A/N: Here is the update even though I'm still vacationing. See, how much I love you all. I hope you all will love this update. Please leave your reviews, which always make me super happy.

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Stone cold
You see me standing
But I'm dyin' on the floor
Stone cold
Maybe if I don't cry
I won't feel anymore

Chapter 12

Callie, will you go for ice cream with me?" Arizona asks me so quietly that I'm sure that she hasn't spoken those words. We are standing in the middle of a highway, where there are only wide corn fields in both sides and here she is asking for going for ice cream with her after successfully spoiling my date. However, I'm not complaining. I'm still trying to get over what has just happened few minutes back. Just as if seconds ago, she was on me, snaking around my waist tightly, washing over me with her hot breath, and now suddenly she is asking me for ice cream. I'm so dazzled right now.

"Callie?" She asks me again.

"I think I asked you to call me Dr. Torres!" I make a poker face but for sure that I'm unable to hide my big smile.

"That Dr. title is at all not sexy." Arizona smiles.

"So, you wanna call me with a sexy name?"

"Just something, which gives me the feeling that you are you." She replies in a soft voice with all honesty.

"So, are we going for ice cream, now?" I ask her.

Before she answers, I hear a phone is ringing somewhere. Instantly I realize that the sound is coming from the car. I run towards the car and see a phone is blinking from the back seat.

"Ari….zona? your phone is here." I start yelling.

"Oh! Is it?" She makes a very innocent face, but does not make any eye contact. Okay, I'm right. She actually sabotaged my date.

"So, you didn't want me to go out with him?"

"No- if this is the answer you are looking for. But, I was just trying to repay the things you did for me when I was in your country."

"What repay?" Now I'm confused.

"I was so new, but you helped me in every way. So, now when I have a chance to help you, I was just protecting you."

"So, that's all?" I'm certainly not ready for this answer.

"Yes. What else it could be?"

I'm again annoyed. She is not telling what she wants to say. I'm tired of being the object of her mood swing. I'm sure this is not the only answer. But, enough is enough. If she has any feelings for me, she has to tell this to me. And she even has not clarified about Neesha too.

"So, what about Neesha?"

"A very special friend." She replies while looking at the phone.

I'm not sure whether I should ask the right question or not. In Canada, we never ask direct questions- we are kind of too polite! And here this girl is also not clarifying the air.

"hmm… good. You seem to be happy with her." I try to dig out a little.

"Yes, she makes me happy. We share almost everything."

"Almost everything?"

"Yes…there are so much similarities between us." She makes a flat face.

Oh, this conversation is not going anywhere.

"You stay alone?" This question might lead me what I want to know.

"So far, but Neesha is moving in with me. So, now I'll not be alone anymore." Arizona looks up from the phone.

"Take me home." I say in a stern voice. This has been enough. I don't get her. She is so difficult to talk and she would never give the right answer.

"Anything else you want to know?"

"I already have enough."

"If someone cannot get the sarcasm, then this is not the other person's fault, you know."

"Arizona… I'm not your play thing. I think you feel so good that you have such a hold on me, even though we have nothing in between us. Isn't it? But, you are taking things too granted." I tell her disgusted.

"You are being dramatic without any reason." Arizona comes close to me. But I back off.

"Don't try to come near to me." I yell at her. It has become so impossible for me to control my raising temper now.

"You are so dramatic, you know? We can never be friends because of your this nature." Arizona smiles with a sarcastic tone.

"This nature?"

"Yes. You are loud, dramatic and pushy."

"Can you please call a cab, so that I can go home?" I almost shout at her.

Instead of answering me, she starts calling a cab. After the call, she sits on the bonnet putting the earphones on. I don't think that I will ever understand this girl. Sometimes, she behaves as if I mean something to her and moments later she pushes me away as if I'm good for nothing. All my self esteem is falling like a sand wall, as if they were never there.

I have been waiting for Arizona to have some discussion about the class assignment, but she is late, which is very unlikely of her. When I'm about to make a call to her, my phone rings.

"Hi, this is Rosa from faculty office."

"Yes!"

"Dr. Torres, can you please come to the faculty office for few minutes? We need to discuss something."

I'm not sure why they are calling me. But I enter into the office and find Arizona standing with a patch of ice-bag on her left eye and next to her another student is standing with bleeding nose. Did she fight with him? I can sense why I'm being called. I quickly reach to Arizona and take the ice bag from her only to find a total black eye, which has started swollen now.

"You did this?" I look at the other student. He does not answer. "How dare you to touch her?" I take a step forward to him, but Arizona pulls me holding my wrist.

"Dr. Torres, Ms. Robbins first hit my TA." A senior woman stands up from a chair. "Hi, I'm Professor Eva."

"Arizona, did you hit him first? Why?" I look at her with surprise. I cannot imagine that she really has done that.

"We have been asking both of them about that, but they are not answering." Rosa informs me.

"Then, we just can stop talking about this. Since they are not willing to talk about this matter, it is their personal affair." Professor Eva tries to close the case.

"If they were only students, we could have done that easily, but they are TAing. Technically they are our employees, so we cannot tolerate this type of behavior from them."

Now I start panicking a bit. This case has to be closed here. Otherwise, if this goes into Arizona's file, she has to carry this always if she decides to go to grad school. "Rosa, can Professor Eva and I handle the matter? They are still young and since they are not lodging complaint against each other, I don't think we should drag the matter." I request.

Professor Eva also nods her head in agreement.

"So, what happened?" I ask Arizona angrily while closing the door.

"Nothing." She is still dabbing the ice bag on her eye. I take the ice bag from her. Seeing her eye, I feel like killing that stupid boy. How could he punch like this?

"Let me see." And I take her face in my hands to check the eye, but instantly I notice how Arizona's eyes have started shifting between my eyes and lips. I feel like I have no ability to get rid of this intense feeling, for which I can give up everything I have, every little thing I have earned so far. I just need to know her exact feelings about me. I don't have enough strength to bear if she just leaves me half way. I'll not survive, I know.

"What happened with that boy? I ask breaking the contact and dabbing the ice bag on her eyes.

"Nothing, I told." She replies plain.

"Arizona, I need to know." I have to talk about this with Professor Eva. She is a powerful Prof. here. If she is angry at Arizona, that would not be a good thing for her.

"Everything… you don't need to know." She gets up.

There she is. I have been so right about her. "What?" I cannot hide my disappointment.

"I don't think you need to know all my private affairs."

"Okay." I even don't feel like replying her. I have three more months to go before I leave Paris. Maybe, I have met her again, so that I realize how we are not good for each other.

After she leaves, I go to Professor Eva's room. The TA is still there. Before I say anything, the TA starts, "I'm sorry, Dr. Torres. I never meant anything. I was just joking."

"What?" I ask in confusion. I don't get why suddenly he is apologizing to me.

Professor Eva cuts in, "Tory, you may go. I will see you later."

Once Tory is gone, Eva continues, "Tory said, you were sexy." Eva starts laughing.

"Hah!"

"Yes and your TA was so protective about you that she punched on his nose." She cannot stop laughing.

Being teachers at university, these comments are so common to me. Since I teach adult students, we have these experiences. I get why Eva is laughing so hard. But, more than anything, I find it so good that Arizona could not tolerate that somebody found me sexy.

"It's okay." I say while smiling really big. I cannot tell, how happy I'm feeling.

"And she warned him that if he ever looked at you, she would break his legs."

Both of we start laughing.

I don't understand this girl. She would sabotage my date, but would not accept her feelings for me- she would beat other people for me but would not say this to me. I don't know where we are leading towards.

A/N: I'm still on vacation but somehow have managed to write this chapter today. But again I would like to apologize that at this point updates would be super slow as school is gonna start from September, right after I return from my holidays.