When Callie was four years old she heard a knock at the door from the kitchen. Her family was eating dinner when she hear the sound, confused her mother stood to get the door. As she looked Callie's eyes when to her newest younger brother, Jude, who had just started using the high chair. But he still needed help to keep the mashed up food from falling from the high-chair and hitting the ground. Just as a piece of his food there hit the floor there was a loud smash at the door. Callie's four year old innocent mind didn't assume the worst, but was curious about the sound. Normally her father would come to her mother's aid and tell Callie to stay put, but he was at work and heading home for dinner.
Callie hopped down from her seat and walked, well more like jogged, over to the entry way. She peered behind the corner to see a man standing at the doorway, a man she had never seen before. He looked friendly and his kind, brown eyes matched the color of his hair that swooped over to the side. Callie's mom was about to close the door, but must have heard Callie because she turned around. The man widened his eyes as he crouched down to smile at the small brunette child.
"Hi there," the man greeted with a smile.
Callie walked to her mom and grabbed her hand, wanting have the secure warmth of her mother's presence. "Mommy, who is he?" Callie's mom didn't answer she went back in the kitchen and picked up Jude and told her to go to her room. She obeyed and made her way as her mother followed behind. She heard her mother giving a comment to the man, she still had yet to learn his name. However, this information wouldn't have come until a week later. She learned that his name was Robert and he was her true father. This, at first, confused Callie and it took her a while to understand.
She started to spend a lot of time with her new father and his wife, Jill, who was also Callie's step mom. She spent weekends with the Jill, Robert, and her year old half-sister, Sophia. The family was rich which meant that Callie did activities that her other family could never do.
Six years later things dramatically changed when Collen and Donald one day went to out and her mother never return. Callie mourned over her mother's death and felt guilty about not saying anything to her when she left. She was sitting with her brother when a woman in a patterned shirt and blue sweater, a social worker, approached them. she told them what was going to happen now that the two were not living in the house anymore.
"I need you kids to pack a bag," the woman stated, "we're going to take you to live with the Quinn's."
"What about our dad?" Callie asked. Although, Donald wasn't her real father, she still loved him. He cared for him for four years before Robert came into her life. The social worker explained how Donald was in jail because he killed many innocent lives in the accident. So they did as the woman said and packed their bags.
Jude's first time to the house was scary. He was so small and the house was so big, Callie noticed this and took her brother's hand and stepped through the double doors and into their new life.