The next morning, Bright picked Ephram up around 9:30am and the two headed to his physical therapy session. Although Bright has gone with him before, he is always amazed at all the equipment, everything from high tech modern machines to other things that look as if they are over 100 years old. While Ephram was doing his exercises with his nurse, Judy, Bright was talking/flirting with another one of the nurses for a while before she had to get back to work. Not too long afterwards, Judy, an older looking nurse, had Ephram sit in a chair for a minute or so, so she could get some paperwork. While Ephram was sitting down, thumbing through a magazine, Bright was laying on the floor next to the chair. He stopped playing with the ball that he had and decided to play with Ephram's achille's tendens. First he pinched the right one, and of course, got the reaction he was looking for; nothing. Then he pinched the left tenden, and much to his suprise, Ephram said, "ow, Bright! Dont do that, that hurt."
Bright sat up quickly, "what'd you just say?!"

"I said, dont, that—oh my god!! Oh my god!" Ephram became excited, which made Bright proceed to smack Ephram's knee with the little hard ball, which, out of reflex, his leg kicked up, "Bro!" cried Bright, "That's never happened before!"
"Judy! Come here, come here!" yelled Ephram excitedly. Judy rushed over and put her clipboard down as Ephram said, "smack my right knee!"

She frowned at Ephram, "you know what will happen, Ephram...nothing"

"Please? Just do it?" he asked excitedly. With that, Judy smacked his right knee, but nothing happened. Ephram smiled, "now smack the left one..." She did just that, and to her surprise, the leg kicked up and she screamed with delight. She practically threw Ephram into his wheelchair and wheeled him to the examining room, yelling over her shoulder to Bright, "make yourself comfy, this will only take 20 minutes!"

20 minutes later, Ephram and Judy came back out, all the while Judy singing happily. "Just what I thought," she said, "Ephram now has full feeling in his left leg, and if my calculations are correct, the other leg should follow suit." She handed Ephram some leg braces, "these braces will help you sort of walk if you really want to. But I dont necessarily recommend it until after a couple more sessions when we switch from wheelchair to crutches. Once you get feeling in both legs then we'll give you the crutches, but there is no need to rush anything." she said happily.
Their session ended and Bright wheeled himself happily out to Bright's car. Bright asked, "who are you going tell, we have to celebrate!"

"I want to tell everybody! My dad, Delia, Kay and Madison" he said, but then he thought about it for a second and changed his mind, "no, not everybody...I want to make it a surprise for Kay and Madison. The two will be excited, but I dont want to tell them until after I can walk completely."

As they got into the car and drove out of the parking lot, Bright asked, "I thought you and Kay broke up?"
Ephram sighed, "it's complicated..." was all he could say.

A few days later, Madison was at the grocery store picking up a few things while talking on the phone to a friend of hers. While they were talking, Madison was smelling candles then abruptly stopped talking as memories from a certain scented candle came flooding back to her and she almost dropped the candle, but caught it and dropped her cell phone instead. She immediately put the scented candle back on the shelf and grabbed her phone from the floor and spoke into it, "sorry about that..." she said slowly, blinking repeatedly, "you know how...certain smells bring back memories..." she paused, "Let me call you back." and she hung up the phone as she tried to collect her thoughts. The memories that flooded her head were of the past...when she and Ephram were together. She tried to dismiss her thoughts as she made her way up to the cash register to pay for her things...Besides, they were just friends...right? As she got to her car, she couldnt help but think of Ephram. For the passed month, she's been thinking about him more. What did it all mean? Songs she hears, either random songs or ones that were once theirs, makes her think of him. It seems that, the harder she tries to ignore these signs, they hit her twice as hard the next time. These feelings...it cant be lust, she's known him too long...it cant be infatuation, they've dated before. All of a sudden she got a thought, I have to call him and talk to him...hear his voice. But...what if I tell him? Will I lose his friendship? Having him in her life has been wonderful, even if for the passed couple years they have just been friends. Should she take the next step? Then she thought, 'what's love if you cant take a risk...' and she smiled to herself as she drove home, realizing that she was going to have to call him and tell him...somehow...