Ephram was sitting on the couch going over some music while Madison was cleaning the kitchen.
"So…are you teaching tomorrow?" she asked.
"Uh…yeah…yeah I think I have a lesson upstairs" he responded without looking up.
Madison threw the sponge back in the sink, "upstairs? With who?"
He glanced up at her, "you know that family…with the really weird kid? He's got the curly red hair…"
"Oh…that kid that always presses all the buttons in the elevator? He has enough patience to learn piano? I thought he had ADD or something"
Ephram shook his head, "No-no not that kid…but his brother, I don't know his name- but apparently he's older…and more calm."
"Oh…what time?"
Ephram looked back down at his notes, "why?"
Madison shrugged, "I dunno…I thought maybe we could have lunch somewhere…maybe do something after?"
Ephram nodded, "sounds good"
Madison sat down next to him, "but what time is your lesson?"
He looked over at her, "I have to check…but we can always have a late lunch"
Madison paused, then smiled, "right…well I'm gonna go get some work done" she gave him a quick kiss and went back into the bedroom.
Ephram went back to his music, but was soon interrupted when he felt something vibrating underneath him. He stood up and saw Madison's phone in between the couch cushions.
"Mads?"
Madison looked up from her laptop, "what?"
Ephram picked up her phone and walked it into the bedroom, "your phone"
He tossed it to her and she flipped it open, "Hello?"
A woman on the other end responded, "Hi is this Madison Kellner?"
"Yeah"
"Hi, this is Margaret from Dr. Grant's office…I was just calling to confirm your appointment for tomorrow at 2."
Madison glanced up at Ephram, "Yeah …we'll be there, thanks"
"Your welcome, have a nice day"
"You too" Madison hung up and went back to her computer.
"We'll be where?" Ephram asked.
Madison looked up, not expecting him to be curious. She had to think of a lie…and fast.
She looked down to hide her nose, "Oh…uh, not you…I'm meeting with a Manager on Monday and the restaurant was just confirming the reservation." Not bad, she thought to herself.
"Oh…so are we still on for the movie tonight?"
"yeah…it's at 7 so we should leave in a couple hours…"
"K…well…I guess I'll let you finish"
The next day Ephram and Madison were sitting in a cab.
Ephram looked over at Madison, "are you in some kind of hurry?"
Madison looked up from her watch and quickly put her hands in her pockets, "No…"
"Then why are you checking your watch every 30 seconds?"
Madison shrugged, "Is there something wrong with wanting to know the time?"
Ephram smiled and shook his head, "So what's this restaurant we're going to anyway?"
"What do you mean?"
"Like…is it Mexican? Italian? American?"
Madison bit her lip, she didn't know whether to tell him now or wait until they got there.
"Uh…I'm not sure"
Just as Ephram was about to respond the cab stopped, "that'll be 8.75"
Madison handed him a 10 and got out of the car.
Ephram followed and looked around, "so where is this place? …I'm starved."
"I-um…actually.." Madison looked down, she knew he was going to be pissed and she couldn't look into his eyes, "we're not going to a restaurant"
Ephram looked at her, confused, "w-what do you mean?"
Madison bit her lip, "I kind of made us an appointment…"
"an appointment?"
Madison stayed quiet and a look of realization appeared on Ephram's face.
"W-w-wait…I thought I told you I would do it-why the hell would you go behind my back! Why didn't you just tell me!"
"I-I dunno…probably cause I knew you would make up some excuse not to go…I know I handled it the wrong way, but we're here…and we're late, so let's save the arguing for afterwards"
Ephram shook his head, "No-see, I was gonna go before-b-but now that you pulled this I-I don't have to go anymore"
Madison smiled and grabbed his arm, "It doesn't work that way"