Hey, so this is my first ever The Fosters story and I love reading fanficion for it so I wrote a little something of my own. This is basically a bunch of little one-shot of all the characters. The first chapter is just the kids spending another night alone together, but no party this time. There will be some confrontation of some problems that occurred. This chapter takes place after the episode 'Play' but before the next episode 'Say Something.'
"And if there is another broken window, or door, or whatever else you could shatter, don't even dream about being alone together again," Stef said as she crossed her hands over her chest staring at her five children.
Lena came down the stairs with her purse, her stomach slightly bigger already. Lena and Stef were going for a nice dinner and then staying at a small hotel for the night, considering that the last getaway they had there was a slight tension until the end of the baby-moon.
"Alright, we should get going before our reservations are ready, bye Babies, have a great time," said Lena leaning in to hug Jude, "be careful! And this time only Callie is in charge, because of what happened last time." The kids all turned to Brandon and he shrugged, smiling.
"It was totally worth it, though." They all managed a small laugh before Lena and Stef said their last goodbyes and left out the front door. As the car left the driveway they all just stood there for a bit.
"Anyone have an idea of what we could do, you know before we all die of boredom," asked Marianna looking at her siblings, Jesus smiled.
"Let's throw another party!" With that being said Callie almost exploded. "Yeah, no, this time I'm in charge, and by I'm, I mean me and by me I don't mean Brandon."
"Understandable," said Brandon as he got a glass of water from the fridge and then plopped down onto the couch. "How about we order food and watch any kind of movie, for real this time."
All the kids shared a glance and nodded their heads.
"How about we all cooperate this time, Marianna can you and Jesus order Chinese from that place a few blocks away?" Asked Callie as she tied her hair into a ponytail.
"Sure, but we'll have to walk because they don't deliver and we don't have another car, plus we can't drive." Said Jesus leaning against the cold wall.
Callie smiled. "Ok, that's great. Brandon, can you set the table and get the soft drinks at Target or something?"
"Sure thing. Boss," he muttered, but he still managed to wink at her, causing her to roll her eyes.
"Alright, then Jude and I will finish the laundry, right, Bud?" she asked placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah," he said smiling at her, but his head somewhere else.
He was still stuck at the spin the bottle game with Connor. Even though Jude wasn't one hundred percent sure he was gay yet, the sight of Connor kissing both of those girls wasn't only the disgust of a best friend, but the jealousy of a boyfriend. But when Connor didn't mind kissing him, he started to wonder a little more than he had before.
"Ok then, let's get started," groaned Marianna as she pulled her brothers arm out of the door, Brandon not far behind.
On the way to the tiny Chinese restaurant Marianna took out her phone to dial them, ordering all of her favourite foods, excluding her brothers requests, of course.
"Wow, you're so generous, Sis," he said sarcastically laughing a bit. She smiled and nodded.
"I know, right!" He rolled his eyes and heard a buzz on his phone, it was from Hayley, the girl he had hooked-up with two weeks ago.
"Hey, it's me, Hayley, I wanted to know if you are free for tomorrow?" read the text.
Jesus looked at Marianna to see if she was watching, but she was caught up in 'e-stalking' the girls in the dance teams as he says. He quickly replied to her message with an 'ok sure, tomorrow I will pick you up at 3, bye.'
He quickly put his phone back into his pocket and caught Marianna smirking, "Emma?"
He was really going to lie to her right then and there, but then he thought of all the things that could happen badly, Hayley could tell her, then she'll tell Moms, then somehow, through thin air, it would wind up to Emma herself. He wouldn't want it to happen that way so he just sugar coated it.
"We kind of…like…broke up." Marianna stares at him in shock, her brown eyes open wide as though she'd seen a ghost. "What the hell Jesus, first Lexi for Emma, now Emma for another girl?"
"What makes you think there's another girl?" he asks glaring at his twin sister. "Oh yeah, cause it's totally Mama whose texting you a message you wouldn't want me to see!"
"It could totally happen, maybe it's a surprise birthday present?"
"We have the same birthday, you know we're twins, right? And it's in like 4 months or something," she states at her brother.
"Who says it's for you, maybe Mama doesn't want you to know because you have the biggest mouth of all time." Marianna gasps overdramatically at her brother and shakes her head in denial.
"Don't disagree with me, Marianna," he says loudly, "we all know it's true anyway."
"Whatever, don't talk to me, I don't care who your new secret girlfriend is, you're probably keeping me from knowing her cause she's ugly or something."
Jesus tried his hardest to suppress his laugh, luckily it worked. If only she knew…
The rest of the walk Marianna and Jesus spoke in small, sarcastic, sibling-like manners. They got the three bags and left to go back home, Jesus carrying all of them and Marianna, phone in hand, texting whoever she knew that had gossip.
Callie and Jude folded the laundry in the living room, a pile for each person in the family, which was a hell of a lot. They weren't speaking much and to Callie it was odd, conversation almost always came naturally with her brother. That's when she knew something was up.
"Alright, what's been bothering you?" she asked him as she placed Marianna's blue jeans in her pile, trying to make it less static. Jude didn't know if he should tell her the truth, and why should he? He could tell Callie was keeping something from everyone as well. They could read each other like books. Jude was usually always straight forward with Callie so he told her what was on his mind.
"Why would I tell you, you're obviously hiding something, too." Callie froze, although this would be a good opportunity to tell Jude about Sophia, she just couldn't. She was afraid of how he would react.
"I… Jude, just tell me," she said looking straight into his eyes.
"Why would I do that, you tell me your thing first!" He yelled at her, obviously irritated that she still wouldn't spill her secret.
"Jude, my problem is complicated, and when I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell everyone at the same time." She tries to place a hand on his shoulder but he moves away from her touch, causing her to let out a sigh.
"Let's just finish folding please, I don't want to argue," she says as she puts the takes another T-shirt that belongs to Brandon, and she starts folding.
Jude feels a pang of guilt in his chest and immediately regrets yelling. So he just spills the truth.
"Connor's dad doesn't want him to come over anymore because he thinks I'm gay." Callie once again drops the T-shirt onto the ground. She closes her eyes and lets out a sigh for her poor brother.
She faces him and sees him continuing the folding process. She smiles at the strong front he put up for himself. She places the T-shirt on Brandon's pile and puts a hand on her brother's shoulder, this time he doesn't object.
"Jude, stop folding and look at me," she tells him softly, rubbing his back. He turns to face her putting the shirt he was about to fold back into the basket. "Jude, Connor's dad is a disrespectful asshole," she starts causing Jude to let out a small laugh, "whether you were gay or not, it shouldn't be important, do you hear me? Connor should wanna be friends with you, because you're you, not 'cause you're given a stupid label by anyone. You shouldn't want to change because of him now. And if he isn't smart enough to realize how amazing you are, then he isn't worth crap."
Jude smiles and wraps his arms around her tightly, she tightens her grip on his back and when they both pull away they smile at each other, genuinely. And now with a weight lifted off of Jude's shoulders, knowing that Callie would be ok with who he was, if he was that way, all he had to figure out was what kind of person Connor truly was.
Callie on the other hand was happy to have made Jude happy, but was still nervous about how he, and the others, would feel towards Sofia. Guess they'll just have to solve it later. For now Callie and Jude spoke about what movie they should watch later in the evening.
Brandon filled a cart with, chips, popcorn, Seven up, Coke, Pepsi and Nestea. He was thinking of how he would most likely have to call one of his four siblings to help him out with the heavy bags. I'll call Jesus later. He thinks to himself.
He's a little early so he basically just hangs out around the candy isle, wanting to shove the whole isle into his cart, but he wouldn't have enough money.
He looks at the right isle and bumps his cart into someone else's, by instinct Brandon is already apologizing to that person before he even go to look at them. As he turns his head he sees Lou, the girl in his band.
"Oh hey, Lou, you know what I take that apology back," he smirks at her and she giggles.
"Do you mean your one hundred apologies, Beethoven?" He rolls his bright green eyes at the comment she had made.
"I was raised as a polite boy, not a sarcastic and annoying teenage girl."
"Good, wouldn't want your parents to raise you as a teenage girl anyways," she states smiling at him.
"Ha-ha you're soo funny, and that isn't what I meant," he tells her as he moves his cart out of the way.
"No shit Sherlock," she says as she grabs a bag of licorice. "What happened to calling me Beethoven?"
"I have more than one nickname for you, green eyes," She looks at the time on her phone. "Shit, I have to go, but we have a practice at your place tomorrow, so hasta lavista, I think that's how you say it anyway."
And with that she's gone. Brandon smiles at this girl. She's the first girl since Callie that's made him feel this way. And he couldn't let this opportunity walk out the door. He had to catch it, and that's exactly what he was going to do.
The food was all eaten and all the kids were too stuffed to even have dessert. So they all just sat on the couch and debated on which movies they should watch.
Marianna flopped on the complete right side of the couch, Callie next to her and next to Callie was Jude.
Brandon sat on the big the floor with Jesus, eating popcorn, they were they only ones who weren't stuffed enough not to eat the popcorn and chips.
"Let's watch a comedy!" suggested Marianna smiling as she looked around the room.
"Nah, an action movie," Said Jesus disagreeing with his sister.
"No Jesus, we're watching a comedy!" she yelled and before he was going to yell back Callie spoke.
"How about we vote, raise your hand for comedy." Callie and Marianna we're the only ones who raised their hands. "Oh come on!"
"Actually forget it I'm in charge so we'll watch and action comedy, but mostly comedy. Let's go for 21 Jump Street anyone?"
They all seemed satisfied, and Callie went and get the disk and put it into the DVD player. She sat back and handed to remote the Jesus who turned on the movie.
And as Marianna was laughing her ass off, Callie was smiling with her arm round Jude, who was also laughing, Brandon and Jesus whisper-arguing over who would go get more food in the kitchen, these were the moments that defined what and who they were. A family.
