The New Fosters: A Brallie Story

Chapter 14

Brandon's POV:

After the twins came back with Jude we ate dinner and watched a movie. "That was close," I say to Callie as we walked up the stairs.

"Too close," Callie says. I see a look in her eyes. I know it was too close for her and I know what's coming next. I have to get her to change her mind.

I pull her into my room. "Callie, I know what you're thinking and please don't do it. It won't ever happen again, I promise. I love you," I whisper to her.

"Brandon-" she says, but I cut her off.

"Please don't do this. I promise you if it happens again we will stop whatever this is, but please just give me one more chance. We can't give up, not yet." She starts to shake her head and she opens her mouth to speak, but I don't let her because this is my last chance to change her mind. "Callie please. Just one more shot, just give me one more shot. Please," I plead. I feel tears fill my eyes and cloud my vision. I blink them away and see tears streaming down her beautiful face.

She nods her head up and down, "okay," she croaks out. I wipe her tears away with my thumbs and pull her unto a hug. "I love you," she says.

"I love you too. Will you stay with me tonight?" I ask. She nods her head against me. "I'll set the alarm so we wake up before moms." Somebody must be looking out for me because Callie listened to me and she's not giving up on us yet.

"I'm gonna go take a shower and get ready for bed. I'll be back when Mariana falls asleep," she says. I nod and then she kisses me on the cheek.

As she walks out the door I say, "thank you." About a half an hour later she's out of the bathroom and I head inside. I take a quick shower and go back to my room. I put on some pajama pants and turn on the tv. I lay down and wait for Callie.

Moms usually go to bed around 11:00 and wake up around 5:45am. I set the alarm for 5:20am. I get bored of watching tv, so I turn it off and practice piano with my headphones on. I play the song I wrote about Callie.

Maybe I should learn a song that she likes and play it for her as a surprise. What song did she have me sing today? Fix up by Coldplay. I'll learn that. I go over to my computer and look it up. I print off the music and go back to my keyboard to learn it. I'm not sure how long I played the song, but I only stop when someone someone starts shaking my shoulder violently.

I look up at the person. It's Callie. "Wha- what's wrong?" I ask while taking off my headphones. She looks terrified. "Callie what's wrong?" She's shaking and I see pure terror in her eyes. "Callie tell me what's wrong. I can't help you if you don't tell me."

Her hands fly up to her throat. "Can't- breathe." She says panicked. She takes quick shallow breathes. Her face starts to turn red. Her eyes are pleading with me to help her.

"Callie calm down." I got up from my chair and moved to my bed. "Sit down." She does. I pull her to me and stroke hear hair. "Relax. Just relax. You need to calm down."

"Brandon, please help me," she somehow gets out. Then her breathing stops all together.

"Callie. Callie. Callie breathe." Her eyes plead with me to help her. Tears flood down her cheeks. "MOM!" I scream. "MOM!" I yell again. "MOM PLEASE!" I sob. "Callie, it'll be alright. I'm right hear I won't leave you. I promise. I love you. MOM!" I yell again. Callie's eyes close and she still isn't breathing.

My moms come rushing in, the twins and Jude right behind them. "What? What's going on?" They ask. I know they're wondering why Callie is in here so late.

"Mom Callie can't breathe. She came in here really scared and I tried to get her to calm down, but she didn't and now she's not breathing at all," I say the words rushing out as fast as I could say them. I look down at Callie's now unconscious body. "Mom?"

"Lena call 911 now. Mariana and Jesus take Jude downstairs and calm him down," this makes me look at Jude who I now see is in hysterics.

"Callie. Callie wake up!" He shrieks.

Mom (Stef) turns to him, "Jude go with the twins. Brandon and I will make sure Callie is fine, okay? I will make sure she is okay." He nods and takes Mariana's outstretched hand. "Now Brandon, what happened?"

"She came in and was really scared. She couldn't breathe and I tried to calm her down, but she just couldn't. I yelled for you and she stopped breathing all together and then she past out. Mom what do I do?" I ask tears still streaming down my face.

"First you need to calm yourself down. Then start mouth to mouth." I took a couple deep breaths and then started CPR. Is it just me or is it weird that I'm giving my girlfriend mouth to mouth in front of my mom? Yep it's weird.

Callie's eyes flutter open. "Brandon? What happened?" She asks still having a hard time breathing.

"You stopped breathing and then you passed out. An ambulance is coming." Mom (Stef) says. As if on cue the paramedics come into the room. They put Callie on a stretcher and put an oxygen mask on her face.

She looks all around at the people in the room. Her scared eyes land on me once again, "you won't leave me right?" She asks.

"Right," I say. I follow the paramedics and get into the ambulance with Callie. I hold her hand to comfort her. Jude hops in next to me and then the paramedics close the doors. Right before they close all of the way I see a guy standing by our back tree watching us. Liam.
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Author's Note:
Liam? Cliff hanger! Same as last time 10 votes 5 comments for the next chapter.