Okay, so I am over my writer's block. I am extremely happy because it was really bad and long. Here is another installment for your enjoyment. Depending on how many reviews I get (hopefully more than usual) a new installment will be up by the weekend. But hey, you could get lucky and I might post tomorrow.
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Madison sat down on the couch and started to cry. What had just transpired was completely expected, but somehow she hadn't braced herself for the emotional shock of it all. Madison knew Ephram needed to know, but she felt it was best for all the parties involved for it to remain a secret. Now the secret is out, but not really. Madison cried louder. She looked at the couch and thought about kissing Ephram just 10 minutes before the bottom dropped. She covered her face in her hands and cried more.
Jake was playing in his room with his Hot Wheels and heard his mom crying. He slowly peaked his head out of his door and slowly walked down the hallway and into the den. He walked up to Madison and said softly in a concerned voice, "Mommy, are you okay?"
Madison dropped her hands from her face and tried to wipe the tears from her eyes and sniffed because now her nose was all runny from crying. "Oh, sweetie, I'm fine."
"Why are you crying?" Jake asked inquisitively.
"Because I love you so much." Madison grabbed Jake and pulled him up into her lap and hugged and rocked him. "I love you so much, kiddo. I just have to cry sometimes."
Jake put his arms around Madison's neck and started crying too. "I love you too, Mommy."
Madison looked at Jake after holding and rocking him for about five minutes. "How about we go get some ice cream at McDonald's and then play at the playground with Aunt Mindy?"
"Cool," Jake said and hopped off Madison's lap smiling.
An hour later, Mindy and Madison were sitting on the bench at the playground and Jake was playing on the jungle gym.
"You look like you've been run over," Mindy confessed.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Madison replied back sarcastically.
"Look, you need to talk to him," Mindy said bluntly.
"I think I need to give him some space," Madison said shaking her head in disagreement.
"Will you listen to me for once? The poor boy just got shell-shocked. You need to explain everything – and I mean everything to him. And you see that little one over there. He deserves to know that his daddy is not off in New York but right down the street."
Madison just looked at Mindy with concern and worry.
"Madison, you need to do this for your sake, for Ephram's sake and for Jake's sake. I know you are risking a lot but this risk you're gonna have to take," Mindy said confidently.
"You're right," Madison said reluctantly.
"I know I'm right. Now call him up and go talk to him. I'll take Jake home and stay there with him until you get home."
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Ephram had been driving around town with no destination, and then he finally got to the beach. He got out of his car and walked down to the beach. He hadn't been to the beach since he got to town. He walked down the beach some and then walked back and sat down in the sand.
Ephram thought about what happened an hour ago. An hour ago, he met Jake - Madison's son and more importantly possibly his son. The last time Ephram and Madison had had sex – scratch that, made love – it was right before her birthday. They had just made up from Ephram punching Jay, if he recalled correctly which was in April. Ephram calculated nine months from April to be January. January 2005 would have been the time Jake would have been born. Now it was July 2009. Jake's middle name was Ephram that was some coincidence. Ephram tried to remember Jake's face. Did Jake look like him? Jake had his blue eyes and even his chin. Ephram was a father. Ephram had been a father for four and a half years and he never knew it. Why would Madison keep this a secret from him? Did anyone else know about Jake? Ephram was mad. He was furious. Why was this kept from him? Jake deserved to have a father involved in his life. Ephram had been stripped of being a father to Jake. Ephram knew he needed to find out answers to all of his questions and the one person who had them, he couldn't look at right now. He couldn't look at the woman he's loved ever since he kissed her at the DMV. Sure, they had broken up, but Ephram knew that Madison was never out of his mind. After working with her the past month, Ephram finally realized what that empty feeling was in his life – Madison. And right now, Madison was the last person on earth he wanted to see or talk to. Everything he thought he had shared with Madison now somehow felt false. He felt used. He had given her the most precious thing that he possessed – his heart – and now it was crushed.
