" Get Up!!! It's Saturday and I made a huge breakfast!" that sent Kevin Running down the stairs.
" wad'da make?" I laughed.
" Boarding school food that bad?" he nodded and laughed,
" Well I guess it was pretty bad." He sat down and ate some brekkie then Amy made her grand appearance,
" Hey Amy! Want some breakfast?"
" Umm, sure!" she grabbed a plate. They're was a thud and a "Damn" from the stairs. I went into the hall, Ephram was sitting on the bottom step rubbing his foot.
" What happened?"
" These stairs hate me, I tripped and stubbed my toe on the wall."
"Are you ok?" I said suppressing a laugh
" yeah I just didn't want to come in the kitchen limping.!" He laughed.
We went into the kitchen,
" Hey what happened?" Amy asked
" Ephram stubbed hit foot on the wall."
"Oh are you ok?"
" Yeah!"
" Good!" I looked out the window and it was snowing!
" Hey guy's look it just started to snow!" wait it was only October. Man this town is weird.
" Oh yeah it is!"
" hey why don't we eat breakfast get dressed and then go out and play in the snow?" Kevin said.
"I don't think so dude!" That came from Ephram.
" I think It would be fun!" said Amy.
" Yeah I think I would too!"
So we had breakfast changed and went outside. We built snow forts between some trees and it was Kevin and me against Ephram and Amy. I started making snow balls and Kev threw them then I stock piled them then we ambushed them I went running out and crammed a snowball down Ephram's shirt. He screamed and laughed then tackled me into a snow drift,]
"Musmph" I said my head in a snow drift. " get off!!!"
"not until I have your promise you wont do that again."
" Fine" he let me go I grabbed a hand full of snow and stuffed it in his face.
" HEY!!!!!!" I was in hysterics.
We played in the snow for a few hours, then went inside and watched some movies while our clothes dried out. And we drank hot cocoa, I drank tea.
Delia came back later that day,
" KEVIN!!!" she had always liked him.
" Hey kiddo!" he swooped her into a big hug,
" What are you doing here?" and so we went through the he was coming for a visit thing, which was the truth.
" Oh ok." Kev and her went into the living room to play video games.
Ephram and I cleaned up the mess from the party.
" so it's kinda cool to have Kev back." Said Ephram.
" Yeah I guess" I wasent as enthusiastic, as I knew I should be.
" Ok I think its so back to normal. I mean you and me hanging out and your brother over shadowing you?" Good 'ole Ephram always trying to be nice to me.
" yeah I guess that might be it too!" I gave a feeble laugh. " The thing is I haven't seen him since the funeral. And I checked, he has no vaycay, for another month, till Christmas"
" Oh I think I get it. Mabey he was homesick? Ya no for his mom?"
" Nope I don't think that's it, whatever it is though mom will be back soon two days." We finished cleaning and I went upstairs and got on the internet for a while. I AOL Imed a few of Kev's friends to find out why he wasn't in school.
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" Why didn't you tell me that you got suspended?" I had run downstairs after I stopped talking to Gwen.
" Well I didn't think it mattered."
" Well big shock it does matter. Look if mom finds out your going to be dead."
" yeah I know but I couldn't go anywhere, but home they said" He looked frustrated.
"Still you should have said something!"
" Yeah whatever, I don't care." He got upstairs and slammed Ephram's door, Ephram came down the stairs.
" Izzie? What's wrong with him?"
" Well. He got suspended from school for a week cause he was in this big cafeteria food fight and then he and some other kids threw mashed potatoes at the head master."
" So he decided to come see his sister?"
" You got it." We ended staying up all night, watching movies and eating popcorn.
The next day.
" We're home!!!" Came my mothers voice from the hall.
I got up and went to the hall.
" Hey mom! Your home 2 day's early"
"Hey sweetie!" she said hugging me." I know we thought that it was time to go home and when we tried to book a couple more days at the hotel it was booked. So we cam home."
" Oh ok mom nice to see you" I said taking her bags." Mom you need to know something: Kevin came home from boarding school he's upstairs in Ephram's Bedroom."
" Well that's great," She went to the bottom of the steps " KEV!!!"
" Wait mom please be quiet, he got suspended."
" WHAT????" She said looking completely shocked. " MY BABY?? MY perfect baby? I mean I never was shocked when your trio got suspended that time but my Kevin???" Yeah just like her if I get in trouble she expects it but with Kev, well that's a different story.
" Yeah mom your precious Baby."
Andy walked in as Kev walked down the stairs mom was yelling at Kev.
" Erika, What's going on?" Asked Andy.
" Kevin got expelled and mom is mad, so this could go on a while pull up a chair." He laughed, and went upstairs. I stayed downstairs and had breakfast with Ephram, Delia, and Andy. I cooked, I had heard horror stories about Andy's cooking so I offered to cook.
I went to go get ready for school, had my back pack and was walking out the door.
" Hey where do you think your going?" Ephram said from the hall.
" Umm school, and if your going you may want to go get ready we're late as it is." He laughed
" Erika, its Saturday!"
" OH" I paused no what to do with my day. " Ok then maybe I'll take Delia shopping"
" DELIA!!" she cam down the stairs.
" What?"
" Do you want to go shopping?"
" UMMMMM ok." She ran to get her hat. And Andy came in the room,
" Where are you taking Delia?"
" Shopping if you don't mind, I'm thinking of getting her some more girl like clothes.!"
"Oh ok." He went off,
" what is this about you taking Delia shopping?" my mom asked
" Umm I was thinking I would."
" Oh great I was noticing her jeans were getting too tight. Here's the credit card" she said handing me the credit card " try to get her a nice pair of GIRL"S jeans. Not the boys department." We laughed.
Delia came back down the stairs.
" Ready!"
" Great! Grab your coat!" we went out to my moms car, got in and went to the nearest boutique.
" I am NOT trying that on.!!" Delia was being impossible, I found a really cute shirt, and nice jeans that fit.
" Please try them on! I think you'll like them." Clearly this wasn't going to work " if you try them on and like them I'll buy a new baseball hat!"
" Anyone I want?"
" Yes!!"
" Ok" She went into the dressing room, and came back out five minutes later.
" How do I look?" she looked really cute it was a green T-shirt with a butterfly on it, and faded jeans.
" You look really cute!" I walked over to her a put her hair in a high ponytail. " Do you like it?"
" YEAH!! She twirled in the mirror. " What else can I get?" we ended spending most of the day going to the different shops in town, the selection was nothing like New York, but I suppose it will have to do.
" We're home" I called as we walked in the door around 4:30.
" Hey!" Said Ephram coming into the hall.
" Do you like my clothes?" said Delia spinning to show them to her.
" yeah, they look good!" she ran to the kitchen to show Beth and Andy. Ephram whispered to me. " How the hell did you get her to wear those?"
" Umm I dunno, ok so I bribed her with a base ball hat. So sue me." He laughed. " can you help me bring in the rest of the clothes?"
we had already brought 4 bags each delia and I .
" what you
have more?"
" Yeah!"
he laughed.
New chapter.
I was laying in my bed that night listening to my Mom argue with Kevin. I was laying on my side and I heard my door creep open, and a shadow fell against my bed. I rolled over to see Delia and Ephram standing there.
" Hey sorry to wake you up." Said Ephram " Or were you awake? I cant sleep cause I can hear them bickering, my room is directly above the living room."
" I was awake, so no problem." I sat up and turned on my light. " Do you guys want to talk or do you need a quiet place to sleep?"
" well I went into Ephram's room thinking that maybe his room would be quieter then mine, it wasn't. so he said we should go to yours."
" well it
is pretty loud in here, but not as loud as my room." Said Ephram.
They came over and Delia climbed in my bed, and laid down. Ephram went over to
my window seat and sat down with my quilt from the end of my bed. " And Ya know
the worst part of it?"
I shook my head.
" Is that when we were eating dinner and Beth started out shouting at Kev and we had to go upstairs, we didn't get to eat, and I'm hungry."
I laughed, well usually I have a stash of food but Amy and I kinda eat all of it. So lets get in the car and find a 24 hour waffle house of something."
Delia was half asleep.
" That's a good idea Izzy." She mumbled sleepily.
" Ditto."
" so lets go."
" UHHH incase you haven't noticed its …" he looked at the clock. " midnight."
" So? Theirs got to be a all night restaurant and we are 16 and have drivers license's AND I have a credit card."
" Fine,
lets go." We got up, I grabbed my purse, we went to the top of the stairs, Ephram was carrying Delia. We found
Andy in the hall.
" Hey Andy." I whispered.
" Yeah."
" were going to go find a all night diner, do you want to come?"
" No I
think I'll stay here but bring me back something."
" OK" we grabbed our coats, and trudged out in the 3 feet of snow to Andy's car, Ephram handed Delia to me and
got in the drivers seat. I climbed into the car and Delia sat or rather slumped
on my lap.
We were
kinda tired so we didn't talk much.
" So where is the nearest 24 hour place?"
" UMM I
think about a hour away."
" WHAT????"
" Well no where is open at 12:30 at night generally."
" Good point." We laughed, for the next half an hour I kinda dosed off now and then, with Delia on my lap I was warm. Ya know she wasn't all that heavy ether. And the car was so nice and warm……
" Izzy…… Izzy… Delia come on wake up were at the waffle house.
" Mumph" said a VERRY sleepy Delia.
" We are well good. Here" I handed Delia to Ephram and got out of the car, I
put my foot down and it crunched.
" When did it snow again?"
" It didn't
it was here."
" ok, well the snow in Everwood is softer, this is more like New York Snow." We went in got seated, and were trying to
decide what to order.
" I want a Rootie Tootie jr. Ok?" said Delia leaning back against Ephram.
" Sure, What do you want Izzy?" Said Ephram Yawning,
" A Rootie Tootie 2 Puma" Gosh we were tired calling nicknames, and Delia was so cute when she was sleepy.
" Sounds good to me" We orderd and wolfed it all in about ten minutes. Including Rip van Delia.
" Thanks"
" Welcome." We talked for a few
minutes.
" Oh Crap." I said as I looked out the window
" What?" said Ephram looking a little panicked.
" I cant even see the car, its snowing so hard."
" Damn!" he cursed under his breath. Good thing Delia had kinda fallin asleep angain.
" Well how far are we from home?"
" About an hour but Izzy this is not New York snow this is Colorado, its prettier but a lot heavier when its blizzarding." He sighed " We could get stuck."
" well hold on." I got up and went to the cash register, paid and asked the lady there if there was a hotel somewhere close by.
" Good news there is a hotel next door. Do you think we should stay the night? Or try to get home?"
" I don't know Mabey it'll let up?"
" WE WARN THAT YOU SHOULD STAY INSIDE THIS STORM IS BIG AND YOU NEED TO STAY IN A STRONG BUILDING. THE ROASD ARE EXPECTED TO BE ICY." That came over the radio that the lady was listening to.
" Well that I guess sums it up we get to go next door."
We got up and Ephram picked up Delia, we went over to the door, opened it and were hit with this blast of freezing cold air. We got in the car and drove the 50 feet to the parking lot of the hotel, luckily it was a holiday inn. If it was a motel 6 or something we would have just gone down the road to see the next hotel the lady said there were two.
We got out of the car and went inside to register.
" That'll be 65.58$" I handed her my credit card. " Thank you, your room number
is 58 and its upstairs on the second floor, the ice machine and snack room are
in a room at the end of the corridor.
" Thanks is there a gift shop or something where we can get clothes and tooth brushes?"
" Any toilet items you just ask for at the desk, and the gift shop is down this hall take a left, it's a 24 hour one so don't worry." She smiled.
" Ephram?" he laid Delia on the couch they were sitting on.
" Yeah"
" GO to the gift shop and get us some clothes for tomorrow k?" he nodded and
stared to walk away. " Wait…'" HE turned around.
" What?"
" I'm a size 4." He laughed, and was just about to wake Delia up
" Don't wake her up I'm going to be a minute here's my credit card, and I'll
take her up to the room meet you there."
" Ok" he went down the hall.
" So what were you 3 doing out this late on a Saturday night.?" She asked
" We were hungry and the nearest 24 hour place was an hour away so we just got up and went. And got snowed in. Cuz mom and my older brother were arguing about something and it woke up the rest of us kids and we were sent upstairs in the middle of dinner so that my oldest brother and my mom could yell at each other in peace." I loved scaring people. " Thanks goodnight."
I went over and put Delia on one of those luggage carriers.
We got to the room and I put Delia in the bed closest to the bathroom, and I too the one next to the door. A little while later Ephram came in with a few bags, I sat. up.
" Hey"
" Hey"
" I think that we should call the parentals."
" Good idea, you do that I'm taking a shower, man that gift shop lady has a incense problem." I laughed and went to the phone. It rang
" Hello " said Andy's voice.
" Hey Andy, this is Erika, we are snows in some town smaller then Everwood. And we stopped at a hotel for the night,ok?"
" Yeah sure I was just about to call your cell and tell you guys to find a safe hotel, we cant even see out the driveway." He chuckled.
" So
goodnight, hug mom for me. Bye."
" Bye."
We hung up.
I got into my bed, and Ephram after his shower crawled in with Delia.
The next thing I knew it was morning. I rolled over, and Delia was snuggled up against Ephram Ephram was sitting there looking at the ceiling.
" Hey." I said as I rolled over, " Has it stopped snowing??"
" Nope look out the window." I looked and it was still snowing quite hard.
" Guess not, I don't think we can go home right now, do you?" He shook his head.
" Nope, I think that we get a complementary breakfast though."
" Well that's a good thing, I just hope they have coffee" I said yawning, " Today is Sunday right? Cuz if the snow keeps up we wont get to go to school"
" Oh damn, do school, poor us…"
" Guess what?"
" What?"
" This hotel has a indoor swimming pool!"
" Noway!"
" Yeah didn't you think it was a little weird that the gift shop sold bating suits?"
"Yeah just a little,"
" I think that after breakfast we should go get suits and go swimming."
" Good idea" I got out of bed and went over to the dresser, grabbed a hair tie from my purse and put my hair in a pony tail, grabbed the clothes from the bag that Ephram got last night from the shop, and went into the bathroom to get a shower.
I Came out after a nice hot shower, and Ephram and Delia were sitting on their bed watching cartoons on the Disney channel. Delia looked up.
" Have a nice shower?"
" Yeah, listen sweetie why don't you go take a nice bath,"
" k." She hopped of the bed and went into the bathroom, and came back out.
" They don't have any soap for bubbles."
" They don't?" she shook her hair. " Well hmmm.."
" I saw that they had little bottles of bubbles in the gift shop last night."
Said Ephram.
" Oh I'll go and get her some bubble bath," I went to grab the key from the dresser and saw the room service menu.
" Hey they have room service!" I said picking up the menu. Ephram grabbed it from me.
" OK so you go to the shop and get the bath Delia and I will order breakfast."
" Ok See ya." I walked out the door, and went down the hall, to the elevator. Took it downstairs and into the gift shop. I went to the bath section and got rose fragrance bubble bath for Delia, then went to look at the bathing suits, I found a pink tankini that I liked. I gave the lady at the counter the bubble bath and went to try it on. I came out and it was cute so I decided that I would buy it, then I went back to the girls section and grabbed a blue 1 piece for Delia.. and went to the guys section and grabbed black shorts for Ephram. I was walking to the cash register and I saw a black T-shirt that said Colorado in purple and then looked down at the blue shirt Ephram bought for me last night, well lets just say I bought it.
Ephram and Delia were sitting at the little table watching TV while eating.
" Good your back " said Delia getting up and going through the bags. She took the bubble bath and went into the bathroom.
" Do you want some food.?" I looked at the table, I think they orderd everything on the menu.
" Sure" I sat down and started eating, we had lots of bacon, and breakfast food like that.
" I thought that you were going to buy bubble bath." Said Ephram eyeing my bags
" I was but then I saw some bathing suits, and this shirt I said holding it up out of the bag. " which reminds me here." I handed him the trunks.
" Thanks " he said. " What suit did you get?" I pulled out the tank top and shorts.
" This."
" Its ok. What'd you get for Delia?" I pulled out the blue suit.
" Nice"
" Yeah I thought so too" I put everything back in the bags. I was flipping the TV station when Delia came back out. She was dressed in jeans a T-shirt.
"Have a good bath sweetie?" She was rummaging in my purse.
" Yeah, where is your hair brush?" I got up and got it for her, " do you want me to braid your hair?"
" Sure!" We sat down on the bed, and I braided her hair in a high French braid.
" Thanks!"
" Welcome." I turned to Ephram. " Do you want to go down to check out the pool??"
" Sure." We got up and took the bags with our suits in them, Delia brought up the rear with the towels.
We got down there and it was this big glass doam the snow was piled up on the top. And there were even a couple of palm trees, a hot tub and a sauna!
" Wow!" said Delia. " this is cool!!!" she ran to the dressing room. While Ephram went to check out the sauna. I put the bags on a deck chair, and took my suit out of it, then went to the dressing room, I changed quickly. Knowing that the second Delia got her suit on she would be in the pool like lightning.
" I'll race you!" Delia screamed from the pool edge.
" Your on!" it was Me Ephram and Delia racing to the other end of the pool. I won. The Ephram won, we gave Delia a game too.
We stayed in the pool for about 2 hours, then Delia got cold and we went in the hot tub with the temp turned down and the jets pumping new water in the tub.
" oh this water feels good." I said sinking down lower in the tub. " How are
you doing Delia?"
" G..g…good." she said her teeth chattering, she sunk lower too.
" yeah your right this does feel good, god I kinda hope we can go home today, or tomorrow." Said Ephram
" Yeah I
guess I do to."
" Me to I was going to play with Sam and Arnie today!"
" well why don't we go outside and see how bad the snow is and then see if the road is bad enough to keep us here."
" OK" we
got out and went upstairs got dressed, put our coats on and went downstairs.
" Oh my gosh!!" I said as we went outside. " it is FREEZING!!!"
" Yeah" Ephram laughed at me. " In new York we at least had the buildings to shield us from the wind." Hew laughed again as he saw the face I made.
We walked out to the road and it wasn't too
icy.
" Do you think that you can drive this Ephram?" I asked him.
" Well my dad's jeep has 4 wheel drive, abd I've gotten pretty used to driving
in the snow, so yeah I think I could."
" Goody!" screeched Delia.
" Great."
We went inside and got our stuff together.
" Just the one night then?" asked the lady at the front desk.
" Yeah." I handed her my credit card.
" And your
Isabelle Davis.??"
" Yes."
" Good. Can you sign here?" I signed the receipt.
" Thanks for staying I hope you enjoyed it!" she said way to perkily I thought.
" Thanks, " I turned to Ephram and Delia. " ready to go?"
" Yeah"
Delia ran to the door and was out before we could do anything. We ran after
her. Got in the car and drove. We drove very slowly.
" I'm hungry!" whined Delia from the backseat.
" Well
we're going to be home in about half an hour." Said Ephram keeping his eyes on
the road.
" actually I', pretty hungry too." I said
" Well. I
don't see anywhere to stop."
" I do" I said, " there are signs for a truck stop lets stop there."
' Fine but when we get there Delia you stick very close to Erika and i.. got it.?"
" Yes."
" Good, honey why don't you just hold my hand and we can go to the bathroom at the same time.?"
" Ok" we pulled into the truck stop about 10 minutes later.
" Ephram." I said getting out of the car. " you go get us a table and I'll take Delia to the bathroom.."
" Ok."
He went off
and Delia and I used the bathroom. We used the bathroom and went to the little
store.
" Can I get this for the car?" Delia asked. I looked at what she was holding
up, a car bingo thing, I looked at the price. 1.50$
" Sure." We took it up to the cash register and I got out a five. And then we had lunch and hit the road. Delia kept quiet playing car bingo. And Ephram an I listened to the radio.
Our car pulled into the driveway.
" MOM we're home!" I called as we got into the house.
" Hey!"
said Andy he came in from the kitchen. " How were the pancakes?"
"Good, so where's mom?"
" She went to drop Kevin off at the air port."
