The next few days were stressful for everybody who had exams. Leah was taking her meds so she could be more focused, but as Bright has said, 'not as much fun to hang around with'. However, Bright decided to take Leah up on her offer and took two of her pills so it could help him study, each whole pill lasted close to 24 hours; two day cram session if you would. He was bouncing off the walls and Ephram had to stay at Madison's place for those two days since Bright didn't sleep at all! At one point, he threw a 'cramming party' where several people went to his room and they put on some music all the while, Bright singing karaoke about the questions and answers to the things he was studying. Of all people, Wendell was even there, and he was sober! When they took a break, Bright asked, "what's the point of decaf coffee? I mean, people drink it for the caffeine, right? It tastes like shit anyway so why would they subject themselves to that sort of thing if they get no benefit from it?!"

Everybody laughed since they knew that he didn't necessarily want an answer, he was just talking to hear himself talk. Wendell decided to put in his J-Kwon CD in the karaoke machine and sang along to it, "…She smokin my stuff sayin she aint havin fun, Chick give it back now you don't get none. Everybody in the club getting tipsy. Everybody in the club getting tipsy. Now everybody in the club getting tipsy!"….

Bright joined in even though he only knew the chorus, but was as exuberant as ever anyway.

"So Bright is having a cram session party tonight" Ephram said to Madison as they sat on the couch in the living room.

"why aren't you over there?" she asked, laying her legs across Ephram's lap and leaning against the arm of the couch as they talked, trying to study at the same time.

"Cuz he's still hyped up on drugs thanks to Leah."
Madison smiled, "So that means you are staying here tonight?"

"If that's okay with you…I mean--"
"Shut up, Ephram, of course its okay with me, more time to help you study." she absent-mindedly brushed her hand through her hair as she spoke, all the while gazing at Ephram who was tapping his pen on his book.

Finally the exams were upon them and they all seemed to be ready, especially Bright who seemed to be able to recite everything in his sleep. The music class that he and Ephram had together was the hardest one for him since he barely paid much attention anyway. Ephram of course found it pretty easy. Wendell had to thank Bright for the cramming party they had the night before otherwise he would have probably failed. That particular exam lasted over an hour; part of it was listening to music and trying to figure who had written it while the other part was matching certain things to a certain period in time.

Ephram's most difficult exam just so happened to be the history exam even though he studied for several days. He got through it but it wasn't easy. The music classes he had with Madison, they only had one exam, but that too was pretty easy.

Everybody met after exam week outside the campus center. Leah was hyper once again, "I hate medication!! Lets all go do something! Run up a mountain, climb a rock wall or something! I'm about to pop with all this energy in me!" She started jumping up and down, clapping her hands while everybody else discussed how they think their exams went.

"Well hey," Myka said, "why don't we go bowling?" he looked at Leah, "It'll drain some of that energy of yours!"
Everybody decided on the bowling idea; boys against girls; Jess, Leah and Madison vs. Ephram, Myka and Bright.

"Oooh!" cried Leah, "I get the pink ball!"

"Dude" replied Bright, "that's like, only 8 pounds!"

They each picked a ball then got to their lanes. It was a Thursday afternoon so there weren't too many other people around.

"Hey, who's 'Starving Artist?" asked Bright as Leah was putting in the names.

"That would be our dear ol' buckaroo, Ephy!!!"
"Cute, Leah" replied Ephram as he sat next to Madison who leaned in to whisper in his ear, "you're going down."

"Okay, so now…who's 'Muffin Pie?" Asked Myka.

Leah just smiled, making Myka figure out that it was him.

"Oh stop with the frikken nicknames, maan!" cried Bright as he figured his name was 'pill popper'.

Finally they began bowling, each person trying to make the other person mess up or foul. Madison and Ephram were good sports though. Whenever they had a good frame, they high-fived and kissed each other. "Don't kiss the enemy!" cried Myka, "we're losing!" he playfully threw a glare in Leah's direction, but she just tossed her head to one side and smiled widely.

After the game, the girls were gloating because they won.

"you didn't win by much!" Bright pouted

"oh, but we still won." Jess pointed out.

They all decided to go to the pizza joint around the corner to get some pizza. They were all talking and joking and eating for quite some time before heading back to campus. "Lets throw a party!" yelled Leah excitedly!
Madison looked at Ephram, "We can have it at my place"
"Oh right" replied Myka, "our boy is still underage!
Ephram rolled his eyes, "yes, Myka, thanks for point that out once again."

Leah put her arm around his shoulder, "Its okay, Eph, its too expensive to go out all the time anyway. Much cheaper to stay in."