The following week, Ephram decided to go with Bright and a friend of his to check out some colleges in and around Boulder. It was a Thursday and he asked Madison if she would like to go. He didn't want to be the third person, since, to him, three is a crowd and he keeps to himself anyway.
"Why does he want to go to school in Boulder?"
Ephram shrugged his shoulders, "Bright wants to major in English or something like that and he says Boulder has a good program. He says the college around here doesn't have as good a one as up there. I think he already has his mind made up, you know."
"I would love to go with you Ephram. Plus it will give me a good excuse to check out other schools. But you do know we'll have to bring Delia, I cant just leave her home alone, or pawn her off on Nina?"
"Yeah, I understand."
The next day around 3pm, Madison and Delia met Ephram and Bright and the other kid outside of school. They decided to take two vehicles since Bright and his friend would probably be there longer than Ephram would be wanting. "Here's a walkie talkie, we'll talk to you guys through this." smiled Bright handing Ephram the other radio.
The whole way there, Bright was either rapping through the walkie talkie, or Delia was complaining how bored she was. Madison couldn't help but laugh. She got into the backseat with Delia and they decided to play some games as they headed to Boulder. She kept looking in the mirror and looking at Ephram, who would smile and wink at her. After a while, Delia took the radio and talked into it, "hey Bright, lets all play 'I Spy'!" She could hear in the background, Bright's friend laughing as he took the radio, "and how are we going to do that, miss Delia?"
"Well, I was thinking that since we are in separate cars then anything we spy cant be in one of the cars! It has to be outside! Or, if you don't want to play that, we can play…license plate bingo…oh never mind, we all actually have to be in the same car." she laughed.
"Ok, lets try this game out, Delia, you start!" replied Bright's friend, Mark.
Not even 15 minutes went by before Delia decided to switch games. Madison was back up in the front seat, talking and joking with Ephram, holding hands.
"How about that one game where somebody starts with the letter 'A' then somebody else has 'B'…it goes like, 'A for alligator' then whoever has 'B' says 'Alligator, then Bear…then 'C' has to go, 'Alligator, Bear, Cougar…or something! Wanna play!"
"Bright got on the radio, "do we have a choice?"
"NOPE!"
"Ok, guess we're playing!"
The game lasted for a while, just a little before they actually got to the college in Boulder.
Finally they arrived and parked. "Huddle up!" replied Bright, waving at everybody to come towards him, "here's the plan…Mark and I have a different agenda than the three of you so I was thinking that we could meet someplace at a certain time?"
Ephram replied, "Ok Bright, how about we meet here in two hours?"
"coo'! But if anything changes, we'll let you know" he said holding up the walkie talkie.
Bright and Mark went off in one direction as Madison, Ephram and Delia went in another. Madison and Ephram were walking arm in arm as Delia was walking a little bit ahead, looking at everything, amazed at all the buildings. They headed to the music building and on there way was a message board with a piece of paper tacked to it, 'Jeffery Jacob is giving a lecture on music next week, Thursday from 10am to 2:30pm. Interested students should sign up with their music professor'. Ephram said softly, "that is just too cool!"
A student who was walking by noticed Ephram was looking at the piece of paper, "yeah, isn't that cool!" said the student, "I'm a junior majoring in music and Mr. Jacob is one of my all time favorites! I don't know if you know this, but starting next year, Mr. Jacob is planning on teaching a few classes here and at a couple other universities! He's taking time off from his work in Indiana to check out other students! That's going to be so cool! You should check out the lecture if you can!" said the student before she left. Ephram stared after her with his mouth open. Madison laughed, shutting his mouth, "its not nice to gawk." she joked.