona said before she kissed Callie again. Callie smiled into the kissed.
"Ladies, are you decent?" Teddy asked as she walked into the office covering her eyes with her hands.
"Yes, Teddy." Arizona said rolling her eyes. "You can stop with the silliness."
"Aria is asking for you." Teddy said. "I got tired of stalling."
"Fine. Lets go." Arizona said lacing her fingers through Callie's.
"Okay but you might want to stop all that." Teddy said pointing to their joined hands. "Aria will throw a fit if she sees you two being all couple-y."
"She is kind of right, you know?" Callie said to Arizona looking at their joined hands.
"I'm always right." Teddy said. "Lets just do this: you go find Aria and then Callie and I will find you and totally act like is all just a big coincidence that Callie is here." She said to Arizona.
"Sounds good." Arizona said with a shrug.
"Go, go." Teddy said. "Go before Aria comes looking for you."
"Okay." Arizona said. Callie gave her a small kiss on the lips before she let go of her hands. "See you in a minute." She said with a wide smile.
"Can't wait." Callie said with an equally big smile.