05x22 - When Bad Things Happen To Bad People

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Previously on The Secret Life
of the American Teenager...

Is your mother coming over?

It's time for her to go.

Amy is going to summer school in New York?

You can make the decision as
to where you're gonna live.

Don't forget, I'm paying for it.

So you and some woman

picked out a place for you and me?

I might be interested in buying out
your share of the furniture store.

I want a clean break.

I don't want to be tangled
up with you anymore.

I just want to know where we stand.

Goodnight and goodbye.

I hope we can still be...

I can make you forget
all about Amy Juergens.

Don't go back there.

I want to marry you and I want
to sleep with you right now.

Maybe I'm anxious about
getting married because

I'm nervous about sleeping with you again.

I want to get married
the day after I graduate.

Thank you, Kathleen, for
inviting me to stay here

and for allowing me to be
a part of your new life.

I can't talk to my mother about this.

- I can't tell her I slept with Jack.
- We'll get together.

I think we should ask Amy
if she wants to join us.

Oh. Hi, Anne.

Hi.

I couldn't tell you why I
didn't want to be with you.

Hey, it's me. Ginger.

I knew you'd call me, toots.

I don't even want to graduate,

I don't want to go to college,

at least not any college around here.

And what's wrong with
the colleges around here?

It's not exactly easy
to get into the college

where Ricky and Jack and I go to, you know.

It's a very good school.

It's not exactly Harvard. I can't
believe Grant got into Harvard.

Grace, you just have to get over that,

you got into a half-dozen
schools, just pick one.

Yeah, but as soon as I pick one,

Jack's just going to make
plans to follow me there,

like a puppy or something.

Um, you love Jack.

Remember all those months
of crying in the hospital...

Please, just wake up Jack, wake up,

I'll do anything if you'll just wake up.

I never said that.

Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did.

Don't make me feel like a bad person

just because I don't want to be obligated

to some guy right out of high school.

Some guy?

You've known this guy for four years.

Doesn't mean I have to marry him.

Uh, you're wearing an engagement ring.

So what! You're wearing a wedding
ring and you're not even married.

Hey. Calm down.

Oh, come on.

You don't want to get
married any more than we do

and you're wearing an engagement ring too.

I want to get married.

I just don't want to get
married and go to New York.

Well, I do.

I do. I want to get married
and I'm going to get married,

and I am leaving right after
that and going to New York.

- Well, that's not married.
- Yes, it is.

No sex is not married.

Especially when you're
living across the country

from your husband and kid and going
to school with your old boyfriend.

Oh, I'm not even going to see Ben.

Oh, please. Ben is going to see you.

Okay. Well, Ben's feelings for me

have nothing to do with
my feelings for Ricky.

Ben's a good guy. Maybe in the
end, you'll end up with him.

- Why? So you can have Ricky back?
- I'm engaged.

Okay. Well, you're not getting
married so you're not really engaged.

I slept with him.

I slept with Jack because I somehow thought

that would delay our getting married.

How?

I don't know, I just... I figured
that's all he really wants,

so if I give him that then
maybe he'd just lose interest.

Not unless he's really
not having a good time.

Oh, he's having a good time.

Okay, please, you know how I feel

about talking about guys
and how they are in bed.

- I don't want to hear it.
- They talk about us.

Ricky does not talk about me.

Yeah, what happened to him?

He used to be hot, now
he's just so... so blah.

Why do you say that?

Because he used to stand up for himself.

Now he just, you know, rolls over.

He's giving you everything you
want, Amy, and in doing that,

he's kind of lost his edge,

he's not the bad boy anymore,

he's just Old Man Ricky.

Same thing with Jack.

Neither of them have any guts anymore.

Oh, you're so right.

- No she's not.
- Yeah, she is.

I mean when they were the bad boys,

we liked them so much better.

And when I was the good
girl, I liked me better.

This is so screwed up.

I cannot seem to figure
out a way to get out of it.

You just have to tell him that
you don't want to get married.

What? I want to get married.

- No, you don't.
- Neither do you.

- Hey Dad.
- I like that, your calling me "Dad."

Me too.

So I guess you're
confident that all is well.

Yeah.

The three stooges look like
they're cooking up something to me.

Don't worry about it, they
all just like to complain.

Adrian will go to New York with Omar,

Grace is going to go to school
with Jack and she'll marry him

and Amy is going to marry me
and go to school in New York

and we're all going to
live happily ever after.

Yeah, we'll see about that.

So, wedding day, do we
have some sort of schedule?

Yes. Yes, yes.

So, Jack's dad said five o'clock,

if that's okay with everyone.

You know what, if everyone
comes over here afterwards,

we'll never get rid of them,

so what I'm thinking is,

why don't we have, like, a cocktail party,

without the cocktails, beforehand,

and then we'll go to the
church, and say our vows

and then we can come home alone, just us.

And we'll let John stay with my
Dad and Kathleen or something.

Whatever you want, Amy.

Well, it should be what you want too.

I just want to be married to you.

I know, and I want to
be married to you, but

I want the day to be for the
two of us, what we both want.

The party beforehand sounds perfect.

I'll get John up and dressed

and I can drop him off, if you want.

I'm working this morning.

Leo's stopping by,

he said he had an offer
that might help us both out,

so I'm hoping that means more hours
for me or a raise or something.

That'd be great,

but he's already helped us out

more than either of our families, so...

I don't know, should we
accept any more help from him?

I don't know what it is
that he's offering yet,

I've been looking for
ways to earn more money

and he's made it pretty clear

that he wants me to stay
with this business, so...

I hope it's more of a
business thing than just help.

And you don't have any classes today?

This afternoon.

Then next week I have finals, then

I'm finished with the
first year of college.

One down and three to go.

The time will go fast, Amy.

We'll be okay with you in I in New York.

It's not going to be easy,
but it's just a few years

and we have the rest of our lives together.

Yeah.

I don't know if you realize but

summer school starts the same day

that band camp started four years ago.

Perfect.

Hey!

Oh. Geez. Sorry.

So when were you going to tell me?

- Tell you what?
- That you broke up with Kathy.

I didn't break up with her,

we're just taking a break.

The difference being?

We're friends and we
don't want to be serious,

so before things get serious,

we're going to take a
break and see other people.

What other people? That girl
you were talking to on the phone

at one o'clock this morning?

Yeah. Her.

- Her name is Layla.
- I don't like her.

Why not?

Because she was on the
phone with you at one o'clock

when you have school today.

She is at your school, right?

Yes.

Are you having sex with her?

- Honestly?
- Yeah.

Are you having sex with her?

I was thinking about it, all right?

I don't know if it is all right.

Are you sure you're ready to
have this kind of relationship?

I've been ready for a while now.

I wasn't asking you if everything
is functioning properly,

I'm asking you if you're ready to be

that intimately involved
with a young woman.

Yes.

Then why not Kathy?

Because she had a baby,

she doesn't want to have sex
in high school, ever again.

So because she doesn't want to have sex,

you don't want to be her boyfriend?

Um, well, it's not just that, it's that

Layla does want to have sex
so I want to be her boyfriend.

You are too young to have sex.

High school is too young to have sex,

but I guess if you're going to have sex,

you're gonna have sex.

- Do you have condoms?
- No.

I'm too embarrassed to buy them,

she said she'd get them.

You're too embarrassed to buy condoms,

but not too embarrassed to have sex

with someone you hardly know.

I think it's easier that way,

to have sex with someone
you don't know that ll.

I mean, if it were Kathy, I'd
be kind of worried about her,

but with Layla, I don't
know, it's almost anonymous.

She says I should try it,

it's not that serious, it's fun.

Unless you get her pregnant,

- or you get an STI or...
- STI?

Sexually transmitted infection?

Oh. Yeah.

But a condom should
take care of that, right?

Well there are things that
can be transmitted orally.

All right, I hope we are near
the end of our discussion.

Embarrassed again?

Just say what you want to say.

Don't have sex.

And if you do have sex, use a condom,

make sure that she's on the pill,

but despite the condoms and pills,

it still isn't safe because
you can get your heart broken.

My heart really has very
little to do with it.

I don't doubt that.

So as long as you're safe,

and as long as you have her
parents' permission, then...

Permission? I'm not going
to ask their permission.

Why would I ask their permission?

All right.

I could call her parents and ask them

if you don't want to ask them.

- Hey.
- Hey!

You got something to eat,

like something I can take with me?

I have to get to school.

Are you and Jack having sex again?

What!

What are you talking about? Why
would you ask me something like that?

Because there seems to be a open,

empty condom wrapper on your skirt.

Ew! How did that get
there? That is so gross!

Where did that come from?

Oh, my God! I must've sat
on an empty condom wrapper!

- Grace.
- That is disgusting.

Do you have any gloves
so I can get rid of it?

It's just a wrapper, and my guess is,

that you were the one
who used the contents.

I did not.

Jack did.

Grace! I thought you decided you were
going to wait until you got married.

Yeah, yeah, I was going to wait

because I thought Jack
would get tired of waiting

and just go marry someone else.

But instead you slept with Jack?

Yeah. I slept with him.

But I take it, you
don't want to marry Jack,

you want him to marry someone else.

I love him. It's just... he's so needy.

And so irritating.

I wish I'd just stayed with Grant.

He's going to Harvard.

- So you slept with Jack?
- I just said I did.

Good morning.

- She's sleeping with Jack.
- Mom!

Well, at least you're using protection.

Would you throw that away, or do
you want to go to school like that?

She doesn't want to marry Jack.

All right then, don't marry Jack.

But she said yes, she's
wearing an engagement ring.

And she's having sex with him.

Doesn't mean she has to marry him

- if she doesn't want to marry him.
- Thank you.

Then she should tell him
instead of trying to...

What are you trying to do, Grace?

I'm trying to slow things down.

I don't want to get
married out of high school,

I don't even want to get
married out of college,

I want to get married when I
always said I wanted to get married,

when I get out of medical school.

Sounds like a plan to me.
All right, I'll be going now.

Wait, George, you're a guy,

tell her that she needs
to tell Jack her plans.

It's not fair to him,

to take the ring, and to have sex

and have no intention of getting married.

That's usually a guy move.

Mom, he's just been through so much,

I can't tell him, I can't.

Maybe you could tell him.

Oh, no. No, I can't tell him.

Sure you could, I mean,

maybe he doesn't even want to get married.

I mean maybe he feels rushed into it too.

And maybe now that we're having sex,

maybe that's enough for him.

And maybe he just wants to have
sex with you the rest of his life.

I don't know. But that's
between you and Jack.

But you're so funny, and
you're so good with people,

and can't you just help me
out, please, I'm begging you.

Grace, really, the most I can do is

offer to give the two of you a free dinner,

I can't get in the middle of this.

No, please, stepfather George,

- please get in the middle of this.
- I can't.

Grace, you're an adult now,

you need to tell your fiance

that you don't want to
get married right now.

And if you've told other
people how you feel,

then you need to tell Jack before
one of those people tells him.

At least you can have
that much respect for him.

All right.

Thanks a lot for your help.

She called me "stepfather."
I think we're making progress.

- Hey Jack, did you just get home?
- Yeah.

How are things going with Grace?

Uh, better than expected.

Okay.

All right, just got to pick up some books,

I'm finishing up some classes in the next
couple of weeks so I can cash these in.

When you say "better than expected,"

what did you mean by that?

It means I love her more than ever, Dad.

I see.

It's just, I somehow got the impression
that it meant you and Grace are

- involved physically.
- That too.

Is that how this engagement came about?

You agreed to marry Grace if she would...

No, no. That was her
idea, completely her idea.

Was it a good idea?

I'm all healed. I don't think
I'm going to hurt anything.

Your mother thinks that...

maybe you jumped into
this a little too quickly.

Maybe you should have taken
a little more time to recover

before you made any big
decisions like getting married.

Not that we don't love
Grace, we love Grace.

I don't think Mom loves Grace.

No, she loves her.

She always thought Madison
would be a better choice.

Well, there are lots and
lots of choices out there

that you haven't even met.

I don't want to meet anyone,

I'm not interested in meeting anyone.

I want Grace and I've got Grace.

I gotta go, Dad, I've got class.

Okay.

Why are you saying all this now?

No reason.

It's just that your mother
wanted me to talk to you about

your sudden decision to get married.

Although I don't think it was so sudden,

she just got the impression

that you and Grace had
become close again and

she wanted you to know,
we both wanted you to know,

that if you had rushed into anything,

that you could always change your mind.

Dad, after all Grace did
for me when I was recovering,

how could you and Mom even think that
there would be someone else for me?

She's the one, Dad. Grace is it.

And I can't wait to be married to her,

whether it's next week,
next month or next year.

I'm going to be with
Grace the rest of my life.

Okay.

Just so you're sure
about what you're doing.

Hey, maybe it's your mom and me

who are having second thoughts.

You seem 100% certain
you're doing the right thing.

- I am. Bye, Dad.
- See you.

You're right, they're sleeping together.

Told you, I could tell from
the look on his face he's happy,

and not in a way I like him to be happy.

Still, we should just let him be happy.

No! His happiness is based on a lie.

He thinks she loves him.

She was going to break up with him!

She doesn't love him, not at all.

She accepted his proposal, they're engaged!

They're all hot for each other.

What makes you think she doesn't love him?

Because I don't love her!

I just didn't want her to
break things off with him,

I didn't want her to marry him.

I like Madison!

It's not up to us, dear.

Jack loves who he loves.

I'm not so sure.

Hey, do me a favor, drop it.

I'm leaving. All right?

I'll see you when you get back!

Adrian, do you have a minute before you go?

I need to talk to you.

Uh, yeah. I have a minute.

But what do you want to talk to me about

that you couldn't have
talked to me about last night?

Last night, we weren't
doing too much talking.

I know. It was nice.

What's wrong?

Why don't we sit down?

Because I don't want to sit down.

If I sit down, I might hear
something I don't want to hear.

Are you cheating on me or something?

No. I'm not cheating on you.

And I would never cheat on you. But...

I've been thinking about
us and about New York

and about everything and...

there's just no easy
way to say this Adrian.

I'm not sure that I want to be in New York

and have my fianc?e living here.

Oh.

So you're not going to New York?

Because you should go to New York.

You have to go to New York.

This is one of those
opportunities of a lifetime.

I know. And I have to
go, I want to go. But...

I don't think I want to be engaged.

I want the ring back,

and if it works out so
that you love me so much

that you want to be with me

more than you want to live here by yourself

and go to school, then

we'll get married and live in New York.

What?

I don't want to be engaged
and living in New York alone.

- I don't want that.
- But that's how it is.

You are engaged and you'll
be living in New York.

Adrian, I love you, I really do.

Let's just agree to go our
separate ways this summer

and see how that feels.

You know, why don't we just go ahead

and do what we said we'd do this
summer and see how that feels, okay?

I'll go to school here and you'll
fly back and forth from New York

and sometimes I'll go there with you.

What's wrong with that plan?

It's not what I want.

Yeah, well... it's what I want.

It is! It's what I want!

I don't think it's really what you want,

you've got one foot in the
relationship and one foot out,

which leaves you in total conflict, so

I'm going to ask you for the ring back

and we can stay in touch with each other

or we can take a break for a few months

and see how we feel at
the end of the summer.

It belongs to my family.

If I had bought it for you brand new,

I'd just give it to you, but

- I want it back.
- Why didn't you tell me this last night?

You had sex with me knowing you
were going to break up with me.

You've been having sex with me

when you don't want to marry
me. What's the difference?

There's a big difference!

Okay, there's a big difference.

I wasn't sure I could do this,

but I woke up this morning

and felt I wanted to do this,

so I'm doing this.

I'm sorry, Adrian,

but I'm just not feeling it.

I'm not feeling that you love
me and want to be with me,

and I deserve better than that.

And you deserve better than
to be obligated to a man

that you don't really love.

Wait, wait...

what are you doing, Adrian?

You trying to use sex to
get something you don't want?

I don't know.

I have to go.

I have to get to the airport,

and you have to get to class.

Bye, Adrian.

Hi, Ricky.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

So, you're back.

I am. I didn't want to just
run into you at the bookstore,

after that stupid letter I sent you.

I can't believe I did
that. How embarrassing.

Proclaiming my love to you in a note

like some middle school girl.

Oh my God, I can't believe
I told you all that stuff.

Okay. Well, did you mean what you said?

Yeah, I did,

but it was stupid, it
was a stupid thing to do.

You didn't need to know how I felt and...

I heard that you and
Amy are getting married

the day after she graduates.

Congratulations. And, um,

- I'll see you at school, I guess.
- Okay. Thanks.

And, uh, that's Leo
Boykewich so, I have to go.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

This is Clementine. Clementine,
this is Leo Boykewich.

- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

Well, I got to go, and, um...

Bye, Ricky.

- See you at school.
- Yeah.

So that was Clementine.

Yeah. She took the semester off

and she just got back into town.

She just stopped in to say hello.

You don't have to explain anything to me.

I didn't know she was coming,
it was a complete surprise.

- Whatever.
- She heard Amy and I are getting married,

she just wanted to say congratulations

and all that. She's an old friend.

If you keep talking about her, I'm going
to think you have some interest in her

other than friendship.

I want to talk to you about something

before I talk to Ben and Amy about it.

I have a place for them to live.

Them? The two of them?

I own property around the
butcher shop in New York,

I paid a family member to
renovate the building for me

and I let him live in it

while he was doing the construction.

Well, the construction took about three
years longer than it was supposed to take,

but now I've got myself a three
family building in Hell's Kitchen,

which isn't too far away from where
Ben and Amy are going to school.

I thought I'd offer her
the basement apartment

and Ben the top floor
apartment for four years.

They've got four years to live
there and graduate from school.

I figure if the two of them
are going to get together,

they're going to get together

whether they're a floor
apart or miles apart.

Do you mind if I ask you
why you'd do this for Amy?

It's near the butcher shop, and the
apartment is bigger than this one.

And if you want to move to New York,

there's room for you and John,

and all three of you can live
there together comfortably,

and you can still work
at Boykewich Butchers.

I don't want to lose you from the
company, I've told you that before.

But, what if I don't want to go to New York

and work at the butcher shop,
what if I want to stay here?

What I want is to get married

and have Amy go to school in New York

and have her come back here.

Then Amy can have a safe
place to live in New York,

and she'll be right under Uncle Eddie

and he could keep an eye on her.

And Ben.

All I do is provide opportunity.

What people do with that
opportunity is totally up to them.

Thanks Leo. If that's what Amy wants to do,

then that's a very generous offer.

I don't know what I'm doing.

You have to go to college.

No, I don't. College isn't for everyone.

It's for you! You want
to go, you know you do.

Yeah, but if Henry wants
to go to the Philippines

and work in a hotel for a year,

then good for you, Henry,
that's life experience. Booyah!

Yeah. Booyah!

And it's money.

And then after a year, if
I want to go to college,

I'll have the money to go to college.

If you don't go next year, you won't go.

What are you getting so upset about?

It's not like you and I were
going off to college together.

We could have, you didn't even apply.

I applied to some colleges,

just not to the colleges you're going to.

Right. I did not apply to the
University of the Philippine Partiers.

I think Alice is still in love with you.

No kidding.

She's trying to get me to
sleep with her one last time.

Are you going to do that?

- No.
- Why not?

Because I'm going to go
have fun in the Philippines

and I don't want to feel guilty
about it or be thinking about Alice.

I'm going to enjoy this next year
and I'm going to make a lot of money.

How many pesos equal a dollar?

Huh? The currency is pesos there, right?

Henry, we've been friends since
the third grade. You're lying.

You're not going to the Philippines
to work at a hotel, what are you up to?

I'm not telling you.

So did you figure out the
housing situation in New York?

I'll tell you what I figured out.

I figured out that Ricky loves me and
he's going to do everything possible

to give me everything that I want.

But you, you're not like that.

Which means, I could never be in love
with you and I would never marry you,

even if there was no Ricky.

So Ben, don't waste your time
going to Hudson University.

Go somewhere else. Because
this is never going to happen.

And I want my husband to be
comfortable with my living in New York

while I'm away from him.

He's not your husband yet.

And, you know, I don't think you
should get everything you want.

I mean, after all, you always
wanted Ricky and then you got him,

and I suspect you don't want him.

And that's why I'm going to New York.

But you don't have to say anything.

How you really feel about getting
married can be our little secret.

Hi, Sis.

Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting.

How's Ben?

He's so annoying.

He just said I'm only going to New York

because I don't really
want to be married to Ricky.

- He knows?
- No, he doesn't know anything.

And I was just venting when I
was talking to you and Adrian.

I'm going to marry Ricky,
I want to marry Ricky.

I can't walk away from
a wedding a second time.

Hey, Ethan, you left your
phone charger at my house.

- Here.
- That's not mine.

Oh, well, I thought it was, it's not
mine, it's not my Grandmother's...

- Maybe it's Brian's.
- No. It's not.

Are you sure that's even
it's a phone charger?

Oh no, maybe it's not. Maybe it's, like,

for a tablet or something, sorry.

That's okay.

Okay, well, it was nice seeing you.

Yeah, nice seeing you.

So... how was it?

How was what?

Sex.

Oh, we haven't done anything yet.

Oh, well,

if you do and it doesn't turn
out so well, then call me.

I would call you if I don't
like having sex with Layla?

You can. I mean, I don't think
you really care about her,

and meaningless sex is meaningless, so...

you're a really
thoughtful, intelligent guy,

so you probably won't like it,

and even if you do, you'll get bored.

So, yeah, call me.

I completely understand
that you just want to try it.

So try it.

And then we can go back to
being boyfriend and girlfriend?

After I've had sex with another girl?

No, no, no, no. We can be
friends, we can always be friends.

I have a boyfriend.

You know, it doesn't really serve you
to talk about another girl that way.

Kathy's really nice. And
she's been through a hard time.

By her own choosing, she
didn't have to get pregnant.

And hey, who says that's the only guy

she had sex with,

maybe she put the baby up for
adoption because she didn't know

who the father is.

Wow. That's a really rotten thing to say.

I heard it from her two best friends.

And you're telling me because...

Because you practically called me a slut.

And if there's a slut here, she's the slut.

I didn't call you anything,

I was just trying to tell you
that Kathy really likes Ethan,

and he really liked her

until you came along, so if
you don't really care about him,

then don't break them up.

They're broken up, all right?

I can't believe Henry screwed
up our senior year, which I guess

isn't as bad as him screwing up his life.

Because his life and my life
should have been our lives.

We should be together, forever and always.

He was the first guy I slept with
and the only guy I want to sleep with.

I don't want anyone else. Ever.

Alice, sometimes you just have to let go.

What! You're going to give me
a lecture on letting go? You!

You, who are about to follow
a woman who doesn't love you

all the way across the country to New
York when she's about to get married?

Well, sure, it sounds crazy
when you put it like that. But...

She's not about to get married,
I'm sure she isn't. I know her.

And I've waited four years to
get her, and I'm going to get her.

Stop it! Just stop it!

No, I'm going to finish it. And
you know why? Because she loves me.

I know she loves me. That's
why she hasn't married Ricky.

They could go get
married any time, any day,

but they haven't and it's because
she's not in love with him,

and it's not because she wants
to be independent, it's because...

She still holds out hope too that someday,

she and I can find our
way back to each other.

Ben, you need help.

No, I don't.

I know this, Alice.

I know it for a fact.

You didn't.

I did. I hacked her
computer. She has an E-diary.

I've been dying to tell someone.

Hey, Adrian.

You look like hell.

I feel like hell.

Did something happen?

Yeah. Yeah. Something happened.

Did somebody hurt you? Because if someone
hurt you, I'll get the campus police.

Or...

something.

- I'm just getting better or...
- No one hurt me.

Okay?

No one hurts me. Ever.

Unfortunately, uh,

I had to hurt someone.

I had to break things off with Omar.

Oh.

I'm serious.

It's over.

All right.

I gave him the ring back.

- What happened?
- I just had to be honest.

'Cause that's who I am.

I'm an honest person.

And an honest person doesn't get married

when they know it isn't right.

Omar has this wonderful
job opportunity in New York,

and he begged me to go to New York but

I love this school.

I want to finish school
before I get married.

I want to start a career
before I get married.

I can't go to New York.

I don't want to go to New
York. I have to finish school.

Why can't you do that in New York?

They've got, like,
bunches of schools there.

You know it's a myth that long distance

relationships don't work. That was
before computers and cell phones and...

- You can make it work.
- Look guys,

I don't want you to be
surprised, like Omar.

I mean, we had a perfectly
nice night last night and, uh...

then,

I knew when I got up
this morning, I just...

I had to do it.

I had to break up with him.

And Grace and Amy are
going to break up with you.

We're friends, right? I mean, more than

Grace and Amy and I are friends.
We're friends. We slept together.

Jack, Grace is just having

sex with you, hoping
that will buy her time.

Enough time to break up with you.

She doesn't want to get married.

She doesn't want you
following her to school either.

She wants to go off to college by herself.

She doesn't even want to
think about getting married

until she graduates from medical school.

She sees herself marrying a
really smart doctor or something.

- She doesn't picture herself married to an athlete.
- Adrian!

That's enough.

It's true.

Just like Amy doesn't want to marry you.

She loves you.

She just doesn't want to marry you.

You...

you're just John's father.

That's all.

She needs you to take care of John

so she can have the life that
she's always wanted to have.

I'm... I'm not... I'm not trying
to be mean here, they told me this.

And eventually they're
going to tell you this.

Or they're not.

Which would be even worse, because
you two would be married to them and

they don't want to be married to you.

They just don't want to tell you that.

And now they don't have to.

He broke up with you, didn't he?

What?

Adrian, I've known you for years,

and if you're miserable, you want
everyone else in the world to be miserable

and you don't care how you
achieve that, just as long

as other people don't have the
love that you've always wanted.

So, as your friend,

let me tell you, this was a
really despicable thing to do,

to say these things to Jack and
me, whether or not they're true.

'Cause sometimes people say things
to other people that they don't mean.

Sometimes people just need to say terrible
things out loud, they need to vent.

But the safe place to
do that is in therapy.

So why don't

you go get some help and stop
hurting people around you.

And then, maybe someone can love you.

Sorry.

Hi. Again.

Look Clementine, about that letter...

Oh, please, we don't have to
talk about that again, do we?

I don't want to embarrass you,
especially after you were so willing

to be vulnerable, but...

it's never gonna happen between us.

Even if things don't work out
with Amy, even if she breaks

up with me and we don't get married,
it's never going to happen between us.

I have a lot of fond memories of you too,

but if Amy Juergens doesn't marry me,

it's going to take me a
lifetime to get over it.

And I'll be satisfied just
being the best dad I can be.

So, friends?

Yeah.

So...

you're back.

Yeah, I'm back.

Don't believe what he just said.

If Amy Juergens doesn't marry him...
if she doesn't marry him before she goes

off to New York, he'll come
running to you, believe me.

George?

I thought I saw you.

Oh, I thought I heard something.

Like your name?

Oh, I dropped something, I
was down on the floor, I, uh,

I think Grace was looking for you.

She thought you were
coming over for dinner.

Yeah, I kind of got hung up
at school. Talking to Adrian.

Oh?

Nothing like that. She, uh, she told me
something I'm having a little trouble with.

You know if you have
a problem with someone,

you should speak directly
with that someone,

not with someone else.

Adrian said that Grace doesn't love
me, she doesn't want to marry me

and she wants to go off
to school by herself.

Really?

Yeah, which I find hard to believe
since we're sleeping together again.

Should I know that?

She's my stepdaughter, you know, which
is pretty much just like my daughter.

Come on man, I need some advice
here and I can't talk to my mom

and dad because I don't
think they like Grace.

- Why not?
- I don't think they've

ever thought that she
cares that much about me.

- No?
- No.

Well, maybe she does, maybe she doesn't.

Maybe some days she does
and some days she doesn't.

Women. They're moody. They're
one mood after another.

Do you think she doesn't love me?

I think she loves you, Jack. I just don't
know she's ready to get married right now.

But I don't know. I don't know anything.

Maybe she doesn't even know. I mean,

the end of high school
is a very stressful time.

You're facing the unknown or something.

All right, well, I guess, I should
go out there and talk to her,

even though I don't wanna
really hear what she has to say.

I don't know Jack, I think you
should hear whatever she has to say.

Okay, well, thanks. For nothing.

Hey!

I saved you some dinner. It's over
there on the stove. Where were you?

Uh, talking to Adrian.

- Oh, at school?
- Yeah.

Look, if you don't love me and

you don't want to marry me and you
want to go off to school on your own,

you should tell me.

That's what Adrian said that you said.

Jack, that's just a ridiculous lie.

That's just a horrible,
horrible, mean, vicious lie!

That's what she said. Why would
she make up something like that?

- Yeah, why would she?
- Did she and Omar break up or something?

Yeah, she broke up with him.

- Adrian broke up with Omar.
- Yeah.

Oh, I get it.

She's still in love with me.

She's in love with you?

Yes, I never should have kissed her.
I'm telling you, she's in love with me.

And she broke up with Omar and now she's

trying to break us up because
she's still in love with me!

Well, she must be in love with Amy too,

because she told Ricky that
Amy's not in love with him

and she doesn't want to marry him.

Excuse me, I just want to text...

Tom.

I was in the middle of
texting Tom when you came in.

Just one second.

What's going on?

Um, oh, just...

nothing, there's just this really...

you know, this ad for shoes.

It's just unbelievable sale.

Must be. You dropped your book.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's really a sale.

Hey, do you want some like,
uh, dessert or anything?

Like some ice cream or something?

I think we have some ice cream.

Yeah, but I don't really
want anything to eat.

I think I'm going to go to bed soon.

I've got that final tomorrow.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We
should just go to bed then.

Yeah. We should.

If you don't need to study.

No, I studied, I'm ready.

Um...

did anything else happen at school
today, other than Clementine coming back?

Nope, nothing that I think would
interest you, just school stuff.

All right, thanks again for
telling me about Clementine.

I think it's really important for
us to be honest with each other.

Yeah, especially with us getting
married and your going away to school.

Yeah.

I love you.

I love you too.

Oh, geez, I did forget
something. Something big.

- What?
- I can't believe

I didn't tell you. Leo came by.

Oh, oh, gosh, yeah, that's right, uh,

- did you get a raise or something?
- No.

He actually came by to tell me something
that he wanted me to discuss with you,

something for you.

Oh, really? What's that?

He has a building in New York,

a three family building.

He's going to offer Ben the top floor
apartment and he's going to offer you

the basement apartment, for four years.

It's big enough for the three of us

if we decide we don't like being apart
and John and I want to move to New York.

Ricky, what? That's crazy.

I don't want to live in the
same building as Ben Boykewich.

I'm not worried about
it, I think it's fine,

I'm not concerned about you and
Ben and it's a free apartment.

It's a safe place for you and you'll have
people you know nearby if you need help,

Leo's got family right there.

I don't know, there's
got to be another way.

I don't know another way, and you
want to be there, so what the heck?

I don't know. Maybe Leo is
just trying to break us up.

I don't think Leo is that kind of guy.

I think he's just offering you an
opportunity and you should take it.

I don't think there's
any other alternative.

Well, my mom had offered her help but,

then again, there's always strings attached
when she or my dad offer their help.

So you really don't think
it would be a problem?

I don't think it would be a problem.

You're going to be my wife.