Hey guys! Here's another chapter for you all! Just a reminder I don't like to make things to similar to the show so you will be surprised. I also want to say that I am well ahead in this story because I actually started writing it ages ago and I am currently on chapter 17, hope you enjoy!
Brandon's pov
D-did s-s-she just do what I think she did. S-she but – she's amazing, I thought as I sat there stunned, smirking to myself. She catches on fast. Things were just moving to slow. That normally wouldn't bother me, but there's something about her. When we are alone together I just get a strange urge to do something. That night we saved Jude even though Callie had only been with us for a week I still had the urge. We stayed up talking for hours; well I talked at first but she finally listened. When we were in her room talking, I just felt so at ease. Today when I saw her standing there in her room I didn't know what to do. She looked absolutely amazing, beautiful. Just then she-she, let's just say she always surprises me. I got my thoughts together and I excited the car and tried to make it to the front door without stumbling. After all I did just see the girl almost naked two times today.
"Hey my sweet if this rain stops were probably all going to head down to Grandma's tomorrow" Mum mentioned as I walked into the house.
"Tomorrow, I can't do tomorrow, I have an audition." I moaned hoping she wouldn't make me go, I mean I love grandma but my audition is important. "There is no way I can miss it!" I pleaded hoping she wouldn't make me go.
"Fine, but next time you need to go!" my mum reasoned with me sighing sadly.
"I will I promise!" I agreed hoping she would just drop it so I could go practice. I need all the practice I can get.
"Oh and Brandon, don't to forget to come down for dinner at seven" she ordered as I made my way up the stairs. I nodded my head in response as I continued to walk up the stairs.
"Hey Brandon dinner's ready!" Jude happily told me as he walked in my room.
"Sure I'll down in a minute bud!" I said to him as I just finished the piece I was playing.
"So Callie make sure you get to bed earlier it's a long drive so we have to start early tomorrow." My mum mentioned as we all sat around the table eating quietly.
"Um sorry I can't go" Callie began looking uncomfortable already.
"And why would be young lady?" Lena questioned whilst raising her eyebrows.
"Uh I got a detention" Callie murmured not sure how either of them would take it.
"On a Saturday Callie?" Lena questioned evidently not happy with her response.
"Yes apparently you can't go over to a kid and rip their work up. Even if they are talking about you" Callie answered seriously but you could see the smirk that was starting to appear and the giggle than desperately wanted to slip out.
"Well don't let it happen again" Lena scolded.
"Is all that you can say about that Lena?" Mum shrieked slamming her fork back down on the table.
"Calm down it won't happen again" Lena scolded glaring at Stef before sending a smile to Callie's shocked panicked figure. You could see the shock in her eyes as she played with her fingers under the table not knowing what else to say. Slowly my hands travelled down the table and under to reach Callie's hand gently. Not knowing what she was thinking I quickly pulled my hand away before things got too awkward, but before my hand made it's way back over the table Callie's hand quickly grasped it tightly. Smiling slightly I squeezed her hand tightly giving her the reassurance she needed. This meant nothing right? Right. She hesitated, but she still grabbed it right?
"Mums don't take punishment lightly I commented smiling over at Callie as everyone else nodded their heads in agreement.
"I wouldn't expect them to" Callie replied calmly but squeezing my hand with hers shakily.
"What about you Jude?" Stef asked trying to make conversation less awkward.
"Oh it's ok, I don't want to ruin anything after all, we are temporary" Jude politely responded taken aback by his words I decided to finally say ask why. Why they think it's just them thinking back to what I heard on the stairs earlier.
"What do you mean?" I asked looking at him confusedly.
"Well within a few weeks we'll be gone and within a few years you probably won't remember our names."
"That's not-"
"Don't say it's not true Brandon because it is. We will be gone soon no matter what. Our longest foster home was for two weeks. It's been a week me for and 2 days for Jude so we will be out of your hair soon, don't worry. We don't expect you to break the record for the longest pit stop" Callie retorted trying to tell me that no matter what I have done so far, I still don't care about her, and I do! I really do. It sickens me to even think that she thinks that about herself, that Jude thinks that about himself too. I turned to look at everyone's expressions and I saw in their eyes how wrong they thought it was. How could people reach out a hand to these kids and then just drop them. Mariana and Jesus did have to go through it too. But it was a lot easier than this. My mum was the cop who found them. They got taken in straight away. Callie has had to deal with this for a long time. I can't even imagine how young Jude must have been. It sickens me. I don't know what happened to their parents but if they just abandoned them I would hunt them down and make them experienced pain they never knew existed. That's how much Callie means to me, how much they both mean to me.
"Callie you're not going anywhere!" I burst out, I looked around furiously to see everyone nod their heads in agreement a bit taken aback by my outburst, well everyone except Jude of course. He carried on eating as if it was no big deal.
"Brandon this is our temporary home" she snapped.
"No it's not Callie!"
"Yes Brandon it is, it's going to be the same as everywhere else." She growled while looking at me disappointedly snatching her hand away from mine then turning to face Stef and Lena.
"Please many I be excused?" she asked sending them a pleading look.
Both gave a look of sympathy before replying "Sure take all the time you need" hesitantly sighing as they watched her retreating figure. "Have a good trip, y' know just in case I don't see you before then" Callie muttered coldly once she reached the doorway to face us again before she stormed back to her room.
I slumped down sighing as she walked away. I just don't know what to do anymore. Everything I do, she just shoots me down. I need to do something to finally get her to know what she thinks isn't true, but I just don't know what. She's so hard to figure out.
"Hey" I whispered as slowly crept across the room and sat down next to Callie on her bed.
"Hi" Callie replied in a mere whisper as she sat cross-legged on the bed; eyes glaring intensively at the floor as if she was waiting for it to back down from the fight.
"Callie... I know you think that I don't understand anything. But I do understand some things, believe it or not I'm not stupid" I chuckled as her eyes started to drift towards me but before her gaze reached mine, her eyes drifted back down to the floor not saying a word. "Please say something... please" I whispered, my eyes never leaving her slender frame.
"Something" she mumbled bitterly.
"Uh not what I meant... but hey that's something" I chuckled slightly at how stubborn.
"Sometimes I wish you were stupid" Callie chuckled lightly under breath before I sat up in haste and turned to her and gently twisted her frame to face me.
"I'm sorry" I whispered as tears forming around the rims of my eyes.
"For what?"
"For everything. You can trust me Callie; I don't care if you don't believe me Callie. I'm not like the rest ok? I care about you and I don't care how many people have said that you before. I know you Callie. I may not know everything about you, about your past. But all I need to know is the little things about you. Like how you bite your lip when you're nervous or when you have no idea what to say. I've noticed the way you twirl the ends of your hair when you're in deep thought. Callie you have been here 1 week and I have already noticed so many of your little quirks. Tell me I don't care right now. But once you do, no matter how many times you repeat it to yourself deep down... deep down you know I care about you Callie. The idea of a foster home is to move forward, to try and learn how to care again. I don't care how long it takes Callie, but you and Jude need to know we all care about you both, I care about you both!" I ranted trying to control my feelings, god she makes me crazy.
"I know" Callie whispered barley making a noise.
"You do?" I questioned shocked at her response.
"I don't know" she said frowning at her own words.
"You're not making any sense Callie" I whispered slightly scared I would set off another bomb like I did the other night in the living room with all the confusion.
"I just don't know ok!" Callie shrieked raising her hands up in the air waving them frantically. "I've just had deal with so my crap in my life Brandon! Much more than you'll ever know. Ever since I was six I have been pushed around to every kind of neighbourhood you'll ever know. I've been in the poorest areas to the richest in the types of houses you could ever imagine.
"That doesn't sound too bad" I whispered out loud accidently as my eyes widened in shock knowing how much that would hurt her.
"Really!? Really Brandon, wow you care so much! I've never stayed anywhere long enough to get attached. The greatest houses are not the best Brandon. In fact there often the worst! So where in hell do you think you have the right to say that to me? Maybe it's good that you don't need to know about my past, but you will. Stef and Lena will have their hands on my file soon and believe me as soon as they get that, I'm gone." Callie screamed pointing her figure at me.
"Why's that Callie?" I questioned raising my voice a little.
"They will find something on my file they don't like and then poof, I'm gone and we were never here." She replied her voice back to it's normal whisper.
"Cals... how long is it going to take for you to realise we aren't your typical family" Brandon chuckled slightly thinking about all the people that were in his life who he loved so much; including Callie and Jude.
"I guess... maybe that's just what I need, something different" she replied whilst twirling the ends of her hair easing when she heard my new nickname for her.
"Maybe it is" I whispered gently placing my hand on her shoulder. I love Callie but I just wish she wasn't constantly changing moods. I know it's her defence and she doesn't know how to cope but still. I mean this morning there was rather a lot of flirtation, maybe even sexual tension and now look at us. I'm still trying to convince her that she belongs here; with me.
"Ok then, I need to go read 4 chapters of Moby Dick for tomorrow so I'm going to go. Will you be ok?" I questioned protectively as I pulled her into a hug.
"Yes Brandon what's the worst that could happen? I have to break up a fight between Mariana and Jesus whilst their yelling in Spanish?"Callie joked as she walked over to her desk and opened up her maths textbook.
"Oh you'll get use to that, it happens at least 7 times a week, so I guess everyday" Brandon laughed as he walked towards the door.
"Oh great" Callie laughed half heartedly rolling her eyes.
"Night Callie" I said with a small smile tugging on my lips.
Callie's Pov
"Good night Brandon" I whispered as I read through my math textbook concentrating on the equations before me. Today has been one heck of a roller coaster I mean all in one day I've gone from flirting with Brandon after he walked in to having an argument with the current family, to then having another argument with Brandon. But right now, I've got that thing I had one week ago, that little fire inside my stomach. I know I didn't show it but I did listen to what Brandon said, it touched my heart, but not enough.
Thanking the interruption with a sigh I walked over to my bed and lazily picked up my phone and answered the unknown number.
"Hello?" I asked groggily wondering who the person on the other end of the line was.
"Is this Miss Callie Jacobs?" A voice boomed through the phone.
"Um... yes..."
Brandon's Pov
I slowly made my way across the hall to head down to the kitchen when I heard Callie talking to someone; I assumed it was on the phone since there was no reply.
"What!" Callie shrieked with panic in her voice. "No! No! No you can't do that!" Callie shrieked with pure panic in her voice. "I don't understand you said years! No it hasn't been, it's not long enough! No, that can't been possible." Callie bellowed angrily as her voice got louder by the minute. "I can't do that! Please...I understand that, but I don't think you understand what I'm saying here. Sir please just take it into reconsideration, we can't have that happen. That was the reason I had to change my entire life! It put me through a load of crap and now things are starting to look up for us! No! Please! Just wait!" Callie pleaded in panic before what sounded like throwing her phone against the wooden floor.
"No!" Callie Cried as began to sob as if her life depended on it. I just stood there frozen not knowing what to do, what to think. My hand tightly gripped around the handle as it had been throughout the entire call. My thoughts were racing as she cried her heart out. It pained me more than you will ever know; it killed me.
Hope you liked it! Who do think that was on the phone?! It doesn't look like Callie's going to take it so well what do you guys think? I wonder how many of you will be shocked at the outcome. Any way thanks for all the reviews, follows and faves because it reminds me that people do like this story. Also don't forget to review even if you're a guest on this site! Thanks :)