So I'm curious, what direction would you like this story to go after I finish up what happened in the season?
Taylor didn't like Gretchen. At least not when she was 5. She doubted she would now, so being grounded in her room during dinner didn't bother her that much. Not being abel to talk to Sam was much worse. When Lena had come up to her room to remind her how loud her guitar was the two had shared some more harsh words. Now, with no phone , computer, or telegraph, Taylor was cut off from world. Music drowned out her didn't hear Gretchen leave. She didn't hear Stef and Lena's screaming match and she didn't hear the cops at the door. Brandon barged into her room, she turned and saw his face, telling her more than she needed to know.
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Callie sat in the back seat and watched her fosters siblings in the front. Brandon clutched the steering wheel and shock his leg. Taylor held her knees to her chest and gazed out of the window. She knew exactly how the two were feeling but had no idea what to say. " I am sure everything will turn out ok" Callie regretted the words as soon as she spoke. Brandon tensed and Taylor winced, neither spoke. Awkward silence hung in car until they reached the hospital. Walking through the cold white hallways Taylor remembered a time when she was 7 , she had seen a movie on tv where a police officer died. That night she had a nightmare in which Stef was shoot in front of her. Terrified the small girl ran into her mothers room to make sure they were both there. Stef and Lena awoke to find a weeping Taylor standing at the foot of their bed, explaining her dream in between sobs. Encasing her in a mama sandwich Stef and Lena whispered their love and that everything was ok. Approaching the emergency room Taylor worried if she would ever get a mama sandwich again. Or if Lena would even acknowledge her, she had been so rude the past few days.
Lena looked up and saw the three teens enter the waiting room, the looks on their faces adding yet another reason to cry. She stayed strong,being able to hold it together while hugging Brandon but almost lost it when Taylor whispered "I'm so sorry mama " into her shoulder.
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"my mom is in their fighting for her life..." Taylor replayed the line over and over in her head. She couldn't think , her walls were crumbling and he had the nerve to claim the woman her heart was breaking for wasn't her mom. Callie was telling him to walk away she didn't even care. He noticed her anger as he left.
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Lena sat quietly and watched as her fiancé sleep. Her eyes fluttered open and Stef smiled weakly.
" Hey" Lena's voice was quiet and weak, as if she was afraid her voice would spoke Stef. The two just stared at each other from awhile, Lena slowly stroking Stef's hand.
" I love you" Lena whispered. Stef smiled and nodded. To tired to remove the mask from her face. " We didn't say that you know...when you left...we, we can't do that anymore ok? "
Stef smiled knowingly and mustered all her strength to pull her mask off. " Promise."
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Brandon and Taylor got into fights all the time. Some big some small. They usually made up quickly. Brandon could tell how mad she was by how little she spoke and how much she sighed. By 8 o'clock she had sighed what seemed like a hundred times. After apologizing to Mariana and Jesus Brandon trudged to Taylor's room. Slowly opening the door Taylor came into view, sitting by her window playing quite guitar. She didn't acknowledge his presence and didn't turn around Until he cleared his throat so loud she almost cracked a smile.
" You know if you tell me why you're mad it would be easier to apologize..."
" You don't know why?"
" Well I'm not a mind reader"
"I never said you were" Taylor spat and then smiled, a cynical smile. " You have three parents Brandon... You have a mom and a dad and a step mom. You are the only kid in this house with three parents looking out for you. Hell Callie and Jude don't have any. But mom...she is my other parent. She isn't my step mom like mama is to you. I love her just as much as you do and I would like to think she loves me too..." Taylor was no longer looking at Brandon but starring into space. " I always thought you knew that. That I thought of you as my real brother, Stef my other mom. The fact that you would stand in the waiting room and call her your mom...and your mom only... hurt. It hurt in a place that was already hurting a lot.