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The man she couldn't trust
Reluctantly Ephram walked towards the Abbots. Amy had to know what he had done didn't she? But then again he heard what she had to say and she didn't want anyone knowing. What have I done? He thought to himself Amy is never going to talk to me again. Sighing he continued toward the front door. Once he had arrived he looked up at Amy's window before continuing to ring the doorbell. Pressing his shaking hands upon the button, he took a step back from the door.
Taking a breath he was interrupted by the door opening, he found a curly haired blonde in front of him. "Bright, hi um is Amy in." Bright looked at the young man, all thoughts of Colin came back in to his mind and then he realised he had let go of his anger a long time a go. "Yeah man she's upstairs. Come in." Ephram obliged and walked in to the reception area. "AMY! You have a visitor." Bright shouted to her up the stairs. He told Ephram to go through to the lounge. "Do you want a drink?" Ephram shook his head "No, I have a feeling I wont be here for to long." Bright looked at him confused. Ephram smiled "It's a long story." Bright shrugged "Whatever." He said walking in to the kitchen.
Amy walked down the stairs, and in to the lounge. To her surprise she found Ephram sitting down on the couch. "Ephram? What are you doing here?" Ephram looked up at her, he could tell she had been crying. "Um well um I err this is hard to say." Amy looked at him concerned. "What has something happened?" Ephram nodded. "Yeah, I did something after our little talk." He whispered, realising that Bright was in the next room. Amy went to sit by him. "What sort of thing Ephram?" Ephram paused. "I went to see Erin, I know you told me not to, and I know that it was the wrong thing to do but I had no choice I had to tell him how much he had hurt you." Amy looked at him in disbelief "So you went behind my back, you went to see Erin?" Ephram nodded. Amy arose of the couch. "Get out." Ephram lifted himself up. "Amy please, I spoke to him he promised to leave you alone." "I don't care Ephram! I told you not to do anything, not to tell anyone. I thought I could trust you." "Amy please" Ephram put out his hand, "Please?" Amy manoeuvred towards the door. "No Ephram, I never want to see you again, just get out!" Ephram walked over to her. "Please don't leave it like this." Amy opened the door. "You let me down, I thought I could trust you." "You can Amy." "I don't want to talk to you. So don't call round, don't phone. Because I don't want to hear your apologises. I just want you to get out!" Ephram watched her eye well up. Sighing he walked out of the door and heard it slam behind him.
Bright came out of the kitchen and found Amy leaning against the door, crying. He looked on at her and the pulled her in for a hug. Bright pulled away for a moment. "What was that all about?" Amy wiped away a tear "It doesn't matter." She answered before running of upstairs.
Ephram rushed towards his house, grabbed his dad's set of office keys and then ran to his dad's office. It was the only place no one would find him, the only place he could just stay and think. In the rush of everything he dropped the keys on to the floor, sighing and picking them up he placed them in the lock, opened the door and walked inside. From across the street Dr Edwards watched Ephram from his office window; exhaling noisily he sat down in his chair and thought about the teenager.
Ephram sat in his dad's desk chair and looked at a picture of his mom. Closing eyes he remembered her the day she died, she was so radiant and pretty. Ephram watched her face fade from his memory. He opened his eyes and thought about this past days events placing his head on the table he drifted of to sleep.
Andy lay in bed wondering about Ephram. "Nina what time is it?" Nina glanced down at her watch "six o'clock, look don't worry, Ephram has probably fallen asleep and lost track of time." Nina sensed Andy's worry over his son. "I mean lets face it, he probably saw his bed and dived right in, I can call him if you want?" Andy nodded his heady "No, I don't want to wake him." "Actually talking of children, I had better take Delia home anyway, I have to go and pick Sam up." Andy glanced at her "Sam? Oh my god I completely forgot about him. Where is he?" Nina sighed "I am such a bad mother I asked if he could stay with his friend for a few days, I spoke to him on the phone last night but.I just felt so awful but I asked the boys mother if she could pick him up after school and I would collect him tonight." Andy motioned for her to go and get him. "Are you sure?" "Positive, now go!" Nina grabbed her things and lifted the sleeping girl into her arms. She kissed Andy on the forehead and made her way towards the door. Backing up she popped her head back in to the door "I'll be back tomorrow okay?" Andy laughed "Great but make sure you get Sam of the school first and you pick him up." Nina nodded, "Of course" she laughed before departing again.
Dr Edwards packed up his laptop, grabbed his bag and made his way out of the office. His receptionist had already clocked of for the day it was almost his turn he just needed to lock up the joint and head on home. Locking the office up he turned around and walked down the street a few metres; pausing at Dr Brown's practice he crossed the road and opened the door. Walking through the inviting reception area he continued through the Dr Brown's office. And sure enough there he found the very person he was looking for. Ephram laid over the desk his hand still clinging on to the picture of his mom. He put his things down and shook the young boy. "Ephram" he questioned. Ephram's eyes slowly lifted. "Dr Edwards? How did you know I was on here?" he questioned groggily. "I saw you come in, I must say though I was a bit discouraged when I found you asleep in here. Something you want to tell me?" Ephram lifted his body up from the desk, dropped the picture and rubbed his eyes. "I guess I should talk then."
Ephram looked at the picture of his mom, her vibrant smile lit up the whole picture. "Summer 2000, mom wanted to spend the day as a family so she took us all to the zoo. I was reluctant to go but I had no choice. But once I was there and saw how happy mom was. She said it was something about animals that took her back to her youth. It has got to be one of the best memories I have of her. And that red sweater-" Ephram pointed at the sweater his mom was wearing "I got that for her birthday, I was sure she would hate it but she said because I had got it her she couldn't possible hate it." Dr Edwards listened contently "It sounds like you had some good times with her." Ephram nodded "The best."
Dr Edwards watched the young boy "You looked pretty frustrated when you cam in to here, did something happen." Ephram stopped for a moment before moving to another picture; he wasn't ready to talk about Amy yet. "Now this picture was taken just after Delia was born, it was her first walk and-" Dr Edwards stopped him, "Ephram you know you can talk to me about anything, I mean I thought we established that in the hospital." "We did!" "Then talk to me Ephram, stop hiding behind memories and pictures. Tell me what bothering you?" Ephram brushed his hands through his hair. "I can't tell you, even though there is client confidentiality I know for a fact if I tell you what happened today you will have to tell someone." Dr Edwards shook his head "No, put your trust in to me Ephram." Ephram studied the old man "I am only telling you this because I know you wont tell anyone, Its Amy, you know I hit that guy?" "Yes." "Well he went for Amy today she was pretty upset and came round to mine, I comforted her for a while. She told me I couldn't tell anyone so instead I went to see Erin and sort it out. I did and he promised to leave her alone but I told Amy and she flipped." Ephram grew more frustrated, "She told me that she never wanted to see me again and that I had broken her promise. But I never meant to hurt her." Dr Edwards realised that what Ephram had told him was very serious. "What do you mean by he went for her?" Ephram locked glances with him "Well he pushed her on to the floor and he threatened her." Dr Edwards gasped, "Did he rape her?" "God no! It was in school no one witnessed it. It just shook her up that's all."
"And you said she wont talk to you?" Ephram lifted himself up from his chair and then proceeded to pace up and down the room "I know, I mean I was only trying to help her right? Its not like I told the cops or her dad. But she said she thought she could trust me, she can trust me. I am a trustworthy guy why can't she see that I was doing it for her best interests. I wouldn't-" Dr Edwards stopped Ephram "You're rambling, you know and I know you wouldn't, you just need to let Amy know." Ephram leant against the desk. "Your right, what's the time?" "Ten to seven." Ephram gasped, "Dad's going to be so worried. Look thanks so much Dr Edwards for your help but I really have to go so." Dr Edwards grabbed his things. "Okay well book and appointment with me sometime okay?" Ephram nodded "Sure." He said locking up the place "Bye." "Bye" Dr Edwards replied.
Grabbing his cellphone from his jacket pocket he went down his call menu, he stopped at Dr Abbots home phone number, looking up the street at the disappeared figure he felt awful, as he pressed 'ok' to dial the number. But this was one exception when the rules didn't count and a friend needed to know about her daughter. Not thinking about the consequences, Dr Abbot answered the phone. "Hi Dr Abbot its Dr Edwards here I wondered if we could get together and talk." He listened in to what he had to say, "Well the sooner the better really its rather important..I am afraid I have some bad news."
Dr Abbot and Dr Edwards sat in a small bar, Dr Edwards had explained all about what Ephram had told him. "I can't believe it, why wouldn't she tell me about this?" Dr Edwards sighed "I don't think she wanted the police involved, Ephram was pretty reluctant to tell me." Dr Abbot looked at his whiskey he picked up the glass and swirled his drink round before continuing again. "What are you going to say to Ephram? I mean you broke his trust." "I know and I feel awful, I do but I'd want to know if it was my daughter so why shouldn't you know. I just I have to hope that Ephram will be forgiving." Dr Abbot let out his hand. "Thanks for telling me, I better go and sort this out with Amy." Dr Edwards shook Dr Abbots hand and watched him leave the bar.
"Amy are you home?" Dr Abbot called up the stairs, he was ready to talk to Amy he had to understand what happened. Just the thought that someone had touched his little girl made his skin crawl. "Hey Dad, what's up?" Amy asked as she came down the stairs. Dr Abbot took a deep breath "You, me, coffee, lounge, talk." Amy laughed, "Okay, give me a few minutes and I'll be there." Dr Abbot nodded. Amy walked in to the lounge with two cups of coffee. "So what's the urgency for this talk?" Dr Abbot placed his cup down on a place mat. "I had some information today regarding you and a boy called Erin." Amy pretended not to know what he was talking about "Erin?" "Don't Amy I know exactly what went on at school today, what I don't know is why you kept it from me?" Amy shook her head "On a need to know basis you didn't to know." "I disagree, you were put through a great amount of pressure today and you should have told me, I am your father I have to know these things." Amy suddenly realised something. "Did Ephram tell you this?" "No he didn't." "Then how do you know what happened?" Dr Abbot sighed, "I can't tell you that." Amy remembered the call her dad got before he went out; she had heard the word Edwards that meant only one thing. "It was Dr Edwards wasn't it. Did Ephram tell Dr Edwards by any chance?" "Amy he had good reason." Amy looked at him his eyes pleaded with hers to tell him. But Amy couldn't she had to find Ephram ask him why, why he broke her trust. "I have to go!" she got up of the sofa, grabbed her beige jacket and ran out of the house. She had to find the man she couldn't trust.
Characters don't belong to me, for the exception of Dr Edwards and Erin.
The man she couldn't trust
Reluctantly Ephram walked towards the Abbots. Amy had to know what he had done didn't she? But then again he heard what she had to say and she didn't want anyone knowing. What have I done? He thought to himself Amy is never going to talk to me again. Sighing he continued toward the front door. Once he had arrived he looked up at Amy's window before continuing to ring the doorbell. Pressing his shaking hands upon the button, he took a step back from the door.
Taking a breath he was interrupted by the door opening, he found a curly haired blonde in front of him. "Bright, hi um is Amy in." Bright looked at the young man, all thoughts of Colin came back in to his mind and then he realised he had let go of his anger a long time a go. "Yeah man she's upstairs. Come in." Ephram obliged and walked in to the reception area. "AMY! You have a visitor." Bright shouted to her up the stairs. He told Ephram to go through to the lounge. "Do you want a drink?" Ephram shook his head "No, I have a feeling I wont be here for to long." Bright looked at him confused. Ephram smiled "It's a long story." Bright shrugged "Whatever." He said walking in to the kitchen.
Amy walked down the stairs, and in to the lounge. To her surprise she found Ephram sitting down on the couch. "Ephram? What are you doing here?" Ephram looked up at her, he could tell she had been crying. "Um well um I err this is hard to say." Amy looked at him concerned. "What has something happened?" Ephram nodded. "Yeah, I did something after our little talk." He whispered, realising that Bright was in the next room. Amy went to sit by him. "What sort of thing Ephram?" Ephram paused. "I went to see Erin, I know you told me not to, and I know that it was the wrong thing to do but I had no choice I had to tell him how much he had hurt you." Amy looked at him in disbelief "So you went behind my back, you went to see Erin?" Ephram nodded. Amy arose of the couch. "Get out." Ephram lifted himself up. "Amy please, I spoke to him he promised to leave you alone." "I don't care Ephram! I told you not to do anything, not to tell anyone. I thought I could trust you." "Amy please" Ephram put out his hand, "Please?" Amy manoeuvred towards the door. "No Ephram, I never want to see you again, just get out!" Ephram walked over to her. "Please don't leave it like this." Amy opened the door. "You let me down, I thought I could trust you." "You can Amy." "I don't want to talk to you. So don't call round, don't phone. Because I don't want to hear your apologises. I just want you to get out!" Ephram watched her eye well up. Sighing he walked out of the door and heard it slam behind him.
Bright came out of the kitchen and found Amy leaning against the door, crying. He looked on at her and the pulled her in for a hug. Bright pulled away for a moment. "What was that all about?" Amy wiped away a tear "It doesn't matter." She answered before running of upstairs.
Ephram rushed towards his house, grabbed his dad's set of office keys and then ran to his dad's office. It was the only place no one would find him, the only place he could just stay and think. In the rush of everything he dropped the keys on to the floor, sighing and picking them up he placed them in the lock, opened the door and walked inside. From across the street Dr Edwards watched Ephram from his office window; exhaling noisily he sat down in his chair and thought about the teenager.
Ephram sat in his dad's desk chair and looked at a picture of his mom. Closing eyes he remembered her the day she died, she was so radiant and pretty. Ephram watched her face fade from his memory. He opened his eyes and thought about this past days events placing his head on the table he drifted of to sleep.
Andy lay in bed wondering about Ephram. "Nina what time is it?" Nina glanced down at her watch "six o'clock, look don't worry, Ephram has probably fallen asleep and lost track of time." Nina sensed Andy's worry over his son. "I mean lets face it, he probably saw his bed and dived right in, I can call him if you want?" Andy nodded his heady "No, I don't want to wake him." "Actually talking of children, I had better take Delia home anyway, I have to go and pick Sam up." Andy glanced at her "Sam? Oh my god I completely forgot about him. Where is he?" Nina sighed "I am such a bad mother I asked if he could stay with his friend for a few days, I spoke to him on the phone last night but.I just felt so awful but I asked the boys mother if she could pick him up after school and I would collect him tonight." Andy motioned for her to go and get him. "Are you sure?" "Positive, now go!" Nina grabbed her things and lifted the sleeping girl into her arms. She kissed Andy on the forehead and made her way towards the door. Backing up she popped her head back in to the door "I'll be back tomorrow okay?" Andy laughed "Great but make sure you get Sam of the school first and you pick him up." Nina nodded, "Of course" she laughed before departing again.
Dr Edwards packed up his laptop, grabbed his bag and made his way out of the office. His receptionist had already clocked of for the day it was almost his turn he just needed to lock up the joint and head on home. Locking the office up he turned around and walked down the street a few metres; pausing at Dr Brown's practice he crossed the road and opened the door. Walking through the inviting reception area he continued through the Dr Brown's office. And sure enough there he found the very person he was looking for. Ephram laid over the desk his hand still clinging on to the picture of his mom. He put his things down and shook the young boy. "Ephram" he questioned. Ephram's eyes slowly lifted. "Dr Edwards? How did you know I was on here?" he questioned groggily. "I saw you come in, I must say though I was a bit discouraged when I found you asleep in here. Something you want to tell me?" Ephram lifted his body up from the desk, dropped the picture and rubbed his eyes. "I guess I should talk then."
Ephram looked at the picture of his mom, her vibrant smile lit up the whole picture. "Summer 2000, mom wanted to spend the day as a family so she took us all to the zoo. I was reluctant to go but I had no choice. But once I was there and saw how happy mom was. She said it was something about animals that took her back to her youth. It has got to be one of the best memories I have of her. And that red sweater-" Ephram pointed at the sweater his mom was wearing "I got that for her birthday, I was sure she would hate it but she said because I had got it her she couldn't possible hate it." Dr Edwards listened contently "It sounds like you had some good times with her." Ephram nodded "The best."
Dr Edwards watched the young boy "You looked pretty frustrated when you cam in to here, did something happen." Ephram stopped for a moment before moving to another picture; he wasn't ready to talk about Amy yet. "Now this picture was taken just after Delia was born, it was her first walk and-" Dr Edwards stopped him, "Ephram you know you can talk to me about anything, I mean I thought we established that in the hospital." "We did!" "Then talk to me Ephram, stop hiding behind memories and pictures. Tell me what bothering you?" Ephram brushed his hands through his hair. "I can't tell you, even though there is client confidentiality I know for a fact if I tell you what happened today you will have to tell someone." Dr Edwards shook his head "No, put your trust in to me Ephram." Ephram studied the old man "I am only telling you this because I know you wont tell anyone, Its Amy, you know I hit that guy?" "Yes." "Well he went for Amy today she was pretty upset and came round to mine, I comforted her for a while. She told me I couldn't tell anyone so instead I went to see Erin and sort it out. I did and he promised to leave her alone but I told Amy and she flipped." Ephram grew more frustrated, "She told me that she never wanted to see me again and that I had broken her promise. But I never meant to hurt her." Dr Edwards realised that what Ephram had told him was very serious. "What do you mean by he went for her?" Ephram locked glances with him "Well he pushed her on to the floor and he threatened her." Dr Edwards gasped, "Did he rape her?" "God no! It was in school no one witnessed it. It just shook her up that's all."
"And you said she wont talk to you?" Ephram lifted himself up from his chair and then proceeded to pace up and down the room "I know, I mean I was only trying to help her right? Its not like I told the cops or her dad. But she said she thought she could trust me, she can trust me. I am a trustworthy guy why can't she see that I was doing it for her best interests. I wouldn't-" Dr Edwards stopped Ephram "You're rambling, you know and I know you wouldn't, you just need to let Amy know." Ephram leant against the desk. "Your right, what's the time?" "Ten to seven." Ephram gasped, "Dad's going to be so worried. Look thanks so much Dr Edwards for your help but I really have to go so." Dr Edwards grabbed his things. "Okay well book and appointment with me sometime okay?" Ephram nodded "Sure." He said locking up the place "Bye." "Bye" Dr Edwards replied.
Grabbing his cellphone from his jacket pocket he went down his call menu, he stopped at Dr Abbots home phone number, looking up the street at the disappeared figure he felt awful, as he pressed 'ok' to dial the number. But this was one exception when the rules didn't count and a friend needed to know about her daughter. Not thinking about the consequences, Dr Abbot answered the phone. "Hi Dr Abbot its Dr Edwards here I wondered if we could get together and talk." He listened in to what he had to say, "Well the sooner the better really its rather important..I am afraid I have some bad news."
Dr Abbot and Dr Edwards sat in a small bar, Dr Edwards had explained all about what Ephram had told him. "I can't believe it, why wouldn't she tell me about this?" Dr Edwards sighed "I don't think she wanted the police involved, Ephram was pretty reluctant to tell me." Dr Abbot looked at his whiskey he picked up the glass and swirled his drink round before continuing again. "What are you going to say to Ephram? I mean you broke his trust." "I know and I feel awful, I do but I'd want to know if it was my daughter so why shouldn't you know. I just I have to hope that Ephram will be forgiving." Dr Abbot let out his hand. "Thanks for telling me, I better go and sort this out with Amy." Dr Edwards shook Dr Abbots hand and watched him leave the bar.
"Amy are you home?" Dr Abbot called up the stairs, he was ready to talk to Amy he had to understand what happened. Just the thought that someone had touched his little girl made his skin crawl. "Hey Dad, what's up?" Amy asked as she came down the stairs. Dr Abbot took a deep breath "You, me, coffee, lounge, talk." Amy laughed, "Okay, give me a few minutes and I'll be there." Dr Abbot nodded. Amy walked in to the lounge with two cups of coffee. "So what's the urgency for this talk?" Dr Abbot placed his cup down on a place mat. "I had some information today regarding you and a boy called Erin." Amy pretended not to know what he was talking about "Erin?" "Don't Amy I know exactly what went on at school today, what I don't know is why you kept it from me?" Amy shook her head "On a need to know basis you didn't to know." "I disagree, you were put through a great amount of pressure today and you should have told me, I am your father I have to know these things." Amy suddenly realised something. "Did Ephram tell you this?" "No he didn't." "Then how do you know what happened?" Dr Abbot sighed, "I can't tell you that." Amy remembered the call her dad got before he went out; she had heard the word Edwards that meant only one thing. "It was Dr Edwards wasn't it. Did Ephram tell Dr Edwards by any chance?" "Amy he had good reason." Amy looked at him his eyes pleaded with hers to tell him. But Amy couldn't she had to find Ephram ask him why, why he broke her trust. "I have to go!" she got up of the sofa, grabbed her beige jacket and ran out of the house. She had to find the man she couldn't trust.