BROWN RESIDENCE
"You can't have her!" twenty-two year old Ephram Brown yelled at his former girlfriend Amy Abbott. "You're the one who left us! Who left me" he yelled as his tears started to leak out. "You left me when I was seventeen to care for our newborn daughter. You don't get to just come back five years later and say you want her back, it doesn't work that way!" he yelled attempting to close the door but Amy stood strong and put her foot in the way.
"Ephram I know I hurt you and I know that you aren't going to forgive me any time soon for what I've done to you, but I just want the chance to get to know my daughter, a chance to be a mother," Amy said as her own tears streaked her face.
"You had a chance and you left," he whispered before shutting the door of the same house he had lived in since he had moved to Everwood when he was barely fifteen. After Amy had left and Ephram had been forced to care for his newborn daughter, Andy had suggested that he stay living with them so that they could help out whilst Ephram went to school and college, Ephram had agreed and now taught music at County High School whilst teaching children how to play the piano in his extra time.
As he walked into his daughter's bedroom he saw his sister reading a book to his four and a half year old daughter, Amy. She looked exactly like her mother and that's why he had called her Amy. She had long blonde hair and chocolate eyes and she was way to smart for her age. Ephram walked over and picked Amy up and she cuddled sleepily into the crook of his neck.
"Time for bed sweetie," he whispered and she nodded tiredly.
"Daddy, who was at the door," she asked curiously and for a moment Ephram didn't know what to say.
"Just an old friend," he replied as he tucked her into her princess bed and kissed her good night. "You know I love you more than anyone in the world, don't you Amy?"
"I know daddy I love you more than anyone too. But do you know who I would like to love?" she asked with a sad smile.
"Who sweetie?"
"My mommy. I have a mommy don't I daddy? Coz Mel Johnson said I didn't but I told her I did because I have pictures and that she just went away for awhile, but daddy she been gone a long long time and I really want to meet her. Do you think I will meet her one day, daddy?" Amy asked quietly.
"One day," Ephram replied as he walked out the door, now with new thoughts in his head
ABBOTT RESIDENCE
"Well honey did you just expect you to let you have her?" Rose Abbott asked her daughter. "I mean you haven't even tried to see her in five years. You never called him, how was he supposed to react?"
"I don't know mom. But I thought he would at leas let me see her. As soon as he answered the door he yelled to Delia to take her upstairs. I know I left mom but I wasn't ready to be a mother," Amy whispered as her mother held her close.
"Sweetie do you think Ephram was ready to be a father? And a single one at that," her mother replied and Amy hung her head in shame. Just then the phone rang and Rose got up to answer it. "Oh hello Ephram." At the sound of his name Amy sat up straight looking at her mother expectantly. "Yes she's here, I'll just get her," Rose said handing the phone to Amy.
"Ephram?" Amy asked almost shyly.
"Look I really don't want to be doing this but I'm doing it for MY daughter," Ephram said and Amy cringed at the way he said my daughter. "I'll let you meet her but on two conditions."
"What are they?" Amy asked knowing she would agree to anything to see her daughter.
"One, you don't tell her you're her mother, I'll do that when I think she's ready."
"Okay," Amy agreed not liking the idea but willing to go along with it. "What the other?"
"You don't sue for custody. Not that you would win if you did but I don't want to put my daughter through that. Do we have a deal?" Ephram asked after Amy was quiet for a few minutes. She didn't only want her daughter she wanted Ephram but if she couldn't get Ephram she didn't want to have to give up her daughter agin. But if she didn't agree she wouldn't even get to see her daughter. Amy knew what she had to do.
"Yes we have a deal," Amy replied quietly.
"Good," Ephram said as he was about to hang up Amy interrupted.
"Ephram?"
"What?" he said.
"What's her name?" Amy asked no one had ever told her. Her parents, and Bright and Hannah had all agreed that if she wanted the right to know then the little girl had the right to meet her mother.
"Amy. Her name is Amy," and with that he hung up the phone.