Joey Livington is the next newest person to move to Everwood since Ephram and his family but the family with 3 daughters has a secret they aren't telling.
"How was your day Delia?" Ephram asks his little sister as she walks in the front door.
"It was really good, are you feeling better?" Delia asks dropping her backpack and as she inquires Ephram can tell she is bursting to tell him something.
"Yeah, I'll be back in school tomorrow. Dad shouldn't have even made me stay home. So what happened today that was so great?"
"I made a new friend!" Delia exclaims taking the chair across from Ephram.
"Oh really? What's his name?" Ephram asked, happy that at least his sister was making friends.
"Her name is Sydney Livington. She just moved here from LA with her sisters and her parents." Delia's words are strung into one long breath.
"That's great Delia, you should invite her to dinner some time." Ephram suggests.
"I didn't have to, Katie's mom is Dad's new nurse. You know the one he has been talking about, the whole family is coming over tonight for dinner."
"Tonight?" Ephram asks clicking off the TV "AT what time?"
"6:30 Dad's got Nina bringing food home from work so she and Sam are coming for dinner too."
"Why didn't I know about this?" Ephram asks standing up and heading towards the kitchen cleaning up the mess that was left over from the night before.
"You did know about this." Delia rolls her eyes, "Dad told all of us last week."
"Right sure." Ephram rolls his eyes. "How many sisters does Sydney have?" Ephram asks pulling plates out of the cupboard."
"Three, I met all of them this morning. The oldest Josephine is your age I think, and then there is Lucinda and then Sydney and then Olivia. But you don't have to set a plate for Olivia she's only a baby."
"Great." Ephram rolls his eyes and hands Delia 10 plates, "Set the table OK? I've got to get a a shower."
"All right." Delia nods taking the plates and heading towards the kitchen table.
By the time Ephram emerges from the shower Delia all ready has the table set with plates, glasses, silverware and napkins. "Looks good Delia, now go put your backpack and things away so we can get this place cleaned up for company."
"You sound like Mom." Delia laughs.
"Dad would have company over here with the house looking like it normally does so someone has to say it." Ephram responds.
Ephram is just finishing vacuuming when the doorbell rings. "I'll get it Delia!" Ephram calls up the stairs.
"Amy what are you doing here?" Ephram asks after pulling open the door.
"I brought your homework and wanted to see how you are feeling." Amy responds handing Ephram several papers and a book.
"You didn't have to, I'm going to be back in school tomorrow anyway." Ephram takes the books from Amy, "But thanks."
"Hi Amy." Delia appears at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hi Delia." Amy greets, "How are you?"
"Good, do you want to stay for dinner?" Delia asks, "We're having the new family over for dinner, and Nina and Sam, nothing special you can stay if you want. Bright can come to if he wants."
"I doubt Amy would want to stay." Ephram states.
"I wouldn't mind, but I don't think Bright can make it." Amy smiles down at Delia, "But if you have the room for me I would love to stay. I saw the new girl today, Josephine? She kept to herself reminded me of someone else." Amy jabs Ephram lightly in the ribs.
"It's a Friday night don't you have a date with Colin or something?" Ephram asks shooting a glance at Delia.
"You may be surprised by this but I don't spend every waking moment with Colin." Amy states.
"I'm going to go set another place." Delia says more to herself than her brother and Amy and she scoots out of the room quickly.
"Oh?" Ephram asks.
"He's out with Bright and the guys tonight. But if your jealous about all the time I've been spending with Colin..."
"I'm not jealous, but Colin has only been back a couple months I just assumed...."
"Well then stop Ephram, stop assuming. Just because Colin is back doesn't mean we have to stop being friends." Ephram's silence causes Amy to ask, "You don't honestly think that just because Colin is back that we can't be friends do you?"
"I believe it strongly." Ephram replies.
"Wh-" Amy is to stunned to even finish her sentence. "What?"
"Amy we can't be just friends, it hasn't worked in the past it's not going to work now."
"Ephram you aren't making any sense, we've been friends since you moved here. I don't understand where you get off saying that we can't be just friends. Are you saying that because I have a boyfriend and I don't like you like that means that we can't be friends?"
"No, I'm saying that a part of you does like me like I like you and because you have a boyfriend you can't be feeling that. I'm not going to get in between you and Colin, he makes you happy and I can handle that. But every time we get to close or get caught in a...situation...something happens between us and that something can't happen if you have a boyfriend. You and Colin have come a long way I'm not going to stop that."
"You aren't making sense Ephram, we can be friends." Amy stresses.
Ephram leans in and kisses Amy and instead of pushing him away immediately Amy gives into the kiss but within seconds she pulls away. "Ephram..."
"Amy hear me out first. You can't tell me that you don't feel it, that when we do kiss nothing around us matters...because I see it in your eyes now. And that can't happen, you have a boyfriend, a boyfriend you love. But there has always been this thing between us and because of that you can't have your boyfriend and still be friends, I'm sorry"
The front door is pushed open and the door jump apart as Andy walks into the house, "Amy, hello would you like to stay for dinner? Nina has brought plenty."
Ephram can't help but notice the tears in Amy's eyes as she says, "I can't stay Dr. Brown, I was just bringing Ephram's homework. But thank you."
"Do you want me to give you a ride home?" Andy asks stepping aside.
"No thanks anyway Dr. Brown." And with that Amy walks off of the porch.
"She sure was in a hurry to get out of here." Andy observes.
Ephram rolls his eyes and takes the bags of food away from his and into the kitchen ignoring his father's comment. "You can take Amy's place setting off Delia, she's not staying for dinner."
"Why not?" Delia asks picking the plate up. "You guys got into a fight didn't you?"
"It's none of your business Delia." Ephram snaps taking plastic containers out of the bags.
"I could hear you guys arguing." Delia states.
"You were eavesdropping." Ephram supplies.
"Was not, you guys were loud, I couldn't help but overhear. If it helps it didn't make an sense to me." Delia replies straitening the plates.
"Whatever." Ephram replies, "I'll be in my room come get when they get here."
"Ephram?" Delia's voice rings out from the other side of Ephram's bedroom door 20 minutes later. "They just pulled up are you coming downstairs?"
Ephram turns off his stereo and pulls open the door, "I'm coming."
By the time Delia and Ephram reach the stairs landing Nina and Andy are talking to the Livington family. "Meg, Leo you have met my daughter Delia. This is my son Ephram. Ephram this is Meg and Leo Livington and their daughters Josephine, Lucinda, Sydney, and Olivia."
"It's nice to meet you." Everyone chimes in.
"Come on Sydney I'll show you my room." Delia speaks quickly, "You can come to Lucinda if you want."
"It's Lucy, and thanks."
"Come on Sam, you come too." Ephram watches the younger children hurry up the stairs after Delia and within seconds the adults to have moved on into the living room leaving Ephram with Josephine.
"So...." Ephram states uncomfortably. "You started at the high school today right Josephine."
"Yeah, and it's Joey, not Josephine My parents are the only people in the world who ever call me Josephine."
Ephram smiles, "So how'd you like it?"
"It's a big change from LA, but I don't mind that. People aren't all that friendly though, I thought small towns were supposed to have a welcoming committee or something."
"Some people in Everwood are nicer than others." Ephram shrugs. "My sister is happy to have a new friend though. She's had a tough time making friends here."
"Sydney's shy too so I'm glad she made friends right off the bat. Lucy will get along pretty well, but she's really social."
"And what about you?" Ephram asks.
"Me. I'm not shy but I'm not social. I used to be...I don't know I guess people change."
"I can understand that, my mom died and my dad decided to move out here. He's changed the most but I think back to when I lived in New York and I know I've changed to. Time, things, people they all change you I guess."
"I'm glad to see you two are getting along." Andy interrupts. "But dinner is on the table. Care to join us?"
Ephram rolls his eyes and calls for his sister up the stairs. Ephram and Joey trail behind the younger children, "Listen if this place gets boring we can take off and I can show you all of Everwood, all 10 minutes of it. What do you say? Think your parents will go for it?" Ephram asks.
"Yeah, they'll probably be cool with it." Joey replies as they each take their seats at opposite ends of the table.
Ephram is holding Joey's jacket out to her when Delia walks up to them, "We're going to watch Lilo and Stich you guys want to watch with us?"
"Actually Delia I'm going to show Joey the town. We'll be back later."
"Did Mom say you could go?" Lucy asks Joey coming towards them.
"Yes Lucy Mom said I can go. I'll see you guys later." Joey responds before walking out the door.
"So you guys actually drove out here? All six of you with the baby and everything?" Ephram asks as they approach the town.
"Yeah it's not really a long drive, but it felt like forever. Lucy loves to talk and nobody wanted to listen to her chatter, but that didn't matter. And Sydney hates car rides so she asks about every 5 minutes how much longer."
"And the baby?"
"Cried the whole way, or at least that's what it seemed like." Joey replies.
"How old is she anyway?" Ephram asks.
"Jess? She's 6 months."
"I love Delia to death but I can't imagine having more than one sibling. One is plenty."
They two had been walking along for about 15 minutes when Joey states, "I didn't know it was possible to be so cold anywhere."
"That's what you get for growing up in LA." Ephram smirks. "Listen Sal's Pizza is right up here, we can get something to drink and you can warm up."
Ephram pulls the door open as Joey asks, "You can't tell me that you aren't cold? It's freezing out here, I can't believe you even suggested leaving the house."
"Well are you sorry you can then?" Ephram asks.
"No, my frozen toes aside anything would have been better than sitting at home with the kids and my parents." Joey laughs.
"I told you..." Ephram's sentence stops as he surveys the group sitting at a table in the pizza place. Squeezed into one booth sits Amy, Colin and Bright.
"Kids from school?" Joey asks her gaze following Ephram's.
"Yeah." Ephram responds.
"Ephram if you don't want to stay we don't have to, I'm not that cold." Joey offers.
"No it's fine. What do you want to drink?"
"Ephram..."
"Joey it's fine really." Ephram walks up to the counter and he orders and pays for their drinks.
"So who are they?" Joey asks when she and Ephram have taken a seat in a booth also.
"Amy and Bright Abbot and Colin Hart."
"Friends? Enemies? What?" Joey asks taking a sip of her coke and surveying the group with curious dark brown eyes hidden by her long eyelashes.
"Colin's neither. Bright and I can't stand each other."
"And Amy?" Joey asks looking up.
"Amy is, it's hard to explain."
Joey looks at her watch, "If you want to explain then I have time, if you don't we'll change the topic."
"There's not really much to tell." Ephram is surprised that he is having such an easy time opening up to this new person but he doesn't stop, "The Reader's Digest version is basically while her boyfriend was in a coma we became really good friends and there was always the possibility that we would do really good as more than friends. But my father did surgery on her boyfriend and now he's back and they are back together and I told her we can't be friends because it's just not possible."
'That's not readers digest that's like one of those soap magazines." Joey offers a bright smile.
"Maybe so." Ephram shrugs. "So why'd you get to move to dear old Everwood?"
Joey sighs and plays with her straw, "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." Ephram replies quickly.
"Basically my parents didn't like the kind of person I was becoming in LA, so when my mom talked to a doctor in New York, who she used to work for in LA, she told my mom that your Dad needed a nurse here. So my mom jumped on the chance to get out of LA, and my Dad's business is station in Denver anyway so it was a good move for everyone."
"Everyone but you that is." Ephram suggests.
"Sometimes I think that, that I am going to be miserable in Everwood and that my mom never should have moved us here. That my whole family would have been fine in LA, but as many times as my parents have screwed up, I think they maybe they were right about leaving LA. And hey maybe Everwood won't be so terrible after all." Ephram and Joey exchange smiles over their soda and continue talking for about an hour before both decide that they should probably head back.
"Where are you doing so early on a Sunday morning? Not church I assume." Andy asks as he pours Delia a glass of juice.
"I'm meeting Joey for breakfast." Ephram states.
"You two have been seeing a lot of each other lately." Andy points out.
"Dad I have only known her since Friday."
"You went out after dinner on Friday for over an hour. Yesterday you guys went to the movies and out for pizza and breakfast today. Are you guys dating?" Delia asks.
"What?" Ephram gasps.
"Well I mean...you and Amy got into the fight on Friday..."
"You and Amy got into a fight on Friday?" Andy asks taken aback.
"Dad..."
"It was just a question." Andy responds.
"So are you?" Delia asks as Nina walks into the kitchen.
"What is this the 3rd degree?" Ephram asks defensively.
Ephram's defensive town causes Nina to ask, "What's the 3rd degree for?"
"Ephram's dating Joey." Delia states.
"Joey Livington?" Nina asks, "That's really great Ephram congra..."
"We are not dating!" Ephram exclaims, "We're friends, just friends."
The three exchange looks, "What now?" Ephram asks looking between his father, sister and Nina.
"It's nothing Ephram. Go to your breakfast, have fun."
"How was your day Delia?" Ephram asks his little sister as she walks in the front door.
"It was really good, are you feeling better?" Delia asks dropping her backpack and as she inquires Ephram can tell she is bursting to tell him something.
"Yeah, I'll be back in school tomorrow. Dad shouldn't have even made me stay home. So what happened today that was so great?"
"I made a new friend!" Delia exclaims taking the chair across from Ephram.
"Oh really? What's his name?" Ephram asked, happy that at least his sister was making friends.
"Her name is Sydney Livington. She just moved here from LA with her sisters and her parents." Delia's words are strung into one long breath.
"That's great Delia, you should invite her to dinner some time." Ephram suggests.
"I didn't have to, Katie's mom is Dad's new nurse. You know the one he has been talking about, the whole family is coming over tonight for dinner."
"Tonight?" Ephram asks clicking off the TV "AT what time?"
"6:30 Dad's got Nina bringing food home from work so she and Sam are coming for dinner too."
"Why didn't I know about this?" Ephram asks standing up and heading towards the kitchen cleaning up the mess that was left over from the night before.
"You did know about this." Delia rolls her eyes, "Dad told all of us last week."
"Right sure." Ephram rolls his eyes. "How many sisters does Sydney have?" Ephram asks pulling plates out of the cupboard."
"Three, I met all of them this morning. The oldest Josephine is your age I think, and then there is Lucinda and then Sydney and then Olivia. But you don't have to set a plate for Olivia she's only a baby."
"Great." Ephram rolls his eyes and hands Delia 10 plates, "Set the table OK? I've got to get a a shower."
"All right." Delia nods taking the plates and heading towards the kitchen table.
By the time Ephram emerges from the shower Delia all ready has the table set with plates, glasses, silverware and napkins. "Looks good Delia, now go put your backpack and things away so we can get this place cleaned up for company."
"You sound like Mom." Delia laughs.
"Dad would have company over here with the house looking like it normally does so someone has to say it." Ephram responds.
Ephram is just finishing vacuuming when the doorbell rings. "I'll get it Delia!" Ephram calls up the stairs.
"Amy what are you doing here?" Ephram asks after pulling open the door.
"I brought your homework and wanted to see how you are feeling." Amy responds handing Ephram several papers and a book.
"You didn't have to, I'm going to be back in school tomorrow anyway." Ephram takes the books from Amy, "But thanks."
"Hi Amy." Delia appears at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hi Delia." Amy greets, "How are you?"
"Good, do you want to stay for dinner?" Delia asks, "We're having the new family over for dinner, and Nina and Sam, nothing special you can stay if you want. Bright can come to if he wants."
"I doubt Amy would want to stay." Ephram states.
"I wouldn't mind, but I don't think Bright can make it." Amy smiles down at Delia, "But if you have the room for me I would love to stay. I saw the new girl today, Josephine? She kept to herself reminded me of someone else." Amy jabs Ephram lightly in the ribs.
"It's a Friday night don't you have a date with Colin or something?" Ephram asks shooting a glance at Delia.
"You may be surprised by this but I don't spend every waking moment with Colin." Amy states.
"I'm going to go set another place." Delia says more to herself than her brother and Amy and she scoots out of the room quickly.
"Oh?" Ephram asks.
"He's out with Bright and the guys tonight. But if your jealous about all the time I've been spending with Colin..."
"I'm not jealous, but Colin has only been back a couple months I just assumed...."
"Well then stop Ephram, stop assuming. Just because Colin is back doesn't mean we have to stop being friends." Ephram's silence causes Amy to ask, "You don't honestly think that just because Colin is back that we can't be friends do you?"
"I believe it strongly." Ephram replies.
"Wh-" Amy is to stunned to even finish her sentence. "What?"
"Amy we can't be just friends, it hasn't worked in the past it's not going to work now."
"Ephram you aren't making any sense, we've been friends since you moved here. I don't understand where you get off saying that we can't be just friends. Are you saying that because I have a boyfriend and I don't like you like that means that we can't be friends?"
"No, I'm saying that a part of you does like me like I like you and because you have a boyfriend you can't be feeling that. I'm not going to get in between you and Colin, he makes you happy and I can handle that. But every time we get to close or get caught in a...situation...something happens between us and that something can't happen if you have a boyfriend. You and Colin have come a long way I'm not going to stop that."
"You aren't making sense Ephram, we can be friends." Amy stresses.
Ephram leans in and kisses Amy and instead of pushing him away immediately Amy gives into the kiss but within seconds she pulls away. "Ephram..."
"Amy hear me out first. You can't tell me that you don't feel it, that when we do kiss nothing around us matters...because I see it in your eyes now. And that can't happen, you have a boyfriend, a boyfriend you love. But there has always been this thing between us and because of that you can't have your boyfriend and still be friends, I'm sorry"
The front door is pushed open and the door jump apart as Andy walks into the house, "Amy, hello would you like to stay for dinner? Nina has brought plenty."
Ephram can't help but notice the tears in Amy's eyes as she says, "I can't stay Dr. Brown, I was just bringing Ephram's homework. But thank you."
"Do you want me to give you a ride home?" Andy asks stepping aside.
"No thanks anyway Dr. Brown." And with that Amy walks off of the porch.
"She sure was in a hurry to get out of here." Andy observes.
Ephram rolls his eyes and takes the bags of food away from his and into the kitchen ignoring his father's comment. "You can take Amy's place setting off Delia, she's not staying for dinner."
"Why not?" Delia asks picking the plate up. "You guys got into a fight didn't you?"
"It's none of your business Delia." Ephram snaps taking plastic containers out of the bags.
"I could hear you guys arguing." Delia states.
"You were eavesdropping." Ephram supplies.
"Was not, you guys were loud, I couldn't help but overhear. If it helps it didn't make an sense to me." Delia replies straitening the plates.
"Whatever." Ephram replies, "I'll be in my room come get when they get here."
"Ephram?" Delia's voice rings out from the other side of Ephram's bedroom door 20 minutes later. "They just pulled up are you coming downstairs?"
Ephram turns off his stereo and pulls open the door, "I'm coming."
By the time Delia and Ephram reach the stairs landing Nina and Andy are talking to the Livington family. "Meg, Leo you have met my daughter Delia. This is my son Ephram. Ephram this is Meg and Leo Livington and their daughters Josephine, Lucinda, Sydney, and Olivia."
"It's nice to meet you." Everyone chimes in.
"Come on Sydney I'll show you my room." Delia speaks quickly, "You can come to Lucinda if you want."
"It's Lucy, and thanks."
"Come on Sam, you come too." Ephram watches the younger children hurry up the stairs after Delia and within seconds the adults to have moved on into the living room leaving Ephram with Josephine.
"So...." Ephram states uncomfortably. "You started at the high school today right Josephine."
"Yeah, and it's Joey, not Josephine My parents are the only people in the world who ever call me Josephine."
Ephram smiles, "So how'd you like it?"
"It's a big change from LA, but I don't mind that. People aren't all that friendly though, I thought small towns were supposed to have a welcoming committee or something."
"Some people in Everwood are nicer than others." Ephram shrugs. "My sister is happy to have a new friend though. She's had a tough time making friends here."
"Sydney's shy too so I'm glad she made friends right off the bat. Lucy will get along pretty well, but she's really social."
"And what about you?" Ephram asks.
"Me. I'm not shy but I'm not social. I used to be...I don't know I guess people change."
"I can understand that, my mom died and my dad decided to move out here. He's changed the most but I think back to when I lived in New York and I know I've changed to. Time, things, people they all change you I guess."
"I'm glad to see you two are getting along." Andy interrupts. "But dinner is on the table. Care to join us?"
Ephram rolls his eyes and calls for his sister up the stairs. Ephram and Joey trail behind the younger children, "Listen if this place gets boring we can take off and I can show you all of Everwood, all 10 minutes of it. What do you say? Think your parents will go for it?" Ephram asks.
"Yeah, they'll probably be cool with it." Joey replies as they each take their seats at opposite ends of the table.
Ephram is holding Joey's jacket out to her when Delia walks up to them, "We're going to watch Lilo and Stich you guys want to watch with us?"
"Actually Delia I'm going to show Joey the town. We'll be back later."
"Did Mom say you could go?" Lucy asks Joey coming towards them.
"Yes Lucy Mom said I can go. I'll see you guys later." Joey responds before walking out the door.
"So you guys actually drove out here? All six of you with the baby and everything?" Ephram asks as they approach the town.
"Yeah it's not really a long drive, but it felt like forever. Lucy loves to talk and nobody wanted to listen to her chatter, but that didn't matter. And Sydney hates car rides so she asks about every 5 minutes how much longer."
"And the baby?"
"Cried the whole way, or at least that's what it seemed like." Joey replies.
"How old is she anyway?" Ephram asks.
"Jess? She's 6 months."
"I love Delia to death but I can't imagine having more than one sibling. One is plenty."
They two had been walking along for about 15 minutes when Joey states, "I didn't know it was possible to be so cold anywhere."
"That's what you get for growing up in LA." Ephram smirks. "Listen Sal's Pizza is right up here, we can get something to drink and you can warm up."
Ephram pulls the door open as Joey asks, "You can't tell me that you aren't cold? It's freezing out here, I can't believe you even suggested leaving the house."
"Well are you sorry you can then?" Ephram asks.
"No, my frozen toes aside anything would have been better than sitting at home with the kids and my parents." Joey laughs.
"I told you..." Ephram's sentence stops as he surveys the group sitting at a table in the pizza place. Squeezed into one booth sits Amy, Colin and Bright.
"Kids from school?" Joey asks her gaze following Ephram's.
"Yeah." Ephram responds.
"Ephram if you don't want to stay we don't have to, I'm not that cold." Joey offers.
"No it's fine. What do you want to drink?"
"Ephram..."
"Joey it's fine really." Ephram walks up to the counter and he orders and pays for their drinks.
"So who are they?" Joey asks when she and Ephram have taken a seat in a booth also.
"Amy and Bright Abbot and Colin Hart."
"Friends? Enemies? What?" Joey asks taking a sip of her coke and surveying the group with curious dark brown eyes hidden by her long eyelashes.
"Colin's neither. Bright and I can't stand each other."
"And Amy?" Joey asks looking up.
"Amy is, it's hard to explain."
Joey looks at her watch, "If you want to explain then I have time, if you don't we'll change the topic."
"There's not really much to tell." Ephram is surprised that he is having such an easy time opening up to this new person but he doesn't stop, "The Reader's Digest version is basically while her boyfriend was in a coma we became really good friends and there was always the possibility that we would do really good as more than friends. But my father did surgery on her boyfriend and now he's back and they are back together and I told her we can't be friends because it's just not possible."
'That's not readers digest that's like one of those soap magazines." Joey offers a bright smile.
"Maybe so." Ephram shrugs. "So why'd you get to move to dear old Everwood?"
Joey sighs and plays with her straw, "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." Ephram replies quickly.
"Basically my parents didn't like the kind of person I was becoming in LA, so when my mom talked to a doctor in New York, who she used to work for in LA, she told my mom that your Dad needed a nurse here. So my mom jumped on the chance to get out of LA, and my Dad's business is station in Denver anyway so it was a good move for everyone."
"Everyone but you that is." Ephram suggests.
"Sometimes I think that, that I am going to be miserable in Everwood and that my mom never should have moved us here. That my whole family would have been fine in LA, but as many times as my parents have screwed up, I think they maybe they were right about leaving LA. And hey maybe Everwood won't be so terrible after all." Ephram and Joey exchange smiles over their soda and continue talking for about an hour before both decide that they should probably head back.
"Where are you doing so early on a Sunday morning? Not church I assume." Andy asks as he pours Delia a glass of juice.
"I'm meeting Joey for breakfast." Ephram states.
"You two have been seeing a lot of each other lately." Andy points out.
"Dad I have only known her since Friday."
"You went out after dinner on Friday for over an hour. Yesterday you guys went to the movies and out for pizza and breakfast today. Are you guys dating?" Delia asks.
"What?" Ephram gasps.
"Well I mean...you and Amy got into the fight on Friday..."
"You and Amy got into a fight on Friday?" Andy asks taken aback.
"Dad..."
"It was just a question." Andy responds.
"So are you?" Delia asks as Nina walks into the kitchen.
"What is this the 3rd degree?" Ephram asks defensively.
Ephram's defensive town causes Nina to ask, "What's the 3rd degree for?"
"Ephram's dating Joey." Delia states.
"Joey Livington?" Nina asks, "That's really great Ephram congra..."
"We are not dating!" Ephram exclaims, "We're friends, just friends."
The three exchange looks, "What now?" Ephram asks looking between his father, sister and Nina.
"It's nothing Ephram. Go to your breakfast, have fun."