Tough Love-A Brallie Story

Jude

Chapter 43

Callie’s Point of View

Brandon and I finally made it to the hospital. I didn’t talk to him the whole trip. I was too worried about Jude. We get inside and I see Mom, Stef, Lena, Jesus, Mariana, Mike, and Connor’s parents sitting in the chairs looking really scared. I can tell all of them are crying.

“What happened?” I ask as I stand in front of all of them. They all just sit there and look at me until Mariana gets up and hugs me.

“He is gone.” 

“What?” I ask with tear pouring out of my eyes.

“He was shot. He’s gone Cal.” She says softly. That’s when I start to break down.

“No…no! NO!! This can’t be happening!” I pull away from her and start to walk towards the door.

“Callie, wait!” I turn to see Brandon standing there with a worried look.

“You are the last person I want to talk to right now!” I yell at him and walk outside. I start sobbing and sit on a bench. I hear footsteps and see my Mom walking towards me. “Mom…” She comes and pull me into a hug.

“Shh…baby.”

“I feel like everyone I love is leaving me!” I sob into her shoulder.

“That’s not true! You have me and the Fosters. Also you have Brandon.”

“I don’t have him anymore.”

“What happened?”

“He kissed another girl.”

“Oh sweetie!”

“I don’t know what to do with myself. I lost almost everything!”

“I know baby! But you need to be strong. Jude would want you to be strong.”

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1 week later

Today is Jude’s funeral. I look in the mirror and see my tear stained face. I didn’t even try to look pretty today. I just threw on a black dress and some heels that Mariana is making me wear for the day. This past week has been hell! I haven’t talked to Brandon, and I have had to plan Jude’s funeral. Also finding out what happened that day. I remember when Connor finally told us what happened.

Flashback

“Connor? Please tell us what happened last night?” Connor’s mom asked softly. It was Stef, Connor’s parents, a detective, and in  Connor’s room, since he got shot too.

“We rode our bikes down the street to the park that we always go to. We were just running around in the big grass area when a big guy came out of no where. Jude look terrified, like he knew him. But I had no clue! He said something like ‘he was going to hurt us to get to Callie,’ or something. Then muse mutter a name…I think it was Liam. Then I heard a gunshot and I blacked out. Is Jude okay? I didn’t see what happened to him.” I start to sob immediately.

“No one told him?” I choke out.

“Told me what? What happened to Jude?” Connor asks again.

“Sweetie…he didn’t make it. He died during surgery.” 

End of Flashback

I wipe away the tears as I hear footsteps coming towards the bathroom.

“Hey…” I turn to see Max standing in the doorway. I walk over and hug him tightly. “ I am so sorry Callie! You don’t need this in your life too!”

“I know.” is all I say. “I need to get to the church.” I pull out of the hug and walk downstairs and into the car.

We drive for about 10 minutes before we get to the church. I get out of the car and see some of Jude’s friends from school, along with teachers. Then there is Stef’s mom, and Lena’s parents. I see Mariana, Jesus, Stef, Lena, Mike, and Mike’s girlfriend, Dani. standing by the entrance, they are all crying. I look over and see Max and Brandon standing next to each other. I take a look at Brandon and see he look terrible. He has a short beard and his hair isn’t the amazing messy curls I love, it’s a mess. I see that he has black under eyes, and look like a zombie. I feel terrible because I know I am at least part of the reason he is like that.

“Are you ready?” Alison asks me.

“Yeah.” I nod my head and walk inside with everyone else.

I sit down next to Mariana and Alison with everyone else to the left of me. I look up at the alter and see Jude’s casket and his picture up. Then the priest starts. I don’t really listen to the man talking, I just look at the picture of Jude and remember everything that happened with him.

“Now I would like to bring up Callie. She was Jude’s sister.” I hear my name and walk up to the stand.

“Um…Jude…he was the most amazing brother anyone could ever ask for! We went through a lot together and I don’t ever remember a time when he complained about how bad it was. He was the one who kept me sane! We finally found some amazing friends that we knew when we were younger. They took us in and ended up adopting Jude. They really took care of him…and I love them so much for doing that!” I take a long pause and look out to the Fosters all sitting ion the first row, crying into each other’s arms. I look to the next row and see Connor and his parent, and they are crying too. “And Connor. You gave Jude something that he has never had before…a friend. You became one of the only friend he had. When he was going through all of the stuff that had happened with me, you were there to help him and let him have fun, and do things with his life. I know you might feel guilty about what happened to Jude, but you aren’t the one to be blamed. None of us hate you one bit!” I take a deep breath and continue. “I know I will miss Jude every second of every day, but I know that I have to be strong and live me life because he wouldn’t want me to stop my life because of him, he wasn’t selfish like that. and I know he would want that for everyone here today. I just wish I got to see him one last time before he passed.” I don’t anything else to say so I take my seat again.

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After the burial everyone went home. I went back to the Foster’s house since Alison and I are staying with them. I go into the backyard and lay down in the grass and look up at the sky. It’s a rainy day so I see all the rain fall onto me. I hear footsteps and someone come and lay next to me. I already know exactly who it is.

“I am so sorry Brandon.” I say and let some tears fall down my cheeks.

“You don’t need to be sorry for anything.” he tells me and I turn over and rest my head on his chest. He wraps his arms around my body and pull me closer to him. “I missed you so much!”

“I missed you too!” I say and cuddle closer to him as the rain falls onto us and we lay in the grass, wrapped in each other’s arms.

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That was short and sad! But I wanted to get out another chapter! WHO ELSE CAN’T WAIT FOR TONIGHT???! I know I can’t!!! I want Brallie so bad it hurts! Anyways! I hope everyone liked it!

Thanks for reading!! <3 <3