Personal Legend

Chapter 2: her's and mine

AMELIA POV.
I walk into the living room and Arizona is sitting on the couch munching on some fruit snacks. I'm pretty sure it's her fourth little pack.
"I keep my promises right?"
Arizona nods and stuffs another little green fruit snack into her mouth.
I reach into the box that sits at her feet and grab a pack of fruit snacks for myself.
"Anyways so your personal legend" I start to say as I rip my pack open.
"Right my personal legend" Arizona looks up at me with pondering eyes

"your personal legend is basically like your dream. " I chew on a fruit snack before I continue.
"It's something you really want. It's your most important dream"
Arizona nods and then smiles. "That's so deep"
I smile . I'm happy that she likes it.

I get up and walk to the other side of the room and stand infront of the book shelf. I run my fingers cross the edges of the wood and frown at the dust that appears on my finger tips. I needed to dust more. I stop sulking over the dust and pull out a book.
I wave my hands over it to make sure it doesn't also have piles of dust on it.

"Here" I say handing over the book with its ragged edges. "This is how I know what a personal legend is"
Arizona takes the book in her hands and just looks it over for a minute before saying the title out loud to me as if she was introducing the book to me for the first time.
"The Alchemist" she says , her voice full of wonder and what I hinted was pure excitement.
"I thought you'd like it"
She nods. "I do"
"Great" I smile at her as she looks at her book.

She doesn't look up for a while because she is flipping pages and trying to figure out how she will find time to read in between surgeries.

I walk out of the room and into the kitchen to grab something to drink.

I get two waters.

"Hey. Are you and Robbins a thing?" Derek sits at the counter and grabs one of the waters I had in my hand.
"That wasn't for you" I say crossing my arms.
"You are avoiding the question" Derek opens the water even after I told him that it wasn't his.
I roll my eyes. "We aren't a thing".
Derek nods. Screwing the top on his , I mean Arizonas water.
"But you want it to be ?"
I look at him for a second thinking about this.
Finally I nod. "I do"
My brother smiles and pats me on the back. "Go for it."
He gets up and takes the water bottle with him.

I roll my eyes playfully and go to grab Arizona another water.

"Where did you go?" Arizona looks up at me as I walk back into the room with a water bottle in each hand.
I hold up my hands. "Water"
"What did you have to do? Cook it?"
She's joking. We've never joked with each other before. Arizona was right when she said we only really interacted when it was dealing with a consult or work stuff.

I shrug. "Cooking water takes a lot of dedication you know?"
She laughs at my return of the joke and slumps farther down into the couch as I hand her , her bottle of water.

"Tell me Ame-"
"I've been thinking" I interrupt her. "You want me to call you Arizona and not Dr.Robbins. So I've been thinking. I want you to call me Amy"
Arizona only looks at me for a second.
"Amy?"
I nod. "It's a nick name "
"Okay Amy" she says trying to figure out which way to say it and what tone she should use.
"So tell you what?" I ask referring back to what she was going to say.

"Oh right" she pipes up as if she had almost forgotten something important but had remembered just in time. "So tell me Amy. What are your preferences?"

She was asking if I was into girls. I stare at her before replying. She had really beautiful hair and these bright eyes. Her hands were soft. Really soft. I had realized that after I held her hand.

My preferences.

"I mean I know you talk to Owen right?" Her words felt like salt on cuts when she mentioned Owen.
She and Owen did in fact talk. But just talk. She wasn't even sure if she wanted to talk to Owen anymore.
"Owen is nice" I say , not really knowing what the blonde wanted me to say about this man.
"But ?" Arizona is somehow closer to me than she was at first.
"But .... I feel like theirs nothing to pursue with him."
Arizona nods.
I look over and she is yawning. She looks like a little kid that missed nap time.
I grab the remote and turn on a movie. Arizona pulls her feet up onto the couch and I do the same.
Next thing I know Arizonas head is on my shoulder , and I'm no longer able to concentrate on the movie.
Her head is getting heavy so I can tell that she is slowly but surely falling asleep.

"I like girls also"
Arizona is half asleep. "Huh"
I continue even though I'm pretty sure that Arizona will fall asleep. "I like girls"
I look at the tv screen for a minute waiting for Arizona to reply , but she doesn't.
I figure that I'm just talking to myself but I keep talking anyway. "I like you"
I huff happy that I got that off my chest.
"I always have"
I feel the heavy girl on my shoulder weighing it down.
" you are my personal legend "

"I think you might be mine too" Arizona says and then yawns. My shoulder gets heavier and I'm pretty positive that the little child like adult is fast asleep.