Chapter 2 – Moving On

Amy hung up the phone. She was sad. She knew it was Ephram who just called but couldn't believe he didn't say anything. At first, they wrote each others a lot of emails but then, it becames less and less often and now, it has been a week since she has last heard of him. She didn't know who's fault it was but their relationship was fading away... maybe because an email relationship couldn't replace a real connexion or maybe because they never talked about what really matters. Amy didn't even tell him she wasn't in Princeton, keeping avoiding the subject. And Ephram was so vague when he talked about his life in London. Ephram never called and didn't tell her why... maybe they were both too scared to pick up the phone and really talk but this time, she knew it was him. But why didn't he say anything ?

Sitting on her bed, Amy realized she was there again, feeling exactly like after he left like those 4 months didn't happened. She looked at a picture of them from last summer in New york and smiled remembering thoses happy times.

Her phone rang again at this exact moment, she jumped out of the bed to pick up :

AMY : Hello ?

HANNAH: Thank god you're here !

AMY: (disappointed a little): ... oh, hannah... Hi...

HANNAH (ironicly) : Amy, it's not like I can't actually hear you being disappointed…

AMY: I'm sorry hannah, i was kind of sleeping

HANNAH: huh, it's 2PM whatever... i need to ask you something ?

AMY: sure, what's up ?

HANNAH: it's your brother

AMY(sarcastically): surprising...(sighs) what did he do this time ?

HANNAH: Can you believe he actually asked me what kind of underpants I was wearing so he could picture it in his head for future enjoyment ?

(AMY laugh)

HANNAH: That's not funny ! what kind of guy ask you that ?

AMY: ... the bright kind ...

HANNAH: yeah, sometimes, i don't even know why I'm dating him

AMY: I don't know…maybe because you're so in LOVE with him (pause) forget about that, it's just Bright, you know how he is sometimes, just ignore this !

HANNAH: yeah, i guess you're right, i'm making a big deal of this...

AMY: that's the positive attitude I'm talking about !

HANNAH: yeah, so how are you anyway? you wanna do something tonight ?

AMY: I don't know, maybe, i'll see if my mother needs me

HANNAH: okay, just call me ok ?

AMY: yeah, okay, bye hannah

HANNAH: bye

When she hung up, Amy smiled thinking about the happy bright/hannah couple. She was really happy for them. She looked at the picture of ephram and her again, smiled a little and them put it in a drawer. It was time to move on, she knew it. Ephram was gone. He probably moved on to a new life and she couldn't hold on to him anymore.

She went to her desk and opened the enveloppe she recieved the day before. It was an brochure and inscription file from Colorado A & M.

At first, deciding to drop college for a year to take care of her mum was a great idea, she felt comfortable with it. But now, after a few month, she was having second thought. Her mum was feeling better and the post op chimo was successfull. Amy just felt she wasn't that needed anymore. She had thought for a second about finally going to princeton for the second semester but she had realized she just couldn't do it. She couldn't bare the idea of being so far away from her family, her mom but she couldn't just postpone her life forever.

She has discussed it with her father and he agreed with her. He always thought she had to go but he wanted it to be her choice. She didn't mention she was not talking about princeton but Colorado A & M.

A & M was only half an hour away from Everwood. Maybe, that was the best for her right now. Maybe it was the only way for her to move on with her life and stop feeling lonely and lost.

Feeling a lot better at this perspective, she got up and went grocery shopping for her mom.