"Previously on The Secret Life of the American Teenager..." "I'm not gay." "What are you talking about?" "Your father saw me talking to Nora a few weeks ago, and then he accused me of looking at her." "I don't know if Amy's feeling confined or it's just something hormonal, but something's up with her." "I need a vacation." "That's not a vacation, traveling with Robie by yourself." "What makes you feel like you have to get married now?" "I'm late." "Why haven't we met your stepmother?" "They're actually going through a divorce." "Betty knew I was in love with Camille when she left me." "I'm a generous man." "I'm going to make a check out for three million dollars." "We have a brother we never knew about." "You know, I actually thought that I killed Dad by having sex and then I find out that every year he's going on these missions and cheating on Mom!" "If I don't see you before you leave, have a great trip." "Thanks, Nora." "Any time." "I want you to take your check back." "Mr. Boykewich is a nice man." "Can't you see that?" "Everything's fine." "Nice to meet you, Grace." "I'll be at Adrian's." "Hey!" "Is he ready?" "I'll drop him off." "I got it." "Why's he wearing that?" "Because we're going to the beach, aren't we, John?" "The beach?" "What about work?" "You have to go to work, and John has to go to the nursery." "No, remember?" "I told you I have the day off." "Oh." "Right." "You did tell me." "But you also told me that there's laundry and we need groceries and the bathroom could use scrubbing." "That's what you said." "You didn't say anything about going to the beach." "I know, but I read the weather forecast and it's going to be really hot and I want to get out." "The other stuff will get done when it gets done." "And I'll do it, just not today, I want to get out today." "Aren't you hot in that?" "I didn't have any clean clothes." "We'll see you when you get home." "Okay, well." "Just so you know," "I really want to go." "Yeah, well, every day you want to do something other than go to school and to work, but that's your summer, school and work." "Those are the choices you made, so live with it." "Why don't you just tell me you told me so?" "You told me not to go to summer school." "I told you so." "And just because you can't go to the beach doesn't mean that we can't go." "You mean just like Ashley gets to go to Europe with Mom doesn't mean I get to?" "Yeah, like that." "You can go to the beach Saturday when you're off and I'm working, or the three of us can go Sunday when we're both off." "The beach is too crowded on the weekends." "I'll just call in sick, I'll go with you." "Call in sick to school and to work?" "Unless you just don't want me to go." "I want you to go, but you can't." "So we'll see you when you get home." "Look, Amy, I love you, even though you're kind of being selfish here and your selfishness is spilling over to me and not just me, but John." "Okay, okay." "You're right." "I'm not being a very good mom." "Or girlfriend or fiancee or whatever." "Whatever." "Have a good time." "I'll see you later, okay, John?" "Bye." "See you later, Amy." "It's going to be really hot out today, you know." "Not where I'm going." "You know, our offices are the same temperature as the meat locker in the butcher shop." "Do you have to go in today?" "I have to go and I want to go." "Can't Leo answer his own damn phone?" "I guess he could, but I want the job of answering his own damn phone." "And I don't want to stay home and babysit you and Robie." "Come on." "You told Anne you'd take care of him, so take care of him." "And enjoy your time with him, she's gonna be back in a couple of weeks and then you won't have him around every day to enjoy." "I know, but I miss having someone around to share him with." "And I'm bored." "And it's hot." "I hate hot." "And I gotta go." "Bye." "Hello?" "Hey, what are you doing today?" "Are you working?" "Are you not working?" "You want to hang out?" "I'm not working, but as much as I'd love to hang out with you and Robie," "I'm taking John to the beach." "The beach?" "In this weather?" "It's going to be 100 degrees, maybe higher." "Not at the beach." "It'll be cooler at the beach." "Tell you what." "Come by and pick us up, and we'll all go." "Didn't you once tell me how much you hate the beach?" "No, wasn't me, I love the beach." "All right, we'll be there in a few minutes." "Perfect." "Hey." "No matter what, you and I are going to have a good summer." "Promise." "♪♪♪" "♪♪♪" "And I'm here with you." "I can't believe I let you talk me into this." "Your attitude sucks, you know that?" "And what happened to you being all excited and happy that you're not pregnant again?" "That lasted what, five minutes?" "Well, how long is it supposed to last?" "Okay, all right, fine." "But you'd think he'd still be excited over that proposal." "And a few weeks later you're back to complaining like it never happened." "I am happy and excited." "Uh, no, you're not." "Okay, It's not everything, okay?" "And I'm hot." "It's hot in here." "Uh-huh." "And Ricky and John are at the beach where it's nice and cool and they're having a good time." "You know, I thought more fun than it is, too." "But my best friend slept with my boyfriend and my other best friend, you, are not any fun at all." "Thanks a lot." "You're welcome." "Your attitude sucks." "It's contagious." "And now I have a sucky attitude and I'm not about anything either." "Good morning." "Is it?" "No, not for me." "I have no friends here, no one likes me and no one wants to hang out with me." "I tell you this Margaret is relying on you to make summer school a good experience for me." "Yeah, well, let me a good experience for you." "It's all about attitude." "You need to change your attitude, you know that?" "If your life isn't then do something about it." "Stop being who you are and be who you want to be." "Sometimes when people tell me what to do," "I find they're telling me what they think they should do." "I think it's called transference." "Are you transferring feelings about yourself onto me?" "No." "No, I don't know." "I doubt it." "It's hotter than hell in here and it's eight in the morning." "Even juvie had air conditioning." "Good morning." "Good morning." "So, this is your big surprise?" "Yeah, how do you like it?" "I'm not sure." "What's going on?" "The four of you to head back to school." "Yeah." "We just thought that since we can't hang out at your house or my house that we'd hang out with you here." "Here?" "How are you going to do that?" "Blend." "Yeah." "That's our plan." "Blend." "I'm not so sure you can blend in here." "Please." "We can blend, we know how to blend." "Watch this." "Hi." "I'm new here, and I just started this summer so I could kind of get used to the school before everyone comes back in the fall." "Could you counselor's office is?" "I was there but I can't find it." "Sure, no problem." "That, my friend, is blending." "It's part of Ninja training." "Only you wouldn't see a real Ninja of course." "That's the They're invisible.." "That's a concept that Hollywood has failed to grasp." "Do Ninjas sweat?" "Never." "Why?" "There's no air conditioning in this school." "Yeah." "Maybe we won't blend." "Yeah, I don't want to touch anyone's sweat outside bed." "There's no air conditioning?" "Nope." "You just want us to go home, don't you?" "You're not disappointed this is the surprise, are you?" "No, no, no, no." "This is a great surprise." "I was just hoping that you were coming here to tell me changed their mind about letting you go out with me." "If we rely on our parents to say when and where we can see each other again, we may never see each other again." "Good morning, Ben." "Good morning..." "I'm Ben's cousin." "I'm from Chicago." "We're visiting Ben and his dad." "My dad was Ben's mother's brother." "We don't get to see each other very often and Ben was going to ask if I can just hang out and observe today, because otherwise we may not be able to see him at all." "Maybe for years." "Well, I guess we can work something out." "Really?" "Thank you." "I'll text Uncle King so he can let the driver go." "Ben, I'll let your teachers know that you have a visitor today." "Have a good day." "See?" "Everything is going to be fine." "You're my cousin." "Didn't think that through." "You are a very bad influence on me, you know that?" "Am I?" "I'm sorry." "But if we get into any trouble, any trouble at all," "I'm going to take full responsibility." "Just like you did with the pot?" "Well, like I did eventually." "What the heck, it's summer school." "Oh, hi, Katelyn." "Kathleen." "Grace's mom?" "Oh, I take it you haven't had a chance to get my message." "I left you a message last night." "Hi, Kathleen, and no, I didn't get a chance to get your message." "And who's this?" "This is Jacob, he's a friend of the family." "Am I?" "He's visiting with us this summer, and I was wondering if it was possible to get him into summer school." "I know classes started weeks ago but Jacob's very smart, he's from South Africa." "And he's hoping to go to school here in the U.S. Permanently." "And is he going to be living with you?" "It looks as though he might be living with me, yes." "But before he commits to that, and before I commit to that," "I just thought that maybe he should try summer school." "It's nice to meet you." "You too, I'm Katelyn O'Malley." "Jacob Bowman Gudina." "Oh!" "Bowman?" "A cousin?" "Ben Boykewich brought his cousin to school today, too." "I don't know why I never thought that families don't visit each other during the summer, but I guess they do." "I mean, of course they do." "I'm not Grace's cousin." "I'm her brother." "Oh." "Well, that's very interesting." "Yes, I'm sure a lot of people will think so." "What'd I tell you?" "He doesn't know he's not at the beach." "Look at him, he's having a great time." "It's 72 degrees and sunny, no humidity, no sand, and we got the place to ourselves." "Besides, Robie would never nap at the beach." "Yeah, I guess it's not that bad." "It's not the ocean, but it does have certain advantages." "How's Amy doing?" "She still jealous her sister got to go off to Europe with her mom?" "Today she's mostly jealous she didn't get to go to the beach with John and me, but maybe it'll make her feel better when she finds out we didn't go and we just came here instead." "She's been in a bad mood all summer." "For someone who just got engaged, she's a real sourpuss." "She's not upset about Anne, is she?" "Anne?" "Her mother." "I know that." "I don't think Ashley has any idea." "Any idea about what?" "You know what." "No, I don't know what." "We've had this conversation before." "What conversation?" "The "Anne could be gay" Conversation." "Oh, geez." "Did she tell you she's gay since the last time we talked?" "No, she didn't tell me she's gay, but she and your mother have cut me out of their conversations completely, so what else would they be talking about?" "You?" "No." "They talk about me right in front of me." "What is your investment in that?" "In Anne being gay?" "My investment in that is that there's some reason she's not with me besides me." "If you're not the guy for her, then you're not the guy for her." "Go out and get yourself another woman, a woman who loves you." "You want to be married?" "Find someone you want to be married to who wants to be married to you." "Want me to crank the air?" "You getting too hot?" "No, this has nothing to do with the air or the heat or whatever." "I'm fine." "You're really young, you know that?" "No woman is going to be interested in me when she hears my story." "I'm too complicated." "You're not that complicated." "You know what I mean, I have a son." "So?" "Haven't you ever heard of step-parents?" "People get involved with people who have children all the time." "I'm a grown man who slipped up with his ex-wife," "I'm not like you and Amy," "I can't blame what happened on stupidity and hormones." "You and Anne have been going back and forth for years." "Why don't you do something, one way or the other, just do something." "I am doing something." "I'm waiting for Anne to come out of the closet." "And if she doesn't, if she's not gay, then what?" "Then I'm screwed." "I'm screwed anyway." "I'm going to get a popsicle, you want a popsicle?" "Why not?" "What happened to family friend?" "I thought the plan was to say you're a friend of the family." "That was the plan, but once said, it felt like a lie." "You know, some people think that the intentional omission of information is lying." "Who's omitted anything?" "My mother and I came and met you and told you who I was as soon as we found out you were around." "Well, maybe your mother should have done that 14 years ago when you were born." "What would have happened then?" "Then I would have known." "And if you had known?" "If I had known," "I certainly wouldn't have stayed married to Marshall Bowman." "Then you would have missed out on many years of happiness." "But I wasn't really happy because I didn't know about his cheating on me, and I didn't know about you." "What's the better thing then, to know everything and be unhappy or to not know and be happy?" "It was not our decision, my mom's decision or my decision, it was my father's decision." "This is my decision." "To have you know, to have Tom know, to have Grace know." "My point was, I would have liked to have known sooner because then maybe I would've have had a shot at being happy with someone who wasn't raising a child in another country with another woman." "I'm sorry." "It's probably just the jet lag." "I know that my phoney marriage was not your fault." "No." "It was not my fault." "It's not usually this hot here." "That's not my fault either." "I'm sorry." "Me, too." "Hey, what's going on?" "I just wanted to let you know that I met Jacob, and I think we can get him into school this summer, but we'll have to see if he can actually complete any of his courses with it being such a late start." "Jacob?" "I don't really know anything about Jacob." "Jacob who?" "I don't think that's really any of my concern." "I just get the feeling that it might be some of your concern, to have your brother suddenly show up at your school." "My what?" "He's not my brother." "Who told you he's my brother?" "He did." "He and your mother." "He is not my brother!" "I am an only child!" "Except for Tom!" "Tom is my brother." "Jacob is not my brother!" "We don't even know who he is!" "Excuse me." "I have to go." "I can't take this stupid heat, okay?" "I'll be right back." "Perhaps Ben's cousin could tell you some more about Chicago." "Does anyone have any questions?" "Please." "You're not his cousin and you're not from Chicago." "What's going on with Grace?" "And who's this Jacob character?" "All of a sudden she has a brother?" "It's her brother." "It's her half-brother." "Apparently her dad had another child with some woman that he used to see when he went back to do all that volunteer medical work in Africa." "Are you sure, Madison?" "Oh, look who's speaking to me." "You know, spreading rumors about adults is a little different than spreading rumors about one of us." "It's not a rumor, it's the truth." "Who told you?" "Jack?" "If Jack and I were talking, would that bother you?" "Why is that?" "Yeah, why is that?" "Are you really going out with Jack?" "You know he's still in love with Grace." "Don't be an idiot." "Jack and I are just friends, so who's the idiot?" "Let's face it, we're all idiots." "Yes." "I'd have to agree." "I'm your best friend." "You could have told me." "I would have told you." "I would have told you if I'd known he was going to show up here and tell everybody, I would have told you." "I just..." "I thought he was going to lie," "I thought my mom was going to lie." "Does she want people to know that my dad cheated on her?" "That he has some child that he never told her about?" "My father never told anyone about me, Grace." "Not until I showed up." "So what are you saying?" "You know how he feels?" "You're on his side?" "What about how I feel about this?" "You know what, you're supposed to be my best friend." "Can you just be my best friend for once?" "You know how cool that is?" "Being from another continent?" "We can use that." "We can totally use that." "Use that how?" "You stick with me, I'll show you how." "Welcome to America, my friend, land of opportunity." "Hey, you!" "Let's take a walk." "Is she talking to you or me?" "You." "Let's go." "Careful." "I don't know if you're ready for that one." "Grace's brother?" "Yeah." "I'm Jacob." "Grace's best friend and roommate." "Adrian." "We have to talk." "Fine with me." "I'm happy talking to anyone." "I'm like you, my father didn't marry my mother." "Well, not until I was 17, anyway." "Then you're not like me because my father never married my mother and he's never going to marry my mother." "He's dead." "Which is no reason to come to America and torture the Bowmans, okay?" "He's just as dead for them." "Look." "People who have the privilege of growing up in a home with a mother and a father who are married don't get that that's not how it is for a lot of people." "Grace doesn't even get it." "Doesn't mean you can strike out at her." "Because you can't." "I will come after you if you do." "You got that?" "And I'm not striking out at anyone," "I'm just curious as to who my father was and who I really am." "Well, in the process of doing that, you're making Grace very unhappy." "And that makes me very unhappy." "You don't want to see me unhappy." "Listen to me, woman, according to Tom, Grace is always unhappy anyway." "So if you want to talk to someone, talk to her." "Don't worry about him, he'll make friends." "And you know what, don't worry about Grace." "I mean, she'll get through this." "How about you?" "Are you okay?" "I will be." "I guess." "I mean, it's not Jacob's fault, so I can't really be upset with him." "And well, Marshall is no longer with us so why be upset with him?" "Who's going to benefit from that?" "I should have just made things work with my first husband, you know." "Then I wouldn't have been trying to make things work out with my third husband and I never would have met Jacob." "You know," "I never really had the guts before to split up with Jeff but now maybe I do." "I mean, I'm not who I thought I was and my family is not who I thought they were." "I thought we were this upstanding Christian family but as it turns out, we're just as screwed up as everyone else." "Which kind of takes the pressure off trying to be good all the time, which is a pressure I've felt my whole my life." "How do you stand it in here?" "I think it's a thousand degrees!" "Yeah, it gets pretty hot." "It's probably like 70 degrees at the beach." "Would you just shut up about the beach?" "We can't go to the beach, get over it." "I can't help it, Lauren, we're supposed to be having fun this summer and it's all going by so quickly, and we're not having any fun at all." "I don't even know if I know how to have fun." "My family's not any fun." "And you think being the daughter of two shrinks is a picnic in the park?" "You know what, I'm going to do something about this." "I'm going to get happy." "How are you going to do that?" "I don't know, but I'll figure it out and I'm going to do something." "Yeah, well, do something about this heat while you're at it." "I'll talk to you tomorrow." "There you are." "You changed?" "Yeah, we changed." "We wore our poor clothes to blend but now we're leaving and our poor clothes are sweaty, so yes, we changed." "It's really hot in here." "But thank you for giving us a glimpse into public school." "Yes, it was very revealing." "Your dad makes you go here?" "Well, no, my dad doesn't make me go here, but my two best friends were going here, so..." "I mean, it's a good school." "A good school would have air conditioning." "Bye." "So you're still happy we came, right?" "I'm happy any time I get to see you." "Yeah, and this time, no one got into any trouble." "Well, no one got into any trouble yet." "Did you want to kiss me goodbye?" "Bye, Cousin Ben." "Goodbye." "Maybe I'm having a heat stroke." "Hi." "Hi, Henry." "So are you seeing Jack again?" "That's how you knew about Grace's brother?" "No, Grant keeps calling me from med camp, he's been talking to Jack." "I miss Jack." "And I miss Amy and Lauren." "I really miss Amy and Lauren more than Jack." "Yeah, I miss Ben more than Alice." "But I miss Alice, too." "I miss having friends." "And maybe you were right, maybe the two of us need each other right now." "You want to go some place air conditioned and grab some coffee or something after school?" "I'd love that." "Hey!" "What are you doing here?" "Is everything okay?" "Everything is fine." "Your dad called, he wanted us to go to the beach with him and Robie, so..." "Oh, no." "So you went to the Juergens' indoor beach." "Yeah." "He hates sand." "He pretty much hates everything." "Yeah." "He used to do that whole indoor beach thing with us all the time when we were little." "No wonder I'm so warped." "You are warped." "Are you still upset with me?" "Why?" "Because you and John are out having a good time again while I'm not?" "No." "I can't help it." "Maybe I can help it." "Your dad is going to keep John while we go out for dinner." "I want to take you out to dinner." "That way you can have some fun, too." "Don't take me out to dinner, that's not going to help anything." "I'm just not that much fun, I'm not a fun person, and it's too hot." "I don't want to eat." "You really suck at being happy, you know that?" "Actually, I do know that." "You got a little sweat on the top of your lip." "Hmm, I'm not surprised." "It's really hot in here in the summer, isn't it?" "Enjoy summer school." "I'll see you tonight and I'm going to make you happy." "I doubt it." "Betty?" "Nora?" "Yeah." "Nice to meet you finally." "How'd you know who I am?" "Oh, I'd know you anywhere." "I've seen some of the pictures around the office." "And I was expecting you." "Still, I mean, I'm just so surprised you recognized me." "These are my new school clothes." "You know, I've had to change my entire wardrobe, you know, so I could fit in." "My counselor is helping me with that, with the fitting in." "Well, you do look different." "Um, you look, um, younger." "Oh!" "And smarter." "Speaking of which, I have your tuition check for you." "Oh, thank you, Nora." "Yeah." "And please thank Leo for me." "Will do." "Leo really loves that air conditioner, doesn't he?" "Yes, he really does." "Oh, you know, Betty, if you don't mind my asking, I was just wondering, what did you decided to major in?" "Just out of curiosity." "Oh." "It's called Anthropology." "And it's the study of man." "Uh-huh!" "Yeah, good choice." "I bet you'll do well with that." "Oh, I hope so." "I mean, I don't really know what I want to do, you know, I just want to study something, even if I have to change my major, like, later on." "I love that college lingo." ""My major."" "Oh, I really am excited." "That's something I've always wanted to do but..." "I don't think I could do at this point in my life." "Well, you could if you wanted to." "Leo would let you off work, I'm sure of it." "No, I'm just not the college type." "There is no type." "You could do it." "You should do it." "Think about it, Nora, think about going back to school." "Obama wants you to." "And if you want to do it, then maybe you and I could share a dorm room together." "Wouldn't that be fun?" "Well, actually, I think it would be a little too close to what my last place was, but I will keep it in mind." "Thanks, Betty." "Think about it." "All right." "Well, take care." "Thank you very much." "I just didn't want to get involved in a conversation when I've got this guy coming up here." "No problem, just doing my job." "What's with the coat?" "My fingers were getting numb." "You know, if you want to..." "No, I don't." "I don't want to go to college." "Sorry, didn't mean to offend you, you know," "I didn't go to college myself." "And I've done pretty well." "On the other hand..." "Can you leave it, all right?" "You're too hot in the coat, that's the problem." "Heat makes people cranky." "Everyone thinks better in cold air." "It's a proven fact." "Leo." "Robert." "Pudding Pop." "I told her." "Well, great." "It's a term of endearment." "I may not be King of anything, but I run a successful business." "I know you do, I checked it out." "Well, good, I checked out your sausage business as well." "Good for you." "Look, all I really want to say is this." "No guy is going to be good enough for your daughter, and no girl is going to be good enough for my son." "So why don't we just call a truce and let the two of them make their own decisions?" "I came down here in a heat wave to hear that my daughter should be allowed to go out with your son?" "You don't get to make that decision." "It is freezing in here." "Yeah." "Feels good, doesn't it?" "I didn't decide anything." "I just said they should make their own decisions and I was just hoping that you'd go along with me on that, you and your wife." "I thought about it and at this point, I think we can see that they're determined to see each other and they're going to find a way to see each other." "Oh, no, they're not, not if I have anything to do with it." "Well, apparently, you don't have anything to do with it." "Dylan and her friends have been at school with Ben all day." "He called me, he told me." "Could I get you a jacket?" "All day?" "I'm afraid so." "It is really cold in here." "But it's nice." "It's even colder in my office." "Really?" "Come on." "It's just that I want Dylan to be happy." "Her mother and I want her to be happy." "It's just we don't want her happy and pregnant." "I hear you." "Oh." "All I'm saying is, don't dig your heels in before you even hear what he has to say." "He is your brother and you don't really even know him enough to know if he's a good guy or whether you like him or not." "Yes, I do know." "That I don't like him at all." "And you can't expect me to like him, he just shows up here out of nowhere and completely destroys our family and our reputation." "What is that look?" "Everybody knew my dad was an upstanding citizen and we were a strong, upstanding Christian family." "Now we all look like a bunch of idiots and he looks like some pervert." "I was actually looking at you." "Are you sure you should be walking around like that if we're just friends?" "I don't know where the thermostat is." "Okay, well, is that what you think?" "That you and your family look like idiots?" "What do you mean is that what I think?" "Yes, that's what I think." "I just said that's what I think." "But your dad would be more of a philanderer than a pervert." "Whatever!" "People thought my dad was a saint." "I thought my dad was a saint." "I can't believe he was telling us not to have sex when he was having sex with someone other than my mother." "No one's a saint." "No one thought your father was a saint, they thought he was a good man and he was a good man." "Well, he obviously wasn't." "We thought he was but he wasn't." "I cannot believe Jacob would do this to us." "I mean, how does this happen?" "You know how this happens." "It just happens." "And when it happens, it's certainly not the kid's fault." "This isn't Jacob's fault, he's innocent in all this." "Innocent?" "He's not innocent." "He came here to ruin our lives, the way his life had been ruined." "I'm not so sure his life has been ruined." "He seems like a pretty confident guy and he comes from a really nice family." "Yeah, my family!" "I meant he and his mother have a very nice life." "He's not trying to take anything away from you." "Well, he did." "He took away my dignity." "Well, it's kind of hard to have any kind of dignity when you're dressed like that." "Not that you don't look good like that, but..." "But stop looking." "Okay." "Hi." "Did you tell Jack to come over here?" "No." "No. " " Yes, you did." "Your mother did." "Your mother asked me to talk to you." "Okay, so you talked to me." "You can leave now." "Yeah, you can leave now." "I've got this." "All right, well, if you need to talk to anybody," "Grace, you know how to reach me." "I'm just trying to be a friend." "Well, if you like Jacob, and you're on his side, then you are not my friend." "I talked to Jacob." "And?" "Jacob can't help it if his mother had an affair with your dad." "You're too late." "Jack already gave me this lecture." "And he can help coming here, he did not have to come here." "No, he didn't have to, Grace, but he wanted to." "Just like I wanted to meet my dad." "You helped me meet my dad, why don't you help him get to know your dad?" "Because I don't even know my dad!" "So why should he?" "Okay, neither of you really knew everything about him, but if the two of you get to know each other and in doing that, you'll get to know more about your father." "And before you say anything, look, maybe you'll find out some stuff that you won't be that happy about, but maybe there's other stuff that you'll be really happy to know." "Adrian, if this happened to you, you'd go after this guy, and you'd seek revenge, just like you always do." "You're probably right." "But you're not me." "You're better than me." "That's why I wanted you to be my best friend." "I'm so not better than you." "Well, not right now, no." "I'm just kidding." "Don't you feel better?" "Just a little bit better?" "Okay, we really need to find out where that thermostat is." "Go on." "Do it." "You know you want to." "I want to, I'm just not sure if it's going to do any good." "Just call her." "Okay." "Madison?" "Oh, hi, Lauren." "I'm surprised you took my call, thank you." "I actually was thinking about calling you," "I called Jesse." "You did?" "Yeah, I told him the same thing I want to tell you." "What was that?" "Madison, I'm really tired of being angry with Jesse and with you about what happened at that party." "You are?" "Yeah, I am." "Neither of you are bad people, you just did a bad thing." "And it doesn't feel good to be angry for this long, it's making me really unhappy, so I just want to let go of all that." "And I'm going to forget about what happened just like you asked me to." "You are?" "Really?" "Really." "But what I can't do, Madison, is still be best friends." "And I don't say that out of anger, it's just the truth." "I guess sometimes relationships change and it's no one's fault and no one's to blame." "So I hope we can both move on and coexist peacefully in the same school our senior year." "So you're basically just breaking up with me and Jesse for a second time?" "If that's the way you want to look at it, I guess so." "But I'd like to look at it more as I'm letting go." "I just want to let go and move on and hopefully that will make me happier." "And you too, Madison, I hope you'll be happier knowing that I'm not angry with you." "Whatever." "So?" "So she's not angry with me anymore, she's just letting go of our friendship." "Oh." "Yeah." "Oh." "So, want to call Alice?" "No, I think it's better I don't." "Uh, Ben?" "Try Ben." "He's not picking up." "He's not going to pick up." "We wouldn't have sex with each other just to get back at Lauren and Ben for breaking up with us because we had sex with people they love, would we?" "That would be really stupid, wouldn't it?" "Yeah." "I don't need someone else to sleep with, Madison," "I really just need a friend." "All right." "Yeah, me, too." "Besides, it's so hot out." "I'm all sweaty and everything." "Sweat kind of turns me on." "I like sweat." "I like hot, sweaty, dirty friendships." "So why don't you tell me something about yourself that has nothing to do with sex." "Like, I don't know, about Japanese people." "I'm not Japanese, I'm Filipino." "Wow." "Like that." "So is it hot where you're from?" "I'm from here." "Oh, wow." "Me, too." "Don't tell me you're actually doing homework." "I thought this was summer school." "I thought you didn't have any homework." "Turns out Dylan and her friends are a little competitive on the academic side, so I was just doing some studying on my own, not homework." "Ah, so there could be something good about the relationship, if she inspires you to learn a little something." "Did you talk to her dad?" "I talked to him." "He came down to the office and we talked to each other." "And?" "And here's the deal, for you anyway." "You want to make your own decisions about who you date, make your own decisions." "You want to go out with Dylan, go out with Dylan." "I know there's a catch to this." "There is a catch to this." "You're responsible for anything that happens." "And I'm not." "If you and Miss Dylan get into any trouble from this point on," "I'm not bailing you out." "If you go and wreck the car, you buy a new one if and when you can." "I'm not replacing or fixing any car you damage when you're out with Dylan." "You get busted for drinking or anything else, you get your own attorney and you pay for him or her." "And if you get this girl pregnant, you figure it out, there's not going to be any help from me if that happens again." "That's it?" "That's it." "So before you pick up that phone and make a date, you better think about it." "Because as attracted as you are to this girl, this time you may want to make your decisions with your head, not your heart, or any other part of your body if you know what I'm talking about." "Okay." "I can tell you're making a decision without thinking about it." "I'm asking you to think about it until tomorrow." "If you call her, call her tomorrow." "Okay." "I promise." "I'll wait until tomorrow." "And if she calls you tonight?" "Dad, come on, I'd have to talk to her." "I love you, Ben, and I meant every word that I said." "If you loved me, you'd turn off the air." "I'm not sure I get it." "Get what?" "I'm sure you wanted to come back here for a reason." "I did." "This is where we first met." "I thought it'd be fun." "To come back to the scene of the crime?" "Neither of us really had a good time, did we?" "Yeah, we did." "The sex wasn't great but we had a good time." "I can't believe we did what we did." "I mean, I was hardly 15." "Yeah, I really shouldn't have even approached you." "But that was me, that was me three years ago." "You've changed a lot in three years." "So have you." "I don't think so." "You don't want to think so." "I was hoping if we could take a look at the past then maybe we could kind of move ahead with the future." "What do you mean?" "I mean, I think we ought to take a little time to think about all the hell we went through over the past three years and appreciate where we are right now so we can start enjoying life together." "We kind of have been through a lot." "You had a baby in high school." "And you stayed in school and you're going to graduate and go to college." "That's huge, Amy, it really is." "I guess." "Come on, Amy, there's a reason you're so determined to have some fun this summer." "You haven't had any fun any summer since I met you other than here and that lasted about two seconds." "I so thought sex was going to be like how it is in the movies." "It wasn't, but I hope it's a little better now." "More than a little." "See?" "Things have changed, things have changed for the better." "The trouble that started here is over, a bad thing became a good thing, it became you and me and John." "Yeah." "I guess it could have gone a lot differently." "It could have been worse than just losing the time" "I had to be a teenager to being a mother." "Oh, my God, did I just say that?" "That sounds horrible." "Yeah, but it's true, that is what happened." "And I can't get the past three years back for you, Amy, but I'm going to do my best to make the rest of our lives as happy and as much fun as I can." "I don't want either of us to live in that could-have-been, should-have-been world." "We can still have a good life together, with John." "Even if you are in summer school." "I was feeling really good about myself after you proposed to me, like I won." "I got through all the hard stuff and all that was over and I was victorious or something." "Then that kind of all went away and I felt as if nothing had changed other than I had this ring on my finger and I just wanted to go back and get everything I missed." "Yeah, I know." "I used to want to get my life back, get back the years from like three to 13." "And when my life did get better," "I still hung on to wanting my childhood back." "Eventually I realized I wasn't going to get that and when I realized that, then life started getting better and I got a little happier one day at a time." "I love it when you talk to me like this." "Are you sure that you're not trying to have sex with me?" "I didn't even bring a condom." "I did." "What?" "It is band camp." "It's funny you called me, I hadn't set the beach up for years." "No, I actually thought you might since it's so hot out." "The whole thing was your idea, wasn't it?" "Was it?" "I don't remember." "You wanted to wear a bathing suit but you didn't want to get any sun." "That's right." "So, Marshall has a kid, huh?" "Yeah." "I don't know what's more shocking." "That or that Anne is gay." "Could be."