Cupcakes and Tattoos

Chapter 7

"Alright team, we should really get busy." Arizona started to clean up.

"Here, I'll help you." Callie stood up and started to gather the coffee mugs and muffin wrappers.

"You don't have to do that. That's what these guys are paid for." She looked around at her crew. They got the hint and jumped up ready to work. Arizona sat back down to watch her little worker bees.

"George did you call my appointments to reschedule?" Callie asked.

"I haven't had a chance yet. I'll go over and do that now.

"Thanks George. Cristina go with him and check the supply order."

"No way! I'm not scheduled until noon."

"I don't care, go do it!" Callie was still pissed at her from last night.

"Fine, Madame President."

Callie rolled her eyes, "Mark please go with her and make sure she doesn't screw it up. Mer, go do whatever it is you do."

They all left, leaving Arizona and Callie alone at the table. "It's great being the boss sometimes, isn't it?"

Arizona laughed, "It sure is."

"So does the boss of this joint get time off?"

"She does! We're closed on Mondays, so we all get a day off."

Callie had already known the answer, she had checked the hours on the door before they came in. "What a coincidence! We're closed Mondays too." Callie stalled for a minute. "Would you like to go somewhere with me Monday morning? I'd like to show you something," she asked nervously.

"I would love to go somewhere with you." Arizona tried to keep her voice neutral. She didn't want to show Callie how excited she was. Be cool, Robbins, be cool. Don't be a dweeb.

"Great, it's a date!" Callie couldn't help the huge smile that spread across her face.

"Date?" Arizona teased.

Callie's face instantly fell. "Well, yeah. I meant it to be a date. I mean we could go as just friends, if you want to just do that. I'd still like to show you. I'm good with friends..." She was rambling and she knew it.

"Calliope! I was joking. Of course it's a date."

"You suck at jokes."

"There you go insulting me again!"

"Why are you calling me that?"

"Why not? It is your name, isn't it?"

"Only my sister really called me that. I haven't heard it much since she passed away," she said with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Oh I'm sorry. I'll stop if it makes you sad."

"No it makes me happy. You make me happy," Callie smiled.

Arizona matched her smile, "You make me happy too, Calliope."

Callie shifted in her seat. She was nervous about her next question. "Why haven't you had your back finished? I mean, it's been a few years?"

Arizona didn't really know how to answer that. It was her brother's art and only his. It seemed obvious to her why. How could anyone else finish it? "There's no one else I trust enough to do it."

"I could do it, if you want."

"No thank you, it's fine the way it is." Arizona snapped.