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Ephram got in his car and just sat there. He was angry with himself for acting the way he did, not just with the fight, but with Madison.

Madison stayed up later than usual that night waiting for Ephram, but eventually she went to bed, figuring he would be back soon.

At 4am Julia woke up and started crying. Madison groaned. "Ephram...Ephram c'mon it's your turn!" She put a pillow over her head and tried to go back to sleep.

When Julia was still in the same state 5 minutes later, Madison slowly started to open her eyes. She looked over at Ephram's bed, expecting to see him, but the bed was in the same condition that it was hours ago. Empty. After she got over the shock of not seeing Ephram she remembered why she got up in the first place. She ran over to Julia and picked her up.

When Ephram walked in at around 6am, Madison was sitting up waiting for him. She had been so worried, she hadn't been able to get back to sleep.

"Where the hell have you been?! Do you have any idea how worried I was?! Why didn't you call!?"

Ephram looked at her, "Sorry MOM...I didn't realize I had to check in every 5 minutes"

Madison sighed, "Ephram...you don't just leave without a word and then come back 12 hours later! I swear to god I thought you were kidnapped or something!"

Ephram laughed, "This is Everwood...the closest they've ever come to a kidnapping is when Tommy Cunningham took Amanda Watson's cat home with him!"

Madison gave up on the argument, there was no point, "So where did you go anyway?"

Ephram sat down on his bed, "I went to Mama Joy's...then I drove around for a while"

"Well I'm glad you were doing something important while I had to stay here and take care of our daughter..." she replied sarcastically.

"If you needed me so much why didn't you just call me?!"

"I did Ephram...maybe you should turn your phone on once in a while" she said harshly.

Ephram didn't know how to respond to this so he answered with a simple, "Oh.."

"Yeah "Oh" is right! Jesus Ephram you leave me here worrying about you while you're out there "driving around" I mean it's fine if you needed to go out and think about stuff but you could have at least told me where you were going-or called! I'm not trying to be your mother-God that would be wrong-but I'd still like to know that I don't have to take the night shift all by myself!"

Ephram looked down, "I'm sorry ok...I-I just...it's just yesterday sucked. Plain and simple. I already had to deal with my dad and then I come here and y-you act the same way he did...I can't even deal with him Madison-what makes you think I'll be able to deal with both of you! You don't have to know where I am all the time-or-or when I'm gonna be back, you don't have to worry about me!"

"That's not what I'm saying Ephram! And I'm sorry if you felt like I was hard on you yesterday-but...well I expected more from you! I mean your better than that! I'm sorry if I came off as a parental type-but that's not what I was trying to be at all! You know that I don't see you as just some high school kid! ...but yesterday you come back with a bloody lip-and then you just take off after an argument and I have no idea what's going on in your mind-I have no idea what you're thinking-what you're going to do...I was worried-how did you expect me to react?!"

Ephram shook his head, "You don't have to worry about me!"

"But I do!" she yelled back.

Ephram looked up at her, "Why?"

Madison was almost in tears now, "Because..." she looked down and took a deep breath, "Because I love you Ephram-there I said it, I love you...I never stopped loving you....and as much as I try to hide it-I just can't anymore..." Madison felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of her chest. She looked at Ephram who was in shock.

He had always kind of felt it, but it had never really hit him that she still felt the same. He opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out. Just then Julia started to cry-perfect timing.

Madison took it as an excuse to change subjects, "Your turn"

Ephram took a few seconds to react, but eventually walked over and picked up Julia.

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