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Chapter 15: Guess Who?
Bradin was in a loss of words. He sat at the waters edge with the person sitting next to him and he had nothing to say. After everything that had happened, he didn't ever think that he would ever to talk to her again.
"Hi," she said sweetly. Before Bradin got a chance to talk, the girl pulled him in a tight hug. She had long blonde hair that curled now and her figure was slimmer. But her eyes were the same. They were the same dark hazel color that always used to hypnotize Bradin every time he looked at her. As she pulled away, a tear formed in the corner of her eye. "I missed you!"
"Callie…" he said. It was the only thing to come out. Feelings flooded him as he remembered everything that went down not even 7 months ago. He felt faint. She smiled.
"It's me," Callie said with a big grin on her face. "I'm back. I just can't believe that you're sitting in front of me. I thought I would never see you again."
"Me, me either. You…do you wanna take this to a restaurant and talk?" Bradin asked. It was his only suggestion.
"I think that sounds like a good idea. Let's go," she said standing as she wiped the sand off of her. Bradin followed suit and followed her. They walked until the stumbled to Mona's Sandbar.
"This is a new place…Mona?" Callie asked. She knew things had changed but had yet to see just how much more was changed.
"Yeah…I'll let Johnny explain that. This is his place, actually," Bradin said wryly. Callie looked at Bradin with a satisfied look. "Yeah, it's great to have him back, too."
"Things have changed a lot while I was gone," Callie said.
"Yeah, like your hair! What did you do?" Bradin asked, flipping her new look.
"I dyed it. Don't you like me as a blonde?" she asked cutely. Bradin laughed.
"I think you look hot!" he said before he realized what he said. He knew that one word would give her the wrong idea about their relationship now.
"Thanks…I," she stopped when she realized the expression on Bradin's face had changed from a smile to a worried look. "You read the letter that I left you, I suppose."
"Yeah…I did," he said quietly. "Listen Callie, when I read that letter you put a hole in my heart. I thought that it could never be fixed. And for a while, it wasn't. I spent all day and night thinking about you and not doing anything. I thought you weren't coming back and wanted to respect your wishes in that letter but…"
"You couldn't obey them. I was hoping that you wouldn't now that I'm back!" She planted a soft, zealous kiss on Bradin's supple lips. He pulled away when his body sent the signal that it wasn't Claire. Something inside of him sent signals in every place that it counted. In his heart and his brain, but mostly his heart. "Callie…"
"I missed how you said my name," she said trying to kiss him again. He backed away. "What?"
"No," Bradin said. "That isn't what I was going to say. For some time I couldn't believe that you wrote something like that if you really loved me. I thought that it wasn't possible to give up on our relationship. But the more that I thought about it, I realized that you were doing it for our relationship. You didn't want things to go wrong while you were gone so you decided just to end it then, right? So, I figured that I shouldn't stay in one stop when you were telling me to move on. Then I tried too. And in the process, I found someone. I never thought I could but I did and she makes me feel so different. We don't have those fights like we did when we were together. We don't have those problems. I'm sorry Callie but…"
"What? She gave out more than I did so you fell for her?" Callie said angrily. Bradin shook his head.
"Why are you getting mad at me? You told me to move on! That's what I did. It's not like that with her anyway! I never even thought about that with her! That's what made our relationship work. She didn't make me feel like that. She made me feel…I can't even explain it. But now I realize that you were always more of a friend," Bradin said. Callie looked as though she were going to blow her top.
"That's what I was? A friend? Oh, I get it! I was a friend with benefits! So the whole 'I love you' line before I ran off was just for perks?" Callie said, now furious.
"NO!" he said. Why would she ever think about something like that? I would never do that to her! He thought. "I did love you. I still do. It just wasn't the way that I thought. You are such a great person but I can't see you as more than a friend. Not anymore, anyway."
Callie started to walk away but turned around after almost getting to the door. Tears slipped down her face. "She must, uh, she must really be something. She's really lucky Bradin. I just want you to know that I think that. I hope she realizes that too. You're a great guy."
She walked out the door and into the California Street without seeing that Bradin's face also had sweet water that fell from his eyes.
A knock came to the door as Claire brushed her feet across the floor to answer it. Upon opening it, she saw men in uniform standing in front of her. "Hi, Miss Sanados. We're sorry to bother you but we have some news to share with you."
"Okay…Um, come in," she said leading them to the dining room. They all sat down.
"We have discovered some things in the case about the robbery at the drug store. When we finally got a good look at the surveillance camera's we noticed something that we looked over the first time. It was that the guns-man, upon entering the store, passed six people before shooting right away. We also noticed that outside, the man was staring inside for a while, mainly looking at one object for a period of time before entering," the cop stopped when seeing Claire's face.
"So…what are you saying?" Claire asked as she wiped away a tear. A thought approached her mind just at that moment. Bradin wasn't there to comfort her and she didn't like it. She wanted him next to her to console her and love her. But he wasn't…
"We think that your parents were murdered, Claire. We told you about how your parents' wounds were in very deadly places. Your dad's in with kidney and your mom's in her esophagus. Only a doctor or surgeon would know that those places are instant kills. So we are going to check into the local hospitals and see if we can possibly match a body type. But the bureau wanted you to know this before it's released," the cop said finishing. Claire shook her head.
"No," she persisted. "You can't let it get out right now. If the guy sees it, he's gonna run."
"Exactly. After we are done checking all the data bases, we are going to release the information and whatever doctor starts running…"
"You start trying to catch! That's genius! But are you sure? I mean what if it doesn't work. If he's just as clever, he could figure out that that's what you're trying to do and not go anywhere. Not to mention the fact that doctors are constantly going on business and a lot of them might be leaving," Claire said rushing, trying to get out everything out of her mouth.
"We thought about that too and that's why we plan on checking on all travel going to happen in the hospitals and make sure no one else but those going leave.
"Okay…that's good. Thank you," she said as she showed them out. She closed the door after one final good-bye and another 'thank you' to follow. "Now…I guess it's time to get a shower."
She made her way up to the shower and turned the clod water on full blast. There was too much going on and she just wanted to wake up. She took of the pink tank and white jeans and threw them in the hamper. She threw the bathing suit underneath on the floor and stepped into the cold water. Chilled to the bone at first, she let out a small gasp and them adjusted. Once the water got too cold for her, she turned the hot water on and turned the cold down. The water was the perfect temp so she soaked her hair and relaxed some. Thoughts rammed her head as she wetted her body and soothed it with raspberry smelling soap.
As she continued to wash her body another body stepped into the shower and wrapped their arms around her. She shuttered at first then relaxed into them. "Hey," she said to the guy. The only reply she got from him was a kiss on her shoulder. She giggled and rested her head onto him.
"Listen, I'm so sorry for what I did and I never wanted to hurt you. But it's so hard to change from who I used to be. Especially when I'm around you. It's kinda hard to restrain myself from you when I love you as much as I do. Because I love you so much and I want to be with you forever and I don't want our relationship to change. I'm sooo sorry," she said. She turned around to kiss him and then screamed.
Hmmm…I wonder what happened. I think you can all guess but I think it's safe to say that the next chapter will be more romantic and some things will happen to Bradin and he starts to get suspicious about something in the case. But I'm not sure how soon I will get the chapter up because I have some other stories that need updated too. So from now on after my new story, which by the way I think is my best yet (Go check it out if you haven't yet. I promise it's good), Love, Lost and Found then I will update this one again because I have decided to update these in order of the last one updated. Truth or Dare will be updated next so look for it soon!
