"Previously on The Secret Life Of The American Teenager..." "No!" "Our Ashley is gone." "What?" "I'd like to have a wedding reception for you and I don't want you to say no." "So stalking to coach Walkins." "What?" "And he doesn't have any objections to you being a little more public about being a Christian?" "Omar is not a pervert!" "That's ridiculous!" "And I don't believe anyone on the schoolboard is going to believe that." "I know, but that's the power of suggestion." "I did not burn the school down." "Who lit the Bunsen burner?" "The Bunsen burner?" "You lit it?" "Who lit the Bunsen burner?" "Don't answer that." "I don't remember." "Amy said I don't want a wedding?" "She said she wants a wedding, but I don't?" "That's what she said this morning." "Well, I came down here to try to save Omar but you need divine intervention just as much as he does." "How would you feel about going to church?" "You got a package from Mimsy." "It came overnight." "Just toss it, it's probably just another bag of socks." "She keeps sending me socks." "Why is there a Detective Shanahan in the living room with my parents?" "Don't panic." "It's all going to be fine." "No, it's not." "I'm telling you, I do not want a wedding." "Don't tell me, tell your mother." "Oh, no." "You tell my mother." "You're the one who told her we'd go along with her big plans." "Okay, I'll tell her as long as you tell her why." "What do you mean?" "I mean you have to work out whatever your issues are around not being comfortable with gay people." "I'm comfortable with people who are gay!" "I totally am." "I just wouldn't be comfortable with her and a date, gay or straight." "The date is not going to be straight." "Not if the wedding is any time soon no." "So that's why, I don't want her to plan our wedding and then show up with a date whose going to be in all the photos, and then have her change her mind about who she is again," "and then go back with my dad again, which would be the perfect photo, just me and my mom and my dad." "What about Ashley?" "Ashley's in Italy." "Perfect." "Look, your mother is not going back with your father, she's gay, all right?" "And she feels very vulnerable right now, and she feels left out more than she ever felt left out, so we're just going to go along with the wedding and get it over with." "I don't want a wedding to be something we just get over with." "Our wedding was really fun, even though we didn't get married." "I have to go." "I have to stop by the cash machine, I don't have any money on me." "Aw." "Thanks John." "Wait a minute." "Where'd you get this?" "It's not real." "Is it?" "It looks real to me." "Holy Toledo, it's not socks, Mimsy sent cash!" "Cash!" "Yes!" "No!" "We can't keep that." "Oh!" "Here's the withdrawal." "A thousand dollars?" "She sent Ashley ten thousand dollars!" "And we got zero." "We are not keeping that." "I am." "It's not your grandmother, you don't get to decide." "Your grandmother has Alzheimer's, she might need that money, we can't take money from her, even if Ashley did." "It's only a thousand dollars." "Only?" "Only a thousand dollars?" "You have any idea how difficult it is to earn a thousand dollars, let alone save a thousand dollars?" "Um, Yes." "No you don't." "I'll just put it in my bank account and then we can decide what to do with it." "I don't think so, just hand the cash over to your mother, just like we got it." "We didn't get it, I got it." "And I am not going to give it to my mother." "She'd probably squander it on our stupid wedding or something." "Give it to your mother." "It's my money." "It's not your money." "My money." "Look, I'll just hold on to it." "We can talk about it later when we get home." "You're going to walk around with a thousand dollars on you?" "I might." "What'd you do with the money Leo gave you?" "I put it in the bank." "In your account?" "Yes." "In my account." "We don't have a joint account, and I don't want a joint account with you, honey." "Oh, really?" "Why is that?" "Because you don't balance your account." "I balance my account." "And I pay all the bills here." "Okay, well then, I'll put this in my account, and I'll pay some of the bills with it." "I think the system we have is working." "Just give that money back to your mom to give back to Mimsy and let's go to school." "I have to get to school." "Oh, right, I forgot." "It's your first day of college." "Good luck!" "Come on, John." "Amy." "Ricky." "We can't keep that money." "Bye." "♪ 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 ♪" "Hi there." "Oh." "I, uh, guess for your boyfriend." "Ugh." "I say that because if you might be..." "Might be what?" "Might be looking for someone." "Are you looking for someone?" "Are you looking for someone?" "I, you know, good from behind." "What does that mean?" "From the front?" "You have a really cute face." "Just not as cute as my butt?" "Both things are nice." "I got to go now." "Hi!" "You must be new here." "Okay, it's way too early to be that perky." "And I can't stand perky." "And I don't need any help." "Okay, well, I just wanted to say hello." "And, um..." "You know, the same thing good friend of mine." "You're kidding?" "So, I'm not the something stupid?" "Or was your friend's teenage pregnancy?" "I love funny people!" "Loves funny people?" "It's Jesus." "Oh no." "I hope you're talking about Jesus Martinez." "Who's that?" "A good friend of mine." "I'd love to meet him." "Why don't you bring him to church on Sunday?" "Why don't you go to hell?" "Hey, how have you been?" "Hey, Grant!" "Where have you been?" "I had to miss the first week." "I've been traveling." "A couple of colleges with some other students." "If you had gone to med cp you could have gone with us." "You toured colleges?" "Yeah." "That sounds interesting." "I also had a really good summer." "Yeah, I heard you went on vacation in Lesbian Land." "What I meant was, a Christian again." "I figured." "I heard that girl tell you to go to hell." "Yeah, that wasn't very nice." "It just looked like she could use a friend." "It looks like she's had a very close friend." "I think what she needs now is a gynecologist." "Speaking of which, all of us fourth term campers got into three schools on scholarships, we just have to pick one, and we have the option of graduating high school in January and starting college earlier." "Really?" "Really." "And you know who told us?" "Dr. Regina Benjamin the Surgeon General." "Yeah, I know who she is." "She's incredible." "Really inspiring." "Not like your Lord of course, but still." "I'll see you later, Grace." "If I just hadn't, gone on vacation." "Ugh!" "What's your problem?" "What's my problem?" "I could be going to jail." "Are you new here?" "Have you seen me before?" "Actually, I kind of have." "Deja vu." "Weirdo." "Hello, Ben." "I don't like the What do you know?" "Plenty." "Henry and I stayed up all night talking." "Did you have sex with him?" "Did I say we had sex?" "We didn't have sex." "We had a conversation." "Well, I hate to tell you that leads to sex, you didn't tell him we had sex, did you?" "No." "But he told me that you told him that you are still uncomfortable around him because he slept with Adrian." "Yeah?" "Yeah?" "That was a lie!" "And he feels terrible that you haven't let go of that." "He feels as if he has to earn his way back into your good graces." "I had to tell him that." "He saw that we were talking, he saw the conversation was intense and he wanted to know what we were talking about." "I couldn't tell him we were talking about that stupid fire." "We will continue this conversation later," "Ben Boykewich." "I've been trying to call you." "I don't have a phone." "It was taken away, so I couldn't call you." "Well, what did you tell the detective?" "I told him that nothing we did that night in the science lab could have possibly caused an explosion." "Unless there was something faulty in the gas line, in which case, we're all lucky it didn't explode when school was in session." "I told him that I was really sorry we lied and went into the school when we shouldn't have, but I just wanted to get you to go to my school because you're my boyfriend." "Or you were." "And I told him that although you lit the Bunsen burner, and we roasted marshmallows," "I clearly remember turning off the Bunsen burner before we left." "In other words, I told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." "And you, you freaked out and made everyone all crazy by suggesting things that happened that didn't." "And now my father is never going to let me see you again." "Which is probably best because you're criminally neurotic!" "Goodbye." "Ah, hello, loser." "If you get her into anymore trouble, you're going to have to answer to us, you know." "And answering to us is worse than going to jail." "Be afraid." "Be very afraid." "I was just trying to get the truth out in the open." "Sounds to me like you don't know what the truth is." "The truth is you're a loser." "So stay away from Dylan." "Are you looking at my butt again?" "No." "I heard you told Grace where to go." "Awesome." "Leave me alone." "Yeah, okay." "Finally!" "I had to drop my son off at the nursery, they were a little late opening this morning." "Were you waiting for me?" "Yes, I was waiting for you." "What kind of mentor are you?" "I mean, you have one lousy conversation with me and the you disappear." "I'm sorry." "What's wrong?" "You sound really upset." "I'm not upset, I just don't have any friends." "You're the only person I know here." "And I'm standing here waiting for you looking like a total dork with no one to talk to, and some guy tries to hit on me." "And then some Jesus freak tries to get me to go to her church," "Oh, that's just Grace." "She's harmless." "Anyways, then this pinhead stops and stares and mutters "deja vu" or something." "Huh." "Was he a tall thin guy?" "'Bout like this?" "Nice looking, dark hair, kind eyes." "Yeah." "Yeah." "That's probably Ben." "He was my boyfriend when I was pregnant." "You had a boyfriend when you were pregnant?" "Yeah." "Ricky didn't exactly come around a lot at first." "And Ben kind of fell in love with me and I fell in love with him and..." "It was nice." "He was nice." "He treated me really well, but Ricky and I got to know each other and we have John and we fell in love and Ricky and I are still in love and Ben has gone on to other relationships." "All right well thanks for talking to me." "Hi." "Back at ya." "Oh, no!" "No, no, no, no." "Can I heat that up for you?" "Ricky?" "Uh, yeah?" "Don't you recognize me?" "I'm really sorry, no." "Although I'm kind of surprised I don't." "If I should, I mean." "And I'm not like that anymore." "I'm in a relationship." "A relationship, huh?" "You're wearing a wedding band." "Oh." "Right." "I'm married." "Clementine?" "I lived at the Ramsey's when you were there?" "You're that Clementine?" "I'm that Clementine." "How are you?" "I'm good." "I'm a sophomore here." "And I have a job now." "And I have my own place so..." "Things are going much better than I ever would have expected." "And I have to say seems like things are going better for you than I expected." "Yeah, look at us." "Who knew, huh?" "Who knew." "I thought you'd be in jail." "You too." "I mean, I thought you'd be right there with me." "I have to get back to work." "But we have to catch up." "I'm kind of in a relationship." "Kind of?" "Isn't that a wedding band?" "Oh." "Yeah." "I'm married." "Married?" "And you're a freshman?" "Yeah." "All right." "She must be a really special girl." "Or, oh geez, you didn't have to get married, did you?" "Have to?" "No." "No one has to get married." "Look, it was great seeing you." "If I don't see you again, it's just because..." "I'm busy and everything." "And married." "Yeah, and that." "Bye." "Good to see you." "Did I say that already?" "Um..." "Oh, yeah." "You actually tipped at the counter." "I'm big on tipping." "I don't know why I said that." "Bye." "Buddy!" "Oh God." "Have you been to class yet?" "Yeah." "I'm just waiting for the next one." "English lit." "Oh. well, we've all got the same class, we can walk over together." "We've got a half hour, let's grab some coffee." "I did that, I had some coffee, I'm just going to walk around." "Have some more coffee, come on." "This is great, isn't it?" "We don't need any coffee." "Let's just walk around the campus." "I really need to study." "No you don't." "And you just said you were going to walk around." "We'll walk around with you." "What, did you promise Amy you wouldn't hang out with me or something?" "No." "Then relax dude, this is gonna be a fun year." "You forgot your phone." "Thanks." "You're not going to tip her?" "I tipped at the counter." "I'll go tip her." "Just leave it alone." "Jack's right, this is going to be fun." "Especially for you it looks like." "She's someone I knew in a foster home." "She was like a sister to me." "Then introduce me." "She's hot." "Let's just go." "Let's." "Coach is trying to get me to say I'm a Christian before Saturday's game." "Why is that?" "Eh, he just thinks it's a good public image." "And it'll psyche out the other team if they think God is on our side." "You're not going to do that, are you?" "Lie about something like that." "As serious as that." "Like you're going to tell Amy about knowing that waitress?" "Yeah." "I am." "Describe her to me without lying." "I told you." "She's a girl I lived with when I was in foster care." "We were at the same house for not even a year." "Did you have sex with her?" "No." "I didn't." "We were too young and too messed up and it wasn't exactly a good home." "No." "We did not have sex." "I'd have sex with her." "You're supposed to be a Christian." "Yeah, but not that kind of Christian." "I'm a Christian who has sex if I'm in a committed relationship." "Oh!" "Give it up and just go to church and have sex with Grace." "You know you both want to." "She says she's not going to do it again until..." "Can we just make an agreement not to spend the next four years talking about sex?" "Have we not grown up at all during the last four years?" "Boy, he is so married." "Guess we'll see, huh?" "We got to get this Operation Tebow moving." "We got a game coming up." "Grace is working on it, but Jack's not being very cooperative." "Can't Grace be a little more persuasive?" "I don't think that's allowed." "All right." "This team needs an extra boost." "I've got a hunch this Christian angle is going to do it 'cause God knows we've tried everything else." "Don't worry." "It's going to happen." "I'm going to make it happen." "That's the spirit." "Hey, Margie." "Oh, let me just grab my coat and roll the calls over and we're on our way." "What do you think of the place?" "Very impressive." "And don't you look good behind that desk." "Nora, I hope you're proud of yourself." "You're doing really well." "And it's Margaret, not Margie, but that's a very cute name." "Someone's in a good mood." "Well, I was going to wait until we're at lunch to tell you, but I can't!" "Shakur and I are going to have a big wedding for the kids, isn't that exciting?" "Uh, yeah." "Is it before or after the wedding." "Anne is going to have for the two of 'em?" "What wedding?" "Oh, shoot." "She didn't tell you?" "Tell me what?" "She's not having a wedding for them." "I think she is." "No, she's not." "Shakur and I are doing that." "We're going to have elephants." "The bride and groom are going to ride in on elephants." "And Shakur's family is coming and my family is coming." "Real elephants?" "Like at the zoo?" "Real elephants." "A real wedding." "A big party for five hundred people." "That's crazy!" "I love that idea!" "I want to go to your wedding!" "What does Ricky say?" "I wanted to tell you and Anne first." "I was going to give her the courtesy of being part of it all." "Apparently she didn't feel the same way about me." "I think she was just sidetracked by Ashley, she flew the coop." "She's in Italy." "Oh, boy." "Well, still." "I wish Anne had called me." "I don't want her to be disappointed." "Me neither." "She's a nice lady." "Yes, she is." "But you're on my side right?" "I mean, you're Ricky's mother too." "Well, I mean, it's tough." "Anne is gay." "But..." "You've got elephants." "I got to go with you." "We'll talk her into it." "But first, we better talk to Amy and Ricky." "I don't think they want a wedding." "Anne just pressured Ricky into it." "I don't do that." "I know my son." "And I know Ricky is very happy with Amy and that he loves our family and he's going to be very excited when I tell him what we want to do." "And, you can tell that you are excited also." "So, I'm the closer." "Ah, I don't mind." "I'm going to wear harem pants." "I love those." "Okay, we'll see." "Let's get some lunch." "Nora, I'm sorry." "But uh, I need you to stay here." "Can you just send up or something?" "I apologize Margaret." "I know the two of you are supposed to be having lunch, but I have an emergency." "That's okay, Leo." "You just go and take care of whatever it is you need to do." "What do you need to do?" "I have to go." "What's that about?" "As an employee of Boykewich International," "I cannot discuss..." "Any matters relating to Boykewich business practices or matters which are deemed confidential by the company." "That's all right." "But does this have anything to do with Ben accusing the student teacher of being a pervert?" "The one that was dating Adrian?" "No." "How'd you hear that?" "The whole school has heard it." "And Ethan's in school." "Well, Miss Smarty Pants, it has nothing to do with anyone being a pervert, it has to do with the fire." "Oh, the fire at the high school?" "Rats!" "How do you do that?" "How do you get people to tell you things?" "Don't worry, I'm not going to say a word." "Would you like to see some pictures of the elephants and tents?" "Yeah." "Wow." "So how did that fire come about, I wonder?" "Bunsen burner, they were roasting marshmallows..." "If we're going to beat Amy's mother, we need to start this right away." "I don't know if we should try to beat Amy's mother." "I do." "We're Amy's best friends." "You know in her heart of hearts she wants a real wedding." "I mean, I understand why they ran off, they're living together and they have a child together, and they wanted to make it all official without all the hassle." "But this isn't going to be a hassle, we can do everything for her." "For them." "You know and any wedding that Amy's mom plans, would be all hassle." "And Amy wants a wedding, not a hassle." "I'm not sure Amy does want a wedding." "Look at all the trouble we went through for that flash mob and the singing and everything." "I don't think she was all that impressed." "And that was a lot of work." "I mean, she said thank you and everything, but I don't know, she seemed kind of funny about it." "Maybe that was because she was shocked and awed." "But this will be a planned event." "And Amy wants a wedding." "And we want to give her a wedding." "No." "You do." "You want a wedding." "You just want to wear that sparkly dress again." "We did look hot." "But it's not about a sparkly dress." "I just..." "I just don't want to let go of her." "We were the first people she told when she was pregnant." "Even before she told her mother." "We've been best friends forever." "And after this year, everyone is just going to go their separate ways." "Maybe not." "Maybe we'll all end up at the same college together." "Lauren, you're not going to stay here, you'll be going away, to some big fancy school." "You can go away to some big fancy school with me." "No!" "You are not going to stay here and go to school where Jack goes, just hoping to get him back!" "But I miss him." "I know." "I miss Jesse." "But how stupid would we be to make decisions about what college we want to go to based on our old boyfriends?" "I may be that stupid." "No, you're not." "I just hope someone wants to marry me someday." "Someone will." "But Madison, it's too soon, it's way too soon." "We're not Amy." "We've got years to enjoy before we settle down and get married and have kids and maybe in a few years we won't even want that." "Maybe marriage and babies are easier to think about than being personally successful in a field that we've yet to even know exists." "It's easy to think about guys and weddings and all that stuff it's hard to picture starting a business or inventing something that will make a real contribution to the world." "It's even hard to imagine that maybe someday we may have the opportunity to travel the world on our own and get to meet new people from different cultures and different countries." "Those are the kinds of things we should be dreaming about." "Yeah." "I'd like to meet a guy from Madrid." "Or Amsterdam." "Or Mongolia." "You know, those Mongolian guys are really macho with their little ponies, riding across the tundra, killing those rats and stuff." "Hey, Madison, could I talk to you about something?" "We're talking." "Sorry." "That's okay, what do you want?" "A little privacy?" "Oh, for Pete's sake." "We're seniors." "You're a freshman." "I need some advice about something." "It's personal." "Okay." "From her." "Good luck." "Can I ask you a question?" "I hope so, after all that." "And I hope you're not hitting on me again." "No, I just want to ask your advice as an older woman." "Do girls who have had sex, do they well, do they ever want to have sex with a guy who hasn't had a lot of sex, with other people, women?" "Because if not, what I was wondering was..." "Watch it." "I'm not hitting on you, it's just that..." "I'm sure you could maybe teach me a thing or two, purely on a friendship basis, or even on a I-would-pay-you-basis." "Not that it wouldn't be pleasurable for both of us, as well as safe." "And I might add, I respect you, that's why I have come to you." "That and the only other girl I really know at school is Amy." "Get out of here!" "Are you sure?" "Fine!" "I'll get out of here." "I'm not some kind of hooker." "I mean, I'm just naturally sexy which doesn't mean I have sex with every guy I go out with." "It must be the blonde hair." "You won't believe what that Ethan guy just asked me!" "Maybe I would." "He asked me if a girl who has had sex would still have sex with a guy who hasn't had sex and then offered to pay me money." "That little..." "I'm going to have Ricky talk to him." "He's hitting on that girl I'm supposed to be mentoring." "Oh." "The pregnant one." "I get it, he wants to have sex with her and she's obviously had sex and..." "And obviously he's out of his mind because that is not going to happen." "Not as long as my mentor lungs are still breathing." "Is this a good time to talk to you about the party." "The kind of wedding thing?" "No." "Madison, do not start with that." "I don't want a wedding or anything like a wedding." "I don't want my mother to do anything or Ricky's mothers to do anything or my best friends to do anything." "All right?" "She went over there and she took Rabi with her." "Not me, Rabi." "I don't even get to yell at Ashle all I get is to capitalize my text messages while the two of them are looking for an apartment and shopping and eating spaghetti." "I'm kind of glad you didn't go to Italy with Anne, while the two of them are looking for an apartment and shopping I'd be really jealous." "It's not like we would have been fooling around." "You never know." "I know." "So I guess the wedding is on hold?" "There's not going to be a wedding, there already was a wedding and that's the only wedding I'm paying for." "Maybe Anne will want to pay for it all by herself." "How's she going to do that?" "Do you know how much weddings cost?" "Every time I talk to her, she's got bigger and bigger ideas." "The guest list is up to two hundred and fifty people and she's looking at some place on the beach near Santa Barbara." "I don't know how she thinks she'd pay for all that." "Oh, I don't know." "I guess she could sell the house." "It's just you now." "You and Nora." "Anne's not going to sell that house." "She cried when I switched out the kitchen counter tops." "You did those granite counter tops?" "I did." "Wow." "I guess I didn't realize that you did that kind of thing." "Sure I do." "You want something done around here?" "I'd love a project." "I'd love to get the wallpaper down in here." "I can paint, but I don't think I can remove the paper by myself." "I can take down the paper and paint, and you don't have to lift a finger." "No, no, I'd want to help." "Then let's do it." "Let's do it right now." "Really?" "Yeah, I'll run home and grab some tools, back in five minutes." "Okay." "Mmm." "Wait, George, I have something to tell you." "Oh yeah?" "What's that?" "The divorce papers came through." "Yeah?" "Yeah, and here's the thing..." "Don't come back in five minutes, don't start any projects with me, unless..." "Well, unless you're really serious about me and not just trying to have sex with me for ol' time sake or something." "I am serious about you." "You know that." "I know I said that we had to wait until I got divorced, but now that I am divorced," "I just don't feel comfortable jumping right into bed with you." "How do you feel about that?" "I feel hurt." "I feel disappointed." "I feel that you lied to me about something I really think is the biggest part of any adult relationship." "Really?" "I'm joking." "Pretty much." "Pretty much?" "As much as I want to jump into bed with you, what I really want is for us to be happy together." "Meaning?" "I was with Anne for almost twenty years with and we've had three children together and it never felt like we were married." "And not because she was gay, although I can now see how that might figure into it." "I just, I got married because we had Amy." "And then we had Ashley." "And then we got divorced and then we had Robie." "It's always felt as if we had to be married whether we wanted to or not." "This time I want to be married because we both want to be married and we love each other and we respect each other and we want to be together for the rest of our lives." "I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Kathleen." "I'm going to go get my tools." "It's not a good idea, all right?" "I know him." "He's not for you." "And you don't need to be dating right now." "You just need to focus on your baby and your health and your classes." "You can't get behind in your classes, you're already a year behind where you're supposed to be." "Don't throw that in my face," "I've moved around a lot." "My dad's in the CIA." "Should you be telling me that?" "Isn't that confidential information?" "I'm going to tell you anything I have to to get you away from me so I can go talk to my new friend." "I'm not sure Ethan is capable of being a friend, and he should be focusing on his classes as well." "He's really cute." "And I'm sick of sitting around the house with my grandmother." "Then I'll try to do something with you, but it has to be on a Saturday." "I work after school and the only time I have is on weekends and then I try to catch up with my homework while doing laundry over at my parents' house." "I'm sorry, was that an invitation to hang out or a cautionary tale?" "You can bring your homework and we'll do it together." "Will the kid be there?" "John?" "Yeah, of course." "Nah, I don't want to." "I don't want to meet your kid, it would be like you're trying to talk me into not giving up my baby." "No, I'm not." "That's not what I'm doing at all." "I'm sure the family you have for her is a very loving family and they're the right choice for your baby." "Look, I don't think you're doing the wrong thing by allowing your baby to be adopted." "Then why didn't you?" "Because I didn't, okay?" "Everyone should have a choice." "A choice to have the baby or not, a choice to allow the baby to be adopted or keep the baby." "These are very personal decisions and they are never easy," "I'm sure it's not easy on you." "Oh, no!" "What's wrong?" "No, no, oh, no." "What?" "I think someone broke into my locker." "You made it pretty easy, your lock wasn't locked." "Which makes it even worse." "I have no one to blame but myself." "You're going to have to ge a new license, new credit cards..." "New husband." "I can't believe we're doing this!" "I am so excited." "I never liked that wallpaper, Marshall picked it out." "Sorry." "I didn't mean to bring up his name." "You can bring up his name any time you want." "Pretty dainty wallpaper for a player." "Speaking of which, where's his son?" "When is he coming back?" "Jacob?" "I don't know." "I like him and I'm happy we got to meet each other and that he and Tom and Grace are friends." "And if you had never met him and never found out, you'd be even happier?" "No." "It's good to know the truth." "Ah, is that what's going on here?" "You're seeking the truth through wallpaper?" "Why are you taking down the wallpaper?" "This was Dad's favorite thing in the house, he picked it out himself." "It was like the one decision you let him make." "Oh, he made some other decisions without me, Grace." "Sorry, Grace, I guess we took you by surprise." "It was just kind of spur of the moment." "The wallpaper was peeling off and your mom just wanted to get rid of it." "No offense to your dad." "I'm sorry." "I can not get used to you being in our house." "Christian or not, I'm still human!" "I'm sorry." "I'm going to go talk to her." "I got it." "Sorry about that." "About flaunting my relationship with your mother in your face." "That was wrong of me." "Yeah." "It was." "It was completely insensitive." "I feel really bad about taking down the wallpaper, we should have asked you about it." "That's the wallpaper you grew up with and even though it was falling off the walls, still, it's your house, it's not my house." "It's really my mother's house and I guess she can do whatever she wants to it, including having you take down the wallpaper in the kitchen." "Why don't you come back in?" "Nah." "I'm not really good at that stuff like that." "Is there anything you'd like to do in here?" "In here?" "No." "I don't know." "I don't really want you to do anything for me." "I wasn't volunteering, I was just thinking that maybe your boyfriend Jack..." "He's not my boyfriend." "Your old boyfriend Jack, he's pretty handy, he could probably paint or hang some shelves or something." "He's busy, he's has football, he's got a whole new life over on the big college campus." "Plus he doesn't care about me." "He just wants to have sex with me." "And I'm not into that anymore." "That's why I was suggesting doing something else together." "Oh, I get it." "Now I get it." "You're taking down the wallpaper just so you can have sex with my mother!" "No, I'm taking down the wallpaper because I want to be with your mother for the rest of my life." "And I'm telling you that now, so you won't be surprised if things work out later." "We might even go to church." "I got to get back to work." "Henry?" "What are you doing here?" "We talked about your not dropping by." "I know, but Alice said I should talk to you." "Oh." "Uh, well, this isn't a good time." "My dad called and told me to meet him here." "Oh yeah?" "Is everything all right?" "No, Henry." "Everything is not all right." "And since you dropped by, I might as well tell you." "That you burned down the school?" "Alice already told me." "I know you told her and not me." "It's okay." "I understand." "She told you!" "Yeah." "And she told me I could tell you she told me." "Yeah." "I should have told you when I told Alice." "I maybe should have told you instead of telling Alice, although that certainly could have had some strange repercussions." "Dylan and I burned down her school or I thought we did and I went to Adrian's dad and told him and then the police got involved and..." "I think I could be going off to jail, I don't know." "I mean, Dylan thinks the worst thing that's going to happen is that we're never going to be able to see each other again, but" "I think I could be going off to jail." "Ben, your dad would never let anyone put you in prison." "Not for something like burning down a stupid school." "I mean, there are too many schools to begin with." "And, and that one?" "I mean, it was just a private one." "Not paid for by the taxpayers." "You can stop now, Henry." "No matter how good a friend you are," "I don't think you can justify the stupid, irresponsible things I did last summer." "I know I can't." "You burned it down on purpose?" "No, I..." "We, Dylan and I, burned it down by accident." "You didn't burn down anything." "Hi Henry." "I got to talk to Ben." "I'll call you later, Henry." "Thanks man." "I didn't burn down anything?" "No, whatever Miss Dylan told the cops, they told the fire department and this led to them checking the gas lines coming into the school again, the lines were running too close to the electrical." "Bottom line, you're off the hook." "With them." "But not with me." "What!" "It's over?" "I'm free?" "No." "You're not free." "You're restricted to school, work, and home." "And maybe Alice and Henry." "Oh, my God!" "I'm innocent?" "I didn't do anything?" "No, you did." "You stupidly got involved with a girl who gets some kind of kick out of living on the edge, and as of right here and now, I do not want you hanging out with her ever again." "It's just Alice and Henry, Henry and Alice." "You never got into any trouble just hanging out with those two." "Because they're your friends, your real friends, your best friends." "Oh, no." "All right, I'm going to start telling the truth." "Good idea." "I slept with Alice." "Slept with Alice as in..." "How the hell did that happen?" "Never mind." "I don't want you hanging out with anyone until the School Board matter is over and then we'll see." "Alice!" "Henry doesn't know." "Good." "Don't tell him." "There's just one more thing." "Please, Ben, when does it end?" "I promised God that if I got off, if I didn't get arrested for arson, that I'd go to church." "Well, God's used to that sort of thing I imagine." "So don't worry about it." "I don't know Dad, I mean..." "Maybe I could go to hell for." "For that fire." "But not for sleeping with one best friend and lying to the other one?" "Ricki, you home?" "Hi." "My mother just called, she wants you to call her." "Oh?" "Your mother?" "Margaret." "Yeah." "Oh, did she say what she wants?" "She wants to talk to you, she sounded kind of excited." "In a good way?" "I think so." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm okay." "I think she may be calling about Ethan," "I'll talk to her later." "How was your first day at school?" "Good, pretty much like high school with a lawn." "But, um, look I want to tell you something." "I ran into a girl named Clementine that I was in a foster home with, she works in the coffee shop." "Oh." "That's nice." "I guess." "Did she stay in foster care?" "I didn't really ask her, I had to get to class." "The one class I have with Jack and Adrian." "How's Adrian?" "She's okay." "I just have the one class with her." "And Jack?" "He's all caught up with football season." "Okay, well, there's something I need to tell you." "What's that?" "Well, it seems as if I..." "Um..." "To me, I mean, I don't know..." "I'm just guessing," "Margaret was probably calling about Ethan." "Ethan was hitting on my little mentoree today and now she likes him, apparently." "I don't know why my mother would care, she did sound like she's in a good mood so maybe she's happy he has a friend." "You think so?" "I don't know." "I mean, isn't the dad back in Houston?" "The baby's being adopted, right?" "Right." "Yeah." "So..." "What?" "Ethan shouldn't be her friend?" "She shouldn't be Ethan's friend?" "No." "It's just that they've both been in trouble before and, you know..." "I know sometimes two kids who got into trouble turn out all right." "Yeah." "Anything else?" "Yeah." "What's for dinner?" "I just ordered Chinese food." "I had class, then I had work, and I've got to study so..." "I didn't cook." "That's okay." "I love Chinese." "You want to talk about the money while we're waiting?" "We can talk about that later, I want to get changed." "You're looking a little pale, you sure you're okay?" "Yeah, I'm okay." "You want another hit before I take off?" "Oh." "No thanks." "I don't usually drink coffee," "I'm kind of getting a headache, but it is keeping me awake and I have to study, so..." "Look, sister," "I know that you're not Ricky's wife but I take it that you're interested in him, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here drinking coffee all night and trying to get chummy with me." "You are so wrong." "Ricky and I are just friends." "We were friends before he got Amy pregnant, we go way back." "Well, as long as you don't go way forward." "He's married and he's happy and he's doing really well and you are not going to screw that up for him." "So you still care." "I have a boyfriend!" "Kind of." "Thank you so much for your help." "After you guys lived there for so long, it just didn't feel clean, you know." "I just thought a nice fresh coat of paint might help." "Oh, it's no problem, I haven't painted in a while, it was kind of fun." "You're so nice to help me, really." "Well, I owe you, or your mom anyway." "I lived here for free for a year." "Still." "I got to go, I have a curfew you know." "No, I didn't realize." "Not that coach would mind me being late from your place." "No." "He probably wouldn't." "Grace, I know he thinks you might get me back into church and get me interested in being a better Christian, but..." "A better Christian?" "Meaning you're thinking of yourself as a Christian again?" "I wasn't, no." "That just came out wrong." "Um, what I'm trying to say is..." "I love you, Grace, I still love you, and I still want to have sex with you." "And I don't want to be in a relationship with you without having sex." "Sorry." "Wait." "You love me?" "You know I love you." "But I can't not have sex with you." "Please, Jack." "Come on." "I just..." "It's not right for me." "Not in high school." "I've made too many mistakes in high school." "But we could still make out and fool around a little, just no sex." "Does fooling around include..." "No." "All right." "I'll think about it." "Okay, think about it." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "Elephants?" "Uh..." "I don't really see Ricky on an elephant." "An elephant?" "Who are you talking to?" "Your mother." "Yeah, I mean." "I'm open to it, but you gotta talk to my mom when she comes back." "Okay." "Okay, goodnight, Mom." "Did you say elephant?" "Yes." "Your parents want to have a traditional Indian wedding and come in on elephants." "What?" "That's ridiculous." "Yeah." "Okay, I have to tell you something." "And it's not good." "Is it worse than riding an elephant?" "Yeah." "I put the money in my purse." "I put my purse in my locker and I didn't lock it." "When I came back at the end of the day, it was gone." "I reported it as stolen then I was late to work because I had to talk to a police officer who told me that I'd never find it, but he filed a report anyway." "You thought your purse was stolen and you lost a thousand dollars and you're just telling me this now?" "Madison dropped it off." "She said you left it at school." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "It's all here!" "All of it!" "Give it to me." "We are getting in way too deep." "Give it to me." "I'll put it in the bank." "And if we get forced into riding elephants, we can flee the country." "I think it sounds kind of fun." "I bet you have to wear a turban." "We are not having a wedding." "You tell your mom that and I'll tell mine." "So how long does it take for the baby belly to go away?" "Well, you have to wait for the baby to get out first." "No, I know that." "I just wondered is it like weeks or months or..." "I'm 15." "I don't think it'll take that long." "Why, are you worried about that?" "No, just curious." "I've never known a pregnant girl before." "Who are you talking to?" "No one." "Who was that on the phone?" "Not your old boyfriend, I hope." "No, I'm not speaking to him." "It was my new boyfriend." "You met someone?" "Yeah," "I think I did." "Cool." "Yeah." "Cool."