The next night while Ephram and Madison were getting ready for bed, Ephram said, "I'm really about to burst with the whole pregnancy thing..."
Madison shot a look at him, which made him flinch, he was afraid she would hit him so he laughed. She pushed him slightly out of amusement. She thought for a moment, but Ephram looked at her with puppy dog eyes which made Madison slightly smile. She raised her eyebrows, trying to sound convincing, "stop it." then she ended up smiling, "stop it! Fine!" she bit her lip, "fine, we'll tell them, but you do remember that your father and sister will be at your grandparents all day tomorrow?"
The two lay in bed, Ephram rested on his elbow as he and Madison talked, "looks like we'll just have to show Jess and Bright the sights then, now wont we."
"How about we tell everybody the day before they have to leave?" Madison said, "that way nobody will be able to make a huge fuss out of it." she nodded her head at her good idea as she smiled. Ephram agreed then they made themselves comfortable and fell asleep.
That morning when Ephram and Madison woke up and went downstairs, they found that Andy and Delia had left for the day while Jess and Bright were making themselves breakfast.
After breakfast they all got ready to go out to stroll around Manhattan. Bright was definitely the tourist; had his handheld video camera in hand and his still camera in its case around his neck and a map in his back pocket. The weather was nice, which made their day out that much better.
"Bright, buddy" said Ephram as they were walking, "do you realize how much of a tourist you look like?"
Bright sort of looked puzzled, "but I am a tourist? Plus, you have to realize I've never been out of Colorado."
"Dude!!" embellished Jess, "we should check out the building you work at Maddi!"
"Well, we may have time." said Bright looking at his list, "but first we have to go to Central park! I mean, The Fisher King with Robin Williams was shot there!"
"Wasn't he naked in that movie?" asked Ephram
"yeah" said Bright in a tone of voice that seemed to say, 'duh, everybody knows that', "then we'll have to go to Chinatown! Oh my god, and Time's Square!"
Madison replied, "you do know that you have three more days here and that we don't have to do everything in one day?"
Looking up from his list, "oh I know, but not all the things I want to do are in Manhattan. Brooklyn isn't too far from here, right?" his eyes beamed happily, "Just to say I've been there is good enough for me!"
"We can manage that" said Ephram, smiling at his friend.
After a few hours of walking around, they went to Central park with the sandwiches they bought from Subway and found a good spot to rest and hang out. Bright couldn't be happier.
By the time they got home, Bright had many bags full of souvenirs, something for each of his family members. Jess just took photos with Bright's camera since he was too busy filming everything with his video camera.
Delia and Andy weren't home yet so Ephram and Madison decided to go ahead and make dinner without them, thinking that they'd be home shortly or would call if they were going to be too much later.