Eleven
"Brandon!!! Ahhh stop!!"
"Not until you admit I'm hotter than Matt Bomer!"
Callie and Brandon had been watching White Collar, when Callie made a comment about how good looking the main actor was. Brandon, never one to waste an opportunity, started to tease Callie about how much hotter he was than the man on tv. That's how they got here, both paused in their acts of laughing and tickling to stare at each other. There was suspense in the moment, all waiting for Callie's answer.
"You're kidding right. Matt Bomer is literally the most gorgeous person ever. I mean did you not see him in Magic Mike?"
That's all it took for Brandon to resume his tickling assault on Callie. There was no mercy, until she took back her comment, she will be tickled. Callie on the other hand was not planning on giving in.
"Stop stop please stahhhhpp!"
Brandon smiled down at her while continuing his actions and effectively blocking her from escaping from the couch.
"All you need to do is take it back Cal. That's all you need to do."
"Bu-bu-but I can't.....iiiit would be a-a lie!"
"Yeah Brandon, comparing anyone to Matt Bomer would be a lie. It's like comparing the sun to a grapefruit." Mariana said as she came in and took the remote off the coffee table before taking a seat at the arm chair.
His sister's comment made him hesitate enough for Callie to escape and hide behind the chair Mariana was sitting it, effectively using her as a shield.
Meanwhile, the only thing Brandon was able to do was gawk at the two girls. "A grapefruit?! Mariana! I am not comparable to a grapefruit!"
"I happen to agree." Callie pikes in while poking her head up from behind the chair momentarily.
"Thank you Callie." Brandon smirked at his younger sister.
"He's more of an orange." Callie yet again peeped out from behind the chair and broke out in a dead sprint when Brandon came to his senses and bolted after her. Mariana was giggling at the two, now very much accustomed to witnessing similar scenes like this over the last month since the Jacob siblings have joined the family. It was nice really. Callie and her were growing together almost like sisters. There were even a few nights Callie stayed in her extra bed and they stayed up the entire night talking.
"What's going on?" Jude asked as he and Jesus came in from playing basketball outside. The distraction gave Brandon the opportunity to swoop in and grab Callie and lift her up bridal style. She erupted in a fit of giggles at the sudden movement and latched onto Brandon's neck in hopes of preventing being dropped while he carried her back over to the couch. This time he settled the smiling girl in his lap and gave her a kiss on the cheek as she leaned back into him.
While still in deep giggles, he face getting more red by the second and practically crying, Mariana was able to reply, "Brandon ..... Bomer ..... grapefruit ..... HE'S AN ORANGE! Ahhhhh hahahahaahaha!!"
"Okay whatever all of that means," Jesus then jumped onto the coach next to the couple and smiled at the girl. "Hey sis, how's it hanging?"
"Oh you know, pretty good." Callie smiled at the boy who became like an annoying brother to her over the last few weeks and used her palm to shove his face away from her a bit. Jude was absolutely the best brother ever but Jesus was a source of great comic relief in her life. She turned to Jude who had taken a seat in the chair with a still hysterical Mariana. "How was basketball? You kicked his butt right?"
"Oh course I did," Jude said at the same time Jesus said, "He wasn't even close."
Callie rotated her gaze from Jude to Jesus and raised an eyebrow. She studied him for a second, looking for his tell, which she was able to identify weeks ago as a twitch in the lip. After finding what she was looking for she turned back to her brother and smiled, "Good job Jude. Showing him who's boss."
"Damn it!!! I'm telling you Callie I don't have a tell and the only way you can do this all the time is if you read minds. Which I am totally starting to believe."
As Callie and Jesus continued to bicker while the other teens laughed at their antics, Lena and Stef were watching the lot from their spots in the dinning room. It brought a smile to both of their faces to see the five of them getting along so well. If they were honest, at first the pair were a little nervous about how the dynamic would be, especially since the twins had always been slightly hostile towards their other foster children.
"Is it just me or does the family feel just a little bit more whole since the two of them arrived?" Lena asked after they heard Jesus challenge Jude to some game on the Xbox.
"No it is not just you love. I think we all feel it. I really don't want those two to leave but what do we do? We can't adopt them, Brandon would kill us if we made his girlfriend his sister." Stef replied.
"We will figure something out. We always do."
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Oh My God! This Brallie progress is absolutely the best answered pray ever!!!! I can not wait for the rest of the season! And my God the acting on Nick's part is absolutely fabulous. Well done writers well done.
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