The New Fosters: A Brallie Story

Chapter 56

Brandon's POV:

I run to my car while dialing her number. No answer. Ty hopped in the passenger seat. I try to go in the same direction that she did, but her car is nowhere in sight.

"God where could she have went?" I ask myself out loud. Ty continues to call her phone while I drive.

"It's going straight to voicemail." He says.

"Shit. This is all my fault. This is all my fault. This is all my fault." I whisper to myself.

"We already went over this B, yes it is. Now we have to find her."

"I know this Ty." I drive around wondering where she would go. "Maybe she went to the coffee shop."

"Maybe." I drive there but she isn't there and they say that she hasn't come in. "Where else could she have gone?"

After the coffee shop I check the park and three different restaurants that she likes. I drive everywhere that I can think of. I check the bookstore because she likes to study there sometimes. She wasn't there. I even drive past my house just to make sure she didn't go there to talk to moms or Mariana, but no luck. She isn't anywhere that I can think of and it is driving me crazy.

I think and think, racking my brain for where she might have gone. Then it hits me. The beach house. I drive there as fast as I can without speeding. I know that every moment she is alone is another moment that something could happen to her and I won't be there to save her. Ty is right. Last time she almost died and this time she could be all by herself with no one to take care of her if something happened. I need to find her. I can't lose her.

"Where the hell are we going? We are heading into the middle of nowhere." Ty asks.

"The only other place that Callie would go to be alone." I tell him.

"And where is that?" He asks rather condescendingly.

"This old abandoned beach mansion. It's where we go when we want to be alone. I took her there to ask her to marry me and when I told her about me signing up for the Marines and it's where we had our first date before she moved out of my house. It's the only place left that I can think of."

He sighs. "How long is it going to take to get there?"

"I don't know, an hour?" He tries calling Callie a few more times, but she must have turned it off because it is going straight to voicemail.

"Callie please call me back. We're worried about you. Just call me so I know you're okay, please. Okay. Bye."

When we finally get to the house, I check the house and Ty checks the beach. "Callie!" I yell. No answer. I look all around the first floor, but she's not there. I run up the stairs, being careful to skip the few that buckle, and look around. I go in and out of every room, she's not here. I go back downstairs and outside.

"If she gets hurt, I'll never forgive myself." Ty walks up just as I say it.

"She's not at the beach."

"Shit. Where could she be?"

"I can't think of any other place that she would go B."

"Me either." I say, deflated.

"What do we do next?" He asks.

"My mom's a cop. The only thing that I can think to do is to ask for her help." I tell him.

"Great. Let's go."

"The only problem is, is that I don't know if Callie wants them to know about the miscarriage, hell I don't even know if I should have told you." I put my forehead against the cold metal car door. "I'm so stupid. If anything happens to her, it will be my fault. I can't handle that."

"Nothing is going to happen to her. We'll fine her Brandon." He tries. I wouldn't feel better until I find her.

We get in the car and I drive home. I think and think and think, but nothing. I can't think of anything she would do, anyplace she would go. I just don't know. I feel so helpless not knowing where she might be.

We get to my house and I run inside. "Mom! Mom I need your help!"

I run into the kitchen, Ty right behind me. "Brandon. What's wrong?"

"Callie's missing. She left. She just left, turned off her phone and won't answer."

"Maybe she just needed some alone time Brandon. It's nothing." Mom tries.

"She was really upset when she left and I'm worried about her. I don't want her to get hurt. Mom, she was crying and wouldn't talk to us and then she just ran out and left. If she was that upset she could get into a car accident or something." I try to explain.

"Okay fine. Where have you checked?" She asked.

"Stef she's probably just nervous or something. She has a right to be alone if she wants it." Mom (Lena) says.

"I've checked everyplace that I can think of. The coffee shop she likes, the bookstore, restaurants she likes the park, I even drove by here, but we can't find her anywhere." I say, ignoring her comment."

"B, I don't know where else she would go either. I'm sorry." They say.

I think. Where would she go? Where would she feel safest, but that she thinks I won't know. Who would she go to? That is the worst question for me to think about. Someone else makes her feel safer than I do. Who? Every second she is gone was another that I worry for her safety. Everything that could possibly go wrong, is. What if she's already hurt and waiting for me to find her. It's my job to find her and keep her safe. All of this is my fault.

If I wouldn't have signed up, then I wouldn't have had to tell her and she wouldn't have freaked out. If she hadn't freaked out we wouldn't have ended up at the beach house and we wouldn't have had sex, and she wouldn't have gotten pregnant. None of this would have happened. It's all my fault.

Mariana, Ty and I are her only actual friends. Jude is here at home. Who else would she go to? Her dad is in jail, but she wouldn't go to him because she still blames him for her mom's death. Her mom.

"Mom is there any way that you can find out where Callie's mom is buried?"

"You think she would go there?" I nod my head. "Okay let me call Bill, he might know."

Ten minutes later Ty and I were out the door and heading three hours away to the cemetery that her mother was buried at. The car ride was mostly quiet the whole way there. My mind was wandering. Thoughts after thoughts, one worse than the one before.

When we get there I run into the office and ask for the plot number. I see Callie laying on the ground and my heart stops. I kneel down next to her and call her name.

"Callie! Callie wake up! Baby please wake up!" I shake her limp body. "Callie!" I take a deep breath and try to calm myself down. I check to see if she's breathing and thankfully she is. "Callie baby, please."

Her eyes start to flutter open. "Brandon? What are you doing here?"

"I was worried sick Callie. Please don't ever do that again. What happened? Why didn't you answer your phone?"

"I remember driving here because I needed to be alone. I remember standing here and talking to my mom. I started to get really lightheaded and dizzy. Then- I can't remember what happened after that." She explained.

"The doctor said not to do too much, you overdid it Callie." I pull her into a hug. "Something seriously bad could have happened." I pick her up and we walk back to the car. I toss Ty the keys and sit in the back with Callie. Half way through the drive home she falls asleep on my shoulder.
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Author's Note:
Here's another chapter guys! already working on the next one too. COMMENT AND VOTE PLEASE!