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Okay, Crunchy? Oh.

I'm sorry.

Hey. What? I didn't even take a bite that time.

Let's see, Joaquin. That stupid computer keeps freezing up on me.

That's what I get for buying stuff off of Jerome's crooked behind.

Well, what did you expect from 50 bucks and Niecy's prom picture?

Hey, guys.

So, what do you think?

Do you like it?

I like it better if it covers your face.

That's a cute jacket, Niecy. Where'd you get it? Rita, from the first floor.

Wait a minute, Rita that throws all those good parties? Yep, girl, but this

party's gonna be hard to top. She's giving away all her things. It's like

looting without the tear gas.

Good. Come on, Mom, let's go check it out.

No, I have a huge paper to finish. That is, if I can get the computer to work.

Girl, Rita's giving away an iMac computer still in the box.

Still in the box? Still in the box. Party up.

It's me.

It's me.

It just didn't feel right, you know?

Oh, come on, Mo. But she has some pretty nice stuff.

I mean, I would have taken more, but I didn't want to seem greedy like me.

I'm greedy?

I can't believe you would have taken the girl's toothbrush if it wasn't still

wet.

Hey, I wonder why she's doing it. I mean, nobody just gives their stuff away

no reason.

You know what, Mo? You're right.

Chris probably all stolen and he's giving it away to hide the evidence.

I better start scratching off these serial numbers.

Well, Bonnie and Clyde, I'd love to help you plan your next heist, but Mama's

got to pay for the ride.

Oh, you think your computer's working any better?

Probably not.

I can't tell that fool Jerome I want my money back. Oh, come on, Mo. Just step

aside and let the computer master take care of it.

Computer master? Yep. I came up until last year. The closest thing you had to

computer was your Etch -A -Sketch.

Okay, Mo. Okay, look. You just push this button right here, and you're probably

here.

What? It's down over.

So?

Baby, you want me?

Dorian.

Dorian. You want me?

You want to show up?

Lucky I recognized you.

Dorian, when you're finished with the oven, I want you to come upstairs and

us clean the carpet.

Dang, don't I get a coffee break?

Do you drink coffee?

No. Well, there's your answer.

Sorry for coming to your back door, but no one answered up front. I thought I

saw someone back here. Oh, that's all right. Please, please.

You could come through the front, the back, the side, and you could have

through the window. It would have been all good with me.

My name's Melanie Lovechild. I'm selling magazines to help students like myself

raise money for college.

Well, I'm Dorian, and I'm here to help ladies like yourself with whatever they

want.

Your Sports Illustrated should start coming in a couple of weeks. By the end

the month, you should receive stereo review, road and track, and your first

issue of Modern Bride.

So true.

I mean, can I see you again?

I think that could be arranged.

After all, you're my number one customer.

Well, I want to be your number one, period.

What's it up to now?

But tomorrow, some friends and I are having a little party. You should come.

Oh, for sure.

Let me write down the address.

Look it up.

Bet. Yep, I know where to get you. And when you come tomorrow, could you do

me a favor?

What's that?

Lose the yellow glove and apron.

Oh, all right.

away isn't too bad.

Hey.

Come in.

Hey. Hey, Rita.

What's going on?

Nothing, girl. Just trying to finish this paper up for Monday. How's your

coming? I haven't even started it yet. I get it done, I get it done. No biggie.

Hey, Moesha, how come you...

things yesterday.

Oh, no, Rita. I just didn't feel right taking any of your stuff.

Besides, you had enough people up in there helping themselves.

Tell me about it. That guy with the skis would have taken my toothbrush if I'd

have let him.

Anyway, since you didn't get anything, I wanted you to have this.

Wow, Rita.

That's beautiful, but I can't accept that. Take it, Mo. It's real gold. It

my mother's before she passed away last year.

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that.

But why are you giving away all your thing?

They're just that, Moesha.

Things. Things come and things go. They don't matter to me anymore.

Rita, are you okay?

Sure, I'm fine. I better go and let you get back to your paper. No need in both

of us flunking.

Bye.

No doubt. So you ready to go to the party?

This is the party, Philly.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Girl, I was just playing with you.

So you and your friends always party at church?

Most of the time.

Well, look, how about we throw a little change up and finish this party at a

club? I can't leave. My father's the pastor here.

Let me introduce you to him.

Daddy?

Daddy, I want you to meet Dorian.

Oh, hello, son.

Good to meet you.

My bad, my bad. It's nice to meet you, too, Rev.

Hey, that's a tight suit.

Well, if it ain't tight, it ain't right.

So, Dorian, do you love the Lord?

Yes.

Yes.

No, you don't hear me, son. Listen again to what I'm saying. There can be no

delaying. Do you love the Lord?

Yes, sir, I do.

Well, that's good, because any young man keeping company with my baby girl...

Has to have a strong love for Jesus.

Well, if my love was any stronger, I'd be a weightlifter for the Lord.

Yeah, is that so?

Yeah. Just like me when I was your age. You ever think about becoming a

preacher?

Nah, no.

I don't think that would work. Well, why not, son? What's stopping you? Is it

your family?

Well, uh, uh, yeah.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, they are.

See, my father wants me to follow in his footsteps.

He's a car salesman. Car salesman?

That's just another word for heathen, isn't it?

I wouldn't say all that.

You don't have to make excuses for him, Dorian. Your daddy is player hating on

Jesus.

We need more young people like you in church.

Why don't you come by next Sunday with my Melanie? We'd love to have you.

And I'd love to be here.

Then I'll see you at service. Yes, you will.

My dad really likes you, Dorian.

How do you know?

He didn't punch you in the chest and call it a baptism.

Uh, Melanie, this is cool and all, but when can me and you go out alone?

After church tomorrow.

I'll be free to do whatever.

Hallelujah.

Oh, happy day.

Rita, what's going on?

Momisha, don't come any closer or I'll jump.

Now, Rita.

Rita, I know you don't want to do this, all right?

Because that is a long way to fall without a bungee cord.

Stop!

I told you not to come any closer. Why doesn't anyone ever listen to me? Rita,

I'm listening. I'm listening. Why don't you just come in so we can talk?

You forgot your... Uh, Rita?

Girl, you better get off that rail before you fall and kill yourself.

That's her plan.

What? Yeah.

Now go get help.

All right, I'm on it.

Whoa, whoa, hey, hey.

What's going on?

Rita's about to drop out of college.

The hard way.

Rita, please, just talk to me, okay?

Why are you doing this?

I mean, whatever it is, it cannot be worth dying over.

How do you know?

You don't know what I've been through this past year.

You're not flunking out.

You're right, Rita. I don't know. I don't know.

But I'm willing to listen.

Just talk to me. What can I do to make you feel better?

Can you bring my mother back?

Huh?

Can you do that, Moesha?

Rita, I can't bring your mother back.

If I could, I'd bring my own mother back.

You lost your mother.

I lost my mother.

And it still hurts sometimes, Rita, but you know what?

I know she watches over me.

And I'm sure your mother is watching over you right now.

And I know she wouldn't want you to take your life.

This hurts so bad.

My mother was my best friend.

I know, Rita.

I know, but soon it won't hurt as bad.

It won't.

If you come down from there, I promise I will help you through it.

Rita, please, this is not the answer.

Not the answer. Please, just take my hand.

Wow,

Mo.

You were good.

Like Sam Jackson in The Negotiator.

Except cuter.

Oh, Rita, what's the matter?

A sleeping pill. Sleeping pill? I didn't want it to hurt when I hit the ground.

I can call 911.

Yo. Hey, Dorian. What are you guys doing here?

Well, we got a call from a reverend love child inviting us to service this

morning. I thought that maybe it might be a nice way to expand our spiritual

base. Dad, you said there would be an opportunity to eat pancakes.

Well, that too.

D -Man, why are you here anyway?

Now you know God erased your name from the Book of Life a long time ago.

Hey,

Melody. I want to introduce you to my dad, Frank Mitchell, and this is my

brother, Mal.

Well, pleasure to meet you, Melody. Now I know I'm in church. Is this Angel

right here, y 'all?

Now, son, you're embarrassing yourself.

You must be Brother Mitchell.

Oh, Reverend Lovechild. Well, how nice of you to invite us here. Well, that's

why we opened this place.

For folks like you.

What exactly do you mean, Reverend?

I'm just welcoming you into the house of the Lord. Will you folks please have a

seat down front? Well, yes.

Especially you, Brother Frank.

Rita? Rita, come on, stay awake, okay? Stay with us. Yeah, yeah, that a girl.

Yeah. That a girl. I'm all over those paramedics. They should have been here

now. Oh, no.

No, we should.

Has anyone ever told you that you're black?

OK,

we can't let her go to sleep. We have to keep her moving. Come on, Rita.

I want to do something that I've never done before, something different,

something unorthodox.

I want to put you into the hands of a young person, a person I believe God has

blessed, has touched, has called.

And now the devil doesn't want him to come up here.

He wants him to miss his calling.

Why is he staring at me?

I don't know.

Maybe it was all that noise you made putting that change in the collection

plate.

God's house now, and he's in the driver's seat. So we're just going to

over the devil's little speed bumps with the word of God.

So Dorian, come up and talk to me.

Dorian?

This Dorian, me?

Come on up, brother.

Don't be afraid of your father.

God is on your side.

I'm happy to be here this morning. Amen, brother.

And I'm happy to be alive.

I want y 'all to take your Bibles right here.

her stomach, so hopefully she'll be okay.

As for you two, you ought to be proud of yourselves.

You saved her life.

You ready?

If you want me to give you back your skis, no problem.

What's wrong, Moesha?

Hakeem, I should have seen the signs with Rita.

I mean, her not coming to class, giving all her stuff away.

She tried to tell me about her mom yesterday, and I just... I blew her off.

Too caught up into my term paper to listen to her.

Wait a minute, Mo. How can you say that?

Mo, I saw you talk her down off that balcony, Mo, and I was like... Like,

Rita something that she almost lost.

Her life.

I was kind of good, huh?

Yeah. You saved her life and taught me the electric slide all at the same time.

Okay, you guys.

Help is on the way.

She's gone, Macy.

She jump?

Oh, Lord, I'm too late.

No, I was right.

Read up.

Read up, Stargirl.

I didn't mean to stop at Starbucks.

Oh, thank you.

Shady fans, watch this.

So, what's y 'all feeling, Reverend D -Money?

Was I bringing the word or what?

You were bringing the word, all right.

A word I'm afraid to say in church.

Oh, come on, Miles. No, you were great, son.

You know, Dorian, I never knew you had that in you.

I mean, your sermon.

The words. It was like I'd heard those words somewhere before.

Dad, you have.

On the radio.

Be quiet before I lay hands on you.

Excuse me, y 'all. I have to go tend to my flock.

All right, we'll see you at home, son.

Yo, yo, Melanie.

So, you ready to go out?

Please, I'm not going anywhere with you.

Why not?

What did I do?

Are you serious?

Did you hear yourself up there? I didn't know whether to shout, pray, or crip

walk.

Okay, so I improvised a bit.

You know, for what? It was for a good cause.

I was trying to impress you.

I like you, Melanie.

Well, you should have been honest.

You're right. My bad.

So can we go out now?

Sorry, Dorian. It just wouldn't work out.

And too bad, I was gonna rock your world.