A Ballie Love Story From The Beginning

Chapter 177 "A Ballie Love Story From The Beginning"

Stef got up and exited the room leaving Brandon alone on Callie's bed. Brandon thought about what he had to do and wasn't sure if he could act like there was nothing going on between him and Callie...it's just something about her, every time she's in the room with him he has to touch her. He has to feel her warm soft skin under his rough callused hands. He has to smell her vanilla hair and listen to her breath. He soon realized that seeing her and not being able to touch her was just as bad as not seeing her at all. But he had already made the point that it would look awfully suspicious if he were the only one missing out their little GAYdy bunch family meeting. He didn't know how he was going to pull this off but he didn't have a choice anymore. He had to see Callie and he had to make it look like there wasn't any type of romantic connection so he could get her back more permanently. 

*later that night*

Brandon had fallen asleep in his room, he woke up to see that it was snowing once again. The time was 3:30AM. He wiped the sleep from his eyes and stepped out of bed. Off to the kitchen he went for a glass of water. On the way down the stairs he heard a sound come from Callie's room. He stopped in his tracks and headed back up the stairs. He could see that her light was on. He peeked through the slightly ajar bedroom door and could see Jude sitting on the floor with his back to the door. He had a box open and was looking down at something. "Jude?" Brandon said, Jude turned around quickly and tried to hide what he was looking at "Oh hey Brandon" he said trying to act normal "Hey what ya doing its 3:30 in the morning?" Brandon asked walking slowly towards Jude..."Oh I um...I thought I left my phone in here...guess not." He laughed nervously. "Yeah I think I found it..." said Brandon pointing to the black iPhone sitting directly beside Jude...Jude looked at it and new he was caught "Jude dude what are you looking at?" said Brandon walking to Jude and sitting down beside him. He was looking at a bunch of old vintage Polaroid pictures. "It's just Callie's collection. It's a bunch of old pictures of our parents and stuff. Callie had them hanging around her room on a string before we got put in the system. When they came to take us she just grabbed this box, her camera, her film, and yanked these off her wall." Jude said picking through the photos.

"Oh I see...that seems like Callie...vintage." Brandon said and picked up a photo,it was a picture of a younger Callie wearing a blue dress and holding a lunchbox. In black marker across the bottom was "Callie starts Kindergarten." another one was of Callie holding a newborn Jude. The caption on that was "Callie's a big sister now." Another one was a young Jude sitting in front of a birthday cake with 5 Candles on it. "Jude's 5th birthday." there had to have been at least 100 photos from there parents to their childhoods. Brandon had never been this deep into Callie and Jude's life. He enjoyed being able to see these memories. They looked happy, he wondered when it all went wrong. "Are we gonna get Callie back Brandon?" Jude asked breaking Brandon out of his trance "What?" He asked Jude. "Are we gonna get Callie back?" Jude repeated. "Oh yeah of course we are don't worry about that...Hey so I was on my way to the kitchen for some milk and cookies...you want in?" Brandon asked, a smile spread across Jude's face "race ya!" he said,hopped up, and ran out the room a quick Brandon on his heels "Oh no you don't"and picked Jude up and flung him over his shoulder! "I win little bro and put Jude down.