"Where you been?" I asked low and sarcastic voice from my position on the couch as soon as Dad had closed the door. He had came in as suddenly and abruptly as he had left.
"So much for a welcome back,eh Ephram?" he said. I couldn't exactly tell if it was sarcastic or supposed to be sarcastic or not.
"You seem to make good timing."
"Look Ephram, since I'm back now, I think we might need to talk."he said depositing his duffle bag and jacket in the closet.
"What's there to talk about? Hmmm,let me think. Is it something along the lines of leaving your fifteen year old son to car for his nine year old sister who has despertely needed her father over the past week?"
"I was out doing some work, don't start with me right now."he said getting out of his seat.
"You know what,she thought you were gone like Mom was tonight. And when I told her that you weren't, she still cried until I promised her that you hadn't."
"Is she okay?"he asked immediantly.
"Yeah she's okay.I got her asleep twenty minutes ago."
"I'm sorry you had to deal with that?"
"Sorry doesn't do it. It doesn't make everything better. It doesn't bring back Mom or even take back Delia's nightmares."
"Look Ephram, I do a hell of a load to keep up with everything around here, I don't need a lecture from you -"
"Like I don't? You know what, forget this, I'm going back to bed."I said walking up the stairs facing him. I slammed my door as hard as I could as soon as I got into my room.
"Ephram, dinner's ready!"Dad shouted from downstairs. I hadn't made so much as even a move from my room except to take my shower at five in the morning. I had no intentions of talking to him again - ever. So with that, I turned off my cd player and turned on a cd in my stereo.
"There's no money.There's no possesion.Only obsession.I don't need that sh*t...."blared from my speakers.
"Ephram!"Dad said,pounding on my door this time.
"I just wanna be heard.Loud and clear are my words.Comin' from within a man, tell em' what you heard...."
"I didn't answer."I told Dad blandly as he came in my room.
"You didn't need to."he told me simply after turning off my music."Dinner's ready,go wash your hands."he said as he walked back out. I sighed and reluctantly obeyed.
"I have a proposition to make."Dad announced as soon as we started eating. I started pushing my food around hoping not to look to interested in what he had to say.
"A proposition?"Delia questioned.
"A deal."I told her.
"Ohh,okay..."she said,continuing on to stab each individual macaroni noodle.
"I need to go out of town for a few days -"
"Haven't you done enough of that lately?"I muttered.
"And you guys are going back to New York."he finished,ignoring what I had said.
"New York? We're going back to New York?"Delia questioned estatically.
"Yeah, just for a few days but yeah."Dad said cheerfully."You gotta pack sometime tonight or sometime tomorrow,your flight leaves at five,five hours is nonstop.You'll stay with Nonnie and Grandpa for four days and you'll come back on the fifth same time you left."he said,all connecting it in one breath, like he had praticed it days before.
"Alright!"Delia said excitedly, doing a little dance in her seat, swaying her fork to silent music.
"Ephram?"Dad asked me.
"I'm not very hungry anymore.But good dinner."I said nodding curtly and walking back upstairs.
****************************************
Delia was very anxious to get off the plane. So was I, but I didn't quite show it the way she did. She was pratically a walking talking New York brochure. She had on the cap that I gave her the other day, a slingbag that had a new york patch on it, and New York jacket that I had snagged from HotTopic for her. Well, okay, maybe I too was a brochure with my New York beenie and Subway shirt, I don't know.
I had insisted upon taking the twenty minute taxi ride to Nonnie and Grandpa's. To get the complete New York feel. You see, it's very authentic. You can't get it from Boston or Chiago or London. Only from New York. The whole time we discussed it through they obliged and said that they'd love to pick us up. But what they really meant is that I'm not as 'tough' per se as a year ago. And then the infamous impending fact that it was night wagered heavly on the decision. Anyways, I finally got them to allow Delia and I to take a taxi. And unlike Everwood, there's always like at lease a hundred taxi drivers on duty.That's usually during lunch hour.
"Taxi!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, thumb extended into the semi-warm night air. The weather was definatly better here.
"Maybe we should call Nonnie, she'll pick us up."Delia suggested unsurely as the eleventh taxi bypassed us.
"Ah,I can get it" I told myself more than her as one more taxi passed."See? What'd I tell ya?"I told her as I opened the door.
"Where to?" the driver said mysteriously.
"Uh,140 Main Drive." I said simply. I could have furthermore extended the conversation but this is nowhere near Everwood. Here they think you're some kind of freak if you start a full blown conversation or attempt one. There,they think you're stuck up if you don't.
As soon as we got onto Times Square, all these thoughts and feelings started flooding back into my memory.The arcade Dad used to take me to when I was five; Catherine Adams which is a complete one itself; all the Broadways Mom insisted us on seeing,no less than six a year; and one of the best which could make a whole memory - our last trip to the Hamptons. All the memories I forged myself to forget over the past year....
"140 Main Drive,$12.87."the cabbie said as he pulled up to the curb of Nonnie's house.
"Thanks," I said paying him an extra six dollars over, hoping that that was a good tipping rate.
"My goodness, look at you two!" Nonnie exclaimed as soon as she opened the door. I didn't even have to ring the bell.
"Nonnie!" Delia said excitedly.
"Oh Delia, you look more and more like your mother everytime I see you!"Nonnie said hugging Delia very tightly and half dragging her inside.
"Good to see you Ephram."Grandpa said, hugging me.
"Good to see you too."I told him.
"And you!What is you're father feeding you?All skin and bones and even taller."she said, examining me head to toe."You know, I'd run off and elope with you tonight if you had your driver's liciense."she whispered though it was still loud enough for Delia to start to giggle and Grandpa start to smile.
"What do you guys want to eat?"Grandpa asked,leading us to the kitchen.
"Yeah, we got some of the good stuff.Salad,mushrooms,beets - and that's just to name a few."Nonnie said jokingly, pulling out a few glasses.
"You guys care for anything to drink?"
"Any orange juice?"I asked,setting my sling bag on the floor next to the counter.
"That,grape juice,and apple juice."he replied.
"I'll take orange juice please."
"Can I have apple juice?"Delia asked as she hoisted herself up on a bar stool.
"It's may I not can I."I corrected her simply.
"May I have apple juice?"she said,making big eyes at me.
"Yes,you may Delia."Nonnie replied.
"Is that all your stuff?"Grandpa questioned,as soon as he put all the bottles back inside the refridgerator.
"Yeah.I didn't wanna go through the bag claiming thingy."
"Cargo pick-up."a smiling Delia corrected me.
"What she said." I said, giving her the big eyes. I hate going through all that bag claimage stuff at airports and bus stations so I've always brought all my stuff in something I can carry on.
"Well,you're going to go back with twice as more stuff I can tell."Nonnie said."How about the four of us,anywhere on Times Square until say seven.Then a show or something at eight?"she suggested. I could already tell that she had a mental day by day hour by hour planner lodged in her head.
"Sure!"Delia said in agreement.
"Sounds cool."I said.
"Great!"Nonnie said clapping her hands together.
"Oh yeah Ephram,one of your friends called eariler.Well, two actually.I can't put my tongue to the names though."he said,taking a note attached to the refridgerator off. "They said to call them back later and that there was something going on at Monkie Funnies as I recall..."
"Jacob, wasn't his name Steven,or Stu,or Samuel?"
"Scug?"I blurted out after wondering who was she trying to name.
"Yeah,that's it, Scug. He said there was something mondo that you need to take part in."he said,reading straight off the sheet of paper.
"And there was a sweet girl that called about you."Nonnie said,sounding endearing."Katie perhaps?"she suggested."No,no,no, it was Catherine."she said,correcting herself.
"Catherine Adams!?!"I said,half jumping out of my clothes. I hadn't spoken to her since we left.
"You two a couple?"Nonnie asked happily.
"You gotta girlfriend?"Delia asked me,not anywhere near innocent.
"Yeah,she wants you to call her."Grandpa said,pointing to the number on the paper.
"May I go?"I asked,taking the paper from him and tearing off the bottom part.
"Yeah,yeah, just be back by two or so."he called after me.
"And take a jacket,it's supposed to get colder later on." she told me.
*******************************************************************************************************************
Hey,hope that was a good chapter! I'm getting very close to bringing in the new characters, probably in the next chapter. I've never been to NY or any other big city places except for if you count Charleston,SC so bear with me for the whole city experiences.Umm, what else is there for me to say without spoiling anything? Well, here's one thing, the girl I'm making up, Dulcie (who's from NY and related to Scug in some odd way or another I still gotta figure that one out..) what do you guys want her to be really good at? I mean, music, poetry, dance? For some odd reason, I try to put something artsy related behind all of my characters and I'm kind of stumped on her.And I'm also debating whether or not to make her a possible and I say possible love interest if you will for Ephram? I don't know, but any suggestions are welcome. I got a computer all to myself now so I will definetly be updating every other day at least promise! But one bad thing is that I haven't gotten any writing program with a spell check installed on my computer so please bear with me.One last thing, my second story, Everwood:Beginnings is also going to be updated on the same basis so please read and review it if you haven't already!Anything is welcomed!
Everwood89
"So much for a welcome back,eh Ephram?" he said. I couldn't exactly tell if it was sarcastic or supposed to be sarcastic or not.
"You seem to make good timing."
"Look Ephram, since I'm back now, I think we might need to talk."he said depositing his duffle bag and jacket in the closet.
"What's there to talk about? Hmmm,let me think. Is it something along the lines of leaving your fifteen year old son to car for his nine year old sister who has despertely needed her father over the past week?"
"I was out doing some work, don't start with me right now."he said getting out of his seat.
"You know what,she thought you were gone like Mom was tonight. And when I told her that you weren't, she still cried until I promised her that you hadn't."
"Is she okay?"he asked immediantly.
"Yeah she's okay.I got her asleep twenty minutes ago."
"I'm sorry you had to deal with that?"
"Sorry doesn't do it. It doesn't make everything better. It doesn't bring back Mom or even take back Delia's nightmares."
"Look Ephram, I do a hell of a load to keep up with everything around here, I don't need a lecture from you -"
"Like I don't? You know what, forget this, I'm going back to bed."I said walking up the stairs facing him. I slammed my door as hard as I could as soon as I got into my room.
"Ephram, dinner's ready!"Dad shouted from downstairs. I hadn't made so much as even a move from my room except to take my shower at five in the morning. I had no intentions of talking to him again - ever. So with that, I turned off my cd player and turned on a cd in my stereo.
"There's no money.There's no possesion.Only obsession.I don't need that sh*t...."blared from my speakers.
"Ephram!"Dad said,pounding on my door this time.
"I just wanna be heard.Loud and clear are my words.Comin' from within a man, tell em' what you heard...."
"I didn't answer."I told Dad blandly as he came in my room.
"You didn't need to."he told me simply after turning off my music."Dinner's ready,go wash your hands."he said as he walked back out. I sighed and reluctantly obeyed.
"I have a proposition to make."Dad announced as soon as we started eating. I started pushing my food around hoping not to look to interested in what he had to say.
"A proposition?"Delia questioned.
"A deal."I told her.
"Ohh,okay..."she said,continuing on to stab each individual macaroni noodle.
"I need to go out of town for a few days -"
"Haven't you done enough of that lately?"I muttered.
"And you guys are going back to New York."he finished,ignoring what I had said.
"New York? We're going back to New York?"Delia questioned estatically.
"Yeah, just for a few days but yeah."Dad said cheerfully."You gotta pack sometime tonight or sometime tomorrow,your flight leaves at five,five hours is nonstop.You'll stay with Nonnie and Grandpa for four days and you'll come back on the fifth same time you left."he said,all connecting it in one breath, like he had praticed it days before.
"Alright!"Delia said excitedly, doing a little dance in her seat, swaying her fork to silent music.
"Ephram?"Dad asked me.
"I'm not very hungry anymore.But good dinner."I said nodding curtly and walking back upstairs.
****************************************
Delia was very anxious to get off the plane. So was I, but I didn't quite show it the way she did. She was pratically a walking talking New York brochure. She had on the cap that I gave her the other day, a slingbag that had a new york patch on it, and New York jacket that I had snagged from HotTopic for her. Well, okay, maybe I too was a brochure with my New York beenie and Subway shirt, I don't know.
I had insisted upon taking the twenty minute taxi ride to Nonnie and Grandpa's. To get the complete New York feel. You see, it's very authentic. You can't get it from Boston or Chiago or London. Only from New York. The whole time we discussed it through they obliged and said that they'd love to pick us up. But what they really meant is that I'm not as 'tough' per se as a year ago. And then the infamous impending fact that it was night wagered heavly on the decision. Anyways, I finally got them to allow Delia and I to take a taxi. And unlike Everwood, there's always like at lease a hundred taxi drivers on duty.That's usually during lunch hour.
"Taxi!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, thumb extended into the semi-warm night air. The weather was definatly better here.
"Maybe we should call Nonnie, she'll pick us up."Delia suggested unsurely as the eleventh taxi bypassed us.
"Ah,I can get it" I told myself more than her as one more taxi passed."See? What'd I tell ya?"I told her as I opened the door.
"Where to?" the driver said mysteriously.
"Uh,140 Main Drive." I said simply. I could have furthermore extended the conversation but this is nowhere near Everwood. Here they think you're some kind of freak if you start a full blown conversation or attempt one. There,they think you're stuck up if you don't.
As soon as we got onto Times Square, all these thoughts and feelings started flooding back into my memory.The arcade Dad used to take me to when I was five; Catherine Adams which is a complete one itself; all the Broadways Mom insisted us on seeing,no less than six a year; and one of the best which could make a whole memory - our last trip to the Hamptons. All the memories I forged myself to forget over the past year....
"140 Main Drive,$12.87."the cabbie said as he pulled up to the curb of Nonnie's house.
"Thanks," I said paying him an extra six dollars over, hoping that that was a good tipping rate.
"My goodness, look at you two!" Nonnie exclaimed as soon as she opened the door. I didn't even have to ring the bell.
"Nonnie!" Delia said excitedly.
"Oh Delia, you look more and more like your mother everytime I see you!"Nonnie said hugging Delia very tightly and half dragging her inside.
"Good to see you Ephram."Grandpa said, hugging me.
"Good to see you too."I told him.
"And you!What is you're father feeding you?All skin and bones and even taller."she said, examining me head to toe."You know, I'd run off and elope with you tonight if you had your driver's liciense."she whispered though it was still loud enough for Delia to start to giggle and Grandpa start to smile.
"What do you guys want to eat?"Grandpa asked,leading us to the kitchen.
"Yeah, we got some of the good stuff.Salad,mushrooms,beets - and that's just to name a few."Nonnie said jokingly, pulling out a few glasses.
"You guys care for anything to drink?"
"Any orange juice?"I asked,setting my sling bag on the floor next to the counter.
"That,grape juice,and apple juice."he replied.
"I'll take orange juice please."
"Can I have apple juice?"Delia asked as she hoisted herself up on a bar stool.
"It's may I not can I."I corrected her simply.
"May I have apple juice?"she said,making big eyes at me.
"Yes,you may Delia."Nonnie replied.
"Is that all your stuff?"Grandpa questioned,as soon as he put all the bottles back inside the refridgerator.
"Yeah.I didn't wanna go through the bag claiming thingy."
"Cargo pick-up."a smiling Delia corrected me.
"What she said." I said, giving her the big eyes. I hate going through all that bag claimage stuff at airports and bus stations so I've always brought all my stuff in something I can carry on.
"Well,you're going to go back with twice as more stuff I can tell."Nonnie said."How about the four of us,anywhere on Times Square until say seven.Then a show or something at eight?"she suggested. I could already tell that she had a mental day by day hour by hour planner lodged in her head.
"Sure!"Delia said in agreement.
"Sounds cool."I said.
"Great!"Nonnie said clapping her hands together.
"Oh yeah Ephram,one of your friends called eariler.Well, two actually.I can't put my tongue to the names though."he said,taking a note attached to the refridgerator off. "They said to call them back later and that there was something going on at Monkie Funnies as I recall..."
"Jacob, wasn't his name Steven,or Stu,or Samuel?"
"Scug?"I blurted out after wondering who was she trying to name.
"Yeah,that's it, Scug. He said there was something mondo that you need to take part in."he said,reading straight off the sheet of paper.
"And there was a sweet girl that called about you."Nonnie said,sounding endearing."Katie perhaps?"she suggested."No,no,no, it was Catherine."she said,correcting herself.
"Catherine Adams!?!"I said,half jumping out of my clothes. I hadn't spoken to her since we left.
"You two a couple?"Nonnie asked happily.
"You gotta girlfriend?"Delia asked me,not anywhere near innocent.
"Yeah,she wants you to call her."Grandpa said,pointing to the number on the paper.
"May I go?"I asked,taking the paper from him and tearing off the bottom part.
"Yeah,yeah, just be back by two or so."he called after me.
"And take a jacket,it's supposed to get colder later on." she told me.
*******************************************************************************************************************
Hey,hope that was a good chapter! I'm getting very close to bringing in the new characters, probably in the next chapter. I've never been to NY or any other big city places except for if you count Charleston,SC so bear with me for the whole city experiences.Umm, what else is there for me to say without spoiling anything? Well, here's one thing, the girl I'm making up, Dulcie (who's from NY and related to Scug in some odd way or another I still gotta figure that one out..) what do you guys want her to be really good at? I mean, music, poetry, dance? For some odd reason, I try to put something artsy related behind all of my characters and I'm kind of stumped on her.And I'm also debating whether or not to make her a possible and I say possible love interest if you will for Ephram? I don't know, but any suggestions are welcome. I got a computer all to myself now so I will definetly be updating every other day at least promise! But one bad thing is that I haven't gotten any writing program with a spell check installed on my computer so please bear with me.One last thing, my second story, Everwood:Beginnings is also going to be updated on the same basis so please read and review it if you haven't already!Anything is welcomed!
Everwood89