The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013): Season 1, Episode 18 - Making Up Is Hard to Do - full transcript
Ashley tries to convince Ben to return to Amy.
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'cause I'm too old to be adopted,
and you're too pretty to be in prison.
You should talk to some other couples.
- Why?
- We almost adopted once before.
And then they found out that
the children were with a gay couple.
And they changed their mind.
We'de to meet Ricky.
Truth is,it may not be
the best thing for him
if you two are together.
That's a decision
he's gonna have to make himself.
Okay.
I'm sorry,did you say your father?
Your biological father?
Yeah,but he's gone now.
And when he was here,
you didn't need to call me?
You didn't wanna talk to me?
I was too busy to call you.
And besides,I was afraid
you were still upset
about the whole Lauren thing.
And believe me,
I don't like you upset.
Well,I'm a little upset now.
Your abusive father gets out of prison,
every conversation we have ever had
can be traced back to this guy,
and you don't feel
the need to drop by here
and let me know what's going on?
Hey,I'm here,aren't I?
You saw him,you talked to him?
We didn't exactly talk.
He cnered me a cCRe
of times in parking lots.
He just wanted to try and
take advantage of the baby.
He thought he could make some
money selling him to a couple.
Not selling him exactly.
Just a finder's fee on an adoption.
Anyway,he's back in the slammer.
For?
Drugs. He got busted.
I see.
your dad is trafficking your
baby and he gets busted for drugs
and that doesn't send
you running back in here.
,what has?
Oh,of course.
You're in love again.
- Who is it this time?
- You were right.
I'm not in love with Grace.
I thought I was,but I'm not.
I mean,I love her,
- but nothe same way love--
- Adrian?
- No,she's in lovein with her brother.
- Her brother?
Yeah,and you thought I was messed up.
No,no,I don't wanna get sidetracked here.
Who are you in love with?
Amy.
Now it's Amy?
I'm not a careless guy.
I've never been a careless guy.
maybe I wantedI to get her pregnant.
- Because you love her?
- yeah.
Ricky,Ricky,Ricky.
Why would you wanna do that
to a girl you love?
Does that make sense?
That you tried to get Amy pregnant?
I guess.
Hey,at least it wasn't Lauren,right?
At least.
But what appli to Grace and Adrian
and every other girl
you've been in love with,
applies to Amy:
you are not capable of loving someone
until and unless you love yourself.
That's the thing. I think I do.
What,I'm not allowed to make progress?
Hey,no one would be happier than me.
Tell me,why do you think
you made that kind of progress?
Because I didn't sell my baby
to the highest bidder.
I didn't offer him up
to get rid of my dad.
You know,I realized somehow that...
I'm really not my father
For the first time,I realized it.
I'm not him,and I'm not gonna be him.
That is progress.
I'm happy for you,genuinely happy.
I'm-- I'm proud of you.
And you shouldproudprof yourself.
I kinda am.
"Kinda"? Ricky,this is
a huge breakthrough. Huge.
Tell me more about A Tell me about...
Wait.
You're having a son?
Did I know this?
Well,I just found out.
A son. Nice.
Yeah,but Amy's found a couple
that she thinks would be
good parents for him,
so we're talking about adoption.
How do you feel about that?
I feel that they'd
be good parents,I guess.
My mom knows them.
That's what she says,
that they would be good parents.
Then again maybe Amy and
I would parents,so I'm thinking...
I'll go along with what everyone wants.
I'll meet these guys
and see what happens.
Then after a few weeks,
if it doesn't fall apart
for one reason or another
and it looks like they are
gonna adopt the baby,
then I'll try to pursue
my legal rights and stop them.
I-- I haven't told my mother
that I wanna keep the baby yet,
so I'm thinking when I do,
she'll choose me. She has to.
See,this is that two steps back
I'm always talking about.
One giant leap forward
and two steps back.
Ricky,your mother's not gonna
go along with you if ydeceiving people.
You t lead a couple to believe
you're gonna go along with an adoption
- when you don't intend to.
- Look,I can
if that's the best thing for my son.
If I just have some time with Amy,
so that she gets to know me
a little better,
I mean,then she might come around.
If I say no now,there's no
chance of that happening.
Ricky,you can't.
You can't play with
people's lives like that.
Hey,they may never go
through with it anyway,
and I'm not gonna go
against Amy right now.
Just later when a family has
their hearts set on adopting?
It's early.
I don't know that anyone has
their hearts set on anything.
Other than me.
I have my het set on Amyand our ba
What about,uh...?
What is it,Ben?
Amy still with Ben?
Ben's no match for me.
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Where are you going in that getup?
"Getup"?
That's what you call this? A getup?
I'm using my free pass to get out of jail
to do some things I need to do,
not thhE that's any
of your business,Old Man Juergens.
Job interview? Bank of Women?
Don't you think the women
jokes are getting a bit old?
No sense of humor this morning,
must be a case of the nerves.
Yup. It is a job interview.
When are you moving to your own place?
This is my o i.???
The question should be whe am
I moving from my own place?
And the answer is never.
If you're gettin ally one that
requires a suit,maybe you can move.
I don't have any money.
I'm gonna find the money sooner or later.
And can you find something
else to do tonit?
Amy and Ricky are coming ove
to talk to Donovan and Leon.
- I don't think you should be around.
- I won't.
I'll be in my garage waiting
for them to tell me how it went. Ha.
I already talked to Donovan about it.
Amy feels sick.
She's not going to school today.
Sick? Oh,jeez.
What? Is she sick or not?
No,she's not sick.
This is about Ben again.
Every married couple argues.
Take us,for example.
We're not a couple,George.
You'rea guy living in my garage.
And Ben and Amy aren't
a couple anymore either.
????When did this happen?
A week ago.
You haven't noticed that
Amy's been upset?
She's been upset for months. How was
I supposed to know this week was special?
She's your daughter?
Why'd they break up?
The guy married her knowing
she was having another guy's baby.
Something worse happened last week?
I don't think anything happened exactly.
SoETing happened.
I gotta go.
I'm just gonna tell Amy I'm leaving.
Speak.
Ben's just taking a break to
see if she'd rather be with Ricky.
He thinks she likes Ricky.
She doesn't like Ricky.
Maybe,maybe not.
But either way,she had sex with Ricky
and Ben's reading a lot into that.
Maybe she should have sex with Ben.
You're right. Bad idea.
Amy,you can't afford to
take a day off of school.
You're gonna be missing days
when the baby comes.
I can't stand being at school
knowing Ben is there ignoring me.
You and Ben will work things out.
No,we won't.
We can't work things out
if he won't even talk to me.
The worst part is,
I totally understand why.
It's because...
Because my baby is Ricky's baby,
and nothing's gonna change that.
I can't change that.
He might want me to,but I can't.
That's right,and if Ben can't
deal with that,then forget about him.
You deserve better.
I'm a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
I deserve better?
I don't deserve better.
That's enough of that,Amy.
Okay,even if you weren't pregnant,
you and Ben would still
find things to argue about,
because that's what people do
in relationships.
No two people can agree on
everything all of the time.
So there are differences of opinion,
disagreements,arguments. It happens.
Every argument is a chance
to learn something about yourself
and about the other person.
What am I supposed to learn here?
That boys don't like girls
who are pregnant by other boys?
Lesson learned.
I'm probably better off with Ricky.
What?
You are not better off with Ricky.
Oh,Amy...
What? I am.
Let's talk about this later,okay?
I have to go.
t ready for school.
So try to pull yourself together,okay?
I can't.
Try.
- What are you doing?
- What are you doing?
There's enough stuff in here
for a week in France.
Goodbye,George.
Talk her into going to school.
Hey,I just heard.
Heard what?
About you and Ben.
You know,guys aren't
that great at apologizing.
It's a flaw in their
below-the-waist anatomy.
So I don't know what happened,
I don't need to know.
Why don't you call the guy?
Let him off the hook.
He doesn't wanna be wiOF
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Who wouldn't wanna be with you?
Of course he wants to be with you.
You're beautiful.
I'm a big fat pregnant girl.
So what? You're still beautiful.
- To you maybe.
- Baby.
Hey,you want me to talk to Ben?
No,no,I do not want you to talk to Ben.
You don't like Ricky,do you?
I mean,as a boyfriend?
No,but...
But what?
I think Ricky likes me.
And when someone likes you,
you can't help but likthem back,
especially if your boyfriend/
husband isn't speaking to you.
Have either of you seen Ashley?
I can't find Ashley.
I can't find her and I have to go.
- Can you look for her,please?
- Yeah.
She's probablyalking to school.
I hope.
You gonna be okay?
In a cple of m@@ yeah.
In a couple of months,
all I'll have to deal with
is that I won't have
to deal with the baby
because I'm giving
him to Donovan and Leon.
But I thought that's
what you wanted to do?
I do. I really do.
It's just hard to think about.
Holding him and seeing
his tiny feet and hands
and then just handing
him over to someone else.
You're still gonna
be able to hold him
and his tiny little feet and hands.
We're all goe be ableto see the baby.
I kn
You wanna go to school?
Can I stay home?
Yeah,it's one day,who cares?
Hey,you wanna come
with me to find toey?
wanna go out with my
eyes swollen and my nose red.
Come on. It'll be fun.
When's the last time
you had some real fun?
Please don't say band camp.
I wasn't.
- Skipping school?
- Who wants to know?
I think we goweto the same schoo
My name's Thomas.
I transferred in last year.
I must have made a real impression.
I've been kind of distracted.
My sister's pregnant.
She's 15.
Oh,yeah,I heard about that.
But my dog just died.
She was 17.
You win.
I loved that dog.
What kind of dog was he?
She.
A mutt.
Do you want a cigarette?
Yeah,sure. Why not?
Do you smoke?
No.
She's smoking.
You taking the bus to school?
Yeah.
Okay,then.
- That was my dad.
- Does he smoke?
No,but I can prty muchCFt away with a
because my sister's pregnant.
Then again,I don't really
wanna die from lung cancer.
Oh. Yeah. Good.I don't either.
Do you wanna skip school?
Yeah,for the next four and a half years.
All right,then.
You know I meant skip school with me?
Yeah,I-- I got that.
I'd like to,but I'm waiting for someone.
- Someone special?
- Not special to me.
Good.
Are you going to school later,then?
Probably.
I'll see you there.
You're just gonna leave
Ashley at the bus stop,sE king?
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She had a cigarette in her hand.
I know my girls.
Do you? Because you probably
thought I'd never have sex.
I didn't think you'd never have sex.
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and in a committed relationship
and using birth control.
But instead,you@@ad sex at 15 got preg.
Dad,you could ba little mortte,you kno
I'm feeling bad enough.
Hey,stuff happens.
It breaks my heart that this
stuff happened to you,
but some things you can control
and some things you can't.
And don't play that
victim role,it's not very you.
Let's go find Ben.
You just like him
because his dad's rich.
There's no shame in being rich.
And I just like him because he loves you,
even if you are pregnant
by another guy who likes you.
You having a hard time
with the truth? I bet Ben is.
Here's the truth:
I love Ben.
I want to legally marry Ben.
But I had sex with Ricky
and I don'wanna keep having sex
with guy after guy after guy-
I wanted my husband to be the one
and only guy I ever had sex with.
Then how'd this 'dppen,Ames?
I don't know. I had a plan--
Maybe fate just intervened.
Oh,no.
I know what you're thinking.
You think you'll marry Ricky
because you had sex with him.
from making up with Ben?
You had sex with the wrong guy.
And you can't fix this
by marrying the wrong guy.
That won't do anything
hie baby or for you.
Besides,legal or not,
you're already married.
Yeah,good thing that wasn't for real.
I think it was for real.
I think Ben's feelings for
you are for real,even if he is 15.
Maybe even though I love Ben,
I was meant to be Lth Ricky.
Where'd you get an idea like that?
Have you been talking to Ricky?
You know what might
be more fun than this?
School.
Mom,what makes you think
I need birth control pills?
Do you think I'm having sex?
You left condoms on your
bathroom counter in plain sight.
Not condom,condoms.
A long string of condoms.
Oh,those.
Adrian gave those to me the first
time I went out with Ricky.
Exactly my point.
I'm not using them.
What?
I'm not having sex.
Grace,you know what our beliefs are.
You know we think you should wait,
but if you're having sex--
You're not having sex?
You've never had sex?
No.
But can I still keep the pills?
Uh,I guess you can.
With the understanding--
That if I'm thinking about
having sex,I'll tell you.
Grace,I don't want you to have sex.
I know.
I think it's wrong to have
sex before you're married.
I know. Me too.
Okay.
As long as you know how I el.
And you know how your father feels.
Thanks,Mom.
These are great.
Adrian. Adrian. Guess what.
What?
What?
I can't hear you. Just say it.
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Did y hear that?
- Hey,what's going on?
- Nothing.
My parents gave me birth control pills.
- Oh,because of me?
- Why else?
But we're not having sex.
We're not even going out with each other.
We're just friends.
So are we. Maybe she wants
to have sex with sx eone else.
No. I don't even know
if I want to have sex,
and if I do want to have sex,
I can have safe sex.
Well,that's good.
If you have sex,you should
still use a condom though.
Thanks for telling me.
Oh,please.
Your parents let you go on the pill?
I'm not on it,I just have them.
Because they found these
condoms Adrian gave me,
so they thought I tld have the pill,
you know,just as a precaution,
in case anything happens.
But nothing is going to happen,right,Grace?
Because you know that would be wrong.
Especially since you're a Christian.
Are you still dating your brother?
Yeah,I am.
But he's my stepbrother.
We've never lived in the same house,
and,uh,we're not related.
Still,I don't think you're exactly
in a position to make any judgments.
Neither are you.
When are you gonna go out with him again?
- Tonight.
- Oh.
Yeah,I'm not doing anything tonight.
I have to go to Amy's. I'm meeting
this couple that wants to adopt our son.
"Our son"? You and Amy are a couple now?
ll,she's the ther of my soC
Thatl be the adoptive couple's son,
not yours and Amy's son.
Yeah,if it all works out.
I hope it all works out.
Yeah,me too. See you,Ricky.
What you wanna do that for?
You shouldn't tell him you
have birth control pills.
He'll just gonna try and have sex with you.
And so is half the school.
Really?
Oh,don't play all innocent with me,
you know what you're doing.
You're trying to get back with Ricky.
And we agreed that we were
not gonna go out with Ricky.
I know,but I think that
w based on the fact
that Ricky's not going out with us.
What does that mean?
It means that if Ricky
wants to go out with me
I think I have to go out with him.
What? I'm just being honest.
I'm gonna go out with my brother tonight
and then invite Ricky over
to have sex with me.
How's that for being honest?
- Hey,Grace.
- Hey.
- What's new?
- Nothing,reall
So you're not on the pill?
No. But I have the pill.
What happened to being Christian?
What happened to waiting till you graduate
and getting married?
That's still the plan.
Then why the pill?
The promise ringe 't really wor
Besides Tom gave it to Tammy.
A ring from having sex.
It's your belief that Jesus
doesn't want you to have sex
that keeps us from having sex.
I'm not having sex.
Are you having sex?
What? No. Why--?
Why would you ask that?
I'm not having sex.
People talk,Jack.
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And I hope you kFA whing.
Yeah,I do. I do know what I'm doing.
Hi.
Grace,wait up.
Oh,hey,Ricky.
Look,do yourself a favor and
don't spread it all over school
that you're onbirth con
It might attract the wrong guy.
Yeah,d you don't wanna
attract the wrong guy.
No. I don't.
I wanna attract the right guy.
I hopeverythinvegoes really
well tonight. Good luck.
Yeah.
So,uh,you're just gonna stay home tonight?
Yeah.
I'd like to call you,
but if I call you,??
and I just wanna focus on
Amy and the baby right now.
Yeah,I understand. That's fine.
But you can still call me.
Anytime.
So you gonna try to have sex with her?
What do you care?
I don't care.
I don't care anymore.
Neither do I.
- Did you ever?
- Did I ever what?
Did you ever care about me the
way you care about Amy or Grace?
Yeah,Adrian,I did. But I don't now.
And it's nothing you've said or done.
I've had a great time with you.
But it's the baby.
I'm having a baby with Amy Juergens.
That doesn't mean you
should be with Amy Juergens.
Then what does it mean?
I'm so sorry.
So you can say you're sorry.
My dad insisted on dropping me
off at school himself today.
I had to wait until the
driver could circle back
and I could get a ride over here.
Could your driver sign
a note for me? I'm gonna be late.
No problem. We can drop you off at school.
You don't have to take the bus.
Hm,thanks.
So...
So you betABr get over to our
house and apologize to Amy
before she and Ricky sign
the baby over for adoption.
I can't,Ashley.
I can't have anything
to do with that decision.
And if Amy chooses to be
with Ricky,well,that's her choice.
Hello? Remember me? Witness at your wedding.
You married my ster.
Yeah,well,that didn't count.
Uh,yeah,it did count.
Ashley,there's a reason
why people under 18 can't get married.
Because people under
18 change their minds.
People like Amy.
e didn't chang'ther mindhe
You changed your mind.
We both changed our minds.
I changed my mind because
Amy wasn'tMIest with me.
She clearly s feelingselcky
which I didn't think she had.
Her feelings are all c Ben.
She's crazy right now.
She's having Ricky's baby,
but she loves you.
She might want to love Ricky.
That would make things a lot
easier maybe,but she loves you.
I don't know if that matters,
that she loves me
or that I love her.
I think the only thing that
matters right now is the baby.
People wanna do what's best for the baby.
And if what's best for the baby
is Amy being with Ricky,well,
then that's what has to be,
whether I like it or,
whether it kills me or not.
And believe me,heh,it's killing me.
And if you're what's best for the baby,
then that's what has to be?
How can I be what's best?
Because you're what's
best for the baby's m
You're what's best for Amy.
Is everyone stupid but me?
Am I the only one
who can see the big picture?
I'm a doctor.
That's privileged information.
No,I realize that,
but as off the record?
Our daughters are best friends.
Or at least they were.
Your ex-wife won't even let
Lauren come over anymore.
There is no off the record.
Although I will tell you,I have
personal experience of Deborah's short leash.
I get the feeling Ricky
won't go along with the adoption.
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They've waited a long time to have a baby.
I just don't wanna get their hopes up
or Amy's hopes up,
if it isn't gonna happen.
They want an open adoption.
They want us to be
in the child's life. They're perfect.
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What makes you feel that Ricky is not
gonna go along with the adoption?
Because he said that
he didn't want the baby adopted
and then he changed his mind.
I think he did that just to be around Amy.
That's my gut feeling.
My strong gut feeling.
Trust your gut feeling.
That's what uld tell anyone.
You have a strong gut feeling,
trust your feeling.
He got herhEregnant
and now he wants to keep
the baby from being adopted
just so he can be around her?
Go back to "just so he can be around her."
That's also part of your gut feeling.
Why would he want to be around Amy?
Maybe he has real feelings for Amy.
Maybe Amy has real
feelings for Ricky. I don't know.
You talk to him all the time,
you must know.
No,I really don't. I don't know.
He's a work in progress,
just like all the rest of us.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Private convCR.
The adts are talki Come on.
Adults?
Having a baby does not make
either one of us an adult.
I don't wanna talk about tonightonth an
Frankly,I'm a little nervous.
Don't be nervous.
They're nice guys.
Yeah,but I'm not.
- What if they don't like me?
- They will.
What if they don't like that
my parents are drug addicts
and my dad's a child molester?
You're not a drug addict.
You're not a child molester.
Yeah,but it's a lot of baggage.
They know. They wouldn't be meeting you
if they couldn't deal
with your family history.
They just wanna make sure
that you're okay with the adoption.
You know,even though we can still see our son,
they're going to be the parents.
They jusThnt to make so you
and I understaunhat,I think.
What if they move away?
I don't thinn''d do that.
What if they get divorced?
They've been together 10 years.
Your parents have been
together longer than that.
Are you having second thoughts?
No,I just...
Amy,I look at you and I just...
After everything you've been through,
I want this adoption to be perfect.
I don't want you to be hurt
any more than I've hurt you already.
Unfortunately,I think we're
in for a lifetime of hurt.
That's just going to be how it is.
Yeah,well,hopefully you and
I can be friends for a lifetime,
because I don't think anyone
else can really understand
what we're going through.
I'll see you tonight.
Should I dress up or anything?
I feel like I'm going on a job interview.
No,you don't have to dress up.
Just be yourself.
Whoever that is.
Hey.
Come on in.
These are for you.
You have a vase?
I can put them in a vase for you.
Are you crazy?
You don't have to bring me flowers.
We're not...courting.
Actually,I am courtin c
I like you.
You mentioned you liked flowers.
When?
When we were talking.
Before we fell asleep.
You said you liked flowers.
Did I?
Are you gonna take these or should
I just put them in the sink?
Here.
Uh,you're welcome.
Oh. Sorry. Thank you. I guess.
But I don't know what th w mean.
I'm kind of confused.
You're confused?
You're a difficult date.
Date? I don't really date.
We're just hanging out.
I mean,we don't even have
to go to a movie or anything.
We canust hang out here,Tif you want.
You had a good time last time,right?
Last time,I just came
over here to meet you.
And I met you and I liked you.
I asked you out on a date.
I asked you to go see a movie
and have dinner with me tonight.
I thought that was just
a code or something.
A code for what?
I don't know. That you wanted
to come over and have sex with me.
Are we really going out?
Yeah.
All right. If you want.
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Not tonight anyway.
I just wanna spend
time with you,get to know you.
Vertically.
I prefer horizontally.
- Adrian.
- Wait.
You're not gay,are you?
If a guy doesn't wanna
have sex with you,he's gay?
Well,that's one of the signs.
What's the other?
Flowers?
I'm not gay.
If I were gay,why would I ask you out?
I don't know.
Did my Dad put you up to this?
The flowers and the dinner and the movie
and the whole stupid date idea?
Your dad has no idea where I am,
and I don't think he'd be too
happy about it if he did know.
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I asked you out,you said yes,
and I wanna go out.
I wanna go see a movie with you.
I wanna sit in a dark
theater and hold hands.
Maybe even make out a little.
???and eat food with you,
then bring you home and give
you a kiss good night.
And then go home and think
about having sex with you.
???until I'm ready
adto have sex with you.
So grab your coat and
whatever ou need,and let's go.
- You're not gay?
- I'm not gay.
Wow. All right. I'll try anything once.
Well,thanks for calling.
But I don't exactly know who you are
and I'm not really interested
in going to anything
when coswhs are involved.
Yeah,I just like to be me.
No-- No,thank you for thinking of me.
Maybe some other time.
Bye. I'll see you at school.
That's,like,the fourth call
I've gotten tonight.
Why are those guys calling you?
I don't know.
Well,I think I know.
Tom,can I talk to Grace alone,please?
Let me stay.
I wanna talk to her alone.
Come on. I got a feeling
this is a good one.
Weren't you going over to Tammy's?
You said no.
You said I've been at Tammy's
every night for a week.
What's one more night? You go ahead.
Hot dog.
So,what's with the sudden popularity?
You didn't broadcast it all over school
that you're on birth
control pills,did you?
I told Adrian.
People could have overheard.
Honey,I think that we may have
made aistake giving you those pills.
If you don't need them,
I think you should give them back.
No,no,Mom,please,please,can I keep them?
Sweetie,why are you so desperate
to have the pills if you don need them?
I love them.???
They're Theal.
The promise ring,
it wasn't reasto me. I???
It was about abstract things,
like being in love and
getting married someday
and waiting and waiting and waiting.
I'm still for the waiting
and waiting and waiting.
I am too.
And I think with
these pills I can wait.
I really think
I can wait until I'm married.
Because...?
Because these are real.
You know,these aren't
don't-haven'ex vitamins.
These are birth control pills.
You know,they reqth prescription.
They require doctor's visits.
You know,they remind me thatex
is mental and phyFAcal,
and it's spiritual and sweaty and--
ything.
It's about takinutyour clothes off???
and doing things you've never done before
that take you to this place
that you never thought you could go
where two people become one.
Where are you going with this?
Mom,don't you get it?
Sex is everything,
and if you're gonna have sex,
it should be with somebody
at you wanna spend AB whole life with,
someone you wanna create a life with.
And even if you have these,
these are just something
to use with somebody
that you eventually don't
wanna use them with.
You got all that fr those pills?
They're not magic beans,you know.
I know. But...
I don't know,it's...
Holding them makes everything you
ever told me about sex real for me.
Like I finally understand it.
Hello?
Mm-mm,this is she.
Who?
Duncan. Hey.
You here for Shawna?
No,is she here?
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Tonit?
You don't even know
what day of the weektht is?
No,no,I know it's Thursday.
I just thought that,uh--
I know what you thought.
You got too much sex on your mind,Jack.
Look,I know what's going on.
E u and Shawna.
You might thk I'm just a kid,
but I'm not stCFid.
You two are kind of stupid.
Stupid and obvious.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry. Be careful.
Oh,we're being carefuSE
Oh-- Oh I don't need to know all that.
I want you to be careful
not to hurt my sister.
I love my sister.
She's all I got.
And I don't want some guy coming down here
who's noch older than me???
thin she's just a good time.
- ThE not it at all.
- She's been hurt before.
We've had a hard life.
You might not believe this,
but we don't cOFose to live here.
We don't have any options.
d I don't wanna see more
hurt heaped upon my sister.
I don't wanna see you heaped uhe sister,
so can you kindly not engage in
any activities prior to my arriving home?
If you know what I mean.
Yeah.
Let ask you som Tng:
at are your plans for my sister?
- prom?
- Huh?
I haven't thought about
where this was going.
???
Since m here,you wanna
go out and do somethinso
So that's how it's gonna be?
So I'm like your backup plan?
No,no. I just thought that since I was--
I'm messing with you.
Come on.
Come on,man.
So,Ricky,uh,your mother
speaks very highly of you.
You know Ricky's mother?
Not my biological mother.
My foster mother. Margaret.
She's their social worker.
Margaret's a nice woman.
Such a nice woman,
married to such a nice man.
They're not the usual
foster@@ents,you know.
They're the best foster parents in the world.
They took me in when
I don't think anyone else would have.
I mean,an older kid,a boy.
Everyone's afraid of older boys,
especially with troubled pasts
and crazy drug-addict pare
I wouldn't be the maI am today
if it wasn't for them.
I'd probably be in prison,
just like my dad.
These people,they're saints.
And I'm not the only kid.
They do this all the time,
usually just short-term
until they can get the kids placed.
There are just so few people
who will take in older children.
People want babies. Like ours.
They want a healthy,perfect baby
that doesn't have any problems.
It's mh harder to take Lds like me...
What's the matter,
things not going your way?
What do you know about this?
- This?
- Yeah,this.
Ricky is sabotaging
the adoption,isn't he?
I don't talk to Ricky.
- Who do you talk to?
- Ben.
You didn't have anything
to do with what's going on?
Really,Mom,I don't know
what's going on in there.
I know what's going on in there
about half an hour from now,
but I don't know what's
goin in there right now.
That kid is so screwed up.
Yeah.
It just doesn't feel right,does it?
No,it doesn't feel right.
And you know what?
I'm not crazy about an open adoption.
Yeah,I like George,but I don't know.
I want our family back.
our foster kids back.
I don't care if they were
foster children.
I don't care what you call them.
Those were our children.
Let's talk to Margaret.
I think we better talk to Anne too.
And George. And Amy.
I don't want them to feel like
the baby is some kind of booby prize
for us not getting the children we wanted.
And truthfully,if we take this baby,
then we're not going back into
the foster system,
and our foster children will probably
never havevenother home together.
We'll probably never be able to adopt the
I don't think Ricky's ever
gonna let us adopt that baby either.
We're gonna be fighting for
whatever adoption we choose.
And if we don't choose Amy's baby,
we know that that baby
will still be taken care of.
I agree.
We're the only ones fighting
for the other children.
Are you sure you don't wanna come in?
Very sure.
Okay,then,um...
I had fun.
Did you?
Yeah,I actually did.
Me too. So we'll do this again?
- "This"?
- Yeah,this.
Yes,we'll,uh,do this again.
Night,Adrian.
NiIFt,Max.
Hey,Adrian.
Ju wanted to see yere doing anything.
I figured I could swing by.
Call me if you want me.
It's the wrong number.
Hey,did the guy bring that?
Oh,how'd it go?d
How'd what go?
The meeting. With Ricky.
What did Donovan and Leon think?
- How would I know?
- What do you mean?
You said you were gonna
talk to them afterwards.
They're parked outside the house.
.Oh,I forgot about that.
How could you forget about that?
If this adoption doesn't go through,
the sahing's gonna happen
over and over again.
I don't thk that Ricky
wants the baby adopted
I think he's just trying to get to Amy.
Oh. Well,I do know about that.
Ashley talked to Ben. He's coming over.
Ben doesn't have anything
to do with the baby.
Somes you are so clueless.
Is that who Ashley was talking
to on the phone all night? Ben?
I doubt it. It's probably
the guy she was smoking with.
You really should pay more
attention to your children.
Thanks,Mom.
You know,Ben's coming over.
No,he's not.
He's not speaking to me.
Hey,Ben's at the front door.
I'm going to kill him.
What are you doing here?
I came here to talk to you.
You could have picked up your
phone 37 times I've called.
ty-seven? More like a milln and 37.
- Can I come in?
- Yes.
Can't I have one private
minva in this house?
I want you out! All of you!
And you know what? That includes you.
Meeting go badly?
No,the meeting did not go badly.
They loved Ricky.
- And do you love Ricky?
- No.
BuLYat does not mean I still love you.
I think that you still lov.
The question is,do you love me
enough to spend a life together?
And I understand that you and Ricky
are gonna ha to share the baby
throughout the baby's life,
but I hope you understand
that I have no intention
of sharing you with Ricky.
So who do you love,Amy?
Who do you wanna spend your life with?
Right now,I think the only person
that I love is this baby inside me.
And I know you're all listening in there.
Even if I do love you,I am really,
really,really angry with you.
Well,I hope you'll get over it.
Because I know I was really,really,
rely angry with you,and I got over it.
What do you have to be angry with me about?
You knew I was pregnant
when you met me,or shortly after.
By the time I knew,I was already
so in love with you that it didn't matter.
It didn't matter then,n,doesn't matter now.
It's not gonna matter when
we're at our son's wedding.
???
I had to have some time
to think about it,
but I love you.
And unlike Ricky,I mean it.
I really love you.
Well,what i,want some
time to thibout it?
Take all the time you need.
But I hope you realize
how much I love you
before you let someone hurt you again.
Someone like Ricky?
No,not someone like Ricky. RickLY
It's just so comt ed.
This is his baby.
He is the father of this baby.
I wish it was you,Ben,but it's not.
Even Ricky could tell you,
OFrents of a baby aren't necessarily
the two people who created that baby.
The parents are the two people
who take care of the baby.
And I am willing to take care of you
and that baby for the rest of my life.
Even if it means seeing Ricky
every Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Maybe I don't wantn' to
take care of me and my baby.
I don't want your pity.
That's you think this is? Pity?
Is it?
No.
Because I don't need
you to care of me.
I can take care of myself.
I'm sure that you can.
I don't need you to take of the baby.
The baby will be adopted.
Not that you've ever asked my opinion,
or that I should even offer my opinion,
but I don't want
the baby to be adopted.
I wanna be your husband
and a stepfather to yo.
I wanna be a family.
And I realize that we're
too young to get married,
but guess what?
We're gonna get older every year.
And I wanna grow older together.
I wanna be with you on your 16th birthday
and your 60th birthday.
And I want him to be with us.
Just tell me you'll think about it.
Okay,I'll think about it.
Tell me you love me?
I love you.
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'cause I'm too old to be adopted,
and you're too pretty to be in prison.
You should talk to some other couples.
- Why?
- We almost adopted once before.
And then they found out that
the children were with a gay couple.
And they changed their mind.
We'de to meet Ricky.
Truth is,it may not be
the best thing for him
if you two are together.
That's a decision
he's gonna have to make himself.
Okay.
I'm sorry,did you say your father?
Your biological father?
Yeah,but he's gone now.
And when he was here,
you didn't need to call me?
You didn't wanna talk to me?
I was too busy to call you.
And besides,I was afraid
you were still upset
about the whole Lauren thing.
And believe me,
I don't like you upset.
Well,I'm a little upset now.
Your abusive father gets out of prison,
every conversation we have ever had
can be traced back to this guy,
and you don't feel
the need to drop by here
and let me know what's going on?
Hey,I'm here,aren't I?
You saw him,you talked to him?
We didn't exactly talk.
He cnered me a cCRe
of times in parking lots.
He just wanted to try and
take advantage of the baby.
He thought he could make some
money selling him to a couple.
Not selling him exactly.
Just a finder's fee on an adoption.
Anyway,he's back in the slammer.
For?
Drugs. He got busted.
I see.
your dad is trafficking your
baby and he gets busted for drugs
and that doesn't send
you running back in here.
,what has?
Oh,of course.
You're in love again.
- Who is it this time?
- You were right.
I'm not in love with Grace.
I thought I was,but I'm not.
I mean,I love her,
- but nothe same way love--
- Adrian?
- No,she's in lovein with her brother.
- Her brother?
Yeah,and you thought I was messed up.
No,no,I don't wanna get sidetracked here.
Who are you in love with?
Amy.
Now it's Amy?
I'm not a careless guy.
I've never been a careless guy.
maybe I wantedI to get her pregnant.
- Because you love her?
- yeah.
Ricky,Ricky,Ricky.
Why would you wanna do that
to a girl you love?
Does that make sense?
That you tried to get Amy pregnant?
I guess.
Hey,at least it wasn't Lauren,right?
At least.
But what appli to Grace and Adrian
and every other girl
you've been in love with,
applies to Amy:
you are not capable of loving someone
until and unless you love yourself.
That's the thing. I think I do.
What,I'm not allowed to make progress?
Hey,no one would be happier than me.
Tell me,why do you think
you made that kind of progress?
Because I didn't sell my baby
to the highest bidder.
I didn't offer him up
to get rid of my dad.
You know,I realized somehow that...
I'm really not my father
For the first time,I realized it.
I'm not him,and I'm not gonna be him.
That is progress.
I'm happy for you,genuinely happy.
I'm-- I'm proud of you.
And you shouldproudprof yourself.
I kinda am.
"Kinda"? Ricky,this is
a huge breakthrough. Huge.
Tell me more about A Tell me about...
Wait.
You're having a son?
Did I know this?
Well,I just found out.
A son. Nice.
Yeah,but Amy's found a couple
that she thinks would be
good parents for him,
so we're talking about adoption.
How do you feel about that?
I feel that they'd
be good parents,I guess.
My mom knows them.
That's what she says,
that they would be good parents.
Then again maybe Amy and
I would parents,so I'm thinking...
I'll go along with what everyone wants.
I'll meet these guys
and see what happens.
Then after a few weeks,
if it doesn't fall apart
for one reason or another
and it looks like they are
gonna adopt the baby,
then I'll try to pursue
my legal rights and stop them.
I-- I haven't told my mother
that I wanna keep the baby yet,
so I'm thinking when I do,
she'll choose me. She has to.
See,this is that two steps back
I'm always talking about.
One giant leap forward
and two steps back.
Ricky,your mother's not gonna
go along with you if ydeceiving people.
You t lead a couple to believe
you're gonna go along with an adoption
- when you don't intend to.
- Look,I can
if that's the best thing for my son.
If I just have some time with Amy,
so that she gets to know me
a little better,
I mean,then she might come around.
If I say no now,there's no
chance of that happening.
Ricky,you can't.
You can't play with
people's lives like that.
Hey,they may never go
through with it anyway,
and I'm not gonna go
against Amy right now.
Just later when a family has
their hearts set on adopting?
It's early.
I don't know that anyone has
their hearts set on anything.
Other than me.
I have my het set on Amyand our ba
What about,uh...?
What is it,Ben?
Amy still with Ben?
Ben's no match for me.
Sync:????
Where are you going in that getup?
"Getup"?
That's what you call this? A getup?
I'm using my free pass to get out of jail
to do some things I need to do,
not thhE that's any
of your business,Old Man Juergens.
Job interview? Bank of Women?
Don't you think the women
jokes are getting a bit old?
No sense of humor this morning,
must be a case of the nerves.
Yup. It is a job interview.
When are you moving to your own place?
This is my o i.???
The question should be whe am
I moving from my own place?
And the answer is never.
If you're gettin ally one that
requires a suit,maybe you can move.
I don't have any money.
I'm gonna find the money sooner or later.
And can you find something
else to do tonit?
Amy and Ricky are coming ove
to talk to Donovan and Leon.
- I don't think you should be around.
- I won't.
I'll be in my garage waiting
for them to tell me how it went. Ha.
I already talked to Donovan about it.
Amy feels sick.
She's not going to school today.
Sick? Oh,jeez.
What? Is she sick or not?
No,she's not sick.
This is about Ben again.
Every married couple argues.
Take us,for example.
We're not a couple,George.
You'rea guy living in my garage.
And Ben and Amy aren't
a couple anymore either.
????When did this happen?
A week ago.
You haven't noticed that
Amy's been upset?
She's been upset for months. How was
I supposed to know this week was special?
She's your daughter?
Why'd they break up?
The guy married her knowing
she was having another guy's baby.
Something worse happened last week?
I don't think anything happened exactly.
SoETing happened.
I gotta go.
I'm just gonna tell Amy I'm leaving.
Speak.
Ben's just taking a break to
see if she'd rather be with Ricky.
He thinks she likes Ricky.
She doesn't like Ricky.
Maybe,maybe not.
But either way,she had sex with Ricky
and Ben's reading a lot into that.
Maybe she should have sex with Ben.
You're right. Bad idea.
Amy,you can't afford to
take a day off of school.
You're gonna be missing days
when the baby comes.
I can't stand being at school
knowing Ben is there ignoring me.
You and Ben will work things out.
No,we won't.
We can't work things out
if he won't even talk to me.
The worst part is,
I totally understand why.
It's because...
Because my baby is Ricky's baby,
and nothing's gonna change that.
I can't change that.
He might want me to,but I can't.
That's right,and if Ben can't
deal with that,then forget about him.
You deserve better.
I'm a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
I deserve better?
I don't deserve better.
That's enough of that,Amy.
Okay,even if you weren't pregnant,
you and Ben would still
find things to argue about,
because that's what people do
in relationships.
No two people can agree on
everything all of the time.
So there are differences of opinion,
disagreements,arguments. It happens.
Every argument is a chance
to learn something about yourself
and about the other person.
What am I supposed to learn here?
That boys don't like girls
who are pregnant by other boys?
Lesson learned.
I'm probably better off with Ricky.
What?
You are not better off with Ricky.
Oh,Amy...
What? I am.
Let's talk about this later,okay?
I have to go.
t ready for school.
So try to pull yourself together,okay?
I can't.
Try.
- What are you doing?
- What are you doing?
There's enough stuff in here
for a week in France.
Goodbye,George.
Talk her into going to school.
Hey,I just heard.
Heard what?
About you and Ben.
You know,guys aren't
that great at apologizing.
It's a flaw in their
below-the-waist anatomy.
So I don't know what happened,
I don't need to know.
Why don't you call the guy?
Let him off the hook.
He doesn't wanna be wiOF
???
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Who wouldn't wanna be with you?
Of course he wants to be with you.
You're beautiful.
I'm a big fat pregnant girl.
So what? You're still beautiful.
- To you maybe.
- Baby.
Hey,you want me to talk to Ben?
No,no,I do not want you to talk to Ben.
You don't like Ricky,do you?
I mean,as a boyfriend?
No,but...
But what?
I think Ricky likes me.
And when someone likes you,
you can't help but likthem back,
especially if your boyfriend/
husband isn't speaking to you.
Have either of you seen Ashley?
I can't find Ashley.
I can't find her and I have to go.
- Can you look for her,please?
- Yeah.
She's probablyalking to school.
I hope.
You gonna be okay?
In a cple of m@@ yeah.
In a couple of months,
all I'll have to deal with
is that I won't have
to deal with the baby
because I'm giving
him to Donovan and Leon.
But I thought that's
what you wanted to do?
I do. I really do.
It's just hard to think about.
Holding him and seeing
his tiny feet and hands
and then just handing
him over to someone else.
You're still gonna
be able to hold him
and his tiny little feet and hands.
We're all goe be ableto see the baby.
I kn
You wanna go to school?
Can I stay home?
Yeah,it's one day,who cares?
Hey,you wanna come
with me to find toey?
wanna go out with my
eyes swollen and my nose red.
Come on. It'll be fun.
When's the last time
you had some real fun?
Please don't say band camp.
I wasn't.
- Skipping school?
- Who wants to know?
I think we goweto the same schoo
My name's Thomas.
I transferred in last year.
I must have made a real impression.
I've been kind of distracted.
My sister's pregnant.
She's 15.
Oh,yeah,I heard about that.
But my dog just died.
She was 17.
You win.
I loved that dog.
What kind of dog was he?
She.
A mutt.
Do you want a cigarette?
Yeah,sure. Why not?
Do you smoke?
No.
She's smoking.
You taking the bus to school?
Yeah.
Okay,then.
- That was my dad.
- Does he smoke?
No,but I can prty muchCFt away with a
because my sister's pregnant.
Then again,I don't really
wanna die from lung cancer.
Oh. Yeah. Good.I don't either.
Do you wanna skip school?
Yeah,for the next four and a half years.
All right,then.
You know I meant skip school with me?
Yeah,I-- I got that.
I'd like to,but I'm waiting for someone.
- Someone special?
- Not special to me.
Good.
Are you going to school later,then?
Probably.
I'll see you there.
You're just gonna leave
Ashley at the bus stop,sE king?
????
She had a cigarette in her hand.
I know my girls.
Do you? Because you probably
thought I'd never have sex.
I didn't think you'd never have sex.
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and in a committed relationship
and using birth control.
But instead,you@@ad sex at 15 got preg.
Dad,you could ba little mortte,you kno
I'm feeling bad enough.
Hey,stuff happens.
It breaks my heart that this
stuff happened to you,
but some things you can control
and some things you can't.
And don't play that
victim role,it's not very you.
Let's go find Ben.
You just like him
because his dad's rich.
There's no shame in being rich.
And I just like him because he loves you,
even if you are pregnant
by another guy who likes you.
You having a hard time
with the truth? I bet Ben is.
Here's the truth:
I love Ben.
I want to legally marry Ben.
But I had sex with Ricky
and I don'wanna keep having sex
with guy after guy after guy-
I wanted my husband to be the one
and only guy I ever had sex with.
Then how'd this 'dppen,Ames?
I don't know. I had a plan--
Maybe fate just intervened.
Oh,no.
I know what you're thinking.
You think you'll marry Ricky
because you had sex with him.
from making up with Ben?
You had sex with the wrong guy.
And you can't fix this
by marrying the wrong guy.
That won't do anything
hie baby or for you.
Besides,legal or not,
you're already married.
Yeah,good thing that wasn't for real.
I think it was for real.
I think Ben's feelings for
you are for real,even if he is 15.
Maybe even though I love Ben,
I was meant to be Lth Ricky.
Where'd you get an idea like that?
Have you been talking to Ricky?
You know what might
be more fun than this?
School.
Mom,what makes you think
I need birth control pills?
Do you think I'm having sex?
You left condoms on your
bathroom counter in plain sight.
Not condom,condoms.
A long string of condoms.
Oh,those.
Adrian gave those to me the first
time I went out with Ricky.
Exactly my point.
I'm not using them.
What?
I'm not having sex.
Grace,you know what our beliefs are.
You know we think you should wait,
but if you're having sex--
You're not having sex?
You've never had sex?
No.
But can I still keep the pills?
Uh,I guess you can.
With the understanding--
That if I'm thinking about
having sex,I'll tell you.
Grace,I don't want you to have sex.
I know.
I think it's wrong to have
sex before you're married.
I know. Me too.
Okay.
As long as you know how I el.
And you know how your father feels.
Thanks,Mom.
These are great.
Adrian. Adrian. Guess what.
What?
What?
I can't hear you. Just say it.
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Did y hear that?
- Hey,what's going on?
- Nothing.
My parents gave me birth control pills.
- Oh,because of me?
- Why else?
But we're not having sex.
We're not even going out with each other.
We're just friends.
So are we. Maybe she wants
to have sex with sx eone else.
No. I don't even know
if I want to have sex,
and if I do want to have sex,
I can have safe sex.
Well,that's good.
If you have sex,you should
still use a condom though.
Thanks for telling me.
Oh,please.
Your parents let you go on the pill?
I'm not on it,I just have them.
Because they found these
condoms Adrian gave me,
so they thought I tld have the pill,
you know,just as a precaution,
in case anything happens.
But nothing is going to happen,right,Grace?
Because you know that would be wrong.
Especially since you're a Christian.
Are you still dating your brother?
Yeah,I am.
But he's my stepbrother.
We've never lived in the same house,
and,uh,we're not related.
Still,I don't think you're exactly
in a position to make any judgments.
Neither are you.
When are you gonna go out with him again?
- Tonight.
- Oh.
Yeah,I'm not doing anything tonight.
I have to go to Amy's. I'm meeting
this couple that wants to adopt our son.
"Our son"? You and Amy are a couple now?
ll,she's the ther of my soC
Thatl be the adoptive couple's son,
not yours and Amy's son.
Yeah,if it all works out.
I hope it all works out.
Yeah,me too. See you,Ricky.
What you wanna do that for?
You shouldn't tell him you
have birth control pills.
He'll just gonna try and have sex with you.
And so is half the school.
Really?
Oh,don't play all innocent with me,
you know what you're doing.
You're trying to get back with Ricky.
And we agreed that we were
not gonna go out with Ricky.
I know,but I think that
w based on the fact
that Ricky's not going out with us.
What does that mean?
It means that if Ricky
wants to go out with me
I think I have to go out with him.
What? I'm just being honest.
I'm gonna go out with my brother tonight
and then invite Ricky over
to have sex with me.
How's that for being honest?
- Hey,Grace.
- Hey.
- What's new?
- Nothing,reall
So you're not on the pill?
No. But I have the pill.
What happened to being Christian?
What happened to waiting till you graduate
and getting married?
That's still the plan.
Then why the pill?
The promise ringe 't really wor
Besides Tom gave it to Tammy.
A ring from having sex.
It's your belief that Jesus
doesn't want you to have sex
that keeps us from having sex.
I'm not having sex.
Are you having sex?
What? No. Why--?
Why would you ask that?
I'm not having sex.
People talk,Jack.
???
And I hope you kFA whing.
Yeah,I do. I do know what I'm doing.
Hi.
Grace,wait up.
Oh,hey,Ricky.
Look,do yourself a favor and
don't spread it all over school
that you're onbirth con
It might attract the wrong guy.
Yeah,d you don't wanna
attract the wrong guy.
No. I don't.
I wanna attract the right guy.
I hopeverythinvegoes really
well tonight. Good luck.
Yeah.
So,uh,you're just gonna stay home tonight?
Yeah.
I'd like to call you,
but if I call you,??
and I just wanna focus on
Amy and the baby right now.
Yeah,I understand. That's fine.
But you can still call me.
Anytime.
So you gonna try to have sex with her?
What do you care?
I don't care.
I don't care anymore.
Neither do I.
- Did you ever?
- Did I ever what?
Did you ever care about me the
way you care about Amy or Grace?
Yeah,Adrian,I did. But I don't now.
And it's nothing you've said or done.
I've had a great time with you.
But it's the baby.
I'm having a baby with Amy Juergens.
That doesn't mean you
should be with Amy Juergens.
Then what does it mean?
I'm so sorry.
So you can say you're sorry.
My dad insisted on dropping me
off at school himself today.
I had to wait until the
driver could circle back
and I could get a ride over here.
Could your driver sign
a note for me? I'm gonna be late.
No problem. We can drop you off at school.
You don't have to take the bus.
Hm,thanks.
So...
So you betABr get over to our
house and apologize to Amy
before she and Ricky sign
the baby over for adoption.
I can't,Ashley.
I can't have anything
to do with that decision.
And if Amy chooses to be
with Ricky,well,that's her choice.
Hello? Remember me? Witness at your wedding.
You married my ster.
Yeah,well,that didn't count.
Uh,yeah,it did count.
Ashley,there's a reason
why people under 18 can't get married.
Because people under
18 change their minds.
People like Amy.
e didn't chang'ther mindhe
You changed your mind.
We both changed our minds.
I changed my mind because
Amy wasn'tMIest with me.
She clearly s feelingselcky
which I didn't think she had.
Her feelings are all c Ben.
She's crazy right now.
She's having Ricky's baby,
but she loves you.
She might want to love Ricky.
That would make things a lot
easier maybe,but she loves you.
I don't know if that matters,
that she loves me
or that I love her.
I think the only thing that
matters right now is the baby.
People wanna do what's best for the baby.
And if what's best for the baby
is Amy being with Ricky,well,
then that's what has to be,
whether I like it or,
whether it kills me or not.
And believe me,heh,it's killing me.
And if you're what's best for the baby,
then that's what has to be?
How can I be what's best?
Because you're what's
best for the baby's m
You're what's best for Amy.
Is everyone stupid but me?
Am I the only one
who can see the big picture?
I'm a doctor.
That's privileged information.
No,I realize that,
but as off the record?
Our daughters are best friends.
Or at least they were.
Your ex-wife won't even let
Lauren come over anymore.
There is no off the record.
Although I will tell you,I have
personal experience of Deborah's short leash.
I get the feeling Ricky
won't go along with the adoption.
???
They've waited a long time to have a baby.
I just don't wanna get their hopes up
or Amy's hopes up,
if it isn't gonna happen.
They want an open adoption.
They want us to be
in the child's life. They're perfect.
??
What makes you feel that Ricky is not
gonna go along with the adoption?
Because he said that
he didn't want the baby adopted
and then he changed his mind.
I think he did that just to be around Amy.
That's my gut feeling.
My strong gut feeling.
Trust your gut feeling.
That's what uld tell anyone.
You have a strong gut feeling,
trust your feeling.
He got herhEregnant
and now he wants to keep
the baby from being adopted
just so he can be around her?
Go back to "just so he can be around her."
That's also part of your gut feeling.
Why would he want to be around Amy?
Maybe he has real feelings for Amy.
Maybe Amy has real
feelings for Ricky. I don't know.
You talk to him all the time,
you must know.
No,I really don't. I don't know.
He's a work in progress,
just like all the rest of us.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Private convCR.
The adts are talki Come on.
Adults?
Having a baby does not make
either one of us an adult.
I don't wanna talk about tonightonth an
Frankly,I'm a little nervous.
Don't be nervous.
They're nice guys.
Yeah,but I'm not.
- What if they don't like me?
- They will.
What if they don't like that
my parents are drug addicts
and my dad's a child molester?
You're not a drug addict.
You're not a child molester.
Yeah,but it's a lot of baggage.
They know. They wouldn't be meeting you
if they couldn't deal
with your family history.
They just wanna make sure
that you're okay with the adoption.
You know,even though we can still see our son,
they're going to be the parents.
They jusThnt to make so you
and I understaunhat,I think.
What if they move away?
I don't thinn''d do that.
What if they get divorced?
They've been together 10 years.
Your parents have been
together longer than that.
Are you having second thoughts?
No,I just...
Amy,I look at you and I just...
After everything you've been through,
I want this adoption to be perfect.
I don't want you to be hurt
any more than I've hurt you already.
Unfortunately,I think we're
in for a lifetime of hurt.
That's just going to be how it is.
Yeah,well,hopefully you and
I can be friends for a lifetime,
because I don't think anyone
else can really understand
what we're going through.
I'll see you tonight.
Should I dress up or anything?
I feel like I'm going on a job interview.
No,you don't have to dress up.
Just be yourself.
Whoever that is.
Hey.
Come on in.
These are for you.
You have a vase?
I can put them in a vase for you.
Are you crazy?
You don't have to bring me flowers.
We're not...courting.
Actually,I am courtin c
I like you.
You mentioned you liked flowers.
When?
When we were talking.
Before we fell asleep.
You said you liked flowers.
Did I?
Are you gonna take these or should
I just put them in the sink?
Here.
Uh,you're welcome.
Oh. Sorry. Thank you. I guess.
But I don't know what th w mean.
I'm kind of confused.
You're confused?
You're a difficult date.
Date? I don't really date.
We're just hanging out.
I mean,we don't even have
to go to a movie or anything.
We canust hang out here,Tif you want.
You had a good time last time,right?
Last time,I just came
over here to meet you.
And I met you and I liked you.
I asked you out on a date.
I asked you to go see a movie
and have dinner with me tonight.
I thought that was just
a code or something.
A code for what?
I don't know. That you wanted
to come over and have sex with me.
Are we really going out?
Yeah.
All right. If you want.
???
????
Not tonight anyway.
I just wanna spend
time with you,get to know you.
Vertically.
I prefer horizontally.
- Adrian.
- Wait.
You're not gay,are you?
If a guy doesn't wanna
have sex with you,he's gay?
Well,that's one of the signs.
What's the other?
Flowers?
I'm not gay.
If I were gay,why would I ask you out?
I don't know.
Did my Dad put you up to this?
The flowers and the dinner and the movie
and the whole stupid date idea?
Your dad has no idea where I am,
and I don't think he'd be too
happy about it if he did know.
??
I asked you out,you said yes,
and I wanna go out.
I wanna go see a movie with you.
I wanna sit in a dark
theater and hold hands.
Maybe even make out a little.
???and eat food with you,
then bring you home and give
you a kiss good night.
And then go home and think
about having sex with you.
???until I'm ready
adto have sex with you.
So grab your coat and
whatever ou need,and let's go.
- You're not gay?
- I'm not gay.
Wow. All right. I'll try anything once.
Well,thanks for calling.
But I don't exactly know who you are
and I'm not really interested
in going to anything
when coswhs are involved.
Yeah,I just like to be me.
No-- No,thank you for thinking of me.
Maybe some other time.
Bye. I'll see you at school.
That's,like,the fourth call
I've gotten tonight.
Why are those guys calling you?
I don't know.
Well,I think I know.
Tom,can I talk to Grace alone,please?
Let me stay.
I wanna talk to her alone.
Come on. I got a feeling
this is a good one.
Weren't you going over to Tammy's?
You said no.
You said I've been at Tammy's
every night for a week.
What's one more night? You go ahead.
Hot dog.
So,what's with the sudden popularity?
You didn't broadcast it all over school
that you're on birth
control pills,did you?
I told Adrian.
People could have overheard.
Honey,I think that we may have
made aistake giving you those pills.
If you don't need them,
I think you should give them back.
No,no,Mom,please,please,can I keep them?
Sweetie,why are you so desperate
to have the pills if you don need them?
I love them.???
They're Theal.
The promise ring,
it wasn't reasto me. I???
It was about abstract things,
like being in love and
getting married someday
and waiting and waiting and waiting.
I'm still for the waiting
and waiting and waiting.
I am too.
And I think with
these pills I can wait.
I really think
I can wait until I'm married.
Because...?
Because these are real.
You know,these aren't
don't-haven'ex vitamins.
These are birth control pills.
You know,they reqth prescription.
They require doctor's visits.
You know,they remind me thatex
is mental and phyFAcal,
and it's spiritual and sweaty and--
ything.
It's about takinutyour clothes off???
and doing things you've never done before
that take you to this place
that you never thought you could go
where two people become one.
Where are you going with this?
Mom,don't you get it?
Sex is everything,
and if you're gonna have sex,
it should be with somebody
at you wanna spend AB whole life with,
someone you wanna create a life with.
And even if you have these,
these are just something
to use with somebody
that you eventually don't
wanna use them with.
You got all that fr those pills?
They're not magic beans,you know.
I know. But...
I don't know,it's...
Holding them makes everything you
ever told me about sex real for me.
Like I finally understand it.
Hello?
Mm-mm,this is she.
Who?
Duncan. Hey.
You here for Shawna?
No,is she here?
??
Tonit?
You don't even know
what day of the weektht is?
No,no,I know it's Thursday.
I just thought that,uh--
I know what you thought.
You got too much sex on your mind,Jack.
Look,I know what's going on.
E u and Shawna.
You might thk I'm just a kid,
but I'm not stCFid.
You two are kind of stupid.
Stupid and obvious.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry. Be careful.
Oh,we're being carefuSE
Oh-- Oh I don't need to know all that.
I want you to be careful
not to hurt my sister.
I love my sister.
She's all I got.
And I don't want some guy coming down here
who's noch older than me???
thin she's just a good time.
- ThE not it at all.
- She's been hurt before.
We've had a hard life.
You might not believe this,
but we don't cOFose to live here.
We don't have any options.
d I don't wanna see more
hurt heaped upon my sister.
I don't wanna see you heaped uhe sister,
so can you kindly not engage in
any activities prior to my arriving home?
If you know what I mean.
Yeah.
Let ask you som Tng:
at are your plans for my sister?
- prom?
- Huh?
I haven't thought about
where this was going.
???
Since m here,you wanna
go out and do somethinso
So that's how it's gonna be?
So I'm like your backup plan?
No,no. I just thought that since I was--
I'm messing with you.
Come on.
Come on,man.
So,Ricky,uh,your mother
speaks very highly of you.
You know Ricky's mother?
Not my biological mother.
My foster mother. Margaret.
She's their social worker.
Margaret's a nice woman.
Such a nice woman,
married to such a nice man.
They're not the usual
foster@@ents,you know.
They're the best foster parents in the world.
They took me in when
I don't think anyone else would have.
I mean,an older kid,a boy.
Everyone's afraid of older boys,
especially with troubled pasts
and crazy drug-addict pare
I wouldn't be the maI am today
if it wasn't for them.
I'd probably be in prison,
just like my dad.
These people,they're saints.
And I'm not the only kid.
They do this all the time,
usually just short-term
until they can get the kids placed.
There are just so few people
who will take in older children.
People want babies. Like ours.
They want a healthy,perfect baby
that doesn't have any problems.
It's mh harder to take Lds like me...
What's the matter,
things not going your way?
What do you know about this?
- This?
- Yeah,this.
Ricky is sabotaging
the adoption,isn't he?
I don't talk to Ricky.
- Who do you talk to?
- Ben.
You didn't have anything
to do with what's going on?
Really,Mom,I don't know
what's going on in there.
I know what's going on in there
about half an hour from now,
but I don't know what's
goin in there right now.
That kid is so screwed up.
Yeah.
It just doesn't feel right,does it?
No,it doesn't feel right.
And you know what?
I'm not crazy about an open adoption.
Yeah,I like George,but I don't know.
I want our family back.
our foster kids back.
I don't care if they were
foster children.
I don't care what you call them.
Those were our children.
Let's talk to Margaret.
I think we better talk to Anne too.
And George. And Amy.
I don't want them to feel like
the baby is some kind of booby prize
for us not getting the children we wanted.
And truthfully,if we take this baby,
then we're not going back into
the foster system,
and our foster children will probably
never havevenother home together.
We'll probably never be able to adopt the
I don't think Ricky's ever
gonna let us adopt that baby either.
We're gonna be fighting for
whatever adoption we choose.
And if we don't choose Amy's baby,
we know that that baby
will still be taken care of.
I agree.
We're the only ones fighting
for the other children.
Are you sure you don't wanna come in?
Very sure.
Okay,then,um...
I had fun.
Did you?
Yeah,I actually did.
Me too. So we'll do this again?
- "This"?
- Yeah,this.
Yes,we'll,uh,do this again.
Night,Adrian.
NiIFt,Max.
Hey,Adrian.
Ju wanted to see yere doing anything.
I figured I could swing by.
Call me if you want me.
It's the wrong number.
Hey,did the guy bring that?
Oh,how'd it go?d
How'd what go?
The meeting. With Ricky.
What did Donovan and Leon think?
- How would I know?
- What do you mean?
You said you were gonna
talk to them afterwards.
They're parked outside the house.
.Oh,I forgot about that.
How could you forget about that?
If this adoption doesn't go through,
the sahing's gonna happen
over and over again.
I don't thk that Ricky
wants the baby adopted
I think he's just trying to get to Amy.
Oh. Well,I do know about that.
Ashley talked to Ben. He's coming over.
Ben doesn't have anything
to do with the baby.
Somes you are so clueless.
Is that who Ashley was talking
to on the phone all night? Ben?
I doubt it. It's probably
the guy she was smoking with.
You really should pay more
attention to your children.
Thanks,Mom.
You know,Ben's coming over.
No,he's not.
He's not speaking to me.
Hey,Ben's at the front door.
I'm going to kill him.
What are you doing here?
I came here to talk to you.
You could have picked up your
phone 37 times I've called.
ty-seven? More like a milln and 37.
- Can I come in?
- Yes.
Can't I have one private
minva in this house?
I want you out! All of you!
And you know what? That includes you.
Meeting go badly?
No,the meeting did not go badly.
They loved Ricky.
- And do you love Ricky?
- No.
BuLYat does not mean I still love you.
I think that you still lov.
The question is,do you love me
enough to spend a life together?
And I understand that you and Ricky
are gonna ha to share the baby
throughout the baby's life,
but I hope you understand
that I have no intention
of sharing you with Ricky.
So who do you love,Amy?
Who do you wanna spend your life with?
Right now,I think the only person
that I love is this baby inside me.
And I know you're all listening in there.
Even if I do love you,I am really,
really,really angry with you.
Well,I hope you'll get over it.
Because I know I was really,really,
rely angry with you,and I got over it.
What do you have to be angry with me about?
You knew I was pregnant
when you met me,or shortly after.
By the time I knew,I was already
so in love with you that it didn't matter.
It didn't matter then,n,doesn't matter now.
It's not gonna matter when
we're at our son's wedding.
???
I had to have some time
to think about it,
but I love you.
And unlike Ricky,I mean it.
I really love you.
Well,what i,want some
time to thibout it?
Take all the time you need.
But I hope you realize
how much I love you
before you let someone hurt you again.
Someone like Ricky?
No,not someone like Ricky. RickLY
It's just so comt ed.
This is his baby.
He is the father of this baby.
I wish it was you,Ben,but it's not.
Even Ricky could tell you,
OFrents of a baby aren't necessarily
the two people who created that baby.
The parents are the two people
who take care of the baby.
And I am willing to take care of you
and that baby for the rest of my life.
Even if it means seeing Ricky
every Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Maybe I don't wantn' to
take care of me and my baby.
I don't want your pity.
That's you think this is? Pity?
Is it?
No.
Because I don't need
you to care of me.
I can take care of myself.
I'm sure that you can.
I don't need you to take of the baby.
The baby will be adopted.
Not that you've ever asked my opinion,
or that I should even offer my opinion,
but I don't want
the baby to be adopted.
I wanna be your husband
and a stepfather to yo.
I wanna be a family.
And I realize that we're
too young to get married,
but guess what?
We're gonna get older every year.
And I wanna grow older together.
I wanna be with you on your 16th birthday
and your 60th birthday.
And I want him to be with us.
Just tell me you'll think about it.
Okay,I'll think about it.
Tell me you love me?
I love you.