"Previously on The Secret Life of the American Teenager..." "I'm going to ask you for the ring back." "I have a place for them to live." "The two of them?" "I've got myself a three family building in Hell's Kitchen, which isn't too far away from where Ben and Amy are going to school." "You're not going to the Philippines to work at a hotel, what are you up to?" "I'm not telling you." "We can always be friends." "I have a boyfriend." "Kathy really likes Ethan, and he really liked her until you came along, so if you don't really care about him, don't break them up." "They're broken up, all right?" "I know she loves me." "I know it for a fact." "I hacked her computer." "She has an E-diary." "I've been dying to tell someone." "Grace and Amy are going to break up with you." "Even if things don't work out with Amy, it's never going to happen between us." "If you don't love me and you don't wanna marry me and you want to go off to school on your own, you should tell me." "That's what Adrian said that you said." "Jack, that's just a ridiculous lie." "Ricky still hasn't said anything?" "He hasn't mentioned what happened with Adrian." "No." "Are you sure that Adrian said something to him?" "I mean, maybe she just ratted you out to Jack." "No." "It was both of us." "She did us both in." "You would not believe what I've been doing to try to get out of this!" "I have been picking out china patterns." " Grace..." " I know, I know." "And Jack's never been happier." "It's like... nothing to do with the sex, although there's been plenty of that, he just love the commitment." "The commitment!" "Jack!" "So, when are you getting married?" "Never." "I am never going to marry him, and the deeper I get myself into this, the more I feel absolutely certain that I don't want to get married." "I know what you mean." "I was dying to get married and then..." "I just thought it was the right thing to do and now I'm just going to do it because I said I would." "So, you're..." "Yep." "I'm still getting married, day after I graduate." " Oh, Amy." " I know, but..." "It probably won't be so bad." "In fact, it might be better." "You know, I'll know John is taken care of while I can focus on me and only me for once." "Except on weekends and holidays and any time I have to travel back here and after college and the rest of my life." "I know how it sounds." "It sounds like I'm a bad mother, but..." "I'm just, like, tired of being a mother and everything that comes along with it, including marriage." "I just feel like being selfish." "Me, too." "And I'm not even a mother." "We're getting out of high school, Grace." "This is when most students feel like they're being set free to go out into the world and do whatever they want." " Like Madison and Lauren." " Yeah." "Yeah." "And instead we're getting married, and my two best friends are headed off to Berkeley." "Yeah." "Well, maybe if Adrian keeps talking to Ricky..." "What's he staring at?" "Grace, what is he always staring at?" "He's been staring at me since the first day of school." "Wait." "You're not trying to go off to that school to be with Ben, are you?" "Grace, I am trying to stay as far, far away from Ben as possible." "Because?" "Well, because... what would be the point?" "You know you're going to run into him." "Worse, we're going to be living in the same building." "I'm going to run into him 24/7." " Hi." " Hi." "Amy, can I talk to you?" "Privately?" "Yeah, no problem." "Bye." "Hi." "What's... what's going on?" "Oh, just wondering..." " About?" " About Ben." "About Ben and why Ben is always so obsessed with you." "You don't think you've done anything that Ben could maybe misinterpret as you being interested in him, have you?" "No!" "Alice, what is this about?" " Do you have an E-diary?" " Um, what if I do?" "Oh, no." "♪ Falling in love is such an easy thing to do" "♪ Birds can do it ♪ We can do it" "♪ Let's stop talking ♪ Let's get to it" "♪ Let's fall in love" "Ben." "Ben!" "Hey, Ben!" "Hey, Ben!" "I want to talk to you!" "You read my diary!" "I'm going to say something I never thought I'd say... you want to get off me?" "Admit it!" "You read my diary!" "Ben, how did you read my diary?" "I hacked your computer." "Didn't Alice tell you?" "Because obviously she told you something." "I was flattered that the password was "wings," though." "We ate a lot of wings together, didn't we?" "Ben, it was "wings" because that was me imagining that I could just fly away." " And land where?" " Where is none of your business." "So I imagined what life would have been like if I had never gone to band camp." "If I had never met Ricky, if I had never had John." "That's all that diary is, just a big "what if."" "What if you still have feelings for me?" "What if I don't?" "You know, it's against the law to hack someone's computer." "I know, but I could tell from what I read that you would never have me arrested." "No, I probably wouldn't, but I could." "It is a crime." "And it's a crime of the heart to hide your feelings." "Ben, there are no feelings for you." "I do not feel anything towards you, except maybe little frustration, because you're so obsessed with me." "Which, yes, like, uh, makes me, wonder, you know, what would've happened if we'd stayed together, which does not mean I have any real interest at all in you." "You said, and I quote," ""I was too immature at the time to understand the choice," "But given the choice again, I would go with the good guy."" "Ben!" "Ricky is the good guy now." "And, yes, I do want to marry the good guy." "Because he's the father of my child and he's a wonderful father and I'm sure that he will be a wonderful husband." "And you left out the most important part." "You're not in love with him." "I know you're not in love with him and I know you don't want to get married." "Don't do it Amy!" "What is wrong with you?" "She loves Ricky and Ricky loves her and they have a son and they're getting married." "Why would you want to destroy the lives of three people?" "Good question." "Excellent question even." "I'm not trying to destroy the lives of three people," "I'm trying to save the lives of three people." "Because no matter how much those three love each other," "Amy does not want to marry Ricky, and I'm sure Ricky doesn't want to be married to someone that doesn't want to marry him." "And as far as getting married for the children, well, that doesn't work." "Children know when their parents are unhappy and they know when they don't love each other." "Really, Ethan, listen to me." "When a guy gets a girl pregnant in high school, even if he does the right thing and steps up and marries her, that doesn't mean that the two of them love each other, it just means they're two good people who're trying do the right thing." "But what's the right thing?" "To be obligated to someone for the rest of your life because of one night?" "Or is the right thing to have the courage to realize that, despite that one night, you still have to live your dreams or else you'll be miserable?" "He knows I'm trying to sleep with Layla?" "Hey, Ethan." "You look like you could use a friend." "I'm fine without friends." "You're not my friend, you're Kathy's friend." "Or is it "boyfriend" now?" "Uh... we're just friends." "And as Kathy's friend, I have to tell you something." "Layla is not a nice girl." "I'm not looking for a nice girl." "You're looking for a nice girl to fool around with." "No." "That would be the ideal." "I don't have to have the ideal." "I've never had the ideal." "I'll just take what I can get." "And by the way, I like Layla." "Well, you're not going to like her after I tell you what she said about Kathy." "She said that Kathy's a skank and has no idea who got her pregnant because she's slept with so many guys." "What?" "She wouldn't say that." "You're making that up." "No, I'm not making that up." "Ask her yourself." "Kathy a skank?" "That's ridiculous." "She's the nicest, sweetest girl ever." "That's why I broke up with her." "So you would rather have a gossip and a liar than the nicest, sweetest girl ever... or whatever you said?" "I cannot wait four years until I get out of high school to have sex," " I can't." "I don't want to." " You know who else said that?" "Ben Boykewich." "Right before he got that girl pregnant, the "not Amy girl" that he wasn't in love with." "How do you know?" "Everyone knows." "It's legend." "And you never even asked Amy about what Adrian said?" "Why would I?" "Amy can tell me if she doesn't want to get married." "Adrian's just causing trouble." "Not with me." "Man, I never had it so good." "I love the idea of getting married." "Hey, you want to be my best man?" "I'm happy for you Jack, but no." "I don't want to be your best man." "I don't "best man."" "Hey." "I just got finished with my last final." "Maybe we can all go out and celebrate." "Okay." "I guess no good deed goes unpunished." "I was just trying to help." "Neither of those two can tell you two the truth, but go ahead, get married." "Live a lie, if that's what you want." "What do I care?" "Hey, you're looking very handsome." "Where are you off to?" "I'm going to try to talk Grace into going to Geoff's for dinner tonight." "George offered to pick up the tab, so..." "Perfect." "You can give Grace this little graduation gift that we got for her." " Really?" "You got her something?" " Your dad and I." "Dad doesn't shop." "This is really nice, Mom." "And I know you really don't like Grace all that much." "Well, I do, I do, Jack." "And I guess she's going to be my daughter-in-law someday, so..." "I want us to be close." "After all, I don't have a daughter, so Grace will be my daughter." "So, I have a little confession to make." "What's that?" "About a month ago, I went to see Grace." "Did she ever mention that to you?" "No." "I probably shouldn't have, but I thought she was about to break up with you and I..." "I just told her that I hoped she wasn't going to do that, because, you know, well... you've just been through so much, honey, and I didn't want to see you hurt." "That was really nice, Mom, to try to protect me like that, but Grace loves me, and I love her, and I don't think we'll ever break up." "No." "You probably won't." "Oh!" "We also got Madison a little something." "Madison?" "Yeah, she's graduating, too, and you two were on and off for years." "We always liked Madison, so I just wanted to get her a little something for graduation." "I don't know, Mom." "I'm not sure Grace would approve." "Oh, well, just have Grace give it to her at school or something, it's not a big deal." "Okay." "Uh, what is it?" "Just a charm bracelet." "What'd you get Grace?" "Besides my only begotten son?" "A watch." "Because me is ticking and you two will be married one day." "So how much time you figure you've got left as a single guy?" "I don't know, but I can't wait to get married." "Coming!" "You can give me back my key right now." "I'm going to give you back your key, don't worry about it." "I packed your stuff for you." " So you said." " You don't have to get nasty." "I'm not." "Should I get my things?" "I'll get them for you." "Here you go." "Those are my things?" "My suits?" "My suits are wadded up in those bags?" " You could have taken them with you." " No, I couldn't have," "I was leaving for the airport." "And you know what?" "If there was any question in my mind about whether or not" "I should have broken up with you, there's no question in my mind now." "Oh, you're going to be sorry you broke up with me, mark my words." " Goodbye, Adrian." " Goodbye." "I'm sorry to see it end this way, but..." "I guess with you, this is the way it has to be." " I wish you all the best." " Yeah, sure you do." "Bye." "Take care." "Anything is possible in the Army." "Yeah, you could get killed." "That's a possibility." "Can you do anything to get out of it?" "I don't want to get out of it," "I thought about this all year." "I joined months ago." "My parents are really proud of me." "I'm proud of me." "Henry, I don't know what to say... did you do this just to get away from Alice?" "Alice, don't let him do this." "Too late." "I love you, Henry, and I would go with you but... this country put my people in internment camps during World War II and took away all their money and land so... my parents would never go along." "America is not without flaws, but..." "I want to be the best I can be, so America can be the best that she can be." "And, on behalf of the Armed Forces," "I apologize to your family." " It was an overreaction." " You think?" "Dad!" "You're very brave, Henry." " Thank you, Alice." " And stupid." "But if you want, we could sleep together the last night you're here." "Thanks, Alice, but I'll be fine." "This isn't like a video game." "It's the real Army, you can get killed." "There's no next level." "Well... good for you." "Congratulations." "Dad, I didn't call you up here to congratulate him." "Talk to him, get him out of it." "I'm really proud of you." "It takes a lot of courage to serve our country, and it's a selfless act to defend our freedom, especially when you've got nincompoops like Ben here, who have no idea of the sacrifice you are about to undertake." "Are your parents on board with this?" "Yes, sir, Mr. Boykewich, sir." "They understand that I want to be part of something bigger than myself." "Like heaven?" "If there is one." "Shut up and show some respect." "Dad, he could get killed!" "Ben... yeah, I could," "I could get killed." "But what if no one was willing to take that risk to defend our country, where would we be?" "Alive." "Overpopulated even." "Ben." "This is ridiculous." "Henry... what happened to going to the Philippines and working at that swanky hotel?" "You knew he was lying, and I should have known." "There'll be a job waiting for you when you get out." "Yeah, if you're not dead." "Everyone's going to die Ben, question is... what kind of life are we going to live, huh?" "Think about it." "I'll see you after graduation?" "He reports the next day." "You're a good man, Henry." "Stay in touch." "Unbelievable." "It's Adrian." "I wonder what Adrian wants." "What has Adrian always wanted?" "I don't know." "Ricky?" "That would be my guess, so don't get caught up in any schemes." "Depends on whether it involves sleeping with Amy." " Hello?" " You could die, too." "From that." "This is really fun, that you dropped by." "Yeah, I was on my way over to Grace's house, but my mom asked me to drop this gift off to you." " Really?" " Yeah." "I always loved Didi." "She's so beautiful and such a nice woman." "Yeah, she likes you, too." "Here's what I'm thinking." "You jumped into that engagement." "Before you jump right back out, think about it." "You and Jack have been on and off for years, so... there's got to be something there, even if you don't want to get married right now." "I guess that's true," "I just don't want to get married right now." "Well, then don't." "Take your time." "Go to whatever school you want to go to, in state or out." "If he follows, he follows, if he doesn't, he doesn't." "You do what you want to do and then I have a feeling, you're not going to feel so pressured." "Jack's a nice guy," "I hate to see you lose him because you've worked yourself into a frenzy here." "You don't have to end the relationship, just put everything in neutral." "If you really didn't want to be with him, you'd have an easier time telling him." "I don't know about that." "I just feel so guilty not wanting him when he wants me so much." "Look, in a relationship, one person is always going to love the other person more." "Which person you want to be, huh?" "Think about it." "The one who gets loved the most is not a bad place to be." "Just ask your mom." " Hey, Grace." " Hi, Jack." "Hey, thanks for the free dinner." "Any time." "Well, not any time." "Once in a while." "The hostess has got a booth for you." "Okay." " I'll see you at home." " Mmm-hmm." " Hey, Ben." " Yeah." "Hi, Ben." "I'll be back in a moment to seat you." "Right this way, please." " What's going on?" " Oh, those two idiots!" "They don't want to be together, but they just can't tell each other they don't want to be together." "Same with Amy and Ricky." "I don't know what you know, but I can't wait to hear." "We're not going to spend the night talking about Amy and Ricky," "I don't care about Amy and Ricky, I just wanted to get out." " Thanks." " Oh, please, you just wanted to get out, too." "No, it's good to see you, and I care about you, as a friend." "And I hope we're always going to be friends." "I even hope you're going to end up with Ricky." "I don't have to end up with Ricky to have Ricky out of your way." "Ricky's going to end up with Clementine." " Where's Kathy?" " Her grandmother's dropping her off." "She's not here yet?" "No." "And she has to be here before we take off." "Like I can't read John a story on my own?" "Like you can't be trusted with our apartment and son alone." "Hey, Ethan." "Where's Kathy?" "Oh, she'll be here." "Her grandmother is dropping her off." "Hmm." "I don't want you guys to be late, you should go." "Oh, no, it's my dad's restaurant." "There is no late, we can't be late." "We can eat there, any time." "Oh." "Yeah, all right." "But, uh, if you want, you can go now." " What's going on?" " Nothing." "When I heard that you and Kathy broke up," "I was surprised you two would babysit together." "Amy, I think I hear John." " I didn't hear anything." " Could you check?" "Why can't you check?" " I could check." " I want to talk to you." "Oh, all right." "Well, please hurry, I'm hungry." "He'll be fine here until Kathy comes." "He'll be fine here if Kathy doesn't come." "Thank you, Amy." "I'm glad someone trusts me." "She's not coming, is she?" "Who?" "Is that girl coming over here, the other girl, the girl you're trying to have sex with, hmm?" "Are you planning to use our apartment to have sex for the first time" " with my son in the next room?" " No." "Wait!" "What?" "What are you planning to do?" "Nothing." "Hi, Ricky." "Who's that?" "I'm Layla." "I'm going to help Ethan babysit." "No, you're not." "Okay, he can do all the babysitting, I don't care." "But I do have experience." "That's what I've heard." "You have to go home." "My mom already left." "Can you take me home?" " We'll drop her off." " Ethan?" "Ricky, we're not going to do anything." "Just let her come in and you two take off." "Um, I don't know about that." "Hey, no offense, Layla, but I don't know you so I wouldn't really be comfortable with your staying here." "We don't have to get out tonight" "This is ridiculous." "We can babysit, the two of us." "We will be fine, John will be fine." "He doesn't know her, he knows Kathy." "So, no, Ethan, I'm sorry." "No!" "I'm vouching for her." "You just lied to us, so, no." "I'll take both of you home." "I'll pick up dinner to go, Amy." " I trusted you." " Me, too." "Let's go." " Hi, Amy." " Hi." "How are you?" "Oh, I'm okay." "Are you?" "I heard you and Ethan broke up." "I haven't had time to catch up with you at school." "I've got graduation coming up and..." "And your wedding." "That, too." "Yeah." "So, uh, you and Ethan?" "No, it didn't work out." "I know that hurts, but give yourself the summer to get past it and next fall, you just make a fresh start." "Focus on school..." "I'm going to go home to Houston this summer." "Well, that's a good idea." "Spend some time with your parents." "I know they must miss you." "I'm not coming back in the fall." "Really?" "I hope that's not because of Ethan." "It's because of Ethan." "And that stupid girl he's trying to hump." "Sorry." "I'm really angry about it." "This girl told Ethan that I have no idea of who the father of my baby was because I'm a skank." "That's terrible!" "Oh, my gosh, but Kathy, you can't let Ethan and some girl stop you from living with your grandmother and going to school here." "I mean, if you want to go home to your parents, then good for you, but if you don't, don't let those two stop you." "I don't care." "People at home thought I was a skank and now people here think I am." "I've got no place to hide, not that I was hiding." "I mean, I wasn't exactly able to hide, but..." "I thought that if people got to know me here, they'd know I was a nice girl and it wouldn't matter if I had a baby, but... apparently people don't think I'm a nice girl." "Okay, you have to stop worrying about being a nice girl, you are a nice girl." "And you do what you want to do and forget what other people are saying or doing." "I'm not going to forget that Ethan broke up with me just so he could have sex with that girl who started a vicious rumor about me." "What?" "Nothing." "I'm really sorry Kathy, but, I, uh..." "I don't think Ethan's gonna be having sex with anyone." "That's the only thing he's interested in, is sex." "Yeah, well, he's an idiot." "I'll talk to you at school, okay?" "All right." "Hello?" "Oh, Mr. Boykewich." "I'm sorry, I was calling Chloe." "She left her phone." "She had something to do tonight." " Okay, well..." " I'll tell her you called." "What is wrong with you?" "Same thing that's wrong with every teenage guy I know, including you." "You were going to have sex with her, weren't you?" "While you were babysitting John." "Is it not enough to have a baby that was conceived by two high school students ten feet away from you to remind you that sex makes babies?" " Do you not get that?" " We have condoms." "You did not have condoms." "If you did, you didn't know how to use one." "God, you are so lucky I got my temper under control." "I knew how to use a condom, I just didn't, okay?" "And that could be you." "You may have condoms, you may not use them, or you may use them badly, or the condom might break or a million other things." "Like what?" "What million other things?" "I don't know, okay, but things!" "You're not even making sense." "Everyone has sex in high school." "No, they don't!" "Half of them don't!" "And at least some of the other half, who say they are having sex, lie!" "I don't want to be in that half." "I don't want to lie." "I want to have sex." "Look, I'm sorry I lied to you and said Kathy was coming over, but..." " I had no other place to have sex." " Right there!" "Right there is one reason, you are too young to be doing this!" "You don't even have a place to have sex!" "Mom isn't going to let you have sex in your room at home, and her mom isn't going to let you have sex at her house, so... where are you going to have sex?" "Like I said, we were hoping to do it at your apartment." "Our apartment is off limits to you." "Permanently." "Or until you need a babysitter again." "You're not going to tell Margaret and Shakur about this, are you?" "No, I'm not." "Okay, thanks." "On the condition that you just wait." "At least wait until you can drive and you have a safe, private place to go and you're out of high school." "I am not going to promise you that I am not going to have sex in high school." "You can tell Margaret and Shakur because I'm not making that promise." "I am not going to waste my high school years." "This should be when sex is the most fun, when it means nothing!" "You may not want it to mean anything, but Ethan, it will mean something to you and if not to you, to her." "It will mean something to one of you and that's where it gets all messed up." "It's the most intimate thing that two people can do with each other, all right?" "And one day, you are going to meet that girl that you fall in love with and you're going to get in bed with her and she's going to ask you how many girls you've slept with." "What do you want your answer to be?" "I don't know." "Like, 100?" "You think any girl out there is going to want to be with you if you've been with 100 girls!" "Is that the problem with Amy?" "Is that why she doesn't want to marry you?" "Because you slept with 100 girls?" "You want to know the truth?" "When I have sex with Amy, I don't really feel anything." "You know why, Ethan?" "Because I slept with too many girls." "And now, even though I love Amy more than any of those girls, even though she means everything to me," "the sex is nice, but..." "I don't feel passionate, I feel comfortable." "Every time you have sex, you give away a little piece of your heart, and you give that away too many times and... there's just nothing left and you've given away the most important part of yourself." "Right now, I feel like I'm just taking from Amy." "I've got nothing to give back except her freedom, to let her go to New York and just take a chance." "She'll eventually love me as much as I love her." "Okay, one, you sound like a girl, and two, I think if you were really, really in love with her, you'd feel a little more passionate than that." "Geez, I've got more passion for Kathy and we're not even thinking about sex." "Let's go." "I did my best and that's all I can do." "Are you talking about me or with Amy?" "It's as if Margaret just got me back for every lecture she ever gave me." "We want to surprise her." "You're going to be surprising a lot of people." "Ethan, for one." "I know." "We didn't hit it off exactly the first time we met, but..." "He's been a big part of her life, so..." "So..." "Come on." "You can tell me why you're really here." "How the heck did you know how to hack an E-diary?" "Uh, Dylan and her friends." "Oh." "Wait." "But, still..." "You would have had to guess the password." "People are not smart about passwords." "They're pretty easy to guess." "It took me a few tries, but..." "Did she say anything about me?" "Nothing that you wouldn't expect her to say about you." " Like what?" " Like... she's very jealous of you, she thinks you're a really smart, beautiful woman who slept with the guy who she's going to marry." "Or, was going to marry." "Oh, you're so full of it." "She did not say I was smart or beautiful." "No, she did." "She's jealous of you, or she was for a long time but now..." "Well, I probably, shouldn't tell you anything else." "No!" "Don't do that!" "Don't bait me!" "Tell me what she said." "She said that, maybe, you and Ricky would have been happy together and maybe she should have just let the two of you stay together." "She should have just let us stay together?" "Let us?" "Like she has it in her powers to let us stay together?" "Yeah, she's out of her mind." "If Ricky and I wanted to be together, we would be together." "We don't want to be together." "Well, I don't want to be with him." "Maybe he wants to be with me, but I think that's because he senses Amy's going to call off this wedding again." "So, you think she is going to call it off then?" "Because it would certainly simplify my life if she did." "She said it out loud." "She doesn't want to get married." "That doesn't mean she won't," "I hope not, but very few people are gutsy enough to call off a wedding." "It was easy for them the first time because they eloped, but this time, it's a different story." "Oh, please." "The day after graduation, she just disappears and goes to New York." " Easy." " Maybe." "Can you believe that after four years, you and I are still huddled together talking about Ricky and Amy?" "Ugh." "How long are we gonna keep doing this?" "Until Amy admits that she's always been in love with me." "Well, until then... you want to spend the night at the condo?" "Uh..." "Adrian I don't think so." "Oh, Amy's not going to know." "I'll know." "Go wait in the car, I want to talk to George." "Story of my life." "I can't wait until I can drive." "Yeah." "Go." "I would have dropped him off before I came here, but if I have to get home to Amy with the food, I can't go in with him." "If you and Amy don't get married the day after she graduates, even if she decides to leave you and John behind to go to New York, as soon as she steps on that plane, reality is going to set in" "and she'll come running back." "Oh, I don't know about that, George." "I know." "Amy's my daughter and no one knows her better than I know her." "She loves you." "And you love her." "And you both love John." "So I don't know why she's putting you through all this, but she's not going anywhere." "Hi." " Good evening." " I didn't do anything." "Well, nobody said you did." "Um..." "Edward needs your help surprising Kathy, and I told him, you'd be happy to help him." "That depends." "Surprising her how?" "Sit down." "Uh..." "I'll just leave you two alone." "Are you going to surprise her that you're here?" "What's the surprise?" "What kind of surprise?" "Does she like surprises?" "I don't really think she does." "Does she?" "Well, I will tell you if you don't interrupt me with any questions until I'm finished." "The floor is yours." "Kathy's mother and I haven't spent very much time with Kathy this year because of her situation." "So, we thought that it would be nice if we throw her a little end-of-the-year party." "Something that says, the year is behind her, her life is ahead of her, she has friends and family that believe in her and she's a wonderful young woman with a bright future." "Okay." "You and Kathy, getting along?" "Yes." "I hope things aren't getting too serious." "I think you know what I mean." "Well..." "Yeah, I know what you mean, no, not too serious." "But serious enough." "Yeah." "Serious enough." "For what, sir?" "Serious enough for?" "Well, this is traditionally the time when a young woman is presented to society." "She's officially an adult woman and ready for marriage." "It's a little young, isn't it?" "Is it?" "Other cultures celebrate adulthood at 13." "Do they?" "Well, I was certainly not an adult at 13." "But you're 15, right?" " You're almost an adult, too." " Almost." "That's why this party is going to be special in that... we are giving our daughter to you." "To you." "To love and honor." "To protect." "To provide for." "Uh..." "When you say provide for..." "Well, that can wait." "Until you finish your education, and with your lack of ability, that will probably just be high school, right?" "Oh, I don't know." "Kathy's been pushing me to go to college." "Well, you can go to college and work and be married." " What was that last part?" " Be married." "Huh." "So this is, basically, an engagement party?" "If she accepts your proposal in front of family and friends." "Oh." "Awesome." "She wants to come home to Houston because someone broke her heart." "And what did I tell you not to do?" "Oh, lots of things." "Including not to break her heart." "So, why do you even want me to come to this party?" "Are you an idiot?" "There is no party." "I was lying." "I was trying to get to the truth." "And what the hell is wrong with you that you would break up with my daughter to have sex with some girl who's calling her names" " and making her life miserable?" " Oh, no." "You take care of this." "Right away." "Say what?" "Uh..." "Layla's calling Kathy what names?" "How is she making her life miserable?" "She'd better not be making her life miserable." "And you better not be, either." "Did you and that Layla have sex?" "No, Ricky kind of ruined that for me." "I haven't seen this place in a while." "Thanks for inviting me in." "Well, technically, it's still your condo, too, I think." "Uh, no, it's your condo." "Not everything about being married to me was bad, was it?" "Well... tell me the truth." "If Mercy had lived, do you think we'd really be happy married to each other, raising a daughter together?" "I know you don't believe this, but yes," "I would have been happy." "I was happy." "Until we lost her." "And I just lost my way." "I'm sorry, Ben." "I'm sorry I wasn't nicer to you." "No, if anyone owes anyone an apology, it's me, I didn't..." "I didn't handle that well." "I think we both handled it as well as two high school students could have handled it." "You know, you're more than welcome to spend the night." "As a friend, just a sleepover." "You know, we can pop some popcorn, watch a movie, hang out." "I have school tomorrow." "I better be going." "All right." "Well, it was fun having dinner with you, and give up on Amy, all right?" "She's not for you." "And you give Omar a chance." "Go to New York, go wherever he goes." "He loves you, you know he loves you." "Eh, there will be other guys for me and some day, there'll be the guy for me." " All right." "Goodnight Adrian." " Goodnight." "Hey!" "What's going on?" "You got another hour." "We'd like you to stay inside another hour," " if you don't mind." " I do mind." "Are you telling me I can't leave for some reason?" "It's for your own safety, son." "And yes, I'm telling you, you can't leave." "You've been really quiet." "Yeah, I'm sorry." "I just feel kind of tired or something." " I hope not tired of me." " Why would you say that?" " I was joking." " Oh." "Yeah." "Of course, you were joking." "On the other hand, Grace," "I just get the feeling that you're not as excited as I am about our engagement." "Jack, honestly... when you put this ring on my finger," "I was really, really surprised." "This is just my first time saying any of this out loud, but I kind of made a bargain with God that if he let you live, I was gonna marry you and I was going to take care of you for the rest of your life." "Wow." "That's pretty heavy." "And now I have to tell you something that I haven't said out loud to anyone either" " and it completely freaks me out." " What?" "When that guy was beating the crap out of me," "I promised God that if he let me live, then I would marry you!" "My God, this is like some kind of miracle or something." "I don't know if it qualifies as a miracle." "Okay, maybe not a miracle, but it's, like, divine intervention." "Like God making the two of us get married." "I don't think God is making us get married." "Not making us, but making us want to get married." "It's so crazy, isn't it?" "I mean, he shows us the way." "You know, there's free will, but..." "Wow." "Really, Grace, wow." "We shouldn't wait, we really shouldn't." "This holy union was meant to be." "Which doesn't mean we can't wait if we want to." "We can wait." "It would still be a miracle if we got married." "Oh, man." "Life is just full of surprises." "I needed this, Grace, I really needed this." "I needed to be reminded of the promise I made to God." " We should get the check." " We got the check already." "The meal didn't cost anything, but we should leave a tip for the waiter." "You know, I feel like sometime God's will is tricky, too." "Like, he's not always so straightforward." "Maybe he's trying to teach us a lesson in making promises that we aren't able to always keep." "And sometimes, he is straightforward and rewards us with good things." "Let's go." "Maybe you guys would like to stick around a little bit longer." "What?" "No, we're ready to leave, unless you're telling us we can't leave." "Hey you two, sit down." "Let me get you dessert and coffee." " Why?" " We've got the best desserts in town." "No." "I know what this is." "It's going to be fine." "Sit down." " Hi, Ethan." " Kathy, thanks for taking my call." "Pretty polite for a guy who's just trying to have sex with anyone who will have sex with him." "I didn't know Layla was talking about you like that." " Yeah, you did." " Okay, I did." "I just wasn't going to admit that I did until, you know, she and I did it." "And then I was going to get all indignant about it and tell her," " I never wanted to see her again." " That's horrible." " You're a horrible person." " I know." " But I'm honest." " You're honest because you just told me about a big lie you were going to tell me and tell Layla?" " Yeah." " That's not honest." "Then how's this?" "I am driven by testosterone, but I still have a brain so I don't know why I've been acting so stupid." "That's not who I am, some dumb guy who just wants to get laid." "I want to be in love." "I am in love." "I'm in love with you." "Then why would you dump me the first time some other girl promises you something that I won't give you?" "I don't know, I just feel pressured to be a man." "And that's what you think a man does?" "Has sex with any woman he can just to have sex?" "Well, I kind of got that impression when I was growing up." "At home and in juvie." "I don't know." "It's true of a lot of guys." "A lot of guys are like that." "Yeah, but Ethan, not all guys are like that." "And if there were no guys like that, if there were no guys using women to just have sex, then think about it, there wouldn't be any girls being used for sex there wouldn't be prostitution," "there wouldn't be pornography, there wouldn't be human trafficking." "Somehow, over the course of history, this misuse of sex has gotten intertwined with violence and now there are millions of women who are victims and it all starts with that guy who just has to have it." "Uh, I wasn't buying, and excuse me for saying so, but women want to have sex too, don't they?" "Yeah, but... when's the last time you heard of a woman who got caught paying for sex?" "Really." "We do not victimize men or other women to the extent that we are victimized." "Which is not to say it never happens." "I don't think we need to make such a big issue out of this, do we?" "I said, I was sorry." "I don't know, Mickey, I think you ought to leave this one alone." "You just got back into town." "You should lay low, relax." "No." "I don't feel like relaxing." "I'll relax after I teach her a lesson." "I own her." "You'll still own her next week or next month." "It's too soon." "I don't trust that she's ready to leave this situation." " She's got it made there." " I got her under control." "She knows she doesn't deserve to live in some big house like that, with those rich people." "She belongs to me." "And there she is, my little Ginger." "It's a shame I'm gonna have to mess up that face, but..." "I'll be right back." "Did you miss me?" "Because I missed you." "I love you, baby." "Come on, Ginger, let's go home." "Stop right there!" "Don't move!" "You are so stupid to think I would ever go back to you." "What an idiot!" "You got out of the country and you came back?" "I love it!" "Who's controlling who now?" "I mean, whom." "I'm in school, where girls my age should be, not out on the street working for guys like you." "Have fun in prison!" "I hope the guys are nice to you, you know, like they were nice to me." "I'll see you again." "Maybe when you come up for parole the first time and the second time and the third time." "Let's go, Chloe." "If you want me to hear what Adrian said, then you're going to have to say it to me yourself." "This is it, Amy." "You're in or you're out."