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" KEV!"  I jumped across the room, and hugged him. " What are you doing here?"  Ok let me fill you in. my brother has been in boarding school since he was 9.

" Well, I had a two week furlough and I thought that you might like to see your older brother!" Also the cool thing about my brother is that he's only 10 months older then I am!

" Well of course I want to see you!"  I was excited,   " we're about to have a NY style party! U wanna help?"

" Sure!" we went downstairs and the people started to come and it was so not Suprising that everyone liked my brother!  Which was no surprise. Everyone likes him in NY. He wanted to go to boarding school though. He never really hung out with my gang; he was always more prep style. I was more Ephram's style.

The party got started and there was a lot of music.

 
 " Hey you wanna dance?" came a voice from next to me. OMG It was Greg The guy I liked from school,]

" Umm sure!" he took my hand and we went to the dance floor outside. ( Outside was the best thing we had to since we didn't have a NY roof to use so we decorated the yard like a roof top!)

" This is a great party!" he said smiling.

" Yeah I think so too! Ephram and I used to help set up roof top parties In New York!"

" It's cool!" oh my gosh! I actually had to look up to see his eyes since I'm considered a tall girl at 5'7. He had these incredible Green eyes, medium brown hair that kinda was falling in his eyes and he looked hott! He was looking at me and then Ephram walked up talk about good timing.

" Hey you two!" He was smiling, and I gave him the death stare. "Ok so I think I'll be going to get a soda! Bye!" as he walked away he winked at me.

" So how has the play been coming?" I asked he was doing a play, written by one of the freshman. It was an adaptation of a Nancy drew book!  Well. It just used the characters she made up the mystery; it was about a murder.

" It's going good. 'Cept that no one who tried out for Nancy made the cut they were all terrible.  Which is bad for me seeing as I play Ned." I looooved drama and acting so.

" Hey do you think they'd let me try out?" he stopped dancing and looked at me.

" You know what?"  he stopped talking and looked thought full.

" what?"

" I think you should try out for her! You'd probably be great!"

" Really?"

" Yeah!!!"

"ok then I think I will!" wow I hadn't tried out for a play since………. 6 weeks before my dad died. I was performing that night. My mom made my dad leave work early to come see me. Then he got in the car crash and we never saw him alive again. But you know? I got it easier then Ephram did his mom died and he adored her. My dad was a workaholic, like Andy.

" great!" Good he looked excited! Mabey he'll ask me on a date! I haven't been on a date for a while. Well since I left new York.

 " What's so great?" that was my brother, Kevin.

" I'm gonna try out for this Nancy Drew play! That the school is holding!"


 " Your right that is great!" he looked at Greg  " She's a real good actress, it's just she kinda stopped acting for a while."

" Yeah I did," I blushed at the comment my brother made about my acting.

" mind if I cut in?" Oh my gosh my brother is going to dance with me? Weird.

" Huh, no sure go ahead." He started to walk away then he turned around. " Erika? Would you like to eat lunch with me sometime?" YESS!!! I was totally into him.

" Of course! Bye"


" Bye!"

Kevin was watching me.


" what are you looking about?" He laughed, he has a nice laugh.

"nothing." He laughed again.

"nothing." He laughed again.

After a while we stopped dancing, and he could dance. It was fun.

 We mingled a little with the people in the party, and then I was him. Colin. He and Amy had broken up we found out that she had come to our house the next day to spend the day with Ephram.  Well not that bad for Ephram. But colin was making a little scene With Ephram. See After He broke up with Amy at the spring dance last spring. ( we're in junior year and he is a senior.) and they got back together, then broke up for good this time, Ephram didn't like the way he Treated Amy. He didn't want him at the party, he had also brought a 6 pack along and we didn't want beer at the party.

" Oh crap. " I mumbled to Kevin.

" what?" he looked bewildered at me, I was walking over to Ephram and Colin.

" it's colin he's making a fuss."  Then I heard a whack and a' oww' that sounded suspiciously like Ephram, I walked even faster. I got to them and a little crowed had gathered, Ephram was leaning against the wall wiping a bloody lip with the back of his hand. Colin was about to go back to hit him. I ran to the middle and luckily, so did Kev.

" Break it up Colin." I said, and let Kev deal with Colin, And I went over to see if Ephram was ok.

" You ok?"

" Yeah."

" good." Then turning to Colin, " what the Hell do you think your trying to do? Hmmm? Kill Ephram? Ok from what I've heard he was a very good friend to you and you are not going to go around hitting him, got it?" he kinda rolled his eye's, " this is the second time it happened, as I remember Ephram told me you tried to break his arm once. if this happens again I'm going to call the police. I don't care about your ' good boy' rep. See I didn't know you before the accident, and from what I've heard  you like to get mad and have very violent tendencies." I took a couple of breaths,  " and you brought beer? I cant believe you that's pathetic. And Ephram just told you to leave, and you got violent? I don't think I want to see you when some one says to leave meanly." The crowed laughed.

" so you can leave right now.! And I mean it if you don't get off this land right now I will call the cops!" he kinda looked at the crowd for some support. But Amy was helping Ephram into the house to get some ice. And bright wasn't looking at him and for one none of his cronies were insight. He turned around and stormed off.
" Thanks" whispered to me as he went into the house.

" no problem."

My brother just stared at me.

" Since when did you learn to mouth off like that?"

" I always have been able to I just didn't do it in front of my perfect big brother." He laughed, see we had this joke: he was good at everything he did! And I wasn't but I was better at acting then him!

 " Oh ok." The party went on and I went into the house to see if Ephram needed me.  Amy was helping him with an ice pack in the kitchen.

" Hey, how's the lip feel?" He looked up at me.

" Great, just perfect, couldn't be better" good he was being sarcastic. That was a good sign!

" Well glad no hear it!" I noticed when I walked into the kitchen Amy kinda hung back. "right Amy?"

" UH yeah!" she looked back to normal.

"Good. So when's this party over with?" That was Kevin he had walked into the kitchen.

" I dunno it's only 8:30. So people  will leave around……. 10?"

" Yeah!" said Amy.

" good.!"

The party went smoothly and then everyone left 'cept for Amy. Her parents were out of

town and she had asked if she could stay with me, go figure.

 We were watching a movie, X Men. And then we went to bed Kevin roomed with  Ephram, and Amy slept in my room.

" So how did you and Ephram meet?"  Amy asked while she was laying on my floor that night.

"Well, see our mom's knew each other for a long time. Then when we were about 6 both of our families moved into town houses that were next door to each other. and we became good friends. He's an easy listener. Ya know?"


" Yeah I do" I lifted my head off my pillow  and she was laying near my window, looking into the night sky, it looked nice they're was a crescent moon, my favorite.  Then I noticed that she had tears in her eye's,

" Amy?" She kinda ignored me  " Amy? What's wrong?"

She rolled over and got up then came over to my bed and sat down.

" I've been thinking, and this is not like me AT ALL! Ok, for the past year everything has been about Colin. And that take's up a lot of energy, I used to be really nice, like when I first met Ephram, I was reasonably nice, and then Colin woke up and came back, like a shell of some one I once loved……" She trailed off,

" Go ahead…"

" I wanted to believe that the real Colin was in there somewhere……." She let out a sob  "But he wasn't, and then I took what Ephram said about being devoted to seriously, and when anyone tried to give me a way out…. I didn't take them…."

" Ephram wished you hadn't taken him seriously too." She smiled.

" Yeah but I did. And I wished I didn't too! I used to wish thing's were the way they used to be, but I don't think I do now. I mean as much as I liked Kyla and that crowd, none of the people I have known my whole life, bothered to show up the day of his operation."

" Wait I thought he had 2 ops?"

" Yeah he did but one of them I didn't wait in the waiting room. See I currently hated him then. "

"SO when did you get back together?"

" This summer at the 4th of July picnic. He remembered some of the thing's that happened and I fell for them"  she looked kind of sad sitting there.

" I think that it must feel like you did lose Colin in the crash." She was crying,. But she nodded her head.

" b…but Ephram has been a good friend throughout this whole thing. And I treated him like dirt."

" Mabey you should tell him what you think?"

" Well I guess I could.,,…………………"

" Ok I'm going to go to the bathroom be right back" I got up and went down he hall to Ephram's room, I peaked into his room, and he was sleeping peacefully. I went over to him and tickled his ear, I know it sound's stupid but his ears are ticklish. He jumped.

" wwwwwhhat? " he whined. I kneeled down my the side of his bed and,

" Ephram you and Amy need to talk." I said it firmly  yet nicely

"why??" He looked at my face " Okok.." he got up and mumbling he went into my room I crawled into his bed and went to sleep.

   Then I woke up later, to the sound of someone walking through the bedroom door I looked up and Ephram was walking on his tiptoes, ( a very funny sight) trying not to wake up Kevin or me.

" Soooo, what happened." He looked startled and I looked at the clock by his bed it was 3 o'clock in the morning. " What were you guy's doing?"

" Nothing, just talking.. she said that she was sorry."

" Ok, " I laid back down.

" Hey what do you think your doing?" Ephram asked.

" Going back to sleep."

"Not in my bed your not."

" You… may.. sleep… on.. the… floor.!"  Making each word sound like a one word sentence. It was a joke between us.


" Fine."