The next morning, before Ephram's physical therapy session, he had a slight ache in his calf. At first he thought nothing of it but then realized that he could now feel both legs! He was so excited he accidentally fell out of bed, yelling happily. His roommate, Kyle, came running into Ephram's room to see him on the floor, all Ephram could say as he smiled wide, "I can feel my legs! Both of them! From the knee down!" He couldnt yet walk on his own though since his legs were too weak. Kyle helped Ephram into his wheelchair as Bright was let in the apartment by another one of Ephram's roommates. For the next 20 minutes before Ephram had to leave for his appointment, they all celebrated and called up friends and family they knew.

Afterwards, Ephram went to his therapy session with Bright just as happy as ever. As soon as he could, he told Judy that he could feel both of his legs. She was quite delighted and tossed her clipboard aside. "Lets go to work!" she screamed happily as she wheeled Ephram over to where two waist-high bars were. Ephram knew what this was, it was to help him learn to walk on his own again, but he never thought he'd get this far. Judy noticed Ephram was looking at the bars, but she told him, "not yet, honey. We have to do some more exercises. Maybe before the end of your session today we can take a crack at that, okay."

About a half hour before the session was over, Judy wheeled Ephram back over to the bars and put the brake in place so he wouldnt wheel away. Judy stood in front of him and helped him stand up. She had Bright stand behind him with the wheelchair, this way Ephram wouldnt be able to fall or collapse, or, if he did then he'd fall into the chair. "Now, standing might be difficult after a few minutes and you'll want to sit down since you wont be used to it." she backed up and had Ephram hold the bars as he stood there. She smiled widely, "if you think you can, take a step forward"

Bright whispered, "you can do it, bro!"

Ephram took a deep breath and gripped the bars then slowly took a step forward. As he felt the process, he couldnt help but laugh out loud, "I'm doing it! I'm walking! Judy! Bright! Oh my god!" and he took another small step with his other foot.

Judy called to one of the other nurses, "get us the crutches, the ones that attach to the forearms!" Then she looked at Ephram who looked so determined to learn to walk again. She said, "For now, we're still going to let you have the wheelchair, but we'll give you the forearm crutches in case you feel the need to want to walk on your own."

The session ended and Bright and Ephram made their way happily back to his apartment. Bright said, "we're having a party tomorrow night, bro, you should bring some people! That'd be the perfect place to show off your skills! Laynie would love to see you, since I think she's the only person who actually stayed around after high school. Everybody else went out of state!"

"You know what..." Ephram said biting his bottom lip and looking at the window happily, "that sounds good...Are you guys having it at the dorms like last time?"

"nope. We're having it at the Frat house! Its cool, since it's only 20 minutes from your place and you dont have class tomorrow!"
The two talked about the party a little while longer before they got to Ephram's apartment. Bright couldnt stay long but before he left he gave Ephram directions to the house. Later that day, Ephram called Madison to see if she would like to go to the party with him, but, she wasnt home so he left a message, "Madison, Bright is having a party tomorrow night and...I was wondering if you'd like to go with me...I want to see you...Well, if you dont give me a call before then, then I'll call you back and leave directions on the machine. I hope you come...bye"

Around 6:30pm the next day, still no call from Madison, but Kay stopped by to get some things that she had left at Ephram's place. His roommates were having a little get together with some of their friends, so the apartment was filled with music and people. He was too busy doing something else to pay much attention to her. But they did chitchat for a little while. Several minutes later, Kyle answered the door, it was Madison, and he told her that Ephram was in the other room. She went to find him.

"You know," Kay said to Ephram as she finished packing up the rest of her stuff, "I like Madison and..."
Ephram stopped what he was doing and listened to Kay, "I hope it works out for the two of you..."
He nodded, "thanks, Kay...me too, ya know..." and Kay leaned down to give him a hug and a small goodbye kiss. Just as she kissed him, a familiar voice was in the background, "Hey Ephram, where are you," then Madison appeared in the doorway and saw the two kissing, "oh, I'm sorry..." and she walked quickly away.

"Oh no! Wait!" cried Ephram as he high tailed it after her as fast as his wheelchair could go. He caught up to her in the hallway of the apartment building before she could get all the way down the stairs, Ephram said, "Madison stop! Dont make me throw myself down these stairs after you because I will do it!"

She stopped and half turned to look at Ephram, "Eph..." she said in a sort of disappointed sort of tone.

(A/N: sup folks, thanks for the reviews, much appreciated as always! Sorry for the lack of updates for "living the life", but things have been hectic with school and everything, but no worries, I will get a new chapter out shortly. In the mean time, I will still be working on this one...YEA!)