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Chapter 9- Decisions, decisions…and discussion
In the end, Ephram got in his car and followed Lauren as best he could, to a small park just outside of town. She was sitting on a bench and crying her eyes out. He slowly walked up to her and sat down.
"you, uh, came after me?" She asked him, she didn't believe this one bit, she had assumed he would chase after Amy.
"yeah" Ephram replied looking off to somewhere in the distance, his responce had no feeling.
"I'm not ganna talk to you here" Lauren insisted and got up. "Follow me back, or maybe I should follow you, because I don't know the way…but I'm sure Amy does." She said the last part sarcastically, glaring at him. Then they both got in there cars and headed back to the Browns.
"You what?" Rachel shouted rather loudly.
"Oh my god! I mean I was worried you'd like tell that you love him or kiss him and then one of you would have the sense to stop it, but no you guys made out? Amy, how did that happen?" Hannah asked her best friend. She had thought more of Amy then this, Lauren was her friend and she should know that and respect he feelings. She was sure there must be a logical explanation to all this, at least she hoped so.
"Guys be quiet." Amy hissed back at them. "My mom and dad are upstairs!" She quietly exclaimed.
"Answer the questions" Hannah told her.
"I don't know how it happened okay? It just sorta did." Amy told them. It was the truth, she wasn't sure how it happened or what was really going through her mind at the time. She did know that it felt good, no not good, great to kiss Ephram, and that was about all. She felt very bad that she did it, but yet, she didn't? All these thoughts and the interagation she was going through just confused her more.
"Amy, you have to talk to Ephram…and Lauren because the last time you guys were suppossed to talk, it didn't work out very uh, well." Rachel said looking at Amy.
" I think we'll find out what should happen once Ephram makes a decision, Bright should talk to him, because if all he's hearing are Lauren's thoughts, then we know he'll just pick her." Hannah explained her thought process. She knew if he picked Lauren, which Hannah thought very likey, it would break Amy's heart. She would be crushed and her heart would be bleeding. She didn't want this to happen of course. But she also knew, if he picked Amy, that she would lose a friend, Lauren, he was her only connection to her.
"Yeah, okay." Amy wipped a tear from her eye.
"Amy" Hannah went over and hugged her. "It's ganna be okay, no matter what happens."
When Ephram and Lauren arrived at the Brown's they walked into Ephram's old room, which now belonged to Sam. Nina and Andy had decided to have Delia and Sam share a room so Ephram and Lauren could sleep in his. They sat on the bed and Lauren backed away, not wanting to be close to him at that moment.
"I'm-" Ephram tried to speak, but Lauren interrupeted him, before he could get two words out.
"Don't, let me tell you something first. Now, I'm not ganna lie to you. I really love you and want you to pick me. Of course I do, but we won't be lovey-dovey right away and probably not for a while, so don't expect a quick happy make-up. You hurt me Ephram, you made me feel bad and like I wasn't good enough for you. I feel like I have to measure up to Amy."
"You don't" Ephram tapped into her slow rant.
"Like I have to be as good as her, I want you to love me like you love or loved her, whatever. I want to be able to break your heart. Right now, I won't be able to. Not that I want to break your heart, I mean, I want you to, to love me more than her." Lauren finished her speech and looked at Ephram a tear running down her face, she was waiting for his response.
"I want to" He took a big breathe " be with you" He closed his eyes and concluded " You don't have to measure up to Amy."
"Fine" She smiled slightly, but then her face became dead serious "I want you to not see Amy again, not until Hannah and Bright's wedding, then never after that, I'm sure you can do that, I mean, you hid her from me forever." She sighed and looked at him.
Ephram closed his eyes and answered "ok" Then he sat there like that eyes closed. Lauren got up kissed his forehead and left the room. Once she was gone, Ephram opened his eyes and silent tears fell down. He pushed himself up, went into his suitcase and opened a manilla enevlope, which contained all the pictures of Amy that had been ripped out of the photo album. He looked at them sadley and continued to cry.