The next few days were uneventful, filled with homework and other things that filled up everybody's time. At lunch on Thursday, Ephram and Madison were sitting with Bright, Leah and Myka. Leah actually took her meds, and she wasn't as hyper as normal. Bright jokingly said, "you know that song that goes like, 'you're not much fun since I quit drinkin' or something like that." he laughed, "Leah is reminding me of that, but I made a new version, 'you're not much fun since you took your meds!"

Myka laughed, which made Leah backhand him, hitting him in the chest, which, in turn made everybody else laugh. "Hey, I know what will cheer you up," replied Myka, scooting away from her, "lets all go to the bars tonight."
Ephram, being the only one under 21 said, "Hello guys, I'm 19." he gave a mock smile, "I don't have an ID."
Bright chuckled, "oh yeah! Remember three years ago when we got you a fake ID to get you into that bar?"
Before Ephram could answer, Leah replied excitedly, "well then, why don't we just get you another one?"
"I don't think so." He looked at Madison, "I ended up in jail…and almost lost Madison. I definitely learned my lesson and I'll stick with doing things legally…thanks anyway."
He told Leah and Myka the story of how he ended up in jail. How Madison was so disappointed with him that they almost broke up. Love can make you do crazy things, and sometimes its not a good thing.

Saturday afternoon came around and Ephram met Madison at her house to say goodbye. "I'll call you tonight, ok?"
"I'll miss you!" replied Ephram, helping her with her bags.
"I'll take care of him" replied Jess jokingly, wrapping her arm around his neck and putting him in a headlock.
"Don't take care of him too much, Jess! I would like my boyfriend in one piece when I get back!"
Jess proceeded to gently punch him in the stomach, "oh, he'll be in one piece all right."
"Madison!" cried Ephram trying to get free, "oh, that's it, you asked for it!" he said as he fell backwards into the snow and pulled Jess with him. His hat fell off as he got free and jumped up laughing, "see, look what you made me do!" When Jess got up, she put on his hat, Ephram hid behind Madison, making her his human shield, "Okay children!" she said, putting up her hands to stop them, "I have to go, now be good!" She turned towards Ephram and kissed him softly, "I'll see you soon, sweetie." then turned towards Jess who was brushing the snow off her pants, "don't do anything I wouldn't do! Bye guys!" and she got into her car and headed off to Denver for the next few days. As the two walked towards the house, Ephram stole his hat back then Jess jumped on Ephram's back, "ride 'em cowboy! Yee-haw!" They talked and joked for an hour before Ephram headed back to school.

Monday evening came around and Ephram was talking on the phone with his sister about the week's events and how everything was going. While he was talking to her, he had another call and told her to hang on. On the other line was Madison and she didn't sound very happy so he told his sister he would call her later.
"Madison, you don't sound like yourself. Is anything wrong?" asked Ephram concerned, shifting the hat on his head.

"I'm sorry I didn't call you yesterday or Sunday." Before he knew it, Madison was in tears, "Everything has been so hectic, we lost a couple clients, one of the other people I work with got fired! We have a new person working for us, but its like, all he does is mess things up and I get shit for it!" She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself, "Its so stressful, it's never been this stressful and I'm just so frustrated right now I can't help but freak out and cry!"

Ephram felt so helpless, he hated it when Madison was unhappy, especially when he couldn't do anything to cheer her up. They stayed on the phone together for most of the night, Ephram only hung up when he was sure Madison was just a little bit happier than when she first called. "I'll see you tomorrow," Madison said before she hung up for the night. Ephram smiled, he couldn't wait to see her, he missed her the passed three days. Tuesday morning Ephram went to go visit Leah in the cafeteria. Leah looked at him happily, "Ephy, where's yer hat!? Are you sick!? I think this is the first time I have ever seen you without your hat!" She laughed, "call the president, call the press!! This is definitely newspaper material!"

"I think you mean, hold the presses. Glad to see you not taking your meds, Leah." Ephram said jokingly.
"Yeah, well, Bright was right. I'm not as much fun when I'm on them! I'm only taking them when I have midterms or finals. Hey, since they have completely different affects on folks who don't have ADHD, then if you ever wanted to stay up for 24 hours then feel free to hit me up!" She winked as Ephram smiled.
"I don't see that happening, Leah, but thanks anyway."