Calzona - finding my way back to you

chapter 2- an old "friend"

I stand there staring at the woman,
"Arizona, don't you remember me?" she says as she clears her throat,
"Eliza, Eliza Minnick.." she says looking me in the eyes..

"y-yeah.. I remember- mainly the sex-" I say quietly to myself
she chuckles "what was that? you mainly remember the sex- how sweet" she says picking up her groceries from the floor.
"well I better get going, hang on here." she says as she hands me a card that has her name and number on it.

"catch you later" she says as she walks away, she turns around for a second and winks at me then turns back around and keeps walking to the check out.
I stare at her walking away, I shake my head and go over to the ice cream section.

I open the freezer doors and pull out a big tub of chocolate ice cream and make my way to the check out. I keep thinking about Eliza.. like why would she be in Seattle? or why would she give me her number-? I hand the ice cream over to the check out worker, they scan my ice cream and put it down again.

"that'll be 4.50 thanks" she says looking at me
I nod and open my wallet to find my card missing.
"oh um- hang on.." I say in a panic trying to find my card in the bottom of my wallet.
"Arizona, don't worry I've got it.." I look up to see callie tapping her card.

"Callie-" I say looking at her kind of embarrassed.
"Hey, don't worry about it- 4.50? please I make that in 2 minutes- not even.." she says chuckling and smiling at me.
"b-but we aren't-"

"shh- don't need to tell the store our life story-"
she says grabbing my ice cream and handing it to me.
"I'm sorry-" I say quickly taking the ice cream from her.
"why are you sorry?" she says curiously.
"it doesn't matter.." I say as I turn around to walk away.
"Wait!" she says grabbing onto my arm.

I turn around and look at her
"callie- you know why I'm sorry.. I've been sorry since t-the night it happened.."
her smiles fades and she just looks at me sadly.
"Arizona.. I know your sorry- I just wanted to know- ever since it happened.. why?" she says with a sad tone.
"callie.. I'm not going to explain.. not here- in a grocery store- so the whole world can hear my reasoning for cheating on my perfect wife.."
I say looking at her about to cry, I could feel the tears building up as I stared at her, the longer I stared the more tears that built up, finally a tear drops.

"A-Arizona.. how about you come over.. for dinner..." she says as she steps closer to me
"Penny..?" I say as tears roll down my face
"No Penny." she says as she wraps her arms around me softly.

( dinner at callies? alone?? that's a recipe for disaster 😏)