This is an Everwood fanfic written by me, kaze.
Please do not steal and say it's yours. Ask me for permission to post it up or something.
Characters are copyrighted by Warner Brothers and belong to Gregory Berlanti.
However, Aaron and Wendy are MINE.
I might not be able to complete this fanfic but keep supporting me and maybe I will!
Thank you and enjoy the story!


Chapter 12
A few weeks had gone by. It was now truly the winter season. However, Everwood was a strange little town. It started snowing about a week before winter started and continued its reign. Aaron and Wendy developed new daily lifestyles already. It was very similar to the second day they had of Everwood. However, Wendy pushed herself to do more work since that was what Aaron was doing. Aaron held a job at his University and doesn't come home until around nine o'clock. Wendy found herself working a little later at Geno's because she wanted to and kept it a secret from Aaron. 'He didn't need to know,' she told herself after walking home from the restaurant. She began walking home alone and reading a random book at the same time.

School was getting more challenging by the moment to Wendy. Wendy learned many new things even if they slowly taught her. She developed a healthy social life with various people in her school. She even became a close buddy of Collin. She found out why Collin was having major difficulty with the subjects of Spanish and Algebra. Collin had been in a coma due to an accident on July fourth. He hadn't waken up until a little over a month ago.

"Hey...Wendy," Collin said during seventh period Algebra.

He also had trouble remembering. The surgery performed by Dr. Andrew Brown for Collin was entirely successful. However, when Collin had finally waken, he was diagnosed with amnesia. He did regain his memory back after some time, but he still had a little trouble remembering certain things.

Collin and Wendy talk about a few things while in the classroom. After about a week later of Wendy's arrival, Collin started coming to Spanish and Algebra class early like Wendy. They laughed and joked about a few things and then Collin suddenly mentions the Winter Formal.

"Oh yeah! Didn't you see the flyers? Come! It'll be fun!" he said, talking enthusiastically about the dance.

"I don't know..." Wendy adversely replied.

Until the second bell rang, Collin continued to annoy Wendy to go. However, Wendy knew she couldn't. Since the dance was formal, the occasion required Wendy to wear a formal dress, one that Wendy didn't have. Wendy couldn't buy one herself since she just bought a computer for all her school needs. She didn't have any money left to buy a beautiful dress. Also, she couldn't ask Aaron for money since she promised herself never to ask him for any. He needed his money to pay for his tuition.

This was all something Collin had no idea about. In fact, nobody in Everwood had any idea about the things that went on in the Phan household except the family itself and Nina. All three of them were very secretive about their reasons for coming to Everwood. It was a question that everybody wanted to know especially Brenda Baxsworth. After a long while though, they all gave up the pursuit of discovering the secret.

After class, Wendy walked out towards her locker, discussing some rules of Algebra to some of her classmates that still couldn't understand. She waved bye to Collin as she saw him shook his head in disapproval. Finally, after the small crowd dispersed, a face could be viewed. It was Ephram. Wendy smiled. She noticed that she started developing some feelings for him since he was the only one she could discuss anime with.

He handed her a heavy bag, "Hey, uh... Thanks for the tapes! Yami no Matsuei is really a weird and bloody anime. I-I like it," he grinned.

"I thought you might have," she smiled and then corrected his Japanese pronunciation once again.

She put away her some of her books and picked up a few from her opened locker. They continue to talk about the plot and what happened during the anime. But then Ephram brought up a little subject that surprised Wendy a little. It was about how Wendy acquired the anime.

"I, uh... I thought you said that your friend didn't have time to send you back the animes she borrowed."

When Wendy said that to Ephram, she was telling a bit of a lie. The truth was that she wasn't able to contact her friend, Jennifer, until she bought the computer. She accidentally misplaced all the phone numbers and addresses given to her before she left Philadelphia. She could easily remember most of her friends' e-mail addresses and screen names. A load of instant messages popped up on the computer screen once Wendy signed onto her usual account on AOL Instant Messenger. It had been so long since she last contacted with her friends.

Some tears sprung onto Wendy's eyes but she managed to make it disappear and then she looked up to Ephram, "I guess she just wanted to surprise me!"

Ephram looked at Wendy suspiciously but didn't push her. He knew it was part of the big secret that was kept from the whole town. He didn't want to push Wendy so he didn't. Even if he tried, there would always be something that stopped him.

"Hey Ephram! Hey Wendy..." a voice said with dripping sarcasm.

It was as if Ephram's brain just floated away. He replied to the cheer with an enthusiasm, "Hey Amy! How's-how's it going?"

Amy smiled and held Collin closer to her. When Ephram noticed whom Amy was holding onto, his face dropped and lost enthusiasm. Wendy noticed this but acted as if nothing was wrong. It was obvious Amy believed that Wendy was after Collin, which was absolutely false. All four of them had a little talk about the Winter Formal. Every time she would say that her and Collin were going together, Ephram would bow his head down and look away. Wendy announced for the twentieth time that she was not going to go and that she needed to get to work. She said her "byes," and left the three of them talking.