Becoming Us

Previously on Becoming Us...

So are we breaking up?

- Yes. - Yeah.

Let's get this on a wall.

You want to do a gallery?

How are you, are you Floyd?

- I am. - You must be.

- Hi. - We are so happy,

this is just wonderful,

- wonderful. - Good, great, good.

I'm a new girl.

I'm very happy.

You know what's missing in your life?

- Nothing. - Deep intimacy.

And a vagina

is not gonna replace that.

I'm Ben,

I'm sixteen years old

and I'm a junior in high school.

I grew up with loving parents,

I have an amazing sister

and I have an awesome girlfriend named Danielle.

If I fall, you're always there to pick me up.

I've got your back.

I thought I knew exactly where my life was headed

until she came along.

Her name is Carly

and Carly...

was my dad.

What now?

* Whoa, oh, oh *

* whoa, oh, oh *

* it's a big *

* big world *

* Hey! *

Camera down.

* I found my true love *

* living in a sweet dream *

* singing my favorite song *

* and love... *

I'm a monkey.

I met Gavynn through social media.

* I'm getting big ideas *

Ben and I just started dating recently.

Make funny faces.

- * Starts with you * - * hey! *

* oh, whoa *

* all is good *

You can't even see my face,

- there's a camera. - I can.

We just liked each other's pictures

for a really long time and I was like, "hey, yo.

We should like, video chat,"

so we like, video chatted and it was really cool.

Even though me and Danielle have broken up,

we're still gonna be friends.

She's doing her and I'm doing me

and that is totally fine with me.

* Whoa, oh *

* and it all starts with you *

I was looking at Carly's page earlier.

So, she's coming home.

Really, are you excited?

I'm excited.

I hope she's happy...

- with it. - Well, I mean,

she's... she's definitely gonna be herself now,

- so she's... - Oh yeah.

Gonna be a lot more happier.

- Yeah. - What was she like before?

Like, when she was a guy?

Yeah.

Umm, we've... we've had like,

ups and downs, I guess.

Back when Carly was Charlie, um

Charlie had quite a bit of problems.

Charlie drank a lot on a very daily basis.

Uh Charlie smoked about a pack a day.

Um Charlie had a lot of health-related issues

and Charlie had a lot

of self-destructive habits

that really got in the way of us.

I mean, she...

she was, she was a good dad.

I just... I just wish that she was...

kind of there more.

Like, more there for you?

Just like mentally, you know?

Personally, probably just didn't feel like herself,

so that's...

- That's exactly why. - Mainly... Yes.

It's just like, it's the best thing

that she's done for her and I'm...

I am happy about it.

Ben's definitely gone through a lot of things

that normal teenagers

wouldn't necessarily go through

and that's kind of what brought us together even more.

Stop being so beautiful.

Like, what is up with you, man, like... ?

I don't...

- I don't know. - Girl.

Are you and Ben broken up?

Yes.

- Like, for good... - It's kind of...

Or is this one of the like... ? Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. Probably, I hope so.

Like, I'm kind of happy that we're just friends.

So like,

you say that you guys are just friends, right?

Yeah.

- Why? - So what if I told you

that he's already like,

with another girl?

Or at least, I don't know,

he posted this picture with a girl.

Okay, um... I'm gonna pull over

and you have to show me that

because I don't believe you.

Dude, I guess Ben's not wasting any time.

Did he just post this?

Yeah.

Yeah, well...

I think I'm prettier.

By far.

Okay, this is like a total downgrade.

Like, you should not feel bad about this.

I don't... I don't want to say it,

like I don't want to...

He's kind of like,

not that attractive, you know.

I don't know, he's like,

I mean, he's cute but he's just,

I don't know, I feel like maybe

I could do better. It's not like, "oh, dang,"

like... do you think he posted that picture as like,

an aim towards you,

because it's literally so soon after?

I don't know, I think...

I think that he's not really

thinking about like, my feelings

and I think he is expecting me to like,

be hurt over it but I'm not, which is like the weird thing.

Yeah, he's probably trying to like,

get a reaction out of you.

Dude, I don't even care.

Very cool, we're finally doing it.

- It's a cool spot. - Yeah.

From what it looks like.

Definitely from the outside.

- And the... - Peckish pig.

Right and the peckish pig sounds super like, alternative,

- so you could be like... - It sounds like,

- so hipster-like. - Right.

- Hi, nice to meet you. - I'm Emilia.

- Hi, Emilia. How are you guys? - I'm Ben's chaperone.

I heard you want to rent space.

He's here to do his very first photo gallery.

- Oh, really? - Yes.

His own photography,

he's an excellent photographer.

So we were just thinking, um

that this could be a good place.

How many people are you thinking

that are gonna be attending the event?

Around like 40, 50.

This holds about 75 people,

so I think 40 people would be good.

- There was, yeah. - How expensive would this be?

Okay, so typically this room,

we rent out for $1,000.

Oh.

- All right. Um. - So this...

Couldn't have chosen a more beautiful day.

- No. - No.

Looks like it's gonna be more alcoholics

than art enthusiasts.

This is lacking a vision.

- O for 2. - O for 2.

I think we just scared the lady in there.

- Yeah. - Again, optimism.

Optimism.

That's... that's how you gotta look at life,

you've gotta think every door is open

before you know it's closed.

- All right. - Onto the next block.

Sutt?

- Hi. - Hi, Mama.

What's the matter?

I have really bad news.

What?

Um, I just talked to Kevin and...

Floyd just got diagnosed with leukemia.

Oh, my goodness gracious.

Kevin's father went in for...

I believe he went in for a physical

and they did some blood tests

and um his white blood cell count

came back really high,

and that was really strange,