Ephram fell back on his bed, dropping the phone then covering his face in his hands, "oh dear god!" and he started crying again.

Delia jumped up, "Ephram, why are you crying! The results are negative, I'm not sick!"

Ephram's voice was muffled, "these are tears of jubilance, Dee!" and he grabbed her and pulled her on top of him in a hug, "I love you so much! Don't ever scare me like that again!"

Madison hung up the phone then joined them in the hug.
Ephram said, "I'm so emotional right now, I feel like such a girl!"

Delia hit him, "I'll make you feel like a girl!"

"Ok Ephram, you can let go of me now!" She laughed trying to get out of the hug.

Just as everybody was playfully beating up on Ephram, Bright walked into the room and saw the girls, not recognizing Delia at first, "Oooh, an orgy!"

Then he recognized Delia and in the same instant felt like crawling under a rock, "Oh, I mean….study group?" he smiled a painful I-wish-I-never-said-that smile.

Ephram laughed, sitting up, wiping away the tears from his face.

"What's up Ephram?" he asked

Ephram pulled his sister to him, "my life."
"Oh, inside joke…." he jokingly pouted, "does it have anything to do with Delia being sick?"

"How'd you know about that?!"

"Hello, Dr. B. lives in Everwood…my parents live in Everwood…My sister lives in Everwood and she cant keep secrets, we all know this by now!"

Delia pushed him playfully, "Well, I'm not sick, the results came back and I'm healthy!"

"Well that's awesome, squirt!" he made his way over to the little fridge by his desk, "want a beer?" he asked Delia with a wink.

"I'd love one!" she happily said

Ephram scrunched up his face, but before he could say anything, Bright said, "Root Beer, that is!" and he threw a can to Delia.

Delia jumped on Ephram's bed, "So dad is coming to pick me up in a few hours. What shall we do for the rest of the time?" She looked at Ephram who looked like he wanted to hug her again, "Don't hug me!" she yelled, jumping away from him, "I've had enough of your bear hugs! Madison, hug Madison!"

Madison pulled Ephram to her by his neck then embraced him in a hug, whispering, "I love you."

They embraced for a long time, Ephram's arms wrapped around her.

"Ok!" Bright said, "Break up the love fest please, I need to study!"

Delia picked up the pieces to Ephram's cell phone, "So, what do we do about this?"

Ephram half grinned, "tell the company it got run over by a car? Maybe they'll give me a new one for free."

The three of them walked outside, talked and joked for the remaining couple of hours before Andy came to pick up Delia.
"I love you, kid" he said, hugging her.

"I know you do." she pulled away from the hug then hugged Madison, "see you soon!"

Madison smiled. Then when Delia drove away with her father, Madison took Ephram's arm and they walked to the cafeteria together, "I can see how much you love your sister. She means so much to you."
Ephram put his arm around Madison's shoulders, "I love other things too, you know."
Madison smiled, putting her head against his, "like what?"
Ephram stopped, and pulled her close to him, "haven't you heard? I'm head over heals for this girl named Madison. She has my heart."

She wrapped her arms around his neck, "you know…I have heard about this Madison, girl, and she's a pretty cool chick." She bit her lip.

Ephram put his forehead against hers and closed his eyes, "I love you so much."
Madison kissed him passionately, slipping her tongue into his mouth. He wrapped his arms around her waist as they stood there, kissing deeply. They broke away, Ephram touching her face softly before making their way to the cafeteria to meet Leah and Myka for lunch.