"I didn't want you to have sex with anybody else." "Grace, if you'll have me back I swear I'll never have sex again." "But you have to stop with the drinking thing right now." "Betty?" "Yeah, Betty." "Actually, she waved to Grace's brother Tom." "She seemed to know him somehow." "I want a commitment." "I don't want you to have sex with any other guys." "Would you mind watching John while I go to Italy with Ben this summer?" "Let Ben go, Amy." "Let him go." "The guy's been really good to you." "And to me." "And if he wants to go away for the summer, let him go." "My fathering a child is a bit of a medical miracle." "Really?" "Will you marry me?" "Hello, my name is Amy Juergens." "What is your name?" "Ciao." "Mi chiamo Amy Juergens." "Not my fault." "You could have said something." "I don't speak Italian." "Just learning a few phrases." "Wow." "So you're doing so well in school and you also have time to learn Italian?" "You're a new mother." "I'm impressed.Only" "Only?" "Only you're not going to Bologna." "You know you're not going, right?" "Yes, I am going." "No, you're not." "Look, Amy, you need to face facts." "Young men of a certain age do not go abroad with a celibate girlfriend and baby in tow." "Well, Ben asked me to go, and John too." "Why would he ask us if he didn't want us to go?" "So that he wouldn't have to carry around his guilt in a backpack all summer." "I don't care why, okay?" "He knew you wouldn't be able to go." "That's why he asked you." "And why wouldn't I be able to go?" "Because you love him and you're happy that he can get away for the summer,even though you can't." "But I can." "I can if I want to." "Just let the guy sow his wild oats." "I'm not going to Bologna because I'm afraid" "Ben will do something I don't want him to do." "I'm going because it's what's best for my son." "Every day is an opportunity to be exposed to other cultures." "I want John to be exposed to other cultures." "We were never exposed to other cultures." "Mom and Dad never took us to Europe or Asia or Africa or any place like that." "They never even thought about exposing us to other cultures." "Well, that misguided trip to the Grand Canyon was more than enough family travel time for me." "I just want my son to be a citizen of the world." "He's not even going to know what part of the world he's in." "You would know." "Yes, I would know if I were in Italy." "You could go, too." "Yeah, Ben would love that." "I'm sure he wouldn't mind." "I'm sure he would." "Just like I'm sure he would mind if you and John actually join him on his journey to manhood." "He's not going to anyplace like that." "I think he is." "Are you here for a reason?" "Yeah." "Dad wanted me to ask you something." "Do you know Mom's engaged, or don't you?" "Okay, headphones off." "You're on duty now." "Hi, Ash." "Good morning." "I'll just be going now." "I got what I came for." "What'd she come for?" "You're engaged?" "When did you get engaged?" "I thought you were making eggs for the two of us." "You can't be engaged." "You're not divorced." "No, I can't be married, I'm not divorced.I can be engaged." "Are you?" "No, but I'm thinking about it." "I could think a lot more clearly if I had some eggs." "I really wanted some eggs." "You want me to make you eggs and yet you didn't even tell me?" "Well, I was going to tell you." "I just haven't yet." "I figured I would tell you after I had some eggs." "I have a really long day ahead of me." "We're working on a really big project, David and me." "Oh, come on." "Don't make a big deal out of it." "It's not even official yet." "So I guess you'll let me know when it's official.I guess, yeah." "You know, if David's going to be around here all the time," "I'm just going to get in the way here." "John and me." "That's why I'm going to go to Bologna this summer with Ben." "And I'm taking John with me." "I'm an adult now." "I have a child." "I have to do what I have to do." "Yeah, well, Amy, you have to stay here for the summer and work and take care of John." "I don't have to." "Yeah, you do have to." "What are you going to do this summer?" "David and I are still discussing it." "I guess you'll let me know when you officially decided." "I knew she didn't tell her." "Maybe she's not engaged." "I saw him put the ring on her finger a week ago and he's been over there every night since then." "No, those two are up to something." "Maybe she said no." "And I think the question at this point is are you up to something?" "What would I be up to?" "No, it's definitely them." "What are they up to?" "Well, they're having a baby, or they think they are." "Maybe she thinks it's not David's." "You know, and maybe that's why she's not wearing that big diamond ring you think you saw." "I did see it." "It was huge." "Why would she hide it?" "Because she hasn't decided if she's marrying him, no matter whose baby it is." "Maybe my vasectomy came undone." "Or maybe you lied." "That'd be a pretty big lie." "I don't even know if I'm even capable of telling a lie like that." "And if I were, I don't know what I would do about it." "I know." "We could go with Amy to Italy." "We could summer in Bologna." "It might be good to get away." "Yeah, it might, but A, we don't use "summer" as a verb in this family and 2, people don't go to Bologna to get away." "They go there for something else entirely." "I know what they go there for." "How do you know?" "Amy." "How does she know?" "I don't know, but there are lots of other things to do in Italy besides... sex things." "Lot of those Vespas over there." "You like Vespas, don't you?" "Yeah, I like Vespas, but believe me, everyone riding a Vespa in Italy either just had sex or is about to have sex." "That's why they drive so crazy." "No, we can't just take off and go over there." "What about the dog?" "We don't have a dog." "We can get a dog when we get back." "I don't think Amy really is going, is she?" "She can't take John to Italy." "Well, that's what she's planning to do." "Well, she can't." "We could." "The dollar isn't worth a peso in Europe." "I don't want to go over there." "Well, it's better than just waiting here for Mom to find out that you lied about the vasectomy." "I didn't say I lied, did I?" "Did you?" "It doesn't matter." "Still could be David's baby." "And it probably is." "Or not." "Good morning." "I just wanted you to know that if you want breakfast, I can make it for you, since your dad left for work early today." "I had breakfast earlier, Betty." "Sorry." "Oh." "I have to get to school early this morning, get to the library, return these books on Italy." "Right." "Oh, heck, Benjamin," "I" " I usually just slip out the back door before you come downstairs, but, well, today I decided to be brave, and I marched upstairs" "and I'm saying "Hello, stepson, let's be friends."" "And I appreciate your bravery, but research and several mainstream movies have shown that the relationship between stepmother and stepson develops slowly over time." "Lots of time." "Honey, there's nothing slow about me." "I mean, even I know that." "So." "So." "I hear you're going to go to Italy with Amy and the baby this summer." "Is that really the latest?" "Truthfully, I've gotten myself into a bit of a situation about that." "I love Amy, but I really want to go to Bologna alone." "And I'm going for work, I'm not going for" "But I just want to go." "Well, I know you're not going for sex, but if you were, you might want to get yourself some new condoms." "'Cause a lot of yours have expired, and some of them have been discontinued for safety reasons." "That's good to know." "Yeah." "What time do you have to be in court?" "Oh, um, it just depends." "They can't start without me." "All right, well, have a nice day." "Thanks." "Good morning." "I didn't know you were back." "Yeah, I got the red-eye." "You were sleeping when I got home." "Uh, you probably didn't get to spend any time with Ruben, especially since he has to be at work so early." "Why don't you two go out tonight?" "You know, someplace nice." "So you can see Ricky?" "Yes, and so you can go out with Ruben." "I'm really tired." "I've been flying a lot lately and I'm not feeling well." "I just want some time to myself." "Yeah, well, I want some time to myself." "With Ricky, without you or Ruben three feet away." "When are we going to move to a real house, where I can have some privacy again?" "When we can find one." "We're trying to find one in your school district, but so far, we haven't seen anything." "Wait." "Did you say that you were tired and not feeling well?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I did." "You're not..." "Oh, no." "You and Ruben, you're not..." "Oh, no." "No, no, God, no, Adrian, no, don't be ridiculous." "You're sure?" "I'm sure." "It's not that ridiculous." "Amy's mother's having a baby." "Really?" "Anne and George?" "Anne and somebody." "It's a very sound decision." "I disagree." "I thought you might." "You're not even 17 yet." "I will be this summer." "So I'm going to get kicked out of the system the next year anyway." "I'd rather leave because I want to leave rather than get pushed out." "You may get pushed out of the system, but no one is pushing you out of here." "And I'm not so sure this isn't just an excuse." "Do you know what's involved in getting legally emancipated and becoming an adult?" "Kind of." "Not entirely." "But you've taken care of me long enough." "It's time for me to move out and get a place of my own and let the next Ricky get your help." "I think you still need our help." "I'll probably always need your help." "But I think we all know I grew up years ago." "I had to." "And now I'm a father." "And I have a job." "I can do this." "I'm ready." "You're a very responsible young man." "Very proud of you." "Made a lot of progress this year." "There's still a lot of progress to be made, and you can be just as proud of him if he's still here." "What's your real reason for moving out?" "Is it so you can have sex any time you want?" "Well, I would like some privacy for those times when I want to have sex." "You know I have sex." "I know." "And I don't like it." "But we know it's a fact of life, and we can't ignore it." "Why don't you give up having sex for a while and see how that goes?" "That is an option." "A cheaper option than moving out of the house so you can have sex." "It's not just to have sex, I swear." "I want some time alone for myself, too." "It's healthy to be alone sometimes." "I'm never alone." "I love you both, and I love that you take care of all the kids who usually are all around here." "But I have no time alone." "Not here, not at school, not at work." "Not at Amy's." "It's never just me." "Or just me and Amy and John." "And it's just going to get worse." "Her mom's having a baby." "What?" "Whose baby?" "I don't know." "I guess it's the boyfriend's baby." "What are these people putting in their coffee over there?" "They are the most fertile, irresponsible bunch of" "Well, she couldn't have planned it." "What recently divorced woman would have a baby when her 15-year-old daughter just had" "The point is I need to move" "I'm going to be so happy when school's over." "It's so hard to concentrate on my classes right now." "Uh-hmm." "Tom, I have been walking around with a secret all week and I just have to tell somebody." "Sex again?" "No, I'm never having sex again." "Even when Jack and I are married, I may adopt." "Maybe Mom will be in heaven by then, and you'll have all the sex you want." "Tom!" "Huh?" "That is a terrible thing to say." "What?" "I'm trying to tell you a story." "Do you heard of "a long story short"?" "You know what that means." "Okay." "You know last week, when I left school when I was upset?" "And I was walking home 'cause it was my first day back and, you know, Mom had tried to get me to talk to someone?" "Short." "Not long." "Mr. Juergens told me that he lied about his vasectomy, and now Amy's mother is pregnant and it might be his and not her boyfriend's." "Why are you laughing?" "It's not funny." "It's very serious." ""Doonesbury."" "No." "It's funny." "It's a comic strip." "Why are you reading "Doonesbury"" "when I'm trying to tell you about Mr. Juergens?" "Why would you tell me about Mr. Juergens when I'm trying to read "Doonesbury"?" "Wait." "Is that" "Are you wearing Dad's robe?" "You are." "You're wearing Dad's robe." "Take that off." "Take that off." "Tom." "Tom." "Mom, help." "Help me." "Grace, stop, Grace, stop." "He's wearing Dad's robe." "It's okay." "No, it's not okay." "He wanted it." "I gave it to him." "Why would you do that?" "Grace." "Is that what you do when I'm at school?" "You just give away Dad's stuff to people?" "Honey, it's just a robe." "And his watch." "When you get home from school today, we can go through your dad's things and find something you want." "I want his robe and his watch and everything else that's his." "I don't want anybody else to have any of his stuff." "Grace." "Can we tell her we gave Dad's sport coat to Jack?" "No, we can't tell her we gave Dad's sport coat to Jack." "We've got to get it back from Jack." "I don't want to upset her more." "But you've been wearing that robe all week." "She must be upset about something else." "Oh, yeah." "George Juergens lied about his surgery." "George Juergens lied about what surgery?" "Snip snip." "I meant no snip, no snip." "Is Anne pregnant with his baby?" "I thought she was pregnant with her boyfriend's baby." "How are you, chica?" "You okay?" "Am I okay?" "Obviously I'm not, otherwise you wouldn't be asking me that." "I hate that everyone just keeps asking me that." "I'm sorry." "You're right." "I hate it when people ask me that, too." "So...what's up?" "Tom was wearing my dad's robe this morning." "Oh, that's nice." "No, it's not nice." "It's...creepy?" "No, it's not creepy, it's just... that's my dad's robe." "I just don't like that he's taking my dad's things." "My mom is giving him my dad's things." "Yeah." "On the other hand, it's just a robe." "And his watch." "Did you want the watch?" "I just want all his watches to stay where they are." "Is your mom going to give you one of them?" "That's not the point." "The point is" "I just feel overwhelmed right now." "I just want school to be over." "All I can think about is sex and death." "And death and sex." "Well, it's normal, Grace." "Is it?" "Yeah." "Especially after you've been through what you've just been through." "Yeah, I guess." "I just don't understand why God just puts us here to have sex and then die." "Is everybody so screwed up sexually?" "Oh, yeah." "Everyone." "Some more than others, of course." "But that's why I feel so blessed-- cause I am not that screwed up." "Although I'm going to be if I don't have some alone time with Ricky." "Adrian, you know I think sex before marriage is wrong." "And you know I don't think sex before marriage is wrong." "Well, not for me." "Look, if I don't have sex with Ricky soon, he's going to have sex with someone else." "Even though he doesn't want me to." "It's wrong for everyone." "Everyone who's not married." "And sometimes it's even wrong when you're married." "Or if you're married but you're about to get divorced." "Who are you talking about?" "Wait, are you talking about Amy's mother?" "You know she's pregnant, right?" "Yeah, Ricky told me." "It's all over school." "She and her boyfriend are having a baby." "Who?" "Her husband,or soon-to-be ex-husband." "No." "George?" "Yeah." "It might be true." "He lied about having a vasectomy." "Wait." "How do you know?" "He told me." "And now I told you and Tom." "I can't tell you how much better I feel." "He moved next door to Amy, right?" "Yeah." "Do you think he might move back in with Amy and her mother?" "I mean, if he's the father." "I don't know." "Why?" "Cause my parents need a house hey can't find one in the school district." "Adrian, you can't tell anyone anything I told you about Mr. Juergens." "He doesn't even know for sure if he's the father." "And I'm the only person he told." "Did you tell anyone else besides Tom?" "That's what I heard." "How could you hear something before I heard it?" "Jason told me." "Jason told you before he told me." "Yeah." "Why?" "I don't know." "He thinks you can't keep a secret." "Oh, I can't keep a secret." "You can't keep a secret." "You tell me everything." "Yeah, but the only person I ever tell anything to is you." "I don't tell other people." "Well, where do you think Jason heard it?" "Where else?" "The locker room." "Well, who in the locker room would know something like that?" "Jack." "Jack?" "Please." "Okay." "Where would Jack hear something like Mr. Juergens lied about his vasectomy?" "She thinks it's her boyfriend's and maybe it is her boyfriend's." "So maybe Mr. Juergens wouldn't be moving back in." "But maybe he'd be moving away." "He's not going to want to live next door to his ex-wife and her boyfriend when they have a new baby, is he?" "I don't know." "All I know is that he lied." "Maybe it's twins." "Maybe one is Mr. Juergens' baby, and the other one is the boyfriend's baby." "Madison, she's not having kittens." "What?" "He lied." "Who said that?" "Jack." "How would Jack know?" "How would Grace know?" "Mr. Juergens told her." "Please." "Mr. Juergens told Grace Bowman that he lied about a vasectomy?" "Why would he do that?" "I don't know, but 500,000 men a year in the US alone get a vasectomy." "Lucky you're going to Italy for the summer and not staying here, huh?" "What is the logic, Henry?" "I wasn't going to Italy to get a vasectomy." "No, no.You're going for quite a different reason." "We think I should go." "To Bologna?" "With me and Amy and John?" "What?" "They're not going to go." "I don't know." "I asked her." "Why?" "Because" "But I thought-- We thought, Alice and I, that you could take me." "As a kind of summer school, you know?" "Trained in Bologna." "Okay, this is getting way, way, way out of control." "I'm going to Bologna to work at my uncle's hotel." "I'm sure Amy could stay wherever he's putting me up, if I have to take her." "But I can't take you too, Henry." "If you have to take me?" "You do have to take me." "Okay." "I am just getting deeper and deeper into this." "Ben." "I don't care if you want me to go or not at this point." "I just need to get out of that room with the baby." "I can't take it." "And this morning I made my stand." "I told my mother that I am an adult and I will be leaving for the summer with John." "I'm sorry, Amy." "I didn't mean if I have to take you." "What'd you mean?" "I want you to come with me to Italy." "But" "But he'd rather go alone." "And you can't just take John and go to Italy or out of the country without asking me." "Yes, I can." "And I thought you didn't care." "If this is going to get ugly" "Yeah, it might." "And I thought you didn't care." " If this is going to get ugly" " Yeah, it might." " I care." " Since when?" "You look annoyed every time you come over." "Look, I love my son." "I may not love anyone else, but I love him." "And I want to see him." "And I want to start seeing him by myself or with my family and friends." "Not just your family and friends." "So I'm getting my own place this summer, and I'm going to want to take him out of the house sometime." "I'm taking him to Italy this summer." "Don't be ridiculous, Amy.You don't even have a passport,and neither does he." "And even if you did, even if he did, who's going to pay for the tickets?" "And where are you gonna live and how are you gonna take care of yourself and him?" "Ben will take care of all of that." "You're getting your own place?" "Your own apartment?" "Yeah." "You really want to leave me here for the summer when Ricky's getting his own apartment?" "I wonder what they're talking about." "Don't say anything to Ricky about Mr. Juergens." "He might tell Amy." "He might tell Amy." "Hmm?" "No, I won't." "I won't." "She's making me nuts." "She can't just take off with John." " It's just for the summer." " It's not going to happen." "He's not going away for the summer." "I could keep him." " How?" " How?" "Just like Amy.Drop him off at daycare, pick him up and take him home." " And where are you going to live?" " I don't know.I'll find something." "I gotta figure out my money first." "You're kind of young to live by yourself, aren't you?" "No, I'm not.I've been 40 since I was 4." "And you stay alone all the time." "Or you used to." "Don't worry." "I'm not getting my own apartment just so I can get laid." "You don't need an apartment for that." "You can come over to our house... when we get a house." "Your parents are never going to find a house." "They might have found something." "Well, good for them." "I still want my own place." "All right.I can't wait." "That'll be fun." "I'd really like to see him, you know?" " John." "I'd like to see you with him." " You will." "You will see me with him, because she's not taking him anywhere." "Oh, cut her some slack, Ricky." "Amy's young,and she's overwhelmed." "She has a baby to take care of and school, and then everything going on with her mom and the pregnancy." "Yeah, I guess you're right." "I know she's still adjusting to being a mom and she'd like to get away, but she must know that she can't." "She must." "I'm even surprised she'd want to considering her parents might get back together." "I don't think her parents are getting back together when her mother's having a baby with her boyfriend." "I heard it might not be the boyfriend's." "I heard it might be her dad's." "Yeah?" "I heard..." "Thank you." "Okay." "Talk to you later." "Just checking on John." " Oh, is he okay?" " Yeah, he's okay." "I just like to call in to the nursery at lunchtime and make sure he's okay." " And he is?" " Yep." "What?" " Nothing." " Nothing." " Something." " So how's your mom?" "How's my mom?" "uh my mom is feeling very out of control, so she is trying to control me." "But that's just how my mom is." "She says I'm not going to Italy for the summer,but I say I'm going." "I'm not just going to stay at home watching her and her boyfriend all summer." " I still can't believe they're having a baby." " Yeah." " Yeah." " Yeah?" "Isn't it weird to have another man living in the house with your mom?" " Madison!" " I don't care if she asks me that." "Um, yeah, it is weird." " Do you like David?" " He's okay." "I just wish she had dated around a little more." "She went straight from my dad to David." "She's almost 40 years old, and she's dated two guys." "It's pathetic." "Not that David's not a nice guy." " He's rich and he's smart and all that." " But he's not your dad." "It's too bad it's not your dad's baby." "My dad can't have any more children.He got a vasectomy." "What?" " Nothing." " Nothing." " What do you know?" " How would we know anything about your dad's vasectomy?" "Yeah." "I mean, come on." "You're right." "I am being ridiculous." "How would anyone know anything about my dad's vasectomy?" "I have lost my mind." "I told you I've been locked up with a baby for too long." "Yeah, well, good luck with that.I'll see you around." "Bye." "Hi." "Oh." "Sit down." "I'm glad you're here." "I feel like people are staring at me." "I'm sorry." "I mean,I know they mean well,but" "I hate this.They're, like, watching meto see how I am." "I mean, I'm terrible." "I just have moments where I feel so sad I can hardly keep from bursting into tears." "And then the next moment,I can't get you and me out of my mind-- you and me and what we did and..." "I just feel so guilty, and I hate myself." "Sometimes I just get angry--really angry." "My emotions are all over the place." "I don't want to say I know because I don't know." "I was much younger when my dad died.But, uh," "I remember how I would go from weeping to forgetting to remembering to being screaming angry-- just hitting my bed with a baseball bat." "That helps." "If you want, I'll bring you a bat." "Yeah." "Maybe I will." "I'm so upset with Tom right now." "And my mom." "She gave Tommy my dad's robe" " and his watch." " Hmm." "Yeah,I got up this morning,I came down to the breakfast table, and Tom was just sitting there wearing my dad's robe." "Can you believe that?" "Uh, no." "But" "But maybe it made Tom feel good to be wearing his robe." "And his watch." "He had his watch, too." "Well, it's a man's watch." "You don't want his watch,do you?" "No, but I don't want other people to have his things, Jack." "I mean, he just died." "It's only been a few weeks." "I know." "Grace, I know, and I'm sorry." "Hi." " Hi." " Hi." "Are you okay, Grace?" "Yeah." "Thank you." "Although every time somebody asks me that,I feel like I'm not." "Oh, right." "I forgot." "I lost my mom, you know." "Oh,yeah.I knew that.I forgot." "Me, too." "I'm so sorry." "Did you want to sit down?" "Oh, it's okay.I'll catch up with you later." "It's terrible, isn't it?" "Yeah, it's the worst." "You don't really understand it until you've gone through it." "And I've been through it." "Oh, hi." "I was wondering where you were." "So you're not angry with me for saying what I said about" "About having to take me to Italy?" "No." "As long as you take me." "Benjamin, hi." "You forgot your lunch." " Hi, Betty." " Hi, Betty." "Yeah, your dad told me I could bring it to you." "And then the office said I could leave it with them, but I thought I would just come by and say hi." "Well, that's very kind of you." "Uh, all right." " I guess I'd better be going." " Uh, thanks again for this." "Oh, sure." "Anytime." "Bye-bye, Amy." "What is wrong with her parents?" " What do you mean?" " Ben, look at her." " She's a hooker.She's gotta be a hooker." " She doesn't have to be a hooker." "She's not a hooker." "I like Betty." " Whatever." " Whatever?" "What does that mean?" "It means you can like her all you want,but she looks like a hooker." "She knows the Bowmans.Would the Bowmans know a hooker?" "How do you know she knows the Bowmans?" "She just waved to Grace." "Grace just waved to her." " That doesn't mean she's not a hooker." " My dad is not marrying a hooker." "I don't care if your dad is marrying a hooker." "But he's not." "And even if he were, ?" "Do you think she's a hooker?" "I don't know.How would I know?" "I don't have anything to do with hookers." "She seems to know Grace and Tom." "I mean, why would Grace and Tom know a hooker?" "I don't know." "Why you asking me all this stuff?" "Ask her." " Grace?" " No." "Betty." "Go directly to the source.You want to know something about someone,go straight to them." "I can't just walk up to Betty and say, "Hi, how are you?" "Are you a hooker?"" "Well, not like that." " How?" " I don't know, Ben.You'll figure it out." "I've got other stuff on my mind." "I've got to go talk to Bunny." "You want a raise,don't you?" "Oh, no,I don't want a raise." "Fine." "I'm not going to give you one." "I just want permission from you to talk to Mr. Boykewich about working more hours." "I know.I know I work for you." "But he's the one who gave me the job, and I just feel I have to ask him." "I just want to work more hours so I can make more money." "So if it's okay with you,I'd like to talk to Mr. Boykewich just because, like I said, he gave me the job." "All right.He's coming down here at closing time." " Thanks." " I like your style, kid." " I don't." " What do you mean?" "I'm actually jealous that Amy would go to Italy with our son with Ben." "So he's "our son" now, not "my son"?" "Did I say that?" "Before you start talking to Dad--Before he even gets intothe house, get over here." " Who is this?" " Get over here!" "Hey, where you going?" "Next door.Some sort of emergency that Amy doesn't want you there for." "Go over there.Find out why she didn't speak to me all the way home." "You were sitting next to her in the car." "Why didn't you ask her what was wrong?" " Go!" "Go!" " You owe me." "Yeah, yeah." "Go!" " What's the emergency?" "You know what everyone is saying at school?" "They're saying that Dad lied about his vasectomy, which means he could be the father of the baby." " Not David, Dad." " Oh, Amy, Amy." "What are you thinking?" "That high school students know more about Mom's baby than Mom?" "I mean, don't you think she would know who the father is?" "She would know when the baby is due, when the baby was conceived.She would know." "When she first found out she was pregnant, she didn't know who the father was." "Yeah, but I'm sure she's figured it out by now." "I mean, we all know they had sex in the garage, but she wasn't pregnant for months after that." "She would know.She would." "I don't know about that,Ashley." "She's huge.Maybe she's more pregnant than she says she is." "Do you want it to be Dad's?" "Not unless that's what Mom wants." "If Mom wants it to be Dad's, then I want it to be Dad's." "Do you want it to be Dad's?" "Of course I want it to be Dad's baby.I mean," "I would love to move back over here with Dad and for all of us to be one big happy family." "But unfortunately,it's not Dad's." "That's just not going to happen, and we're just going to have to live with that, Amy." "Mom is having a baby with David, and her life is starting over." "She has her own life now, her own family." "What about us?" " Us?" "What, you and John?" " No, Ashley." "You and me." "We're her children, too." "We're her family--you, me and John." "We're her family with her first husband." "That doesn't matter." "She's still our mom." "Just like I'll always be John's mom no matter what." "You know what, Amy?" "I think this is one of those things that I'm just not going to understand till I'm older," " until I'm a mother." " Yeah." "Probably." "Hey, you don't think Dad would lie about his vasectomy," " do you?" " Come on." "If he had lied about his vasectomy,he would've gotten her pregnant long before now." " I mean, that was almost ten years ago." " Yeah." " Are you going to be okay?" " Yeah." "I guess." "Mom left me a message on my phone." "She's going to be out with David tonight." "All right." "Well" "And Ben and I got in a fight because I called Betty-- you know, his dad's fiance--a hooker." "That's okay.I think she is a hooker." " Why would Mr. Boykewich be with a hooker?" " Why would Mom be with David?" "Look, these things just happen, and we have to accept that that's the way things are." "See you." " Hey, Ashley." " Yeah?" "Don't tell Dad that I thought he lied about,you know, his surgery." "I don't want him to think that I would ever think that he would do something so stupid." "I don't even know how that rumor got started." "You need me to hang out for a while?" " I heard you on the phone." " Bye." "How could you give Dad's sports coat to Jack?" "I didn't act alone." "Mom did, too." "We like Jack." "Yeah, they like me, and I liked your dad a lot." "Well, fine.Just take the sports coat,if that's what you want." " Thanks." " Wrong answer." "Good night." "What?" "I want the coat." "You know I don't really want you to take the coat." "I know what you really want is your dad." "You know,it really helped to talk to you and Madison today." "Who else do we know that lost a parent?" " Ben." " Ben." "Poor Ben." "You know his dad is about to marry Betty?" " Who?" " Betty, Tom's Internet hooker." "You know, I'm still in a state of shock." "I keep talking too much about all the wrong things." " Tom's Internet hooker?" " More like a friend." "Oh." "Hmm." "Betty." "Tom." "Uh, I know it's early." "Is your family around?" "No." "Good." "Then we can talk." "Uh, first of all, I would like to say" "I am so sorry about your father." " Me, too." "Thanks." " And secondly, you know,when I waved to you at the church," "I think Ben might've figured out who I am." "No, I don't think so." " You didn't say anything to anybody?" " No." "Oh, Tom, that's so nice of you." "But today, you know, I saw your sister at school." "Do you think she said anything?" "Nah." "She did not say anything." "She don't want no people to know I know you." "I hadn't even thought of that." "You are so smart." "Well, honey, I, uh-- I would love to tell Ben, but I just can't." "I" " I've found the love of my life, and I" " I just don't want to lose him, you know?" " I know." " All right." "I guess I'd better go." "Bye-bye." "Hi." "My dad'll just be a minute." "Ricky wanted to talk to him." "What a coincidence." "I wanted to talk to you." "Ben, there's something I have to tell you." "You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to tell me, Betty." "I just want you to know... that I've been named Court Reporter of the Month." "With Ben not here for the summer," "I was wondering if the budget would allow me to work more hours-- hours that would've been his hours and" "Or, I know you pay a cleaning service." "I clean really well.I could save you some money there." "I'm willing to work 12-hour days." "Hold it, hold it." "What is it you're trying to buy?" " You need the money for something?" " I want to move out of my parents' house." "I talked to them about it." "I want to emancipate." "I'll get kicked out of the foster care system next year, and then it'll start costing them to have me there." "And I don't want to be there anymore." "I love them, but I want a place by myself-- a place where I can bring my son." "I'm not looking for any handout.I'm just looking for hours--more hours." "I found a studio apartment,and if I save my money all summer," "I'll have the deposit and an extra month's rent paid, depending on how much I can work." "And if I'm putting you in an awkward position by asking," "I apologize.I just thought I'd try here first before I look for a second job somewhere else." "I think I can help you out." "And you know what, Ricky?" "With my help or without my help," "I can tell you're going to do okay." "This is going to be a really good summer for you.You're on your way." "Come on.I want to show you something." "I had thought about showing this to you a few years from now." "But what the heck?" "Ever see the upstairs here?" "No." "I didn't even know there was an upstairs here." "Yeah." "Come on." "I hope the electricity is still on up here." "Yeah." "It still works." "What is this?" "We use it for storage.It's the old family apartment." "My grandparents lived here." "Well, they did for a long time." " It's nice." " Think you could clean it up?" "Sure." "I can clean it up.I can even paint it,if you want me to." "Well, what are you going to do with it?" "What am I going to do with it?" "I'm going to let you live in it, if it's okay with your parents." " How much?" " Ah, just something towards the utilities." "Ah, don't do that." "It's not that nice a place." "And my Aunt Louise died up here." "She still comes around once in a while." "I'm just kidding." "Nobody died here." "I swear, I'll be totally respectful of your property." "And I'll work for free." "I'll work nights, weekends." "Slow down.I'll pay you when you work just like I would anyone else." "And you can't work all the time." "You gotta take time to be with your son." "Speaking of which,my son is waiting for me,so lock up when you leave." "Mr. Boykewich," "I don't know what to say." "Say thank you." "Thank you." "Good night, Ricky." " hello" " Adrian, you're not going to believe this." " I got a place." " You got a place?" "Yeah." "I'm here right now." "Mr. Boykewich gave me this apartment over the butcher shop." " It's great." " You're kidding.Can I come see it?" "Not yet." "I want to get it all cleaned up first." " I'll come over and help you." " No." "That's okay.It's my first place." "I want to do it myself." " I just want to see it." " Not tonight, Adrian.But soon." "I promise.I just wanted to tell you." "Thanks." "Thanks for telling me." " What?" " Ricky just got a place." " An apartment over the butcher shop." " And?" "Don't you get any ideas about moving in with him." "What?" "No, I'm not going to move in with him." "I'm not going to move inwith any guy." "And now you've messed everything up for me." "Ricky's not going to come over to see me when he's got a place of his own." "This never would have happened if you and Ruben had already gotten a place." "If I had a place to be with Ricky," "Ricky wouldn't even have been looking." " Adrian." " Mom, just call George." "See if he's moving back in with Amy's mother.We need a house." "What difference is that going to make now?" "If we bought George's house,at least I'd know when Ricky's over at Amy's and what he's doing with her, and if he's lying or not lying about being over there with the baby." "I don't think I want to be living next to George." "And we're not buying a house just so you can spy on your boyfriend, even if it's in the school district." "It is.And it's a nice house." " Why don't you call him?" " Maybe I will." "Not tonight, but maybe." "David, I don't know how much longer we can do this." "We're almost finished." "We just have the master bath and the terrace area off the master bedroom." "The guy can't do his own terrace?" "It's green already.It's outdoors." "Do you want to go with brick flooring so" " it'll match the garden area?" " He might want a pool instead of a garden." " I thought you didn't want a pool." " I don't." "I mean, not unless you can make it look like a pond or something so it doesn't look so much newer than the property." "But the owner might.I don't know." "So should we or should we not put in a cement pond?" "A pond.A small swimming pool-- black bottom,solar heated." "Changed your mind." "Good." "Okay." "Now, where were we?" "This is a huge project." "Shouldn't we get the interior designer to do this?" "You're the one that's promoting green." "And I want this house to be totally green." "The owner wants it that way." "Well, then, shouldn't the owner be making these decisions?" "He doesn't really care.He just wants to be in by the end of the summer." " And I have to order everything." " In one day?" " Are you having any fun?" " I was, but now I'm kind of tired." "Couldn't we just finish this tomorrow?" "I'd really like to get home to Amy and John." "Amy can take care of John." "And Amy's going to have to take care of John." "She will, eventually." "When we're married, when the baby comes, we're not going to want to live in the same house as Amy and John or next door to George and Ashley." "Should we all move into your loft?" "I think we-- the two of us-- should move into this house." "It's not in the same city, but it's close to your mother." " I mentioned that, right?" " A few times." "So what, you're going to just try to buy the house from this guy?" "I am that guy." "It's got a guest house, if Amy decides to move, and there's plenty of room for Ashley to visit." " It's perfect." " I'm sorry." "What?" "I bought it a few years ago.I've been working on it whenever I could." "I think we should finish it for the two of us" "Sorry." "Three of us-- you, me and the kid." "I can't believe I'm going to be a dad." "I know it's a lot to think about, but if you put that ring on your finger that I got you..." "It's magic." "It'll completely clear your mind."