Ephram was finishing up running errands and doing other little things when he got a call from his dad as he headed back to Madison's place, which surprised him very much since the last time he and his father even spoke more than a couple words to each other was in September... Now it's December.

"What do you want?" Ephram said indifferently

"I wanna know when yer going to stop this charade" his father sounded a bit drunk

Ephram got an urge and wanted to yell, but realized his father was drunk, "Dad, I'm not going to talk to you while you are like this. You haven't made my life easy in the passed few months and if you start in on me now then it wont make it any easier! Plus I didn't do anything, you should be the one apologizing!"

"I'm not apologizing for anything, I did nothing wrong" he slurred his words

"oh my god!" Ephram pulled the cell phone away from his face and looked at it angrily, "you lied to me for one! Dad!" Ephram wanted to say something else but could find no words to express how he was feeling. At this point he was just so frustrated that no words would come out of his mouth.

"Jes' trying to protect my oldest son, I dun wanna lose you!"
"TOO LATE!" yelled Ephram into the phone as he parked the car in the parking lot of Madison's apartment building. That slipped out, but he was too irritated to care so he just said, "Gah! I'm hanging up now, bye, dad!" and hung up the phone. As he made it up to the apartment, he thought to himself as he shook his head side to side, 'he could never lose me...besides, he never had me in the first place...' He took a couple deep breaths and calmed himself down before going inside.

Since he had a key to get inside the apartment, he let himself in and was welcomed by laughter coming from the living room, which put a smile on his face, it was definitely something he needed right now. When he entered the living room, Delia saw him and yelled out, "Ephram! Guess what!" she was still laughing, "'member that rhyming game I did with you? What names did you pick?"

Not thinking too much of it as he put his bag down and walked toward Madison, he replied, "Uh, one of the -enton ones" he chuckled. He kissed Madison softly on the lips and raised his eyebrows to let her know he missed her.

"Would it have been Trenton?" chuckled Madison

"yeah, how'd you know?" he asked surprised then smiled, "oh yeah, and Floyd."

"Floyd?!" Madison said confused looking at him strangely.

"Did I say Floyd? I meant Cloyd" and he grinned widely at the stupid little joke he made. He then looked at his baby sister and tugged on the front of her baseball cap and said, "why'd you want to know what name I picked, squirt?"

Delia answered, "because that was the name Madison picked! Uncanny, huh!" she laughed because she used a big word even though she didn't know what it meant.

"Dee, that was actually in the correct context, kudos to you." he smiled.

"What do you think of Sacha?" asked Madison amused

"cute name," he looked around, "did you know it means the helper of mankind...or something like that..." he laughed.

Delia interrupted"And why don't you guys want to know what the baby is?"

Ephram chuckled and looked at Madison as he sat down next to her, "we do know what the baby is, we just want to keep it a surprise for everybody else."

Madison smiled and bit her bottom lip and cradled her head in the palm of her hand as she rested her elbow on the couch.

"You wont even tell me!" cried Delia, exaggerating the last word, "but you tell me practically everything! Tell me now!"

"really want to know?" asked Ephram

She nodded her head frantically

He leaned down and whispered in her ear, "hmm, no." he chuckled, "you'll have to wait with the rest of 'em"

The next week was school vacation and Ephram managed to work 36 to 45 hours at the music studio each week. He was excited about what was going to come in the next couple months. Surprisingly Madison wasn't too hormonal and she had only used the pager a couple times. Classes ended for her as well for the fall term and she put in for maternity leave at the beginning of January since the doctor said the baby would be due then. She couldnt believe that she had gone from scared and freaked out and unprepared, to anxious and freaked out and sort of prepared. At least she wasnt alone in this.

At one point everything was going so well for the two of them until a couple days before New Years Eve when they got into a little argument. During that time, Madison was working for her company and she had been spending time with one of the people Ephram despised the most, or at least, was most jealous of, Jay. He was helping out a friend who was working on an album and Madison said she'd help him out as well. Since they were spending much time together Ephram got jealous and was hardly around her. New Years Eve went by unnoticed because the two weren't really talking and everybody else could sort of feel the tension. When ever Madison did call Ephram, he was always busy or wouldnt be very talkative. It was as if he were avoiding her and she didn't understand why, and it saddened her and she became sort of paranoid. What if Ephram was having second thoughts about this new life of theirs?

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