Cupcakes and Tattoos

Chapter 38

"Evangeline's Tattoos and Piercing. What can I do for you?"

"Mark?"

"Blondie?"

"Yeah..."

"Hold on, let me get Cal for you."

"No!"

"No?" Mark could tell something was wrong by the sullen sound of Arizona's voice.

"What's wrong?"

"Can you tell Callie to come home?"

"Arizona, what's wrong?"

"She just needs to come home, Mark!" Arizona snapped.

"Okay, okay. I'll tell her."

"Thanks, bye." Arizona hung up before he could say anything else.

"Hey, Cal!" Mark yelled towards the back.

"Yeah?"

"Can you come up here?" Mark asked as he flipped through the appointment book. She only has one more client today and it was something he could do. He'd just have to push back dinner with Lexie. He knew his girlfriend would understand.

"Hold on." Callie picked up the magazine she was looking at and carried it to the front with her. "What do you think about this dress?" She asked, holding it up for Mark to see.

"It's nice. Look, Cal-"

"I don't want 'nice' I want 'can't live without it'" Callie turned a few more pages. "What do you think about red?" Callie waited for an answer, but didn't receive one. "You're right. That would be overkill."

"Callie..."

"Do you think an October wedding will be too cold?" The brunette flipped a few more pages. "I mean, we can find a place inside, but still..." It was already the end of February and Callie was starting to feel like they've accomplished nothing wedding-wise. They chose an October date two weeks before Halloween and that's about it. Arizona and her one year together anniversary was coming up this weekend and she hasn't planned anything for that either. She hated being a procrastinator, but never did anything to change it.

"I think it will be perfect." Mark smiled. When Callie was in wedding mode, it was near impossible to break her out of it.

"Me too." Callie closed her magazine and threw it in the trash. It was a dud. "What did you want?"

"Blondie called and said you need to go home."

"Did she say why?"

"No, but something seemed off."

"Off how?"

"You should probably go and see."

"Okay..." Callie frowned, worry flooding her mind. She went to get her stuff and headed home. When she pulled up to their house, she saw Arizona sitting on the front steps waiting for her. She stood up when Callie got out of the car. Callie hurried over to her and she could see that she's been crying, but was now trying to act strong. "Babe, what's wrong?"

"Callie..." Arizona had no idea where to begin. She bit her bottom lip to hold in the sob that was trying to escape.

"Arizona, please tell me. You're scaring me." Callie led them to the new porch swing they just installed the weekend before and sat down.

"I'm sorry." Arizona drew in a deep breath and took Callie's hands. "When I got home from work today I could hear Sonny howling in the kitchen."

"Is he okay?" Callie frowned. Arizona would be devastated if something happened to him. He was barely over a year old.