AN: So for this chapter you can thank the guest named CatieBell, who gave the idea (I don't know why I hadn't thought of it myself).
As for the guest who asked about - where are the Fosters? All I can say is - I know and I am sorry about that. The Amy dating chapters turned out longer than I had initially planned. Probably because I didn't want the storyline to feel rushed and I wanted to do the storyline justice, represent it well. The Adams Fosters did indeed kind of get left out in the result. But, like I said 2 chapters ago, they will come back and will be in every chapter, starting from this chapter. So fear no more, the Adams Foster clan is back!
Thank you all for the feedback, it has been amazing :)
Callie POV
I arrive at the Adams Foster house in 20 minutes. All three cars were parked close to the house. I park the car next to Brandon's car on the street and happily, jiggling the car keys in my hand, I head over to the house and ring the bell.
Like always, I don't have to wait long. This time Brandon is the one that opens the doors and lets me in.
"You are pretty early" he says stepping aside
"Yeah, I know, sorry, I kind of had a wired morning" I replied with a smile on my lips as I stepped inside
"We are all still eating breakfast…" He says and that is when I notice that he has a half of a sandwich in his hand
"That hasn't stopped me from coming over before, has it?" I place my shoes neatly next to the others and follow Brandon to the kitchen
There was shortage of two people – Stef and Lena. Everyone else was camped somewhere in the kitchen area. All dressed in casual home clothes. Mariana and Jesus were occupying the nook area while the others were sat around the table. I greet all of them when I walk in.
Jude was stuffing his face with what looked like similar sandwich to what Brandon has…had, he stuffed the last piece in his mouth and now was having trouble chewing it.
I walk up to Jude and ruffle his hair "Morning sleepy head"
I saw the way he looked, he had the face that said he has just woken up. He mumbled something back, I am not sure exactly what, but I think it was something about his warm bed.
"Slow down there" Brandon said watching Frankie, who was eating cereal "That spoons is 5 times too big for you" he reaches over to Frankie and takes the big, soup soon, away from her. He then got up, went to the drawer and got her a smaller spoon and then sat back down to his spot.
I place a quick kiss to Jude's temple and walk over to the nook to the twins. Jesus was laid out in one end of the sofa on his back, he was holding his phone up, clicking on it. It was only matter of time before his phone slips his hands and hits his face. Mariana was sitting with her back at the back rest, also clicking her phone. I slump down at the couch next to Mariana.
"Wow…you look tiered" Mariana observed and just then, like I predicted, Jesus phone slipped his hand and it hit him right in the face "Son of a...ouch!" he rubbed his nose and sat up mumbling "Stupid phone"
We both give out a small laugh about Jesus, but then I reply to Mariana "Thanks, just what I wanted to hear"
"What kept you up?" Jesus asked and scooted closer to where we were sitting "Was it a boy?" he teased me
"You don't wanna know" I said back when Frankie, B and Jude join us at the nook. Frankie squeezes in between Jesus and B, she looked happy between her two big brothers. Jude took a seat next to me.
"Well, you know, I personally always want to know" Mariana said grinning at me "and I have no doubt that others do too, they just won't admit it"
"I don't" Brandon said and pulled out his phone from his pocket and started to scroll thought it, but the fact that he was still sitting with us, proved he did care
Frankie looked up to him "I wanna play that game, B! The bird game! Please, please, please, pretty please!"
"Okay" Brandon said and put the Angry bird game on for Frankie. All of her attention was now on Brandon's phone. She was trying to beat the first level by the looks of it.
"There are no secrets, remember, we promised each other" Jude said and flashed his big brown puppy dog eyes at me "I tell you everything…" he added in a sadder tone, playing with my emotions
"I really do think, that neither of you want to know" I said and ruffled his hair some more then pulled him to my right side
"Oh, just spill it" Jesus said tapping his hands at his knees "We all know, we won't talk about anything else, not until we discuss your news!"
I looked around me, Mariana and Jude were all ears, Brandon was concentrating on how Frankie was playing Angry birds on his phone, Jesus just looked impatient.
"I heard mom and Cooper doing it last night…" I decided to tell them
Brandon looks up, his face screwed up "We should have listened to you, I did not want to know that"
"Doing what?" Jude asks confused. Frankie looked like she didn't even hear me.
"Ew…gross" the twins said at the same time
"Doing what!?" Jude asked louder, looking to his older siblings and me
"Funny business" Jesus said back
"Ohhh…" He dragged, it was clear to me that he did know, understood what we were talking about
"Have you guys…heard…your moms having sex?" I ask looking mostly to Mariana
"I have a room next to them…" Brandon said back first "What do you think?" He then added looking very uncomfortable "I think they also do it in shower…"
"I have heard them few times…well, actually more than few" Mariana said back partly uncomfortable "Don't look at them" she nodded to Jesus and Jude "Jesus sleeps with his headphones on most of the time and Jude can sleep though apocalypse"
"I sleep now with headphones on, there is a reason for it. I didn't at first. I have heard stuff too" Jesus adds to Marianas saying "Not that I wanted to admit it. I try to forget and pretend it never happened. Otherwise, I think I would have to move out, I could not look them in the eye."
"Have you…never told them? That you hear them?" I ask carefully looking to the three oldest "Confronted them about it?"
Brandon just laughed out "Hell no! I do not wish to have that talk. It was awkward enough when I once walked in on them when I was 7. Mom was on top of Lena…doing…stuff" you could see on his face, he was reliving it in his mind "That was the first time I got a small part of the sex talk from them"
Mariana just shook her head back "That would be one terribly uncomfortable, embarrassing talk…I don't think I could go thought it. I assume Lena would just say it is all natural and normal, that every adult does it. That they are adults and they too have needs" she looked grossed out just by the thought of the talk "I don't want to have that talk"
"So you just let them...be?" I ask warily looking around them
"Well, for most part, I think they do try not to do it while we are home" Mariana said and glanced to her brothers who all nodded "We have only heard them at night, when they think we are all asleep. I think they are trying be quiet, but you know, sometime it just…happens"
"I have headphones…" Brandon said and briefly glanced to me "That's when I use my rock songs, that's their only purpose" he said ad took a deep breath in, looking slightly miserable at that fact
"I just press my pillow over my head. That helps…a little" Mariana said staring at some spot on the carpet by the sofa
Jude then added "It is not like they have screamed thought the house" All the oldest siblings looked to him "What? I have woken up in the middle of the night too. I have heard them…once or twice"
"What is totally unfair is that" Jesus suddenly chipped in "they can have sex at home, but we can't! Like, where the hell do you want us to do it then! In the car?" he sounded hurt
"They probably don't want you to have sex…at all!" I replied back to him
"Well, they are not dumb. They know we have sex or will at some point, that's why they keep condoms in the bathroom. They know teenagers have sex, I bet they would prefer if we don't. They don't want to make this house a place where people would have sex in all of the rooms, all the time, while other people are home" Brandon said back sounding mature and smart. And then added just for Jesus "Oh, and Jesus, trust me - don't do it car. Not a good idea…"
"Seriously? You will pay for my therapy if you continue on…" Mariana gave him a disgusted look that basically told him, that she did not want to know that he has had sex in a car
I just added "Too much information, dude…too much"
Suddenly Mariana called out "OH!"
We all turned to her "What?" we all asked in unison
"Remember when moms did it in car!?" She looked slightly amused by the fact
"Ew, no! Why would you tell me that! We have to drive in those cars!" Jesus groaned back, shaking his head
"When…did they do it car?" I ask, my curiosity getting the best of me
"After the poetry slam!" Jude said fast, it looked like he remember that particular event too
"My friend Garret participated in this poetry reading thing-" Mariana started
"You participated too, remember?" Brandon chuckled back at her
"You also punched a hole in your nose, as mom put it" Jesus added laughing, Mariana playfully punched him in his shoulder and continued
"Anyway…like I said, we went to the poetry reading thing and when we got back, we all went inside the house. But moms for some reason stayed back. Some 20 minutes had passed and they still weren't in, so I and Jude went to look for them…" That's when her face changed, she looked slightly disgusted "And we stepped outside, to the porch and we saw the car rocking slightly and…we saw a glimpse of them thought the front window…both of them were in the back…together" once Mariana was done with the story, she shivered
"Ewww…" I drag and screw up my face "What did you two do?" I look down to Jude who was very quiet about it
"We ran inside and pretended we saw nothing!" Mariana said and Jude nodded his head back furiously. Mariana then continued "And agreed to never speak of it. Which we now are doing right now…"
"I think, one time I ruined their private time" Jesus said and looked around to all of us. No other kid seem to know this. All eyes were on Jesus.
"Lexi was still here. It was after our first time, we didn't use" He cleared his throat and continued "condom…so I went to this pharmacy and asked a lady to buy the morning after pill. Turned out mom was in the pharmacy and when the lady gave me the pill, mom came out and saw. When we got home, mama was home…only in a robe, clearly only waiting for mom to come home…it was the middle of the day and mom had bought some sensual massage oil or something…" he looked uncomfortable even talking about it
Brandon pressed his face in his hand "I did not want to know that!"
There was silence in the room until Mariana spoke up "Anyway…what did you do?"
"I umm…" I dragged my finger over the table "I told them at the breakfast table. Told them to plan their sex life when I was not there…or to warm me at least, so I could leave"
"You told Cooper too?" Jude asked surprised
"Yeah…he was there. He froze, looked like he was about to pass out or something. I told them, they seemed horrified…embarrassed, incredibly guilty"
"Poor guy" Brandon dragged slowly
"Poor guy?" I ask back surprised "No, no, no! He is not poor anything. I had to listen to them having sex for like 20 minutes, how they moaned and groaned and how the bed creaked. Cooper, is the reason why it happened! He did things that made mom do certain…other things…" I got quieter and slower at the end, because of the bad, horrifying memories
"How did Amy react?" Jesus asks back
"Ashamed…super uncomfortable, slightly in a panic mode, she didn't know what to do, how to react" I count it off "They both obviously didn't think I had hear them. And knowing that this wasn't the last time when he stays over, I just couldn't go on like that. I had to tell them"
"That took some guts" Jesus said back sounding impressed
"This was not the first time I have heard people having sex. When I was in foster care, I used to hear my foster parents pretty often. Usually it sounded much more…I guess, rougher. It was hard to hear, but hearing mom…that somehow trumped all the other times"
"It's because she is your mom!" Jude said to me and Brandon added "No one wants to hear their parents doing it" He took a small pause and then quickly added "Or siblings!" They all nodded back and then Brandon continued
"That is the one thing, no kid ever wants to know about. I think we just like to pretend that our parents don't do it. You know, they do it once to conceive…us" He said very awkwardly "And then that's it. They don't do it again. One time thing…and even the one time thing is too much for us to handle."
"I think it is because you actually love her" Mariana said "When we were in foster homes, we heard our foster parents have sex too"
"But neither made us feel more uncomfortable than when we first heard Stef and Lena having sex. Because we see them as family. The other foster parents didn't come even close to being our family. We didn't care about them, but we do care about moms" Jesus added to his twin sister
"So, you are definitely not alone in this one" Mariana put her hand around my shoulder
"I guess, the only reassurance that I got, was from their faces when I told them. They both looked horrified and that's how I knew they really did think I was sleeping and wouldn't hear them. They didn't do it intentionally"
"Do what intentionally?" I heard Lena's voice from the kitchen. She had just walked in, surprising all of us.
"Um…Nothing!" I reply back quickly once I was looking to her
"Oh, hey,Cal! You are here early" Stef said walking in after Lena "When did you get here?" she walked straight to the fridge and got out a can of soda
"Um…10 minutes ago?" it came out more like a question
"Are you asking to telling?" Stef squinted at me, lowering the soda can down
"…Telling?" it once again sounded like a question, but this time I corrected myself "Telling...I was telling" Stef chuckles and sips her soda. Lena was by the island table going thought her purse
"So what are your plans for today?" Lena asked digging thought her purse
We all answered together, I didn't even hear what Jude said and he was sitting next to me. I only know what I reply "Maybe going bowling"
Stef once again laughed "Well, know we know where ALL of you are going to be. Thanks for clearing that up" the sarcasm was evident in her voice
Frankie suddenly spoke up, surprising all of us "Mommy?" she was looking straight up to Stef "Hmm?" Stef walked closer to the nook area, looking to the youngest one
"What is sex!?" Frankie asked very casually, but that is when we all finally realized we talked in front of a 4 year old about sex. Could we be any more dumber?
There was dead silence in the room for few seconds. Stef and Lena shared a look and then they both looked to all of us, looking for the guilty one.
I looked around to all of the Adams Foster kids. I have never felt as guilty as I do now. I was the one who started to talk about this. I think I heard Jesus swallow loudly and Jude's heartbeats increasing. Brandon's eyes were big, he was just waiting what was going to happen next. Mariana had grabbed a hold of my sweater and was holding on to it. Blood suddenly pumped thought my veins faster as I looked back at the only two adults in the room.
"Where did you hear the word, sweetie?" Lena asked from the island table softly
"Callie said it first, then Brandon-" Stef shot me a look and that's when I decided to just bolt, I did not want to have another sex talk or lecture or whatever could come of this
"My Car! Now!"I called out and the next thing I knew, was that I was running after Brandon thought the diner room, Mariana was on my six
I grabbed my shoes in my hand and just run out to car, unlocking it from distance. I tossed the shoes in first, then got in myself. Brandon jumped in the back, but Mariana up front.
"Where is Jesus and Jude!?" I call out in panic as I try to find the ignition with the key
"JUST DRIVE!" Brandon yelled from back, panic in his voice "We will get them later!" Next second I turned the key, put in gear and spinning the wheels drove away.
"Drive to the back alley!" Mariana pointed in the street once I was driving around the block. I turned in the back alley and we found both of them running, barefoot. They both piled in the back.
"That was a close call!" Jesus said looking back
"Too close!" Jude said little bit out of breath "I have no shoes! I am barefoot!"
"It's summer! Don't stress about that" Brandon said calming him down
"So…" I glance to Mariana as I drove out to street "Bowling? Anyone?" I peak a look in the rear view mirror to the boys
"Sounds good to me" Jesus said and the other ones nodded
"Yeah…I'm not risking on going back and getting another sex talk from moms" Brandon said back
"We should have not discussed that in front of Frankie!" Mariana said looking to me and then back to the boys
"She's 4…almost 5. She was about to have one sooner or later!" Brandon reassure us
"Now she has one sooner, because of us" Jude added sadly "I feel bad for her"
"She will be fine…Lena is there" Brandon said "So she is all good!"
I looked back to him in the rear view mirror "What are you saying?" I ask him back
"I'm saying, it is easier to talk to them when Lena is present. Stef and also Mike tend to make it super awkward instead of just awkward!"
"Yeah, Lena always calms down mom. She has always been more open up about…all of the stuff" Jesus agreed with Brandon
"Plus, mom overreacts sometimes, so it is always good to have mama there, who just keeps her grounded. Lena takes everything very calmly" Mariana added
After a minute of silence I speak up "What a good day!" I say sarcastically
"What do you mean?" Jude asks from back
"Well, I can't go back home, because mom is there and I kind of want to avoid her for the next 2 days. Also, Cooper is probably still there, frozen in the spot I last saw him. And now we can't even show our faces to your home, because we have no clue what talk we would get from Stef and Lena and how much we would suffer from them…basically, I have no place to go"
"That kind of makes you a runaway" Jude chuckles from the back
"That makes us runaways too, we run away with you. We are your companions" Mariana added happily
"I can always go to Mike" Brandon said casually from the back, reminding us that he has 3 parents
"Does he have a hidden room where he could hide 4 more people?" Jesus asked jokingly
"We could hide one in the closet" He was thinking out loud "One of you could live in his car. But that's about it"
"Dibs on closet!" Mariana called out
"Damn!" Jesus groaned "Fine, I will take the car"
"I guess that leaves, you and me bud" I look to Jude in the rear view mirror "We will run off and live to together in a small house by the lake in the woods, in Canada! We will live off the land. How does that sound?"
"Awesome!" Jude called back excited. Mariana reached for the radio and turned it on. Jesus immediately called out once the song started playing "Runaway!"
"What!?" we all asked confused at the same time
"Song! It is called Runaway…by Linking Park! Come one! No one?" he sounded frustrated and then just started to sing along the lyrics at the top of his lungs as I kept on driving down the road.