Chapter 6 : Ice Cream and Respect
Outside Everwood Middle School, we hear the school bell rangs
Ephram was waiting outside, in front of the school bus. He was watching all the kids getting out of the school. He looked everywhere around so that He won't miss Delia. He missed her a lot more than he could have imagined. Afterall, She was the only family he really has. They wrote to each other while he was gone, they didn't talked on the phone because he couldn't imagine talking to Andy if he'd eventually pick up the phone.
Finally, Delia came out. She was walking toward him but was too busy talking to Britney to really see him. She has grown a lot in the past months. With her little blue dress, Ephram noticed she looked a lot like Julia. In his head, he could actually picture what kind of women she would become.
And then, She saw him.
DELIA (running and jumping into his arms): EPHRAM !
(They hug. You can see they were both really happy to see each other.
Finally, ephram breaks the hug)
EPHRAM : Hey...please, you're breaking my bones...
DELIA : sorry. So you're back?
EPHRAM: didn't want to miss your birthday !
(DELIA smiles, really happy to see her brother.)
EPHRAM: So, I was thinking, if you don't have some big Lindsay Lohan marathon planned, we could actually do something together today...
DELIA (hesitating): what kind of thing ?
EPHRAM(he didn't really think this through, let's find something): well, i was thinking...big Ice Cream at Mama Joy's ?
DELIA (not convinced): Ice Cream ? in October ?
EPHRAM: Well, it's your birthday, let's go crazy .
DELIA (smiles and as they walked towards the car): okay ! I want a chocolate ice cream with all those toppings 'you don't know which one to pick because there's too much' , a donut, a soda and maybe some pankakes...
(EPHRAM laughs)
Later, Mama Joy's
(Delia is finishing her ice cream. You can see she's full and had a hard time finishing. Ephram is looking at her, enjoying his time with her. He then takes a little present from his bag and hold it out to Delia)
EPHRAM: Here, Happy Birthday !
DELIA (taking the present): Cool !
(She unwrap the present really quickly and see it's a snowing ball with london monuments in it.)
DELIA: Thank you
(then she looks at him like she's waiting for Ephram to confess something. Ephram looks confused)
EPHRAM: what ? you don't like it ?
DELIA: no, but maybe you should have bought me something you COULD'NT get from the airport gift shop...it would have been less of a last minute gift... (she smiles)
EPHRAM (embarrassed): Okay, okay, i'm sorry… you forgive me ?
DELIA (thinking): well, you got a lot of extra points with the Ice Cream...
EPHRAM (smiling): And I came back on you birthday...
(DELIA smiles. He's totally forggiven)
DELIA: I'm happy you're back
EPHRAM: me too
DELIA: you know Dad's gonna totally freak out! He can't shut up, wondering all the time where you were, asking me all the time if I knew what you were up to. I'm telling you, he's even crazier than before!
(She smiles. Ephram tries to smile but you can see that Delia mentionning Andy changed his mood.
Delia looks like she understand what's going on)
EPHRAM: Look Delia, I'm not going home.
DELIA: what do you mean 'you're not going home'
EPHRAM: I'm not gonna go back live with you (Delia is crushed) i'm sorry, i'm actually living with Bright right now.
(DELIA think for a minute)
DELIA (lecturing her brother): You're aware Everwood is smaller than New York...You're gonna bump into him eventually...
EPHRAM (facing the fact): I know
Ephram looks outside trying to forget about that then
DELIA : ...so Ethan asked me to go with him on this Everwood festival... you know, and Britney said that Courtney said that Tommy heard Ethan said I was the perfect girlfirend because i like sports and all ?
(Ephram smiles and listens to his sister talking about her life)
Bright's car, Ephram is stopping in front of Nina's
(Delia open her door)
DELIA : Thanks for the party Ephram...and for the cheesy gift (smiles) I had a great time.
EPHRAM: and you know you can come see me anytime you want ? I'm sure Bright would like to see you. And he always have a wise ice-cream collection...
(She smiled and gets out of the car)
DELIA: okay. (waving her hand) bye Ephram.
(Ephram looked at her going in Nina's and then looked at what was once his home. After a moment, he drived off to Bright's place)
Bright's Appartment
Ephram is walking towards the door when Bright comes outside.
BRIGHT : Finally ! Man, Where were you ?
EPHRAM: Sorry, lost track of time...
BRIGHT : We gotta go now ! I don't wanna be late and hear Hannah complaining about women and respect, blablabla, that's exhausting to actually fake to be interested in something i'll probably forget 2 minutes later...
EPHRAM (smiling): Ok, let's go.