(A/N: sorry for the lack of Ephison moments, (they are my favorites too), no worries, there are going to be a few after the next couple chapters! Oh yes, and for those of you who may be wondering; I have no intention of ending this fic anytime soon, there's just so much I can do with it! Thanks for the reviews everybody, they mean a lot!!)

The next day, everybody decided to hang around the house since they would have to leave early tomorrow morning. Ephram decided to head to Julliard to practice a while, plus one of his professors wanted to talk to him about an upcoming concert.

He knocked on his professor's door and heard, "Come in!"

Ephram opened the door and smiled at his professor, "you wanted to talk to me?"

His professor beamed a smile and waved at Ephram to enter, "Ephram Brown, I want you to meet Yanni! Yanni, this is Ephram Brown, an aspiring pianist."

Yanni smiled, "more like awe inspiring, I've heard his stuff."

Ephram was shocked with amazement because Yanni was one of his all time favorite composers, and could play a mean piano, or two keyboards at once!

"It's such a pleasure to meet you" he managed to squeak out.

Yanni smiled and shook Ephram's hand, "Lets get straight to the point" he said with his Greek accent, "my keyboardist, Ming Freeman, is out sick with the flu and I need somebody to fill his place for tonight's concert."
Ephram couldn't help but look from Yanni to his professor back to Yanni again, he was able to speak no words and just listened.

"People have told me about you, Ephram. I have a proposal…" he paused and smiled, "would you mind taking Ming's place tonight?"
Ephram's eyes became wide, but yet could still not speak.

Yanni chuckled and brushed his shoulder length hair out of his face, "Since it is such short notice, I am willing to pay you what Ming gets paid each performance" and he handed Ephram a check, which almost made him choke, he coughed instead as he looked at the four zeros behind the number 8. Ephram couldn't believe this, this was normally a year's worth of salary for him. Yanni continued, his Greek accent sort of thick, "and as I am sure you might have had plans tonight, I am willing to give you several tickets to the concert for your family and friends."
All Ephram could say was, "why me?"

Yanni looked at his professor and the two chuckled, "I have heard you play, and I know you can do this. Will you help me out tonight?"

Again, Ephram was speechless, all he could do was nod his head and shake Yanni's hand.

"Great, see you tonight around 6pm, the concert starts at 7pm. Oh, and here is the sheet music you will be playing." And he handed him the sheet music along with the booklet of which songs he would be performing in and several tickets for the show.

Ephram went straight home to share the great news. When he arrived, Madison greeted him with a sweet kiss, "that was fast." then she noticed he was in sort of a daze, "why do you look as though you're about to pass out."
All Ephram could do was smile and hold up the check for Madison to see. She was sort of confused, even more so when he handed her several concert tickets to tonight's concert featuring Yanni and his orchestra.

"Okay, now…I'm completely confused? Eph, what's going on?" she asked as she squinted her eyes at him.

He thought a moment to collect his thoughts, "Yanni came to campus today…." he spoke slowly, still not sure if he was dreaming or not, "his um…uh, his keyboardist Ming Freeman is out sick, and…" he paused trying to keep his composure. All he really wanted to do was grab Madison and swing her around the room and share this festive moment. He continued as he closed his eyes, "Yanni is paying me this much" as he held up the check once again, "to play in his orchestra tonight."

Madison smiled and covered her mouth with her hand as she raised her eyebrows as he continued further, "he also gave me several tickets to the show to give to family and friends!" he opened his eyes and noticed Madison's expression, which made Ephram forget everything and just pick her up and swing her around as he laughed happily.

Everybody else heard the ruckus and decided to make their way to where the other two were. As Ephram put her down, all he said to them was "We're going to a concert tonight at 7pm, and here are the tickets!" he handed the tickets to Andy and smiled before walking passed them to go practice on his keyboard, "I have to practice!"

So Ephram could have some practice time, everybody else decided to go downstairs to watch TV and play pool.

Jess looked over the tickets, "did anybody notice that there are six tickets here?! That Yanni character must be pretty good if he's giving away this many tickets!"

Madison thought for a moment as she leaned on the pool stick, "…you know…I think we should give Quinn a call, she's not doing anything tonight. Skylar is working 'til 10pm, she'd probably love to go!" After she hit a few balls in different pockets, she decided to go into the other room to call Quinn to see what she was doing.

A few minutes later Madison came back, "Quinn would be glad to come with us!"

Delia flipped through the channels as she spoke, "So this should be a really cool time then, nothing too boring?"
"No, nothing too boring" replied Madison as she shot at the cue ball.

Around 5:30pm, Ephram told everybody that he had to be there early so he would have to take a separate vehicle. He was getting nervous, and Madison could tell, "you'll do great, Eph!" and kissed him sweetly before he left, "we'll see you there!"

Everybody eventually made their way to the concert which started at 7pm. Quinn was excited because she knew that sometimes in Yanni's performances, he would have two violinists from his orchestra 'duel' it out, which was just an amazing thing to witness.

After every other song, Yanni introduced people from his orchestra, "Ming has been sick for the passed few days and I'm sure many of you have been wondering who this amazing keyboardist is. Say hello to Ephram Brown, he's from right here in your very own state, New York!" the crowd erupted into applause, it was deafening. Delia jumped up and applauded as well, "That's my brother!" She sat back down and yelled over the applause to Madison, "this is awesome! I never realized orchestra music could be so cool!"

Madison put her arm around Delia and chuckled at the way she said it.