"Jude come here." Callie motioned her brother over to the hallway while the rest of the family was in the kitchen. Jude smiled, "Yeah?" Callie checked the corner to make sure that no one was looking, "Jude about what you said the other day. Don't get your hopes up alright? I don't want you to get hurt." Jude frowned, "Callie. I want to tell you something. About the other day."
"How could you keep that from me! What they did to him and you didn't think maybe I should have known?" Callie went running into the kitchen and interpreted the conversations going on. Lena stepped forward, "Callie why don't we go talk about this in the living room alright?" Callie shook her head, "No. Why don't we talk right here right now." Callie was losing her temper, they had kept something that happened to Jude from her which meant she couldn't protect him. "Callie." Stef's tone didn't leave any room for argument so Callie stormed out into the living room.
"Callie, please don't get mad at them I didn't want to tell you." Jude pleaded as he curled up next to his sister. "I didn't want you to be mad. I thought you would get mad at me because of what they called me." Jude was on the verge of tears and for her brother's sake Callie calmed down and hugged him. When Jude stopped crying she sat in front of him and made him look into her eyes, "Jude. I will always love you. Remember that alright? No matter what you do or what people say to you I will always love you." Jude nodded and hugged his sister again, "I know." Callie pulled away from the hug and forced her brother to look at her again, "Who were they? I want to protect you and I need to know who said those things to you." Jude shook his head, "Taylor already got into trouble. That's what the fight was about that she got in. Callie, you don't have to protect me all the time. You've already done it for so long." Callie shook her head and kissed her brother's forehead, whispering she said, "Stop growing up and let me protect you."
"Callie, Jude. We'd like to talk to you." Stef broke the embrace of the two children with her voice. Callie looked up to see Stef and Lena standing in the front of the pack of children. "Yeah?" Callie was worried that this was when they when Jude and her were going to get thrown out. "Well." Stef started. Lena was beaming and so were the kids standing behind the two women. "Well we wanted to see what you thought about this being a more permanent situation." Jude's smile was almost as wide as his face. "Like adopt us?" He asked hopefully. Lena nodded and Stef smiled. Jude looked hopefully to his older sister. Callie looked to the four kids standing in the doorway waiting for an answer, "Are you guys alright with this?" she asked. Mariana nodded eagerly, Jesus wanted a little brother and Brandon just smiled as he said, "There's enough to go around." Callie was waiting for an answer from Taylor, "Tay?" Jude asked. Taylor nodded "We stick together from night one the three of us, everything should be final for all three of us around the same time." Callie smiled and hugged Jude. Stef and Lena had given up waiting for a reply and asked, "Is that a yes?" Callie smiled and Jude laughed, "Yes. Yes" Lena and Stef both pounced on the two children voicing their joy, "They said yes!" As the two women pulled their two children into a hug.
"Six kids. What in the world were we thinking Lena?" Stef laughed. Lena smiled, "They were so happy. I love it." Stef nodded in agreement. "I could get use to Callie being that delighted for sure. I'm just happy that they're all ours. I love them so much." The two women filled with joy just sat cuddling on the couch.
"So Callie how's it feel?" Taylor was hanging upside down on her bed as Callie lightly played guitar. Callie looked up slightly and then went back to playing, "I'm glad. Jude will finally have a family. I'm sort of relieved myself." She admitted. Taylor smiled, "I'm glad that you two are getting adopted, I mean it must suck not having people care about you and know you have a ton." Callie nodded, "Yeah." Jude walked over to Callie and whispered something. Taylor stood to leave, "Bye guys."
Jude sat hugging his sister, "We're getting adopted." He kept whispering as if he almost didn't believe it. Callie just continued to nod and reply with, "Yes we are." Jude looked up to his sister and Callie could see the pure joy in his eyes, "Callie? We have a family." Callie smiled. They did. The two of them finally had a family again.
Authors note:
Hey guys! I finally posted the first chapter of my Tayllie story if you would like to read it it's called: I wasn't confused: A Tayllie Story. Thanks and as always what did you think of this chapter?