- ♪ MTV ♪
- It's no secret, I never wanted you with Bar, and I--
- We know, girl. - It's no secret.
- The reason why I haven't just told him to leave
is between we both paid...
- A lot of money. - All this rent.
We paid rent a year in advance.
- Girl, you better divorce him.
- I can say I plan to put my best foot forward
to make coinhabiting this house as smooth as possible
and as friendly as can be.
- So does that mean they are apart, not together?
- I don't know. - Or how--
- I don't know if that means that she's filing for divorce.
I don't know what that means. I don't know.
- So you hooked up with Costa Rican guy.
- Mm-hmm, so I went and bought a pregnancy test,
and it was positive.
- He doesn't understand
that he's not gonna make it in time for the baby.
- That's because he really doesn't want
to think about not being there.
- There you go. all: Aww.
- She did really good.
- So there's a guy that I met
at the concept, and he's pretty cool.
- I think it's important to not only just text
but to see each other face-to-face, talk.
- Absolutely. - These are the twins up here?
- Yeah, that was the twins when they were babies.
That's Addie, 'cause it was her newborn shots.
- Aww, that's cute.
- Your dad is gonna come,
and you're gonna spend time with him.
[tense music]
Devoin forgot to pick up Nova at gymnastics.
- Mm-hmm. - Javi gets jealous sometimes.
It's not what...
- You were expecting? - I thought it was gonna be.
- Him or just being engaged to him in general?
- Being engaged to him in general.
I just wish we could still be boyfriend and girlfriend
and take our time.
I'm tired.
♪ ♪
- Go to sleep.
- I don't think I want to talk to him ever again.
- Did you give him back a ring, or you still have it?
- I gave him back the ring. I threw it.
And I was like, "It's outside somewhere, go look for it."
- Oh, my God, Briana.
- Don't cry, Bri. - Bri.
♪ ♪
- She gets her first FaceTime with Sean tomorrow.
- Oh, are you anticipating him coming back or anything?
- Can you help me open this? - Sure can.
- I'm not really thinking about it.
- So me staying at your house
maybe a month till I find a place.
- Yeah, I just don't want you guys there
if it's a bunch of drama and [bleep].
- When me and Dad got pulled over three years ago,
he had weed in there.
It was a roach. And I didn't know.
And then--so they charged me with it, so I have to go
to jail for 45 days for something I didn't do.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Javi and I haven't talked since the breakup.
The girls start school tomorrow,
and Luis hasn't seen Stella in over a month.
Ready to make some pizza, guys?
Devoin's been picking up Nova from gymnastics,
but it's not always consistent.
Can you get off your phone, please?
Britt, you gonna help me?
'Cause it looks like the kids are not helping me.
Are you excited to start school?
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah?
What are you most excited about?
- Nothing. - Nothing?
Fourth grade is like, for real, for real.
But you're smart, and I think you're gonna do great.
We met your teacher. Do you like your teacher?
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah?
And she starts VPK tomorrow.
You want to drop Stella off first with you,
and then we drop you off tomorrow,
so that you can say bye to her for her first day,
as a big sissy?
Let me get some spoons, so we can open up the sauce.
Do you know if your dad is coming tomorrow
to see you before you go to school, no?
Do you want me to ask him? Do you want him there?
Yeah? Okay, I'll ask him.
Stella, are you excited to go to VPK?
you're getting older. VPK is pre-K.
- Stop growing up. - Yes.
I'm gonna text your dad, okay?
Tell him to come here in the morning, okay?
- Okay. - How about Luis?
Maybe he should know.
- You want your dad to be there when you go to VPK?
- No! - All right, I did my part.
I texted both dads to be a part of this big day tomorrow.
If Luis doesn't come, then Devoin will come,
and Devoin will see Stella go to VPK.
That's exciting.
- Check your text. See if they responded.
- Yeah.
Luis asks, "What time does she get out after?"
- Tell him he can be here at the crack of dawn.
- He asked for after. - You better wake his ass up.
- But I'm sure Devoin will be here, so it's okay.
It's okay.
- She's already texting him. - Shush, Brittany.
- I'm not talking to you. - Who are you texting?
'Cause if I'm texting somebody already,
you shouldn't be butting in and doing it yourself.
- It's okay. - No, it's not okay.
- I did it.
- You shouldn't have. [phone chimes]
- If he don't want to come, he don't want to come.
- No, that's not the point.
- Luis said he'll be here at 6:30.
[phone chimes]
- Just trust me, when I send him a text or D a text,
I know what I'm doing.
[soft music]
[upbeat music]
- My parents have been staying with me for a few days.
They're supposed to be watching Kloie,
but they've been sleeping a lot,
so I've just been taking her to daycare.
- ♪ Why, why do I even try to get inside your mind? ♪
♪ Now you're running from your life ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey, what's up? - What's up?
- You look kind of irritated.
- Stressed out with my mom. - What she do now?
- Well, she--you know, she'd been staying with me.
- Uh-huh.
- And I feel like she kind of just overstayed
her welcome with me.
It's just negative energy all the time, and I'm like,
I'm trying to have a happy, positive energy.
I'm trying to move forward. - Yeah.
- And I just don't want to deal with the negativity.
And my parents, I don't mind helping,
but there's, like, a fine line between helping
and then feeling like I'm just getting kind of ran over,
or almost, like, taken advantage of.
I just am like,
anytime I try to do something nice and be there...
- I feel like, as parents... - It just--
- They stress you out more than they...
- Help me out. - Are parenting you, like--
- It's like, you're causing more stress than help.
They don't really do much, so I'm like,
there's no point of having you here,
'cause it's just causing me more stress than anything.
I'm just about to text her and tell her, like,
"You guys are just gonna have to find somewhere else to go,
'cause I definitely need my home and my space back."
I need--I'm like, I need my house back.
I just need that privacy back.
[soft music]
My mom got pissed that I asked her to move out,
and she said some really mean things.
We haven't talked since, but this morning,
she and my dad picked up their stuff
while I was at work.
♪ ♪
Hey, what are you doing?
- Nothing, what are you doing? - Chilling.
Just got home from work.
- Yeah?
- My parents are finally out of my house.
They were driving me insane.
- How'd that go? - Well, not good.
It sucks. I just don't get it.
Like, I hate doing this.
Like, she sent me a bunch of texts,
and she was like, "Oh, you don't love me.
"You don't care about me. You must hate me.
"You must want me to be miserable.
"I'm already going to jail, and you're gonna make me go
"to jail and be this miserable with nowhere to live."
And I'm like,
"This is not my fault. You know that, right?"
- Yeah, it's not your place.
You plan on, like, calling her or having her
see Kloie before, or like--
- I really don't know, 'cause I just don't want her
to be crying, and then Kloie's emotional...
- Right, right.
- And it becomes this sad, emotional thing,
'cause with my mom,
I feel like she always plays the emotion card.
And I just would never put my kid through the stuff
I feel like my parents put me through.
- Yeah.
- I was trying to make her days
before jail a little easier and less stressful on her.
But I think that I just kind of had a big revelation.
I realized, like, how they are is just how they are.
I don't think that they want to put in the work to be better.
I can't keep draining myself and pouring into other people.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- I'm not sure where Bar and I stand right now.
But we've been doing our best to coparent Holly.
In a few months, I'm going to open a salon with my friend,
so today I'm showing my parents the space.
Yo.
- Hey, what's going on? - Hi, parents.
- Hey, this is a cute little space.
So tell me how you gonna set this up.
- The couch is gonna be here.
There's gonna be a fireplace and a TV there.
- Right here? - Okay.
- Over there is retail. - Okay, the space there.
- [indistinct] - I love it.
- Yeah. - Thanks.
- Good job.
- Thanks, Mom. You know boss [bleep].
- Yeah, good job.
- ♪ Oh, I love the feeling ♪
♪ I'm not sure why ♪
♪ Let go of the fever ♪
♪ Go for a ride ♪
- Hi. - Hi.
- You're gonna be right here in this room.
- Thank you.
- So when did you guys start working on the building?
- Like a month ago. - A month ago?
Okay, what's going on with you and Bar?
And what's going on with that? What's the tea, what's the tea?
- I don't know if it's tea. It might be Diet Pepsi.
- Okay, well what's going on, relationship-wise?
- I think things are just horizontally flat.
- I mean, what is he spending his time doing?
- I don't know. I'm not there to tell you.
I'm spending my time at the salon.
- So y'all just gonna coexist in the same house?
- I mean, until our lease is done.
What the hell? - All right!
- I feel like I'm being interrogated.
- But I worry about Bar, though, on the other side,
because I know, without you to push him,
I'm not for sure what's gonna become of Bar because--
- That's not my problem.
- So right now, you just don't know.
- I don't, I'm just doing me. I don't plan to know.
I'm not gonna force myself to know.
I'm not gonna force myself to make plans.
I don't know what the [bleep]
I'm doing, and I'm okay with that.
- You're just floating.
- I am, and I'm okay with that. - Yeah.
- Well, considering, you know,
y'all not with each other, per se,
there's still the legality of it all with y'all marriage.
So how is that being addressed?
- It's not.
- Or is it being addressed at all?
I mean, I strongly suggest you file for a separation.
- I don't know what I'm doing right now,
so I'm not gonna file for [bleep].
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
- When I decide that that's what I'm gonna do,
that's what I'm gonna do.
- Please do that.
- And if he wants to step forward and do it,
then by all means, take the first step and do it.
- He would never.
- I'm not doing [bleep] right now.
- But don't just goof around
and then get caught up in some stuff,
and then you can't get out of it
because you didn't take step one at the proper time.
- Or goof around, [bleep] around and not be paying--
- Alimony. [laughs]
- Yep, alimony. All of your money.
- So you gotta make sure you protect your--
- Protect your neck. - Mm-hmm.
- Is what it breaks down to.
- I know that everyone wants an answer.
I don't got one for you mother[bleep].
And when I do, y'all will know.
- Yeah.
- As of right now, I'm just in the wind fabulous.
[tense music]
Everyone keeps asking me questions
about Bar and my relationship,
as if that's all there is to me.
And it's like, damn, I'm tired of talking about that.
I want people to see that there's more to my life.
It's just irritating. It's frustrating.
There's so many other things going on,
and I'm always asked about Bar as if I am Bar.
I'm not Bar.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Jaylan's back in Georgia,
but he's gonna visit again later this week,
when the girls are with their dads.
And today, the twins are starting junior high.
Ali, do you want avocado on your toast?
- No. - What do you want on it?
Butter? - Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
- Are you excited?
You get to meet your new aide today.
- Mm-hmm.
- And she's supposed to stay with you at all times.
- Mm-hmm.
- Communicate to her if you want her to step back
and just observe.
That's fine, too.
Okay, guys, vamanos. We really gotta hurry.
Can I get a picture of you guys real quick?
Look, my babies are going to junior high.
- Not me.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Running to the top of the hill ♪
♪ To see a new sunrise, stepping up to the edge ♪
- How are you guys feeling? Are you nervous yet?
- Nope - No.
- No, good.
Wear your mask when you're around a bunch of people, okay?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Addie, what are we gonna do,
since you don't have school yet?
- Ooh, we go to the mall, and then we get our nails done.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- I love you. Have a good day, okay?
♪ ♪
You'll do great. Have fun.
Have a great day. Make lots of friends.
♪ ♪
[knock at door]
[dog barking] - Uh-uh, Lucky, chill, no.
Come in. Ah-ah.
- Hello. - Hi, come on over.
- How are you?
- I'm just writing down my schedule for next week.
You know.
- Oh, don't pretend to be organized.
- Girl, why you always gotta talk [bleep]?
Why do you always gotta talk [bleep]?
- Because.
- So it's the girls' first day of middle school, junior high.
- Scary. - Isn't it scary, though?
- Yes, so how's Ali?
Is she doing good with the wheelchair still?
- Yeah. I think she knows she needs it.
Because she's walking a lot more.
Usually, when she's using it at school, she does fine.
- So you still have never told me
about your tour with Jay at your house.
- Oh, he came over. I think it went fine.
We did have some conversation about Ali.
- Yeah?
- And just raising a daughter
with special needs, and kind of what that entails.
And we talked about the kids. And, I mean, it went great.
- I think it's good. I think you deserve someone.
I don't like seeing you by yourself forever either,
so I'm ready for you to be ready.
- For what? I'm ready for you to be ready.
Are you speeding things up or what?
- I know, yeah.
- I'm ready for you to get your soulmate over here.
- I know, soon as the borders open,
I'd like to go to Costa Rica and see Royer.
I'd like for you to go.
You know, you are a big support system.
You are the sponsor, so I think it's important.
- You want to go soon. - Yeah.
For me, I think it's very important that I go
because of our son.
You know, Cai, you know, this coming year will be two.
You know?
- Wow. - And he's never seen his dad.
So I think those two things are important to me,
to be able to go and see him.
- Mm-hmm. - You know, and if, you know...
- I can fly down and help, too.
- You want to bring your friend--
- Bring my friend?
- Yeah. You can bring your friend.
- I don't know if I can invite him to another country.
I mean, he's a pretty cool guy.
- It would be--it's an open way to really get to know him.
What's the most that's gonna happen, huh?
- You're making me nervous right now.
- You get good food. You get good company.
- You're making me nervous. - You get good sex for a week.
- You're making me nervous. - What is the problem?
♪ ♪
I mean, come on.
- We'll see, we'll see.
- Ask him, or I'll ask him. - Oh, my God.
Ask Jaylan to go to Costa Rica with me.
- Yes.
- I'm asking a dude to go somewhere with me.
- Yes.
- I'm asking someone-- - That is okay.
That is okay.
♪ ♪
- I haven't spoke to my parents
since they left my house.
My mom's supposed to go to jail tomorrow,
but I'm still so annoyed that I don't want to see her.
♪ ♪
Are you gonna give me some cuddles?
You want to give me some cuddles?
Do you want to give me some cuddles?
- No. - Oh.
- Don't. - Ah.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I want to love you, but you get in my way ♪
♪ I know you like me, but you make me insane ♪
- Hey.
- Hey, Christy. - How are you?
- I'm okay. How are you?
- I've been better. - So...
- Stressful day.
Jade got kind of angry and said,
"Have your bags packed and be out by the time I get back."
Who says that to their mom? But whatever.
So we did.
I mean, it's just like,
I appreciate what she does for me,
but she doesn't ever appreciate what I do for her.
We've had Kloie every day, babysitting her.
And we don't complain about it. We love Kloie.
I mean, but it's a job,
especially for--we're not used to having kids.
So we felt like, well, that was our part, you know?
You're letting us stay here, helping us out,
helping you out, you don't have to pay childcare,
you know, trying to keep the house clean.
So it was kind of a help for me being there for her.
But maybe, I mean--
- But now, you're not there anymore.
- Mm-mm.
- You and Corey aren't there anymore.
- No, we've left. - Where have you been staying?
Where did you go?
- I stayed in my car for one night.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then got, like, a little efficiency somewhere.
- Okay, when do you have to report to jail?
- Tomorrow. I've had nightmares about it.
I've had--I'm not the same that I was
before I went to jail in 2013.
I've had nightmares about that [bleep].
Like, I have--feel like I have PTSD from it.
And, like, coming back, it's like a nightmare
all over again, my worst two fears,
being homeless and going to jail, now I'm both.
- Yeah. - So...
- So, you haven't seen Kloie now in a few days.
- Yeah.
- Are you gonna talk to her-- - So since Thursday.
- Or you gonna--what are you--are you gonna talk
to Jade before?
- I don't know, I don't know.
I hope I can see Kloie before I go to jail.
♪ ♪
None of my relationships, I feel like,
are good right now.
None of my relationships are, like, healthy.
Because I'm not 100%.
So I would just feel better going to jail
knowing that I was able to tie up some loose ends,
and maybe be in a little bit happier place.
I guess I've been worse,
but I've been better, that's for sure.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Today’s the first day \h\h\h\h\h\h\hof school
for both Nova and Stella.
\hWe have to leave the house at 7:00,
\h\hand both their dads said they’ll be here before then,
but there’s no sign \h\h\h\hof them yet.
♪ ♪
Good morning, girls.
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWake up. Wash your face, get dressed.
\h\hAnd go brush your teeth while I deal with this one,
’cause this one may be \ha little bit tougher
to deal with right now.
My Stellita’s growing so big.
Big girl class today. \h\h\h\hI’m so happy.
♪ ♪
Open your mouth. \h\h\h\hOpen up.
Open up all the way. \h\h\h\h\h\hAhh, ahh.
- Good morning.
\h\h- Come look. Your dad’s here.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Look. - Say hi to your dad.
- You excited for school? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No.
Let’s put on your sweater.
\h- Look, I got you a bag. Do you want to see it now?
- She’s been--she’s had \h\h\h\hher eyes closed
since the moment she woke up.
She has not opened them, swear.
- Are you a morning person? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No.
- No, she’s not.
\h- This is where she gets it from.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey. Have a good first day, okay?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI love you, and I’ll call you later.
- [indistinct] Thank you, Lu.
- You have a good day, too. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Thank you.
\h- Look at what your dad got you.
- Eyes opening.
\h\h\h\h- You ready to open? - I think I know what it is.
- Look, let’s go see.
\h\h\h[gasps] He got you...
\h\h\h\hLook. - How pretty.
- You can make your own \h\h\h\h\hwater bottle.
I think you can color it.
\h- She opened her eyes! - Will you look at that?
How things just worked out. Nova, where’s your father?
- Your dad wants to take you.
- Is Devoin coming, on his way?
\h\h\h- It’s saying that it wants you to bite it.
\h- I don’t know, he asked me if...
- You gonna bite it?
\h- He could take Nova, but she said no, so...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSo I guess he’s not coming at all.
\h\h- If you--take a bite. - All right, come on, guys.
Let’s get ready to head out. \h\hLet’s go take a picture.
♪ ♪
- Going to kindergarten.
\h\h\h\h- All right, let’s take a picture.
One, two, three, say cheese.
- Fourth grade already. \h\h\h\hWhat the heck?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- I’m gonna cry. You guys are getting so big.
\h\h\h\h- I know. - Okay, let’s go.
- Devoin texted me and asked \h\h\h\hif he can take Nova
to school for her first day,
and I asked Nova, and Nova said no.
Nova wanted me to take her.
\h\h\hAnd I understood, and I told Devoin that,
and I think that hurt \h\h\h\hhis feelings,
and he just didn’t show.
♪ ♪
I think Nova was definitely \h\h\h\h\hexpecting Devoin,
and since Devoin \hdidn’t show up,
he disappointed her.
But I was definitely surprised \h\h\h\h\hthat Luis showed up.
- Bye, have a blessed day.
- I just wish both Devoin \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand Luis
could be on the same page.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Bye! - Love you, have a good day.
’Cause it really sucks when one shows up and shows out,
the other one doesn’t.
It gets really confusing \h\h\h\h\hfor the girls.
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h- I’m still annoyed that my parents were pushing
\hfor answers about me and Bar the other day.
\h\hI just don’t know what I want right now,
and that should be enough.
♪ ♪
- This is gonna be fun.
- Racers, start your engines!
- You ready?
- ♪ Get up and move ♪
- Here we go. \h\h\h\hAhh!
- ♪ Gotta get up and move ♪
- Is Mommy fast?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey, what? Hey, y’all’s are faster!
- Mommy’s the fastest one!
- Ah!
- [laughing]
♪ ♪
- Thank you so much. \h\h\h\hCheers, babe.
- We gonna see what this girl \h\h\h\h\h\h\htalking about.
Where she at?
- She should be here \h\h\h\h\hany minute.
\h\h- Ashley and Bar was like--what was they like?
I mean, they was cool, \hor was they not cool?
- Well, last I know, \hshe said, you know,
that they was taking a break.
So, you know, until she tell me \h\h\h\h\hsomething different,
that’s where I’m at with it.
\h\h\h\h\h- Right, she was kind of getting frustrated
\h\h\hwith the, like, where she was going,
and Bar not really keeping up \h\h\hwhere she trying to go.
- Right, right, right, \h\h\h\h\hright, right.
- You know what I mean?
Honestly, yeah, you don’t need \h\h\h\h\h\h\hto be with nobody
that’s holding you back, and--
- I feel that same way.
You know, if this is gonna \h\h\h\h\h\h\hbe a problem,
divorce the [bleep].
It’s just that simple. \h\h\hDivorce his ass.
But on the other hand, she’s attached to him.
She has a family. He is our family.
So it’s gonna--the dynamics \h\his all over the place.
So it’s life. \h\h\h- Yeah.
- You gotta figure \hthat [bleep] out.
\h\h- What’s up, girl? - Hey, what’s going on?
- Sit right here. \h\h- What’s up?
- So, what’s up, girl? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Nothing.
\h\h\h\h- How you feeling with the whole Bar thing?
Like, you know anything?
\h\h\hI mean, I’m not trying to pressure you or anything.
\h\h\h\hI’m just trying to see, you know, where you at with it.
\h\h\h- It takes time to figure things out.
I don’t have everything figured out right now.
- That’s fair.
- I have a lot on my plate. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h\h- And it’s just, it’s a lot involved.
- Yeah.
- And I don’t--you know \h\h\hwhat I’m saying?
It’s also something that I semi would like to handle privately,
because--
- You’re not sure yet.
- Some things need \h\h\hto be handled
with delicacy and privacy.
- We know, you know, it’s not \h\ha cut-and-dry situation.
There’s family involved. \h\h\h\hHolly’s involved.
How you feel is involved.
Nobody just want to quit \h\h\h\h\hon they family.
- Where I’m at is I don’t know,
\h\hand I don’t want to keep saying that.
\hI’m getting frustrated. You know what I’m saying?
People are married \h\h\hin real life,
trying to work it out \h\h\h\hin real life,
\hso I say give me time, give me the [bleep] time.
\h\h\h- Okay. - Relax, Ash.
\h- Stop asking me about this [bleep].
\h\h\h- Relax. - Relax, relax.
- I’m not gonna relax.
I’m gonna figure it \hthe [bleep] out,
\hand when I decipher what I’m going to do,
I will let everybody \h\h\haround me know.
I’m here to paint and drink \h\h\h\hwith these people,
so just give me that.
- Okay, no problem.
♪ ♪
- I think I’m done. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Sis.
- Hold on, Ashley, hold on.
- Ash, sis, sis, sis. \h\h\h\h\hIt’s okay.
- Man.
- We got to go outside. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- She’s trying to leave. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- No, I’m done.
- Hold on, she’s trying to go \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hall the way.
- Oh, Lord, Jesus.
- She left. \h[bleep].
- She actually left? \h- She [bleep] left.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So what was the best part of your day at middle school?
- Oh, my home base. - Home base, why was that?
- 'Cause my teacher's fun. - Funny?
- Like, nice. - Yeah?
- I like my third period. - What's that?
- Social studies. - Yeah, same teacher.
- Oh.
- She's so-- - I have her twice.
I have her for home base and for social studies.
She's funny. - That's good.
You talk to your mom yet, tell her how it went?
- No. - Want to call her?
- Yeah.
[FaceTime beeping]
Hi, Mom.
- Hi, sis, how was your first day of middle school?
- Good. - Good.
- Good? - Yeah.
- Did you get to all of your classes successfully?
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- How was it with your aide?
Was she with you the whole day?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah? Did you like her?
- Mm-hmm. - Good.
Oh, you got--are you sharing the same locker?
both: Yeah.
- She already decorated it.
- You did? Of course she did.
Miss fashionista over there.
- Then she brushed her hair. Was looking at herself.
- At her locker?
I'm glad you had a good day. I love you.
- Love you.
- ♪ If you feel all right ♪
♪ Put your hands up ♪
[knock at door]
[dog barking] - Come in!
Lucky, no, come. - Hey, Lucky.
- Lucky, mess with that ball. Hey.
- Hi. - I like the shirt.
- Thank you. What you doing?
- I'm just doing laundry.
- Hi, what are you doing?
At least he seems excited to see me today.
- He is excited.
Usually, he tries--he's barking at everyone.
- So what's up? What have you been doing?
- Oh, you know.
The twins are with their dad. They started middle school.
- Yeah, how do they like middle school?
It's probably a big difference for them.
- I think the--being the first week,
they were just kind of, like... - Like, whoa.
- "I don't know about this. This is a lot."
- Yeah, so how's everything with Jaylan?
- Things are going great. - Good.
- He's actually coming up this week.
- Really? - Yeah.
- That's good.
You're not gonna believe this. I was talking to Victoria.
And she's actually going to Costa Rica
so Royer can meet Cai for the first time.
- Aww, yeah.
- And she wanted me to go with her.
- Mm-hmm. - Just as, like, support.
- Right. - The immigration stuff.
- That's gonna be nice. - Yeah.
- So he's never met him.
- No, and Victoria asked me if I wanted to invite Jaylan.
- Hmm. - And I'm undecided.
It could go really well, or it could be
a complete [bleep] show, one of the two.
- So what are you gonna do? - I don't know.
There's--I mean, there's pros and cons.
Like, it could go really bad,
and I'll have to get him a flight the next day
'cause I asked him on this trip.
I'm just gonna have to let him know that the vibe is not--
- You wouldn't let him just, like,
live out the vacation and then be like--
- I am not ruining my time in Costa Rica.
- Like, hey, Victoria, this is your friend.
- Or it could go really well.
You know, it's either make or break us.
- Yeah.
- Like, is this something we want to continue to pursue?
Do we just want to be friends?
We've been talking for a couple months.
- Yeah. - So we'll see.
- But you haven't spent, what, seven days together.
- We haven't spent seven days together.
- I mean, that's a long time to be with someone.
- Yeah, a week.
- But I think--I don't think it would be bad,
because either you're gonna find out--within seven days,
you're gonna think, "Okay, I really like him,"
or, "No, I could not see myself talking to him."
- Yeah. That's what I'm thinking.
- Yeah, you know, from what I see of him so far...
- Mm-hmm.
- I think you should just take the chance.
- Take the chance.
That's what I'm thinking. And just ask him.
- Yeah, either you find out that you like him,
or you find out that you don't.
Either way, you're in Costa Rica,
so it can't be too bad.
- And we can still have a good time.
If we don't hit it off, then...
- That's fine. - Let's just have a good time.
- Yeah. - Let's just have a good time.
- Yeah. So are you gonna invite him?
- I think I am.
- You should. - I think I am.
- You should.
♪ ♪
- This girl.
- Sis, oh, my gosh.
♪ ♪
- Okay. - What do you guys think?
- We don't know what to do.
I'm not for sure she gonna answer for us, but we can see.
- Let me see what the hype first.
Nope, it's a wrap. She already knows.
She's not answering.
- Okay. - Just that fast.
- I think we not gonna hear from her.
- Yeah, she's not gonna answer. She knows--
- I think we not gonna hear from here.
- Let me try one more time.
- Yeah. - Sis, are you good?
- Yeah.
- Why'd you just storm like that?
- Because you guys don't understand.
- I don't.
I'm trying to, but you're making me sad,
the way you just stormed like that.
- Because...
- I understand.
- Yeah.
- I got you.
- Right, right.
- [sobbing]
[soft music]
[upbeat music]
- It’s great that Luis showed \hup for Stella this morning,
but I still haven’t heard \h\h\hanything from Devoin
\h\hsince Nova said she didn’t want him
to drive her to school.
Hi, baby.
♪ ♪
How was school?
- Good, it was fun. \h\h\h\hI had fun.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Let’s get your sister ♪
Come on, go inside.
- Hey, Nova. \h\h\h\h- Hi.
- What did you do today? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTell me.
- I just did some fun things. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
That’s good.
♪ ♪
Can I see your phone, Novies?
\h\h\h\h\hI want to see if your dad texted you.
♪ ♪
Thanks, babe.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Goodbye. - No, your dad didn’t text you.
[sighs]
- ♪ Glitter, glitter, \hla, la, la, la, la ♪
♪ Glitter, glitter, la, la, la, la, la ♪
- How was it? \h\h\h- Good.
- You had a good day?
- You guys want to take off \h\h\h\hyour school uniform
and get comfortable?
- So what do you think happened \h\h\hthis morning with Devoin?
- I have no idea.
He said he was--he texted me
at 6:30 in the morning, \h\h\h\h\hso he was up.
\h\h\h\hAnd he asked if he could take her,
and I told him that Nova \h\hwants to go with us.
And he never wrote back, \h\h\hand I said, "Hello?
\hWhere are you? We are leaving."
And he never wrote back.
\h\hSo I guess maybe he was a little upset
that he wanted to take her.
\h- Well, I think that’s something
he should have asked her \h\h\hlike the day before
or asked you first.
Like, speak about it, like, \h\hnot at the last moment,
when she has to make that split decision.
\h\h\h\h\hAnd she wanted to take Stella to school.
- Yeah.
- So that was Stella’s first day, like, pre-K.
- Yeah, I don’t know.
\h\h\h\hJust the first time in a long time that he said
he was gonna do something \h\hand he never did it.
So--I’m surprised Luis came.
\h\h\h\h\h- I know. That was a shocker.
Total opposites.
- Devoin didn’t even bother \h\h\h\hto reach out to me
to see if there was \ha different time
that he can come by \h\h\h\hto see Nova.
And I don’t even think \h\h\hhe contacted Nova
to see how her day was.
\h\hIt sucks because Nova wants that attention from her father,
and Devoin doesn’t always \h\h\h\h\hgive it to her.
[soft music]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Feel like my hair’s \h\h\hgotten so long.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah, you got like 3 inches of new growth.
♪ ♪
- Oh, Lord have mercy.
♪ ♪
This type of [bleep] right here \h\h\h\hjust makes you a wreck.
- I know.
- Yeah, ’cause there’s only \h\h\hone thing like jail.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Jail. - Jail, it’s the worst.
I don’t know what I’m getting \h\h\h\h\hall gussied up for.
If I do got to go to jail,
I don’t want to go in there \hand get me a girlfriend.
\h- No, I’m good. It’s not for me.
- Just saying.
\h\h- Oh, my gosh, say a prayer as we’re pulling in this place.
Please.
[soft music]
’Kay, now I’ll text my attorney \h\h\h\hand tell him I’m here.
See what he wants me to do.
\h\h\h\h\hHe’s talking to the judge right now.
\h\hWonder how long he’ll make me wait.
\h- Hopefully, he won’t make us wait too long.
- Torture. \h- I bet.
- The judge is probably like, \h"Make her wait 12 minutes,
so we can get a good torture."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I bet. - I’m sick to my stomach.
I ain’t been able to eat right, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hsleep right.
I’ve been having nightmares \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\habout this.
\h\h\h\h- Mm. [phone beeps]
He says--here we go.
Let’s see.
They continued it.
"You’re free to go."
We don’t have a new date yet.
♪ ♪
- Well, 12 minutes \hof agonizing pain
to find out you get to go home.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- "Thank you. I will check the website."
\h\h\h\hNow let’s get the hell out of here.
\h\h\h- On it. - Hurry, fast.
Get the hell off this lot. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGo.
- I’m gone.
- Get the hell off
\h\h\h\h\hthis--in case they change their mind.
- I don’t think they’ll change \h\h\htheir mind, but we’ll go.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Go. - I’m working on it.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Jaylan’s back in town \h\h\h\hfor a few days,
and since the girls are with their dads,
he’s gonna come over.
[knock at door] \h\h\hCome in!
- Hey, what’s going on? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey.
- Nice to see you again. \h\h\h- Nice to see you.
- You’re cutting up some apples, I see.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I am. I don’t want to get it on you.
- It’s fine.
Using me as a napkin. \h\h\h\h\hIt’s cool.
- No, definitely talking to you a little bit more.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Seem pretty cool.
- Yeah, just a little bit?
- Just a little bit. \h\h\h\h- Okay, cool.
That’s all I need.
\h\h\h\hThat’s all--yeah, that’s all I need, so...
- That’s all you need? \h- That’s all I need.
\h\hJust a little. Just a little bit.
- The confidence, though. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h- I’m going on a trip here soon.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Where? - My--I’m going to Costa Rica.
- Costa Rica? \h\h\h- Yeah.
\h\h- I’ve never been to Costa Rica before.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You haven’t? You haven’t been to Costa Rica?
- No, I’ve never been to Costa Rica before.
I’ve been to Germany. \h\h\h\h\hThat’s it.
\h\h\h\h\hThat’s the only place I’ve been outside the country.
- Yeah? - So...
\h\h\h- Well, my sister, I took her to Costa Rica.
\h\h\hI took her out of the country once.
- Okay, how did that go? \h\h- Bitch got pregnant.
\h\h\h\h\h- She got pregnant? - Yes, and she had the baby.
He has not met his son yet.
\h\hSo that’s what this trip is about.
- I bet that’s really emotional \h\h\hwhen she goes back there.
- Yeah, when they start crying \h\hand all that, I’m bouncing.
I’m like--err!
- Yeah, yeah.
- I’m gonna do activities \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand stuff
while they’re doing that.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m just there as a support system for my sister.
Are you adventurous? \h- I am adventurous.
- ’Cause that was something \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI requested
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hif--when I started dating again.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Which I have been.
I guess I will be along \h\h\h\hfor activities.
\h\h\h\hWould you want to come to Costa Rica?
\h- Would I? - Would you?
- Yes, I would love to come. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You would?
You would? \h\h- Yes.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You would? - Yes, I’m have to hug today.
\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - Yeah, I’m down.
\h- You want to come? If you can, remember?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I will. - If you can, if you can.
- No, I can. \h\h\hI will.
\h\h- I definitely have butterflies.
Like, I mean, it could go \h\hreally, really great,
and that scares me \h\h\ha little bit.
Because when things go really, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hreally great,
things could go really, \h\h\h\hreally bad, too.
To spend an entire week \h\h\h\h\hwith someone,
\h\h\hI guess that could ultimately make or break
\hwhatever is happening between me and Jaylan.
I just want to be happy.
♪ ♪
[FaceTime beeping]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hello? - They continued it.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- What? - They continued it.
\h- I don’t know what that means.
\h- My court date, they continued it.
I didn’t go to jail.
\h\h\h- Oh. Well, I guess that’s great for you then.
\h\h\h- Okay, I told him you wouldn’t be excited.
You look pretty.
[soft music]
Can I come see you \hand Kloie later?
♪ ♪
\h- Not today, I gotta get up and take her to daycare early
’cause I got to work.
\h- You want me and Dad to watch her tomorrow?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- No, it’s fine. She wants to go to daycare.
All right, bye.
- Love you.
♪ ♪
She didn’t seem that thrilled. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I know.
\hShe never seems thrilled, though.
\h- I mean, I guess if she ain’t happy
I’m home, I’m happy I’m home.
♪ ♪
- Her whole continuance thing,
\hI don’t really know what to say about it.
I mean, I don’t really care.
That just means
\h\h\h\h\h\hthey’re continuing the court date a little later,
\h\hso it doesn’t mean she’s out of anything.
And I guess she’s just--any time something goes her way,
she’s in a good mood,
\h’cause now she’s not going to jail, so she’s calling me
\h\h\hand basically acting like nothing ever happened.
It doesn’t change how I feel. \h\hWe aren’t getting along.
Like, I’m super upset with her.
When I express that to her, \h\hshe doesn’t really care.
\h\h\hSo I’m just doing what I said I would do,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhich is just keep my distance.
I guess, good for her.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Though I’m ripping \h\hat the seams now ♪
♪ The walls we have \h\h\hto tear down ♪
\h♪ Are temporarily ruined, we’re getting our renewing ♪
♪ Started from the ground ♪
♪ And though we’re ripping \h\h\h\hat the seams now ♪
♪ The walls we have \h\h\hto tear down ♪
\h♪ Are temporarily ruined, we’re getting our renewing ♪
♪ Started from the ground ♪
♪ Maybe we should fall apart ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Maybe we should fall apart ♪
♪ ♪
\h- Javi and I got into a huge fight,
\h\h\h\hand he alluded to me being deceitful.
Maybe the podcast is done.
- I just need her to see things \h\h\h\h\hfrom my perspective.
- I’m having a blast. \h\h\h- That’s great.
- We gotta do this more often, right?
- If you gonna be with him, \h\hyou gotta forgive, too.
- I know.
- I signed my papers.
I’m officially a homeowner.
- It was very important that I got to know Jay
before I ever introduced him \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto you guys.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪