The Secret Life of the American Teenager s03e12 Episode Script

I really want us to be friends.
You and Ricky--byou're not thinking of getting married, are you? He went to New York this weekend and didn't even tell me that he was going.
Come back tomorrow morning with a new attitude before I give you your walking papers.
I spent the night with Jessie over at Jack's guest house.
You lied? You are on restriction for the summer.
You're not gonna see Jack anymore, and that is it.
Do you really think you're in love with Amy? I might wanna find that out before she's in love with someone else.
Your dad and I are getting married again as soon as Amy gets back.
Amy didn't tell you anything about New York.
I know she didn't.
I'm just gonna marry Adrian and get it over with.
You got angry with Ricky and got yourself fired from the job, and now you wanna get married.
How's your marriage going? Maybe I'll call your office.
I don't wanna have sex.
It may be a little early in the relationship to have sex.
What would happen if we got engaged? What would happen if Amy and Ricky thought that we were gonna be unavailable to them for the rest of our lives? Happy birthday, Amy.
Good morning.
What are you doing here so early? Oh, nothing.
Just wanted to talk.
Make sure we're okay.
We're okay.
Yeah? You sure? Yeah, I'm sure.
How's Peter? Peter is-- He's great.
But it's a new relationship, so I don't wanna get too familiar too fast.
And I thought maybe you and I could hang out together today.
Go get some breakfast or make some breakfast or something.
Look, do me a favor.
Call Peter and go over and hang out with him.
I'll be fine here alone.
I like being alone.
You like being alone, or you like spending time with Ricky? No, I don't like spending time with Ricky.
And I don't even like spending time with you, so call Peter.
Okay.
It's Griffin.
Yay.
Hi.
Hi.
What are you doing? Just hanging out with Hailey.
What are you doing? Hanging out with Ashley.
You wanna hang out? With you and Hailey and me and Ashley? No.
No.
Well, how about just you and me? All right.
All right.
You wanna come over to my house? Why don't you come over to my house? All right.
All right.
I'll call you when I get there.
I'll see you.
Who's he with? Ashley.
Amy's sister.
Amy had a baby with Ricky.
Oh, right.
Got it.
I remember the story.
Yeah, it's me.
Leave a message.
Hey, it's me.
Me.
Um, I wanna talk to you.
I don't know what you were doing on my birthday, but I wasn't doing anything, and You know what? If I was hoping that people would remember my birthday, I should've said something, but it honestly didn't seem that important to me this year.
Being able to come here to this program is what was important.
And now what's important is for us to have a chance, so call me.
Please.
Please, please call me.
No matter what you did on my birthday, call me.
Not that you did anything, but I-I-I'm not accusing you of doing anything.
I Um, I totally messed this up.
Uh, bye.
Oh.
Hi, John.
It's Mommy.
I'm gonna be home in a few days.
I love you.
That-- That was for John-- the "I love you.
" Um, anyway, bye.
Call me, please.
No matter what you did on my birthday, call me.
Good morning.
We forgot Amy's birthday, you know.
What? Oh, well.
Mom probably sent her something.
Sent who something? Who sent what where? We missed Amy's birthday.
No, we didn't.
Amy's birthday was Is when? - Yesterday.
That can't be right.
I think that's right.
How could we forget our own daughter's birthday? Out of sight, out of mind? Nice.
You couldn't tell us it was your sister's birthday? He's the one who told me.
Amy's the one who told me.
I forgot, too.
Actually, I'm not sure I even knew, which is really pathetic.
We need a plan.
No, we don't need a plan.
We need to apologize.
I can't believe this.
We were so excited about telling her that we were getting remarried again that we forgot why we got married in the first place.
You didn't know? I don't need to know.
Well, she'll be home next week.
We can make it up to her.
I feel so bad about this.
Everyone forgot my 16th birthday and it stayed with me my whole life.
She called me this morning and left a message.
She said her birthday just wasn't important.
She says that's what's important is that she got to go to New York, and I think she really is grateful for that.
Oh, really? We'll do something for her when she gets back, right? She'll be back in a few days.
Okay, but let's call her from the car.
Yeah.
Can you listen out for Robie? Your dad needs to take me to the car dealership.
I'm having car problems.
See you.
I can listen out for Robie until they get back.
Yeah, okay.
You can listen out for him and for John until Amy gets back for all I care.
But then you'll be going, and before you go, I just wanna say that it's been nice having you here with us.
And thanks for the kiss.
It taught me a lot.
Like what? Like just because someone's sexually attracted to you doesn't mean they really love you.
It just means they wanna have sex with you.
Or, in this case, that they just wanna kiss you.
How do I get blamed for that kiss? You know you Never mind.
It was my fault.
I wanted to kiss you, and I kissed you.
Oh, the truth for once.
Hey, Dr.
Fields.
I need to make an appointment.
It's, uh-- It's not an emergency.
I just wanna talk to you.
Oh, hey, thanks for coming.
Can I make you a cup of coffee? It'll only take a minute.
Uh, no.
I'm not drinking coffee these days.
Water.
Can I get you a glass of water? No, thank you.
No coffee, no water.
This is not a session, Ken, okay? I just agreed to talk.
You wanna sit down, or should we just talk standing, without coffee or water so it doesn't look like a session? Okay.
So, what's this all about? It's about I can't stand your husband.
Um, neither can I.
Seriously? Seriously.
But that doesn't mean that I'm going to dump him and go back with you.
It doesn't mean that I won't either.
Yeah? Good morning.
Why is that? Why is this a good morning? Something happen since yesterday that I don't know about? Yesterday was just a bad, bad day overall.
So I thought I'd go back down to the butcher shop and make my apologies to Bunny and see if I can't get my job back.
You think that's what people do when they get fired or lose their job? They just show up and apologize? People don't just show up after they've been fired.
I mean, who shows up at a place of business after they've been fired? The owner's son? Not funny.
Go get another job.
Something else this good morning? Well Well, what? You know how you said that if I wanted to get engaged, go ahead? That's what I said, but that's not what I meant.
What I meant was don't get engaged.
I was daring you to get engaged.
Well, I take that dare.
I think Adrian and I should get engaged.
Not married, just engaged.
If you're getting engaged, you're gonna get married.
If you're not getting married, don't get engaged.
I think it'd be good for Adrian to put a ring on her finger.
I mean, she's gonna be showing soon, and I think it'll be nice, especially for her, if people think that we're engaged.
What people? Ricky and Amy people? No.
No, not just Amy and Ricky.
All people, one and all.
You heard what I said, right? Yes, I did.
I heard.
Hey.
Gosh.
Oh, he's in a bad mood, your father.
I mean, a really, really bad mood.
What's going on? I told him I wanted to give a ring to Adrian.
An engagement ring.
Not that I'm gonna marry her.
I just I want to give her a ring because I want people to think we're Pregnant? You don't need a ring for that.
I mean, she's gonna be showing soon.
I mean, if you wanna give her a ring just to give her a ring, then do what your dad did for me and get her a real gigantic one.
You know, give her the biggest ring you can find.
Look at mine.
This ring makes me so happy.
And you know what? If your father ever dies, I can sell it, and, well, I can probably live off it the rest of my life.
I don't think so, Betty.
It's a big ring, but Anyway, you wouldn't have to sell it.
I'm sure my dad's taken care of you in his will.
He has a will? Well, of course he has a will.
Ben, that's terrible news.
A will is like a curse, you know? You sign the will and-- and then you die.
That's not true.
I-- I mean, it is, but-- Did your mother have a will? Yes, I'm sure she did.
See? Betty, you should have a will.
If you don't have a will, then when you pass away, everything you own will be held in probate.
The little that I have left, I Well, I keep it hidden in a fake book in here.
See, I used to keep it in my bathroom.
But then I came in, you know, and I saw the library, and I just thought, "Oh, my God, this would be so much better.
" You know, 'cause of all the books and everything.
Yeah.
Does my dad know about this? No.
No, I didn't tell him.
You know, just in case that I had to leave the house in a hurry.
But look.
If I die, all of this is yours.
See? I don't need no stinking will.
That's very generous, Betty, but I'm sure that you have some friends or family you'd like to leave this to, and Besides That is a very nice and very large sapphire.
It was given to me by a count.
You know, it's kind of like royalty, only it's a count.
I don't need a ring from a count when I already have a ring from a king.
It's real? It's real, and I want you to have it.
I want you to take this ring right now before I die.
Take it, and I want you to give it to Adrian.
And I don't care if you marry her or not.
I love Adrian.
I want her to have it.
And she's gonna have a little Boykewich.
Or, you know, a Girlkewich.
You know? Get it? A Girlkewich.
Oh, gosh.
I love words, you know? If I hadn't ended up being a hooker, I'd probably be a writer.
You are quite the wordsmith.
Oh, I want you to take that ring.
That's very generous, but I'm not sure that Adrian would give it back, so No, I insist.
I'm a member of this family.
I'm the wife to your father, and I'm your stepmom.
And I want you to take that ring, and I want you to give it to Adrian, because, you know, if you get a girl pregnant, I think you should give her a gift, even if it's worth more than the baby.
Hey, Mr.
Cooperstein.
Hi, Jack.
Bye, Jack.
Oh, I'm not here to see Madison.
I know that, 'cause you can't see Madison.
You and Madison need to take a break.
Maybe a permanent break.
Could we talk about that? I don't really like to talk.
Me neither.
I'm a man of action.
Yeah, that's what bothers me-- the action.
What I meant was I came over here to show you that I really do care about your daughter, and even though it's hard to talk about what happened, I was hoping we could talk about it, because I really wanna keep seeing Madison.
I really do love her.
I think we're good together, and we bring out the best qualities in each other.
That is such a crock.
My wife told me what you two have been doing together, and then you took it one step too far by trying to sleep with my daughter in your new, unsupervised, parentless guest house, and then you two lied about it.
True, but we were just sleeping, and not even in the same bed.
Maybe not.
But why would you two be sleeping in the same guest house together unless you two were planning on doing something that you shouldn't be doing? You know, you're actually really good at talking for someone that doesn't like to talk.
Jack, I think we finished talking.
Please.
Please let us go out again.
There's gotta be something I can say that'll change your mind or something I can do or not do.
Yeah, stay away from Madison.
Don't call or e-mail or text or tweet.
And if you can not do that for the whole summer, I might let you go out with her again when school starts, provided that you two stop doing what you're doing in regard to-- Oral.
Right.
Got it.
What did you just say? Um, I said, "Oh, right.
Got it.
" No, you didn't.
Yes, I did.
Madison? Madison Mildred Cooperstein! What are you screaming for? Yeah, Dad.
What are you screaming for? Did you use my middle name? You know I hate my middle name.
Mildred? I am screaming because-- because-- What? You said that they were just fooling around.
Like, fooling around, like making out, like teenage stuff.
Good work.
Yes, that's what I said.
Well, apparently you left a lot out.
A key word even.
A word that I just heard from Jack.
Oh, did he come over here to talk to you? He said he was gonna.
He talked to me, all right.
Oral sex? Aahh! Jack said that? He said that.
He said that to you? Was waterboarding involved? Did you do something to make him say that? He would never say that.
Never.
Not even if it were true? You knew? I'm an idiot.
Yes, sometimes you are.
I told Madison's father what kind of sex we have.
Wow, that is a whole new level of idiocy.
So he didn't know? Of course he didn't know.
Why would you tell him? I thought he knew.
You thought Madison told her father that you two do what you do, and he was still letting you go out with her? Yeah.
It's not like we're having real sex.
Mmm, no, it's not.
We had real sex.
Yeah.
And I would think that parents would care less about that sex than real sex.
Mmm, I wouldn't think that.
No.
Because you don't like doing that.
With you.
What? Why'd you say that? Because.
Don't tell me you and that Grant guy are already doing what we didn't do.
Well, I wouldn't tell you, because if I did tell you, you might tell somebody.
Discretion was never one of your better qualities.
Hi, Jack.
Hi.
Bye, Grace.
Oh.
What was that about? I don't know.
Jack's, like, jealous or something.
Jealous of Grant? Yeah.
Grace, you and Grant aren't having sex, are you? You just met him.
I know.
No, we're not.
But I'm thinking about it, though.
Not like sex sex, but, you know, the kind of sex that doesn't require any birth control.
Oh.
But I thought you-- I think I might like it now.
Well, join the club.
There are clubs? No.
Oh, okay.
I didn't think so.
I mean, I'm not completely naive about these things.
Maybe you are, honey.
I mean, that kind of sex-- Is a good substitute for going all the way? Not a substitute, no.
It's more likegateway sex.
"Gateway sex"? Mm-hmm.
Gateway.
It's sex that leads to other sex.
Well, Jack and Madison have been doing that for, like, a year, and they haven't done anything else.
All right.
Well, it can lead to sex, and I think many people would consider it foreplay.
So I don't want you to have gateway sex.
I don't want you to have sex at all, honey.
I think you're still too young.
And like I said, you just met this guy.
But, Mom, I really like him, and we have so much fun together.
Grace, you do realize there's risks with gateway sex.
I mean, you can get sexually transmitted infections from gateway sex.
Are you just trying to ruin this for me so I won't do it? No, I'm not trying to ruin this for you.
I'm just trying to make you aware so that you don't end up with a lifetime of problems from one night of fun with some guy you're just getting to know.
Okay, that is something to think about.
Yeah.
Unfortunately.
But just so you know, I never even went off the pill, just in case the gate ever unexpectedly swings open.
All right.
Well, why don't you think about leaving the gate closed for a while longer? Keep the gate closed and locked.
Dr.
Attavi? Adrian, this is Dr.
Miller.
I'm an associate of Dr.
Attavi's.
He said you were experiencing some problems and asked me to give you a call.
He's just passing me off to some other guy? I'm not just a guy.
I'm an OB-GYN.
Yeah, whatever.
Where is he? He's with a mom right now who's having a complicated delivery, so he's not gonna be available for a while.
But we do work out of the same hospital, so if you wanna come down to the emergency room, I could take a look at you and the baby and see what's going on.
No, that's okay.
I'll wait for Dr.
Attavi.
Yeah, he doesn't think you should wait.
He thinks you should come down now.
We just wanna make sure you and the baby are okay.
Ah, revenge then.
MI No, it wasn't revenge.
Okay.
What would you say it was? I don't know.
Just me being me.
That's your excuse? Hey, nobody's perfect.
Is that how you're gonna explain it to Amy? Do I have to explain it to her? No.
I don't? AB I wouldn't.
You may be taking one step forward and two steps back, but even two steps back, I think you're way past running from commitments.
I actually think you may be ready to make a commitment.
I just said I slept with another woman after telling Amy I wouldn't.
Okay.
You're not ready yet, but you're on your way.
I know you pretty well, and I know you can do whatever you set your mind to.
I'm no good at not having sex.
You know that.
I need sex.
You need sex, or you need to feel loved? Are we back to that? We keep coming back to that.
Yeah, over and over, until you get the right answer.
The answer then makes you happy.
We're gonna have to stop right there.
But I wanna continue this conversation tomorrow.
Can you come back tomorrow? Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
Oh.
I'm going.
I apologize, but I have another appointment.
All right.
I'll be back tomorrow.
Jeez, I should've just talked to you last night.
He's not gonna say anything.
Whatever.
So, how does this work? Just like the bar we were at last night, but no drinks.
So, tell me, what's going on with Betty? Well, nothing really.
I mean, she's good-- Betty.
I love her.
I really do.
Just maybe not as much as I thought I did, that's all.
I think it might be just one of those things, you know? Honeymoon-is-over things.
And now that we're settling into our day-to-day lives, I just feel a littleirritated.
In general or something in particular? It's a little thing.
It's stupid.
I don't even know why I bring it up.
Because it bothers you.
Yeah.
Yeah, it does bother me.
She says "coinkidink" instead of "coincidence.
" heI ner I hate that.
I love her.
I hate that.
Coinkidink.
Do me a favor.
Don't say it.
It really gets under my skin.
Did you tell her that it bothers you? Yeah.
And she called me Mr.
Grumpy.
I hate that almost as much as coinkidink.
She's got a way of twisting words around and saying things she thinks are clever.
But they're just irritating.
Tell me what you love about her.
I love that she doesn't care what anyone thinks, even me, which is why she still says things like coinkidink.
I think maybe you're focused on Betty when maybe there's another problem that's a bigger problem that you just can't deal with.
Oh.
Like my son getting a girl pregnant.
I'm dealing with it.
You know what he said this morning to me-- Ben? He's gonna go through with the engagement that he threatened me with.
He's actually gonna get engaged to Adrian.
Can you believe that? I told him, "You get engaged, you're getting married," 'cause that's how I feel about it.
You give a ring, you make a commitment.
I wish they were more than friends, but they're not.
I mean, they're having a baby together, so it would be nice if they were more than friends.
But then again, they're not.
And you know why they're not? 'Cause he can't get over his first love.
He can't get over Amy.
That's interesting.
Interesting, huh? What's so interesting about it? I think this is what you told my last night, but correct me if I'm wrong.
You and Betty started out as friends, then you and Betty had sex, and even though you didn't get her pregnant or anything like that, you felt you had to marry her.
And now you feel, even married, you're nothing more than friends, because you're still in love with your first wife, your first love, Ben's mom.
Jeez.
That's good.
You're good.
I'm angry with Ben when I'm doing the same things.
I mean, he's having a baby, but basically, we're both behaving the same way and have the same issues.
That's really something.
Yeah.
I wonder what Betty would call that.
A coinkidink.
Thank God I found you.
Can I come in? Yes, come in.
What took you so long? It's a big hospital.
I got a little lost in the parking lot.
But what's going on? Are you okay? Is the baby okay? I don't know.
I had some spotting.
The nurse said it's really pretty common and I'm probably going to be fine and so will the baby.
She said they'll probably just do another ultrasound, then I can go home.
Who? Who's doing the ultrasound? The doctor, I guess.
Dr.
Attavi? No.
Some other doctor.
Dr.
Attavi's delivering a baby.
He's sending some other guy.
Have you given any more thought to maybe seeing his mother who's also a doctor and a woman? No, I haven't.
Maybe she could've prevented this.
I mean, maybe she knows more because she's also a doctor and a woman.
And a mother.
I forgot that.
She's also a mother.
Oh, jeez.
Thanks for coming.
I would've come with you if you had called me.
I text you.
Yeah, when you're already at the hospital.
Why didn't you call me? I don't know.
Look, I'm used to handling things on my own.
My mom's out of town, my dad's at work, and I was on my own.
You don't have to be on your own.
I'm willing to be a part of this.
Willing, huh? Look, you know what? You just wanna be in control, and you're not in conrol.
To you, this has just turned into some elaborate scheme to get Amy back, when I really care about this baby.
Hey, I do, too.
I care about this baby, too.
And you're just as guilty as I am of scheming to try to get the person you love back into your life.
Hi.
I'm Dr.
Miller.
You must be Ben and Adrian.
I, uh, went over your personal history with Dr.
Attavi, so I'm very familiar with the two of you.
I mean, the three of you.
Dr.
Attavi warned me about Ben.
How are you, Ben? Never mind how I'm doing.
How's she doing? How's Adrian doing? How's the baby doing? Could we just find that out, huh? Everyone's gonna be fine.
I am sure everyone's gonna be just fine.
Hi, Adrian.
So I'm sure the nurse already told you we're gonna do another ultrasound, some blood work, and we'll probably send you home.
You can wait outside.
Outside.
Right.
Outside.
My place in all of this is always gonna be outside.
That's right.
Until and unless Adrian wants you somewhere else.
I'll leave that up to you, Doctor.
Outside.
Fine.
I want you to have this first.
This is so romantic.
Not like the night the baby was conceived, so I hear.
Is that real? Sure it is.
Just like his love for you.
Sorry, but that's not gonna fix this relationship, from what I've been told.
Climb in.
If I climb in, I'll have to climb out.
What's going on? I'm forbidden from seeing Jack.
Forbidden.
And my phone and my computer have been confiscated.
You sent me a text message.
And then my phone got confiscated.
This is all because of that stupid sleepover? No, it's because Jack told my dad that we're, you know, having-- doing what we're doing.
I'm sorry.
He did what? Yeah, Jack told my dad.
Can you believe it? No, I can't believe it.
Did your dad tell my dad? 'Cause for some reason, my mom and my dad wanna see me, together, to talk.
Uh, I-- I don't think my dad told your dad.
But your dad did tell my dad about the sleepover.
But I don't think they're, like, best friends now or anything.
Even if they were best friends, I don't think that your father would tell my father that you and Jack are doingwhat you're doing.
Why would Jack do that? I don't know.
And we can't talk.
You know, we can't e-mail, we can't text or phone or anything.
Well, your parents can't stop you from talking to Jack once the summer is over.
Once the summer's over, you're back in school, and you'll see him every day whether or not your dad wants you to.
Is that right? Oh, man! Were you hiding in the bushes, spying on me? Lauren's car is in the driveway.
I'm trying to get my car out of the garage so I can get to my office before the end of the workday.
I thought he was gone already.
I'm not good at sneaking around.
Neither of you are.
That's why the two of you are going to summer school and working in the food court this summer.
Not the food court.
I talked to your dad.
He talked to your mom.
Summer school and food court, and that's it.
No boyfriends, no dating until September, and then we'll see.
So, you wanna move your car? Food court.
[beeping.]
"Amy, I am here at the hospital with Adrian.
She's having some minor problems, but she and the baby are okay," et cetera, et cetera.
What? I'm sure she's texted Ricky already.
Oh, Ben, Ben, Ben.
I'm gonna tell you the same thing I told Adrian, only I have another patient to go see, so I don't have time for a long conversation with you.
Grow up.
You have no other choice.
Grow up? Why don't you grow up? What, are you 30? He's a sweet kid.
Knock, knock.
Come in.
We can go now.
Why don't you just follow me home? I think we should talk.
What happened? Everything's okay, right, with you and the baby? Yeah, everything's fine, but we should talk about this.
Look, it's a beautiful ring, but maybe not such a beautiful gesture.
You know, the two of us getting fake engaged with the fake engagement ring.
It's not a fake ring.
It's a real ring.
It's a real sapphire ring given to Betty by a real count.
What? Yeah, it was Betty's, and she gave it to me to give to you.
But it's not like it's a real engagement.
It's just the engagement we agreed on.
And it's a nice ring.
Betty's.
It was Betty's? Yes.
She's so excited about the baby, she gave it to me to give to you.
I don't want Betty's ring.
Why? What's wrong with the ring? I understand what might be wrong with the engagement, but what's wrong with the ring? What did Betty do to get that ring? I don't know.
What'd you do to get that ring? Adrian! I didn't mean it! Oh, hey.
AYou're home early.
Is everything okay? Yeah, yeah.
Everything's fine.
You don't hate me, do you? No, no.
I don't hate you.
I don't hate you at all.
I love you, Betty.
I'm sorry I've been so short-tempered lately.
Well, that's okay.
I just-- I know you've been under a lot of pressure lately.
I put myself under a lot of pressure.
But there's no pressure.
Not for me, anyway.
Tell you what, let's go out to dinner.
Someplace nice.
We'll take a ride up the coast to that place you like at the beach.
We'll have a bottle of champagne.
Do you wanna take Ben and Adrian with us? Uh, I don't think so.
Do you wanna take Ben and Adrian with us? Can you keep a secret? I think I can, yeah.
Well, this morning, he told me that he wanted to give her an engagement ring.
And, well, guess what? I just happened to have a ring that would be great for just that hidden right here in a fake book.
Isn't that a coinkidink? Yeah, that's quite a coincidence.
That's okay, right? That I gave him the ring to give her? Everything you do is okay, Betty.
We'll, uh-- We'll just let them celebrate on their own.
Okay.
Well, then, we'll just go.
Just the two of us.
All right? I'll be right back.
Uh, I-- I just need to ask you something.
Hi.
We're closed.
Sorry.
Is Ben here? Ben Boykewich? No.
Do you know where he is? No, not really.
Why, are you a friend of his? I was at a party at his house, but we didn't really get a chance to talk that much.
I just wanted to talk.
Just wanted to talk.
Okay, I know who you are.
You're Ricky.
I heard people talking about you at the party and after the party.
And I don't know.
I thought I'd stop by at closing time.
It's summertime, I'm bored, and I don't have anything else to do.
And I know that the girl that you had a baby with is in New York, so I thought maybe we could have a little fun.
You wanna have a little fun? I'm not interested.
No? I heard you're always interested.
In fact, I heard that you kissed your girlfriend's sister, so what would be wrong with kissing me? Shop's closed.
And I'm going out of business.
No, I don't do this anymore.
No? Not one more time? Just one more time before the girlfriend comes back home? Good night.
Good night.
Thank you for taking me out to dinner.
Anytime.
Sorry I can't stay.
My parents wanna spend some time with me since we're going to camp next week.
It's okay.
I totally understand.
Oh, sorry.
Did not see you there.
Tom, yes, you did.
Hi, Tom.
Bye, Grant.
Good night.
Tom! That's okay.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Oh, please.
Bye.
Bye.
Tom, I really like Grant.
I can see that.
Oh, hey, Tom.
There you are.
Oh, that's what this is about.
Busted.
You paid him for that? I pay him for everything.
He doesn't have a job.
Neither do you.
Yeah, but I don't pay rent.
And your mom told my parents that I don't need to do anything other than what I can do for Tom.
Oh, yeah.
And you've only helped him lose out on the only job he's been able to get for years.
Good night.
Wait.
I wanted to talk to you.
All right.
Madison's dad isn't gonna let us go out all summer.
Jack, just because Madison's dad isn't gonna let you and Madison go out does not mean you and I are gonna go out.
I wasn't gonna say that.
I don't wanna go out with you.
Good.
I don't wanna go out with you.
I was gonna say that maybe we should get the teen abstinence group going again.
Maybe if we made a commitment to abstinence again that it'd be better for everyone.
Hmm, especially for you, 'cause you can't stand the thought of my being with someone else even though you have somebody else.
Good night.
Rats.
Come in, Ben.
Sorry to just show up, but Adrian's not taking my calls, and I wanted to see how she's doing.
She's all right.
She had a little scare.
She'll be fine.
Do you just hate me? You have to hate me.
I don't hate you, Ben.
I'm aware that I'm aware of your situation with Adrian, but I probably wasn't aware of how difficult it was until now.
Oh, and it's gonna get a lot more difficult, believe me.
Yeah, I know.
That's-- That's kind of why I'm here.
So, how are your parents doing? My dad's having a hard time, but mainly because I've been behaving idiotically.
But Betty's just perfectly accepting, and she's got no judgment, and she's excited about the baby.
That's where we've all got to get to-- to where Betty is.
Hi, Ben.
I didn't take your calls because I really don't want to see you.
But now that he's here, I'm sure you will.
I'm gonna let you two talk.
Night, Ben.
I, uh-- I got your jacket.
Thanks.
I brought you these flowers.
Um, can I put them in a vase for you? I'll do it later, after you leave.
When's that gonna be? You're not making this easy, you know.
What am I not making easy? Apologizing.
I came here to apologize.
Oh? I am so sorry that I haven't been able to let go of my feelings for Amy and make you and the baby a priority in my life.
We're having a baby, Adrian.
We're really having a baby, and that became very real to me today as did my lack of maturity and responsibility.
So I was wondering, would you give me a chance to get to know you better and be involved in the pregnancy? I mean, no intimate medical procedures, of course.
But, I mean, outside of that, would you let me be a part of this? Would you let me go to the bookstore with you and get some books? Would you let me go to the birthing classes with you? Will you let me be there when the baby's born? You really wanna do all that? Yeah, I wanna do that.
I do.
I wanna do the right thing.
I don't know what the right thing is necessarily, but I know it was the wrong thing to try to fake an engagement and try to get back with Amy when you and I are in thissituation together.
Okay.
Then I guess I owe you an apology, too.
It's really hard to change.
Even at 17, it's-- it's hard to change.
ButI guess like the doctor said, I have to.
I have no other choice.
I'm-- I'm gonna be a mother.
And I wanna be a good mother.
I hope I can be a good mother.
I think that'll be a lot easier if I can be a good father.
Did you, um Did you give Betty her ring back? No.
I still have it.
Do you want it? It doesn't have to be an engagement ring.
It could just be a-- like a place holder in case someday you wanna get engaged.
And in case someday you want to give me an engagement ring.
Friends? Friends.
Hi, John! Hey, buddy.
Mommy's home.
Come here, buddy.
Hey.
What happened? What are you doing here? Just a few more days.
I thought it was more important to see you before anything happens-- anything that would keep us apart.