"Skies are crying I am watching Catching teardrops in my hands Only silence, as it's ending, like we never had a chance Do you have to, make me feel like there's nothing left of me?"

Chapter 6

While packing our bags for the flight, I ask her about her plans in Toronto. She has barely two days at hands now before she flies back to Italy. Thinking that I feel like suffocated now.

"I will see Toronto. This is what I want to do."

"I can help you in sightseeing- that is my home, you know."

"Okay, if you want. But, your work?" She asks.

"I'm not going to start teaching before next Monday. So, I have time."

"Okay, if this is what you want to." A typical Arizona remark.

The journey towards Toronto has not been that good, especially for me, as I never like air rides. We reach Toronto, when it is almost evening and check in a hotel, as Arizona does not want to stay at my place. Moreover, George might just show up at my door, as he knows when I'm coming back. This time, she insists to pay the hotel fare. I know that if I try to argue, she would just check in without me. So, it's better to let this stubborn girl do whatever she wants to do.

"So, you are the only kid of the house?" I ask while chewing a large piece of cake after the dinner.

"umm!... Yes." She is eating ice-cream. She really likes them.

"It must be little lonely, then."

"yeah… it is sometimes, especially when our neighborhood is distant. There is only one family lives near to us."

"Oh. It's sad."

"Not that sad, when the neighbor is so hot." Arizona smiles mischievously.

"Hot?"

"Yes, she is really hot...I mean…super hot and awesome hot." Arizona says with sparkling eyes.

I swallow a little hard again. Why can't I resist the kid like jealousy?

"Good…" I just manage to say this.

"And she makes awesome peach-cakes. Back home sometimes, we make cakes together." I can see that mentioning of that neighbor how Arizona has opened up so easily, since usually she is very closed in terms to giving any personal information more than I ask. Even if I ask, she would prefer to avoid them.

I have now lost all my appetite to enjoy the delicious cake I have in front of me. I bring out my mobile and try to look for something to hide the expression which might have come on my face. Addison always says how bad I am at hiding my feelings from people. I already have enough from the zoo's experience.

"Only problem is, she is straight." I hear her saying while taking a large spoon of ice-cream from the bowl.

"hah!"

"And married and have a 12 years old son." Arizona is still concentrating on the ice-cream.

Is she playing with me? I'm so angry now.

"Stop saying that she is hot. she must be 89 years older than you." I say with a pouty face.

"If she is 89 years older than me, so are you." Arizona finally looks at me and smiles really big popping both her dimples.

I don't know how to reply now. "But, you never said that I was hot."

"Well, why would I say that you were hot?"

She is right. Nobody says like this. We take our coats and head up for the room. It is already quite late. And tomorrow we have a plan to see Toronto.

On the bed, I switch off the light and slide into the sheet on my side of the bed.

Suddenly Arizona calls me quietly, "Callie?"

"Hmm!" I'm almost half-asleep.

"You are hot too."

"What?" My eyes are pop opened.

But, she does not reply anymore. Another night I'm going to have without much sleep because of this girl who is slowly taking over every single bit of me. In my whole life, I never had anybody who occupied me so quickly and so assertively like her. I literally am losing all my self-resistance not to let her taking over the last piece of my heart. This cannot be good. But, I'm almost helpless. I close my eyes in a vain attempt to sleep and not to think about her.

So, next day, we roam the major tourist spots in Toronto, such as, CN tower, Reply's sea aquarium, downtown etc. I know Toronto like the palm of my hand, so I'm not that excited, but I feel good seeing Arizona enjoying her dream city. She is happy almost with everything in Toronto. But, I want her to take another place to, which is my personal favorite.

At night, I find her sitting on the bed and flipping through a magazine which has a big article about Demi Lovato. Oh, she is the greatest fan of Demi. I have never met a fan girl before her. So, now when I see her talking about Demi with all passion, either I'm amused or I'm annoyed.

"I have a surprise for you". I sing while quickly putting my head in Arizona's lap.

She stiffs suddenly, but asks me anyway, "what's that?"

"First massage my head… I have a headache."

"Callie, I'll not do anything like this". She tries to shove my head away from her lap.

"If you don't, I won't tell you the surprise"

"Okay, don't"

I know that now she is even not going to ask and I feel little hurt that she is not even touching my hair or head.

"Okay, pouty face" she grabs my head when I try to get up.

"No, I'm good"

"Oh, I know how good you are" telling this she gently starts massaging my head.

I close my eyes out of pure bliss.

"Oh, Arizona, your hands are magical. I can keep kissing them for the rest of my life." These words only come out of my mouth without much of thoughts. I cannot open my eyes in fear of meeting hers.

But she makes it easy, "of course rest of my life, I'm not gonna do this. This is the last time you are getting this service."

"Okay, so here is the ticket for thousand islands cruise trip in Kingston."

"What?" Arizona jumps out of the bed almost dumping my head out of her lap. I heard so much about that.

"It will be total tight schedule, because from Kingston you directly have to go to Toronto airport, since you are flying from here." I sit next to her after giving this information.

Arizona suddenly hugs me warmly. "Thanks Callie...I'm really happy." She mumbles in my hair and I can feel her hot breath on my shoulder. I don't know why my whole body starts tingling out of nowhere. I gently pull myself from the most wonderful hug in my life. This will be in my memory forever.

The cruise trip has been so worthy so far. We have enjoyed passing by the cottages, having meal seating by the sea and cracking useless jokes on each other. Now the cruise is returning back to the shore. On the top deck of the cruise, when the sun starts setting, we just stand still there. The ship slowly passes by those small islands while the waves take a reddish shade beneath us. Amidst of all these, I feel how Arizona's left hand is brushing against my right from time to time leaving me in pure want and desire to hold her forever. Without much of thinking, I just hold her hand in mine- to keep this moment in my heart for forever, to never forget this, to never let it go away from me and to treasure this locked in my heart always. I feel she entangles her fingers in mine. Is she also feeling the way I'm feeling now? Does she feel how deeply I have fallen for her? I don't dare to ask her.

The redness of the setting sun has made the sky surreal. The light wind and the almost darkness of the deck is something, where I live my entire life within these few moments.

"Callie?"

As I turn towards her quickly, our faces almost collide with each other. Her face is merely an inch away from me. In this shadowy darkness, when we are in the middle of the sea, wind is blowing our hair; everything else in my life becomes a lie. I see that in her eyes too- truth what she has been trying to ignore, has been denying throughout.

I simply cup her face and stroke her cheeks gently. I lean a little, but Arizona does not resist me, rather she looks deeper in me, as if trying to understand me.

When my lips slightly brusher her lips, my throats go dry in anticipation of the feeling of kissing her. Arizona grips me with the hem of my blazer and I know that she wants me too. I can see how slightly she has opened her lips.

I slowly lean in, painfully slow... and my phone rings with the loudest way ever. Both of we jump out of each other realizing what was about to happen. I start looking for the phone in everywhere.

"It's in your back pocket." And Arizona leaves the deck.

When I finally have the courage to come down the lower deck, Arizona pretends as if nothing has happened.

"The sunset is beautiful, isn't it?"

I look out of the glasses looking at the darkness over the sea not replying her. Yes, the sunset was beautiful, but just because you were there. And it will never be as beautiful as it is today, with you.

At the airport.

"So, finally!" I huff getting inside of terminal at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Because of the heavy traffic in the evening, I have been worried during the whole ride to the airport that she might be running late. "You should go for check in," I suggest while looking at my watch.

"Yeah, maybe I should check in now." She seems to be little down. Or is it something I want to see?

"Okay, so eat well and don't skip the breakfast otherwise your stomachache will come back." Oh, Gosh, I'm so bad at saying goodbye. I don't know what to tell her. Should I ask her phone number? But, she has never mentioned of exchanging phone numbers. I even don't know her email address or even her last name. So, once she passes the security gate, I'll probably never see her again.

"Okay, I'll check in now…" and she starts moving ahead not saying anything to me. Maybe I don't mean anything to her. I wish I could tell her how much my heart is breaking right now…in million pieces.

I call her from back, "hey!" Once she turns back, I just hug her with whatever I have. Maybe I'm hugging her too tight, but I don't care at this second. "Stay safe and make friends, okay rock-star?" I say while inhaling her hair for the very last time. The very last time, I have her soft body in my arms, the very last time I can feel that she is real, not a dream.

She laughs softly while pulling out from the hug, "thank you."

"For what?"

"For telling me that I'm rock-star." She laughs popping her dimples.

"You are."

"Callie?" She suddenly tries to say something.

"Yes!"

"Umm…nothing."

What is that what she just has resisted herself from saying? Probably I would never know.

She turns towards her cart and from her back, I just quietly say from the back, "You know where to find me."

"h..mm.." She does not make eye-contact and immediately I come to know that she will never contact me on her own.

"Okay! Bye, kiddo!"

Arizona does not reply. Instead she moves her cart and goes towards the security channel. I'm not allowed to go there. From distance, I see her checking in and while passing the gate, for one last time, she turns to me waving her hands. I'm not sure, if she wipes her eyes. Probably, I would never know. I'm standing too far. I keep standing there till the point, I don't see her anymore. Now I cannot see anything, as my both eyes are steamed. I close my eyelids so finally those tears are allowed to come out which I have been holding for ages.

I flop down to the nearest chair and watch other people bidding goodbyes to their nearest ones. But, they know that they would meet again. But, I know that I'm not going to meet this girl ever in my life, who came and turned my perfect life upside down even without knowing or doing anything consciously. I have fallen for her even without knowing anything about her. Yes, love happens in a heartbeat, but I never knew that I was destined to fall for someone who belonged to a different world and to a different time. The emptiness, I have right now, I wonder if ever I'll be able to get over. But, that is how few stories end. And my one also ends here.