I hope everyone enjoyed last nights episode. Lena and Stef melt my heart.

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Realizations

Episode 1 Chapter 2

"No," Stef screamed. "No. No." Stef was in shock. She ran to the car. People were yelling for her to stay back but it fell on deaf ears.

When she gets to the car she sees Lauren's body burning. "Brandon." She doesn't see his body in the car. "Brandon." She immediately starts to panic. "Where is he?"

She looked around the area. Stef saw him lying on sidewalk. "Brandon." She ran to him. "Oh my baby." She sat beside him. "Come on baby. Wake up. You got to wake up." She put her head on his chest. He was barely breathing.

Stef had tears running down her face. "My son is over here. Help." She screamed.

Callie watched from afar. She was frozen in fear. She couldn't lose another person she cared about in a car accident. God wouldn't be so cruel to do that to her again.

"Callie. Callie. Earth to Callie." Charlotte slammed a book in front of Callie.

"Hey." Callie snapped out of it.

"You've been looking at the same picture for like fifteen minutes. Where is your head today?"

"I don't know." Callie stood up. "I've got to get out of here."

"Callie." Charlotte was concerned about her.

"I just can't do this. I can't focus on school right now. Will you cover for me?"

Charlotte nodded. "Sure. Call me if you need anything."

Callie nodded and walked out of the room.

Stef, Lena, and Callie were in the emergency room waiting area. Lena and Callie were sitting down. But Stef couldn't sit down.

Mike ran into the waiting area with Dani following behind him. "What the hell happened?" Mike yelled.

"Don't come in here yelling at me, Mike." Stef fought back. She was not in the mood.

"He was supposed to be grounded." Mike reminded her.

"I didn't let him get in that car. I didn't know he wasn't in his room."

"Oh right. You were probably too busy dealing with one of your other fifty kids." Mike yelled at her.

"You've got to be kidding me. You aren't actually blaming me for this. I thought Brandon was in his bedroom." Stef was frustrated. "He was supposed to be asleep."

"Well obviously he wasn't."

"Mike, if you can't act civilized you can get the hell out." Stef yelled him.

"Guys please." Dani begged them. "This is not the place nor the time."

"Dani is right." Lena stood up. "This is about Brandon. We have to be strong for him. Fighting is going to get us nowhere."

Stef glared at Mike. He had no right to blame her.

Stef was sitting in the waiting room by herself. Lena was spending some time with Brandon. Stef was still mad at Mike for his comments. They hadn't spoken much since the accident.

"Hey." Mike said as he walked into the waiting room. He was alone. "I got you a cup of coffee."

"I'm fine." Stef didn't want his coffee.

"You must be really pissed at me. I've never known you to turn down a cup of coffee." He held out the cup of coffee again.

This time Stef took it.

Mike sat down.

"Where's Dani?"

"She had to go to work." Mike said.

"Oh."

"How is he this morning?"

"Exactly the same." Stef took a sip of her coffee.

"That could be a good thing." Mike tried to be optimistic.

Stef didn't say anything.

"I'm sorry about the other night." Mike thought it was appropriate to apologize. "I was out of line. I was just upset."

"You know what. I was upset too." Stef snapped at him. "You had absolutely no right to blame me for what happened."

"Come on Stef. You got to admit it. You have a lot going on in your life."

Stef glared at him. "Seriously?"

"Maybe when Brandon gets better he should come live with me."

Stef stood up. "Absolutely not. We have talked about this before. It is best that Brandon lives with me."

"You think that. I'm not so sure I agree."

"You are unbelievable."

"How did Brandon sneak out of the house?" Mike asked. "You thought he was in his room. What were you doing that you didn't notice he was missing?"

Stef couldn't believe him. Mike was a bigger asshole than she could have imagined. "You know as well as I do that we can't watch our kids twenty-four seven."

"Not when you have four other kids running around. I could watch him more closely."

"Oh please Mike." Stef sighed. "He is a teenager. Teenagers sneak out of the house all the time. It doesn't matter how closely you are watching him." Stef shook her head. "You are not taking Brandon from me."

"Stef."

"No. I'm done talking about this." Stef walked out of the waiting room.

Mike sighed. That was not how he wanted that conversation to go.

"You have got to wake up soon." Lena told a sleeping Brandon. She squeezed his hand hoping that he would squeeze hers back. He didn't. "You've got to start practicing again. Maybe Dani can get you another audition with the junior symphony." Lena smiled.

"I remember when I first heard you play. You weren't very good, but I could tell you had great potential." She squeezed his hand again. "You are so talented. You have got to wake up so that we can watch you follow your dreams."

Lena was the reason that Brandon even realized he liked music. He would stay with her afterschool. He always found his way into the music room. Lena encouraged him to play and then convinced Stef to get him a piano teacher.

Brandon had instantly found himself in music. Lena knew that he was destined for great things.

She kissed his forehead. "When you wake up I'm going to make sure that you know you aren't allowed to scare us like this ever again."

Mariana walked down the hallway at school. It seemed like she was the only person at school who didn't have a friend.

She missed Zac so much. She didn't know how she was going to make it through school without him or Lexi. It wasn't fair.

Jesus and Emma were at his locker. Jesus got his books and started walking down the hall.

"Are you okay?" Emma asked. "You've been pretty quiet."

"I'm fine." Jesus lied.

Emma didn't believe him.

They walk pass some guys from the wrestling team. "Yeah man. I heard it was Brandon's fault Vico had to be sent to a head specialist out of the country. It seems Brandon isn't such a good boy. I guess he had us all fooled."

Vico had major brain damage. He couldn't even form words. Doctors didn't think Vico would ever be able to speak again. His parents refused to believe that. They sent him to Switzerland to see a brain specialist. They wanted only the best for their son.

However, police knew that Brandon was not responsible for what happened to Vico. Stef had told the police that Brandon had been with them until a few minutes before the car accident. They knew what happened to Vico was Lauren's fault.

But rumors were spreading like a wildfire.

"What did you just say?" Jesus asked. He had overheard the guy.

"Oh come on Jesus. It is no big deal."

"You are talking crap about my brother. It is a big deal to me." Jesus yelled. "Brandon had nothing to do with what happened to Vico."

"That's not what I heard." The guy laughed.

Jesus couldn't take it anymore. He launched at him.

"Jesus." Emma yelled.

Jesus didn't listen he just kept hitting the guy.

"Hey. Hey. Break it up. Break it up." Timothy pulled Jesus off the guy.

Jesus was fighting mad, and he wasn't even sure why.

"Let's go." Timothy walked Jesus to the principal's office.

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