A/N: Advanced Happy new year to all of you!
Do not be afraid, I am with you
I have called you each by name
Come and follow Me
I will bring you home
I love you and you are mine
After taking her Luggage to the designated room, I take Arizona to meet my mom. She was more impatient than me. I peek through the door and find her half laid on the bed. She is reading a magazine. Those fashion magazines. Oh! my mom always has been an ardent follower of high class fashion. I hope, Arizona's 'McAwesome' hoodie would be okay with her. "Ma!" On my calling out she drops the magazine on the side table, "is she here?"
"Yes," then I shove Arizona into the room almost pushing her from back, I laugh a little feeling Arizona's rigid back. She does not like meeting new people. "Go in…you will love her." I whisper in her ear.
"Provided I can survive this anxiety." Arizona whispers back, shaky.
"Stop whooshing to each other." Mom mocks at both of us.
Once Arizona reaches to mom's bed, mom pulls her down to the bed to sit, "sit here, honey."
Arizona sits stiffly.
"Calliope, how could you bag such a pretty one." Mom takes Arizona's both hands in her hands, "I'm happy that you finally decide to come here."
Arizona does not reply, but I see her body relaxes a little.
"Calliope, does she even speak?" Mom pretends to be afraid of.
"Of course, she does." I take a seat beside mom wrapping up her shoulders. "Let her loosen up a little. Don't scare her away!"
"Okay…okay… I'll not poke your little bird?" Mom laughs a little. "Take her for dinner- it's late."
Once we start walking towards door, mom calls me from back, "Calliope, your dad will be in the dinner table."
"I know." I need to talk to dad- the sooner, the better. But, every time, I go in front of him, my throats dry up and never can say, what I plan to.
As we come down to the dinner table, Hanah already has set up the table. Aria, Adi and dad are settled down for dinner. I feel a lump in my throat seeing my dad looking at us. I give a squeeze at Arizona's hand, but as soon as feel that my dad is looking at your conjoined hands, I let her hands go off with a half-smile.
"Come Calliope!" Then his eyes shift to Arizona, "and welcome…"
"Arizona…. Arizona Robbins." I interject.
"Ms. Robbins. I hope you had a nice flight." My dad greets her in a pure business voice.
"Yes! Mr. Carlos." Arizona sits rigidly beside me.
"You must be tired… let's start eating."
Then dad and Aria start talking about our recent business issues. I know that dad must be little tensed due to the recent downfall in our hotel chain.
"I don't know, uncle Carlos, why suddenly we have a sudden profit loss.! Adi says frustrated.
"What does that business analyst say?"
"He says we need to update our booking software."
"I think, the software needs an amendment where it could compare the market price automatically." Arizona suddenly comments in between. Now my breath is hitched in my throat. O God! Dad really hates people giving him suggestions. I really don't want Arizona to mess up anything.
"Go on." Dad seems to get interested in the comment.
"I'm not sure, but one year back, we needed to book hotel rooms for out study tour and while doing that we found out that the room prices for Torres's is very high compare to the other hotels at the same standard…. I mean, that should be a…" Arizona stops and looks at me unsure.
"Ms. Robbins, so, what did you do then?" Dad asks amusingly.
"We simply did not book!" Arizona starts eating. But, my dad is certainly impressed and so do others present here. I feel proud of her, once again. Maybe, it will be easy to talk about Arizona to dad.
It has been so painful that Arizona is here in Toronto in my house, but I even haven't got a chance to hold her hands too. It's physically painful. I look at Addison for some help. I will die if I don't get to kiss her within next few minutes. My inside is exploding in desire. After she said that historic I love you at the airport… only I know how I have passed my nights…. sleeplessly, craving her, every second. Every moment.
"Arizona, you must be tired." Addison says, "why don't you call it a night and we will see you in the morning?"
"Right…sorry… … Aria, please ask someone to take her to the guest room."
"I will take her…" Probably I am bit loud, because everyone shots back at me and Arizona is trying to hide her forming smile. "I mean… I will get to talk to her too."
"Sure…do you really want to talk to her?" Addison whispers in my ear.
"Shut up!"
I show Arizona the stairs, "let's go."
"You have a beautiful family Callie." Arizona comments.
"You are beautiful." I purr little close on her ear.
"Eh! You have become those typical romantic melodramatic heroes…nowadays…well, in your case, melodramatic heroine." Arizona says teasingly.
"What I have become you haven't seen yet." By this time, we are at the door of the room. Opening the door quickly, I drag her in and directly throw her on the bed, "Now... I'll show you," I say straddling her. Not saying anything, Arizona pulls me close grabbing the collars of my shirts, "kiss me."
When my lips are inches apart from Arizona's, I notice at her blue eyes have turned into darker out of desires, her thin pink lips are little quivered, ready to be kissed. I stop there, looking at her eyes.
"What happened?" Arizona hums softly.
"Say those again."
"What?" Arizona scrunches both her eye brows together.
"Things you said at the airport."
"What…did I say?" Arizona asks in all seriousness.
"I don't know…I could not see you then…so you have to tell them again." I say pinning her both hands on her either sides.
"Eh! But you ears were open, so you heard what I did say." Arizona struggles to get rid of my hold, "and are you going to kiss though?"
"First say those again."
"You say it first."
"you taunted me for so long…so you have to say those first." I straddle on her putting my both legs on either side of her stomach.
"Calliope, you are heavy…" Arizona makes face smiling the fullest popping both her dimples.
"Okay…" I get down pouting.
"Don't start again… you have pouted so much so far." She pokes in my stomach and pushes me down gently nibbling my earlobes, "this is your spot, isn't it?"
"Arizona, stop seducing me…nothing will happen till the point you say those to me."
"Make me say those again…" She murmurs on my ear…
"Then I have to make you jealous again…" I reply playfully.
"Aha! That was an onetime thing, baby…and don't be that cocky… you could not find anybody, so you were after me." Arizona says hiding her face in my crook while I snake my arms around her. It just seems blissful- I can be like this for rest of my life just having her in my arms like this.
"Are you doubting my hotness?" I don't want this moment to end. This is the first time, we are about to kiss when we want to kiss and we know that both of we want to kiss… "I have waited so much for this." Then I initiate the kiss not letting her saying anything. Arizona responds instantly. This is the first time, when we are kissing each other without any surprise or anger. I feel that Arizona sighs in the kiss. It seems too normal and regular that instantly I know that I can spend rest of my life kissing this girl.
:Ohh Lord?" somebody screams from the door making Arizona bolting out of me. It's Aria. "I should have known it especially the way you two were looking at each other." She has a terrible shocked face.
I get up from my position embarrassed.
"You should have locked the door." Addison comments from Aria's back, "I tried to stop her."
I look at Arizona- she looks mortified. I cannot let her feel like this, moreover, at any case I plan to introduce her to my family.
"Listen, Aria..."
"Thank God that I don't have to welcome that George in the family. Sister in law is better than a brother in law." Aria quickly comes to Arizona and starts her train of conversation. "So, tell me how did you two meet?" She asks looking at Arizona. Arizona helplessly looks back to me, but I'm too shocked at Aria's reaction. She is behaving as if nothing is different. "Why are you looking at her like this?" Aria looks back to me. "Cal, so you two are not together or what?"
"We are together… I mean we plan to be together." I reply quickly sneaking at Arizona. She still has that awkward high school face, when you are caught by your parents while making out. "I just did not expect this positive reaction from you. Specially, when you didn't know anything." I add.
"I always knew."
"What?" I and Addison ask in union.
"I didn't know about Arizona, but I knew that you have a thing about girls. I mean, you always had huge girl crushes. When we all were drooling on Tom Cruise in high school, you were drooling on Angelina Jolie."
"That of course does not make me that obvious." I say unconvincingly.
"Yes, but what about your huge crush on mom's best friend's daughter?"
"I don't remember who you are talking about." Oh, shit, this is a mistake to do with Aria. Now she will spill everything out in front of Arizona.
"Oh… yeah… how could you forget your days…" I totally cut her in, "thank you Aria for accepting my relationship with Arizona, but Arizona needs to take rest."
"But, I need to know the story."
"I will tell you, but not tonight…" I give her an elder sister glare 'you need to go' and Aria gets up unwillingly.
Once both Adi and Aria leave the room, I look at Arizona uncomfortably fearing that she would ask about my first girl crush. But, Arizona looks back to me smirking, putting her body weight on one of her arms, half laid on the bed. She looks so sexy at the moment, however, I know what is coming up next.
"So, Professor Torres had a girl crush before me?" Her smirk gets bigger and wicked.
"It was long back," I reply uncomfortably.
She pulls me down the bed with a strong jerk in my wrist. "Tell me…I'm listening." She pokes me in my stomach.
"I was very young, then… and I never knew that I could have a feeling for a girl and she was very pretty." I admit shyly.
Then Arizona nudges her face in the crook of my shoulder, "I hate her." I wrap around her waist, "you even don't know her." I enjoy her possessive behavior.
"Because she was your first crush." Arizona pouts a little.
"Yes, she was only a crush and you are not a crush." I state in all seriousness. Then, I cup her face in the palm of my both hands, "you are not a crush, Arizona."
"I'm what?" She stares deep into my eyes.
"You are… my kiddo…" Then I pull her into an embrace. I feel Arizona's hot breath into my neck- giving me shiver down my spine. I feel that she starts giving me feather like kisses in my neck and collarbones. My breath is almost wedged in my lungs. "Zona, I need to go to my room." Now she has started putting open mouthed kisses in my neck, murmuring, "if you call me with that name, I can't let you go."
"You are horny, aren't you?" I push her from my neck forcefully. I'm feeling so giddy right now. My smile has never been this bigger.
"So, you are not?" She wiggles her eye brows.
"I'm, but I don't want anyone to find us like this on your first night here." I push her on the bed to lay on her back and pull the sheet up on her. "Sleep baby girl."
"I have sleeping problem, you know it."
As Arizona closes her eyes, I hold her from back combing her golden long hair. I cannot help but placing a kiss on her forehead. She smiles a little. Then I kiss both her eyes. I see her smile grows little bigger. Eyes are still closed. Then I caress her both cheeks and plant a peck on her lips. "Just wait for two days… then I will waste you so much…every night….that you'll never have a sleeping problem ever." I mutter.
"Will you hold me like this…?" Arizona takes turn still holding my hands.
"Always…baby girl…always." I'm not lying. I want to spend rest of my life holding this immature, adamant, crazy girl in my arms. Always. Forever.
A/N: did you like this chapter? Maybe, first time ever, they are so happy with each other…