I can't help but notice that every time I try to make some sort of personal connection with Arizona she seems to get flustered and leaves shortly after. Maybe Barbara was wrong maybe Arizona is just being friendly to me for Sofia's sake. I know these last two weeks we seem to be better together than we ever have been but maybe I'm miss reading it too.
Sofia spent Thursday and Friday night at Arizona's place. It's now Saturday morning and she is suppose to be dropping her off. About 9 o'clock I hear her car drive up so I go to the door to greet them.
"Hi mommy" Sofia says as she walks through the front door.
"Hi baby, did you have fun at mama's?" I ask her as I bend down to give her a kiss.
"Yep, I had so much fun, and I've got a surprise for you." Sof tells me.
"You do, what is it?" I ask.
"Can't tell you, otherwise it wouldn't be a surprise...right mama?" Sof says.
"Right, baby girl." Arizona says smiling at her.
"Thanks for dropping her off but I could have picked her up to save you the trip." I say to Arizona.
"It was no problem, I needed to run a few errands and you've been working all week so I figured you could use the rest this morning." Arizona says.
"So where are your parents today?" I ask her.
"They're in the car waiting." She says.
"They could come in." I say. " I could make coffee."
"No it ok we need to get going, I have a few stops to make before we head home." She says.
"Oh...ok" I say with disappointment in my voice.
"So what do you have planned today?" She asks me.
"Nothing really ...just thought we would maybe watch a movie or play some games, whatever she wants to do is fine." I tell her.
"How about I run my errands, go home and rest for a little while then we can all meet at the movie theater around 3." She asks. " Sof was saying she wanted to see that new movie that came out last weekend. I guess all her friends were talking about it in school all week and she was feeling left out because she hasn't seen it."
"She never told me." I say a little hurt.
"She never told me either, she told my parents last night." Arizona says. "I think she was trying to get them to take her"
"Sounds about right, she probably figured if she went with them she could eat as much junk food as she wanted." I say with a chuckle.
"Yeah she has my dad wrapped around her little finger. " she says smiling.
"From what your mother has said it was the same with you at that age." I say jokingly.
"I don't remember that being the case." Arizona says with a little chuckle. "Anyway I better get going, so we will see you at the theater."
"Definitely." I say not being able to wipe the smile off my face. " Maybe we can all grab dinner afterwards."
"Sounds good, I'll see you later. Bye Sof, love you." Arizona calls out as she leaves.
"Bye mama, love you too." Sof yells back from the living room.
Ok so now I'm really confused the other day I felt like she couldn't get away from me fast enough now she wants to hang out, granted its with Sof and her parents as our buffer but if this was a few months ago she wouldn't of even wanted that, neither would I if I'm being honest. So much has changed in last few weeks and I'm so grateful for it.
We get to the movies and Arizona and her parents are already there waiting for us with tickets in hand.
"I hope you haven't been waiting to long." I say as we approach them.
"No not long at all." She says as she hands me my ticket.
We head in and Sof pulls her grandpa to the snack bar. " Sof one item only we are going for dinner after this and I don't want you filling up on junk." I say to her.
"Ok, but can I have popcorn too." She asks.
"If you get popcorn you can't get the m&m's." I tell her.
"But popcorn isn't junk, it comes from corn and corn is a vegetable so it's like I'm eating my vegetables." Sof explains.
Arizona and I just look at each other in disbelief, "she is getting to smart for her own good." Arizona says.
"She gets that from you." I say to Arizona smiling so she knows I'm just joking.
"Sof one item only, your choice." Arizona tells her.
"Fine." She says with a huff.
As we head into the theater I excuse myself to use the restroom. When I get into the theater I see the only seat left is next to Arizona, lucky me I think. Arizona has a bucket of popcorn on her lap and offers me some. Throughout the movie our hands kept brushing each other as we reach for the popcorn at the same time. The first time it happened I felt Arizona flinch but since then I swear she went out of her way to be sure they would brush each other.
After the movie we head to Sof's favorite place to eat. We have a nice family dinner and before I know it it's time to say goodnight. Sunday Sof and I went to church then just spent the day hanging out making cookies.