Sooooooo sorry I haven't updated in a long time. I've been really busy with the holiday's and dealing with the family and all that good stuff. But anyway I've got alot of the story written out and I just gotta figure out a few things about exactly how I want things to go. So anyway I hope youall enjoy the chapter...I liked writing it so here you go. Please review and I'll be sure to update real soon!!!

It was one o'clock in the morning as Madison slowly made her way down her stairs and to the door which she opened as she was half awake and half asleep. Ephram stood in front of her dressed in a pair of black flannel pajama pants a black plain t-shirt, black shoes and his also black leather jacket. It was all of maybe twenty degrees outside and the sudden change in temperature sent shivers over Madison's body. She had answered the door wearing a pair of pink silk pajama pants with a matching spaghetti strap top and big fuzzy pink slippers on her feet to match. Ephram took her by the arm and started to move his way to his car with her along with him.

"Whoa, what's going on? It's freezing out here." Madison screeched as her body tried to adjust to the cold.

"I'm being spontaneous."

"At one o'clock in the morning?" She asked.

"That's the idea, now shut the door and come on the sooner you do that the sooner we'll be in the car."

She didn't move, "The warm car." Ephram said.

She closed the door and Ephram took her down her walkway still holding on to her arm but she suddenly stopped.

"My door, it's unlocked."

"Madison its Everwood, the most likely thing to break into your house is like a stray animal."

"Still, look at me."

"I am, you look great." He answered

"Thanks… but no I don't, I don't even have a coat or money or anything."

Ephram took off his leather jacket and placed it around her shoulders and grabbed her hand in his and they were off again.

"There now you have a jacket." He opened the car door for her as she looked back at him and he lifted his eyebrows as if to say "Jump in" which she did. He went around and got in himself and they were on their way.

About ten minutes later Madison and Ephram were seated at a little booth inside a doughnut shop drinking coffee and eating doughnuts.

"Doughnuts, doughnuts and coffee is why you dragged me out of my house and more importantly my bed at one o'clock in the morning for," she said before taking a bite out of her chocolate iced glazed doughnut.

"Yup," was his simple answer as he washed down a bit of his glazed doughnut with coffee.

"Why?"

"Because I had a sudden urge to go out and eat doughnuts and drink coffee. I thought who better to go with than Madison. If memory serves this is your favorite late night or early morning guilty pleasure."

"Your right"

"And knowing you, you probably haven't been here in a while since you used to hate coming alone."

"That's true; it's been a really long time since I've been here."

Since the night before on the telephone they had agreed to go with the moment and Ephram just went for it full force, "God I remember that one time it was like three o'clock in the morning, I think it was a Saturday and you called my cell and said to wake my butt up and get down the street cause you were freezing yours off waiting for me. I tried to ask what in god's name would make you get up at that hour but you said I'd find out once I got down there. So I snuck out of the house managing not to wake the whole neighborhood, and I saw you parked down the street and I jumped in. You gave me this unbelievable kiss which made the trip more than worth it and said you had a craving for two things, me and doughnuts. You drove us here and we sat and ate doughnuts and drank coffee. You told me that chocolate iced glazed doughnuts with coffee was like the best thing on the planet and that me being there with you made it like heaven on earth." Remembering, "God that was a great night, well morning, but anyway I just remembered how good it was back then and wanted to find out if it was still as great."

"Ephram…I-I haven't thought about that in a while." Thinking for a moment, "Actually you know what?"

"What?"

"I haven't been back here since you and I, well you know."

"Since we broke up." Ephram said what she couldn't.

"Yea." She said sadly.

"Why do you think that is?"

"I don't know. I guess I thought it was something special of ours. That no matter when I came or who I brought back here with me that'd it never be like it was with you. That nothing would ever quite met the standard you set and I was afraid if I tried that it would just be a huge let down and I'd be sad. So I just didn't come back, I just kept that memory that moment in time special just for us. I kind of did it so that no matter what other memories I had of us that that one would always be perfect, always be something that I shared with you and nobody else." And just like that Madison let down her protective walls she'd had up since the day she saw Ephram again and she let him back in.

Ephram wasn't sure what to say he never thought he'd hear that come from Madison. He wasn't sure if it was all in his head or if she had really just said all of those things. A moment passed and they were both just silent absorbing what had happened letting themselves be taken back to the past when they had been so happy so in love.

"Thank you" Madison whispered to Ephram, breaking the silence.

"For what?" he said back softly.

"For this, for bringing me back here. With you it's not so scary anymore, and it's not so said either. I couldn't do it by myself so thanks for helping me. It's okay to remember how things used to be, you showed me that tonight, it's actually pretty great."

"It is isn't it?" Ephram said

The pair just sat in the booth across from each other in silence their thoughts there own for a little while longer. Escaping reality, the reality that they weren't like they used to be, and just being happy in their own way. Perhaps happy because tonight the door to their relationship which had been slammed shut four years ago had once again been pried open and that soon they would both be making the decision of whether or not to leap through it.

It was four o'clock in the morning as Ephram returned Madison to her home. The both of them had been relatively silent in the car on the drive back to her house. Things had changed; they had stopped ignoring the fact that they had had a past, one that hurt both. This morning they both took a step forward into a place they didn't know they should go but knew they had to. Acting as if they had always just been friends was a lie one neither one of them was willing to play along with anymore.

Ephram got out of the car and jogged around to open the door for Madison. She hopped out and they both walked briskly to her door trying not to stay in the cold for too long. They came to the door and Madison reached for the door knob and opened it slightly about to walk in but she paused and looked back at Ephram. She opened her mouth to say something but stopped as she heard a noise come from inside her home. She jumped a little afraid Ephram saw this and moved closer to her.

"Madison" He said

"Did, did you hear that?" she whispered

"I'm not sure what you mean."

"A noise I heard a noise come from inside." She opened the door further but remained outside beside Ephram.

"I'm sure it's nothing."

"Yea…I mean you're probably right." She said as if she was trying to convince herself.

Ephram sensed Madison's skepticism, "If you want I could go in with you and check everything out."

"Could you? I mean I'd feel safer." Madison asked.

"Of course, come on I'll go in first and you can follow behind.

Ephram opened the door completely and stepped inside with Madison following closely behind him. Ephram walked into the living room and looked over everything. Deciding that area was clear he moved next to the kitchen and found again everything to be normal. He started to make his way to the stairs but Madison called out to him.

"Bathroom"

"What?"

"You didn't check the downstairs bathroom." Madison pointed to a closed door a few feet away.

He opened the door and turned on the bathroom light. "It's clear" he said as he smiled back at Madison reassuringly.

"Just wanted to make sure."

"Not a problem"

"Upstairs"

"Let's go"

Ephram walked up the stairs and it was becoming darker and darker the higher he climbed the stairs. Which caused Madison to be a little more frightened and she became like Ephram's shadow. She was a little edgy and Ephram could tell, he found it to be really cute and he was amused. Just as he reached the last stair a thought came to him. He decided to play an innocent joke on Madison. He stopped abruptly at the top stair which caused Madison to bump into him because of how close she had been following him.

"Oh, sorry." She said as she bumped into him.

"Shh…" Ephram responded

Now whispering and growing concerned, "What is it?"

He moved forward and Madison followed. But this time he stopped her.

"Wait. I think you should stay here. I thought I heard something come from your office."

He began to more again, but this time without his blonde shadow.

"Ephram…"

He turned around to look at her.

"Be…be careful." Still whispering

"It'll be okay." He started to fell a little guilty as he nodded his head to her comment. He didn't move for a moment and then he slowly walked back towards her.

"I can't" he said in a normal voice.

"What are you doing?" She questioned him.

"Look I was going to play a joke on you but you seem to be worried, so I just can't. I didn't really hear anything Madison. Hey I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you."

"Ephram Brown you punk." She said as she hit him in the arm. "Don't you ever do that to me again."

"Oww…I'm sorry I won't do it again." He said as he rubbed the arm she had hit.

Unconvinced she motioned with her hand like she was going to hit him again.

"I promise"

"That's better," convinced, "But seriously go in there and check." She lifted her hand and pointed at the door.

Ephram walked into the office, took a quick look around and saw nothing and walked back out. He continued on to the next door up the hallway to his right he wasn't sure what was there so he asked Madison, "What's here?"

"My bedroom."

Ephram thought to himself he hadn't thought he'd be seeing this part of her house this soon, or at all. He was a little hesitant about going in there, he'd been in her bedroom before when they were going out, but that was different, it hadn't bothered him them, well a little. But he soon became very comfortable with it, to remember what had gone on in that room, it brought back a field of different emotions over him. Memory's that would keep him awake at night and caused his heart to beat a little faster and cause him to want and need things from her which some he hadn't had and some he hadn't had in a long time. He pushed the thoughts aside and opened the door walking in slowly. His eyes traveled around the room from the dresser to her nightstand and then to her bed which was perfectly made. He grinned as he saw that, still a neat freak. He wanted to look everything over closely for his own interest but decided not to stay to long on account that she might suspect something. Ephram decided to check her closets quickly they were fine and then the bathroom inside her room also fine.

"Okay, you can come in I checked every thing out, all fine." He called out to her.

Madison entered her bedroom, "Are you sure?"

"Positive"

Madison relaxed a little, "Thanks I know I must seem like a big wimp but I just wanted to be sure."

"Hey I understand it's better to make sure, I probably would have asked if you hadn't anyway."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, because I worry about you and I wouldn't have been able to leave until I knew that when I did you'd be safe."

Touched by his concern, "Thanks Ephram"

"Nothing to thank me for."

"Yes, it is. You were one of the first people to actually care about my well being back then and it's nice to know that you still do today even after what happened with us."

"I never stopped caring Madison, I couldn't, I couldn't make myself. It was like something that just came naturally to me. I guess I'm just flawed like that, maybe I should have stopped but I never did. Honestly I don't think I ever will things just happened with us."

"You're not flawed, you're just human."

"I guess since everything's safe I should be going." He said hoping that she might stop him.

"Alright but before you do I'd appreciate it if you could maybe move some stuff from my garage into my office for me. I have to work and there are some heavy materials I need in there."

"You're going to work at this hour?" he asked

"With all the coffee you got in me I don't think I'd be able to sleep."

"Hey now I didn't force you," Madison made a face at this comment, "Okay so maybe a little."

"Anyway yeah I'm going to work."

"Well now aren't we dedicated?"

"You may use the word dedicated but we both know different I'd probably say obsessed with perfection is a little more accurate, don't you agree?" She grinned.

"Umm… let me think, yea your probably right." He flashed one of those really white and pearly teeth smiles.

They both laughed.

Happy with any excuse to stay longer, "So in need of my assistance once again are we?"

"I could do it by myself, but I'd probably end up hurting myself and making a trip to the emergency room. Could you have that on your conscience?"

"Your right I don't think I could handle the guilt."

"Thought so" Madison said as Ephram laughed.

She moved out of her bedroom and Ephram followed her into the hallway as they made there way to the stairs. Madison began to go down the stairs with Ephram a few steps behind her about to do the same when something caught Ephram's eye.

"I didn't even notice that door, let me check it out real quick and then I'll help you." He said as he made his way towards a white door which almost seemed to be hidden away.

It didn't register with Madison for a moment, but then it clicked in her head and her eyes grew large with panic. She rapidly moved back up the stairs and almost ran in front of Ephram and blocked the door with her body stopping Ephram from opening the door.