I walked up to Ephram solemnly. He immediately jumped out of his chair almost knocking it back saying, "I thought something had happened to you."

All I did was smile. Ephram pulled my chair out for me and I did a double take. I obviously didn't do it discreetly because I could see Ephram smile.

'Thank you," I said as I sat down. I sniffled a little because my nose was still messed up from crying on the subway.

"Are you okay? You were late. I thought maybe you changed your mind. I tried to call your cell phone but it went straight to your voicemail." Ephram was nervous, I could tell. He was talking fast which was so cute, I couldn't help but smile. He took his seat again and just smile and looked at me. All I could do was smile.

"So where do you want to begin?" Ephram said sitting his elbows on the table. He seemed ready to talk for hours.

Just as I was about to say something, of course, the waiter walks up. I mean, what is it with timing of waiters, anyway. He took our drink order and left.

"Now what were you about to say before our waiter, Jeff, walked up?" Ephram said with a smile.

"I was going to ask you when your audition was." I tried to act as normal as possible, however I felt myself showing the awkwardness I was feeling inside.

"Umm, it's tomorrow afternoon. 4 o'clock." Ephram said. "I practiced last night for 4 hours."

"The ever present perfectionist." I said with a smile. Ephram smiled back that smile that just made me melt. After not seeing him for a year, he still had that effect on me. I knew right there, I was in trouble. "I knew you would make it to Juilliard. You just had to put your mind to it."

Ephram's smile grew bigger and then he said, "So what brings you to NY? Are you going to NYU?" He pointed at my sweatshirt. I looked down at it. I immediately noticed the bottom of the sweatshirt was a little form fitting so I pulled at it a little so Ephram wouldn't notice my little pudge still left from the pregnancy.

"Yeah, I am. I am taking a few classes and waitressing." I said.

Ephram just kept staring at me. He didn't speak. I didn't speak. The silence was getting weird even though it was only a few seconds, because Jeff, our waiter, came back with our drinks. He took our order and disappeared again.

"Okay, so tell me what brought you to New York. I mean this is completely random and Jay knew nothing about this when I talked to him."

"Jay?" I was stunned. Why would Ephram be talking to Jay? What did Jay tell Ephram?

"Yeah, I saw that 'Joe Lies' was playing one night at Burke's Coffee House and I thought that I would see how you were doing since we hadn't seen each other since prom so I went and then some brunette came out on stage instead of you. I waited until after the show and asked Jay about you and he gave me your phone number, but it wasn't a New York one."

"Jay and I finally had our final disagreement about the band so I left it six months ago. Our creative differences were just too different." I explained to him. "So I decided that after last semester at ECC, I would spread my wings a bit and come to New York. I moved here after finals in December." I just couldn't let Ephram know I had not been at school last semester because I was pregnant. His audition was important to him and I know that and I just couldn't bring myself to tell him before the audition. Dr. Brown had told me to tell him the truth and tell him everything, but I just couldn't ruin his shot at Juilliard. He had worked so hard to get to this point; I just couldn't make him blow it. Listening to him in the Plaza made me realize, Juilliard was exactly what he wanted and he had practiced his ass off to get here.

So there, I made my decision. Tomorrow after the audition, I would tell him.

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