Chapter Three – Too Soon Forgotten
Homeroom bell rang and it was time for Ryan to begin her first day. She grabbed her bag and was surprised when she saw Ephram waiting for her.
"Come on," he said, "we have the same schedule, so I guess you can tag along for the day."
"I don't need to tag along," Ryan began. "but if you insist." The two began to leave the classroom before Ryan remembered Amy. "Wait about your girlfriend?"
Ephram stopped and gave her look a like she had ten heads. "Girlfriend?" He followed Ryan's gaze to Amy, who was still in her desk, getting all her books together, and he laughed out loud. "Amy? My girlfriend? Wow, you got the wrong impression."
Ryan's heart jumped. "You mean, she's not your girlfriend?"
"No, no," Ephram said shaking his head in almost a sad way, "she's not. You'll meet her boyfriend, Colin, later."
Ryan couldn't help but be curious. "But you want her to be your girlfriend?" She looked over at Ephram. They were walking down the hall towards their lockers.
"Has anyone ever told you that you're nosy?"
Ryan shrugged as she opened up her locker. "Only a couple times. But that didn't answer my question?"
"That was the whole idea," Ephram said, pulling out the books he needed.
"Okay, you already seem to have this 'I'm deep, sarcastic and angry at the world' thing going for you, now you want to be mysterious?"
"I'm angry at the world? Who was the one who nearly gave me verbal whiplash when I just tried to be nice."
Ryan raised an eyebrow, a habit she did way too often, as she shut her locker. "Yea, well, if you had been uprooted and moved cross country, leaving behind everything you loved, I think you'd be a little angry too."
"Too soon you forget," Ephram stated, "that I did the same thing last year."
"Why?" Ryan inquired, now leaning up against her locker. "Wait, never mind, that's crossing your 'I'm mysterious too' line."
Ephram shut his locker and threw his bag on his shoulder. "Yea, well, we all have our secrets. Let's go."
That we do, Ryan thought as the two walked down the hall. The two continued to joke around with their sarcastic remarks, and Ryan knew that she had made her first friend in Everwood. Her intuition was killer, and it was screaming at her right now, that a lot of things were going to change.
Amy Abbott had been heading towards Ephram's locker, but before she reached it, she watched him and Ryan turn and head towards their first class, which Amy was in with them. Ephram always waited for me, she thought. She stood, still. He's forgotten about me already.
