CHAPTER TWO

Moms

When Callie walked in Jude was sitting on his bed writing down stuff in his school book. She looked over seeing Jesus sitting at the desk using his laptop. "Hey, um, Jude will you come out the back with me for a second? I've got to tell you something." She said, Jude nodded and sat his book down before standing and following Callie down the stairs and out the back door.

"I wonder what they're talking about." Mariana said to Brandon and Jesus as they looked out Mariana and Callie's bedroom window which looked out upon the backyard and patio where Callie and Jude sat talking.

"So Lena and Stef are going to bring her here?" Jude asked excitedly, running his fingers over the wood table. "Yeah, she's being dropped off tomorrow morning while we're at school." Callie said looking over at her little brother, a confused look on his face. "You're not going to be here when she comes home?" He asked the confusion evident in his voice. "I just-I mean I thought you'd be here to welcome her home." Callie smiled at him showing him that he didn't need to be nervous. "Jude, baby it is okay to ask questions, I won't take them the wrong way." She said taking his hand in hers, she smiled again looking into his eyes. "Mitchell said she could be here any time from 10am to 3pm, so I'd rather be at school instead of having to wait anxiously, at least when I'm at school I'll be distracted." Callie says softly looking down at her hands as she fidgets with her nails. "I'm not sure if I should tell the others now or in the morning." She says softly as he grabs her hand and smiles up at her. "Oh Jude, what would I do without you?"

Callie knocked on the door to the mom's bedroom, she knew Stef was inside but didn't want to interrupt if she was getting change or anything, once she was given the all clear she entered, it took 0.2 seconds for her eyes to scan the room for Stef who was sitting behind a basket folding laundry. "What up, love?" Stef asked sitting the folded clothes into the basket and then on the floor before repositioning herself on the bed. "What if she doesn't remember me? I'm her mom and she won't remember me." Callie began saying but was cut short as she hunched over and began to cry into the palm of her hands, Stef began ushering her over to the bed, once Callie got to the edge of the bed she crawled over to her foster mother and lying next to her as Stef wrapped her in a mothers hug. "I'm really glad you and Lena are my moms.." She whispers into Stef's chest as her eyes close and she begins to drift off into a peaceful sleep, if you had told Callie two months ago when she had arrived here that she would be curled up in her foster mothers arms she would have told you that you were lying but now she was experiencing it for herself. "And we are so glad you are our daughter." Stef said running her fingers over Callie's hair soothing her to rest before dinner as her wife, Lena, entered the room and smiled at the sight in front of her whispering to Stef that dinner will be ready within an hour.