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Ephram took Delia out to lunch like he said he would but didn't talk much at all. He ordered his food, asked the waiter where the bathroom was and that was about all. Every time Delia tried to make conversation, Ephram didn't realize she was talking. Delia noticed the incredible sadness in his eyes and finally just stopped trying to talk to him; she honestly didn't know how to make him feel better. She hadn't expected to find out Madison, her old babysitter and friend was pregnant. Sure she wasn't all that surprised to see her, she knew Madison still lived in Everwood and occasionally they would bump into each other. The last thing she had heard from Madison was that she had gotten a job, a good one, but couldn't remember exactly what it had been.

Soon they were home again and Delia helped Ephram carry all his bags up to his room.

"Hey, so um... what do you want to do the rest of the day?" Delia asked.

"Ya know if you don't mind I think I'm just gonna stay up here and relax for a little bit" he said as he threw himself on to his bed.

"Okay, sure no problem. I'll be downstairs, I'll come back up later to talk about dinner," she decided not to pry, she could feel his pain it radiated out past his body, and knew he needed to be alone with his thoughts.

"Thanks" was all he said back to her as she left and closed the door behind her.

Andy arrived home a few hours later around 5 o'clock. Opening the door he yelled, "I'm home" as if expecting them to be happily awaiting his return, even though he knew they wouldn't be. A somber Delia responded, "Hey dad. I'm in the living room."

"Great so what are you guys gonna do..." he stopped when he noticed Ephram wasn't with her. "Where's your brother?"

"Oh he's upstairs in his room listening to music." Andy heard the angry music now as the volume increased.

"What's that all about?"

"We kinda had a rough end to the afternoon. To make a long story short he's upset."

"Just like the good old days, uh. Well I guess I'll go talk to him, we'll more like try to" as Andy began to move toward the stairs.

"No!!" Delia screamed as she popped of the couch and made her way towards her father as she placed herself between him and the stairs.

"Why not, what's wrong Delia?"

"It's just that uh it's a really bad idea to go up there. I think he needs to be alone right now."

"Delia, tell me what happened, right now," beginning to become worried.

"It's not really any of my business to say dad."

"Well I'm making it your business to tell me right now young lady or you'll be lucky to see outside this house for the next week," Andy threatened as he became frustrated and impatient.

Raising her voice, "Wait, hold on a second I didn't do anything wrong. I'm just trying not to make this any worse then it already is. He probably wants to leave now and if you go up there and try and make this "better" he'll storm right outta here and probably never come back," she began to get emotional just thinking about the possibility that her brother might leave her again and not come back.

Calming down, "Delia, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get so upset with you. Now while I understand what you're trying to do here I don't think it could be that bad. So I'm going to talk to him, just talk to him," trying to move past her.

"No way! Look its Madison, he's upset about Madison," she blurted out without really trying or meaning to.

"Excuse me; did I just hear you say Madison?"

Delia let out a sigh and lifted her hand to her forehead, "Great, just great I can't keep my big mouth shut."

"Answer the question."

"Yes, you heard me, I said Madison."

Andy backed away from the stairs and walked over and sat down on the couch, "Why, what about Madison?"

Delia followed him over, "We saw her today at the mall and..."

"So what Ephram hasn't seen her in years, why would he get all upset?" he said interrupting her.

Replying to his question, "Because he came back here for her."

Andy's face turned from a look of confusion to complete shock, "I knew he was lying about why he came home, but I never imagined Madison to be the reason."

"He came here because he wants," correcting herself, "wanted to get her back, but after seeing her today that's not a possibility. Before you interrupt me again I'll tell you why," slowly and hesitantly, "she's pregnant."

Later, Andy was trying to sort out everything his daughter had told him but was still so confused. If she was pregnant then he would know about it, he and Dr. Abbott were the only doctors in town and he hadn't heard that she was in fact expecting. So he decided to do some investigating of his own. He picked up the phone and called Dr. Abbott. "Hello, yes Dr. Abbott its Andy I had a question for you."

"Well of course in need of my advice once again are we," Dr. Abbott responded hearing the tone in his voice.

"I heard today some rather disturbing, well not disturbing but interesting news that Madison Kellner was pregnant. I knew that you were her doctor and was wondering if it was true or not, if you could help me out a bit I'd appreciate it."

"Well Andy," reserved about answering.

"Harold, please."

Sensing now that he desperately needed an answer, "Andy to my knowledge Madison is a young, healthy, and non-expecting 24-year-old. I'm not sure where you got your information but it's wrong, I just saw her last week for a check-up and she's most certainly not pregnant."

"That's very interesting because today Delia saw her walking into a store named Motherhood's For You."

"Oh no, I see, she wasn't there shopping she was there working."

"She works there?"

"No but she has a line of clothing there, I remember she said she was going in sometime this week to check on how sells were doing. I've got her address," fumbling through his address book, "right here if you'd like it, you could go talk to her yourself and catch up on current events."

"Yea thanks that'd be great." Andy said as he jotted it down as a plan started to develop in his mind.

Andy made his way upstairs to Ephram's room which was now quiet, opened the door slowly and found his son sleeping. He placed a note to Ephram on the nightstand beside Ephram's bed and then slowly made his way back out of his room and out of the house with Delia in hand.

Ephram woke up at about 10 o'clock, still feeling as heart broken and as tired as when he had fallen asleep. He knew this tiredness was only the beginning of what was to come for him; he quickly pushed aside his thought of his secret noticing a note with his name on it. He looked at it more closely recognizing his fathers hand writing and began to read it.

Ephram,

Delia and I have gone away to spend some time with an old friend of mind in Boulder. She has a daughter Delia's age and I thought she might like to meet her. I'm not real sure how long we'll be gone for but I hope you decide to stay in Everwood; we'll call and check up on you, stay as long as you like.

You may wonder why we left, the reason is you need to do something, and I have to let you. The only way that can happen is if I'm far away and can't interfere. Delia told me about Madison and how you want her back, and you can have her back. She's not pregnant at all, I'm sure of it. I found out for myself, don't worry I didn't talk to her or anything; it's just good to be a friend of the only other doctor in Everwood. Anyways, I'm going to let you find out the reason she was in that store yourself. I've written her address below. Go and talk to her, I want you to be happy, and I have to admit it, now I think you will be with her. Good luck and I love you.

Dad

PS Don't be stubborn, go!

2100 Old Castle Rd

Everwood, Colorado

Ephram put down the note and sat on his bed trying to absorb the new information. Making sure it was real he frantically read the note again, as soon as he realized it he made up his mind that tomorrow he would go see her.

As Ephram woke up the next morning he knew for certain he was indeed going to see her, but what he couldn't figure out was why his father would do this for him. Why now did he seem to know what Ephram needed most, it was to him unbelievable. Had his father finally realized what he needed from him the most, his support and his acceptance, had he finally understood after so many years how to be his father? Ephram smiled and sighed deciding that he had.

He got out of bed quickly, surprising himself at the kind of energy he had. It was like knowing he still had a chance with Madison made all his problems seem to fade away, giving him an incredible strength to keep fighting. Ephram started out the day by running his usual two miles and he managed to charm his way into a gym where he worked out. He lifted weights until his body started to give him signs to stop, a full hour before he would have stopped if he was his old normal self. But he wasn't and he needed to start to accept the fact because unfortunately for him it couldn't just go away.

Since leaving Everwood he had begun working out turning from an awkwardly skinny kid into a muscular well built in shape man. He learned that working out was a good release, and in his job he was always in need of a release. So whenever he got upset he worked out while others went to party and drown their sorrows in countless alcoholic beverages. At least he benefited from what he did, the others just got a bad hangover the next day and still had the same problems, he found after working out his worries always subsided.

Around nine o'clock he decided to head over to Mama Joy's for some breakfast. He sat alone keeping to himself and ate his breakfast. He then went to the mall yet again, it escaped him how Delia had forgotten to remind him of all the necessities he would need besides clothing. He got a few awkward stares from fellow shoppers after all he had just worked out and he could tell, well smell what they all did, so he tried to hurry. Picking up some of the most expensive of everything deodorant, cologne, electric toothbrush, hair gel and anything else he saw necessary. He was just about to walk out of the store when he realized he hadn't bought underwear the day before, he thought it was a little weird shopping for his undergarments with his sister. He headed over to that direction of the store he was in and also picked up a few packs of white-beaters, and then he found the particular type of underwear he used. He laughed remembering the story of how he first started to wear them.

Flashback

It was a Friday afternoon and Ephram was just opening the door to this house, he had been playing basketball with Bright and was thinking to himself that it had to be the hottest day of summer. As soon as he came in the house, he was surprised at how quite it was, but then he remembered he had the house to himself. Delia was spending the weekend over at a friend's house and his dad had left to go to Boulder to pick up a friend at the airport and then spend the rest of the weekend with them, something about a convention. But he really didn't care; he was home alone and could do whatever he wanted. He started by taking off his shoes and stuffing his socks inside of them and leaving them right in front of the door. After all he'd have no one to yell at him to move them. He made his way to the kitchen and grabbed himself a bottle of water out of the refrigerator and started to make his way to the stairs where he stopped, put his water down on the table beside the stairs and removed his shirt and threw it on the bottom stair. Suddenly he remembered there was something on TV he wanted to watch so he rushed over to the TV and turned it on only to discover it had just ended. Ephram made his way back over to the stairs and got half way up the stairs and removed his undershirt. Realizing he left his water downstairs he went to retrieve it and then hustled back up the stairs, once he reached the top he slipped out of his basketball shorts and let them fall to the floor. Leaving him to roam around upstairs in his underwear, he thought to himself, now this feels better.

Unaware to him at the time Madison had just pulled up in front of the Brown's house and was making her way to the door.

Ephram went in his room and turned on his stereo to blast his music through out the upstairs while he walked around looking for something to put on. He realized he didn't have any clean clothes so he started to look around upstairs for things he could put to wash.

Madison knocks, and knocks on the front door but no one answers so she checks to she if the door is locked, which of course its not and opens it. A smile creeps upon her face as she hears the music coming from upstairs and sees Ephram's shoes in front of the door. She starts to follow the path of his clothes up the stairs and begins to pick them up. She thinks to her self how she hopes he gets out of this habit before he and she get ma--, she stops herself. Easy Madison lets not get to ahead of ourselves he's still just sixteen.

By now Ephram has a reasonable pile of clothes beginning to form in the middle of the hallway. He begins to bend down to look and see if he had put any underwear in the pile, he then noticed he hadn't so he began to move his hands towards the one's he was wearing to remove them.

Madison has managed to pick up his shirt, T-shirt, and finally his shorts as she reached the top of the stairs, finally laying eyes on Ephram. She notices he's about to take off his underwear and speaks up, "Well hold on now a minute, you think you mind starting from the beginning, ya know I'd like to see the show from the beginning, and if you continue you'll just ruin it for me."

Ephram stops and turns around quickly,"God!! You scared the crape out of me! How'd you get in here, and how long have you been watching me?"

Madison, "Oh the door was unlocked, and not long I missed the first part of the show but I was about to get the big finally." She then throws his clothes that she had picked up at him. "You might wanna wash these too."

Ephram catch's the clothes and adds them to the pile as he begins to feel a little embarrassed just standing in his underwear in front of his twenty-year-old girlfriend. "Oh yea ok, sorry about the whole clothes everywhere, I didn't know you were coming over since everybody's gone for the weekend."

"Oh believe me no need to be sorry, I'm enjoying myself just fine. Even though no one called to tell me, but hey I'm learning a lot about you.

"Oh yea like what?"

"Like before I never would of thought you were the nudist type. But see now I do." Noticing he was blushing and standing really still she lowered her eyebrows, "Hey how bout I meet you downstairs, huh?" She saw the relief sweep across his face.

"Yea umm sure, I'll be done in just a minute."

Smiling and biting her bottom lip, "Kay." Deciding to play with him a bit she walked over to him, as she did so he shifted uncomfortably, she kissed him forcefully and sucked on his bottom lip for a second. Then she whispered in his ear, "I'll be waitin." She turned back around and started her way to the stairs as she heard him clear his throat. Ephram was trying desperately to regain his composure. She stopped and quickly turned her head back around as her hair flipped around with the movement and then settled back around her shoulders she said seductively, "Don't get me wrong those boxers look really nice on you, but personally boxer-briefs are must sexier." She then left; Ephram stood frozen making it a top priority to convert to boxer-briefs.

END FLASHBACK

He was now paying for the underwear and undershirts and thought about how much Madison had affected him even the little things today that he did because of her. He signed the receipt as he had paid with his credit card which he had been using the past day and half. He figured it was time he started using the tons of money he had, he wanted to begin to enjoy his life, wanting to be a little more careless with his money not over analyzing everything and being so frugal. He was especially going to shower Madison with gifts, and splurge on her, giving her romantic dinners, spoiling and wooing her, treating her like the precious, amazingly beautiful and talented women she had always been to him. But before he could begin to do any of that he had to reappear in her life, introducing her to this new twenty year-old Ephram Brown which still had all the qualities which had made her fall in love with him four years ago. Only now he had worldly experience and knew more about himself and how to make someone happy.