Tough Love-A Brallie Story

Answer or Shoot

Brandon's Point of View

It has been a couple of weeks since all of the stuff happened with Tayla's friend and Callie and I are fine now. We are stronger then ever! We haven't really had any problems with anything else except that Donald is getting out of the trail. Some how he has a friend that is a head of something and got everything dropped. My parents and everyone are still fighting but it's not working! I can see how they are all scared. I remember when they told Callie what was happening she had a terrified look on her face. She sat there for awhile and then she just started shaking and crying. I felt so bad for her! Her father had beaten her and now he was loose to come back as he pleased and do it again! The only thing holding him back was there restraining orders. He isn't aloud to be within 100ft of any of us, so hopefully he will follow that.

On the bright side it is almost Christmas so we are on winter break. Since the thing with her dad Callie has been out of it and having hard time. She hasn't really slept because she is scared Donald is coming back and is going to hurt them again. I am typically there every night helping her sleep. Today I have decided to take her out for awhile to get her mind off of what was happening.

I went up and knocked on her front door and she answer quickly.

"Ready?" I ask with a smile.

"Yes. Jude I am leaving! Go across the street if you need anything!" she yells behind her.

"Got it!" Jude yells back and she walks out the door and follow me to my car. I open her door for her and shut it behind her then run around to my side and start the car and drive to our destination.

"So where are we going?" she asks me.

"It's a surprise!" I tell her excitedly.

"Ugh! I hate surprises!" she moans.

"But you will love this one!" I tell her and she slightly bits her lip. That drives me crazy when ever she does that! I just smile and keep my eyes on the road.

Callie leans over and turns the radio on and flips through the stations until she get to a song.

"I love this song!" she says and turns it up and starts singing "So you wanna play with magic Boy, you should know what you're falling for Baby do you dare to do this? Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse Are you ready for, ready for A perfect storm, perfect storm Cause once you're mine, once you're mine" I can't help but notice that she is a really great singer! I smile and we song "Mark my words This love will make you levitate Like a bird Like a bird without a cage But down to earth If you choose to walk away, don't walk away"

After we listen to a couple of songs we finally reach our destination. I took her this private spot that is half in the woods and half on the beach. I grabbed her hand and pulled out of the car.

"Where are we?" she asks.

"A special place I like to go to a lot!" I tell her and take her to the spot where I set up everything. I had a blanket and some food set up for us. I have her sit down and we start eating the food and talking about everything. I don't dare bring up anything about her dad. This is for her to forget about him and what is happening with him at the moment, so no talking about that!

We talk about people at school, out families, us, pretty much anything that comes to mind. We laugh a lot too! She was telling me about all the trouble she got into when she was gone.

"You know I got into trouble too in my life." I tell her confidently.

"Really what did you do?" she asks smiling.

"I stole something."

"Really what?"

"A car...matchbox one when I was five." I tell her and she starts laughing.

"I remember that! I thought you were a total badass!" she says with a smirk.

"I might surprise you! You never know!"

"You defiantly bad news Foster!" She says and we look at each other for a second then we leans in and kiss softly.

We talk for awhile longer until it starts getting dark. I help her up and clean the blanket and food up and we walk back to the car hand in hand. I help her in and drive off to her house.

I pull up to my driveway and I help her out of the car and walk her over to her house.

"Thank you for today! It really helped!" she tells me when we get to her door.

"I am glad I could help!" I lightly kiss her.

"Call me later?"

"Of course." I reply with a smile and she walks inside her house and I happily walk over to mine.

Callie's Point of View

Today was great! It was the best day that I have had in a long time!

"You look happy!" Jude says when I walk into the living room. "I am guessing it went fine!"

"Yeah, it did!" I reply. I then hear a knock on the door. Mom isn't suppose to be here until 6pm so I have no clue who it is. I walk over and answer. There is no one there but there is a box on the front mat. It has my name in it. I look around to see no one around. I just grab the box and bring it inside.

"Who was it?" Jude asks.

"It was a box for me." I tell him and he turns back to the TV. I go into the kitchen and open the box. Inside is a bunch of sand and a picture and a note. I look at the picture and realize that it is a picture of Brandon and I on the beach today. I start to freak out and I look at the note.

'Dear Callie,

We are going to play a little game, it's called Answer or Shoot. The rules are if you don't do everything we tell you then we will shoot everyone you love, starting with your pretty boyfriend!

First Task: Break up with the piano geek. You have until tomorrow morning or he's gone.

P.S. Don't tell anyone or they are all dead right away!'

I start to freak! Who ever this is can't do this! I want to tell Brandon and get Stef and Mike to help me but I can't let them get hurt! I love everyone too much to let this person get hurt. I take a seat at our bar stool because I start to feel dizzy when I think about having to break up with Brandon. I love him so much! This is the hardest thing! I start to feel tears falling down my face. I know what I have to do.

"Hey Jude, I will be right back." I tell him and walk out the door and over to The Foster's house. I take a deep breath and knock on the door.

"Hey Callie!" Marianna says answering the door.

"Is Brandon here?" I ask trying to act normal and not break.

"Yeah. Brandon!" she yells upstairs.

"Yeah?" Brandon asks running down the stairs.

"Callie's here to see you." Marianna says and walks off.

"Hey, come in." Brandon offers.

"Actually can we go for a walk?"

"Yeah." I can tell that he knows something is up. He follows me outside and we walk toward the park. "What's wrong?" Brandon says while stopping and turn to me.

"We need to break up." I say quickly while trying not to start sobbing.

"What?" he asks hurt. "What do you mean?"

"We need to break up because I am going to just end up getting you hurt and I can't let that happen!" now I am starting to cry.

"What do you mean?"

"I am sorry Brandon." I say and turn around and run back to my house. I slam the door behind me and slide down it sobbing.

"Callie?" Jude asks running up to me. "What happened?"

"I just broke up with Brandon."