Cupcakes and Tattoos

Chapter 35

"Karev, you cover Torres. Lexie you cover Georgie. Mer you got Yang. April take Owen. I'll cover Sloan," Arizona directed.

"Boss, are you serious?" Alex asked. "Sloan is like three times your size. I'll cover him."

"No, they'll be expecting that. Don't worry, I can take him. Be careful with Callie. She's ruthless and doesn't like to lose. Lexie they'll probably pass the ball off to George. He's fast, but you're faster."

"Okay." Lexie grinned.

"Um, Arizona. Owen is huge, he'll run me over." April said apprehensively.

"No he won't. He's too much of a gentleman to hurt a girl."

"I guess..."

"Okay, Team Awesome. We've got this in the bag." Arizona smiled at each of her teammates. Those artists aren't going to know what hit them. Even though practically everyone on the other team was bigger than everyone on her team, she knew her guys could outrun them.

"Why are we even doing this, Cal? I don't do sports. Or dirt. Or anything outside. And it's cold." Cristina whined. "And wet."

"Because Sloan here couldn't keep his big mouth shut." Callie scowled. He should know better than to challenge her girlfriend. Somehow while they were watching football they got into an argument over women in sports. That turned into a football game in their backyard in the drizzling rain. Arizona and Mark decided to make it shop against shop. Losing team has to do closing cleaning duties for the winning shop for a week.

"Blondie was the one who started it, not me."

"Mark, you told her girls can't play football."

"They can't!"

"We can too!" Callie punched Mark in the arm. "And you know it. I've beat your ass on more than one occasion."

"Yeah, but you're not a normal girl, Cal."

"Let's just win this thing so we can go back inside. I have a Thanksgiving feast to prepare for you idiots." Callie had to admit she loved a good competition and getting down and dirty with her girlfriend didn't seem so bad either. "Okay, Karev is their biggest player and I think I've heard him say he played in high school. He's the one to watch out for. We all know Mer is as useless as Yang-"

"Hey!" Cristina tried to be offended, but knew it was true.

"You two just sat in the outfield in that charity softball game against Southridge last year watching the clouds roll bye. And don't even think I didn't notice the flask you were trying to hide in your glove."

"We won, didn't we?" Cristina actually had fun at that game. It might have been the booze though.

"No thanks to you. Now, as I was saying, Mer we don't have to worry about. I'm not sure about April. It seems like she could go either way. I know Lexie is fast. Arizona is also quick on her feet and she does not like to lose. Watch out for dirty tricks from her."

"I'm sure you have some dirty tricks up your sleeve too."

"Of course, Momo." Callie grinned. "All's fair in love and war."

"What's the first play?"

"They're going to expect us to hand off to George, but Mark, you're going to just run the ball. Your legs are longer than Karev's, so you can easily outrun him. Yang, just try and stay out of the way."

"Yeah, yeah." Cristina rolled her eyes. If she would have known she'd be force into another sport, she would have brought her flask. She had to settle on aluminum water bottle she found in Callie's kitchen. At least it had a clip on it, so she was able to clip it onto her belt loop.