Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow Wood
a.k.a. Genevive
By Shelly (singcraz)
Disclaimers: You know the concept.
I (pant pant)... need (pant cough)... reviews (pant pant cough)! You get the picture.
Thank you guys for reading this! Especially those people who take the time to review (you know who you are you lucky dogs, you!) (
Ditey: heeheehee... here's the chapter where Amy goes WHACKO! Naw, I'm kidding, she just takes her jealousy up two or three levels. Yippee!
C-Chan: Lol, I always love your reviews! I will be sure to read your fanfiction and review. Yay! I love reading these almost better then writing 'em!
Abernathy: I find it nice that it's not Ephram needing Amy, it's vise versa! She is always hurting our wittle Ephie!
Faith: I'm glad you could add to this. I thought people might hate me for making Ephram cry! He is only human, you know (although his physic is godly! Ahhh...)!
LiztheSlayer: everyone is taking to Gen so nicely! I'm so glad you like her because her strange humor is kind of based on someone I love (me, cough cough, me. Just kidding). I was afraid everyone would hate her for taking Ephram away from Amy! Not so!
Stargazer3988: I don't personally have a thing for guys who cry, but Ephram does have a sensitive side, I'm just bringing it out. I didn't really want him to cry in If Only..., but he was getting comfortable around Amy, and he felt as though he had abandoned his lil' sis!
Alien: I have another fa-an! I have another fa-an! Yippee (keeps chanting over and over again)!
YouDon'tKnowWhoIAm: Yep, I don't dislike Amy, I don't really love her though, but I have this jealousy thing building up for a reason, it leads to the BIG Gen and Ephram surprise at the end!
I enjoy writing this fic., but I've had a lot on my plate, so it may take a while to update chapters through this story and will take even longer in the chapters of If Only... because I am basically enjoying this one better! (In the words of C-Chan) Toodles!
CHAPTER 5
9:12 PM
The moon was out and shining over the empty pavement. The sidewalks that had been streaming with people just hours before was now completely deserted, and even the mirages from the heat were gone. There was a faint sound of singing crickets and katydids in the bushes and trees on the outsides of the little-town boutiques. Suddenly, they were silenced as a figure appeared from down the street as if a conductor had just waved his baton to end the bug orchestra. The young woman slowed to look at some of the items in store windows, turned her head away, and continued on her journey.
Amy walked around the small town. It was chilly for a late-summer night. She couldn't believe she was doing this. She shivered and hugged her sweater closer to her body. She knew she had always been attracted to Ephram, but this was just crazy. She was actually walking to his house; walking two miles just to see a guy who was crazy over another girl was just, well, crazy. But if she were lucky, Gen would be gone.
* Gen could be in the shower, or something... maybe she has homework? Or they're eating? Anyhow, I'll get him alone, and if I don't, well, too bad for her! She'll just have to make due! Man, I think I've gone over the edge of Mt. Sane here... * she thought to herself as her pace quickened. She had to tell Ephram that she liked him. I mean, she didn't love him, that would just be crazy, but she did like him as a boyfriend. And wasn't it obvious that he liked her too? She just hoped that the signals he had been sending the past three months were what she wanted them to be. She finally recognized the big house where her destination had been. She started to have second thoughts.
* What if I make a fool of myself? What if he doesn't like me like a girlfriend? What if I tell him how I feel and he laughs in my face? Even worse, what if She's there? I don't think I could deal with it. * Remembering that Ephram's room was upstairs, she walked around to the back of the house and looked for an entrance to the big, open window. She knew this was his room from the sound of his laugh floating out the window and hitting her ears like little sweet kisses. She never heard him laugh before, but it could only be his. She noticed a huge old oak tree that went right up against the lit window, and she started to climb. It was large and windy so it took a while, but once she got there she was extremely happy. Ephram was alone, lying on his bed without a shirt. Amy felt her voice get caught in her throat as she stared. But as soon as she got the nerve to climb in there, Gen stepped in with a tub of Aloe. Amy crouched so as not to be seen , and just sat and stared.
~*~*~*~
9:29 PM
"I promise! It's not going to hurt at all! Ok? It'll be fine!" Genevive persisted. She was holding and open tub of Aloe Vera, and Ephram was lying on his bed without his shirt on. His skin was a bright red and his face showed that he was in pain. It was dark outside the window, and the stars were bright. Ephram's right arm was in a blue sling, and he was staring at the Aloe with a grimace on his face.
"Yes it will, I know! Anything being rubbed onto sunburn hurts. I could barely have my shirt on," he squirmed as he replied. Being left lying like this with a girl made his face almost as red as his chest, and it wasn't even burnt. He felt exposed and vulnerable, like he had walked into a classroom, stripped of his clothes.
"Pleeeease?" Gen stretched out the word like a two year old. "I swear to you, if it hurts anymore then the sunburn itself, I'll stop right away. Just say the words," She spun the hair that reached his forehead in-between her thumb and index finger. Ephram held his breath for a moment. Gen sat next to him on his bed with her legs pulled underneath herself. Then Ephram exhaled.
"...Ah, fine," her sensual movements had defeated him. She could always get the better of him and his actions.
"Yay! You're the best Ephram!" she shouted with enthusiasm. She was so weird. Gen carefully scooped some of the green glop out of the tub, and dabbed it onto his stomach. It was freezing and Ephram's reflexes told him to jolt foreword, but he stopped himself at her touch. Her slender fingers and manicured nails massaged into his skin and he felt at peace. After about five minutes she stopped. She leaned her face down to Ephram's and looked at his peaceful form. He looked so masculine yet sensitive, sleepy yet wide-awake, filled with love and remorse.
* You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, Ephram Brown. I, I missed you. * she thought to herself. Her lips were hardly centimeters from his, and Ephram knew she was right there, even with his eyes shut. He could taste her breath and feel his mingle with hers.
As she was about to pull away, Ephram lost his control. He claimed her lips with his and held them hostage with his mouth. His tongue grazed her bottom lip and she pushed herself foreword. When they finally broke apart to breathe, Gen put her hands on his face and Ephram kissed her again. Amy gasped. Suddenly there was a crash and a scream outside the open window.
Gen rolled over with Ephram at the sound and fell off the bed onto the floor. When they scrambled back up onto the bed, she and Ephram turned to the window, wide-eyed and mouths gaping. Then they turned to each other and smiled. Gen got up and Ephram followed her to the window. Gen gasped when she saw what was out there. Amy was holding onto the ledge of the window and her fingers were slipping. Her eyes were welling with tears and Ephram opened the window. Amy's feet were about a foot or two away from a big branch, but there was nothing to help her down.
*What the hell? * was all his brain could process. She was two stories up from the ground, hanging on his window at 9:30 at night for no apparent reason except to see him. He grabbed one of her hands and helped pull her in while her legs scrambled around, trying to find a crevice to place them in. Then Genevive grabbed her other hand. As they pulled, Amy kicked herself up. Tears were streaming down her face.
"Please please please please please please please help me Ephram!" she sobbed and stole a breath. "Please..." she just kept repeating. Ephram finally pulled her in.
"What were you doing out there? You could've died! You could've used the door! Are you okay?" Ephram shouted, leaning down to her. He put his hands on her shoulders.
"Yeah, I mean, you could've fallen," Gen added. She crossed her arms and studied the girls' tear-stained face. She wasn't sure who this girl was, but she had seen her before. * Oh yeah, she was the girl in that little diner downtown, * she remembered. * But, who is she really? * she thought.
Amy wiped her tears off her face with her shirtsleeve, but they still kept flowing. She grabbed a tissue off of Ephram's nightstand and blew her nose. Finally her tears stopped and she looked at Ephram with her bloodshot eyes.
"Amy, what. . . were. . . you. . . doing? Ephram asked, his face crestfallen and his eyes locked to Amy's.
"I-I-I was j-just climbing trees! I p-promise! Really!" she exclaimed, not looking at Ephram anymore. She stuttered through the words as she looked away, but Ephram saw right through her.
"Are you okay?" he asked. He knew she had just been through a life and death situation, but he couldn't deal with her antics. Right now (surprisingly enough), he was just annoyed. He knew she had been spying on them. He knew she had fallen from shock and could've gotten hurt or killed. He knew she liked him but was too hung up by Colin. He knew that this was just Amy being Amy, but he also knew that now he and Gen would be uncomfortable and jumping at every sound instead of being with each other and he knew that now Amy had to go home.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, I think..." she answered. Ephram grabbed his shirt and put it back on.
"Okay, then I think you should go home," he said sternly. Gen didn't say anything, just sat and watched. Amy nodded. When she was about to climb out the window, Ephram stopped her.
"No one's home. You can go through the door," he walked to his door and opened it for her. Once Amy walked out, she watched the door shut behind her. Hot liquid ran down her face and she ran down the stairs, out the door, and down the street.
~*~*~*~
Genevive stood up and looked at Ephram. He shut the door and turned around, looking at her. Gen's fists clenched and let loose, clenched and let loose. She bit her bottom lip and opened her mouth to speak.
* Awww, here it comes... the questions, the bashing, the- *
"Who's that?" Gen asked.
"Just this girl, Amy," he answered his hands by his side. * Oh no, she'll never touch me again, *
"Not a girlfriend?" she asked. She stepped a little closer to him and looked right at him when she spoke.
"Nope, I mean, she's a friend who's a girl, but we're not together," he answered truthfully. Genevive put her arms through his at his waist and he put his hands in her short, blonde hair. " 'Cuz, I mean, we're not dating if that's what you want to know,"
"Ephram, shut up," She kissed him softly and pulled him closer. He put more pressure on her lips and she pinned him on the wall. She reached over, dimmed the lights, and pressed play on the CD player. As the song "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles came on, the lights went all the way off.
A/N: OoOoOoOo! Dirty! La-di-da-di-da-da! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! I just wanted to say that, and to remind you review on how you liked (or disliked) this chapter.
Love Always,
~*~Shelly~*~
P.S. If you like Harry Potter, please please please I'm begging you! Read "Fate" by my buddy Alison Wonderland! Thank you!
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-Me
Disclaimers: You know the concept.
I (pant pant)... need (pant cough)... reviews (pant pant cough)! You get the picture.
Thank you guys for reading this! Especially those people who take the time to review (you know who you are you lucky dogs, you!) (
Ditey: heeheehee... here's the chapter where Amy goes WHACKO! Naw, I'm kidding, she just takes her jealousy up two or three levels. Yippee!
C-Chan: Lol, I always love your reviews! I will be sure to read your fanfiction and review. Yay! I love reading these almost better then writing 'em!
Abernathy: I find it nice that it's not Ephram needing Amy, it's vise versa! She is always hurting our wittle Ephie!
Faith: I'm glad you could add to this. I thought people might hate me for making Ephram cry! He is only human, you know (although his physic is godly! Ahhh...)!
LiztheSlayer: everyone is taking to Gen so nicely! I'm so glad you like her because her strange humor is kind of based on someone I love (me, cough cough, me. Just kidding). I was afraid everyone would hate her for taking Ephram away from Amy! Not so!
Stargazer3988: I don't personally have a thing for guys who cry, but Ephram does have a sensitive side, I'm just bringing it out. I didn't really want him to cry in If Only..., but he was getting comfortable around Amy, and he felt as though he had abandoned his lil' sis!
Alien: I have another fa-an! I have another fa-an! Yippee (keeps chanting over and over again)!
YouDon'tKnowWhoIAm: Yep, I don't dislike Amy, I don't really love her though, but I have this jealousy thing building up for a reason, it leads to the BIG Gen and Ephram surprise at the end!
I enjoy writing this fic., but I've had a lot on my plate, so it may take a while to update chapters through this story and will take even longer in the chapters of If Only... because I am basically enjoying this one better! (In the words of C-Chan) Toodles!
CHAPTER 5
9:12 PM
The moon was out and shining over the empty pavement. The sidewalks that had been streaming with people just hours before was now completely deserted, and even the mirages from the heat were gone. There was a faint sound of singing crickets and katydids in the bushes and trees on the outsides of the little-town boutiques. Suddenly, they were silenced as a figure appeared from down the street as if a conductor had just waved his baton to end the bug orchestra. The young woman slowed to look at some of the items in store windows, turned her head away, and continued on her journey.
Amy walked around the small town. It was chilly for a late-summer night. She couldn't believe she was doing this. She shivered and hugged her sweater closer to her body. She knew she had always been attracted to Ephram, but this was just crazy. She was actually walking to his house; walking two miles just to see a guy who was crazy over another girl was just, well, crazy. But if she were lucky, Gen would be gone.
* Gen could be in the shower, or something... maybe she has homework? Or they're eating? Anyhow, I'll get him alone, and if I don't, well, too bad for her! She'll just have to make due! Man, I think I've gone over the edge of Mt. Sane here... * she thought to herself as her pace quickened. She had to tell Ephram that she liked him. I mean, she didn't love him, that would just be crazy, but she did like him as a boyfriend. And wasn't it obvious that he liked her too? She just hoped that the signals he had been sending the past three months were what she wanted them to be. She finally recognized the big house where her destination had been. She started to have second thoughts.
* What if I make a fool of myself? What if he doesn't like me like a girlfriend? What if I tell him how I feel and he laughs in my face? Even worse, what if She's there? I don't think I could deal with it. * Remembering that Ephram's room was upstairs, she walked around to the back of the house and looked for an entrance to the big, open window. She knew this was his room from the sound of his laugh floating out the window and hitting her ears like little sweet kisses. She never heard him laugh before, but it could only be his. She noticed a huge old oak tree that went right up against the lit window, and she started to climb. It was large and windy so it took a while, but once she got there she was extremely happy. Ephram was alone, lying on his bed without a shirt. Amy felt her voice get caught in her throat as she stared. But as soon as she got the nerve to climb in there, Gen stepped in with a tub of Aloe. Amy crouched so as not to be seen , and just sat and stared.
~*~*~*~
9:29 PM
"I promise! It's not going to hurt at all! Ok? It'll be fine!" Genevive persisted. She was holding and open tub of Aloe Vera, and Ephram was lying on his bed without his shirt on. His skin was a bright red and his face showed that he was in pain. It was dark outside the window, and the stars were bright. Ephram's right arm was in a blue sling, and he was staring at the Aloe with a grimace on his face.
"Yes it will, I know! Anything being rubbed onto sunburn hurts. I could barely have my shirt on," he squirmed as he replied. Being left lying like this with a girl made his face almost as red as his chest, and it wasn't even burnt. He felt exposed and vulnerable, like he had walked into a classroom, stripped of his clothes.
"Pleeeease?" Gen stretched out the word like a two year old. "I swear to you, if it hurts anymore then the sunburn itself, I'll stop right away. Just say the words," She spun the hair that reached his forehead in-between her thumb and index finger. Ephram held his breath for a moment. Gen sat next to him on his bed with her legs pulled underneath herself. Then Ephram exhaled.
"...Ah, fine," her sensual movements had defeated him. She could always get the better of him and his actions.
"Yay! You're the best Ephram!" she shouted with enthusiasm. She was so weird. Gen carefully scooped some of the green glop out of the tub, and dabbed it onto his stomach. It was freezing and Ephram's reflexes told him to jolt foreword, but he stopped himself at her touch. Her slender fingers and manicured nails massaged into his skin and he felt at peace. After about five minutes she stopped. She leaned her face down to Ephram's and looked at his peaceful form. He looked so masculine yet sensitive, sleepy yet wide-awake, filled with love and remorse.
* You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, Ephram Brown. I, I missed you. * she thought to herself. Her lips were hardly centimeters from his, and Ephram knew she was right there, even with his eyes shut. He could taste her breath and feel his mingle with hers.
As she was about to pull away, Ephram lost his control. He claimed her lips with his and held them hostage with his mouth. His tongue grazed her bottom lip and she pushed herself foreword. When they finally broke apart to breathe, Gen put her hands on his face and Ephram kissed her again. Amy gasped. Suddenly there was a crash and a scream outside the open window.
Gen rolled over with Ephram at the sound and fell off the bed onto the floor. When they scrambled back up onto the bed, she and Ephram turned to the window, wide-eyed and mouths gaping. Then they turned to each other and smiled. Gen got up and Ephram followed her to the window. Gen gasped when she saw what was out there. Amy was holding onto the ledge of the window and her fingers were slipping. Her eyes were welling with tears and Ephram opened the window. Amy's feet were about a foot or two away from a big branch, but there was nothing to help her down.
*What the hell? * was all his brain could process. She was two stories up from the ground, hanging on his window at 9:30 at night for no apparent reason except to see him. He grabbed one of her hands and helped pull her in while her legs scrambled around, trying to find a crevice to place them in. Then Genevive grabbed her other hand. As they pulled, Amy kicked herself up. Tears were streaming down her face.
"Please please please please please please please help me Ephram!" she sobbed and stole a breath. "Please..." she just kept repeating. Ephram finally pulled her in.
"What were you doing out there? You could've died! You could've used the door! Are you okay?" Ephram shouted, leaning down to her. He put his hands on her shoulders.
"Yeah, I mean, you could've fallen," Gen added. She crossed her arms and studied the girls' tear-stained face. She wasn't sure who this girl was, but she had seen her before. * Oh yeah, she was the girl in that little diner downtown, * she remembered. * But, who is she really? * she thought.
Amy wiped her tears off her face with her shirtsleeve, but they still kept flowing. She grabbed a tissue off of Ephram's nightstand and blew her nose. Finally her tears stopped and she looked at Ephram with her bloodshot eyes.
"Amy, what. . . were. . . you. . . doing? Ephram asked, his face crestfallen and his eyes locked to Amy's.
"I-I-I was j-just climbing trees! I p-promise! Really!" she exclaimed, not looking at Ephram anymore. She stuttered through the words as she looked away, but Ephram saw right through her.
"Are you okay?" he asked. He knew she had just been through a life and death situation, but he couldn't deal with her antics. Right now (surprisingly enough), he was just annoyed. He knew she had been spying on them. He knew she had fallen from shock and could've gotten hurt or killed. He knew she liked him but was too hung up by Colin. He knew that this was just Amy being Amy, but he also knew that now he and Gen would be uncomfortable and jumping at every sound instead of being with each other and he knew that now Amy had to go home.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, I think..." she answered. Ephram grabbed his shirt and put it back on.
"Okay, then I think you should go home," he said sternly. Gen didn't say anything, just sat and watched. Amy nodded. When she was about to climb out the window, Ephram stopped her.
"No one's home. You can go through the door," he walked to his door and opened it for her. Once Amy walked out, she watched the door shut behind her. Hot liquid ran down her face and she ran down the stairs, out the door, and down the street.
~*~*~*~
Genevive stood up and looked at Ephram. He shut the door and turned around, looking at her. Gen's fists clenched and let loose, clenched and let loose. She bit her bottom lip and opened her mouth to speak.
* Awww, here it comes... the questions, the bashing, the- *
"Who's that?" Gen asked.
"Just this girl, Amy," he answered his hands by his side. * Oh no, she'll never touch me again, *
"Not a girlfriend?" she asked. She stepped a little closer to him and looked right at him when she spoke.
"Nope, I mean, she's a friend who's a girl, but we're not together," he answered truthfully. Genevive put her arms through his at his waist and he put his hands in her short, blonde hair. " 'Cuz, I mean, we're not dating if that's what you want to know,"
"Ephram, shut up," She kissed him softly and pulled him closer. He put more pressure on her lips and she pinned him on the wall. She reached over, dimmed the lights, and pressed play on the CD player. As the song "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles came on, the lights went all the way off.
A/N: OoOoOoOo! Dirty! La-di-da-di-da-da! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! I just wanted to say that, and to remind you review on how you liked (or disliked) this chapter.
Love Always,
~*~Shelly~*~
P.S. If you like Harry Potter, please please please I'm begging you! Read "Fate" by my buddy Alison Wonderland! Thank you!
XoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXo
-Me