"What? Are you crazy? I can't go to New York with you!" Amy said shocked.

"Why? You said yourself that you want to be with me" Ephram said, more and more convinced that this would be something great.

"Well. for starters, mom and dad would never let me go!"

"Well, it's not like we're going on our own, my dad will come too you know"

"Yeah, but.-"

"And my grandparents have a way too big house for only two people anyway, so we are all going to have our own rooms"

"Yeah, but still."

"Amy, can you even imagine how great this would be?" Ephram said and sounded like a little happy child on his birthday again.

"Well, have you asked your dad?"

"No..." He'd completely forgotten about his dad. "Well, do you even want to go?"

"Well, yeah, I guess, I've never been to New York" Amy said hesitatingly

"Great! Well, if you ask your dad, I'll ask mine."

"Well, ok, I guess I could ask" Amy said and started to feel good about it.

"Great! Well, see you tomorrow?"

"Yeah, see ya."

They both hung up and started to think about a way to convince their parents to let them go together.

Amy went down the stairs and saw the rest of the family on the sofa watching TV.

"Mom, dad?" She started nervously, and sat down on a couch besides the sofa.

"Yes honey?" Harold said without taking his eyes of the screen.

"Well, I just wanted to ask you something."

"Sure honey, go ahead." Rose said and smiled at her.

"Well, you know we don't exactly have anything planned for the rest of the vacation, and, yeah, I was on the phone with Ephram just a minute ago." Amy said nervously.

"Honey, relax, you know you can ask us anything" Harold said, still watching the screen.

"Well you know his grandparents-"

"Oh yes, nice couple!" Rose said.

"Yeah, they're going to Europe in a week."

"Well good for them, you know Harold, we should do that too when we retire." Rose said and turned to her husband. Harold was just going to reply when Amy cut in.

"Anyway" Amy got the attention back "Ephram, Delia and Dr. Brown is going to take over the house while they're gone"

"So they're going back to New York! That's great, everybody knows how Ephram misses it" Rose said, not turning her eyes away from the TV. Amy stated to get frustrated, how could they not know where this was leading.

"He wants me to go" Amy finally spilled out. "And I want that too." Amy suddenly got everybody's full attention.

"What?" Harold said, finally looking at her. "That's madness!"

"Well, it's just for a week!" Amy said trying to convince her parents.

"Amy, your father and I are going to talk about it" Rose said and nodded at her husband.

"Ok..." Amy wasn't sure if that was good or bad but she went up to her room and just hoped.

-At the Brown's-

"I don't know about this, son" Andy said and shook his head.

"Dad! Come on!" Ephram pleaded

"Have you even asked the Abbott's?"

"Amy is going to" this wasn't working. He had to come up with something. Ephram hesitated. No, he had too. "Dad. please? I'll make dinner for a week!" Andy looked at his son. It was a long time ago he heard a "please" come out of his sons mouth.

"I'll have to talk to Harold and Rose" He started. "If they agree, then so do I" Ephram smiled widely

"Thanks dad!"

-Night, at the Abbott's-

Harold crawled into bed next to his wife.

"Harold, call me crazy, but I think Amy should go" Rose suddenly said.

"Crazy" Harold said and turned the light off.

"No, but listen to me" she said and turned them back on.

"No, I'm not sending my baby girl to the streets of New York, with her BOYFRIEND" Harold said, not showing any sing to budge.

"It was Ephram's HOME for 14 years, it's not like they've never been there before, besides, they're not going alone." Harold was just about to reply when she continued "Bright is going away too, you know"

"To DENVER!" Harold nearly yelled.

"Yes, but still, Amy is going to be all alone, and all depressed, and our phone bill is going to be higher than ever."

"Why are you trying to convince me to let her go anyway?" Harold said confused

"Well, I was thinking, you know that cruse we've been wanting to go on for as long as I can remember, but couldn't because of the kids?" Rose started "We could go on it" she smiled.

"You mean the weekend trip?" Rose nodded. "Yeah, and with the sea-food buffé?" Harold's eyes lit up. Rose once again nodded. "I'd like that" Harold smiled

"Then she can go?" Harold hesitated, but nodded

"Yeah"

-Next day-

Amy sat on the park bench, waiting for Ephram to tell him the good news.

"Amy" Ephram jogged over to her and kissed her on her cheek. She smiled. "So, what did they say?" He asked curious.

"They said yes!" Ephram's eyes lit up and he hugged her tightly.

"So I guess you dad said yes too" Amy said and laughed. He nodded.

"So, we're going?" Ephram asked and looked into her deep hazel eyes.

"Yeah, I guess we are!"

Five days and six hours later Andy, Delia, Ephram and Amy arrived in a bright and warm typical New York evening.