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- C.J.: How're you doing? - MALIK: I'm not doing good.

Look at this mess. - Where's Lisa?

- MALIK: She's upstairs.

She just left me here with these little demons.

- I'm just tired of talking about Calvin.

- C.J.: I'm tired of hearing about Calvin.

- Dad, am I even ready for this?

- It helps if you got a partner that wants to help you.

- Who gonna clean all this up?

- I'm gonna need you to pitch in around here.

- Wait, you want me to go back to work on the pole?

- We got married when I was pregnant with Malik.

- But you wasn't on no pole.

- I definitely wasn't on no pole.

But I did have my own set of issues

and we made it through them.

- Give me some mo'. - JANINE: [giggles]

- ♪

- I hate physics.

- You're the old lady.

- I hate this game. I don't wanna play no more.

- KIDS: [laughing]

- Are you really getting upset about a game?

- I don't like being the old lady.

- Hayden and Jayden usually get mad about that game.

You're supposed to be cool with it.

All right? You're supposed to understand.

- Be cool with being the old lady?

Never that. You got me twisted.

- You do know that's a children's game, right?

- Do I look like a old lady to you?

- Are you serious right now? - Why you ain't answerin'?

- I mean, it's kind of a ridiculous question.

- [knock at the door]

- ELLA: Whoody whoo.

- Hey, Auntie Ella. - Hey, Baby.

- Is that one of your pineapple upside down cakes?

- It is. - Ooh.

- Janine asked me to bake it and bring it over.

She's working late tonight.

- Pineapple upside what?

- Pineapple upside down cake.

You'll have to have a slice later.

- I'll pass. - Do you cook, Lisa?

- Me. Cook? Ha. Oh no.

- Well if you ever wanna learn.

- I'll pass.

- Excuse me.

- Cereal. Okay.

- Oh, that's hot.

- Oh, excuse me, I gotta take this.

- Wait a minute. Who that is?

- Excuse you. You all over here.

Stay over there.

- Ooo, that girl-- I'm not gonna do this.

- You know how to pick 'em.

- Yeah, she lucky she fine.

- Is that right?

Malik, this place looks like a hurricane hit it.

- Yeah I know. Don't worry.

I 'bout to clean up right now.

- Well, I'm gonna help you.

I know Janine does not want to come home to this chaos tonight.

- Thank you, Auntie Ella.

- You don't have class today, baby?

- Yeah, I got a afternoon class.

I'm gonna head to campus in a minute.

- Okay well, who's gonna look after the twins?

Lisa? - Yeah.

Yeah.

- I see your school books are out.

How is school?

- Uh, it's so-so.

- Now wait a minute, your daddy is spending way too much money

for it to just be so-so.

- It's all right. It's going--it's going good.

- Just good?

- Damn, Auntie Ella. It's going fan-tabulous.

Ow!

- Who you cussin' at?

- I'm sorry, Auntie Ella.

I forgot that you thought damn was a curse word.

- Saying it again.

- All right, I'm sorry. - And in front of the kids.

- Okay, I won't. I'm sorry.

- Okay, Malik, where do all the toys go?

- Don't worry about it. I'm gonna take them all upstairs.

I got it. Thank you, Auntie Ella.

- You are welcome, baby, anytime.

Anytime you want me to help you, I can help you.

- Thank you.

- Toys, toys. Pillows, pillows.

Books, books. Organize, organize.

Put this here. Put this book.

What is that?

Is that?

"Dirty delicious."

What in the world are you doing with a naked woman?

Malik, wait.

Is that Lisa?

[laughter]

That is that girl.

She is really a stripper.

- Malik!

Malik!

- LISA: You trippin'!

- MALIK: I'm your boyfriend, damn it!

- There's that word again! - LISA: So.

That don't mean you can tell me what to do all the time.

- MALIK: Naw, I need to know who's on that damn phone.

- Everybody has lost their mind in here.

- Hayden and Jayden.

You guys are gonna come over to my house today.

We're gonna have activity day.

Are you excited about it?

Yay!

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

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♪♪

- [knock at the door]

- Knock, knock. - What the hell?

- Hey Mr. Curtis.

- Miranda, you can't be just walking up in somebody's house

like that.

- I'm sorry, but I mean we are family.

- Technically. For now.

- Is Ms. Ella here?

- Yeah, I think I heard her back there in the bedroom earlier.

- Oh okay, which? - Back there with them rugrats.

- Rugrats? Are you...

Hay and Jay?

Are you talking about Hayden and Jayden,

your niece and nephew?

- You know I can't figure out why they named them kids that.

- Mr. Curtis, you are the worst.

- Well, you know if you go home you don't have to deal with me.

- Woo, I finally got the two of them to take a nap.

Curtis, I can tell that they have been missing their naps.

- Hey, Ms. Ella. - Hello, Miranda.

- What's wrong? - Nothing, baby.

I'm just so mad I don't know what to do.

- Oop, that's my cue.

- Curtis, don't you move.

- What I do, baby? - I don't know, Curtis.

What did you do?

- You been going through my history browser again?

Ella, this is my personal private computer.

Now, you need to stop that mess.

- Curtis, I don't go near that computer.

- Oh.

Well, did you see the cable bill?

That pay-per-view was a fight, Ella.

I don't even watch that freaky-deaky stuff anymore...

unless we together, like you said.

- Ew.

- See, Curtis.

See, this is where Malik got it from.

- Got what? What are y'all talking about?

- What did he do? - Baby...

he's got that simple girl over there in that house.

[chuckles]

Look at what I found.

- A naked pic?

- Look harder.

- What? Wait, is that?

- Ha! Yep.

- Lisa.

- Okay?

- Wow!

- Over there in that house--

- Excuse me, baby. - Curtis!

- What is this here?

Woo, hoo, hoo.

Baby, this is--this is-- boy, I taught him well.

- That is the problem.

- What's the problem, baby?

I mean the girl--she just look like she got talent.

- Curtis!

C.J. has lost his mind.

Letting Malik bring that girl up in that house.

Curtis!

- Stop it. I mean it.

Put that down.

Do you know that Malik was leaving for school,

but he was also gonna leave her to babysit the kids?

- Now, baby, neither Malik nor C.J. will leave them kids

with that girl if she wasn't good with the kids.

- I'm not gonna wait to find out.

That's why I brought Hayden and Jayden over here

until I get to talk to C.J.

The two of them over there.

Oh my goodness.

Curtis, they're over there just acting like they don't

even have the sense God gave them.

The place is a mess.

These kids, Curtis, haven't had anything to eat but cereal.

Those two, they're over there, Curtis, arguing and carrying on

and mad and cussing and all loud.

You shoulda seen 'em.

- Ms. Ella, I'm sorry you're so upset.

Is there anything I can do?

- Yeah, you can get C.J. some sense.

- Now, Ella, C.J.'s a great father.

You know that.

- Well, Curtis, he needs to get his house in order.

I'm sick of it.

Malik over there running around with this woman of the night.

- She used to be a stripper, baby,

not a woman of the night.

That's two different things.

- Well, she did that at night, didn't she?

- She did it in the day sometimes...I heard.

- Well, Curtis, it's the same thing to me.

- You know, I think I'm gonna let you guys work through this.

And I'm gonna head out.

- No, no, no. No, no, no, Miranda.

- CURTIS: Bye. - It's okay.

- Bye, Randa.

- It's okay.

What brings you by?

- I just wanted to share some news.

- You moving to Spain?

- No.

- Ignore him. Ignore him.

So tell us your big news.

- It's fine, you--I--you have been listening

to me go on and on about Calvin for months so.

- Ha, you think?

Hell, I thought me and Ella was going through the divorce.

Doggone thing.

I wasn't 'posed to say that, baby.

- Your big news, please.

- Calvin and I are going to give it another shot. Ah!

We're getting back together.

I'm so excited. - [laughs]

Oh. Oh.

- What?

- You and Calvin are getting back together?

- Yes, can you believe it?

- Um, no.

- Okay, so we're going out to dinner tonight

to discuss everything.

Ms. Ella, thank you so much for all of your advice.

We're getting back together. [laughing]

- I don't know why y'all was trying to get divorced anyway.

'Cause y'all deserve each other, really.

- ELLA: Curtis.

- What? - Hush.

Really, Miranda?

Okay, are you sure, like back together?

- What?

Are you--are you not happy?

- Miranda, yes, of course.

I think it's a--I think it's a-- - [indistinct mumbling]

- I think it's wonderful, Curtis.

Yes, I do. - You still Christian,

ain't ya? - I think it's wonderful.

I'm just wondering what happened?

- We thought y'all hated each other.

- We didn't hate each other.

- Naw, Calvin said he-- - Curtis!

- Baby, now, come on now.

You 'member when he said-- he called the girl a dog?

- Curtis! Don't do that.

- Baby, so you just gonna stand there and lie, Ella, like that?

- Curtis, aren't you supposed to replant my rosebush?

You cut it down.

- Boy, you Christianites. I want to tell you something.

Y'all so predictable.

'Cause you always--what happened to the scripture, Ella?

What happened to all them "sculptures" and stuff

y'all be--with y'all--with y'all--

Honor thy husband, before you come with all that guilty stuff?

Huh? - Curtis.

- That don't make no sense.

You supposed to honor your husband before you put it

in the burning rosebush.

- Curtis! - With Ezekiel and them.

- Stop. Don't quote scriptures please.

Just get on out of here.

Get out of here.

- Come on sit down and tell me. - Okay.

- Tell me. - Okay, okay.

- Tell me what happened. - Oh, here. Okay so--

- Leave his little stuff alone. - Okay.

So I didn't tell you about this.

A couple weeks ago I went by to talk to Calvin

at the apartment, right.

And we were talking, the next thing I know,

he was holding me in his arms and we were kissing.

- Really? - Yes.

- Well, you did not tell me that.

- I know. - You didn't.

- I know. I know, I know.

And that was the moment that I realized that he still loves me.

- Wow.

Well, what happened to the other girl?

- Oh, Ms. Ella, that was just a ploy.

- A ploy?

- Yeah.

It was just a ploy to make me jealous,

to see what I was missing. - He did a ploy.

- Men.

But I do have to say, it did hurt.

But it worked.

You know, I was being way too hard on Calvin.

And it made me realize that he's the only man I've ever loved.

- So, he said-- he said out of his mouth,

he said, "I want to get back together Miranda"?

- He called me out of the blue. Right?

And he said, "You know what, I'm so sorry

"about everything that's happened, we need to sit down

and we need to talk."

And then he invited me to dinner tonight.

- Okay, well, Miranda,

I think you should-- - Oh, oh, oh, listen, Ms. Ella.

I don't mean to cut you off but I have got to go.

I have appointments. I gotta get this hair done.

I gotta go to the mall. I gotta get me an outfit.

I gotta get fine, fine for tonight.

But I'll call you.

[laughing]

- And so he--but he said--

Did he say he wanted to get back together though?

You didn't--he didn't say that. These young people.

He didn't say that, baby.

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- Uncle Curtis.

- Hey, what's happening, chief?

I thought you'd be at work.

- Yeah, well, I was but uh, are Hayden and Jayden over here?

- Yeah, they in there.

- Thank God, I came home from work for lunch,

and Lisa was about to call the police.

- Call the police for what?

- She didn't know Aunt Ella had the twins over here.

- What, Ella didn't tell her?

- No, no, and I figured they were over here,

because Aunt Ella left me a message to come right over.

- Your Aunt Ella's a little upset.

- Upset?

What's she upset about?

- She found Lisa's flyer.

- Flyer?

- You ain't see it?

- Oh.

Oh my.

Is that what Malik is laying with every night?

- That's your son, boy.

- Aunt Ella found this thing? - Yeah, she did.

- Holy cow. - And she was upset at that one.

- [in deep voice] "Yes I did." [laughing]

- Hey, Auntie.

- Hello C.J.

- Hey, baby. - Uh-uh.

C.J., can I talk to you for a minute?

I obviously can't trust Curtis to do it.

- But what, baby?

- I'm gonna deal with you later, Curtis.

It's ridiculous at your age.

- It's nothing but soil, baby.

- Plant my rosebush, Curtis.

Come on C.J.

- Yes, ma'am.

- C.J., what is going on over there?

- What do you mean?

- What do you have to say about all of this?

- You mean the flyer?

- Yes, the flyer and that girl's lifestyle.

And she and Malik shacking up over there.

I went over there, C.J., the place is a mess.

Her and Malik are upstairs just arguing--

arguing, cussing, fussing, all in front of the children.

That's why I brought Hayden and Jayden over here.

Now I know that is your house.

I really do.

- Yeah, Aunt Ella, um, with all due respect,

that is my house.

- Oh, oh, okay.

- And did you happen to tell anyone

that you were bringing my kids over here?

- Well, no.

I mean, I sure was not gonna leave them over there.

- Aunt Ella, first, those are my kids.

And you shoulda told someone,

because you scared Lisa and Malik.

Lisa was about to call the police.

- Okay, C.J. well, I'm sorry about that.

I'm sorry. But let me-- - Aunt Ella.

Look, um, no buts.

Look, I love you...

but you can't just come

and take my kids without asking me first.

Now, Janine and I and Malik, we're not gonna do anything

to jeopardize our kids.

- I don't like it.

And I have to say that I'm surprised

that you and Janine are okay with all of this.

- She used to be a stripper.

That is what it is.

- And you are okay with that, C.J.?

- She's not a stripper anymore, Aunt Ella.

- You and Malik do not know that girl, C.J.

Y'all don't know her.

- Aunt Ella...

Malik loves Lisa.

And if that's who my son chooses to love,

then I feel like I should be okay with that.

- You need to talk to him. - About what?

Aunt Ella, where is all this coming from?

Janine was an addict. I love her.

You loved her. So I can't judge that girl.

- C.J. I don't hate that girl.

But Malik just came in here with her.

Got her pregnant. We don't know her.

We don't know where she came from.

- Right, all right. - You don't know her.

- Yes, and now Janine and I

have to help Lisa and Malik

raise a great son or a great daughter.

- I guess I don't have anything else to say about it.

- Thank you. Um, where are the twins?

- They back in the back bedroom. - Thank you.

- Where they always are. - Thank you.

- Hey, Dad. You left your phone at home.

Yeah, the mayor's been calling,

said there's some kind of emergency downtown.

- Oh, this is a red alert. I gotta go.

- Hey, uh, Auntie Ella, are the twins here?

- In the back bedroom.

- Okay, cool, 'cause I had to leave school early

Lisa was frantic.

- Oh, please, tell her I am so sorry.

- All right, I will. Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Go get your brother and sister and take them

back over to your house.

- Okay. Um, is everything all right?

- Everything's great. They're in the back bedroom.

Your brother and sister are in the back bedroom.

Go get them and please take them back over to your house.

- All right. Uh, thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Ella.

Baby.

- What, Curtis? What?

- I know you ain't talking to nobody,

but you need to see this. This is serious.

- MALE TV REPORTER: Police and firefighters have

cordoned off a ten-block radius of the federal building.

Health officials have set up triage tents

and are tending to the many wounded.

Police have not confirmed whether the explosion

was because of a gas leak or something more sinister.

We are waiting for a briefing by the mayor

and police chief shortly.

- Oh my God.

What C.J. ran off to?

- It's gotta be. I know what Malik said

it was a red alert and the mayor was involved,

I knew it had to be something big.

- Oh, hi, Miranda. Okay.

Well, are we in for another wedding?

- Uh, that I ain't paying for.

- He, um--he said that he's--he's marrying Laura.

- Miranda.

- I feel like such a fool, Ms. Ella.

- Oh come on. Come on.

No, no, no, shh-shh. Let's come on.

Come on. Let's go into the kitchen.

Just go into the kitchen. Baby, I am so sorry.

- I ain't paying for that one either.

- MALIK: Uncle Curtis!

- What, is knocking old school or something?

- No, look, Uncle Curtis, something bad happened

to my dad.

- What happened? - I don't know. My mom called.

I couldn't even make out what she was saying on the phone.

- She was crying so much. - What happened?

- Auntie Ella, my dad was in a bad accident at work.

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