The Secret Life of the American Teenager

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

I cannot believe we did that. I can't either.

Do you remember that cooking school you applied to in Italy?

Yeah? You got accepted.

I love you! I've always loved you!

Hi there.

Don't you recognize me?

No. Clementine?

She's a girl I lived with in foster care.

We were at the same house for not even a year.

I have something to tell you. What's that?

The divorce papers came through.

I'm in love with Adrian. I want to marry her.

Do you know what you're having?

She's a girl, but I'm letting a couple adopt her.

The girls are here. They're walking the halls. There's a party?

If I scream, how much can you come up with?

How old are you?

Fifteen-year-old-girl gets nabbed by some guy, turned into a prostitute.

I'm not your husband.

We have to do something about that.

My dad got remarried yesterday.

I'm transferring.

Jack got beaten within an inch of his life, probably by that pimp.

We would like to have you in our family.

Shall we pray?

Hi! Hi!

Meet your parents, baby girl.

It's what we planned, so I have to.

I have to go back to my family.

You don't sound as if you want to go back.

Your grandmother said you could stay if you want.

She said that she'd talk to your mom and dad.

She did talk to them, and then they talked to me,

and I don't know,

I don't want the first thing I do

after having a baby to be breaking a promise to my parents.

I promised them I'd come home when,

as they put it, all of this was over,

and it's over.

How are you feeling about that?

You're not a shrink. I've gone to counseling. I'm okay.

I don't know why people insist on my being upset and depressed

because the baby was adopted.

That's a good thing. Yeah, I know.

I meant how are you feeling about going back?

I'm conflicted.

I want to do the right thing.

I mean, I've done enough wrong things in their eyes,

so if they think I should be with them, then I want to be with them.

On the other hand, I really hate to leave.

I'm not the same person that I was.

I've lost touch with my friends.

They all eventually quit texting or calling me,

and I have new friends.

Ethan? Yeah, Ethan.

And you know, my other friends.

Jody and Francine?

I don't think I'd stay for those two.

Don't you think we're friends? You and me?

I know you're officially just my mentor,

but I kind of think of you as my big sister.

Do you? Yeah.

I never had a sister.

Yeah, me neither. Ashley?

Oh, geez, whoa. What am I thinking?

I totally forgot for a moment.

Ashley and I were never really that close, obviously.

I mean, from time to time, when it's really counted, she's been there, but...

You really think of me as a sister?

Hello? I was the first person who saw your wedding dress.

Yeah. And I didn't laugh.

It's a great dress.

I'm just saying. Your showing it to me first

and my not laughing, that's kind of sisterly, don't you think?

Oh, Kathy, I'm going to miss you,

I really am.

You're such a nice girl.

I really hate to see you leave.

And I hate to go.

Everyone back there knows I had a baby.

Everyone here knows you had a baby, too.

People are going to talk. That's just what people do.

You just have to deal with it.

There I have to deal with it all by myself.

Here, at least, I have people on my side standing up for me.

Then maybe you should tell your parents what you're telling me.

The bottom line is they don't like Ethan.

They want me away from him. Oh.

And they're not too crazy about you, either.

Me? What did I do?

Is it John? Or is it because I'm marrying Ricky?

Both. And that's what they're afraid would happen if I stay here.

They're afraid that because I had a baby,

I've grown up too fast and I'll get married too young.

It's a new year and they want me to get off to the right start.

Go right back to where I was before I got pregnant.

Impossible.

Well, maybe you can at least go back to where you left off a little wiser.

Hi. Hi.

What are you doing here?

I told you just to tell me what you wanted on the phone because I've got to study.

I got John and Amy out of the house and I've got to study.

Can we talk?

About what, Ethan? What's the emergency?

You already know what it is.

Kathy leaving is not an emergency.

No, it is! You have to talk to Margaret and Shakur for me.

Why's that? Because I want to go with Kathy.

Go with her where? Back to Texas? For what? To live?

Live in Texas? Me? No.

I want to talk to her parents face-to-face

and beg them to let her live here.

That's between Kathy and her parents

and that's just what Margaret and Shakur are going to tell you.

I know.

That's why I'm trying to figure out

how to get a different answer out of them, how to play them.

Why don't you just tell them the truth?

Because it's not a good enough reason.

Then maybe you shouldn't ask to go,

or ask, realizing that they're probably going to tell you no.

And when they do, don't cry about it.

I can't take no for an answer.

I have to go there. I have to at least try to keep her here.

I'm in love with the girl.

Not up to me.

Okay.

If you were my parent and you heard what you just heard from me,

would you let me go?

I don't know, maybe.

Ricky said if he was my parent, he'd let me go.

That's why we don't play "what if" in this house.

"What if Ricky were my parent."

We play "what is."

And what is is we are your parents, not Ricky.

And I think this sounds like a terrible idea.

What do you think?

I think maybe I should discuss this with my wife

and then we'll get back to you.

That's not "I think it sounds like a terrible idea."

I'll take it.

He's 15 and we're going to put him on a plane

to go talk to two people who don't like him

so he can ask them if his girlfriend can stay here

for the next three and a half years after she's had a baby?

Uh-uh. He's in love.

So in love.

And I really like this Kathy.

And please don't quote the statistics

on how many teenage girls have a baby

and then have another baby,

even though I know that's what's going on in the back of your mind.

She's not going to do that, if that's what you're thinking.

They are not going to do anything like that.

They're probably already doing something like that.

But not that.

They're not. Well.

If her parents want her back in Houston,

they want her back in Houston

and we shouldn't interfere with that.

No, we shouldn't.

But maybe Ethan should, even if the answer is no.

It's such a manly thing to do,

to stand up for his woman, to face the parents

even if they give him a no, which, more than likely, they will.

At least he did what he thinks is right,

and at least he's telling us what he wants to do

instead of stealing something and selling it

to buy a plane ticket behind our backs.

Well, I do like that he came to us

and told us what he was gonna do.

But Ethan flying around the country on his own,

I don't know about that.

Come on.

I really think it will be to his benefit,

and possibly to her benefit.

All right.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You won't regret it!

I'm going to need some money, of course.

Of course.

How'd it go?

With Kathy? Not that good.

She feels obligated to go back to Texas to please her parents

but she won't talk to them and tell them that she doesn't want to go.

But I don't know, she's 15.

She should probably go home to her parents.

On the other hand, this could be the beginning

of her trying to do what everyone else wants her to do

instead of doing what she wants to do and that stinks.

Ethan came over here.

He wants to try to fly back with Kathy and talk to her parents.

Really? Really.

He took the bus over so I took him home

and then I went back to your dad's and picked up John

because I knew I'd just have to leave again to do that

and then I had to put him down for his nap

and now I really have to study.

I know.

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