Unexpected Love 3/?
Title: Unexpected Love 3/?
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13 for now (language)
Summary: AU - Arizona and Callie meet at boarding school.
Disclaimer: All television shows, books, movies, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work and the characters, events, and settings thereof are the properties of their respective owners. This is for entertainment purposes only, no profit is being made.
A/N 1: This is my first time posting anything so if anyone has tips or anything, please give me them :). I wanna give a thanks to my beta brennaaimee
A/N 2: This one is dedicated to a update hungry animal aka. jessicaslover26
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Well that was strange, especially the sounds she was making. So I decided to let it slide, maybe I didn’t have to know why she made them. However it was a bit of a turn on hearing them - strange I know.
I pick out the black dress since it is more low-cut. I am wearing my hair down and I didn’t go heavy on the make-up. Just some blush and mascara to highlight my eyes. I probably should make a good first impression on the people. I’m hardcore but still I always end up sitting in the back of the class and eat my hair for some reason. It’s my badassness that scares off people, they just can’t handle being around someone so much more badass than them. Still I have the low self-esteem, so I just sit in the back.
I decide to put on my D&G perfume just for show. Usually I don’t like to show off my parents money but this school feels so preppy somehow that I have too. I can’t believe we have school uniforms; I’m going to look like a total geek in it.
I hear the door open and Arizona comes out. She’s wearing a pink dress that is pretty short and has some nice cleavage. She’s wearing her hair down and her curls are just so adorable. I can smell her perfume it’s Escada. Somehow she is so predictable with the pink dress and the fruity perfume. I wonder if she chose that dress for me. No she didn’t, she’s straight and I’m straight so she probably wants to impress the rest too. Not that she needs to; girls that look like her don’t have to impress anyone it’s done already.
“What?” She asks with a big grin that is showing of her dimples. She totally caught me staring at her.
“Uh..nothing…” I say and simply turn around trying to avoid her gaze.
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Okay that was weird. First she stared at me like she wanted to rip this dress of me and then she just dissed me and turned around. Maybe the dress doesn’t look as good on me as I think it does. I just don’t get why she’s playing so hot and cold all of the time. I mean I wish that she’s gay too, but it’s hard to read her when she’s sending me these mixed signals. I just have to be brave and go for it and I’ll see then if she’s gay or not. I know which buttons to push.
“You look really really nice Calliope.” I say trying to make her somehow realize that I am being flirty.
“Uhm..thanks Arizona, you look nice too.” She says and I can see her blush a little.
“Thanks! I really wanted to look good. I mean everybody here is privileged and I don’t want them to think less of me.” I don’t know why I told her that, but somehow I wanted her to know.
“Really?” She says and all I can do is nod at her before she continues.
“I mean I didn’t get that feeling at all. How come you’re here then? I don’t think everybody here is privileged Arizona. You shouldn’t worry about those things.” I can see she says it wanting to cheer me up.
“Well my dad is in the military and somehow he managed to get them to pay for my tuition. I’m not poor or anything, I’m just not upper class. I’m here because I wanted to stop changing schools every six months and there aren’t a lot of boarding schools for the middle class.” I want her somehow to know that I’m not like everybody else here. She’s probably privileged, but she doesn’t come off as it at all.
“Wow a military kid? I did not see that coming actually.” She laughs before continuing. “I can tell you Arizona, being privileged isn’t always a good thing. It’s not as fun as people think. Having a dad giving you his black Amex just so you don’t disturb him while he’s working 24/7 and having a mom that thinks botox is more important than her own daughter isn’t as fun as it sounds. Now I sound like the ‘poor little rich kid’, but it really isn’t the dreamy life that everybody thinks it is. They still are my family and I wouldn’t trade them for the world, I would only trade the money.” She says looking pretty sad and I just want to hug her. No scratch that I want to kiss her, but I can’t, not yet anyways.
“Yeah I can understand that Calliope.” That’s all I can say and then there’s silence. I honestly don’t know what else to say. I should probably kill the silence now.
“I would never think less of you.” She says suddenly looking at me intently. I’m so focused right now that I don’t even know what she is talking about.
“Uhm..what?” I say with a dumbfounded face. I’m such a failure, I was supposed to seduce her and now I look like a dumb blonde.
“I just…I mean I would never think less of you because you don’t have stacks of money. It’s not how much people have on their bank account that matters the most. It’s what they have in their heart. Wow that sounded really corny now didn’t it?” She says looking at me embarrassed and smiling softly.
“Thanks that means a lot. Honestly it sounds corny, but I’ve always been a sucker for corny.” I wink after saying it and she blushes. I think I know now how she feels about my flirting.
The conversation ends there pretty abruptly and we just decide to go to the party.
[20 minutes later]
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I can’t believe I told her about my parents’ money, usually that’s something I avoid talking about. I just hope she doesn’t think I’m a spoiled brat now. When I said that I sounded like the poor little rich kid, she didn’t deny it. I however wanted her to know that I don’t care about money at all.
When we walk in the ballroom I see all of the people that I’m going to spend the next few years with. There are teachers, students and a lot of catering people in here. A catering servant comes up to us with appetizers. Arizona makes a funny face at them, but takes one un-willingly.
“What the hell is this?” She says with a frown and a little disgust.
“Welcome to the dark side Arizona.” I say with a wink and she bursts out laughing.
“What?” I ask with a smile.
“Seriously Callie? You’re quoting the O.C?” She says with a bright smile.
“Well I always had a crush on Seth.” I really did. There was always something so attractive about his funny humor. The fact that he loved videogames and comic books was nice too.
“Really? I always had a thing for Ryan and his badassness. He’s probably the only guy I ever felt like that for.” She says and I can see a change in her face instantly, like she caught herself saying something she shouldn’t have said. The only guy she ever felt like that for. Well that explains the flirting and staring. I don’t get the chance to say anything before a blonde girl walks up to us.
“Hi Arizona, remember me? I’m Lexie we met today.” She says with a smile.
“Hi of course I remember you Lexie.” Arizona says with a smile that I’m not really satisfied with. Am I jealous? I really feel like a third wheel right now. I mean Lexie doesn’t really give Arizona any stares, but Arizona’s eyes are all over Lexie’s body. I consider just walking away, but I don’t get the chance before Arizona wakes up.
“Uhm Lexie this is Callio…eh Callie.” Thank God. The last thing that I need is everybody knowing that my name is Calliope. I mouth a thank you to her and she just nods.
“Hi Callie it’s nice to meet you.” She says with a big smile.
“Nice to meet you too Lexie are you new here too?” I might as well give her some small talk.
“Yes I just arrived today. I’m going to go and get my roommate I think you guys are going to like her.”
With that she leaves and now Arizona and I are just standing in complete silence. I feel like I should say something especially about the whole one guy thing, but somehow I don’t want to pressure her into telling me something. Maybe I’m just over thinking it. I don’t know how long we are just standing there looking at the crowd, but I’m really glad to see Lexie returning. She has a tall skinny blonde with her.
“So guys, this is Teddy, my roomie. Teddy this is Callie and Arizona. They just arrived today too.” Talk about over enthusiastic.
“Hi Teddy, it’s nice to meet you.” Arizona and I say in unison which is pretty strange. We all start laughing and I just can't stop looking at Arizona and how cute her laugh is.
“Yeah it’s nice to meet you too. I think that you guys are the first sane people I have met today.” She says with a smile.
“Heey! What about me?” Lexie asks with a disappointed face.
“You’re really nice Lexie, but I don’t want to lie to you. You’re not so sane.” She says trying to make Lexie feel better. This strangely enough is working because Lexie is beaming.
“Yeah you’re right. Well I’m really hungry now. Teddy, let’s go.” With that she grabs Teddy and walks away. Now Arizona and I are standing alone again.
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Well Teddy seemed nice and Lexie looked really beautiful tonight. I looked like a fool staring at her and I could feel the tension from Calliope. If I didn’t know better I would actually think that she was a little jealous. This honestly makes me happy. Thank God for Lexie’s rescue before however. I could feel Calliope’s questioning stare after I slipped and said that Ryan was the only guy I ever felt something for. It wasn’t even a real person. It was a tv-character. I want to tell her I’m gay, but I want to wait a bit first.
“Do you want a drink Calliope?” I ask.
“Uhm..sure, but I don’t think they serve alcohol.” She says with a frown.
“Well someone probably brought good old Jack Daniels with them and made the punch better.” I say with a wink and walk away.
I was right of course. I poured some in two glasses and tasted it. I could feel that someone put in a whole bottle and it honestly was too strong, but I’m going to need the liquid courage. Usually I don’t do alcohol, but Calliope makes me really nervous. I return with the glasses and give one to her. She tastes it and starts to cough.
“Geeez Arizona what is this? It’s too much alcohol in it.” She says and I can see that her eyes are tearing up because of the strength of the drink. I just laugh it off.
“Oh come on Calliope, have you looked at the people here? Lexie and Teddy are the only we’ve met and I have a strong feeling that they are the only normal ones here. The rest just look like the girls from mean girls.” I say and trying to convince her. I’m not promoting alcohol or anything, but we both are going to need to be pretty drunk for me to be able to come clean to her. She looks at me and the frown changes to a smile.
“Yeah you’re probably right Arizona.” She downs her drink. “Refill?” She asks me and takes my glass and moves over to the punch bowl.
[2 hours later]
Now I really feel like I’m at the top. These last two hours we had a lot of fun and while I went to the ladies room well the bathroom since it’s an all-girl school Calliope went out. I go out to the garden and I see her standing there just looking out over the lake.
“Hi.” I say when I approach her, she just looks out on the water and I suddenly get a bit worried.
“Is everything okay? Do you feel sick? I shouldn’t have made you drink that much.” I say and I feel bad because I gave her that much to drink.
“No Arizona you didn’t make me drink too much, I feel fine. I’m just taking in the view. Just look at the moonlight reflecting at the water and the night is so clear that you can see every star in the sky. Isn’t it beautiful?” She asks without taking her eyes of the water. I don’t even look at the lake I just look at her and I’m taking in her beauty.
“It really is.” I’m looking at her and she turns around to face me with a smile. We are standing facing each other now and I can feel the tension we’re making. She licks her lips and just looks deeply in my eyes. It’s now or never Arizona. I lean in and our lips just brush against each other at first. I can feel her strawberry lip gloss. Before I know it the kiss is more than just lips brushing against each other, I grab her by the waist and continue kissing her. She’s actually kissing me back, but before I know it she just pushes me away.
“I...I’m sorry I can’t do this Arizona.” She says with sadness in her eyes and just turns around and runs over to our dorm.
What the hell just happened?
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13 for now (language)
Summary: AU - Arizona and Callie meet at boarding school.
Disclaimer: All television shows, books, movies, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work and the characters, events, and settings thereof are the properties of their respective owners. This is for entertainment purposes only, no profit is being made.
A/N 1: This is my first time posting anything so if anyone has tips or anything, please give me them :). I wanna give a thanks to my beta brennaaimee
A/N 2: This one is dedicated to a update hungry animal aka. jessicaslover26
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Well that was strange, especially the sounds she was making. So I decided to let it slide, maybe I didn’t have to know why she made them. However it was a bit of a turn on hearing them - strange I know.
I pick out the black dress since it is more low-cut. I am wearing my hair down and I didn’t go heavy on the make-up. Just some blush and mascara to highlight my eyes. I probably should make a good first impression on the people. I’m hardcore but still I always end up sitting in the back of the class and eat my hair for some reason. It’s my badassness that scares off people, they just can’t handle being around someone so much more badass than them. Still I have the low self-esteem, so I just sit in the back.
I decide to put on my D&G perfume just for show. Usually I don’t like to show off my parents money but this school feels so preppy somehow that I have too. I can’t believe we have school uniforms; I’m going to look like a total geek in it.
I hear the door open and Arizona comes out. She’s wearing a pink dress that is pretty short and has some nice cleavage. She’s wearing her hair down and her curls are just so adorable. I can smell her perfume it’s Escada. Somehow she is so predictable with the pink dress and the fruity perfume. I wonder if she chose that dress for me. No she didn’t, she’s straight and I’m straight so she probably wants to impress the rest too. Not that she needs to; girls that look like her don’t have to impress anyone it’s done already.
“What?” She asks with a big grin that is showing of her dimples. She totally caught me staring at her.
“Uh..nothing…” I say and simply turn around trying to avoid her gaze.
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Okay that was weird. First she stared at me like she wanted to rip this dress of me and then she just dissed me and turned around. Maybe the dress doesn’t look as good on me as I think it does. I just don’t get why she’s playing so hot and cold all of the time. I mean I wish that she’s gay too, but it’s hard to read her when she’s sending me these mixed signals. I just have to be brave and go for it and I’ll see then if she’s gay or not. I know which buttons to push.
“You look really really nice Calliope.” I say trying to make her somehow realize that I am being flirty.
“Uhm..thanks Arizona, you look nice too.” She says and I can see her blush a little.
“Thanks! I really wanted to look good. I mean everybody here is privileged and I don’t want them to think less of me.” I don’t know why I told her that, but somehow I wanted her to know.
“Really?” She says and all I can do is nod at her before she continues.
“I mean I didn’t get that feeling at all. How come you’re here then? I don’t think everybody here is privileged Arizona. You shouldn’t worry about those things.” I can see she says it wanting to cheer me up.
“Well my dad is in the military and somehow he managed to get them to pay for my tuition. I’m not poor or anything, I’m just not upper class. I’m here because I wanted to stop changing schools every six months and there aren’t a lot of boarding schools for the middle class.” I want her somehow to know that I’m not like everybody else here. She’s probably privileged, but she doesn’t come off as it at all.
“Wow a military kid? I did not see that coming actually.” She laughs before continuing. “I can tell you Arizona, being privileged isn’t always a good thing. It’s not as fun as people think. Having a dad giving you his black Amex just so you don’t disturb him while he’s working 24/7 and having a mom that thinks botox is more important than her own daughter isn’t as fun as it sounds. Now I sound like the ‘poor little rich kid’, but it really isn’t the dreamy life that everybody thinks it is. They still are my family and I wouldn’t trade them for the world, I would only trade the money.” She says looking pretty sad and I just want to hug her. No scratch that I want to kiss her, but I can’t, not yet anyways.
“Yeah I can understand that Calliope.” That’s all I can say and then there’s silence. I honestly don’t know what else to say. I should probably kill the silence now.
“I would never think less of you.” She says suddenly looking at me intently. I’m so focused right now that I don’t even know what she is talking about.
“Uhm..what?” I say with a dumbfounded face. I’m such a failure, I was supposed to seduce her and now I look like a dumb blonde.
“I just…I mean I would never think less of you because you don’t have stacks of money. It’s not how much people have on their bank account that matters the most. It’s what they have in their heart. Wow that sounded really corny now didn’t it?” She says looking at me embarrassed and smiling softly.
“Thanks that means a lot. Honestly it sounds corny, but I’ve always been a sucker for corny.” I wink after saying it and she blushes. I think I know now how she feels about my flirting.
The conversation ends there pretty abruptly and we just decide to go to the party.
[20 minutes later]
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I can’t believe I told her about my parents’ money, usually that’s something I avoid talking about. I just hope she doesn’t think I’m a spoiled brat now. When I said that I sounded like the poor little rich kid, she didn’t deny it. I however wanted her to know that I don’t care about money at all.
When we walk in the ballroom I see all of the people that I’m going to spend the next few years with. There are teachers, students and a lot of catering people in here. A catering servant comes up to us with appetizers. Arizona makes a funny face at them, but takes one un-willingly.
“What the hell is this?” She says with a frown and a little disgust.
“Welcome to the dark side Arizona.” I say with a wink and she bursts out laughing.
“What?” I ask with a smile.
“Seriously Callie? You’re quoting the O.C?” She says with a bright smile.
“Well I always had a crush on Seth.” I really did. There was always something so attractive about his funny humor. The fact that he loved videogames and comic books was nice too.
“Really? I always had a thing for Ryan and his badassness. He’s probably the only guy I ever felt like that for.” She says and I can see a change in her face instantly, like she caught herself saying something she shouldn’t have said. The only guy she ever felt like that for. Well that explains the flirting and staring. I don’t get the chance to say anything before a blonde girl walks up to us.
“Hi Arizona, remember me? I’m Lexie we met today.” She says with a smile.
“Hi of course I remember you Lexie.” Arizona says with a smile that I’m not really satisfied with. Am I jealous? I really feel like a third wheel right now. I mean Lexie doesn’t really give Arizona any stares, but Arizona’s eyes are all over Lexie’s body. I consider just walking away, but I don’t get the chance before Arizona wakes up.
“Uhm Lexie this is Callio…eh Callie.” Thank God. The last thing that I need is everybody knowing that my name is Calliope. I mouth a thank you to her and she just nods.
“Hi Callie it’s nice to meet you.” She says with a big smile.
“Nice to meet you too Lexie are you new here too?” I might as well give her some small talk.
“Yes I just arrived today. I’m going to go and get my roommate I think you guys are going to like her.”
With that she leaves and now Arizona and I are just standing in complete silence. I feel like I should say something especially about the whole one guy thing, but somehow I don’t want to pressure her into telling me something. Maybe I’m just over thinking it. I don’t know how long we are just standing there looking at the crowd, but I’m really glad to see Lexie returning. She has a tall skinny blonde with her.
“So guys, this is Teddy, my roomie. Teddy this is Callie and Arizona. They just arrived today too.” Talk about over enthusiastic.
“Hi Teddy, it’s nice to meet you.” Arizona and I say in unison which is pretty strange. We all start laughing and I just can't stop looking at Arizona and how cute her laugh is.
“Yeah it’s nice to meet you too. I think that you guys are the first sane people I have met today.” She says with a smile.
“Heey! What about me?” Lexie asks with a disappointed face.
“You’re really nice Lexie, but I don’t want to lie to you. You’re not so sane.” She says trying to make Lexie feel better. This strangely enough is working because Lexie is beaming.
“Yeah you’re right. Well I’m really hungry now. Teddy, let’s go.” With that she grabs Teddy and walks away. Now Arizona and I are standing alone again.
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Well Teddy seemed nice and Lexie looked really beautiful tonight. I looked like a fool staring at her and I could feel the tension from Calliope. If I didn’t know better I would actually think that she was a little jealous. This honestly makes me happy. Thank God for Lexie’s rescue before however. I could feel Calliope’s questioning stare after I slipped and said that Ryan was the only guy I ever felt something for. It wasn’t even a real person. It was a tv-character. I want to tell her I’m gay, but I want to wait a bit first.
“Do you want a drink Calliope?” I ask.
“Uhm..sure, but I don’t think they serve alcohol.” She says with a frown.
“Well someone probably brought good old Jack Daniels with them and made the punch better.” I say with a wink and walk away.
I was right of course. I poured some in two glasses and tasted it. I could feel that someone put in a whole bottle and it honestly was too strong, but I’m going to need the liquid courage. Usually I don’t do alcohol, but Calliope makes me really nervous. I return with the glasses and give one to her. She tastes it and starts to cough.
“Geeez Arizona what is this? It’s too much alcohol in it.” She says and I can see that her eyes are tearing up because of the strength of the drink. I just laugh it off.
“Oh come on Calliope, have you looked at the people here? Lexie and Teddy are the only we’ve met and I have a strong feeling that they are the only normal ones here. The rest just look like the girls from mean girls.” I say and trying to convince her. I’m not promoting alcohol or anything, but we both are going to need to be pretty drunk for me to be able to come clean to her. She looks at me and the frown changes to a smile.
“Yeah you’re probably right Arizona.” She downs her drink. “Refill?” She asks me and takes my glass and moves over to the punch bowl.
[2 hours later]
Now I really feel like I’m at the top. These last two hours we had a lot of fun and while I went to the ladies room well the bathroom since it’s an all-girl school Calliope went out. I go out to the garden and I see her standing there just looking out over the lake.
“Hi.” I say when I approach her, she just looks out on the water and I suddenly get a bit worried.
“Is everything okay? Do you feel sick? I shouldn’t have made you drink that much.” I say and I feel bad because I gave her that much to drink.
“No Arizona you didn’t make me drink too much, I feel fine. I’m just taking in the view. Just look at the moonlight reflecting at the water and the night is so clear that you can see every star in the sky. Isn’t it beautiful?” She asks without taking her eyes of the water. I don’t even look at the lake I just look at her and I’m taking in her beauty.
“It really is.” I’m looking at her and she turns around to face me with a smile. We are standing facing each other now and I can feel the tension we’re making. She licks her lips and just looks deeply in my eyes. It’s now or never Arizona. I lean in and our lips just brush against each other at first. I can feel her strawberry lip gloss. Before I know it the kiss is more than just lips brushing against each other, I grab her by the waist and continue kissing her. She’s actually kissing me back, but before I know it she just pushes me away.
“I...I’m sorry I can’t do this Arizona.” She says with sadness in her eyes and just turns around and runs over to our dorm.
What the hell just happened?