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When she got back to the apartment, Ephram was sitting on the couch reading a text-book.

"Hey" she said as she hung up her coat.

Ephram looked up from the book, "Hey…that was pretty fast."

"Yeah…well the guy was a creep so I got out of there as soon as I could"

"Sorry"

Madison leaned over the back of the couch and put her arms around his neck, "Whatcha readin'?"

"Oh, just a really exciting book on advanced music theory"

"Sounds super." she said before giving him a kiss on the cheek and walking over to the kitchen, "So what do you want for dinner?"

"Uh…whatever you wanna make…"

Madison opened some cabinets and looked at her options, "how bout pasta?"

"Sounds good"

About a half-hour later, Ephram and Madison were sitting at the table eating dinner.

"So…did you do anything exciting while I was gone?" Madison asked as she took a sip of water.

"Oh yeah, lots of exciting stuff…"

Madison smiled.

"Actually, my dad called"

"Oh yeah? What'd he want?"

"He just wanted to know about our plans for next week"

"Oh-that reminds me…did you make the hotel reservations?"

Ephram took another bite of food and nodded, "Yea, yesterday"

"And the rental car?"

"Done"

Madison smiled, "Well look at you being all on-top of things"

"Well just wait til after dinner and I'll show you first-hand just how on top of things I can be" Ephram said with a sly smile.

Madison widened her eyes and then stood up and grabbed his hand, "Who said we had to wait til after dinner?"

Ephram stood up and pulled her into a breath-taking kiss before leading her into the bedroom.

A few days later Ephram got home a couple hours early. One of his classes was cancelled so he and a friend decided to go to the gym.

He walked in the door and noticed Madison's jacket lying on the couch.

"Mads?" he called out while leafing through some mail.

He put the mail down and heard a noise coming from the bedroom, "Madison?"

He started walking towards the bedroom and nearly ran into Madison. She was wearing a bathrobe and looked a little flushed.

"Hey…what are you doing here?" he asked looking her over.

"Uh…some idiot spilled soda on me at work-so I just came back here to shower and change real quick-what are you doing here?"

"Class cancelled. I was gonna go meet Steve at the gym...are you ok-you look-"

Madison quickly shook her head, "No-no I'm fine, I'm just gonna uh get in the shower…go to the gym, it's fine"

"Right, ok…I just gotta grab my stuff" he pointed to the bedroom door that Madison was standing in front of.

She looked back at the door and then back at Ephram, "Right, sure- sorry"

Ephram looked at her strangely, "You sure you're alright?"

"What? Oh…yeah, I'm fine…just a little tired that's all"

"Ok"

She moved out of the way and Ephram walked into the bedroom. Madison watched him for a second and then went into the bathroom.

Ephram walked over to his dresser and pulled out some shorts and a shirt. He was about to open his sock drawer when he heard something fall in Madison's closet.

He walked over and opened the door to find Mark standing there in his boxers with his shirt half on.

Ephram took a split second to process this and then realized what had been going on-why Madison had been acting so strange. He pulled Mark out of the closet and pushed him up against the wall hard.

"You son of a bitch!" he screamed as he hit Mark hard in the jaw.

Mark tried to push him away but Ephram was too full of rage to even budge. He tackled Mark to the ground and started punching him until he heard Madison screaming from the doorway.

"Ephram! Ephram don't please! I'm sorry!"

Ephram looked back at her and then continued with the beating, Mark could barely fight back now.

Madison ran up to him and tried to pull him off but he pushed her away, "How could you?!" he screamed as tears rolled down his cheeks.

Madison was crying too, "I'm soo sorry-I-I didn't mean-"

Ephram looked down and Mark wasn't moving. He immediately stood up and started freaking out, "Oh shit….shit!"

He sat on the edge of the bed and put his face in his hands.

Madison ran over to Mark and tried to shake him, "Oh god! …Ephram he's not breathing!"

Ephram quickly opened his eyes and looked around. Madison was sleeping soundly beside him. He took a deep breath and rubbed his eyes. Thank god. He looked at the clock, it was 5am. He tried to close his eyes again but flashes of the dream came back to him and he couldn't take it.

He slipped out of bed, careful not to wake Madison, and went into the kitchen.

He poured himself a glass of water and sat down at the table. He sat there thinking until his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the coffee machine. It was almost 7. A couple minutes later he heard Madison's alarm go off.

He knew he had to tell her about the dream, but he was dreading it.

Madison walked in a couple minutes later.

"Morning" she said as she walked into the kitchen.

"Hey"

"Coffee?"

"Sure" he replied.

Madison handed him a mug and then sat down across from him, "You're up early"

Ephram looked at her, it was now or never, "I had another dream last night"