"Ugh. Can I like go grab a snack really quick or do anything?" Taylor whined, Lena laughed, "Sure, but I'll follow you." Taylor mounded again. "This feels like it's been forever." Stef laughed, "You've made it three days." The doorbell rang and stopped Tayor from protesting further, Lena went to go answer and Taylor followed her, trying to prove a point. "Oh hey Connor." Lena answered. "Sup Connor?" Taylor waved. "Jude! Connor's here!" Lena called up the stairs. "So how's your Saturday been?" Lena asked. Connor nodded, "Pretty good. We won our soccer game." Lena smiled, "Nice." Taylor, speaking purposely loud, said, "I would have gone to cheer you on but I CAN'T LEAVE THIS HOUSE WITHOUT A SHADOW!" Stef could be heard laughing from the living room. Jude came down the stairs, "Hey Connor," Connor waved, "Hey Jude." Lena laughed, "The Beatles nice!" Connor had a puzzled look on his face, "It's a band old people like to listen to." Jude explained. Taylor burst into laughter and high fived Jude. "Okay ouch. Why don't you guys go upstairs to your room and get started. Jude should have everything you need." The two boys ran upstairs.

Callie was sitting on her bed, trying to work on homework when she heard Jude and Connor running up the stairs to his room. She heard a faint knock on the door, lying back and groaning she called out, "Come in! It's not like I'm going to get this homework done anyways." Mariana walked through the bedroom door, "Hey. Uh. I hope you don't mind but uh... my moms told my about that...uh..." Mariana stuttered around the concept. Callie nodded, "I figured." Mariana nodded, "I'm sorry. Callie shrugged, "It's not your fault Mariana." Mariana nodded, "I know. But still. Uh... You're safe here though." Callie laughed, "Is that the catch phrase around here for everyone?" Mariana giggled a little, "I guess so. I've heard it my far share." The two girls both laughed and then fell into a silence. Mariana finally broke the silence, "It's cool having an older sister you know." Callie didn't know how to reply to Mariana and just nodded. Mariana smiled, "Taylor thinks so to but she won't say so."

Callie was sitting on her bed strumming her guitar trying to get her mind off from everything that had happened the last few days. She had told Stef, Lena, Taylor and Brandon about Liam. Liam who she swore she would never speak about again, she also told them about Sarah the newest foster girl in Liam's household. Callie had felt the difference and mood from the different people after she had told them. Lena and Stef seemed to be happy that she trusted them, Brandon started treating Callie like the younger sibling the same way he acted like he had to protect everyone else in the house. And Taylor hadn't said a word to Callie. She knew she shouldn't have said anything, now it was going to be put on her record. Callie was full of fear, what if she was screwed up more than they thought? Did this mean she wasn't going to be allowed to stay?

"Hey Callie." Taylor stuck her head through the door to the girls bedroom. "Hey Tay, you don't have to ask to come into your own room." Callie rolled her eyes. Taylor was surprised by the nickname but shrugged it off,"Uh well Stef's behind me. I guess you're gonna have to be the babysitter if I come in so she came to check if that was alright." Taylor swung the door open exposing Stef, "Hey Callie. I came up to uh... Talk to you. It's about..." Stef stopped not knowing how to talk to Callie around the topic of Liam. Callie nodded, "okay." Stef saw Callie go into her own little lockdown mode, "Taylor go down stairs you can come talk to Callie when I'm done. Go help Lena with lunch. And remind her about Connor being here." Taylor nodded and took off down the stairs.

"Callie sweetie, I just thought you would like to know that Sarah has been removed from the household. She's safe now okay?" Callie nodded, she was relieved that Sarah was safe but a part of her wished someone could have saved her and Jude. Stef saw the pain in Callie's eyes a lot more often now, "Baby, it's alright. He's not gonna hurt you again alright? I have a friend at the district attorneys office, we're gonna see if we can take Liam off the streets." Callie froze as Stef said this. Stef wrapped her arm around Callie, "Why did Taylor need a babysitter?" Stef froze, "Oh. No reason sweets."

Callie had pulled away from the embrace and stood up, "Stef what's going on?" Stef shook her head Callie, "don't worry about everyone else. For once just worry about you. Or rather dont worry at all because Lena and I are going to take care of everything for all of you." Callie sighed but sat back down next to Stef, "okay."

"Lena, why would someone do that?" Taylor whispered in fear of Callie somehow hearing. "Have you talked to Callie?" Lena was pretty sure she knew the answer. Taylor looked to the ground quickly and then back up to Lena, "I'm not sure what to say." She admitted. Lena nodded, "What do they two of you normally talk about?"

Callie heard the knock on the door, quickly she pulled herself away from Stef's shoulder and wiped the tears from her face. Stef looked at her foster daughter waiting to see if Callie was going to say anything. Callie took a breath and spoke, "There's a pretty good chance that whoever is knocking doesn't have to because this is their room, so come in." Callie sighed, it was Mariana and Taylor's room also and she wished that they would stopped acting differently around her. "Oh, hey sweets what's up?" Stef smiled at her other foster daughter. Taylor took a deep breath and was staring straight at Callie, "I came to talk to Callie." Stef nodded, "Okay. I'll be downstairs if you need me. " Stef paused a moment to look at both girls to make sure they understood, but her eyes lingered on Callie for just a moment longer.

"Callie. We need to talk." Taylor blurted as soon as Stef closed the door behind her. Callie sighed but nodded, "Taylor, you really don't have to treat me different..." Taylor shook her head and started to pace. "I don't want to Callie.. I just wanted to say that..." Callie shook her head, a single tear going down her cheek, "Please Tay, don't" "Callie, I have to! Don't you see that I have to say this... Callie, I..."

Authors note:

Hey everyone! I hope I haven't lost interest I am so sorry it took so long to get this up but school has been killing me with homework! What do you think of this chapter? What do you think Taylor is going to say to Callie? I'm going to be writing a spin-off of this soon with Taylor and Callie as lovers. Okay thanks guys. And as always I love your reviews so please keep them coming!