Not even two days later, Ephram and Madison were arguing again, which wasn't like them, but it was a mixture of a couple things, which sort of irritated Ephram.
Ephram was talking on the phone to Delia and everything he said kept coming out negatively, "I sound like a jealous retard!" he said irritably, "if she's not working or practicing with her band, as she has been for the passed week because of the performance at the campus center in a couple days, then she's over at Leah's, therefore I hardly see her. We didn't see or talk to each other at all yesterday. It's like she has much better things to do than spend time with me. Gah! How bad does that sound?!"
Munching on some cheese, Delia replied, "have you spoken to Madison about this?"
"I brought it up once, briefly."
"Well, what'd you say?" she asked not too concerned
He took a deep breath, "I told her that I thought she was spending too much time with her band and Leah. Then she got upset and told me that I need to grow up."
Delia laughed, almost choking on her cheese, "you doofus! You aren't too smooth when it comes to that stuff, are ya! Don't come out and accuse, it always gets you in trouble! Plus, Leah just broke up with her boyfriend, right? She must be very upset, so you need to calm down and just deal with it. Wouldn't you want somebody to be making you feel at least a little bit better if you ended up breaking up with your girlfriend?" Delia thought for a second, "well maybe not, it could just be a girl thing." and she slightly laughed.
Ephram rolled his eyes, sighing, "that's just what she said. Then she was like, call me when you're done freaking out about this, then she hung up on me. God!" he kicked his bedpost, "I feel like such a frikken jerk!"
"See, you just need the perspective of a 13 year old. Go talk to her!"
They talked for a little while longer before Ephram decided to hang up and call Madison.
He got her voicemail, "hey…" he sighed, "Its me…sorry for the way I've been acting." he cleared his throat, "call me back, I think we should talk."
About an hour later, Madison called him back, she had just finished practicing with her band, "God, Eph, you are so difficult sometimes!"
"it's a trait I have, thanks for pointing that out." he snapped sarcastically.
"Stop being that way! Why are you being like that?!" she didn't understand why he was acting the way he was, "meet me at the studio, would you." she said before hanging up.
Ephram rolled his eyes then got his stuff and headed out the door to meet her at the studio of where her band was. He realized, thanks partially to Delia, that he was being a selfish jerk and he needed to apologize. Madison had every right to be upset with him because he wasn't being fair. Hopefully she would listen to him and forgive his stupidity.
