she sighed as if she just remembered something and covered her face with her hands. She was saying something but it was muffled and incoherent, Ephram took her hands away and chuckled, "what are you saying?"

Madison swallowed hard and looked at Ephram with a serious look upon her face. She closed her eyes, "...I'm...still with Troy..."

Ephram threw his hand over his mouth and raised his eyebrows out of shock, "what the hell? So what was last night? Why'd you kiss me?" asked Ephram in a sort of shock.

"It's how you make me feel, Ephram...Whenever I'm with you I forget about everything else, nothing else matters and when you told me that you still love me then I went with my gut reaction." She shook her head, "last night was fun and I was happy and nothing else mattered. I havent felt that way for a long time, Ephram. Just being with you makes me happy."

All Ephram could say was, "what about Troy?"

Madison sat on the edge of the bed and just shook her head, "what about him? As far as I'm concerned we're over..." she said softly.

Ephram sat behind her and wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear as she leaned against him, "I hate it when you're upset..." he put his chin on her shoulder, "we'll get through this...together..."

A couple hours later Madison decided to head to Troy's to break the news to him. She and Ephram wanted to be together more than anything so she didnt want to delay it any longer. Ephram walked Madison to her car, she kissed him on the cheek, "see you tomorrow?"
Ephram only nodded and half smiled, "I have a lot of stuff to do anyway. Errands...homework, ya know, just little things to do."
"Ephram," Madison said as she tilted her head, "are you okay?"

"Yeah" he said winking at her.

The two went their separate ways and as Ephram was running his errands for the day, he realized he wasnt okay. Being with Madison, that's what he really wanted and he couldnt pretend he was alright with not being with her. After running the errands and running all over town to do the little things, he decided to blow off his homework and head to Madison's place 40 minutes away, tell her, again, how he felt. The sky turned gray and it started raining heavily as he got to her house, but she wasnt there yet so he decided to sit on the porch swing.

About 20 minutes later, Madison pulled up into the driveway and saw Ephram's car. Still raining heavily, she made her way to the porch and saw him sitting there and she asked slowly as he looked up, "what are you...?" and she stopped in her tracks, standing in the rain. Ephram stood up, "I lied..."

She looked at him curiously, "Ephram?"
His eyes glistened with tears, "I lied, Madison...I'm not okay, not without you, I'm not okay." he took a few steps towards her, now feeling the heavy raindrops on his head, as she was getting drenched from the rain as well. She grabbed him and embraced him in a hug, whispering, "I love you, Ephram...so much...Troy and I are over..."

Ephram couldnt help but drop his crutches and wrap his arms around her and just hold her, not caring that they were now soaked to the bone from the rain and that passersby were looking at them rather strangely as they stood there in the pouring rain.

After a while Ephram looked at Madison, "Is it safe to kiss you?"

"More than you'll ever know" she replied with a smile. The two leaned in for a slow, deep passionate kiss. Ephram slipped his tongue into her mouth as she let out a slight moan of satisfaction.

To interrupt a romantic kiss, Ephram's legs gave out and he fell to the ground. Madison dropped beside him as she tried not to laugh. He was rubbing his legs when she asked, "are you okay?"

Ephram chuckled, "yeah, my legs aren't used to standing on their own without support. They're just weak, that's all." and then he had the urge to kiss her again and placed his hand on the back of her neck and kissed her deeply once again, pulling her on top of him as he lay on the ground. Madison couldnt help but laugh, it was such a wonderful moment and kissing Ephram in the rain made it that much more perfect.

Suddenly there was a crack of thunder which seemed to shake the ground and a flash of lightning that lit up the dark gray sky. Ephram rememberd his metal crutches laying beside him and, laughing nervously, said, "I think we should get inside now."

Madison pulled Ephram up and gave him his crutches.

"I dont need them" he said before he climbed up the stairs. Just then his left leg gave out as he started up the stairs and he grabbed the post going up the stairs to stop him from falling. He laughed, "Maybe I do." and Madison helped him fit the crutches to his forearms. When they got into the house, Madison lead Ephram to her bedroom where she figured they would change out of their wet clothes. She dug through her closet and pulled out a pair of jeans then tossed them to Ephram. Raising his eyebrows in surprise, he couldnt help but look from her then to the jeans, "You've had my favorite pair of jeans all this time?!" he shook his head, trying not to smile, "I dont even want to know what you have been doing with them for the three years!"

She picked a couple articles of clothing from her closet then left the room to get dressed in another room. When she came back she tossed Ephram a towel to dry off. He had already changed into the dry pants but had no shirt. Madison couldnt help but gently touch his chest and trace his upperbody with her fingers, making him shiver, as she planted small kisses all over his face. The two made their way into the living room and lay on the couch, talking and joking and cuddling.

(A/N; Well its about time, I should be getting a new chapter out for Living the Life shortly and I think you'll enjoy it. I had fun writing it and hopefully it shows. Thanks for the support everybody, it means so much!)