After Barbara left I continued to work and before I knew it it was after 6:00. I cleaned everything up and headed to Arizona's room. I stood outside and watched from the window for a few minutes. I always loved to watch Sofia and Arizona interact. Barbara caught me watching them and just smiled. As I opened the door I said "sorry I'm late I lost track of time, Sof you ready to head home now."
"Actually Daniel went to grab us all dinner he should be back any minute. He was getting Sofia her favorite." Barbara says.
"Please mommy can we stay and have dinner with mama and grampa and gramma. Please." Sofia asks.
"Are you sure there will be enough I don't want to intrude." I say to Barbara.
"Are you kidding you know what Daniel is like always over prepared he will probably bring back enough food for the entire floor." Barbara says chuckling.
"As long as you're sure." I say.
"Callie please just sit down." Arizona says.
"Ok, ...thanks."
"So how did it go" Arizona asks.
Before I could answer Daniel came in with the food. He set it up on the table and we all dug in. We were all just chit chatting , eating and having a good time. I missed this...family dinners just talking about everything and nothing. Sofia was making us all laugh telling us about things some kids had done in school when I look out into the hall and saw Michelle standing there with a bag from my favorite restaurant just staring at us all. Shit I did it again. I forgot to call her. She just turned around and headed in the opposite direction.
"Excuse me I will be right back" I say as I rush out the door trying to catch my girlfriend.
I finally catch up with her at the elevator but she just keeps staring up at the floor numbers. I know I messed up again and I can't blame her for being mad. I don't know why I keep forgetting to call her.
"I'm sorry," I say.
"What are you sorry for Callie huh, the fact that you can't even bother to call me or the fact that I think you are hard at work so I bring you dinner only to find you in a big happy family moment with you ex wife and ex in laws." Michelle says .
"I was working...I just finished for the day and when I got back to Arizona's room her parents had already ordered dinner for Sofia and wanted her to stay. What was I supposed to do huh, tell them no." I say.
"God forbid you say no to Arizona or her parents" she snaps at me.
"Where the hell is this coming from" I snap back.
"You know what Callie just go back to them ok, I don't want to do this right now and definitely not here." She says.
"No you know what we are going to talk about this right now." I say as I grab her hand and pull her into the nearest on call room so we can talk in private.
"I don't want to hear another apology from you. It's getting old real quick. I get you were scared ...your daughter was in an accident. I even get your concern about your ex wife but they are both fine and yet here you are at her bedside ...you are suppose to be my girlfriend."
"What do you want from me I'm trying here. My daughter was scared, her mother was hurt. She just wants to spend time with her, so I am just suppose to tell her no because what you're jealous." I yell.
"Don't make this about Sofia. You could of easily dropped her here for the day and I'm sure her grandparents would have watched her and brought her home. There was no reason you needed to be with them." She yells back.
"I told you I was working all day. I just came in to take her home. How was I supposed to know you were bringing me dinner."
"Maybe if you answered your phone you would have" she snaps back.
"My phone died and I didn't have my charger" I say.
"How convenient for you" she says.
"What the hell has gotten into you." I say.
"What has gotten into me? What has gotten into you? You came charging in here last night demanding to know what was going on with your wife not your ex wife but your wife. You kept saying your wife and I am just suppose to ignore that. Then today you have a choice of spending the day with your girlfriend or in a lab all day and you choose the lab. Why because it's for Arizona and again I am suppose to just ignore it. Then to top it all off you can't even bother to call me all day only to have me walk into I nice cozy family dinner." She yells.
"It was a slip last night, I know she is my ex wife." I say.
"Do you, because the way you have been acting it doesn't seem like it.. She snaps.
"What do you want me to say... Do I care about Arizona...of course I do, she is the mother of my child I will always care about her. I won't apologize for that nor will I apologize for helping her. What I will apologize for is not calling you that was wrong. I just got so wrapped up in my work I didn't even realize the time. I am sorry... Will you forgive me? I say trying to defuse this.
"I'm just going to go home, I need time to think. " Michelle says.
"Oh... ok ...would it be ok if I call you tomorrow?" I ask hoping she will say it's ok.
"Sure, I will talk to you tomorrow" she says as she opens the door and leaves me standing there wondering what the hell happened.
I took a few minutes to compose myself and headed back to get Sofia. When I walked into the room I could feel Arizona's eyes on me but I stayed focused on Sofia and getting her packed up. I couldn't look at her because I knew she would be able to tell something was wrong and I definitely didn't want her to know I may have just messed up another relationship.