A/N: Hey, happy weekend! Although, I'm little sick, I have written this chapter anyways! It's short…sorry…I really can't sit straight for a long time.
"I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Well, every moment spent with you
Is a moment I treasure"
Chapter 32
After when we are lying breathless on my office couch, I ask Arizona, who is still on the top of me, naked, sweaty and messy, "what was that?"
"Didn't you like that?" Arizona gives little peck on my chin craning her head upward.
"I did, but you know this wouldn't happen again." I say with a soft chuckle. Arizona suddenly pulls out from me and sits on the couch. I see that she starts wearing her hoodie and in between says, "it'll happen again, whenever I want. I want to see if you can stop me."
Hopeless I too sit on the couch. "Arizona, you need to talk to me. Something is bothering you. I know."
"So, are you asking me, what is bothering me?" She snaps at me.
"Is this the recommendation thing? I'm sorry, zona… I wouldn't do anything like this without telling you."
She comes near to me and pulls me in a warm hug, "you promise me that if there is anything, you will tell me… you'll tell me before I find out." I try to pull back to see her face, but she is pressed harder on me. And I can feel there is a little shake in her body- she is sobbing. So, I too hold her for a while.
"Zoie is just a friend." I blurt out finally. "Trust me, I'm all yours. Whatever, you have seen yesterday was a friendly gesture." I feel her body relaxes against mine. Then, I was right- her little sex-stun is the off shoot of her insecurities. This is I so dislike about her- she would never tell anything from herself.
"Do you have any more classes?" I decide to change the topic, giving myself a mental check to talk about this later, when she is in a better mood.
"No!" She finally pulls out. Her eyes are little red due to crying.
"Let me drop you home." I start wearing my shirt.
"Don't you have any work?"
"I don't have classes now and you have exhausted me so much."
"You haven't seen anything yet, Dr. Torres." Arizona starts nudging her face in the crook of my shoulder.
"Not agai…nn" I push her away playfully.
After pulling the car in front of Arizona's apartment building, I turn to her, "so?"
"So?" She asks me back.
"Give me a hug." Unbuckling the safety belt, I just take her in a bear hug. "Just call me, whenever, you need. Okay?"
She nods and heads out from the car. Then, I see Zoie walking out of the building and as soon as she sees me, she walks faster to my direction.
"Hi, Callie?"
"Hey!" I too come out from the car. Then I notice her bright red lipstick. Red has always been my favorite color. "I like your lipstick. It's suiting you."
Zoie gives me one of her mischievous grinning. "Would you like to try it?"
I laugh at this comment secretly peeking at Arizona's reaction. Apparently, she has no expression on her face.
"I was about to call you… I'm meeting few of our school friends tonight. Now that I have met you again. Why don't you join us?"
"Really? Count me in." I have not met any of them after leaving school. So, definitely I want to join.
"Cool…would you like to bring anyone else?"
I turn to Arizona, "come with me." Somehow I have a feeling that she would say yes, at least now. And, this would lessen her insecurities too.
Arizona looks at me and moments later says, "I'll… "
"Okay…deal.." I notice how Zoie is smiling looking at me- it's more of a smile of amusement- kind of smile when we know some little secret of others.
At the restaurant, after ages, I have met few of my classmates. All of them are different people now, but it seems as if, it was just yesterday. It's been half an hour that we are here, but all my concentration is on Arizona. She has come here with Zoie and both are wearing same color lipstick. Shock would be a small word to describe my feelings now. I know how much she dislikes wearing them. After some time, Arizona excuses herself to go to the washroom and I too follow her.
Peeking into the washroom, as I see there is no one, I wrap around her waist, "Are you wearing lipstick?". Before today, I have never seen her wearing lipstick. "You are looking smoking hot."
She too snakes around my waist, "it's Zoie's." Then she starts kissing my neck trailing down to the cleavage. Her mouth is warm, her lips are soft. I start laughing noticing the urgency in her movement.
"You know…you just did that few hours back…"
But she starts pushing up my skirt up, I quickly hold her hands, "Arizona? Not here…again. What's this?"
"Then where?" I see a kind of desperation in her eyes, which I have never seen before. The same thing, I have seen in the morning too.
"Come to my house after dinner." I whisper cupping her face. "Now let me go." I push her back from me.
"You cannot go like this." She grins viciously.
"Arizona…" She twirls me facing the mirror before I finish saying anything, "what will your Zoie think about this marks?" There are lipstick marks on all my neck trailing down to my chest.
"O gosh! No way!" I start wiping them with wet napkins and she again wraps around me from back and laughs popping both her dimples. "I have marked you. now you are mine." She again tries to kiss my ears.
"NO…Arizona…" I suspect that she is trying to put more lipstick marks on me.
But, suddenly someone just comes in, I quickly lean down to the sink to wash my face hiding it. Once that woman takes a stall, I lean up gently wiping out the last mark from my neck. "By the way, why are you wearing lipstick? You never liked them." I ask her looking at the mirror.
"I thought that you like lipstick." Arizona replies just before sneaking out of the bathroom door leaving me stunned. Now I know what has happened. As I have praised Zoie's lipstick in front of her, she has them too.
I come out of the washroom, deciding that I need to talk to her… soon.
A/N: And I have met a girl- she is everything I could ever think of. She just happened out of nowhere when I was about to throw my life on my lost love, when I was the least ready, when I was done with everything else. I'm still recovering, but she makes me immensely happy- happiest I was in my life ever. I hope, one day I also would be able to make her equally joyful. And, I was about to stop writing this story, but if I'm still writing, it's because of her. So, thank you for bringing yourself in my life!
