01x02 - Bitch, Don't k*ll My Vibe

[bunniefuu]

ZOEY: College is a minefield.
There's so much to juggle.

Classes, homework,
and parties, obviously.

♪ Yo, I came in the game ♪

A wise man once told me
that to balance it all,

everyone has their thing.

I didn't know what he was
talking about at the time,

but it was so true.

[LIGHTER FLICKS, INHALING]

For college kids who like to party,

the baseline is beer, weed,
questionable Jell-O sh*ts.

- [DINGING]
- Then it gets interesting.

You've got your pill poppers.

- They love their Oxy,
- [DINGING]

- their Vico, their Norco.
- [DINGING]

You know, girls raised by their nannies

who hate themselves as much
as the calories in alcohol.

Then there's people who
do Molly, poppers, coke...

[SNIFFING]

My thing? I dabble.

I like a nice buzz, but I don't
get, like, White-girl wasted.

But the tricky part to having a thing

was knowing how to balance it all,

and I hadn't been doing so well.

- [ALARM BLARING]
- [SIGHS]

[Bleep]

♪ Watch out, world, I'm grown now ♪

♪ I'm grown ♪

♪ Learn something new every day ♪

♪ I don't know know,
so I'ma feel my way ♪

♪ Got the weight of the world on me ♪

♪ But no regrets, this is what I say ♪

♪ Watch out world, I'm grown now ♪

- ♪ I'm grown ♪
- ♪ You can tell me ♪

♪ My heart b*ating so loud ♪

♪ Mama, look, I'm grown now ♪

♪ I'm grown ♪

[ALARM BLARING]

Ana, why didn't you wake me up?

I missed class!

Oh, hey.

What's good with your roommate?

- [RETCHING]
- Oh, no!

Zoey! Where are you going?

I don't know.

You missed our class.

Yeah.

Don't worry though. I got you covered.

Told the professor you were
getting an abortion.

Wait, what? Why would you do that?

I'm already stressed as is.

How about, "Thank you, Luca"?

Okay? You need to loosen up.

Let me get you right.

You know that's not my thing.

Well, you got to find your thing,

'cause whatever your thing is
dead-ass isn't working.

And you also literally
have your pants on backwards.

Well, smoking weed at : AM

isn't gonna solve my problems.

What's, like, good with you?

Like, when I first met you,
I really vibed with you.

You were on some official sh*t.

Now you're kind of just, like,

every other kid running around here.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means, like, you act like
you have it all together,

meanwhile none of us
have it all together.

You just need to chill out
and medicate your situation.

I don't have time for this,
so can you go?

Because I need to turn my pants around

and make it to my next class.

Whatever.

But our project.

What's good with that? It's due Friday.

We got to get working on it, so...

You want to stay up tonight?

Yeah. No, damn, no, I can't,

um, because I have
a James Baldwin exhibit thingy.

Th-That's cool.

- I-I don't want to go.
- Oh, sucks.

Well, we could do tomorrow
or the night after that,

I just can't be pinned down right now.

Fine. Can you just please
come up with ideas tonight?

'Cause I don't want to be
behind on this project

while you're at this James Baldwin thing

that I'm totally not invited to
and totally don't want to go to.

Dude, do you want to come?

Nah, I can't. My mom's in town.

But you're sweet, though.

Thanks?

♪♪

These are some fun pictures.

I used to have that hoodie.

ZOEY: Oh, my God.

You reek!

How much weed did you smoke?

Clearly not enough

to be at a whack-ass
student photography show.

If this is
an "experimental art" exhibit,

then where are all of the dicks?

This is socially conscious photography

based on the work of James Baldwin.

Is it? Or is it just
a bunch of sad photos

of little Black kids
holding melting ice cream?

Mm.

Well, I also saw a couple sad photos

of tiny Black hands holding onto
chain link fences.

You did not bring us here
to look at those.

- Mm?
- You brought us here to look at that.

[EXHALES]

Wait, what? What's Aaron doing here?

Oh, my God. I see him everywhere.

I know. I think it's 'cause
you're stalking him.

I'm not stalking him.

I'm totally stalking him.

- Hey.
- Oh, hey.

What's up? How are you?

Hey.

What are you doing here?

Um... Okay.

Uh, I-I kind of helped
set this whole thing up.

- Wow.
- Yeah.

I didn't know you were into Baldwin.

That's pretty deep for a freshman.

[SCOFFS] Of course.

And you act like you're so old
yourself, grandpa.

Just pull out the slippers
and tell us what Y K was like.

Oh, wow, okay, I see.

So you got jokes?

Look, we're going to Papa K's
after this.

You should come.

You heard that, right?

He just invited me to Papa K's.

Papa K's, he basically just proposed

and so, of course my answer is...

Yeah, we'll see what happens.

Well, okay, freshmen.

Maybe I'll see you there.

NOMI: Maybe he'll see you there?
[LAUGHS]

I mean, what kind of stalker
would you be

if you decided to take off the night

to do the homework
you've been talking about

for, like, three weeks?

My God, I'm not a stalker.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

NOMI: This place is packed.

I don't see anything in here

worth cracking open a new box of Plan B.

ZOEY: Guys.

- Guys.
- Mm-hmm?

I see Aaron and he sees me.

Are you guy seeing us
see each other right now?

- You see that, right?
- Kind of.

- Ooh, okay.
- Okay.

- You know, you go.
- Oh! That's my bad.

- Hey.
- What's up?

- You made it.
- Yeah.

Um, grab a table.

Oh. Anywhere?

[CHUCKLES]

Oh, you want me to scooch? I can scooch.

Hey, you, homeboy.

Uh, could you scooch or get that to go?

- It's just a salad.
- I'm begging you to stop.

I actually see a table open
by the bathrooms.

Okay. Well, that's where...
that's where we'll be.

By the bathroom
where all the action happens.

Tally ho.

- All right.
- Okay.

Hey. Hey, I didn't know you
guys were gonna be here.

Oh. Yeah, well, Aaron invited me.

BOTH: Us, too!

Ooh.

Yeah, he invited a whole
g*ng of people. Yeah.

Is there anyone he didn't invite?

I don't think he invited that guy

who's fixing the TV over there.

- Oh, no, he did.
- Oh, he did?

- Mm-hmm.
- Oh.

Zoey, I thought you knew that

this was, like, a group invitation?

Uh, no.

He said, "Okay, Freshman.
Maybe I'll see you there."

- Yeah.
- Freshman.

That's what he calls me.

We have cute nicknames for each other.

Freshman, Sophomore?

Yeah, but he said freshmen with an "e."

Not freshman with an "a."

Okay, freshmen.

[REWINDING]

Freshmen.

Let me grab a round of calzones

for those Tri-Pis over at table four.

Tell them V-Digital the Great's
in the building.

I will not.

So, the night was a total bust.

Turns out Aaron wasn't checking for me.

He was checking for
the entire student body,

and I still had a ton of work to do.

I had a fashion project with Luca,

not to mention a -page paper

on this woman who
I thought was Judge Judy.

This will change your life.

[DING!]

Oh, my God, those are dr*gs!

Those are illegal dr*gs!

Dude, you want to get me arrested?

I really hope Aaron didn't see
you offer that to me.

Zoey, it's just Adderall.

I know what it is.

My little brother should be on it.

My dad, too.

No, this is what half
the student body is using

to get their sh*t done.

You won't just finish your -page paper

on Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

you'll actually care about the bitch.

Okay, Vivek, I'm not taking speed.

I've gotten this far without it.

Okay, but you're in college now.

And the next four years
are probably gonna determine

your path for the rest of your life.

But it's cheating.

It's not cheating
if everyone's doing it.

Okay. Girls, do you guys cheat?

- What have you heard?
- We don't do anything.

Nope, nothing. No steroids.

- No HGH.
- No creams.

- No rubs.
- No deer antler spray.

And definitely not "The Clear."

BOTH: We keep our bodies clean.

Wow, I'm so convinced.

♪♪

What was that I just took?

- Addy.
- or ?

.

Now I'm ready to rock.

Do you have a paper due or something?

No, there's a party
in the Hollywood Hills.

And I'm gonna try and have sex
with Jason Derulo.

- Oh.
- Whatever.

The whole pill thing just freaks me out.

I mean, I feel like it's
a gateway to something awful,

like having a heart att*ck or...
or meeting Dr. Drew.

Or it's a gateway
to just finishing your paper.

Here.

Just in case.

♪♪

No!

[DOOR SQUEAKS]

No.

No!

♪♪

[SNIFFLES]

Ruth...

Bader...

Ginsburg.

♪♪

[YAWNS]

♪♪

[YAWNS]

♪♪

Oh, man.

♪♪

This was definitely going to be
a one-time thing.

♪♪

So, I popped the little blue study pill,

but I didn't get
what all the fuss was about.

I mean, I didn't feel anything.

- [DING!]
- Until I did.

♪ Nothing can stop me,
I'm all the way up ♪

♪ All the way up, all the way up ♪

♪ All the way up ♪

♪ I'm all the way up ♪

♪ I'm all the way up ♪

- ♪ I'm all the way up ♪
- The good thing about Adderall

is it gives you hyper focus
on one thing for hours.

♪ My... run game ♪

The bad thing about it is

it gives you hyper focus
on one thing for hours.

I do want to step into fall.

♪ Shorty, what you want?
Shorty, what you need? ♪

♪ My... run the game, we ain't
never leave, never leave ♪

♪ Countin' up this money, we
ain't never sleep, never sleep ♪

♪ You got V- , I got V ♪

♪ Got bottles, got... got... ♪

♪ I'm all the way up ♪

♪ Shorty, what you want?
I got what you need ♪

♪ I'm all the way up ♪

Class, you will not succeed

in this Digital Marketing
Strategies course

or the world unless you have
a thorough understanding of...

Squatters' rights.

I've been both beneficiary and victim.

Because currently,
there's a Desert Storm veteran

who's taken up residence
in the back seat of my sedan.

Normally, as a patriot,
I would honor such a hero,

but his once-delightful w*r stories

are now starting to turn violent.

It's freaking out my lady friend.

Dude!

You owe me $ , .

I spent the entire night
shopping the Semi-Annual Sale,

ultimately made a lot of
full-price choices.

I didn't even finish
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Aww!

Baby's first Addy spiral!

So, the thing that maxed out
my credit card has a name,

and you two didn't think of warning me?

That's my bad, dude.
That one's on V-Didge.

Look, you made a rookie mistake.

Anyway, I mean,
you'll know better next time.

There's not gonna be a next time.

You know what?
I should've listened to myself.

That stuff is not me, and I've
ended up even further behind.

[SIGHS]

- Yo.
- Hey.

- How was your night?
- It was... it was dope.

I wasn't disappointed
by anything about it.

Cool. I, uh... I hope next time
we can talk more.

Did you hear that?

"Next time."

First Lieutenant Steve?

It's your boy Charlie.

Are you still living in my car?

Ah, okay.

A couple things.

Number one, did I leave my lights on?

Please can you turn those off?
Thank you.

Number two, we need to talk.

Wow. You ever not doing "your thing?"

Funerals.

I have too much respect for the dead.

You're gonna do that while we work?

There you go.

Just worrying about what I'm doing.

Like, did you even come up with
any ideas?

Yeah. To, uh... I'll grab...

Grab these pens and...

Exactly.

Instead of f*ring off sh*ts
and disrespecting the herb,

figure your own sh*t out.

Well, that is amazing.

Now it's amazing.

So, Luca's thing
obviously worked for him,

but I wasn't Luca,
and I was gonna be fine.

[WHISPERING] Oh, my God.

[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

♪♪

♪♪

Oh, my God.

[SIGHS]

One last time.

Just to get the paper done.

♪ Billboards bulging
and my blank mind's frying ♪

And this time, I wasn't
distracted by anything.

I got it all done.

- So.
- Hmm?

- Remember those calzone girls?
- Yeah.

One of them had a sad cousin
in from out of town.

Boom.

So did Jason Derulo.

- Boom.
- Hey, guys.

Oh, she lives.

Yeah, and I finished all my work.

That's why I saw you shaking
the vending machines at : AM?

Oh, my God, you were totally

smurfing your ass off, weren't you?

What? No.

I mean, why can't a girl
just get a Payday

and watch the sun rise?

Dude, stop. You're better than this.

Really.

Okay.

I took another one.

I mean, you guys saw
how much work I had to do.

Hey, we're on your team, buddy.

Yeah. Why are you making
such a big deal out of this?

Because it's not gonna be my thing.

Who cares if it is?

It's like Smart Water around here.

Listen, I don't have a problem
with other people doing it,

but I don't want to be
reliant on something

just to get by for the next four years.

It was a one-time thing.

I just needed some...

academic steroids.

Got it, cool, whatever.

That's the last time
I give her dr*gs for free.

[SCOFFS] That's the last time
you need to.

Is that Aaron?

Oh.

Wait, so you're, like, really, really

doing the stalking thing, huh?

What?

Okay, what?

You know I am, so can you just...

go somewhere else?

Hey, Zoey.

Oh. Tch.

Hey, big guy.

Hot start.

Yeah, um, well, I'm about to head out,

but the BSU is throwing a party
tonight at Hawkins.

You should come through.

Cool. Cool, yeah.

Okay, cool. Hope to see you there.

Now, that was a personal invite.

He said...

You should come through.

[REWINDING]

You.

"You."

Which applies to me.

It does.

- I'm "you"!
- You are you!

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Here we go, bro, get in the mix ♪

♪ I want to see you pop it like
you a packet of chips ♪

♪ You see the Earth at your
fingertips, infinite ♪

Zoey! You made it.

Hey. Nice.

You look amazing.

What are those, Zappos?

Sure.

Damn, I feel like since school started,

we haven't had time to kick it,
but I'm just...

I'm happy that you're here. You know?

Like I said, you look... you look great.

Finally, the moment
I had been waiting for.

You know, Aaron, I know
the past couple weeks

have been hectic,
but I'm really happy that...

[CRASHING]

Whoa, this party's getting crazy.

Um, would you do me a favor
and pass out cups?

- Wait, but I'm wondering...
- Thank you so much.

Hey, don't break that, man.

Oh, my God.

I'm a drug addict and the help.

[SIGHS]

Just great.

So, after passing out
sleeves of Solo cups,

which included the ones I had to get

during my out-of-pocket BevMo run,

I was done.

- Hey, Zoey.
- Oh, hey.

Can we get some cups?

They're saying you're the cup girl.

Oh, my God, they're not seriously
calling me that, right?

No. She cleaned it up.

Actually, they're calling you
the cup bitch.

Why wouldn't they be?

Why wouldn't they be?

That's who I am.

Yo, Zoey. Where you going?

I'm leaving.

Well, look, you know,
I-I just want you to know that

I really appreciate what you did
for me tonight.

Well, it wasn't exactly how I
pictured my night going, so...

Yeah. Um, look, well, I can't...

I can't let you walk home alone, right?

You know? So...

Yo, Mike.

You, uh... you think you can
walk her home?

- Uh, yeah, sure.
- Okay, cool.

- [SIGHS]
- Yeah.

♪♪

[CLATTERING]

What the hell?

Sorry. I didn't know you were asleep.

God, Zoey.

It's like this every night with you.

Just shut up and go to bed.

You know, it seems like whatever I do,

you're gonna have a problem
with it, so...

I'm sorry.

So you are capable of
saying those words.

Look, Ana,

I have been wanting to apologize
for leaving you at that party,

but every time I try and talk to you,

your middle fingers are up.

Ana, leaving you at that party

is quite honestly the worst
thing I have ever done,

so please believe me
when I say I really am sorry.

I don't know.

Ever since I got here,
I just haven't been myself.

I don't know. I mean...

This isn't who I am.

So that night, Ana and I
talked about everything.

I told her about the pills,
the parties, Aaron.

She told me it was her first time

being this far away from her family

and she hadn't made a single friend.

Honestly, by the time
that we got to the party,

I was just so nervous,
I started drinking,

which I never really did before.

Well, except Sunday at mass.

It's the blood of Christ.

Anyway, and that's why I got wasted

and I filled the kiddy pool with vomit.

She was just as messed up as I was.

Since we'd gotten to college,

we'd been caught up worrying
about what other people think.

We were crossing so many lines
we thought we'd never cross

instead of just being ourselves.

♪ Don't tell me that it looks so easy ♪

♪ To you, to you now ♪

♪ Ohhh ♪

From now on, I'm gonna do me.

I don't need Aaron.

I do not need Adderall.

I'm even done with the partying, too.

You know what I need?

To go to sleep

and not wake up until, like,
the next episode of "Power."

- You do that.
- Okay.

[CELLPHONE CHIMES]

♪♪

♪♪

♪ You can't see me crumbling ♪

♪ You don't know what you did ♪

♪ Now I can sink or swim ♪

♪ But I'm nearly drowning ♪

♪ And it comes in waves, waves ♪