Chapter 6 - Rendezvous, Overdue

Hannah looked up the staircase in front of her. Her eyes roamed up the walls, which had a new coat of paint since she had first seen the building. She grabbed hold of the railing and pulled herself up each of the stairs.

Once at the top, the searched for the door that was labeled 'B07'. 'B01'...'B03'...'B05', she read the apartment numbers in her head.

"B07." she said aloud. She made a fist, which was one thing she could still manage to do, being seven months pregnant. She knocked on the door, hoping Amy would be home. Home. The word struck her. This was her and Ephram's home.

"Coming!" Amy yelled as she nearly tripped on a box, that had been intruding the pathway to the door. Amy unlocked the door and opened it, carelessly.

"Hannah! What are doing here?" Amy was surprised, yet concerned that Hannah came here all on her own.

"I wanted to visit. I couldn't stay home another day." she said restlessly.

"Reason enough for me!" Amy showed Hannah in. "It's...uh, kind of messy."

"Kind of? Try extremely." Hannah joked. Amy took Hannah's coat and hung it up in a small closet nearby.

Hannah looked around at her surroundings. Amy and Ephram's apartment was small but it accomodated them nicely. Dr. Brown had rented a space for Ephram's piano when he left for Europe. It had stayed there for almost 2 years. When Amy and Ephram finally decided to get a place, Dr. Brown suggested the apartment because of it's proximity to the storehouse.

There were tons of labeled boxes scattered throughout. Amy stepped into the kitchen and opened the refridgerator.

"We have water..." she paused. "Bottled water...and more bottled water. Pick your poison." she finished.

"Water's fine." Hannah said with a little giggle. With that Amy took a bottle of icy, cold spring water out.

"Good thing is, it's cold." Amy handed the bottle to Hannah. She stepped over boxes & crates and made her way to the sofa. She cleared a pathway for Hannah in doing so. Hannah followed and made herself comfy.

"I'm so happy you guys moved out here! I mean now we can visit more often. You might even have to see me everyday!" Hannah paused and took a more serious tone. "It's hard to find time to go back and forth between here and Everwood on non-holidays. I would've visited more if I hadn't had to deal with school. I wanted to be with Bright and you when Rose was..." Hannah tried to be discrete, but being discrete just wasn't her forte.

"Hannah, I know." Amy assured Hannah that it was okay. "And what's up with calling her Rose? She's your mom too. Well, actually mother-in-law, but you know what I mean." Amy joked. Although, it was easier to call Dr. Abbott 'dad', Hannah found it hard to call Rose her mom. She figured it was because she already had a mom and she didn't another one.

"What did I do to deserve such a good friend?" Hannah laughed it off.

"I'm not really sure. It's one of those age-old mysteries, I guess." Amy thoughtfully pondered.

Their discussion was interrupted when Ephram walked through the door, wearing his long, black coat. His hair was slicked yet carefree.

"Hey! I thought you were gonna go practice?" Amy inquired.

"Oh, well I was. But I forgot something so..." Ephram walked through the maze of boxes, bent down and gave Amy a kiss.

"I'm glad you came back..." Amy said, recovering.

Ephram turned to see a blushing Hannah. "Hi."

"Hi-i-i." Hannah drew the vowel out. There was an awkward silence that followed.

"You," Amy pointed to Ephram, "should go." she bursted. "Go on! Get out and make me proud!"

"It's just practice." Ephram reasoned. Amy stood up and began shoving Ephram backwards toward the door. "Alright! I'm gone!" Ephram gave in, but managed to steal another kiss before Amy closed the door in his face, laughing.

"Something must be done about that boy. He needs to be properly trained. Do they have books on that? Cause one of these days I might be pushed over the edge and have to dump him." Amy said sarcastically and made Hannah laugh.

"You guys seem really happy." Hannah confessed.

"I think we are. It took a while, but I really think we have something, you know?" Amy got serious.

Hannah nodded.

"So, change of subject. Any baby names picked out yet?"

"Oh my. You're going to regret ever becoming involved with the name-picking process." Hannah sighed heavily.

"What? Why?" Amy asked, curiously. "Wait! Bright hasn't suggested like 'Archie' or something has he"
"Ha! 'Archie' is probably ten times better than what he suggested!"

"I warned you about my brother, but did you listen?" Amy reminded her.

"I know, I know!" Hannah admitted her fault. "So, you're not going to help me?" Hannah pouted.

"To get Bright to change his mind, you'd probably have to hog-tie him, and my hog-tyin' days are over sadly."

"Well, I should get going. I have a few errands to get done still."

"What! You just got here!" Amy argued.

Amy stood up and then helped Hannah up. She then gave Hannah a long hug.

"Just in case I don't see you soon..." she explained.

"You will." Hannah said before grabbing her coat and opening the door. Amy gave a short wave and watched Hannah waddle down the stairs.

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