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Everything Has Changed
Callie POV
I woke up the morning after Mariana's quincera and could hear Brandon playing on his keyboard. Quiet yet loudly through the walls. I laid there and thought about what he had said yesterday it was all to much to think about this early. I turned and looked at the alarm clock blinking 4:32. I grunted as I rolled out of bed which I guess was pretty loud because Mariana snored a little louder and fidgeted in her bed. I took the hairband off my wrist and gathered up my curly morning hair, not caring what I looked like and grabbed my phone shoved it into my pocket. I opened the door secretly as to not wake up Mariana, I took one step out of the door decorated all Mariana style and then heard another door close across from me. I looked up.
"Oh, hi."
"S-sorry was I too loud, I had my headphones in." Brandon whispered.
"No, it's fine. Don't worry about it I was on my way downstairs to get some water anyways."
"Okay, mind if I join you?"
"No." I said while walking down the stairs.
I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a cup from the cabinet and set it on the counter. I didn't realize how close he was to me because I bumped into him again. I moved around him without a word and grabbed the pitcher of purified water from the refrigerator. I poured me a glass and sat down while he was getting him one as well. He sat down next to me.
"You don't have to stay you know."
"But I want to, plus I need a break from practicing anyway."
"That's right you have the audition with that guy next week."
"Ha, yes I do – "
I could tell he was going to say something about yesterday and Tayla and her reading my journal and Liam, but I don't want to talk about it.
" Look Brandon before you say anything about my journal and Tayla reading it, don't. I don't want to talk about what is in it and I don't want you to bring it up. I lived in a world where good kids like you get eaten for breakfast and you don't want me to go there, you couldn't handle it. You wouldn't survive all the things I've done. You think I am a good person I'm not, and what was written in my journal could get me and Jude in another foster home. I don't want to do that to him, he really likes Stef and Lena."
I looked up at him, I didn't realize I was staring at my water the whole time. He looked scared, confused maybe.
Then he looked into my eyes like he was staring into my soul, my darkest past, and whispered. "Callie I don't care what you've done, who, when, where, or how bad, it's who you are now that matters to me. Those are just demons you have to deal with, everyone does."
Something in my phone started buzzing just as I opened my mouth to respond. My alarm was going off at 5:15. 'Had we really been talking that long'.
"I need to go take a shower before Mariana gets in there you know how long she takes."
I darted up the stairs and closed the bathroom door so fast it felt as if I was flying.
