I wasn't able to make it to another therapy session all week due to my schedule but David told me she's doing great. I have to smile, she was the reason I started this project and I feel like the final piece has finally been completed. It's Friday and Arizona is suppose to bring Sofia home after her soccer practice. I am running late due to an emergency so I send a text to Arizona and tell her to let herself in and I will be there as soon as I can.
I get home about 7:30, as I walk up the sidewalk I hear music coming from the house and it warms my heart. This is the way I want to come home every night. I open the door expecting to see Sof and Arizona in the living room but they're not there but I notice all the furniture has been pushed back to make room for a dance floor. I hear laughter coming from the kitchen so I head in.
"What's all this?" I ask as I step into the kitchen and see what use to be my clean kitchen I total mess.
"We're making pizza." Sof says so proudly that I can't get mad at the mess.
"Sorry Callie, we wanted to do something nice for you but it kind of got out of hand with the flour." Arizona says smiling.
"I can see." I say with a chuckle. "Need any help."
"No, I think we got it now. We will have it cleaned up in no time." She says. " how about you go get changed and by the time you come back it will be back to how you left it this morning."
"You know I won't be gone all night right." I say laughing as I leave them to it.
When I get back they are in the living room and there is a glass of wine waiting for me. "So I see you had your dance party." I say I little disappointed.
"No we didn't mommy, we were waiting for you." Sof tells me.
I can't help the stupid smile that appears on my face as I look over to Arizona who is just smiling back at me.
"Yeah mommy it not a dance party unless it's all three of us." Arizona says giving me a wink."Sof you ready to turn up the music."
"What about the pizza?" I ask.
"It will be ready in about twenty minutes so in the meantime I thought we could have that dance party." Arizona says. "If you're up for it that is."
"Please mommy, please." Sof begs.
"Of course I'm up for it." I say picking Sof up and swinging her around. "Crank it up and just try to keep up."
"Challenge on Calliope, challenge on." Arizona says as she heads to the stereo to turn it up.
I'm glad her back is turned because I almost dropped Sofia when I heard her use my full name. She hasn't used it since we broke up. I never realized how much I missed hearing her say it until that moment.
She turns back around and looks at me funny. "What?" She asks as she catches me staring.
"Uh...nothing." I say as I put Sof down." Let's get this party started."
Sof starts jumping around waving her hands in the air so Arizona and I start mimicking her moves. We are all laughing so hard we barely hear the buzzer for the stove go off. I can't believe we have been jumping around for twenty minutes already, guess it's true time flies when you've having fun.
"Pizza's ready." Sof yells over the music.
"I'll go get it out of the oven, you guys keep dancing. You need the practice because I'm so winning this competition right now." Arizona says laughing as she leaves the living room.
I spin around again to see Arizona leaning against the doorway watching us with a huge smile on her face so I dance over to her and grab her by the hand and lead her back onto our makeshift dance floor.
As the song comes to an end Arizona says, "we should go eat before it gets cold."
"Yeah , ok. Come on Sof dinner's ready." I say as I turn down the music.
Sof sits down and takes a big drink water. " little thirsty there Sof." I say with a chuckle.
"Yeah, but that was so much fun. Can we do it again after dinner?" Sof asks us.
I look at Arizona and she nods yes. "Ok, but you need to get ready for bed first ok." I tell her.
"Ok, will you and mama put your pj's on too?" She asks.
"Not tonight Sof but maybe another time." I tell her as I watch Arizona for her reaction to my comment.
"Ok." Sof says and goes back to eating her pizza.
"Thank you both for making dinner, this is actually really good." I say.
"I can cook you know." Arizona says acting offended.
"I know, but after what I walked in on I wasn't sure about this pizza." I say smiling so she knows I'm kidding her.
"Can I give mommy her surprise now mama?" Sof asks Arizona.
"Sure, why don't you go get it." Arizona tells her.
"Sof get mama's surprise too while your at it." I say.
"Ok be right back, don't go anywhere." Sof says as she runs to get our surprises.
She comes back with two identical boxes the only difference being one says "to mama"and one says "to mommy" on it. Arizona and I just look at each other. Sof hands us each a box and tells us to open them.
I open mine and my breath catches as I lift out a bracelet with a couple of charms on it. The first one is a solid white gold heart that says "best mommy ever" , the second is an "S" for Sofia.
I look up and see Arizona watching me with a tear in her eye as she is holding the same bracelet in yellow gold the only exception being her charm says " best mama ever".
"You and mama picked out the same surprise for each other." Sof says smiling, bringing us out of our staring.
" I see that." I say.
"Do you like them?" She asks us.
"Like them ...we love them." We both say in unison.