It was 3:15 and Ephram was late. Madison's mind was racing. Ephram was never late when they were together. He was always early. Did he decide not to come over? Did he get in a wreck? Madison was worried and so she started making the den look neat by putting Jake's toys away in the corner. The doorbell rang. Madison jumped at the sound of the ring. Madison thought it was now or never to come clean with Ephram and she hoped and prayed that he would take all of the news well, even though she knew he wouldn't. She walked to the door and opened it.

"I thought you changed your mind." Madison said firmly.

"I was buying Jake this electric jeep," Ephram pointed to the Jeep in the yard.

"Wow, extravagant gift," Madison exclaimed.

"Yeah, well I have a lot of time to make up for," Ephram said sarcastically.

"Come on in," Madison motioned for Ephram to come inside. She thought to herself that Ephram's remark was Slam #1.

Ephram walked inside toward the den and looked at the couch for a moment before sitting on it thinking of them making out yesterday.

"Look, I know you're angry and hurt and you have every right to be and..." Madison said as she followed him into the den and stood in front of him.

Ephram interrupted Madison, "Hang on a second, just to let you know, I'm not here to try and smooth things over between me and you, because that'll never happen. I'm here about Jake."

Madison thought Slam #2 and said, "I understand."

"Good, because whatever I felt for you yesterday is long gone. Everything that's happened the past month with you makes total sense now – the awkwardness, the avoidance. The whole time you were working with me, you were lying to me. If you thought for one moment that I didn't want to be a part of Jake's life – our son's life, you were kidding yourself. Especially since you knew how I was raised." Ephram was trying to vent his frustrations.

Madison stood in front of Ephram with a somber face and brushed her hand through her hair, "Look, I know I've ruined anything that was possible between us now. I got it. But you need to know everything that has lead up to this moment."

"Do tell. I'm really curious of why you decided to keep Jake from knowing his father," Ephram exclaimed.

"Do you remember the last time we – y'know?" Madison asked.

"It was right before your birthday."

"Exactly, well... then of course, we broke up later that week. I never thought in a million years I would get pregnant because we were careful, but I did. Being pregnant was not even on my radar until I noticed I hadn't had my period after my finals, so I went to the pharmacy and took a test. It was positive."

"Clearly," Ephram's sarcasm was alive and well.

"So, I went to see your father."

"Why him and not me?" Ephram questioned.

"I wanted to make sure I was really pregnant before I told you. So we did two pregnancy tests and they both came out positive. I told your dad I needed to talk to you about it, but he said that he would talk to you for me. Then when I went to talk to him the next day, he told me to bow out of your life because you finding out that I was pregnant would take away all of your innocence and childhood. I disagreed with him telling him that you would want to know and he said he didn't care. He said he would support me no matter what decision I made. I told him again that I disagreed. He told me to "go" so I did. I left," Madison sat beside him and looked at him. "I loved you so much, Ephram, you've got to know that, that I didn't want to mess up your future so I left. It was the hardest decision I've ever made in my life. I knew it was a mistake then and I have carried that mistake around with me for 5 years now. Seeing Jake everyday looking more and more like you was a constant reminder of what I did and I hate myself for it, but I thought it was best for all the parties involved."

"So my dad forced you out?" Ephram said with anger.

"Yes. The only reason I eventually agreed with him was so that our child would have a good life."

"Jake would have had a better life having a dad around. I can't believe you did this to me - to us," Ephram spoke frankly.

"When we broke up, it was like I died and then I found out I was pregnant and it was like I was alive again. Ephram, I never stopped loving you. I still love you and Jake is a product of our love." Madison said pleadingly.

"Do you know that I thought about you almost everyday. There was always this piece missing and then when I saw you in that bar, I realized you were the piece that I was missing. Sure, there were other girls, even Amy, but I never let you go. Madison, I never stopped loving you, but..." Ephram said.

"But what?" Madison asked knowing the answer.

"But yesterday you took all the love I felt for you and destroyed it, when I found out you had lied to me. I'll never be able to forgive you for making the decision to keep me out of Jake's life. Jake deserved better than this and now I am going to spend the rest of my life making it up to him," Ephram explained.

"I've told Jake about you." Madison explained.

"How did he take it?" Ephram asked.

"Better than you. He was excited. He wants to see you tonight when he gets back from the movies. Do you think you could stay a little while longer so you're here when he gets home?"

"I guess."

"Good." Madison replied.

They just sat there for a few minutes in awkward silence.

Madison got up; "Let me get you some of the scrapbooks I made of Jake when he was a baby. I think it would be good to see them. I'll be right back." Madison left the room and Ephram looked around den at all of the toys and smiled. He got up and walked over to the mantle and saw a picture of Madison pushing Jake on a swing and Madison and Jake on Santa' lap. Then he saw the picture that confirmed what Mindy had been saying, it was a picture of Andy holding Jake upside down at what seemed to be a birthday party.

"Here you go, found them," Madison said startling Ephram.

"So Jake knows his grandfather, I see?" Ephram turned around and said to her.

"Your dad has come out twice a year since Jake was born. Jake really has a good time with him when he comes out. Your dad is really good with him," Madison said trying to get him to stay.

"Hasn't Jake ever asked about me?" Ephram inquired.

"He knew you were in New York in school and working. Your dad would send Jake letters and gifts that were from you." Madison said guardedly.

"This makes the whole situation worse. You and my father in cahoots together this whole time and neither of you seemed to care how I would feel about all of this. I'm a dad. I have a son who doesn't even know who I am and I don't know him." Ephram started getting mad again.

"I know what I did was extremely stupid, but I did it because I loved you." Madison reiterated.

"That's bullshit. A person doesn't do this to someone she loves." Ephram's anger was building. "Y'know, I think I'll just come back when Jake gets home, tell him to call me."

Ephram started to walk toward the front door and Madison just looked down at the floor holding the scrapbooks. Madison knew that everything that Ephram said was true except the fact that she really did love him. Ephram walked out of the door and there was Jake getting out of the car.

"Daddy, Daddy," Jake was screaming at the top of his lungs and ran toward Ephram.

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