Madison was sitting on her bed watching TV when Ephram walked in. He looked around the room confused, "Where's Julia?"

Madison looked over at him, "Who?"

Ephram smiled, "Funny..."

Madison looked back at the TV, "Your grandma and Delia came over and asked if they could baby-sit for a little while..."

"Are you serious?!"

Madison nodded.

"Is there something in the water here or has my family just gone completely crazy?"

Madison looked at him like he was the crazy one, "What are you talking about Ephram?"

"Well my grandpa stopped by school today...and we actually had a long conversation...with no yelling involved...h-he said he was totally fine with everything and-and it's just gonna take some getting used to"

"I guess they just needed time"

"Wait...so you actually let them take her?"

"Yeah"

"but you don't even like other people holding her"

"well I thought about it...and I figured we could really use the break...and we needed some time to talk"

Ephram sat down on the other bed, he had been thinking about what he was going to say for a while and he still had nothing, "Madison-"

"No Ephram it's ok...I'm sorry...I shouldn't have said anything...I just made our already impossible situation even more impossible...I should have just kept it to myself"

Ephram shook his head, "No...no I-I-I'm glad you said something...cause it-it's gonna help me"

Madison looked confused, "It's gonna help you? Help you do what?"

Ephram stood up and moved closer to her, "Do this"

He leaned in and kissed her. At first she didn't know what was happening, but then she gave in. She had wanted this so badly...and apparently so had he.

Ephram pulled away and they looked at each other.

"but what about everything we talked about before? What about Julia? What if it doesn't work?" Madison had no idea what to think now.

Ephram sighed, they were still only inches apart, "I guess we'll have to wait and see..."

He leaned in and kissed her again, this time it was deeper.

Madison smiled, "Are we really doing this?"

Ephram smiled back, "I think we are"

He leaned in and kissed her again. This one was even more passionate than the last.

Ephram sat down on the bed next to Madison, "So you want to risk it again?"
Madison looked at him and smiled, "if you wanna risk it"
Ephram looked down, "I do...I-I definitely do...definitely"
"You're sure?"
He grabbed her hand, "Yeah-yes...I'm sure" He took a deep breath, "I love you Madison...I never stopped loving you...there is no way I'm going to stop loving you any time soon...that's why I-I-I'm sure we can do this..."
He brushed the hair out of her face and kissed her with more love than he thought possible.

Ok that's it. I think I'm going to end this story here. Recently I've felt that my writing and motivation have been going downhill so I decided to end it now, before it got any worse. But don't worry, this story will definately have a sequel. Maybe in a month or so. Also I'm working on a new story, "Road Blocks" which is a sequel to my first story "Speed Bumps" Look for that soon. And I didn't forget about "Not Giving Up" either, I'm going to try and write some more chapters for it, but I have no idea when those will be up.

Here's a teaser for "Road Blocks"



"Well...when I was there...I-I saw Amy...and I hadn't seen her for a while-you know...so I-I-I talked to her...and we caught up...and stuff...and-and then something happened-"

Madison quickly let go of his hand, she had an idea of where he was going with this and she felt tears start to form in her eyes, "w-w-what...what happened Ephram?" she said with anger.

Ephram tried to grab her hand but she pulled it away, "Please Madison...please just hear me out-"

Madison looked at him, tears rolling down her cheeks, "What happened?!"

Ephram took a deep breath and looked away, "I made a huge mistake-"

"What happened?!"

"I-I...well...we..." He took a deep breath, "I slept with her..."

Madison put her hand over her mouth in shock. Not in a million years did she think Ephram would ever do something like that. She pointed to the door with her trembling hand, "Get out"