Chapter Four

"You will understand when this day is over and I hope you will eventually find it in your heart to forgive me for what I had to do." Callie says as she walks to Ringer and he hands her some envelopes.

"I may need you to explain somethings if I mess this up. Can you back me up?" She asks him.

"Callie I will have your back from this day forward. Keep your head up this won't be easy but it is right." He says as she nods.

"Stef, Lena this one is for you. Please those of you who get one please wait till I ask you to open it. I will explain then what it is." Callie says.

She hands one to Robert and then walks to stand in front of Brandon who is still looking at her. She looks him in the eyes and the pain and anger are clear. She takes a breath and hands him his. She holds onto it for a few seconds, then whispers.

"Read this when you are alone. If, when you have and you want to talk, you will know where to find me." He nods.

"Mike I am glad you brought AJ you both need to hear this. Though I have a feeling you will think a lot less of me when I am done." Callie says.

"I am sure it will be ok Callie." Mike says.

"I hope so." She says as he pats her on the back looking at Ringer.

"Let me start with AJ. AJ I am sorry if I led you on. Truth was I was running from something and you just got caught in the middle. Again I am sorry, I hope you can find it to forgive me when this is over." He nods at her.

"Stef, Lena the envelope in your hand is the termination of my adoption. I know this will hurt you and I am sorry for that I truly am but this time I had to do the right thing. Not just for myself but for someone else too. Actually it is for them I am doing this the most for. Lena I love you guys more than you know. The paper work is all there and if you need more of an explanation the judge will be able to help." Callie says.

"Callie you can't just terminate an adoption cause you want to. This is not legal." Stef says looking at the judge.

"I can assure you Mrs Foster it is Legal." Ringer says.

"Robert, I am sorry I never really gave you a chance. You are my real father and never did anything to make me doubt that you had no knowledge of me before we contacted you. What I am about to ask might seem desperate to you and if so and you want to say no I will understand and figure something else out. In your hands is paper work reinstating your parental rights, also custody papers allowing me to stay with you if you still want that if so then sign both and hand then to the judge. In the second envelope is papers you will need to sign as well dealing with my 18 months unsupervised probation. Please sign those and give then to the judge as well." She says, Robert had already signed the papers as she was speaking.

"Probation for what?" Robert asks.

"I will get to that dad, please be patient." She say as he nods.

"Rita I want to say thank you for allowing me to do this I feel better doing it on neutral ground. I have already said I am sorry to you, but I will say it again. I am sorry for betraying your trust while I was at GU."

"Callie as I said we made it through, and I am proud of you for doing the right thing even though it is costing you." Rita smiles and hugs her.

Callie takes a deep breath steeling her nerves as Rita nods at her. She turns and slowly walks up to Brandon. He has not taken his eyes off of her. As she approaches he goes to speak, she raises a hand asking him to stop. He nods at her and lowers his head.

"Callie don't." Brandon says looking at the floor.

"Brandon I am going to tell you what you told me when Vico tried to set me up. Let me talk." She says with a sad smile as she lifts his head to look him in the eyes, he nods again.

"Now this is the where I would normally wait and talk to you when we are alone. But I am not going to do that this time. This time I am going to say what I need to say to you, and everyone in this room is going to hear it. If anyone has something to say. I ask you please to wait till I am done talking. Then I will answer any question you have. If I can't judge Ringer can. As for you Brandon, I think I regret what I did to you the most. See I took something pure and innocent and meaningful, and turned it into something that I made you think was ugly and shameful. That stops today. What we did broke no rules and was not against the law. It was with out a doubt the most wonderful experience of my life."

"Callie please tell me this isn't what I think it is." Stef says.

"Stef she asked us to allow her to finish, I say we sit and be quiet. Brandon didn't interrupt while she was talking to us." Mike of all people defends her. " Go on Callie."

"Thank you. Brandon for everyone in this room to understand I need to take this back to the beginning. You see when I first met Brandon it was at the dinner table. I think like me he felt an instant connection between us. It was like some how we were being drawn to each other, like fate was stepping in. it is funny cause back then if you would have asked that broken scared unsure of herself teenager if she believed in fate and she would have laughed at you. See at that dinner table started something but that neither of us knew just what it was." Callie is talking when Brandon gets up and starts for the door.

Callie latches on to his arm and spins him around and pushes him into his dad. Mike grabs him and holds him for a few seconds.

"Brandon some how I think we all owe it to her to listen to what she is saying. I know I am basically and outsider here, but I say give the girl her say. Even though I think it will be bad for me." AJ says.

Brandon shrugs Mike's hands off of him and returns to the couch. Callie takes another deep breath before looking at the ceiling.

"Never thought it would be this hard. Every day this thing grew and grew. He came with me to rescue Jude not because I asked him to, he did it cause he wanted to. He then with out a doubt in his mind helped me with the guitar when Stef and Lena thought I had stole pills and sold them. Then at the twins party he broke up with Talya, he said it wasn't because of me, but in a way it was. She had done something to me that was not nice, Brandon found out and broke up with her. Then Wyatt, I am not sure why that happened. Wait I am sure why. It was to make Brandon think there was nothing between us. So he would forget about me. I see your look Stef and yes even back then there was something there." Callie say looking at her. As she takes her attention off of Brandon he goes to leave only to be jumped on By Mariana.

"No you don't big brother you are going to sit your ass down and listen." Mariana says.

"Get off me." Brandon tells he as he lifts her and sits her on the couch as he stands up.

"Fine Brandon, I am going to finish my tale with or with out you. But if you ever truly loved me you will sit down and listen to it from my side of the fence." Callie tells him.

"Loved you? Ha Ha that is funny. Tell them what ever you want I was there the first time I don't need to live through the pain again. Cause that is all you have ever caused me is PIAN! You are a self centered lying BITCH and I am not going to listen to you for another second." He says as he walks out of the house.

"Brandon!" Mike yells.

"Let him go Mike." Callie says, she isn't sure how but she knows he is still close by.

"I am not going to sit here and listen to anymore of this." Stef says.

"Stef SIT DOWN. I allowed you to get away with what you did, but if you walk out on her now I will pursue it to the ends of the earth." Robert says.

"I think he is right we need to hear her out Stef." Lena says.

"Thanks. My tale is just beginning. Wyatt took me on a date, only it wasn't to his house like I thought. No it was a house he had done some work at. So when the owner showed up we had to bail fast. Cops were around so we couldn't make it to his car. So I called the one person I knew would help me. Brandon. It was when we got home that I got the first glimpse of how he truly felt. He told me he didn't want me dating Wyatt cause he didn't want me dating anyone. I told him I couldn't cause even having that conversation could get me and Jude kicked out. It was then that I opened up a little bit about the Olmsteads. Told him we got kicked out cause they didn't want their son dating the trashy foster girl." Callie takes a breath she doesn't look around but she knows Brandon is standing there listening.

"Then when I found out Sarah was living there Brandon help me try to get her to understand. She didn't, she even threatened me. Again Brandon was there, this time I told him about what Liam did to me, the fact he raped me. He convinced me to tell Stef and Lena. That lead to the court case and the ada wanting me to lie, I didn't of course. That is why I had to tell the truth now. That and for Brandon. That day was the day of the wedding, but it was also the first time I kissed Brandon. He kissed back for sure but it was me who started it. Then Jude saw us and got mad, so to protect him I ran and landed in GU. I never realized it back then but that was the happiest time of my life. Brandon would sneak around to see me. He sang Outlaws the song he wrote for me, to me for the first time while I was in GU. Then his grandfather died, and I discovered a few things about myself. It made me question what I was feeling for Brandon. Made me doubt all of what I knew just hours before. That is the first real time I really betrayed him. I told him that I loved him but I needed a family more than I needed him. I am not sure how he ever forgave me but he did. He has forgiven me more than I ever have a right of asking him. Yet here I stand on the thresh hold of having to ask him once again to forgive me. Kissing him at the fund raiser was a mistake we both know that now. I was just so angry at my dad and Brandon is always there when I need him. I was going to run I really was. He stopped me and I got caught up in it and kissed him. He stopped it I told him that I loved him and he told me he had to think about it. He eventually told me the reason we couldn't be together wasn't Lou it was because he didn't trust me. He was right not to, look what I did to him yet again. Since he told me that I switched into friend mode I was determined to win back his trust even if it was just as best friends. Sophia caught on to it the night before the fund raiser cause she asked if the guy I loved before Wyatt was Brandon. She said she asked cause my eyes would light up when ever I talked about him. Then my birthday came and Jude threw this big party and I get some unexpected news which we don't need to go into. I was feeling a little down and I kissed AJ, again I am sorry for that AJ, it wasn't right to use you that way. Then Idyllwild came, that piece Brandon wrote and played, he never said it but I know it was about me and him. Like a love that could never happen. Then I got the news about Rita getting charged. I had to send the recording to save her. She did me a favor and got Carmen not to talk about it, but what I did still wasn't right. Her heart was in the right place. So I told Brandon about the recording and how it would stop my chances of getting adopted. I also told him that they might be mad at him. He wasn't worried about himself he was again worried about me and where I would end up. We almost kissed on the couch after he told me about being out side of GU. But we went to our own rooms and we thought about what we were feeling. We didn't rush into a rash action. This was done with thought and caring. Not hormones and rash actions. He came to me that night after we had went to bed. And what happened was nothing less than pure love." Callie ends her story with tears in her eyes.

"Love sounds more like you had teenage sex with my son." Stef says.

"You can think what you want I know your feelings are hurt cause this time I am going to choose Brandon over everyone else. You told me that when I figured out what was wrong to tell you, well I am telling you. We made love that night, only thing you can call it. That was so huge for me because I had tried with Wyatt and couldn't do it. With Brandon everything felt so right it was smooth and caring and he never pushed me for more than I was willing to give. He would wait for me to take it farther. Always going off of my cues. No we didn't have sex we made love to each other. Then we get to the part where I did it again. I betrayed a lot of people in that courtroom but none more than Brandon. I should have stood up and said sorry but I am in love with Brandon Foster and I can't be adopted cause the first time we are alone I will repeat what happened in that cabin. I will not regret it I will not say it should not have happened and I will not deny it ever again. Sorry Mike Stef but I am in love with your son and I plan on being by his side till the day I die. I just have to get him to forgive me." Callie finish as she hears the door close, he had heard her out at least.