Author's Note: SO sorry that it too so long to update, but this story had been giving me problems. I kept on re-writing this chapter, trying to get it just right, and hopefully you think it's worth it. Thanks to all my reviewers, especially the ones who review every single chapter! You guys are terrific! So, please read and review and I hope you enjoy!

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"So, are you excited about the Valentine's Day fair?" Amy asked Colin as they walked around Everwood.

"Oh, um, yeah," Colin replied as enthusiastically as he could.

His thoughts were on what Dr. Brown had told him earlier. Colin still had to go to Denver for rehab but he was improving at a wonderful rate. His coordination was near one hundred percent and his short term memory was completely normal. The long term memory, however, was still a variable. Dr. Brown confessed to Colin once again that he wasn't sure how much more of his past he would remember. Colin remembered many flashes from his previous life, and was finally able to string them together into a rough picture of his previous self. He wasn't sure if he liked what he saw.

From what he knew, he was a confident, smooth-talking, and cocky boy who deep inside, did have a good heart. He was a stud basketball player who, though intelligent, just got by in school because he was too busy out having fun to care about his studies. He thought he didn't need to because he figured he'd get a basketball scholarship from a college, preferably University of Colorado. He basked in the attention his parents, his friends, his schoolmates, and the town of Everwood gave him. He was a hero to them all and he knew it.

Colin was nothing like him. He was an insecure teenager grasping for sheds from his past. He was a conscientious student because he knew scholarly merits, not basketball, would get him into a college. He hated the sympathetic attention thrown on him from bystanders and his own friends and family. He didn't like the parties Amy took him to, though supposedly the real Colin adored them. He wasn't a hero, he was just...Colin.

"Last year, it was great. There were these games like which couple could kiss the longest without taking a breath and we won that. The prize was this big stuffed pink heart with a smiley face that I still have in my room. God, it was so much fun. And then..." Amy said.

"Amy," Colin cut her off.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Are you happy?" he asked her.

"What?" she asked, surprised. That seemed like an absurd question to ask her.

"Are you happy with me?" Colin elaborated.

She thought about it. "Of course I am," she replied.

"Really?"

"Colin, why are you asking me this?" Amy asked, growing a bit defensive.

"If I never remembered anymore of my past. Would you still want to be with me, as I am now?" he asked.

She frowned. "Is this about what Dr. Brown told you today?"

"No. This is about the worse case scenario."

"You'll remember, Colin. And then everything will be fine," Amy insisted.

That suffocating feeling crept back into Colin's body once again. "No, Amy, I might not. And this Colin might be the best you get. Am I what you want?" he asked her straightforwardly.

The simple answer was no. Amy was holding out for the prospect of her Colin returning. That was what she wanted, right? If that were so, the why was her immediate response in her mind no, I want Ephram. That was by far the last person she wanted. She wanted her Colin, yes, that was what she wanted.

"Amy?"

She looked up at Colin. She had gotten to know this Colin and she did think he was a nice person, but the fact that he wore the face of a boy she once loved made it impossible for her to really care about him.

Instead of answering his question, she kissed him. Her Colin would come back, he had to.

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"Okay, there's way too much red and pink here," Alex said as she entered the fair with Ephram.

"Yeah, the less is more theory certainly doesn't apply," Ephram added.

They were making their way around the booths of red and pink foods and some of the games when Wendell approached them.

"Hello, lovebirds," he greeted them.

"Oh, hush, Wendell," Alex retorted. "What's up?"

"This is Molly, Molly, meet Alex and Ephram," Wendell said, directing their attention to the pretty girl next to him. She looked young, probably a freshman.

"Hi," they all said to each other.

Wendell looked at Alex and Ephram smugly before saying, "We gotta go, don't wanna miss the, um...festivities."

"Bye, Wendell," Alex said as Wendell walked away.

"I can't believe he actually got a date," Ephram said incredulously.

"He could have paid her," Alex suggested.

Ephram laughed, "You know, I wouldn't be surprised."

They walked around some more and Ephram bought Alex some red cotton candy...pink would have been too boring. They did the three-legged race and the "feed your partner as much pie as possible in a minute" contest, but opted not to do the kissing game. That would have been terribly uncomfortable. Alex was having a wonderful time and as she and Ephram ran around the fair like children, a voice stopped them.

"Oh, Alex, hello," Dr. Abbott greeted her. He was in a red cardigan for the occasion.

"Hello Dr. Abbott," Alex replied respectfully. Ephram tried to look as mature as he could, but he had bits of apple pie all over his shirt.

"I just want to tell you that I simply adored you cooking and I wanted to apologize again for the way I acted. I wouldn't have blamed you if you had spit in my food. Anyway, I look forward to the next time you cook at Gino's."

"Oh, thank you. And, um, if ever I need to do the cooking, I'll make sure you know about it," Alex replied.

"Alright, you two have fun," Dr. Abbott said as he walked off to find Rose.

Ephram looked at her quizzically. "What was that about?"

Alex told Ephram the whole story. As Ephram laughed hysterically at the prospect of Dr. Abbott being upstaged by a teenager, he ran into someone.

"Hey, watch it twerp!" the guy said. It was Charlie, Colin's supposed buddy. Bright was with him as well.

"Hi, Ephram," Bright greeted. He ignored Alex.

"Bright," Ephram acknowledged.

"So, I'm glad to see you're finally over my sister," Bright said harshly while scrutinizing Alex.

Ephram didn't know how to respond to that.

"Who's over your sister?" Colin asked innocently, approaching the group with Amy at hand.

Amy looked at Ephram, shocked.

"No one," Alex jumped in. "C'mon Ephram, I want one of those heart-shaped burgers."

"Who asked you to talk, Kat? That heinous bitch title really suits you well. Bright was talking about that twerp," Charlie said cruely, pointing at Ephram.

"Shut up Charlie, don't call Alex a bitch," Colin countered angrily. "Wait...what?" he asked, realizing what Charlie had said.

There was silence around the group.

"Can someone please explain all this to me?" Colin asked annoyed, looking at everyone.

"Bright just said that he was happy this punk didn't like Amy anymore," Charlie said.

The look Alex gave Charlie could have froze an ocean. "Charlie, shut up."

Colin blinked several times. "Ephram, did you like Amy?"

Ephram had been waiting for a long time to tell Colin everything, but this wasn't the way he had pictured divulging all the information he kept inside for so long. He was Colin's friend, he didn't want to mess up their relationship, but somehow it seemed unavoidable.

"Colin, maybe this conversation should happen somewhere else," Amy suggested. Ephram sighed with momentary relief.

Colin looked at her suspiciously. "Fine, let's go over there," he said, pointing to a area of grass where there was no activity. "Bright, Charlie, stay here, okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, man," Bright said sadly. He hadn't meant for this to be such a big deal.

"I'll see you in a bit," Alex said to Ephram, touching his arm encouragingly. Ephram nodded sadly and Colin was momentarily jealous of the soft tone of voice Alex used to talk to Ephram.

Alex watched the three walk over to the vacant spot slowly. When they arrived, Colin said, "Okay, what is it, you guys?" he asked Ephram and Amy.

Ephram looked and Amy.

Amy turned back to Colin looking like she was about to cry. "I wasn't really truthful when you asked how well I knew Ephram," she started.

"Okay..." Colin replied.

"I befriended Ephram initially because I wanted his dad to help you. And so I was really nice and it turned out that he was a really cool guy. Anyway, he was a wonderful friend, helping me when I asked him to and even when I didn't. At, uh, at a fieldtrip, some guys pulled a prank on me saying you had woken up and I was so happy for a quick second but was crushed when I realized it was a prank. Ephram defended me and then we talked and um, we kissed," she said, watching Colin's reaction - his eyes fell.

Ephram was surprised that Amy said "we kissed" rather than "he kissed me."

"Is there more?" Colin asked softly, not looking at Amy or Ephram.

"Um, we, we still were friends and um, we, we kissed again," Amy replied lamely.

"What about after I woke up?"

"No, there's been nothing," Amy answered quickly. "I'm sorry," she whispered.

There was silence.

"You could have told me sooner," Colin said angrily to Amy and Ephram. "I mean, I would have understood. Six months is a long time and the emotional crap you must have gone through...it's understandable, but you guys have been lying to me the entire time," he finished, hurt.

"I'm sorry, Colin, I, I never wanted it to go down like this," Ephram said.

"It's not his fault. He wanted to tell you. I was the one who told him to not tell you," Amy confessed.

"Why not?" Colin practically yelled, frustrated.

"Because I didn't want to lose you! Telling you something like that would have be a disaster," Amy said.

"It wouldn't have because I didn't remember you," Colin said. It sounded a lot harsher than he meant it to. "I'm sorry, that came out wrong."

"No, I understand," Amy said sadly.

"I can't do this anymore."

"What?" Amy asked, scared.

"Amy, I see the way you look at him in the halls. I may not have a memory, but I'm not blind," Colin replied.

"But you, we're together, we..." she rambled, tears about to fall down her cheeks.

"I'm not the same Colin," he said softly. "I never can be. I've been trying to be your boyfriend, Bright's best friend, my mother's son, but it's impossible to fit back into that role exactly. I can't. I'm just not him. I have to be myself, though I'm not exactly sure what that means. I...I need that, Amy, and you need to see what there is between you and Ephram."

Amy looked at him, realizing what he said was true, but she still didn't want to believe it. He could never be completely her Colin. He was just...Colin. Her Colin was gone, forever, and somehow, she had known that all along. She had no organic feelings for this Colin, only for the boy who shared his face.

She didn't know why, but she became angry. "It's because of her, right?" she asked him, pointing at Alex in the distance.

"Partially, yeah," Colin replied without hesitation. "But I can't be the Colin you remember, Amy, I'm sorry."

Amy began tearing, "Fine," she replied. "Goodbye, Colin." She ran away.

Ephram looked at Colin. "I'm sorry," he said again.

"Don't be," Colin replied. "Go after her, Ephram."

Ephram nodded in understanding and followed Amy.

Colin watched Ephram run after Amy. He had done the right thing, it was what he had wanted to do for a long time. He felt freer, happier, and he hoped Amy would feel the same way eventually. He knew she wasn't happy with him, he knew she didn't want him. And in all honesty, he didn't want her. Hopefully, they would eventually be friends.

He walked back over to Alex.

"Hey," he said.

"Hi," she replied softly. "Looked like a lot of drama over there."

"Yeah, yeah," he replied.

"Are you okay?" she asked him. It looked like Amy and Colin had broken up, but she wanted to hear the words from him.

"I'm fine. I broke it off with Amy. Ephram went to go see her," he said.

"Oh, um, I'm sorry," Alex said, though she really wasn't. She was jumping inside that Amy and Colin were no longer together, but that was an inappropriate thing to say.

"Why?"

"Because you and Amy broke up."

"Oh, then, I guess...I guess you like Ephram then," he replied sadly.

"What?" Where on Earth did he get than notion?

"You don't?"

"No! Geez, Colin, all this tension between us and you think I like Ephram?" she asked.

Colin thought about it and smiled with embarrassment. "Jealousy blinds you sometimes, I guess."

"There was nothing to be jealous about," she insisted. God, she wanted to kiss him.

"Just like there's nothing to feel sorry about," Colin replied.

Alex hesitated. "I knew about Ephram and Amy," she said bluntly.

Colin frowned. "What?" he exclaimed angrily.

"I knew. Ephram told me. I knew the night before I told you to go after Amy," she said.

"Wait, so you knew Amy liked Ephram and you still told me to be with her?" he asked harshly. No one was honest with him.

"Amy had been ignoring Ephram the entire time because of you. He was crushed. She wanted you!" Alex said, matching Colin's tone of voice.

"No! No! She never wanted me! She wanted the dead Colin!" he shouted back. "But, you...you wanted me. And you guilt-tripped me into being with Amy!"

"Eventually, I thought you would remember her and forget about me! And then you'd realize how much you care about her and how much you want to be with her and how stupid it would be to let her go!" Alex yelled, fear evident in her voice.

Colin was silent for a few moments. He understood, but she knew now that he could never just forget her. "Is that why you walked away from me?" he asked softly.

"Yes. Colin...I didn't want to get hurt," she confessed. "And if I stuck around longer and you realized Amy was the love of your life, I would have been..."

She couldn't continue her rant because Colin's lips were on hers. After the initial shock, she kissed him back fervently. The warmth from his lips traveled down her neck to her tummy. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close, his heart racing.

When they parted, they looked into each other's eyes grinning madly. They were finally happy.

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Author's Note: To all the Amy/Colin fans, I very sorry, but I just don't think this "new" Colin fits with Amy. Amy wants her old Colin back and quite frankly, I don't think he's coming back. Anyway, this story is not over, though I haven't written anymore and so it'll take a while to update. Please review, and I hope I made the circumstances realistic. Thanks!