Lynx Book 2: A Callie Torres Story

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"Calliope, you are not helping me at all," Jada huffed as she hung another pair of jeans up in the closet.

"I'm okay right here," Callie replied. She reached behind her head and pulled the pillows upward so she could see Jada across the room. "I'm nice and comfortable and I have a nice view."

Jada rolled her eyes. They were leaving tonight for their two week trip across the country and into Europe. She was not packed and was asking for Callie's help in choosing outfits. Callie laid in bed with her head propped up against the pillow and was very clearly enjoying Jada walking around in a bra and underwear.

"I just don't know what to wear," Jada groaned as she flipped through clothes in the closet.

"Don't wear anything," Callie teased. "I think you look pretty hot right now."

Without turning around, Jada held up her arm and formed her hand into the middle finger, and happily flipped off her wife.

"You could be sticking that finger somewhere else other than up in the air," Callie joked.

"Just shut up Calliope."

Callie chuckled to herself. "Babe, you are so beautiful. You're going to look just as beautiful with whatever you choose to wear. Wear what you want to wear, not what you feel like you need to wear in order to fit in. You are amazing, you are beautiful, and you stop time wherever you are. You're going to get the looks of girls wishing they were you. Because you're so damn cute and adorable."

"That's really romantic Callie," Jada huffed as she dug out another shirt. "I forgot I had this."

"Babe."

Jada took a deep breath. "I know, you're right."

Callie flipped off the covers and sat up in bed. "Do you want me to take Sof to work? Or do you want her?"

"How long are you going to be gone?" Jada asked as Callie stood up and began walking towards her.

"Only a few hours," she replied. "I just want to make sure they're not going to burn the place down when I'm out of the country."

They both laughed. "You can take her," Jada decided. "I'm probably going to have one last stream before we leave. And I still need to pack my gaming laptops," she said. "You chose hotels with good wifi right?"

Callie raised an eyebrow. "I'll let the hotel bill answer that question for you," she teased.

"Calliope," Jada groaned as she playfully rolled her eyes. "You know you chose to plan this around when I had to go to Twitch Con."

"I know but it's only two days. We have almost a week in Paris to ourselves after that." She then added, "I just have to deal with sharing you for two days."

This years Twitch Con was in Paris. And this was Jada's first time going out of the country for the event. Jada was excited to meet her fans and more of the biggest Twitch streamers in the world. She had never been overseas, only out of the country to Mexico for her wife's family. Callie and Jada were taking a two week long vacation.

They were leaving tonight and flying cross country to New York City. They would be spending the day in New York before flying to London where they planned on staying a night to explore the city. And then to Paris. On the way back, they planned on staying a few days in New York City. For someone who wasn't much of a city girl anymore, Jada loved New York City. NYC was her favorite city outside of Los Angeles and Seattle.

Jada walked up to Callie and pressed a gentle kiss to her lips. "You're going to be right there by my side the entire time."

"Really?"

She nodded. "I wouldn't want it anyway else." Jada then added, "people are probably going to want to meet you too."

•••

"You sure you and Kate don't want to come?" Callie asked Arizona after they were interrupted by Sofia.

"I wish," Arizona answered with a sigh. "I need a break. But Kate and I have so much wedding planning to finish up."

"Jada wants to go to Chanel."

"Tell her if she rubs it in one more time I'm going to make her buy me something," Arizona teased.

"Oh don't worry, we still have to get you two a wedding gift."

Arizona's face went white. "Calliope Iphegenia Torres."

Callie broke out in laughter. "It's the least we can do since the two of you want Sofia for a few days."

"Well we need a test run with a child," Arizona said quietly with a smile. "So why not a child you can just give back if it goes to shit?"

Laughter erupted in the room and even distracted little Sofia from playing with her toys.

"I told Sofia that if she was good for her Grandma and Aunt Arizona and Aunt Kate that she would get a surprise. So if she's not good, please tell me."

"We're going to have a lot of fun while your moms are gone, isn't that right Sofia?" Arizona asked across Callie's office.

"Yes Aunt Zona!"

"Thanks again for offering to take her off Michelle's hands for a few days. Help yourself to anything in the house and in my office. You're more than welcome to work up here while I'm gone. I'm sure it'll be a lot quieter for you. And don't hesitate to call if you need to. I'll have my pager on for high priority."

"I think I'm going to take you up on your offer of letting me borrow your office," Arizona said as she stood up and walked around the big desk before plopping down in the chair. "Starting now."

•••

"I think I have everything," Jada said aloud as she closed the last bag. "I have my clothes in with yours in your bag. I have my laptops, keyboard, mouse, headset, mousepad, all the chargers and wires to everything. I have the gimbals, tripod, vlogging cameras, camera batteries and memory cards. And that's all in the titanium suitcase."

She walked around to the other bag. "And the lady from Twitch Con got back to me, all the merchandise and Metal Umbrella stuff arrived already."

Callie caught Jada as she walked by and wrapped her arms around her. "Relax babe, you have everything. You double checked and had me check too."

"Okay," she said as she looked up. "Sof, you want to sit in the back with me on the ride to the airport?"

"Yes mommy!"