A/N: [Sorry about the last document, it uploaded strange so I reformatted it]  This is a story that takes place right after Do or Die (April 26th episode) and I'm writing from Ephram's POV (I=Ephram).  Any type of feedback would be appreciated! This is also my first Everwood fanfic, I've written Smallville before and if you like this and would like to read any of my others, please email me.  Thanks!

Chapter One

"So which was it?" Bright asked me.  He made that weird face of his when he's trying to look confused but he's really just irritated that something didn't go his way.

Slightly confused, I stared back at him.  Amy is into me? She told me? Am I really that clueless?  I laid my hand slowly across the roof of my junky car and shrugged, "Yeah, I told her it was bad timing."

Bright shook his head and chuckled at me.  Rolling his eyes, he opened the car door and mumbled, "Let's go, we need to talk about your relationships."  I hesitated, still thinking about what he said, caught up in the last several moments of clueless-ness and wondering.  Amy was into me?

I got into the drivers seat and started the car.  Bright looked out his window and playfully groped at the window towards his RV, "It's gone...prom is over...the best night of my life..."  He sighed and let go of the window.  Now he looked at me, I pulled out of my parking spot along the curb and clicked on my blinker.  I remained quiet and tried not to look back at him.

"You have some major relationship problems, man," Bright said with a laugh, shaking his head at me.

I laughed under my breath, "And you don't? Bright, you just kissed the hood of the RV!"  I smiled to myself and said under my breath, "Not to mention all four of the girls you took to prom yesterday."

Bright let out a groan and looked over his shoulder towards the RV again, "The best night of my life! Dude! It was so much fun! I still can't believe I was Homecoming King! What else could make senior prom more perfect!..."

He trailed on and I got lost in my thoughts.  My mind drifted back to last night and Amy and Madison and everything that just went wrong.  I totally thought Amy was just sick of looking for someone and felt the need to ask me because I couldn't get anyone either.  It didn't cross my mind that she actually wanted to go with me.

My mind has been so consumed with Madison lately, for God knows why.  She was really the one who got me back onto my feet and then BOOM, its over.  Everything reminds me of something that reminds me of her, like I told Amy when we were watching TV the other day.  I just can't escape her.

What made everything worse was when Amy and I ran into her at the gas station.  It startled me to the point of being speechless and I barely knew what to say.  I felt so many different things.  Madison always told me that I had way to many emotions, and whenever I'm around her that's what I have.  But it was a little different.  Amy and I were having a lot of fun making fun of Bright and his little trail of girls, and then I'm sure that running into Madison ruined everything.  But after having fun with Amy, even though I miss Madison, I realized that there was fun beyond the one girl I had fallen for.

I had had fun last night.  I had ruined everything for Amy, I see now, but for myself I believe I enjoyed being able to talk to her about my issues and hearing her perspective on what was going on.  I see how much of a jerk I must have been, and how miserable Amy must have been.  God, I am such an idiot sometimes.  If I could have just let go of Madison for one night and just let myself have fun, which never seems to happen, maybe it would have been easier to get over her.  Amy didn't seem to have a problem getting over Tommy...then again...

"Ephram!....Ephram, dude!"  Bright shouted, tapping me on my shoulder.  I looked over at him, slightly confused.  "Haven't you heard a word I was saying?"

I blinked a couple times and focused on him.  I looked in front of me and realized I had parked in the diner parking lot.  Then I looked back at him, "No, sorry what were you saying?"

Bright rolled his eyes and opened the car door, "This is why you can't get or keep a girl, dude, you don't listen."

He got out of the car and I did the same.  I shrugged again and shut the door, "I was just thinking..."

Bright suddenly got a smile on his face and he put his hands up in the air.  "I have solved your problem!  I am the greatest!"  I rolled my eyes and followed him to the door.  He turned as he reached the door and smiled, "You think.  Girls don't like guys who think.  Stop thinking."  I stared at him expressionless.  No wait, I had my eyebrows dipping into my nose, trying to make sense of what he just said.  He rolled his eyes yet again and opened the door, "No need to thank me."

~End of Chapter One~