The New Fosters: A Brallie Story

Chapter 49

Ty's POV:

"I-I-I signed up to be in the Marines." I stutter. Callie looks at me with horror and desperation on her face. I never wanted to hurt her by doing any of this.

"N-No. you can't. Please, please, please don't. I- I can't lose both of you." she says with tears filling her big brown eyes.

"I already signed up Callie. Wait. what do you mean 'both of you'?" I ask suddenly horror stricken myself.

"You two just had to tell me in the same day. I was sad then I felt great now I'm sad and terrified all over again." She whispers to herself.

"Callie who is 'both of you'?" I say in a stern voice.

"Brandon." she whispers again. A part of me knew because how else could she be talking about, but hearing her say it makes my own heart sink, for her and for myself. Brandon's my best friend. Who would take care of Callie if something happened to us? I don't know when she sat on my bed, but she is and I kneel down in front of her.

"Callie. I'm sorry, but everything will be fine. I promise. I'll come home and so will Brandon. He's smart and I'm strong," I say lifting my arm up an flexing it, she giggles a little through her tears. "There's that amazing smile."

"Can I just ask why?"

"My family has been going into the military for at least 5 generations. it's the only thing that I'm proud of my dad for, other than that he's a jackass, as you know. Even if I didn't want to, I would have to."

She nodded, trying to hold back the tears. I hug her tight and she relaxes and cries into my chest. I hate that I hurt her. She's my best friend and little sister. I can't help but worry about Brandon though, he's not the toughest guy, and I know that one reason why Callie loves him. if he's really going to do this he's going to have to get a tougher skin.

After a whole of Callie's crying. She take a deep breath and pulls away from me. Her eyes red and swollen.

"Let's go watch that movie. you can pick." She says with a raspy voice.

"I'm going to tell mom and dad at breakfast tomorrow." I tell her.

"If you wake me up in the morning I'll go down and tell then with you, but Let's go watch a movie." she tells me.

"Thanks." Then we go into her room and turn in the tv, sitting on the bean bag chairs under her window.

Her room has changed quite a bit since she moved in. The walls are the same color, light purple, but she has new furniture and she has it configured differently. She has a wrought iron day bed on the side wall by her door with two distressed nightstands on either side. Then she has a darker purple rug in the middle of the floor because of the hardwood floors.

Mom redid the downstairs so they took her old flatscreen and put it down there. She has a distressed vanity to match the nightstands. It is in the corner of the tv wall and the wall with the bathroom door. It has the box that is for her tv and her DVD player in a clear drawer. She has no tv anymore, she has a projector that projects the picture onto the wall.

She goes to her walk in closet and kneels down in front of one of the bookcases in it. "what do you want to watch?" she asks.

"Umm... how about... Fast Five."

"No. Ooo how about The Sisterhood of the Traveling pants? Yes let's watch that. Sound good?"

She always does that. She will say that me or Brandon can pick the movie and then she finds something that she likes better and acts like we suggested it, but I'm just glad that she's not crying, so I won't fight her on it. "Yeah that's fine."

About half way through the movie Callie has fallen asleep, her head on my shoulder. I turn the movie off and pick her up. I put her in her bed and tuck her into the covers. she sleeps so peacefully, like nothing bad has ever happened to her. I tiptoe out of her room and go into mine.

It's only about ten thirty but I'm tired. I get ready for bed and am about to fall asleep when my phone lights up from my nightstand. I pick it up and read the text.

Hey. I need to tell you something tomorrow. I already told Callie. hopefully you take it better. See you tomorrow. -B

I need to tell you something too. I told Callie. Like you said, I hope you take the news better than she did. See ya tomorrow. -Ty

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Author's Note:

Next chapter we find out his parents' reactions and Brandon's. Don't forget to COMMENT and VOTE!