I like it when you ramble part 2
"We’ll take our usual Jessie,” smiled Arizona as they sat down in the same side of the booth.
“Sounds good,” Jessie, their regular waitress, smiled as she poured two cups of coffee before heading back to the kitchen.
After sitting for a few minutes in a comfortable silence Arizona finally spoke up, “Can we not talk about this now?” She hesitantly asked while continuing to stare at their linked hands on the table, “I just want to have a nice breakfast with my amazing girlfriend, then when we get home-back to your apartment”-Arizona softly added, “we can talk about it, about everything.”
“That sounds perfect,” Callie said as she extracted her hand from Arizona’s so she could put her arm around her instead. Pulling her girlfriend closer to her side, she added, “I would like nothing better babe.”
It occurred to Callie in that moment that she loved when Arizona referred to the apartment as ‘home.’ She knew right then that she couldn’t wait until a week from now, she was going to ask Arizona to move in when they talked about things later-she just had to make it look like she wasn’t just asking because Arizona had brought it up.
Jessie returned a few minutes later and set the plates down in front of them, “Spinach and mushroom eggs benedict for you Arizona, and Callie, I have a waffle topped with blueberries, raspberries and whipped cream.” She smiled, “Oops, almost forgot, here is your CranApple juice Arizona.”
Callie smiled as she watched her girlfriend’s face light up as the drink was set down in front of her. This is place where Callie had first learned about Arizona’s weird obsession with the drink.
It was the morning after Alex and Izzie’s wedding; more importantly it was the morning after their first night--‘together.' Arizona had stayed the night a few times before now but they had never gone further than some hot and heavy make out sessions. One of them would inevitably stop before going all the way and although each of them understood, it didn’t make it any less frustrating.
Finally, on the night of the wedding, they left the party early and headed to Callie’s apartment. It had been a beautiful ceremony and love was obviously in the air, but with neither of them having a close connection to the couple they felt it was okay to share their congratulations, mingle for a bit and then take off.
“So,” Callie asked as they sat down on the couch, “would you like a drink, I think we have some wine left over from dinner last night.”
“Wine sounds great, thank you Calliope.” Arizona stood up and headed in the direction of Callie’s bedroom, while Callie went to the kitchen.
When Arizona hadn’t come back out by the time Callie had poured the wine she decided to head to her bedroom as well. After she opened the door she remained still, her mouth slightly agape, her feet frozen to the floor and the wine in her hands forgotten about. Arizona stood with her back to the door, naked from the waist up as she slowly removed her dress.
She wasn’t even trying to make it look sexy, but God, that woman had a way about her. Arizona had no idea Callie was watching her undress until she heard Callie’s breath hitch from the doorway. She turned to face the other woman, smiling slightly despite her embarrassment.
“Calliope, um, I was just going to change into something more comfortable.”
When Callie still didn’t move, Arizona reached for the tank top she had laid out on the bed. As she was about to put it over her head, Callie’s whispers from the doorway stopped her movement.
“Don’t. Please,” Callie spoke, and then watched as Arizona carelessly dropped the tank top back to the bed. Arizona now stood facing Callie wearing nothing but a small pair of underwear. Callie took a cautious step forward, setting the wine glasses on dresser, but never letting her eyes lose contact with Arizona’s. “You’re beautiful.” The statement was simple and Callie said it in nothing above a whisper, but it was all that needed to be said.
They spent the rest of the night and the next morning in bed fully discovering each other’s bodies for the first time. It was beautiful and scary and perfect.
As they were lying in bed, Arizona’s stomach growled and Callie let out a laugh, “clearly the pizza from last night has worn off.”
“We have been quite busy since then Calliope,” Arizona smirked as she kissed Callie’s forehead. “You have got to be hungry too, why don’t we go out for breakfast, I know this cute little café and they have amazing waffles.”
“Sounds good to me, I’m just going to shower and then we can go,” Callie said as she sat up and pulled the blankets with her to cover herself. She wasn’t sure why she was nervous, Arizona had done some amazing things to her last night, and she clearly had to notice then that Callie was naked. Either way, she was never sure how to act the first time after sleeping with someone, so she always took the safe route-and today that meant covering herself up.
Arizona kissed Callie’s lips to bring her out of her head, and at the same time also pulled the blankets off and began to admire the beautiful woman in front of her. “It’s okay Calliope; you don’t have to be nervous. It’s just me and what happened last night doesn’t change the way I feel about you, if anything it makes me like you a little bit more.” Arizona winked hoping Callie would catch her joking tone. “Come on, you don’t need a shower either,” she leaned in to whisper seductively in Callie’s ear, “We can save that for when we get back,” she then giggled and added, “Maybe if you’re lucky I’ll even let you sing with me.”
Satisfied with herself, Arizona hopped out of bed and grabbed some clothes to wear to breakfast.
“You sing, in the shower?” Callie asked with hope in her voice.
“Wouldn’t you like to know,” Arizona’s stomach interrupted their conversation again, “Come on Calliope or I’m going without you.”
They made their way to the café with small talk about the wedding and work, Arizona was right--what had happened the night before hadn’t changed anything. Callie felt just as comfortable with Arizona and she liked it. She smiled to herself and decided it was a feeling she could get used to.
Callie sat in the booth first and instead of sitting across from her, Arizona followed her in so they were both on the same side of the table. Callie looked at her with questioning eyes.
“What?” Arizona asked innocently.
Callie smiled, ‘yup, she could definitely get used to this.’ “Nothin.”
The waitress appeared at their table a few minutes later, “Hello ladies, my name is Jessie and I’ll be your server today. Are you guys ready to order or would you like a few minutes?”
Arizona looked at Callie, who nodded, “I think we are ready,” Arizona continued, “I’ll have the spinach and mushroom eggs benedict please and can I also get a cup of coffee?”
“No problem, and for you?”
“Um, I’m going to try a waffle with blueberries, raspberries and whipped cream.” Callie smiled at Arizona before turning her attention back to the waitress, “I heard they were excellent here. Oh and can I get a coffee too please.”
“Sure thing and you won’t be disappointed with the waffle,” Jessie smiled before taking a note and letting them know it would be a few minutes for their food.
“Thanks! Oh, shoot. Jessie?”
The waitress turned around to look expectantly at Arizona, “I almost forgot, can I pa-lease have a glass of your CranApple juice?”
“You got it.”
Arizona turned triumphantly to Callie who was looking at her with question for the second time since arriving at the café.
“CranApple juice? Really?”
“Oh. My. God! Have you never had it? You HAVE to try it Calliope! It is so good, and so sweet, yum. I mean normally I don’t really like cranberries, apples of course who doesn’t love apples, but the two together? It’s seriously better than peanut butter and jelly, better than Burt and Ernie, shoot, it’s even been than beer and pizza!”
While Arizona ranted on about her love of CranApple juice Callie just watched in amazement. First of all, the woman hated sandwiches so peanut butter and jelly was a bad example, and Burt and Ernie, who over the age of 7 even remembers them anymore? Pizza and beer she could handle, but even that analogy was a stretch for Arizona considering she didn’t even like beer that much. Callie couldn’t help but smile as she watched the woman she was falling for express her love for juice.
After Arizona’s rant, their food arrived and everyone was right, the waffles were amazing. Callie tried Arizona’s juice and although it was pretty good she didn’t think it could live up to the ‘beer and pizza’ analogy Arizona had made.
Arizona paid the bill and they made their back to Callie’s apartment. Somewhere along the way Callie had grabbed Arizona’s hand and intertwined their fingers. Both women smiled for no other reason than they were happy until they made it back to Callie’s.
Arizona made a beeline for the bathroom and started the shower while Callie made her way after stopping in the kitchen. She looked at the fridge and made a mental note to buy some CranApple juice the next time she went to the store. Smiling to herself, she started to take off the t-shirt she had been wearing on her way to the bathroom.
“I love you.”
Arizona looked up to find Callie smiling at her; she smiled back, “I love you too.”
Ok, so this is not at all where I expected this chapter to go, but what can you do? I really like it and I hope you guys do too! I will continue to write and they will have their 'talk' soon. Thanks so much for reading.