The next morning, Ephram got into work and was making phone calls when Gene came into his office and sat down in one of the chairs.
"So how was the movie?"
Ephram backed away from the computer and thought he better explain to Gene everything that had happened.
"I couldn't tell you."
"What do you mean?"
"Madison kicked me out last night before we got a chance to watch it."
"What did you do?"
"It's more like what did she do." Gene gave Ephram a curious look so Ephram continued, "Come to find out, Madison's son that she talked about when we were at that bar over a month ago is my son."
Gene was baffled. "And you didn't know about him?"
"No. My father forced her to leave Everwood five years ago and not tell me about the pregnancy. And this weekend, the truth came out and Madison and I have been at each other's throats ever since."
"Why are you mad at her? You should be mad at your father."
"Oh, I am. I'm never talking to him again, he should have never threatened her and most importantly, she should've never let him influence her."
"Look, you're just mad..."
Ephram cut Gene off, "Just mad, I'm furious. She looked me straight in the face at that bar and worked with me nonstop for a month and didn't think twice about not telling me that I had a son."
"Well, what are you going to do about this?"
"Well, I called an attorney yesterday and I'm gonna sue for joint custody."
"Then what?"
"I don't know."
"What about work? What about this project?"
"Madison can finish it on her own. I just can't work with her any more."
Gene thought about it for a minute and Ephram just stared at him. "I'll reassign you so you won't be working with Madison. But just for the record, I don't like doing this, you two really made a good team."
"I really appreciate this, Gene." Ephram was relieved that Gene was understanding.
"Look, take today off, I think you need it. Come back tomorrow and I'll have you a new project to work on."
"I'm fine, really. I don't need the day off."
"No, buts. Get out of here." Gene said firmly and got up from his chair. "I'll call Alan and we'll work something out."
Ephram nodded and got up ready to leave.
"Thanks, Gene. See you tomorrow okay."
Ephram left and went home to start preparing Jake's room to be painted. He spent the afternoon painting the room trying to keep his mind off Madison as much as possible, yet it was impossible.
He took a shower and got cleaned up. He decided to go to the gym to work out. He needed to relieve some stress. He was grabbing a water bottle out of the fridge when there was a knock on the door. A look of disgust came across his face, he yelled, "Mrs. Baker, I am not playing the piano." There was another knock on the door. Ephram went to the door and opened it, "Mrs. Baker, I told you..." Ephram noticed it was Madison standing at the door. Ephram stopped mid-sentence and just looked at her. She was the last person he ever expected to see at his door.
"Can I come in?" Madison was blunt.
Ephram hesitated before responded, "I was actually on the way out the door."
Madison noticed he was in long gym shorts and a t-shirt. "Yeah, well, tough." Madison walked past Ephram into his apartment looking around as she walked toward the couch. "You're going to listen to me and listen good, because I'm not letting you take Jake away from me." She heard the door shut and then she turned around and didn't see Ephram.
Ephram had determined he didn't want to listen to Madison so he just left leaving her in the apartment. He took off down the stairs hoping she would not be there when he got back.
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