It all started at Christmas.

Decorating at last

                                Callie
It was 11:00pm and now is when we started getting the boxes with Christmas decorations in them. The twins seemed alright very enthusiastic. They remind me of my old foster brother he was ten when I was fourteen and around Christmas time he was filed with spirt and happiness. Brandon never stops talking about his sister but I seem to be the only one listening. "Hey Callie why don't you go and put  mistletoe all around the house!" Mariana jumped up and down as she told me. "I'm not that tall who wants to help." I looked at Brandon trying to get him to help with something... Anything. He didn't seem to want to help anyone but me. "I'll help" He jumps up when his eyes meet mine. "Ok just make sure no one lands under the mistletoe," Lena winked. Everyone was in the Christmas spirit. I tried to put a mistletoe on the door frame of the back door but I couldn't reach. "Let me help you with that." Brandon laughed as he lifted me up by my waist.
Brandon
I saw Callie struggling to put up a mistletoe so I picked her to help her. That's the brotherly thing to... Isn't it? "You can put me down now!" Callie was light I didn't remember I was still holding her up. "Oh um yeah sorry." I don't know how to act around her. "Oh look we're under the mistletoe." Callie joked but in my mind I wanted to kiss her. Flat out just look her in the eye and kiss her the only problem was that we were foster siblings. When I finally worked the courage to kiss her she had already walked away.  "We should put one on all the door frames... Even on the bedrooms." She said with a smirk.  Why does she have to be so hot?! "Yeah g-good idea." I was so nervous I started to stutter. Callie looked into a mirror and said, "Wow I still look like crap. But we've only been out a day I didn't expect some big change." "Don't say that Callie don't say you look like crap your beautiful." I couldn't even make eye contact when I said that because I knew she'd be mad. "Thank you Brandon." She smiled at I just felt my heart melt this is the girl I want to be with she's just so beautiful and smart and funny and... No Brandon stop thinking about her like that!! "Brandon, Callie come decorate the tree!" Stef called out for us and it broke me from my trance. "We're going." Callie respond as she grabbed hold of my hand. Oh my god my heart is racing. "We also have a gift for you two." Lena said picking up two small wrapped boxes. "It's only our second day here, why do we get gifts?" Callie and I both looked at them confused over the gesture. "Just open it you guys its not a bomb or anything." Jesus joked. "Fine." I reached out and grabbed both boxes and passed Callie her gift. "Well open it don't just hold them there!" Stef really wanted us to open it which made me nervous. Callie looked up at me to make sure it was safe she reminded me of a scared little kid at that moment. "Come on Cal they're gifts can't be that bad." I tried to cover up why she was so anxious. "Ok." She quickly unwrapped the box. "It's an ornament." I saw tears come to Callie's eyes. It wasn't the gift in its self but it was what it had written on it. It said baby's first Christmas. "Well we need to take pictures of you guys for the ornaments we weren't just gonna put your mugshots." Mariana laughed. I opened my gift which had the same words on it. Everyone in the house ran up to us and gave Callie and I the biggest hug you could imagine. "Thank you guys this means so much to us." I spoke for the both of us since Callie was still trying to hold back tears. "No problem babies." Stef said in the most loving voice like we were her kids to stay. "This is so amazing you guys are one of my best foster homes." Callie smiled letting a single tear go down her face I quickly put my hand up and rubbed away the tear.
Callie
This was such a great foster home I felt like I truly belonged and when Stef called us her 'babies' it made me want to run up and hug her. But then I remembered it was just temporary. They wouldn't keep both of us would they? "Come on moms we need to finish decorating for the Christmas party tomorrow!" Mariana squealed. "Oh and we have to go get clothes for the party. So fun." Jesus said sarcastically. "It's fun and since me and Jesus are twins we match at the party and because you two are brother and sister you'll match!" Mariana thought we were siblings? "Actually me and Callie aren't siblings we never even met before this house." Brandon stated "Oh I just thought that since you guys were so close." Mariana sounded sorry. "It's ok." I gave her a hug to make sure she knew that we didn't mind. "Well shouldn't we get to bed it's already 4:30 in the morning!" Stef's eyes widened when she noticed the time. "Good idea we're gonna need the energy for the shopping trip." I joked I finally felt at home and it was only my second day. "Ok let's get to bed loves." Lena said as she moved some boxes of the couch were I slept. "Good night guys." Mariana and Jesus both called as the went up the stairs. "Good night." We all called back in unison.
Brandon
Once everyone went to sleep me and Callie stayed up talking about foster homes, juvie, and just about everything else. "My first foster home was ok but the moved to New York and I stayed here." I said making sure to leave out the details of how they left when I was at school and when I got home they were gone. "My first foster home was pretty good I was promised that me and my brother wouldn't be separated but they adopted him and told my social worker that they couldn't take care of me any longer." I saw tears form in Callie's eyes. "I'm sorry. I have a sister but she and I got split when I went to juvie and now she's stuck in some crack house." I didn't really like to talk about my sister I hadn't seen her in almost a year. "I got in juvie for defending my foster brother I took a bat to my foster father's car I beat the crap out of." She skipped some details like why she had to protect him but I didn't mind. "I got in juvie for 'attacking' my foster father. All I did was stop him from beating my sister and then he called the cops."  Callie and I had almost the same story. "Well we should get to sleep." I said as I got up and hugged her she didn't pull away because she wanted someone to comfort her. "Good night Cal." I kissed the top of her head and she pulled away. Why was I so dumb?
Callie
He kissed my head and I felt butterflies in my stomach I knew it was a brotherly thing but in my mind it was so much more. Am I falling for him?