Chapter 3
Ok well this chapter is going to be hard to write because I am getting over the shock of Amy's...well this is a G rated story so I can't say what she was acting like on Monday...but we all saw so I am correcting her attitude problem in this story...She's the Amy we all used to know and used to love!
"I'll get the door!" Delia calls Friday morning, exactly a week after the 4th of July. "Hi Amy." Delia greets brightly, seeing Amy for the first time since the picnic. "Come in, it's really crazy here, but come in."
"What's going on that makes the place so crazy?" Amy asks just as Sam calls for Delia.
"You'll see." Delia responds before dashing off towards the living room where she and Sam have built a fort in front of the TV and are watching a movie.
"Amy." Ephram appears around the corner wearing an apron and looking like he has just gotten into a fight with the food processor, bits of food cling to his apron, hair and face. "What are you doing here?"
"Colin's visiting Bright..." Amy let's her sentence trail.
"Say no more, come in." Ephram responds, "Although you might want to bring a raincoat or something."
"What's going on?" Amy asks.
"Trying to make lunch for Delia and Sam and trying to feed Rumor her lunch all at the same time." Ephram replies.
"Where's your dad?" Amy asks following Ephram back into the kitchen.
Ephram's voice drops a few decibels, "Nina's divorce is final after a final hearing today so I offered to baby-sit so that my dad could go with her. It seemed like a good idea for awhile, but a 10 year-old a 5 year-old and a newly 7 month-old can make a lot of noise and destroy a house very quickly." Ephram responds.
"That's right today's the twelfth." Amy states, "Why didn't you call me I would have helped baby-sit."
"I was kind of hoping you would be spending time with Kayla and Paige or someone today, you know getting out." Ephram responds.
"Kayla and Paige?" Amy shakes her head, "Nope, I haven't exactly been at the top of their list of favorite people since Colin and I broke up. They seem to think it's just sick and wrong that we would ever break up, a lot of people seem to think that way actually."
"They'll get used to it." Ephram responds, "You guys will fix things I'm sure, they're your best friends."
"Maybe." Amy shrugs, "So what can I help you with?"
Ephram looks around the kitchen Rumor sits in a high chair and Ephram has two pots of something boiling on the stove, "Take your pick."
"I'll take the food." Amy nods, "That way we only need to hose you and Rumor down, a third person isn't really necessary."
Ephram just laughs and returns to Rumor, who, as Amy watches, likes to throw half of her food at her father for fun.
Within minutes Amy has the macaroni and cheese and hot dogs under control and is able to feed the two older children within 5 minutes of her arrival.
"Amy we're bored." Delia and Sam sigh walking up to Amy, who has Rumor in her lap so that Ephram can get cleaned up.
"What about your fort?" Amy asks.
"We've been in it for hours." Sam replies.
Amy nods, it was true they had even eaten lunch in the fort. "Well then what do you want to do?"
Delia and Sam both shrug, "When's my mom going to be home?"
"And my dad?" Delia chimes in.
"Not sure guys." Amy responds, "I'm sure we will figure out something to do, but wait until Ephram comes down, he's your sitter not me."
"So who wants to go to the park and get some ice cream?" Ephram asks suddenly appearing in the kitchen.
Amy can't help but smile as both Delia and Sam jump up and down excited at the prospect of ice cream. Their excitement catches on quickly, first Rumor and then the two teens are even feeling as cheerful as the little kids they are baby sitting for.
Ephram disappears for another moment but reappears with one of those baby carriers you wear in front of you, "What happened to the stroller?" Amy asks as Ephram pulls it on.
"Rumor didn't like it very much." Ephram responds as Amy helps get Rumor situated in the carrier.
"She wants to be close to her daddy." Delia responds smiling letting Rumor grab her finger.
Amy nods, "She loves her Daddy."
"Well are we going to go?" Ephram asks leading the troupe out the door and beginning the short walk to the park. Despite the short time of the walk Rumor falls asleep before they reach the park and Ephram and everyone order ice cream before Delia and Sam run off to play.
Amy and Ephram sit on a bench close enough to be in site of the children, "That's the bench Rumor was given to me." Ephram points to a bench only a couple feet away.
"OK look it's Daddy and little miss I wanna be Rumor's mom." Both Ephram and Amy turn around expecting to see the person who spoke the words, and there Bright stands with Colin looking uncomfortable.
"Get lost Bright." Amy snaps glaring at her older brother.
"Why so you and Ephram can continue playing house?" Bright snaps, and although Colin had said the exact same words only days before Bright's words are colder, more harsh and cause Ephram to jump up.
The sudden movement causes Rumor to wake up and whimper slightly but Ephram continues, "Listen Bright if you want to yell and me and fight then fine. But don't do it now, not with my daughter little sister, and 5-year-old neighbor, not to mention your sister, present. You may be a jackass but this would be taking it a step to far."
"Man let's just go." Colin insists, "We'll see you around."
Ephram just shakes is head as they walk away and he can't help but look at Amy who wears an expression of pure rage.
"Ephram someone's hear to see you." Delia calls softly up the stairs.
Ephram rushes quickly down the stairs to quiet her sister, he yawns and rubs his eyes before finding out who is at the door. Rumor had been cranky since they got home from the park, most likely having picked up on Ephram and Amy's moods, she had resisted her bath and had cried for nearly an hour before falling asleep.
"Colin." Ephram states surprised to see Amy's ex-boyfriend standing in front of him.
"Can we talk?" Colin asks quietly.
"Sure." Ephram nods, more than a little curious to see what Colin Hart has to say. "I'm going to be out on the porch." Ephram calls before grabbing the baby monitor and leading Colin outside.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Ephram asks once they are outside.
"I want to apologize for what Bright said today, it was uncalled for. I shouldn't have even said it to Amy on the 4th of July."
"Listen Colin, I'm sorry about you and Amy I never wanted to come between you and her." Ephram insists quickly.
Colin nods, "I know, you've been a great friend to her. To both of us, and I wanted to make sure you know that I don't hate you or anything?"
"I would understand, you know if you did." Ephram responds.
Colin shakes his head, "No, Amy and I...We were great together last summer. Completely in love, but not the kind of love that lasts forever. She grew as a person while I was in my coma. And I grew as a person when I had amnesia, we both did a lot of growing. But for a relationship to work you have to grow together, we didn't get that down things were never right with us after I got over the amnesia."
"She said the same thing." Ephram states simply.
"I know, we talked about it the other night, and I want us to be friends. You, me, Amy and she's going to set me up with Vanessa DeWit. So maybe we can double date sometime."
"We?" Ephram asks surprised.
"You and Amy, I figured the instant we broke up you guys hooked up." Colin states.
It's Ephram's turn to shake his head, "No, we're just friends."
Colin smirks at Ephram before shaking his head, "I'll put money on the fact that it won't stay that way for long."
Ephram is about to respond when small cries, which get louder by the second, are heard from the baby monitor, "I'm sorry." Ephram holds the baby monitor up, "I've got to go."
"Sure man no problem, we're cool right?"
"Sure." Ephram nods, "We're cool."
Ephram waits until Colin starts to move away before he hurries inside and rushes upstairs into Rumor's room.
"What's wrong baby girl?" Ephram asks turning the light on and walking over to the crib where Rumor is standing and bouncing up and down tears streaking down her cheeks. Ephram notices within seconds that Rumor's cheeks are more flushed than they normally would be when she cries. Ephram lifts her quickly out of the feeling her cheeks and forehead quickly, finding them too warm Ephram hurries out of the nursery.
Ephram has to knock on his father's door twice before Delia comes out of her bedroom to say that Andy is still next door at Nina's. Ephram rushes back into Rumor's room, grabs her pink blanket and draping it over her he hurries downstairs and next door, knocking on Nina's door quickly.
Sam opens the door half dressed in pajamas with Nina close behind. "Ephram!" Sam exclaims.
"Hi Ephram," Nina arrives behind Sam wearing an extremely weary expression. "What can I do for you?"
"Actually is my dad around?" Ephram asks rubbing Rumor's back trying to calm her down.
"Of course come in." Nina responds, "He's in the living room.
"Dad!" Ephram exclaims seeing his father shifting through papers.
"Ephram what's wrong?" Andy asks picking up on Ephram's concerned expression.
"I think something's wrong with Rumor." Ephram responds, nearly whispering.
"I'm sure she's fine." Andy reassures taking Rumor from his son.
"She feels warm and she looks all flushed." Ephram breathes quickly.
A thermometer and minutes later Andy was able to say, "It's just a simple cold Ephram, nothing to worry about. We'll give her some medicine when we get home and she'll be all right in a couple of days."
"You're sure?" Ephram asks taking Rumor back from his father.
"Ephram I'm sure." Andy reassures, "There is some medicine in the cabinet in my bedroom, give her the recommended dosage, I'll be home once I get finished talking with Nina."
"Sure." Ephram nods wrapping Rumor back in her blanket and walking home.
Ephram yawns for what feels like the millionth time in the last hour glancing at the clock whose little hand points to the 2 and the big hand points to the 6. "Come on baby do you want a bottle?" Ephram paces the 1st floor hoping that Rumor's cries, for the last 3 hours, aren't keeping his father and sister awake.
Ephram pulls open the refrigerator and pulls out a bottle of of apple juice and surprisingly Rumor quiets down and takes the bottle. Relieved Ephram walks into the living room, he had learned within weeks of Rumor living with him that she liked noise so he turns to the cabinet where all of the families videos are.
Ephram can't help but sigh when he comes across his various anime tapes, he hadn't watched or picked up a single one since school let out. His gaze continues to travel passed Delia's disney movies and finally settles on the many home videos his mother loved to make. Ephram grabs a tape simply dated 2/5/02 popping it into the VCR Ephram lays down on the couch with Rumor on his stomach.
Pressing play Ephram takes in a sharp intake of breath as he figures out what the content of the tape was. The scene opened up on Ephram playing the piano with Laine sitting on top of the piano laughing and posing for the camera blowing kisses at Julia who can be heard lightly laughing in the background.
When Laine leans in to kiss Ephram the sound of Delia gagging can be heard in the background. "That's so gross you guys!" Delia calls, "Don't do that!"
Laine and Ephram break apart laughing and the camera falls on a slightly younger Delia, wearing her classic baseball cap.
"Good morning Dr. Brown." Amy greets brightly as she comes up the walkway as Delia and Andy walk out of the house.
"Hi Amy, we're just stepping out to get breakfast, Ephram's asleep on the couch with Rumor."
"She's got a cold." Delia states.
Andy nods and continues, "She kept him up most the night but he should have gotten enough sleep now if you want to go in and wake him up."
"All right, thanks, have fun." Amy lets herself into the house finding Ephram asleep on the couch with Rumor snuggled asleep on his stomach. Stooping down Amy retrieves the remote that Ephram must have dropped when he fell asleep.
Pressing rewind Amy turns it back on before to long, curious to see the contents of the tape. Kneeling in front of the TV Amy turns the sound down low and watches fascinated at the picture in front of her. Laine, whom she recognizes from the picture Delia showed her, wears a white dress and sits with her legs crossed on the piano singing a song accompanied by Ephram playing the piano. Amy knows the song only slightly, she knows it's from A Walk to Remember, Mandy Moore's Only Hope, at one time the movie might have been a movie Amy would have loved. But by the time it came out it hit to close to the life Amy was living, being in love with someone who was or could die was something she hadn't wanted to be reminded of.
Laine had a beautiful voice and Ephram's piano skills were so beautiful that Amy couldn't help but have tears fill her eyes. She watched enthralled through the whole song until the video camera is set down and a woman comes into the pictures hugging both Ephram and Laine.
"That was beautiful you guys, truly beautiful." The woman could only be Julia Brown and she seems to be everything that Amy would expect from what Ephram has said about his mother. Julia must have forgotten about the camera because she walks over to her husband and wraps her arm around him as they watched both Laine and Ephram mock bow.
In the corner of the picture you can see Delia fiddling with a stereo right before music fills the speakers, and Ephram catches Laine up into his arms twirling her around as they both laugh. When the song ends Ephram dips Laine before she wraps her arms around Ephram and kisses him deeply.
Julia must have realized by this time that she had left the camera run and after sounds of someone fiddling with the camera and then the screen goes blank.
"Do you make a habit of sneaking into people's houses and watching their home videos?" Ephram's comment makes Amy jump, scrabbling to her feet she turns to face Ephram who is sitting up on the couch with Rumor on his lap.
"Your dad and Delia let me in when they left to go to breakfast." Amy stammers.
"That's fine I'm just kidding." Ephram responds giving Amy a weird look.
"When was that tape filmed?" Amy asks curiously.
"Two weeks before my mom died, she loved having Laine and her parents come over for dinner. Our parents would always make Laine sing and me play, it was a kind of tradition I guess."
Amy nods slowly.
"What's wrong Amy?" Ephram asks puzzled.
"It's nothing, it's just you were a completely different person before you moved here. You seemed so much happier....Happier in New York...Happier with Laine."
Ok well this chapter is going to be hard to write because I am getting over the shock of Amy's...well this is a G rated story so I can't say what she was acting like on Monday...but we all saw so I am correcting her attitude problem in this story...She's the Amy we all used to know and used to love!
"I'll get the door!" Delia calls Friday morning, exactly a week after the 4th of July. "Hi Amy." Delia greets brightly, seeing Amy for the first time since the picnic. "Come in, it's really crazy here, but come in."
"What's going on that makes the place so crazy?" Amy asks just as Sam calls for Delia.
"You'll see." Delia responds before dashing off towards the living room where she and Sam have built a fort in front of the TV and are watching a movie.
"Amy." Ephram appears around the corner wearing an apron and looking like he has just gotten into a fight with the food processor, bits of food cling to his apron, hair and face. "What are you doing here?"
"Colin's visiting Bright..." Amy let's her sentence trail.
"Say no more, come in." Ephram responds, "Although you might want to bring a raincoat or something."
"What's going on?" Amy asks.
"Trying to make lunch for Delia and Sam and trying to feed Rumor her lunch all at the same time." Ephram replies.
"Where's your dad?" Amy asks following Ephram back into the kitchen.
Ephram's voice drops a few decibels, "Nina's divorce is final after a final hearing today so I offered to baby-sit so that my dad could go with her. It seemed like a good idea for awhile, but a 10 year-old a 5 year-old and a newly 7 month-old can make a lot of noise and destroy a house very quickly." Ephram responds.
"That's right today's the twelfth." Amy states, "Why didn't you call me I would have helped baby-sit."
"I was kind of hoping you would be spending time with Kayla and Paige or someone today, you know getting out." Ephram responds.
"Kayla and Paige?" Amy shakes her head, "Nope, I haven't exactly been at the top of their list of favorite people since Colin and I broke up. They seem to think it's just sick and wrong that we would ever break up, a lot of people seem to think that way actually."
"They'll get used to it." Ephram responds, "You guys will fix things I'm sure, they're your best friends."
"Maybe." Amy shrugs, "So what can I help you with?"
Ephram looks around the kitchen Rumor sits in a high chair and Ephram has two pots of something boiling on the stove, "Take your pick."
"I'll take the food." Amy nods, "That way we only need to hose you and Rumor down, a third person isn't really necessary."
Ephram just laughs and returns to Rumor, who, as Amy watches, likes to throw half of her food at her father for fun.
Within minutes Amy has the macaroni and cheese and hot dogs under control and is able to feed the two older children within 5 minutes of her arrival.
"Amy we're bored." Delia and Sam sigh walking up to Amy, who has Rumor in her lap so that Ephram can get cleaned up.
"What about your fort?" Amy asks.
"We've been in it for hours." Sam replies.
Amy nods, it was true they had even eaten lunch in the fort. "Well then what do you want to do?"
Delia and Sam both shrug, "When's my mom going to be home?"
"And my dad?" Delia chimes in.
"Not sure guys." Amy responds, "I'm sure we will figure out something to do, but wait until Ephram comes down, he's your sitter not me."
"So who wants to go to the park and get some ice cream?" Ephram asks suddenly appearing in the kitchen.
Amy can't help but smile as both Delia and Sam jump up and down excited at the prospect of ice cream. Their excitement catches on quickly, first Rumor and then the two teens are even feeling as cheerful as the little kids they are baby sitting for.
Ephram disappears for another moment but reappears with one of those baby carriers you wear in front of you, "What happened to the stroller?" Amy asks as Ephram pulls it on.
"Rumor didn't like it very much." Ephram responds as Amy helps get Rumor situated in the carrier.
"She wants to be close to her daddy." Delia responds smiling letting Rumor grab her finger.
Amy nods, "She loves her Daddy."
"Well are we going to go?" Ephram asks leading the troupe out the door and beginning the short walk to the park. Despite the short time of the walk Rumor falls asleep before they reach the park and Ephram and everyone order ice cream before Delia and Sam run off to play.
Amy and Ephram sit on a bench close enough to be in site of the children, "That's the bench Rumor was given to me." Ephram points to a bench only a couple feet away.
"OK look it's Daddy and little miss I wanna be Rumor's mom." Both Ephram and Amy turn around expecting to see the person who spoke the words, and there Bright stands with Colin looking uncomfortable.
"Get lost Bright." Amy snaps glaring at her older brother.
"Why so you and Ephram can continue playing house?" Bright snaps, and although Colin had said the exact same words only days before Bright's words are colder, more harsh and cause Ephram to jump up.
The sudden movement causes Rumor to wake up and whimper slightly but Ephram continues, "Listen Bright if you want to yell and me and fight then fine. But don't do it now, not with my daughter little sister, and 5-year-old neighbor, not to mention your sister, present. You may be a jackass but this would be taking it a step to far."
"Man let's just go." Colin insists, "We'll see you around."
Ephram just shakes is head as they walk away and he can't help but look at Amy who wears an expression of pure rage.
"Ephram someone's hear to see you." Delia calls softly up the stairs.
Ephram rushes quickly down the stairs to quiet her sister, he yawns and rubs his eyes before finding out who is at the door. Rumor had been cranky since they got home from the park, most likely having picked up on Ephram and Amy's moods, she had resisted her bath and had cried for nearly an hour before falling asleep.
"Colin." Ephram states surprised to see Amy's ex-boyfriend standing in front of him.
"Can we talk?" Colin asks quietly.
"Sure." Ephram nods, more than a little curious to see what Colin Hart has to say. "I'm going to be out on the porch." Ephram calls before grabbing the baby monitor and leading Colin outside.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Ephram asks once they are outside.
"I want to apologize for what Bright said today, it was uncalled for. I shouldn't have even said it to Amy on the 4th of July."
"Listen Colin, I'm sorry about you and Amy I never wanted to come between you and her." Ephram insists quickly.
Colin nods, "I know, you've been a great friend to her. To both of us, and I wanted to make sure you know that I don't hate you or anything?"
"I would understand, you know if you did." Ephram responds.
Colin shakes his head, "No, Amy and I...We were great together last summer. Completely in love, but not the kind of love that lasts forever. She grew as a person while I was in my coma. And I grew as a person when I had amnesia, we both did a lot of growing. But for a relationship to work you have to grow together, we didn't get that down things were never right with us after I got over the amnesia."
"She said the same thing." Ephram states simply.
"I know, we talked about it the other night, and I want us to be friends. You, me, Amy and she's going to set me up with Vanessa DeWit. So maybe we can double date sometime."
"We?" Ephram asks surprised.
"You and Amy, I figured the instant we broke up you guys hooked up." Colin states.
It's Ephram's turn to shake his head, "No, we're just friends."
Colin smirks at Ephram before shaking his head, "I'll put money on the fact that it won't stay that way for long."
Ephram is about to respond when small cries, which get louder by the second, are heard from the baby monitor, "I'm sorry." Ephram holds the baby monitor up, "I've got to go."
"Sure man no problem, we're cool right?"
"Sure." Ephram nods, "We're cool."
Ephram waits until Colin starts to move away before he hurries inside and rushes upstairs into Rumor's room.
"What's wrong baby girl?" Ephram asks turning the light on and walking over to the crib where Rumor is standing and bouncing up and down tears streaking down her cheeks. Ephram notices within seconds that Rumor's cheeks are more flushed than they normally would be when she cries. Ephram lifts her quickly out of the feeling her cheeks and forehead quickly, finding them too warm Ephram hurries out of the nursery.
Ephram has to knock on his father's door twice before Delia comes out of her bedroom to say that Andy is still next door at Nina's. Ephram rushes back into Rumor's room, grabs her pink blanket and draping it over her he hurries downstairs and next door, knocking on Nina's door quickly.
Sam opens the door half dressed in pajamas with Nina close behind. "Ephram!" Sam exclaims.
"Hi Ephram," Nina arrives behind Sam wearing an extremely weary expression. "What can I do for you?"
"Actually is my dad around?" Ephram asks rubbing Rumor's back trying to calm her down.
"Of course come in." Nina responds, "He's in the living room.
"Dad!" Ephram exclaims seeing his father shifting through papers.
"Ephram what's wrong?" Andy asks picking up on Ephram's concerned expression.
"I think something's wrong with Rumor." Ephram responds, nearly whispering.
"I'm sure she's fine." Andy reassures taking Rumor from his son.
"She feels warm and she looks all flushed." Ephram breathes quickly.
A thermometer and minutes later Andy was able to say, "It's just a simple cold Ephram, nothing to worry about. We'll give her some medicine when we get home and she'll be all right in a couple of days."
"You're sure?" Ephram asks taking Rumor back from his father.
"Ephram I'm sure." Andy reassures, "There is some medicine in the cabinet in my bedroom, give her the recommended dosage, I'll be home once I get finished talking with Nina."
"Sure." Ephram nods wrapping Rumor back in her blanket and walking home.
Ephram yawns for what feels like the millionth time in the last hour glancing at the clock whose little hand points to the 2 and the big hand points to the 6. "Come on baby do you want a bottle?" Ephram paces the 1st floor hoping that Rumor's cries, for the last 3 hours, aren't keeping his father and sister awake.
Ephram pulls open the refrigerator and pulls out a bottle of of apple juice and surprisingly Rumor quiets down and takes the bottle. Relieved Ephram walks into the living room, he had learned within weeks of Rumor living with him that she liked noise so he turns to the cabinet where all of the families videos are.
Ephram can't help but sigh when he comes across his various anime tapes, he hadn't watched or picked up a single one since school let out. His gaze continues to travel passed Delia's disney movies and finally settles on the many home videos his mother loved to make. Ephram grabs a tape simply dated 2/5/02 popping it into the VCR Ephram lays down on the couch with Rumor on his stomach.
Pressing play Ephram takes in a sharp intake of breath as he figures out what the content of the tape was. The scene opened up on Ephram playing the piano with Laine sitting on top of the piano laughing and posing for the camera blowing kisses at Julia who can be heard lightly laughing in the background.
When Laine leans in to kiss Ephram the sound of Delia gagging can be heard in the background. "That's so gross you guys!" Delia calls, "Don't do that!"
Laine and Ephram break apart laughing and the camera falls on a slightly younger Delia, wearing her classic baseball cap.
"Good morning Dr. Brown." Amy greets brightly as she comes up the walkway as Delia and Andy walk out of the house.
"Hi Amy, we're just stepping out to get breakfast, Ephram's asleep on the couch with Rumor."
"She's got a cold." Delia states.
Andy nods and continues, "She kept him up most the night but he should have gotten enough sleep now if you want to go in and wake him up."
"All right, thanks, have fun." Amy lets herself into the house finding Ephram asleep on the couch with Rumor snuggled asleep on his stomach. Stooping down Amy retrieves the remote that Ephram must have dropped when he fell asleep.
Pressing rewind Amy turns it back on before to long, curious to see the contents of the tape. Kneeling in front of the TV Amy turns the sound down low and watches fascinated at the picture in front of her. Laine, whom she recognizes from the picture Delia showed her, wears a white dress and sits with her legs crossed on the piano singing a song accompanied by Ephram playing the piano. Amy knows the song only slightly, she knows it's from A Walk to Remember, Mandy Moore's Only Hope, at one time the movie might have been a movie Amy would have loved. But by the time it came out it hit to close to the life Amy was living, being in love with someone who was or could die was something she hadn't wanted to be reminded of.
Laine had a beautiful voice and Ephram's piano skills were so beautiful that Amy couldn't help but have tears fill her eyes. She watched enthralled through the whole song until the video camera is set down and a woman comes into the pictures hugging both Ephram and Laine.
"That was beautiful you guys, truly beautiful." The woman could only be Julia Brown and she seems to be everything that Amy would expect from what Ephram has said about his mother. Julia must have forgotten about the camera because she walks over to her husband and wraps her arm around him as they watched both Laine and Ephram mock bow.
In the corner of the picture you can see Delia fiddling with a stereo right before music fills the speakers, and Ephram catches Laine up into his arms twirling her around as they both laugh. When the song ends Ephram dips Laine before she wraps her arms around Ephram and kisses him deeply.
Julia must have realized by this time that she had left the camera run and after sounds of someone fiddling with the camera and then the screen goes blank.
"Do you make a habit of sneaking into people's houses and watching their home videos?" Ephram's comment makes Amy jump, scrabbling to her feet she turns to face Ephram who is sitting up on the couch with Rumor on his lap.
"Your dad and Delia let me in when they left to go to breakfast." Amy stammers.
"That's fine I'm just kidding." Ephram responds giving Amy a weird look.
"When was that tape filmed?" Amy asks curiously.
"Two weeks before my mom died, she loved having Laine and her parents come over for dinner. Our parents would always make Laine sing and me play, it was a kind of tradition I guess."
Amy nods slowly.
"What's wrong Amy?" Ephram asks puzzled.
"It's nothing, it's just you were a completely different person before you moved here. You seemed so much happier....Happier in New York...Happier with Laine."