Tough Love-A Brallie Story

Parents

Brandon's Point of View

Callie and I were talking until Lena came out.

"Hey Callie, can you come inside? B, you too." she says and I can tell something is wrong.

"Yeah." Callie says and looks at me. I give her the 'not over' look, referring to our conversation. We get up and go inside. "What's up?" she asks.

"There is someone here to see you." Lena says and Callie walks into the living room.

I see Callie freeze.

"Hi Callie." I've heard that voice before. I walk into the living right behind Callie and freeze too. It's Callie's parents. "oh Brandon! You two have grown so much!" Her mom says and steps closer to us. I look at Callie and she isn't moving.

"Callie are you okay?" my mom asks her. I can tell she is about to cry. All of a sudden she lets a tear fall and she turns around and runs out the front door.

"Callie!" Lena yells.

"I will get her." I tell them and run out the door after her. I see her a bit ahead of me and I have no clue where she is going.

Finally she stops in this one park we always went to.

"Callie?" I say when I get closer to her. She looks back at me with tears pouring down her face. She lets out and sob and runs into my arms. I pull her close to me and run circles in my back. "It's okay." I tell her as she sobs into my shirt.

"Brandon why are they here!" she chokes out after a bit of crying.

"I don't know Cals. But you should probably give them a chance to talk to you."

"I don't know if I can."

"You have to try." I tell her.

"It's hard. they just left us to fend for ourselves! They didn't care where we ended up!" She starts crying again.

"Shh," I say pulling her to my chest "I don't know why they left but they are back now and you need to hear them out." I say and I feel her nod into my chest. "We can stay here as long as you need." I whisper to her and she nods again. We sit there with her in my arms crying for I don't know how long. I love the feeling of her in my arms. It makes me feel happy! "We should go back." I whisper to her and she nods. We walk back to the house silently.

Callie's Point of View

Brandon helped me get the strength to go talk to my parents. I really am falling hard for him!

When we get home everyone is still in the living room.

"We will leave you guys to talk." Stef says and talk Lena and Brandon out of the room. B looks at me to see if I am okay and I nod and he walks off.

"Sit Callie." my dad says and I sit on the couch.

"Where's Jude?" I ask.

"Stef said he is out with Jesus. We wanted to talk to you first." My mom tells me. We sit there for awhile in silence until I ask what I have been wanting to ask them for 6 years.

"Why? Why did you leave us?"

"It wasn't because we didn't love you." my dad says calmly.

"Then what is it? You thought that it was better of you weren't around? that was the worst 6 years of my life!" I yell at them.

"Callie. We didn't want to leave! We wanted to stay with you two but someone was after us! we had no choice." I freeze.

"What?"

"Your father got into something at work. It got bad and he backed out of it. The main guy that was doing the bad stuff didn't like it so he went after us. The man didn't know about you two so we had to leave you. We didn't want you to get hurt!"

"You have a cop as a best friend! Why didn't you go to her?"

"We did. Her and Mike told us that we needed to leave you behind. It killed me Callie, but it was keeping you safe." My dad tells me and I am now crying. I am not really angry at my parents that much anymore now that I know why they left but I am pissed at Stef because she knew where they were and knew why they left and didn't even tell me!

I stand up and pace around. I am really mad now!

"Callie sit." my mom says softly.

"No. I need to talk to Stef." I walk out if the living room to the kitchen. Brandon, Stef, and Lena are sitting around the table.

"Are you okay?" Brandon asks standing up and coming over to me.

"Stef I need to talk to you." I say angrily.

"Yeah." we go outside and and I turn to her. "What's wrong?"

"You knew where my parents were and what happened to them!" I yell.

"Callie it isn't like that!" she tries but I cut her off.

"How! I went those six years thinking my parents didn't love me and that I did something to make them hate me!" I am starting to bawl again.

"Callie, I didn't want you to try to get involved! I have known you since you were born, heck I was in the room when you were born! I knew you would try to do something about stopping your parents or trying to find them! You and Brandon are like that. You will do anything to help and protect the people you love or care for." She tells me and I look down. "I didn't want you getting hurt Callie." I look up at her and hug her.

"I am sorry for yelling! I am just so stressed out right now."

"It's okay sweetheart. It's okay" she whispers and hold me in her arms.