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Bonjour, Brianna. Breakfast at Shea Fleck is served.

Oh, French toast.

No, no, no. It's French toast jambalaya. I cooked some shrimp in the pan last

night, so help yourself, girl.

Would you like a slab of bacon with that?

You think I'm getting a little big?

A little chubsy -upsy? I'm so fat that if I jumped in the air, I'd get stuck.

that what you're trying to tell me, Danny? No,

no, no. Well, let me tell you something, Mr. Man.

They're beautiful no matter what size they are.

I'll be eating in my room.

When will you learn that words are mightier than the sword?

No, no, no, the pen. The pen is mightier than the sword. Oh, great, so now I'm

not smart. Oh, I'm dead and I know words.

I hope they can fit through the door.

What am I going to eat?

How will you ever marry off this portly ignoramus?

I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. If he catches us, he's going to

kill us.

I can't think of a better way to die.

But I can't try to know her name.

Then I'll isolate you there when there's nobody.

why he left my mama.

Just think that if he walked in on us, I would be grounded until I'm an old

maid.

Oh, Alex, do you think your mom even knows that you're gone?

Probably not. I mean, this is the worst drinking binge ever.

I mean, one minute she's happy, the next minute she's angry. The minute after

that, she's crying because we ran out of butter.

I'm just so glad I can crash at Brianna's place.

I've always dreamed of waking up to this face.

No, you won't be able to wake up at all if my dad catches you.

Oh, no, you can't hide it, mom. place forever.

If things are that bad at home, why don't you just talk to someone?

I'm talking to the two of you.

No, I meant someone who is paid to listen, not make fun of you.

Someone like Miss Swain.

Look, if I wanted somebody all my business, then I would...

Inez,

I couldn't help but notice you got awfully quiet, awfully fast when I

Something you want to talk about?

No, ma 'am. Everything's fine.

Are you sure?

Come on, you know that you can talk to me. I'm just a guidance counselor. I'm

not your parents. I'm not, as you kids say, the po -po.

I'm just two non -judgmental ears that share an office with the history

Well, actually, aren't we... Uh, Spirit was thinking about inhaling household

cleaning products.

Spirit?

Spirit?

Yes.

The lemon plants just be calling me.

You come to my office right now. I have a video I want you to watch. Huff the

Tragic Dragon.

Brianna, I just came from your bedroom.

Guess what I saw in there?

Daddy, Daddy, it's not what you think. Oh, really?

Then why was my afro king in there?

Why are you using my hand conditioner?

Washington, it makes her fro glow.

Same thing, legal.

No, baby, this is for men. You need Afro Queen.

Things have been strange around here lately.

You've been leaving the water on, using my Afro cane, and I still can't find my

Harvard sweatshirt.

Really? Where is it?

Oh, it's right there on the desk behind you.

I wasn't there before.

Well, when you can't find something, it's always in the last place you

Why don't you go look for your place?

All right, Daddy. If you need me, I'll be in my room.

Oh, you're taking both pizzas? Baby, that's a lot of bread.

Oh, I'm sorry. Next top model. Next top model.

Oh, Cheryl, what are you doing here?

Nothing.

I was just in the neighborhood, and I thought I'd stop in and say hi.

Hi.

Hi. Did you lose something?

As a matter of fact, have you seen Arnaz? You lost your son?

Hey, don't jump to any conclusions, Flex. I just haven't seen him since

yesterday, and I miss him.

Therefore, he's not lost.

I'm missing him.

And I'm not a bad mother, because I'm looking for him.

Cheryl, I didn't say you were a bad mother.

Well, you implied it with your accusatory tone.

Whatever. I'll just ask Brianna where he is.

Brianna! She's in her room.

Oh, don't throw it in my face that you know where your daughter is.

Yes, Daddy?

Oh, we've got company. Hey, Mrs.

Ballard! Baby, she lost her son at a hearing.

Have you seen Arnaz? Oh, no, I haven't seen him. I thought he was at arm's

Are you sure?

At least I know who my child is.

Giddy.

What's going on, man?

Cheryl's looking for Arnaz, and Brianna's acting weird.

Oh, really?

Check this out. It might help.

This is your resume. How does that help me?

Well, actually, it doesn't. But I thought it would be less inconsiderate

saying, help me first.

Man, sales have been really slow down at Big Sal's. Man, I think I might have to

find another job.

Oh, I can't believe people don't want to pay a 20 % markup for a pinto with a

Mercedes hood on them.

You feel me?

Dwayne, the only thing you have on here is Big Sal's. Oh, thank you, Flex. Oh,

problem solved.

Man,

the problem is I'm never going to get a job off of this.

Dog, in the Latin, the word resume means pack of lies.

Really? I don't know. Do I look Latin?

What I'm saying is you got to embellish. Ooh, embellish. Slow down with all the

Latin.

Man, you got to exaggerate a little.

You spice up your resume to make yourself sound more qualified than you

are. Hmm.

Water?

Ah. Now I'm a beverage distributor.

Anyway, I came over here because I'm getting a blip on my radar.

Well, then make a cream for that, dog.

Free clinic position.

Man, something's going on with Brianna under my nose, and I cannot put my

on it. I mean, she's been moody. She's been eating a lot. She's been wearing my

sweatshirts, even though they're too big for her.

Oh, that's easy.

She's pregnant.

What?

No, no, no.

My Brianna's not pregnant. That's somebody else's Brianna, not my Brianna.

Flex, I mean, do the math.

I mean, you know, she's eating a lot. I mean, eating for two.

I mean, she's wearing big clothes, big enough to cover her condition, and she's

moody. I mean, the hormones just jumping all over. Flex.

Flex disappeared.

Ooh, magician.

Brianna, you in there? We need to talk.

going on we can't hide from it all right i hope you're decent because i'm coming

in

sweetie

i know you're not sleeping i'm not leaving until we talk baby sit up

what what happened to us and we used to talk when something was

bothering us i know you're becoming a young woman but

Do things have to change so much?

Uh -huh.

Maybe they do.

Things were so much simpler when you were little.

All I had to do was... Tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle.

At least some things haven't changed.

Tell your dad what's wrong. I promise I won't get mad.

You can talk to me about anything.

You having school trouble, boy trouble.

Are you pregnant?

Say what?

Arnaz is in your bed.

Why is Arnaz in your bed? Come here, Arnaz.

Uh, no, Mr. Washington.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

Your mommy's looking for you. Flex just wants to take you home.

Uh, no, Mr. Washington.

Come here. It's all right, son. Come here.

You guys were letting me hide out here because... My mom's drinking's got out

control. What are you talking about, Arnaz?

She's been so depressed that all she does is sleep and drink.

Ever since my dad got engaged to that younger woman... Ouch. How much younger?

We have homeroom together.

You guys must be really going through a tough time.

I used to be able to deal with her drinking, but...

No, it just hurts too much.

Brianna, why don't you tell me sooner?

Because I promised I wouldn't. And sometimes, Daddy, you overreact. I do

overreact.

That still doesn't give you an excuse for not telling me.

But, Daddy, I... I don't want to hear it. You crossed the line. I'm sorry, Mr.

Washington, but she was just protecting me.

I couldn't take it anymore.

I'm scared.

All right.

I'm going to have to do something about this.

You're not going to try and shoot me up by tickling me again, are you?

No. But you can't stay in Brianna's room. You're going to have to sleep on

couch. And Brianna, you're grounded.

Daddy! Listen, you had a boy in the room.

Thank you, Mr. Washington, for letting me stay here, partner, not for the

grounded Brianna, partner.

Okay, when Cheryl gets here, we want to let her know that we have some concerns.

She's our friend, and we care about her. So let's not attack her. We don't want

her getting defensive.

You are absolutely right.

Can I pay?

What's with all the food, man? Well, see, I want to make this like a real AA

meeting. Ooh, event planner.

Hey, Flex.

Thanks for calling me about Arnett. Is he here?

Uh, no, he's over at my place.

Oh, at least he's not here in this dump.

I'm sorry.

I thought I was going to whisper that.

Cheryl, have you been drinking?

That's good.

No.

Come inside for a minute.

The reason why we asked you over here is, look, there's no easy way to put

so I'm just going to have to come right out and say it.

Arnaz is worried that you might have a drinking problem.

What?

Yeah, honey. That's ridiculous.

No, no, I'm serious.

Apparently, Arnaz has been hiding in Brianna's room and he's scared to go

Oh, Lex, come on. I mean, you know how kids exaggerate. That spirit girl, she

thinks she's a designer. Can you say D -K -N -O?

Dwayne, could you go get the kids?

What am I, your...

Many. I

can't believe this is happening.

This is so embarrassing.

You know, teenagers, you can't live with them, and you can't find them.

Look,

Canapé, you think the little man has a box of wine around here?

Cheryl, look, this is serious.

Yes, honey, Mommy has been so worried about you the last couple days.

Yeah, I've been worried about you for the last couple of years with your

drinking. Oh, Arnaz, you're being silly. I mean, you know what they say, one or

two glasses of wine a day.

That's good for your heart.

Oh, well, she must have the heart of sea biscuits.

I guess what we're trying to say, Cheryl, is things got bad enough that

left home.

Now you should hear him out.

There's nothing to hear.

Come on, Arnaz, let's go home.

We can talk about it there.

Look, Mom, I can't.

I need some help for your drinking.

I am your mother, and I said you were to come home right now.

I'm 18. I don't have to go home if I don't want to.

Arnaz, we are not going to do this here. Now you come on.

Look, Mom, let go.

I'm hurting my arm. Let go. I'm not going home with you because you're

Oh, my God, Arnaz.

I... No, Arnaz, I... Brianna, take him to our house. Take him to our house.

Cheryl,

look. Until you get your act together, Arnaz is staying with us.

Cheryl, I think you need to go home. Look, I'll take her home.

Uh, Miss Wayne, can I talk to you for a minute?

Sure, how can I help?

I need to talk to you about a friend.

Spirit, have we moved on to Harrison?

It's Arnaz.

I think he needs some help.

It's going to be okay.

Why don't you girls come to my office, hmm?

Interesting outfit, spirit.

Why don't I hold on to the hairspray?

I, um, I just, uh, came by.

To apologize for yesterday, I don't know what came over me. Huh, could it have

been the gym bean?

Don't preach to me, Flex.

Somebody's got to.

Cheryl, you hit on it.

Whatever's going on in your house right now just isn't right.

Don't you think I know that?

I'm just having a hard time with some things that are going on in my life.

All I know is if you don't deal with your problem, you're going to lose your

son.

Is he here?

No, he went with the girls to school to see the guidance counselor.

Great. Now everybody's going to know our business.

Cheryl, if that's the only thing that's important to you, then you've got a

bigger problem than I thought.

Why am I here?

Because we need you at our emergency cheerleaders meeting.

Yeah, we're discussing shortening our skirts and we want an expert's opinion.

Oh, that's easy. Yes, shorten the skirts.

Now, about these tops, are these really necessary?

Hello, Arnaz.

What's going on here? This is an allotine meeting for kids living with

members who have problems with alcohol.

Your friends brought you here because they're scared for you.

I thought I could trust the two of you.

Ernest, don't go.

No, Spirit, he's got to want to do it for himself. Otherwise, it's not going

work. Ernest, please do this.

Look, I care about you, and I hate seeing you like this.

You don't deserve what your mother's doing to you.

Okay, fine, I'll stay.

But I'm not talking.

Okay, so, where were we? Um, Jennifer, you were talking about your dad's slip.

Um, things were going great at work.

He even got a promotion.

And his co -workers took him out to celebrate for happy hour.

Um, but he didn't come home till the next morning.

I'm sure whatever time he got home, it was happy hour somewhere.

Sweetie, Jennifer's talking, but you'll get your chance.

So, Jennifer, how has this affected you?

When my dad starts drinking, I feel like it's my fault.

Why do you think that you should be responsible for your dad's drinking?

Yeah, you can't watch him 24 -7.

Why should you have to?

They're adults.

Every disappointment in their lives should mean they have to get drunk and

get the laundries done. Or if you've had any dinner.

Or if they've bathed in the last three days.

You sound angry.

Yeah, I'm angry.

My dad's out of our lives.

Doesn't she know that hurts me too?

Maybe I should start drinking.

Arnaz, one screwed up person in this family is enough.

What are you doing here?

Mr. Washington brought me down.

I'm so sorry.

You're always sorry. Hey, it took a lot of courage for your mom to come down

here. Don't judge her.

Just listen to what she has to say.

I've heard all this before.

Nothing ever changes.

I know I have a problem, and I have to do something.

I just, I don't know how to start.

Why don't you start here?

Is it all right if your mom stays?

There's a thing next to me here, Mom.

I love you, Daddy.

I love you, too, baby.

And I'm proud of you, the way you stood by her nails like a true friend.

But you're still grounded.

Yep. Not going anywhere for a long, long time.

Love you too, Netta.