Brallie Metropolis AU | In This Together

Chapter 4 | Shipments

"Yeah, us." Callie added.

"Okay." Stef was intrigued, yet slightly worried. Lena gave Stef a concerned look.

"We want to talk, but I think it would be better you waited until the end to yell at us. "Brandon blurted, Stef, Lena, and Callie all stayed quite.

"I want to get emancipated." Callie started to speak. "But not to go live on my own. Still live here just not be fostered or adopted. If that makes sense."

"And I'll go live with dad." Brandon added. He could tell that his mom and Lena were very confused as to why they are both saying this. Stef and Lena start to put two and two together.

"No, you two are not-", Stef stood up and started to pace around the kitchen.

"Let us finish." Brandon grunted.

"We want to be together." Callie looked at Brandon, then looked back at Stef and Lena, who are flabbergasted. "If I get emancipated then I can still live here, and I wouldn't be Brandon's sister or his foster sister. So there would be any broken rules. And we figured that you wouldn't let us have a relationship if we lived under the same roof."

"So let me get-," Stef started to speak but stopped. "Oh sorry are you two done speaking now?" She mocked. Brandon and Callie both replied with a 'yes'. "Ok, so you don't want to be adopted anymore. Correct? And you want to get emancipated to be with Brandon, correct? And Brandon, you want to live with your father? First, that's not an option, second, if that were to happen, live with him until when? Until you're 18?"

"Stef," Lena spoke comfortably, trying to calm down Stef who was now yelling. Stef continued to speak, ignoring Lena.

"And what you think we will condone you two having a romantic relationship? Callie, you realize you are throwing away the family you have always wanted!" Everyone became silent.

"Well she would be a member of the family, eventually..." Brandon spoke softly.

Stef started to laugh. "You've got to be kidding me." She put her hands on her face.

"Okay Stef, before you say anything else, why don't we call Mike and get him over hear so we can all talk this through." Lena proposed. Stef angrily grabbed her self phone and walked into the back yard. Lena followed, leaving Callie and Brandon alone in the kitchen.

"What are they thinking?" Stef whispered to Lena as she held her phone to her cheek, hearing the phone beep.

"Hello." Mike answered the other end of the phone call whilst sitting on his couch at his place

"Hello, there Mike. I need you to come here as soon as possible. It's Brandon and Callie. They have thought of this whole master plan, and are completely out of their mind." Stef spoke, surprisingly, calmly.

"Oh no, what is it this time?" Mike said as he got up from his couch, grabbed his keys, and slipped on his shoes.

"Just come over, please."

"Yeah I'm walking out the door as we speak." Mike slams the door shut, so loud Stef can hear it on her end before pressing the 'end call' button.

Inside of the kitchen Brandon and Callie are sitting quietly. They share some glances here and there but they both don't know what to say.

"I mean, how were we expecting them to react? Maybe telling them was a mistake." Callie looked down.

"Callie, this is right. C'mon Callie look at me." Callie shifted her eyes towards him. "This will all work out, I promise. It's all out in the open now, it will all be okay." He spoke again, while wiping a single tear off of Callie's face with his thumb.