Disclaimer: I don't own this fabulous show, which I regret and admit that I haven't watched in a while, and I hope that they were reruns. But there is going to be a bit more humor in this chapter. * grins wickedly* Heehee, but please, do enjoy this. Oh, and whoever can guess what Karin's trying to say in her insult gets a cookie. Enjoy! Oh, and sorry for the long wait on the update. I've been busy with school and recovering from my trip. But this one is about 11 pages in my notebook, so it's gonna be pretty long.

Chapter 6

POV-EPHRAM

I sat at the bar in my house with a glass of fizzy water in front of me. I sipped it to help settle the butterflies in my stomach, as my mom would say. I smiled as thought drifted to Karin. I wondered what she would be wearing tonight. I then looked down at my slacks and blacks shirt and wondered if it was all right to wear. I nodded and started drilled my fingers on the counter top in boredom.

Finally, I decided to check my email to pass the time. I walked from the kitchen into my room and sat at my Dell computer. I signed my AOL account on and saw that my friend Sarah was on. She immediately IMed me.

"Whacha doing?" Her message read.

I slowly typed in the phrase, "Checking my email while I wait for my friend to get here so we can go to the movies."

I laughed as I read her message. "Is your friend a girl?" I read to myself and noticed the 'kissing' smiley face there as well.

"Yeah." I typed back.

"You got mail." Sarah typed back quickly.

I checked the message she sent me and nearly fell off laughing. I placed my fingers on the keyboard to type again.

"Haha, very funny. I'm rofl (rolling on floor laughing)." I told typed.

"You're most likely to do that, Ephram Brown. I know you've guilt tripped a girl into kissing you before." Sarah typed quickly again with the 'wink' and 'big grin' smilies there.

A second later, another friend signed on. My eyes nearly bulged from my head as I saw who it was.

"Oh crap! Janie is on!" I typed as fast as I could.

"The Janie that likes you?" Sarah asked.

"Yeah!" I said in all caps.

"Get off then! I'll talk to you later! Call me when/if you get home!" She typed.

"K, bye Sarah!" I typed and signed off just as an IM from Janie IMed me.

I sighed and walked back to the kitchen as my mom and dad came in the door. I looked puzzled when I noticed Karin wasn't there. I furrowed my brow and thought of something to say.

"Where's Karin?" I asked finally.

"She's out in the car. The driver is paid already and knows where to drop you off at and when to pick you up. Here are your tickets and some snack money. Be good, see you when you get home." My mom said quickly and pushed me out of the door.

"Wait, just like that I'm gone?" I asked quickly.

"Yeah, you want good seats, right? Then you better go now because the movie starts in 20 minutes and it's a fifteen-minute drive to the cinema." My dad said.

"Since when do you call it 'cinema'?" My mom asked.

"I don't know, I guess I just picked it up at my convention since I was roomed with a British guy and we saw a film-er, a movie." My dad said, quickly covering for himself over his British speak he had picked up.

"Bye, I guess." I said and left to go to the car, my parents to talking about my dad calling the theatre 'cinema.' I laughed to myself as I started toward the stairs.

POV CHANGE-KARIN

I sighed as I waited for Ephram to hurry up. I looked at the driver who had been staring at me for that last ten minutes. I scowled slightly and thought for a moment. An idea struck me when I thought of a line from the movie The Tuxedo. I smirked as I just figured to ad lib on it since I couldn't exactly remember all of it.

"Excuse me, I don't drive for a living, but aren't rear view mirrors used for backing up, not staring at our passengers?" I asked, making myself as clear as I possibly could that he was seriously annoying me by staring at me consistently.

"They are used for staring when the passenger is as pretty as you." He said and turned back to look at me directly.

"Shouldn't you be paying more attention to the gages to make sure that the gas is right, the engine isn't overheating, and that there is enough antifreeze or whatever you're supposed to do besides stare at me?" I asked, sighing and looking out the window and saw Ephram finally coming down the stairs. "About time." I mumbled.

I looked down at my black skirt that was just above my knees and my crimson camisole that hung loosely over my chest. I glanced at my pocket mirror to see if my make-up was still all right. I silently thanked myself for learning how to use make-up when I was 12. I sighed, as the time seemed to lapse as Ephram walked down the stars slowly from the sixth floor. Seconds seemed like minutes as I looked down at my blue-green watch.

"Hey Ephram." I said warmly as he finally sat down next to me in the small car.

"You look nice." He complimented.

"Thanks, as do you." I replied.

I put my seatbelt on as the driver started pulling out of the parking lot. I closed my eyes for a moment, thinking over a few things. I opened my eyes again when I felt eyes on me. Ephram was staring out of the window when I glanced at him. I glanced up at the driver who had stopped for a traffic light and was now staring at me again.

I pulled out my pocket notebook and a pen slowly. I wrote something down and tore the paper out. I folded it and put it on Ephram's lap with the pen. I watched Ephram look at me for a moment then pick up the note and read it. I glanced up at the traffic light now moving behind us.

POV CHANGE-EPHRAM

I picked up the note Karin had passed to me and read it.

'The driver keeps staring at me. It's a little uncomfortable, y'know.' She wrote.

I took the pen and wrote, 'Want me to talk to him?'

I passed the note to Karin with the pen. She read it and shook her head. She began to write something down. I picked the note and pen up to read what she had written. Just as my eyes glanced over the small paper, the annoying driver started to say something.

"How cute. Passing notes. I used to do that in school." He said.

"Oh yeah, I can tell. You must have been paying so much attention to the notes that you forgot to listen to the teacher. It shows real easily, you know." Karin said coldly.

The driver was silent after Karin said that. She smiled triumphantly at her victorious insult. I laughed light and read what she had written. My eyes swept over the paper quickly. I laughed more to myself as I read her short note.

"Nah, I got some tricks up my sleeve." I smiled as I wrote back to her.

"Yeah, I noticed." I watched her smiled as she read it.

I calculated the time until we arrived at the movie theatre. It was about eight more minutes. I started to tap my fingers on the window quickly. I looked over at Karin and grinned. She was biting her nails! I looked down at my stubby nails as well and chuckled.

(A/N: I (the author) bite my nails as well, so that's what gave me the idea since every now and again, whilst thinking, I'll bite my nails. Plus, I was in the car when I wrote this and REALLY bored. So that's a trait of mine I gave my characters.)

POV CHANGE-KARIN

I slowly started chewing my nails again. My eyes trailed around the car to the driver, then to Ephram again. He was tapping his fingers against he window. A light, barely audible thumping noise as his fingers came in contact with the glass every millisecond. I looked up at the driver again and grinned happily at the annoyed look plastered on his face.

'Yay! The driver's annoyed!' I thought, my grin turning into a smile.

I ticked the rest of the remaining minute off of the ride until we drove in the parking lot. Before I could get out of the car, the driver had opened my door for me. I looked him up and down quickly. I looked at his nametag and had to restrain my laughter. A catlike grin found its way onto my face as I found something to say.

"Thanks, 'Morton'." I said, emphasizing on his name and stifled a laugh.

"It's in the job description." He said in a cold tone.

"Riiiiight." I said letting a giggle out.

I continued laughing as I walked over to Ephram. He looked strangely at me and I shook my head saying to forget it. He nodded and slowly took my hand. I grinned as we walked into the movie theatre. I curled my fingers around his hand slowly.

I looked around slowly, and to my horror, I saw my friend Delilah walking around with a few of my friends. She waved at me. A few other friends followed in suit. I waved back weakly and grinned. A thought trailed my mind, but I soon brushed it off of the chart of things to do tonight.

"Ephram, will you excuse me a moment? I see a few of my friends." I said and looked up slightly at Ephram.

(A/N again: Uh.Karin is REALLY short.eh.like 4'9" or something. Don't ask she's Asian.)

"Alright. Do you want a snack?" He asked.

"Uhm, sure. Whatever you're having with a sprite, please." I said and let go of his hand to walk over to my friends.

"I thought you didn't date anymore, Karin." Delilah said as I reached her.

"Well, he's my employer's son, today's my birthday, and it turns out that his dad is Doc Brown, my Uncle Charles' partner in work." I said shrugging.

Delilah smirked and said, "How old is he?"

"Fourteen or fifteen. But he looks sixteen and acts your age, Del." I answered, overlooking Ephram as he stood at the counter.

"Karin! That means he's three or four years younger than you!" One of my other friends, Rachel, yelled.

"I grinned and said, "Well, he's a sweetheart, mind you. And a real easy person to talk to."

"Well, good luck, Karin. What movie are y'all seeing?" Lucy, another friend asked.

"Daredevil." I answered simply.

"So are we. Want to get seats together?" Lucy asked again.

"A movie with Ben Affleck without his shirt on with you? No thanks. You guys will be screaming all through the movie!" I said, a cheeky grin on my face. "Oh, girls, I gotta run. Ephram's done with the snacks. See yah Monday!" I called as I started walking towards the hallway where Ephram was standing.

"Bye Karin!" My friends called back as I left their hearing range.

"Bye!" I yelled back anyway.

POV CHANGE-EPHRAM

I watched as Karin left her friends and came towards me. She smiled a look of mirth in her eyes. I was puzzled until her look disappeared suddenly. I grinned as she laced her fingers around mine. We began walking to the door where the movie was playing as she stopped. I looked at her curiously.

I wicked grin crossed her face slowly. I furrowed my brow at her. Possibilities crossed my head as I thought of what she could be thinking. Nothing fit what could be going through her mind right now as I thought of something to say. She beat me to the punch on talking as she opened her mouth to speak her thoughts.

"Do you want to blow the movie and go somewhere real cool?" She asked, almost jumping up and down.

"Where?" I asked.

"If you say yes, then it'll be a surprise until we get there." She said, the mirth appearing in her eyes again.

"Sure, I guess. But how will we get to this 'surprise place'?" I asked.

"Hold on. Delilah!" Karin yelled loudly over the crowd.

A redheaded girl turned around quickly, her hair spinning as she did so. A grin crossed her face as she came slowly towards us. A few other girls, about three, were following her. I wondered what types of ideas were running through Karin's mind now. Before I knew it, her friend Delilah was standing in front of us.

"Whacha need, Karin?" She asked.

"Del, Ephram and I wanna blow this joint and go to the 'other' social gathering tonight downtown. You know the one that I'm talking about?" Karin asked, trying her hardest to mask the surprise.

"Oh, yeah. 'That' one. Yeah, I'll take you if you need a ride. The girls and I were having second thoughts as we were getting our snacks. I only have the little car, so we're going to have to squish in the back seat." Delilah said.

"Alrighty. No problem." Karin said, her cheeky grin now turning into a wicked one again.

"Where-where are we going?" I asked, still completely lost.

"I told you: it's a surprise!" Karin said playfully.