By the time the movie was over, Jude, Mariana, and Callie where out like lights. "Stef, do we have to wake all of the sleepy heads up?"

"Na, we can just let them sleep down here." Stef gently stood up, laying Callie's head on the couch and covering her back up, while Lena covered Jude and Mariana with blankets.

"Ok Brandon, Jesus go ahead and head upstairs to bed loves."

As Lena and Stef went upstairs to go to bed neither of them could get Callie out of their minds.

"Lena what are we going to do about Callie? The poor girl has been through hell and back, she is always so scared that the first thing she does wrong we are going to kick her and Jude out."

"We just have to be gentle, and patient with her. She has seen more pain at 16 then any child should ever have to, we need to find ways to get her to trust us, and we have to earn her trust.

"Baby these stories are breaking my heart, I'm glad that she is opening up to us enough to tell us some her secrets that she has been holding in for so long, but it really hurts my heart. I have always known her and Jude had been through a lot, but I never really realized how many challenges they faced. I guess just hearing her tell us, hearing it in words makes it feel more real. If I could take all of this pain away from her I would, I hate seeing her suffer like she is."

"I know it's not fair that any child has to go through this, but the past cannot be changed, so we have to focus on the now of the situation, and make sure that from now on she never has to go through anything like she has in the past, the only pain I ever want Callie to feel again is the pain of heartbreak. I want her to feel normal teenage pain not the pain from her past. And I want to be here to help her when she does feel that pain."

"Ok well I think we should get some sleep, and clear are minds a bit."

'Night babe"

About 30 minutes after Stef and Lena had fallen asleep, they were awoken by someone screaming.

"Callie!" Stef and Lena jumped out of bed, running down the stairs to Callie.

Callie was thrashing around on the couch, and crying. "Mariana, Jude go upstairs and go back to bed please."

"I want to stay with my sister!"

'Jude baby, look at me, Callie is going to fine ok. She is just having a bad dream we are going to take care of her, go get some sleep buddy."

"Ok just make sure she is ok please?"

"We will baby"

"Callie sweetie, wake up baby it's just a dream."

"No Izzy, please no wake up, wake up!"

"Callie baby shh it's ok"

"No let them go, please stop it!"

Lena came over and shook Callie's shoulder a little harder trying to wake her up from her nightmare.

Callie shot up from the couch "Isabelle no"

Callie fell into Lena's side sobbing. "That's it let it all out baby." Lena gently rubbed Callie's back while Stef placed a reassuring hand on the girl's knee. They sat there in silence for a few moments letting Callie cry.

"Callie, sweetheart who is Izzy?"

"My s, sis, sis, t, she is my sister."

"Where is your sister?"

"She's dead."

'Ohh sweetheart, shhh it's ok."

"Callie how did Izzy die, can you tell us the story please, if you're not comfortable sharing right now you don't have to."

Callie didn't want to talk, but something in the back of her head told her to open up and share with Lena and Stef what happened.

Izzy is Jude's twin sister, she died when they were 9 years old, and I was 12 at the time. We were on our way home from school with our foster parents and we had just gotten our report cards, they were very strict with our grades anything lower than A+ and we would get punished for it, I usually took Jude and Izzy's punishments for them. I was used to getting hurt but I can't stand seeing them get hurt.

Izzy and Jude both got a bad grade on their report card, Jamie my foster dad took them upstairs while my foster mom Jennifer went to her bedroom to get high. He threw them on the floor and started beating them with his belt, I tried to stop him but I couldn't

He hit them for a few minutes before leaving, I knew there was more coming I just didn't know what it would be this time. I heard the bathwater running, I thought he was going to put them in an ice bath.

When he came in I tried to fight him of but I wasn't strong enough, he grabbed Izzy and Jude taking them in the bathroom, I tried to get in but he closed the door, I tried to break it down but I just couldn't. I couldn't see anything but I knew what he was doing, he was holding them under the water. Usually he just does it until we would pass out, but he was extra mad this time and I was worried he was going to do more.

I called the cops, I usually don't do this because they don't help us and then it just makes things worse for us in the long run. But when they got to the house it was too late. Izzy was already dead, and Jude spent a few months in the PICU.

It's all my fault I should have done something, I should have stopped him, it's all my fault.

"Callie sweets, this is not your fault, there is nothing you could have done about it. You tried baby, you tried."

"I failed her, and more than once, I was supposed to protect her!"

"No baby you didn't fail her, not at all"

"He t, touched her, I was supposed to make sure that would never happened!"

"Sweetheart, that was not your fault, you could have done nothing to prevent it from happening, and you are still a child and you were only 12 years old at the time."

"It should have been me, not her."

"It shouldn't have been either one of you Callie, neither one of you deserved it."

"I did, I always deserve bad things."

"That might be what your previous foster parents have told you, but it is in no way true, and it will never be true."

"You don't understand! Sooner or later I will do something to screw up and you won't want me anymore, because I'm a freaking screw up I deserve everything I get because I bring it on myself by screwing up all the time. I'm the reason my family is dead, I'm the reason Jude has been through so much crap, I'm worthless, fat, stupid, and a whore, he is right, they are all right I mess everything up!"

Hearing what Callie thought of herself because things she has been told over the years broke their hearts even more than they already where.

"Callie look at me, you are none of those things, you don't deserve the things you have been through, you are the kindest, bravest, and strongest girl I know and you deserve so much more then you have. You don't have to worry about getting kicked out because you and Jude are not going anywhere anytime soon love."

"Can I go to bed now, I just want to go to sleep?"

"Yeah sweetie, do you want us to sleep down here tonight?" Callie didn't answer but they saw the look in her eyes.

Stef got up from kneeling on the floor and placed a pillow on her lap, motioning for Callie to lay her head in her lap. Stef played with Callie's hair and rubbed her back until Callie fell asleep.

What do you think about this chapter? Love it, hate it? Don't forget to let me know what you would like to see in up coming chapters, I'm trying to incorporate all suggestions into the story. Sorry if there are some spelling mistakes in this chapter I was kind of rushing to get it done tonight. Thanks for reading.