Prologue
Amy
Lightning struck the ground and the entire world was dark as it is before a rain storm before a drought, that's what I remember most about the day Ephram and I say good-bye. When in the reality that we will call reality it was a warm June day and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. But I don't ever remember things as they are exactly, my emotions control my memory. We were 18 and he was going to Juliard and I would be attending UCLA, to completely different schools in which we both wanted to go and while we were happy for each other we both knew that it was going to be weird to leave each other when we had become such constants in each others lives for the last three years. The best of friends, we had overcome every obstacle that had been thrown our way. We never dated Ephram and I, he had Madison and I had Tommy and then when he and Madison broke up Tommy and I were still happy and by the time Tommy and I broke up he was all ready with someone else; someone Bright had introduced him to, someone that was so perfect for him that it made me ache to see them together.
But the last week before we were both supposed to go away to school we were both single and we spent nearly every minute with each other. It scared me to think that Ephram had become such a constant in my life and that in a very short period of time we would be at opposite ends of the country. I spent most of that week reassuring myself that unlike Tommy and Colin, Ephram wasn't going to disappear from my life completely, we would both be coming back to see our families over various vacations and we would always have summers together.
Ephram
Summers. Amy and I both figured that we would come back to see our families over the summers and we would always be there in Everwood at the same time, what a joke. We should have known that, based on our history together, that was never going to work. And it didn't, neither one of us took into account that we would be building lives in our new states, I guess we were just foolish enough to think that you remain friends with the people you knew in high school and that you will always be able to pick up right where you left off when you go home for vacation.
What happened the summer after Freshman year? Amy got a great paid internship at a psychologists office and since she was planning on becoming a psychiatrist it was a great opportunity that she couldn't pass up. So she spent the first week after UCLA was released for the summer in Everwood, Juliard, on the other hand, didn't get out for another 3 weeks after UCLA and while I did spend the entire summer in Everwood Amy didn't come back. And by four years later Amy and I had, with the exception of a few phone calls on special occasions, had completey lost touch with each other.
Amy
Our fathers still interact daily so it's not like we don't know about each other's lives. I know that a year after Ephram graduated from Juliard he married someone he met there Elizabeth, Lizzie, I went to their wedding and I could see instantly why he had fallen in love with her. She was sweet and it was very obvious that she loved Ephram more than anything. I heard through Bright that she and Ephram had a baby about a year after they got married, a little girl who would probably be about five now I guess.
Ephram
My dad still keeps me filled in about what Amy had been up to. The last thing I heard she was a successful psychiatrist with her own practice that keeps her busy. She's not seeing anyone, far to busy my dad says almost as if a hint that I need to move on. But I haven't spoken to her in nearly 7 years, what are you supposed to say to someone after all that time? Can you really just call them up and say that you just wanted to chat? It doesn't seem possible to me and I vowed that as much as I missed Amy I wasn't going to call her up and burden her with my problems. I thought that meant that I wouldn't see her for probably another six years, I guess fate had other plans.
Amy
The day we ran into each other was raining, much the way I imagined the day we left. But the rain barely effected me, the instant I saw Ephram in the McDonalds in Phoenix Arizona the rain didn't effect me and it felt like a warm spring day, instead of the cold weather that was actually plaguing the city I had heard rarely had rain. It was a one in a million chance that I actually ran into Ephram, I was in Phoenix for a two week conference and I rarely ever actually eat fast food, and if I do it by drive through but I was starving and the line at the drive-thru was long. He sat in the area where only people with children ever sit and I caught a glimpse of him when I was heading toward the exit. I hadn't talked to my parents in awhile so I didn't believe that it was him at first, until he turned around and his shocked expression told me that it was Ephram Brown.
Amy
Lightning struck the ground and the entire world was dark as it is before a rain storm before a drought, that's what I remember most about the day Ephram and I say good-bye. When in the reality that we will call reality it was a warm June day and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. But I don't ever remember things as they are exactly, my emotions control my memory. We were 18 and he was going to Juliard and I would be attending UCLA, to completely different schools in which we both wanted to go and while we were happy for each other we both knew that it was going to be weird to leave each other when we had become such constants in each others lives for the last three years. The best of friends, we had overcome every obstacle that had been thrown our way. We never dated Ephram and I, he had Madison and I had Tommy and then when he and Madison broke up Tommy and I were still happy and by the time Tommy and I broke up he was all ready with someone else; someone Bright had introduced him to, someone that was so perfect for him that it made me ache to see them together.
But the last week before we were both supposed to go away to school we were both single and we spent nearly every minute with each other. It scared me to think that Ephram had become such a constant in my life and that in a very short period of time we would be at opposite ends of the country. I spent most of that week reassuring myself that unlike Tommy and Colin, Ephram wasn't going to disappear from my life completely, we would both be coming back to see our families over various vacations and we would always have summers together.
Ephram
Summers. Amy and I both figured that we would come back to see our families over the summers and we would always be there in Everwood at the same time, what a joke. We should have known that, based on our history together, that was never going to work. And it didn't, neither one of us took into account that we would be building lives in our new states, I guess we were just foolish enough to think that you remain friends with the people you knew in high school and that you will always be able to pick up right where you left off when you go home for vacation.
What happened the summer after Freshman year? Amy got a great paid internship at a psychologists office and since she was planning on becoming a psychiatrist it was a great opportunity that she couldn't pass up. So she spent the first week after UCLA was released for the summer in Everwood, Juliard, on the other hand, didn't get out for another 3 weeks after UCLA and while I did spend the entire summer in Everwood Amy didn't come back. And by four years later Amy and I had, with the exception of a few phone calls on special occasions, had completey lost touch with each other.
Amy
Our fathers still interact daily so it's not like we don't know about each other's lives. I know that a year after Ephram graduated from Juliard he married someone he met there Elizabeth, Lizzie, I went to their wedding and I could see instantly why he had fallen in love with her. She was sweet and it was very obvious that she loved Ephram more than anything. I heard through Bright that she and Ephram had a baby about a year after they got married, a little girl who would probably be about five now I guess.
Ephram
My dad still keeps me filled in about what Amy had been up to. The last thing I heard she was a successful psychiatrist with her own practice that keeps her busy. She's not seeing anyone, far to busy my dad says almost as if a hint that I need to move on. But I haven't spoken to her in nearly 7 years, what are you supposed to say to someone after all that time? Can you really just call them up and say that you just wanted to chat? It doesn't seem possible to me and I vowed that as much as I missed Amy I wasn't going to call her up and burden her with my problems. I thought that meant that I wouldn't see her for probably another six years, I guess fate had other plans.
Amy
The day we ran into each other was raining, much the way I imagined the day we left. But the rain barely effected me, the instant I saw Ephram in the McDonalds in Phoenix Arizona the rain didn't effect me and it felt like a warm spring day, instead of the cold weather that was actually plaguing the city I had heard rarely had rain. It was a one in a million chance that I actually ran into Ephram, I was in Phoenix for a two week conference and I rarely ever actually eat fast food, and if I do it by drive through but I was starving and the line at the drive-thru was long. He sat in the area where only people with children ever sit and I caught a glimpse of him when I was heading toward the exit. I hadn't talked to my parents in awhile so I didn't believe that it was him at first, until he turned around and his shocked expression told me that it was Ephram Brown.