*horrified look on face* can't sleep...clowns will eat me...can't
sleep...clowns will eat me...can't sleep...clowns will eat me...can't slee-
huh? Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you there! Sorry for the delay but I
probably won't be able to update as often as I started out but I'll do my
very bestest! ^_^
Lori-jo85- Yes, it 'tis a great quest...BUT I SHALL TRIUMPH!!! *looks around a staring people* What? Yeah, I've read that!!! I love it! I also like 'Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow Road'...too many good fics!!! Thanks so much! I'm glad you like it!
Ditey- Ah, my good friend Ditey! How be you today? Why thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Yes, it will be a joy writing it! Heh...anyway...Yeah, I've never had Hawaiian pizza but I'm basing Jake's taste in food on my older brother and he loves Hawaiian...and it's not what everyone thinks of! Lol...thanks again! They will be actually starting school in the next chapter...I was planning on it starting in this one but I got caught up in "describing" like I asposed to...lol...in case ya didn't catch that, asposed is supposed...yeah, it's not funny anymore...I ruined it...well, yeah...I'm taking deanine's advice and describing more and I wanted to give school it's own chapter...I think it's worthy, eh? Thanks for reviewing again! You and Liz are tied for most frequent reviewer! Love ya both!
ChibiJenn- hey again. It's on Monday from 8 to 9 WHERE I LIVE...so I dunno...you can figure out time difference...lol...I reviewed it!!! ^_^ It was good!
Alien- yes, he did...lol...yeah, I needed to be different, I had never seena guy come so I added Jake...^_^ They are staying for and undefined period of time...lol...well, thanks bunches!!! Like I said with Ditey, I love you guys!
Liz- I'm glad, I'm glad...It's good that it made ya feel better!! Kay, and you just think about'm, k! BTW, thanks for enlightening my with 'American Outlaws'...Poor Jimmy, Jimmy died...*cries*
J- Yes, most definantly! YES!!! FINALLY SOMEONE CAUGHT IT!!! Oh my gosh, I thought no one would ever figure it out...lol...yes, Dicey and Tillerman were drawn from Cynthia Voights's books...I've read'm all...I love them too death! I'm thrilled that you caught that! Well, please review again! ^_^
Disclaimer- Okay, I'll you one guess, is it: C-chan owns Everwood C-chan doesn't own Everwood C-chan has a pet turtle named Bob...wait, or was that C-chan's teacher? Hmmm...I wonder...
Okay, I hope you picked "b" because if you didn't, the lawyers are gonna get me.but if you chose "a", then we can keep it a secret, can't we hm? As for "c"...just, don't stress your brains...^_^
-Chapter 5-
Ephram yawned and stretched, only to discover there was someone on his arm. Turning his sleepy gaze to his arm, he found Dicey lying on his arm fast asleep.
"Morning sunshine" came a sarcastic voice, filled with mock- perkiness.
Ephram turned around, as best he could with someone sleeping on his arm, to find Jake standing there, fully dressed and smirking. Ephram scowled at him and muttered something under his breath as he tried to get up without waking his sleeping companion.
"Nice little perch she has there. You okay Brown? I noticed that when I got up but I couldn't get her off without waking you both...good luck...oh and by the way, school is starting in" he looks at his watch for a minute "10 minutes." He finished with a sly grin.
Ephram sat up jerkily, almost knocking Dicey off the edge of the slept-in bed...
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SCHOOL STARTS IN TEN MINUTES?" Ephram asked, more mad at the fact that Jake didn't wake him up than the fact he was going to be late for school.
Jake looked at his watch again and grinned stupidly at his angry friend. "Yes, that's right."
Ephram glared as Dicey grabbed his arm for support and looked sleepily at them. In a dazed tone of voice, she asked where she was and why they were yelling. Jake and Ephram looked at each other.
Ephram explained to Dicey that she was at his house and they were all in her room right now. He also explained that they had been yelling because they were going to be late and Jake hadn't woken them up.
Her expression never changed as she stared blankly at the twos guys in front of her.
"Do you think she's still alive in there Brown?" Jake whispered to Ephram.
Ephram shrugged and after a full two minutes, her eyes flashed with anger as it all sunk in. She went on a rampage, throwing pillows at the walls and the two guys, who at this point were feverishly searching for a haven to hide them form her morning-sickness-induced wrath...
"WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP? Now I won't have enough time to get ready, and I'll look ugly, and our plan won't work, and I can't find my shirt I was going to wear, and you two are still in my room, and my socks are missing, AND I CAN'T FIND MY TOOTHBRUSH!!!!!" Dicey yelled, red in the face as she ran around, searching fruitlessly for whatever she felt she needed at that given moment.
They looked at each other with fear as they crawled out of the madhouse...that's the last time they feed her pizza and keep her up all night...
"Where do you think YOU'RE going?" she screamed, stomping her bare foot like at two year old on a tantrum; her other foot in a purple sock.
"We're leaving?" Jake said meekly.
"Why?" she asked, narrowing her emerald eyes and fixing them on the two teen boys who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time...one thing they seemed to be good at.
"Because you said to?" Ephram replied as more of a question than an answer.
"Oh...I forgot. Go on! I gotta get ready for school!" she said, smiling sweetly as she put down the lamp she was about to throw at them. Their looks of confusion and terror never left their face as they walked through the door, their eyes never leaving the girl who would forever complicate their lives...well, ALMOST to forever...or, maybe forever...eh, same thing.
Once they closed the door, they let out their breath and heaved a sigh. "That was one of the most scary tings I've ever been exposed to." Jake muttered, his eyes still holding the same look. Ephram could only nod as he slid down the wall to sit on the floor next to the door...hey, that rhymed!
Soon enough Dicey emerged as the girl they knew and loved. She had a cutoff 'I Heart NY' shirt on, just for the effect, and a mini denim skirt with a purple and yellow striped men's tie as a belt. She had on tube socks with sneakers and a grin plastered on her face. Her light brown hair was down and pushed behind her ears.
Ephram could only smile at this...Dicey and only Dicey would were an outfit like that on her second day of school...isn't Everwood in for a surprise...'Dicey Johnson's stay in Everwood, Part II!' He laughed at the thought.
"Stunning outfit Miss Johnson." Ephram said. She grinned and her double-pierced earrings shone.
"Why thank you Mr. Brown." She replied with a sugar-sweet smile, taking a bow. "Hey Eph, you going to get dressed or just stand there all day?"
Ephram froze and ran into his room as Dicey and Jake laughed at him. Jake was wearing baggy blue jeans and once Dicey got to him, he had an 'I Heart NY' shirt on over the one he had picked out...no one, and I mean NO ONE argues with Dicey in the morning...then again, no one argues with her EVER...
He grinned and then went into the bathroom carrying the clothes of the day, he was NOT leaving this house without a shower...he knew when he got home Dicey would be in it and he didn't want to smell all day...wouldn't THAT be lovely?
Ephram soon came out of his room, fully dressed. He was wearing a black 'Metallica' shirt on over a long-sleeved gray t-shirt. He wore black baggy pants and still looked rather tired.
Dicey smiled as she got a brilliant idea...and we all know what that means...oh, you don't? Well, you'll just have to find out...
She told them to wait there as she walked into her room. She neatly wrote some on the paper, got masking tape and stuck it on the back. Smiling proudly at herself, she walked out of the room and stuck it right on Ephram's shirt.
It surprised him quite a bit, how often do piece's a written on paper come flying through the air stick themselves on your 'Metallica' shirt? Yeah, that what I thought!
Jake took one glance and laughed. He read Ephram's 'sign' and couldn't help it.
"What's it say?" Ephram asked sternly as Jake subsided from his laughing fest.
Jake grinned at Dicey and gave her a look that said, 'nicely done my comrade'.
"Oh, not to much to worry about...it only says 'I Heart NY too...I guess...hey, are you making fun of ME?'" Jake said laughing. Sure enough, that was written in Dicey's neat, prefect handwriting.
"Ha, ha, ha Dicey. Very funny." He said with sarcasm, but didn't take it off for fear of head bashing, courtesy of their Dearest Dicey.
They walked down the stairs, grabbed some VERY burnt toast, looked at the clock and ran outside, dumping the "toast" by the side of the road.
Ephram grabbed his bike this time. As he mounted the seat, Dicey stood on the bars coming out from the wheels and Jake got on his skateboard and they were off.
As Ephram was riding along, his mind wondered. Why does he feel different about Dicey? Was Amy still okay? He found himself wondering if she was okay. But when Dicey laid her head on his shoulder and her arms around his waist, her soft hair brushing up against his neck, his mind snapped and his thoughts took over. He couldn't like Dicey, right? Right...no...yes...no...yes...he shook his head slightly and focused back on the path to school...he didn't' want to go running into any more poles...he would NEVER live that down...
Dicey sighed as a smile played on her lips. She closed her eyes and breathed in his scent...cinnamon, shampoo, and men's cologne...a lovely mix to Dicey's tired mind. She just breathed in and admired her surroundings. She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't see Jake smirking at her.
They arrived at the prison and Ephram lightly poked Dicey in the side and grinned when she toppled off the bike, landing in the cold grass.
She glared at them as they just smiled and held back fits of laughter, knowing she was already ticked. She had been cruelly jerked back into reality, away from her private thoughts.
"Hey Jake, do you have a schedule yet?" Ephram asked, after he helped Dicey up and insisted that she forgive him, he didn't know why but he couldn't stand for her to be angry with him. Naturally, she accepted happily and life went on.
Jake paused with a black look on his face. That said it all...
"You DID register, right Jake?" Ephram asked, pausing as well.
"I...don't know." Jake said, his words broken up a little as he turned as looked at them. Ephram face-faulted at this revelation.
"WHAT?!" Ephram yelled, scaring the pigeons from the trees...wait, does Everwood even HAVE pigeons? Oh, well, all the umm...CARDINALS flew out of the trees and off into the blue-gray sky.
Meanwhile, Dicey reentered her little word. She thought about how the sky was the same color of his eyes as a crazy, and quite tipsy bright red cardinal flew straight at her head, nearly knocking her off her feet and back onto to dying grass...
"WHAT THE-" Dicey started to yell as the red bird toppled away, looking rather dizzy.
Ephram put his hand over her mouth and looked around, only to find the majority of the people staring at them like they were form another planet. He let go and she began massaging her head where the crazy bird crashed into her.
"Everwood doesn't like me..." she wined childishly.
Ephram rolled his eyes and sighed. "Everwood doesn't like YOU? Everwood doesn't like ME! No one is my friend and the only one who attempts to be my friend just HAPPENS to have a boyfriend in a coma...what a coincidence. Oh, and you can't forget the fact that I ran into a pole...oh yes, Everwood just LOVES me huh? Maybe is getting you for knowing me...yeah, that must be it." Ephram said with a laugh. Jake and Dicey joined in as the bird looked at them strangely and tried to fly off. It didn't work so it just walked over to the bush, hopped up to the top and jumped off, flapping its wings like a mad bird...which it was...or maybe just a little gone...it's hard to tell.
Ephram looked around again and noticed something...everyone was gone...THE BELL HAD RANG!
"Hey, the bell rang! C'mon! WE GOTTA GOOO!!!" he shouted as they left the bike at the bike rack and ran towards the building.
Dicey looked back as Ephram dragged her along by her hand. "Hey, Eph! EPH!" she yelled at him to get his attention.
"In a minute Dice! Let's get to the office first!" he shouted back as people in the halls looked at them like they were crazy...a look that they would surely grow accustomed to.
That's chapter 5...whoop-dee-doo...sorry I haven't updated! I have to complete my reviews for Final Exams...ewwie...and study for them for that matter...Finals are this week! I'M SCARED!!! Yeah, and I went to Six Flags one Saturday form 3:15 to 10:00...45 minutes before it's open till closing time...fun fun...I'm sooo tired though...I was performing with my school's choir...we (the Varsity Choir...muahahaha) gotta sing by the entrance...fun fun...oh the joys of living 15 or so minutes away from Six Flags over Texas...anyway, yeah...Most of you wont understand, except for Liz but I dunno where you peeps are from, but it is very hard for me to keep them from saying "y'all" because I say it...being a Texan and all...but I doubt people from Colorado and New York say y'all...so yeah, it's tough...^_^ Well, toodles y'all! Hehe...yeah, I'll shuttup now...
Lori-jo85- Yes, it 'tis a great quest...BUT I SHALL TRIUMPH!!! *looks around a staring people* What? Yeah, I've read that!!! I love it! I also like 'Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow Road'...too many good fics!!! Thanks so much! I'm glad you like it!
Ditey- Ah, my good friend Ditey! How be you today? Why thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Yes, it will be a joy writing it! Heh...anyway...Yeah, I've never had Hawaiian pizza but I'm basing Jake's taste in food on my older brother and he loves Hawaiian...and it's not what everyone thinks of! Lol...thanks again! They will be actually starting school in the next chapter...I was planning on it starting in this one but I got caught up in "describing" like I asposed to...lol...in case ya didn't catch that, asposed is supposed...yeah, it's not funny anymore...I ruined it...well, yeah...I'm taking deanine's advice and describing more and I wanted to give school it's own chapter...I think it's worthy, eh? Thanks for reviewing again! You and Liz are tied for most frequent reviewer! Love ya both!
ChibiJenn- hey again. It's on Monday from 8 to 9 WHERE I LIVE...so I dunno...you can figure out time difference...lol...I reviewed it!!! ^_^ It was good!
Alien- yes, he did...lol...yeah, I needed to be different, I had never seena guy come so I added Jake...^_^ They are staying for and undefined period of time...lol...well, thanks bunches!!! Like I said with Ditey, I love you guys!
Liz- I'm glad, I'm glad...It's good that it made ya feel better!! Kay, and you just think about'm, k! BTW, thanks for enlightening my with 'American Outlaws'...Poor Jimmy, Jimmy died...*cries*
J- Yes, most definantly! YES!!! FINALLY SOMEONE CAUGHT IT!!! Oh my gosh, I thought no one would ever figure it out...lol...yes, Dicey and Tillerman were drawn from Cynthia Voights's books...I've read'm all...I love them too death! I'm thrilled that you caught that! Well, please review again! ^_^
Disclaimer- Okay, I'll you one guess, is it: C-chan owns Everwood C-chan doesn't own Everwood C-chan has a pet turtle named Bob...wait, or was that C-chan's teacher? Hmmm...I wonder...
Okay, I hope you picked "b" because if you didn't, the lawyers are gonna get me.but if you chose "a", then we can keep it a secret, can't we hm? As for "c"...just, don't stress your brains...^_^
-Chapter 5-
Ephram yawned and stretched, only to discover there was someone on his arm. Turning his sleepy gaze to his arm, he found Dicey lying on his arm fast asleep.
"Morning sunshine" came a sarcastic voice, filled with mock- perkiness.
Ephram turned around, as best he could with someone sleeping on his arm, to find Jake standing there, fully dressed and smirking. Ephram scowled at him and muttered something under his breath as he tried to get up without waking his sleeping companion.
"Nice little perch she has there. You okay Brown? I noticed that when I got up but I couldn't get her off without waking you both...good luck...oh and by the way, school is starting in" he looks at his watch for a minute "10 minutes." He finished with a sly grin.
Ephram sat up jerkily, almost knocking Dicey off the edge of the slept-in bed...
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SCHOOL STARTS IN TEN MINUTES?" Ephram asked, more mad at the fact that Jake didn't wake him up than the fact he was going to be late for school.
Jake looked at his watch again and grinned stupidly at his angry friend. "Yes, that's right."
Ephram glared as Dicey grabbed his arm for support and looked sleepily at them. In a dazed tone of voice, she asked where she was and why they were yelling. Jake and Ephram looked at each other.
Ephram explained to Dicey that she was at his house and they were all in her room right now. He also explained that they had been yelling because they were going to be late and Jake hadn't woken them up.
Her expression never changed as she stared blankly at the twos guys in front of her.
"Do you think she's still alive in there Brown?" Jake whispered to Ephram.
Ephram shrugged and after a full two minutes, her eyes flashed with anger as it all sunk in. She went on a rampage, throwing pillows at the walls and the two guys, who at this point were feverishly searching for a haven to hide them form her morning-sickness-induced wrath...
"WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP? Now I won't have enough time to get ready, and I'll look ugly, and our plan won't work, and I can't find my shirt I was going to wear, and you two are still in my room, and my socks are missing, AND I CAN'T FIND MY TOOTHBRUSH!!!!!" Dicey yelled, red in the face as she ran around, searching fruitlessly for whatever she felt she needed at that given moment.
They looked at each other with fear as they crawled out of the madhouse...that's the last time they feed her pizza and keep her up all night...
"Where do you think YOU'RE going?" she screamed, stomping her bare foot like at two year old on a tantrum; her other foot in a purple sock.
"We're leaving?" Jake said meekly.
"Why?" she asked, narrowing her emerald eyes and fixing them on the two teen boys who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time...one thing they seemed to be good at.
"Because you said to?" Ephram replied as more of a question than an answer.
"Oh...I forgot. Go on! I gotta get ready for school!" she said, smiling sweetly as she put down the lamp she was about to throw at them. Their looks of confusion and terror never left their face as they walked through the door, their eyes never leaving the girl who would forever complicate their lives...well, ALMOST to forever...or, maybe forever...eh, same thing.
Once they closed the door, they let out their breath and heaved a sigh. "That was one of the most scary tings I've ever been exposed to." Jake muttered, his eyes still holding the same look. Ephram could only nod as he slid down the wall to sit on the floor next to the door...hey, that rhymed!
Soon enough Dicey emerged as the girl they knew and loved. She had a cutoff 'I Heart NY' shirt on, just for the effect, and a mini denim skirt with a purple and yellow striped men's tie as a belt. She had on tube socks with sneakers and a grin plastered on her face. Her light brown hair was down and pushed behind her ears.
Ephram could only smile at this...Dicey and only Dicey would were an outfit like that on her second day of school...isn't Everwood in for a surprise...'Dicey Johnson's stay in Everwood, Part II!' He laughed at the thought.
"Stunning outfit Miss Johnson." Ephram said. She grinned and her double-pierced earrings shone.
"Why thank you Mr. Brown." She replied with a sugar-sweet smile, taking a bow. "Hey Eph, you going to get dressed or just stand there all day?"
Ephram froze and ran into his room as Dicey and Jake laughed at him. Jake was wearing baggy blue jeans and once Dicey got to him, he had an 'I Heart NY' shirt on over the one he had picked out...no one, and I mean NO ONE argues with Dicey in the morning...then again, no one argues with her EVER...
He grinned and then went into the bathroom carrying the clothes of the day, he was NOT leaving this house without a shower...he knew when he got home Dicey would be in it and he didn't want to smell all day...wouldn't THAT be lovely?
Ephram soon came out of his room, fully dressed. He was wearing a black 'Metallica' shirt on over a long-sleeved gray t-shirt. He wore black baggy pants and still looked rather tired.
Dicey smiled as she got a brilliant idea...and we all know what that means...oh, you don't? Well, you'll just have to find out...
She told them to wait there as she walked into her room. She neatly wrote some on the paper, got masking tape and stuck it on the back. Smiling proudly at herself, she walked out of the room and stuck it right on Ephram's shirt.
It surprised him quite a bit, how often do piece's a written on paper come flying through the air stick themselves on your 'Metallica' shirt? Yeah, that what I thought!
Jake took one glance and laughed. He read Ephram's 'sign' and couldn't help it.
"What's it say?" Ephram asked sternly as Jake subsided from his laughing fest.
Jake grinned at Dicey and gave her a look that said, 'nicely done my comrade'.
"Oh, not to much to worry about...it only says 'I Heart NY too...I guess...hey, are you making fun of ME?'" Jake said laughing. Sure enough, that was written in Dicey's neat, prefect handwriting.
"Ha, ha, ha Dicey. Very funny." He said with sarcasm, but didn't take it off for fear of head bashing, courtesy of their Dearest Dicey.
They walked down the stairs, grabbed some VERY burnt toast, looked at the clock and ran outside, dumping the "toast" by the side of the road.
Ephram grabbed his bike this time. As he mounted the seat, Dicey stood on the bars coming out from the wheels and Jake got on his skateboard and they were off.
As Ephram was riding along, his mind wondered. Why does he feel different about Dicey? Was Amy still okay? He found himself wondering if she was okay. But when Dicey laid her head on his shoulder and her arms around his waist, her soft hair brushing up against his neck, his mind snapped and his thoughts took over. He couldn't like Dicey, right? Right...no...yes...no...yes...he shook his head slightly and focused back on the path to school...he didn't' want to go running into any more poles...he would NEVER live that down...
Dicey sighed as a smile played on her lips. She closed her eyes and breathed in his scent...cinnamon, shampoo, and men's cologne...a lovely mix to Dicey's tired mind. She just breathed in and admired her surroundings. She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't see Jake smirking at her.
They arrived at the prison and Ephram lightly poked Dicey in the side and grinned when she toppled off the bike, landing in the cold grass.
She glared at them as they just smiled and held back fits of laughter, knowing she was already ticked. She had been cruelly jerked back into reality, away from her private thoughts.
"Hey Jake, do you have a schedule yet?" Ephram asked, after he helped Dicey up and insisted that she forgive him, he didn't know why but he couldn't stand for her to be angry with him. Naturally, she accepted happily and life went on.
Jake paused with a black look on his face. That said it all...
"You DID register, right Jake?" Ephram asked, pausing as well.
"I...don't know." Jake said, his words broken up a little as he turned as looked at them. Ephram face-faulted at this revelation.
"WHAT?!" Ephram yelled, scaring the pigeons from the trees...wait, does Everwood even HAVE pigeons? Oh, well, all the umm...CARDINALS flew out of the trees and off into the blue-gray sky.
Meanwhile, Dicey reentered her little word. She thought about how the sky was the same color of his eyes as a crazy, and quite tipsy bright red cardinal flew straight at her head, nearly knocking her off her feet and back onto to dying grass...
"WHAT THE-" Dicey started to yell as the red bird toppled away, looking rather dizzy.
Ephram put his hand over her mouth and looked around, only to find the majority of the people staring at them like they were form another planet. He let go and she began massaging her head where the crazy bird crashed into her.
"Everwood doesn't like me..." she wined childishly.
Ephram rolled his eyes and sighed. "Everwood doesn't like YOU? Everwood doesn't like ME! No one is my friend and the only one who attempts to be my friend just HAPPENS to have a boyfriend in a coma...what a coincidence. Oh, and you can't forget the fact that I ran into a pole...oh yes, Everwood just LOVES me huh? Maybe is getting you for knowing me...yeah, that must be it." Ephram said with a laugh. Jake and Dicey joined in as the bird looked at them strangely and tried to fly off. It didn't work so it just walked over to the bush, hopped up to the top and jumped off, flapping its wings like a mad bird...which it was...or maybe just a little gone...it's hard to tell.
Ephram looked around again and noticed something...everyone was gone...THE BELL HAD RANG!
"Hey, the bell rang! C'mon! WE GOTTA GOOO!!!" he shouted as they left the bike at the bike rack and ran towards the building.
Dicey looked back as Ephram dragged her along by her hand. "Hey, Eph! EPH!" she yelled at him to get his attention.
"In a minute Dice! Let's get to the office first!" he shouted back as people in the halls looked at them like they were crazy...a look that they would surely grow accustomed to.
That's chapter 5...whoop-dee-doo...sorry I haven't updated! I have to complete my reviews for Final Exams...ewwie...and study for them for that matter...Finals are this week! I'M SCARED!!! Yeah, and I went to Six Flags one Saturday form 3:15 to 10:00...45 minutes before it's open till closing time...fun fun...I'm sooo tired though...I was performing with my school's choir...we (the Varsity Choir...muahahaha) gotta sing by the entrance...fun fun...oh the joys of living 15 or so minutes away from Six Flags over Texas...anyway, yeah...Most of you wont understand, except for Liz but I dunno where you peeps are from, but it is very hard for me to keep them from saying "y'all" because I say it...being a Texan and all...but I doubt people from Colorado and New York say y'all...so yeah, it's tough...^_^ Well, toodles y'all! Hehe...yeah, I'll shuttup now...