A/N: I cannot believe that I actually have uploaded the 30th chapter of this story…oh! Kill me guys, with your reviews, of course!

"Maybe we could make it happen, baby

We could keep trying

But things will never change

So I don't look back

Still I'm dying with every step I take

But I don't look back"

Chapter 30

After dropping Arizona at her new place, I have come to university after a whole term. I have so much to catch up, even though I have been teaching here for a last few years now! Moreover, we have the grad meet and greet session with the graduate dean and the faculty. Arizona does not have any class today, but she is going to attend the meet and greet session. She was very tensed in the morning. In a way, I'm tensed too, because this would our first time together in the outside world among other people, however, both of us will play separate roles to each other, which is not true. In a way, this is giving me anxiety, as I worry about my hard-earned reputation in the school. Coming out with the relationship with Arizona would have been much easier for me, rather than sneaking around. Moreover, I'm feeling little guilty for not replying Zoie. I saw her another message in the morning.

Once the meet and greet starts, I start mingling with new and old students in the graduate lounge. Since, I was not here for last few months, old students are excited too, to find me after a long time. I have always loved my relationship with my students. While talking to them too, my eyes are looking for Arizona. I don't know if she has decided to skip the session out of her anxiety.

"Are you looking for somebody?" My colleague Rosy asks.

"Nah…I was just trying to observe new students." As I start turning towards my other colleague, suddenly I see a glance of Arizona over few heads ahead of me. There she is! She is talking with a Professor making a very polite face, but I can see how embarrassing look she has at the moment. I quickly start walking towards her cracking the crowd.

"Hi, Professor Miller." As I call out the Professor with whom she is standing next to, she turns on her heel in a swift motion. I take two steps near to her and visibly can see how it takes every ounce of her not jumping into my arms. I smile at her warmly. "How are you, Arizona? I thought, you wouldn't come."

"I thought that actually." She replies smiling big and steps almost in my personal space to stand close to me. Once Professor Miller excuses himself, I quickly take a step back, "go…talk to other people."

"You know that I don't like talking to people." She says in a cold voice observing how I have distanced myself.

"Arizona, we are on campus and you would find me slightly more professional here than France. This is my workplace…I have graduated from this school. It is almost my second home. So, we have to be very careful about us. Since you have decided to pretend like this, it has to be like this." I say in a soft and low voice so that no one listens to us, then give her little pat on her back, "go, rock the party. You'll find many hot girls too."

"Eh! I don't need them." She gives me a mischievous smile wiggling her eye brows reminding me stuff we did last night. There are these few times, when she really behaves her age, someone who is only 24 years and ready to explore the world before them.

"Shut up!" I start walking towards the coffee bar noticing that few of my colleagues are standing there.

After an hour, when we are about to wrap up the networking session, Arizona walks towards me and the dean of the graduate school too joins us at the same time.

"You are Arizona Robbins, right?" The dean, Dr. Melory, asks warmly looking at Arizona's name tag. "We loved your application and the essay you wrote."

"I'm thankful to my supervisor in my previous school for writing references for me." Arizona answers politely.

"You should be thankful to Dr. Torres too." And before I could stop her, she spills out the entire thing on Arizona's face, saying, "she made a strong internal recommendation for you."

"No…not like that." I start stammering.

"Come on Dr. Torres, you used your full recommendation capacity to get her admitted." She pushes more. I carefully peek at Arizona. Her blue eyes are full of disbelief. Then the Dean pats Arizona's back, "but, you are deserving too, we were very impressed with your score and essay, that you wrote…. Now just work to continue it here with us." Then she moves towards other students.

Now that I'm left with Arizona alone, I carefully turn towards her. "I told you not to help me." I have never seen her this angry. "I…TOLD …YOU…" She reinforces on each of the word, hissing.

"Listen to me…"

"I told you and you kept lying to me." On an instant, she walks towards the door.

I always have known that Arizona would never accept this easily. For her, self pride is everything. If I have known her a bit also, I know that she is not going to make it easy on me.

"Hey, hot stuff, missed me so much that you are here at my door." Zoie exclaims with all her heart seeing me standing at her door. I have been trying to contact Arizona since last two hours, but she hasn't received any of my calls. So, I have come here to see her.

"I need to meet Arizona." I quickly say.

"She …is not at home." Zoie calms down seeing my serious face. "Would you like to come inside?"

"I need to meet her. Do you know, where is she?" I ask impatiently.

"I don't know… if you want you may come inside and wait for her." Then Zoie pulls me inside holding my wrist. "Come in Callie." She settles me down on a couch and sits beside me, "is everything okay? I mean, you don't have to tell me." She asks carefully.

"I did a personal recommendation to help Arizona to get the admission, as she missed the deadline." I blurt out even without any further push from Zoie's side.

"So?" She raises one of her eye brows resting her face in her right palm.

"She asked me not to do it, I knew that without internal reference…"

"So, you did that without informing her and now your little secret is out?" There is a little smile playing in the corner of her mouth.

"Ya… do you find this amusing?"

"I mean, if you would have done this for me, I wouldn't have complained."

"But, you are not she!"

"Yes…I'm not she." Zoie is quietly. "I guess, she is just little upset, but she will be okay."

"You don't know her. It scares me."

"You care her a lot, don't you?"

I just nod my head in positive. "Could I have a cup of coffee?" I need to have some caffeine right now to fix my anxiety.

"I have wine too."

"Zoie, I don't drink." I say flopping back on a couch. I feel like losing everything. Zoie stares at me for a while before she moves toward the kitchen. I'm so tired that I feel like sleeping right away, right here, not caring anything else.

Next time, when I wake up, I see Zoie's face is in front of me, few inches apart. I may have dozed off a little. Seeing me opening my eyes, she smiles so softly that I feel that I need somebody to tell me that everything is going to be okay.

"You looked so peaceful while sleeping." She murmurs.

I smile a little, a little lost.

"Just relax…you need that." Saying this she tenderly brushes her lips on my forehead, while her long curly hairs covers my face. Why do they smell so good? It's nothing sexual, but spreads a feeling of warmth inside my body. It's been a long time that anybody has pampered me. In my relationship with Arizona, it's always me who has been the big spoon, holding her, pampering her, making sure that she is okay and she is not hurt. Suddenly, Zoie seems to be the one doing that, when I need that the most.

As Zoie pulls out from me gently, I see Arizona standing over Zoie's shoulder. Zoie stands straight and sees Arizona. "Hey, Callie is looking for you like crazy…"

"I came to talk to you." I somehow say while regaining my full consciousness.

Arizona does not reply any of us. She walks towards her room, silently.

A/N: And please don't start hating my Zoie, she hasn't done anything yet!