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- Previously on "Teen Mom: The Next Chapter"...
- Do you have anything you may want to say to her?
- I don't like Mom.
She's a liar, and I don't trust her.
- You're getting married.
I want us to focus on that.
- You might not be there if you act like this.
- So when is Roxy coming home?
- She's coming home tomorrow.
- Have you spoken to Brittany?
- I texted her.
She hasn't responded.
- We have, like, this toxic triangle going on,
and it has to stop.
- This is something I don't want to mess up.
- Finding somebody that I actually truly love,
it's what I've wanted.
We're both, you know, all in.
- So I have a new boyfriend.
Why are you looking like that?
I'll just show you a little picture.
- I don't want to see a picture.
As long as he makes you happy.
- The [bleep] are you talking about?
- Can you watch your mouth, please?
- You're an idiot.
- Who was two hours late?
- Can you both stop, please?
I don't want to do presents anymore.
- Happy birthday.
- Actually, Leah hasn't seen Amber since her birthday.
- Oh, that's crazy, bro.
- Leah is, like, wanting to be adopted by Kristina.
- Gary mentioned something about,
like, Leah wanting to have Kristina adopt her and stuff.
I know.
Obviously, Amber doesn't know about.
- Uh, well, Gary needs to tell her.
When she does find out, that's going to trigger
the [bleep] out of her.
- That pisses me off, because Gary
shouldn't be going around telling
people [bleep] like this.
Like, that's not fair.
Cate and I might just be the ones that have to tell Amber.
[upbeat rock music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ You're my favorite thing ♪♪
♪♪ You're my everything ♪♪
♪♪ All the joy you bring ♪♪
- Ready?
Thank you.
- Oh, shoot, I did the wrong thing crossed.
Oh, I'll do both then.
[child yelling]
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Man, it feels great out here.
- How was your day?
- Good. I'm tired.
- Yeah, the kids were tired this morning too.
I went to wake Jayde up.
I think she was having like a nightmare,
and I woke her up in the middle of it.
- Perfect timing, Dad.
So remember, y'all went on the guys trip?
The Gary and Amber and Leah thing--
Leah wants Kristina to adopt her.
We can't just know this stuff and not talk to Amber about it.
- Yeah.
- As her friends.
Cate and I are going to see Amber for her birthday,
and we're going to try and feel it out.
There's some rough times going on there.
Like, I get what you're saying, that that will crush Amber,
and absolutely it will.
But, like, Leah is pretty crushed, too.
- No, I love Amber.
Always will.
She will always be a dear friend.
But at the end of the day, the most important person
in this equation is Leah.
- Yeah.
- We're going to try to meet with Gary first,
but we still will check on our friend.
- But if y'all go say something to her and then it makes her
mad and makes that whole situation worse, then
what was really accomplished?
- At least if we're there, she can lose her [bleep]
all she wants to with us, because that's what
friends are for.
To me, that's the best option.
- It sounds like y'all just need to go out there and maybe
talk with both of, them like you said,
and then make a decision.
- ♪♪ The memories in my head ♪♪
♪♪ They never last ♪♪
♪♪ Holding on to moments of the past ♪♪
♪♪ Maybe if I could take a picture ♪♪
- Where's the baby?
Where do I put the doll?
- The baby is in her belly.
- OK.
- What's the name of this doll?
Baby Surprise?
- They came out with one way back in the day,
and they discontinued it because all the parents freaked
out that it was going to make their children, nine-year-olds
pregnant or something.
They were scared because they didn't want to talk about sex.
- Yeah, that's dumb.
- It is, actually.
- I'm calling Amber.
[phone ringing]
- Hi.
- Hi, babes.
- Hi. How are you?
- I'm doing good.
About to get dressed and go to Costco.
- Ooh, fun.
Well, me and Maci are coming to Indiana.
- Oh my gosh. I love it.
- So we can celebrate your birthday together.
Are you excited?
- Like, I'm more excited than I think I'm letting you know.
[laughs] I can't wait.
- And I'm excited to meet your Gary as well.
You know, Maci and I are like family to you,
so you better get ready for our questions.
- Right.
I love you so much.
- I love you too, Am. I'll see you soon.
Have a good day. - You too, hon.
I'll see you soon, babes. - All right, bye.
- All right. So what's the deal?
What's going on?
So you're going to see Amber. - Yeah.
I want to talk to Gary and ask him
if he has told Amber about this whole Leah situation.
She needs to be told this.
- Right.
But it's just not your or Maci's place to say it.
- OK, well, that's why I want to talk to Gary.
- It's Gary's and it's Leah's.
That's their space.
Imagine being a kid having to come to this conclusion.
- For sure.
It makes me feel like a bad friend.
- You feel like you're betraying
a friend by holding information that you know is-- yeah.
- Which is going to be detrimental regardless.
I'm afraid she's going to find out, she's going to spiral.
- Talk with Gary.
Say hey, this is what's going on.
This is what my fear is.
This is what I'm worried about.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ Yeah, I give up ♪♪
♪♪ Take it all ♪♪
♪♪ Take just what you need ♪♪
♪♪ This time it won't be with me ♪♪
- Babe.
- I get a phone call from Catelynn.
She just wants to come and see me.
And Maci also is going to come, which
means a lot to me, honestly.
The memories I have with these girls, the birthdays
I've shared.
- Is that when they're coming, around your birthday or?
- Yeah.
They've been with me through a lot.
I'm literally like, I feel like I'm at my lowest right now.
- Just those words scare me.
- Every time that I do give a man a chance,
I feel like I give them too much.
- And somehow you end up getting hurt.
You know?
- I'm really excited about them meeting you.
- Mm-hmm.
As long as I can have my birthday plans for you.
- What? - Yeah.
- Birthday plans?
- I got something planned.
- I love that.
I love you.
- I love you, babe.
- ♪♪ I don't want to let this one go ♪♪
♪♪ Come on, let's go ♪♪
♪♪ We'll get away ♪♪
♪♪ Just get me out of my house into the sky ♪♪
♪♪ We'll take a little trip to paradise ♪♪
♪♪ Let's go ♪♪
- I want to see the chickens.
It makes me feel at home.
This is cute.
- ♪♪ Come on, let's go ♪♪
♪♪ Come on, let's go ♪♪
♪♪ Let's go, let's go ♪♪
- Hi.
I'm in Indianapolis.
I just landed.
Can't wait to see you guys.
- ♪♪ Let's go ♪♪
♪♪ Let's go, let's go ♪♪
♪♪ Come on, let's go. ♪♪
- Hi. - Hi, Mace.
- I feel like dog [bleep].
- Oh no.
- This is cute.
- It is cute.
- Maci needs a nap.
- [laughs]
- I need a mimosa.
- So obviously, we're here to see Amber, but I think it--
don't you think it's smarter to talk to Gary in person about it
than, like, on the phone? - Definitely.
- OK. - I don't know.
We just call Gary?
Be like, hey, we're here.
[laughs]
- We want to see you.
- Yeah.
[phone line trilling]
- Hello? - Hi, Gary.
It's Cate. - Yeah, how are you?
- Good. How are you?
- Not too bad.
- Good.
All right, well, me and Maci are in town
and wanted to know if you wanted to get together.
- Yeah.
- All right, we'll see you soon.
I'll shoot you the address.
- All right. I'll talk to you soon.
- All right. Bye.
[sighs] This'll be interesting.
- Put our seatbelts on.
- ♪♪ There I go ♪♪
♪♪ Digging in the pavement for some new bones ♪♪
♪♪ By the way ♪♪
[upbeat music]
- I'm not good at drawing.
- You are amazing at drawing.
Hey, guys.
My mom has been home from rehab for a few weeks now,
and things are still pretty tense between my mom
and Brittany.
I really miss when it was just us three
and we were super close.
So I'm thinking I can maybe plan
something and try to thaw the ice between the two of them.
I booked a family photo shoot for all of us.
Our walls are pretty empty, and I would like
to have some photos of us.
- Where?
- We're going to go to the beach.
- Is it just going to be us?
- No.
I'm thinking of inviting Grandma and Titi.
How do you guys feel about that?
I'll be right back.
[phone line trilling]
- Hello?
- Hey, girl.
- Hey, what's up?
- So I have an idea.
Let me know what you think.
I want to take some family photos,
and I want to do it with the girls,
but I also want to do it with you and Mom.
Is that something you would want to do?
- I'm just nervous.
- Have you even spoken to Mom?
- I did talk to her.
I did text her, and it was fine--
like, you know, like checking on her,
because I do know she's alone.
But I don't want her to act crazy on me.
I'm just not in the mood.
But I don't want those girls
to feel the rift in the family.
- Yeah, and I want, like, them to have
core memories of us together.
And I think having a photo shoot,
we could keep those memories.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I'll do it. That's fine.
- OK.
I'll let her know the invite is open.
We'd love for you to be there. - OK.
Love you. - Love you too.
I'll talk to you later. - All right, bye.
[phone line trilling]
- Hey.
- Hey, Mom.
- What's up?
- How are you?
- You OK? I'm good.
Why are you calling me? What's up?
- Yeah, I'm OK.
So I wanted to know if you are down to do
a family photo shoot.
It'll be me, Brittany, and the girls.
- When is it?
- It's going to be on Saturday.
- All right. I'll be there.
- All right. Love you.
Bye. - Bye.
- ♪♪ No, nothing's permanent, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ We all expire ♪♪
- Hey, Cate, I'm going outside.
- ♪♪ In the end, I'm sure they goin' ♪♪
♪♪ Gonna face the fire ♪♪
- Feels like a counseling session or a--
- An interrogation.
- I'm letting you take the lead.
- Hey, Gary.
- How are you guys doing? - Good.
How are you? - Not too bad.
- Good to see you.
- Yeah, you as well.
- Cate's got a--
- I had a malfunction with my sandal.
How are you, Gary?
- You want some cheese?
- Oh.
[laughter]
- How is Kristina doing?
- She's good. - And the kids?
- They're good.
- Yeah?
- Leah just actually today got her certificate
for driver's ed.
- Weird.
It's so crazy.
- Bentley is driving, too, right?
- Mm-hmm. - Man.
- When's the last time Leah's seen Amber?
- Amber hasn't seen Leah since her birthday in November.
It's been a while.
- Seven months.
Have they spoken since then?
- Maybe in text message here and there.
But I don't believe Leah reached
out to her for Mother's Day.
It's very weird for Leah.
Before Amber started dating the new Gary, where she was coming
over or even talking, it sort of,
that's when we just noticed the change.
And--
- When she got with Gary, right?
- Right.
So-- which I haven't met yet, so.
- Do you think Leah would be OK with us coming over with Amber?
Because I figured, what, Amber's birthday is tomorrow.
- Totally inviting ourselves over.
- Yeah, we are. [laughs]
- Fine with me.
- I just want to make sure.
Like, you know, I just--
I don't want to make Leah feel uncomfortable.
- Right.
No, I think she's going to enjoy it more than not.
But if anything else, it's been seven months.
This is the easiest way for her to see her mom.
It's less pressure for Leah, because she's
not coming over to see Leah. - OK.
I just wanted to make sure.
- We're going to have burgers and hot dogs.
- That sounds awesome. - Maybe bacon.
- Love bacon.
- We'll tell Amber about the plan
when we see her at dinner later.
- OK, so I have something serious that I
have to talk to you about. - Uh-oh.
- So Ty told me about Leah wanting Kristina to adopt her.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I just want to know from a friend's perspective
where your mindset is at with this
and what's kind of going on.
Like, I don't want Amber to sit back and watch everybody
talking about this whole scenario and her not
knowing anything about it. - Yeah, that's OK.
I understand that.
- Does that make sense? - No, I get it, I get it.
- I just want to know if your plan is to tell her.
- Before she sees it on the show.
- So she found out something, because she called me.
She goes, I've been hearing stuff.
I don't know what she heard exactly,
but I know what it was. - OK.
So she does know. - Yeah.
So I'm just going to leave it at that.
- OK. All right.
I just wanted to make sure.
- All right.
I better go start planning the food for tomorrow.
- All right, Gary.
It was nice seeing you, dude.
- It flew, last year. I know.
Good seeing you, too.
- We'll see you tomorrow, huh?
- Yeah.
- I'm excited.
- Yeah, of course.
- Oh, thank you. - Mm-hmm.
So does Amber really know or not?
I still don't have a clear answer to that.
- What I took away from it, they
have not had a conversation about it,
but I think he thinks she knows.
- Yeah.
I guess if he says that she knows,
I guess it's OK to talk about it then, right?
- I would imagine. But I mean.
- I don't know.
- I don't know if we should say something or not.
If she doesn't know, are we doing more good or more harm?
- Probably more harm.
- That's how I feel.
I mean, ideally tonight at dinner,
like, Amber would just bring it up.
- Absolutely. - If she knows.
You know what I mean? - Yep.
Yeah, because who knows if that's what Leah is still
wanting to happen or not?
I don't know.
Because I didn't realize it's been seven months
since they've seen each other.
That's a long time. - Mm-hmm.
- You know, I remember being a young kid,
and I felt like my mom, you know,
whenever she got boyfriends, they automatically
became more important.
And I think, unfortunately, because
of Amber's mental health stuff, like, she can be unpredictable.
And as kids, that is scary, and it doesn't
make you feel very safe.
If Leah is asking for this, she's obviously
going through stuff, too. - Yeah.
- So I don't know.
I guess we'll just see how it plays out.
- ♪♪ Ooh ♪♪
♪♪ Broken memories lie ♪♪
♪♪ Told me you listen ♪♪
♪♪ The truth is you didn't ♪♪
- Hi, Miss Millie.
So I went to meet up with Catelynn and Maci.
And with Amber's birthday being tomorrow, they
wanted to see if we can get together
and do like a little birthday shindig over here.
So we'll do a cookout. - OK.
- I know that, you know, things have been
kind of off and on with Amber.
- It was Leah's birthday that was a whole [bleep] show.
- But I feel like it would be the perfect way for not a lot
of pressure to be on Leah if her mom
is here with other people.
- Yeah. - You know, and if new Gary--
[laughs] New Gary comes,
that's another way to introduce him, I guess.
- Yeah. - There's not a lot on her.
So--
- Do you think Leah's going to be OK with it all?
- I think so. - Yeah.
- We're here in Leah's safe place.
So she has homework to do anyway.
She feels like a certain way, she can always go inside.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ And I'll be swinging as I go ♪♪
♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Maybe I can let you know that ♪♪
- Will we get to meet her new boyfriend, Gary?
- Yeah, no, I'm happy to meet him in person, but, like,
sorry, bro, I don't want you to go to dinner with us.
- No.
- We'll just keep it natural and make sure that--
- Yeah.
And wherever it flows, it flows.
- We check in with Amber and make sure she's good,
because we're her friends.
- Yep.
[knocking]
- Hi! - Ah!
- Maci.
- Hi.
- You look so [bleep] cute.
- You look so cute.
- Hi.
- Oh my God, so good to see you.
I've missed you guys.
Oh my God.
- All together now.
- Just the [bleep] three of us.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Hey. - This is Gary.
- Maci. Nice to meet you.
- Maci. - Catelynn.
- Catelynn, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
- I'm still trying to figure out
where to put stuff, and like, not
everything is, like, undone.
It's like a million blankets, of course.
- I love it.
So how did you guys meet?
Match or something?
- Well, yeah, he only lives, like, 30 minutes away, if that.
Like, literally, he was the second person that I
was like, hmm, he sounds--
- Legit.
- Really legit.
And ever since, it's been seven months now.
- Are you born in Indiana?
- Yes.
Born and raised in Indiana.
Parents are Vietnamese.
We grew up completely different.
And--
- Well, in your culture, aren't the parents pretty strict, too?
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- Ooh, I'm hungry. - I'm starving.
- Yeah, I'm starving too. - Me too.
- Well, you ain't going with us.
[laughter]
- Well--
- This is girls [bleep] night.
We're out.
- I'm going to get a table nearby.
Just gonna tell the server, yeah, can you--
can you tell that cute one over there with the glasses
that I got that drink.
- Oh, he does such a good job, guys.
The cute one.
[laughter]
He has to do that, right?
- You're all cute.
- They're beautiful, aren't they?
But they're already married.
I'm the only one.
I'm the only one out of us that's not married.
- That's not married.
- Oh my gosh.
- I'll be honest, Amber.
I'm glad, because if you had been married
to one of the fools before.
- Yeah, no.
- It would have not been--
- Would have been pretty intense, right?
- Yeah, that wouldn't have been good.
- Speaking of that, though. Speaking of that.
- Holy crap.
Holy crap.
- Amber Portwood.
- Baby.
- I love you and--
- You've been absolutely amazing to me.
And I don't see myself with anybody else but you.
I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
- Oh man.
I love you.
- Will you marry me?
- Yes, I will.
I actually really will marry you.
- What?
- I know.
[laughs]
- OK, who's got the champagne?
- Is he messing with us?
I've never witnessed a proposal.
- I know, me neither.
[laughs]
- That was awkward.
- It was so awkward.
Well, firstly, because that's our first introduction.
- We literally met him five minutes before.
- I know.
- If she's happy, I'm happy for her.
[sighs]
- Oh jeez.
- I love you.
Like, I actually really love you.
[laughs]
- I actually really love you, too.
[laughter]
- This is insane.
- Did you guys get that, by the way?
- No, they definitely did.
- Well, that's a good way to start off our girls night.
- Yes, it is.
- Another reason to celebrate, right?
- Yes.
- ♪♪ Clocked out 10:00 to 2:00 ♪♪
♪♪ Beat the traffic on the way down ♪♪
♪♪ There's some in Malibu ♪♪
♪♪ Burning daylight on the 101 ♪♪
- Hey, girls.
- Hi.
- Ready?
- I'm gonna be anxious as hell around her.
- Hi, Bri.
Hey, guys.
- Hey.
- We're all matching.
I love it. - I know.
Did we get the memo?
- So we're going to start off here.
Mom, you're going to sit right there.
Oh yeah, that's pretty.
Awesome.
- How are you feeling?
- Tired.
- Tired?
What have you been doing? - Working.
[bleep] - That's it?
- Yeah.
What are you doing with your days off?
- I have no energy. Stay home and comatose.
- Yeah.
- It's exhausting.
- Yeah.
- All right. Looking at me.
Two and three. Perfect.
Look over at one daughter and then over at the other.
Both of you looking at Mom.
There you go.
Smile at her.
You love her.
- [bleep] awkward as [bleep].
[laughter] - You guys.
- There you go. Pull them in.
Pull them in for some love.
There you go.
- All right.
- You want to do hat off?
- No, that's it for me. - You done for this one?
- Yeah. - OK.
- Can we do me and Steven real quick?
- Hands around his neck.
- ♪♪ I would rather be alone than be with you ♪♪
♪♪ Than be with you ♪♪
♪♪ I would rather be alone ♪♪
♪♪ Than be with you, than be with you ♪♪
- You want some, too?
- Let me call her to come get it.
Stella, come here.
- I left some on the peel like I normally do.
You can eat the pit and then I cut up some slices.
OK?
Was she eyeing this one, too?
- She was.
[laughs]
I got the pictures from the photo shoot back,
and I want you and Mom to see it.
- I just wasn't in the moment.
- I don't think Mom was in it either.
- Mom makes me uncomfortable.
- She's a little negative since she got back from rehab.
She hasn't, like, done the things that she used to do.
She would always call me to check up on the kids.
She comes here maybe, like, an hour, tops, and she leaves.
- For me, it's always been distant.
Like, this is nothing new. You know what I mean?
But I think for you, it's new because you
never experienced this.
But I always been like this.
Welcome to my world, girl.
- I don't know.
I don't know what's in her mind.
I don't know what she's going through.
I don't-- I don't know.
- I just don't want to stress.
I stressed enough this year, and I just really
want my wedding to go perfect.
It's like the one thing I got, the one
thing I'm looking forward to.
And I want her there because who [bleep] want to get
married without their mom?
- I personally would love to continue to have
a relationship with her.
And I know deep down inside, you want
a relationship with her too.
What do we do to, like, try to make that happen?
Should we, like, call her and say, hey, come
over, we want to talk to you?
- Yeah.
- I'll text her.
- ♪♪ Now find your groove ♪♪
♪♪ Make moves ♪♪
♪♪ Don't think about it ♪♪
♪♪ Just do ♪♪
♪♪ You know you got it ♪♪
♪♪ Stay cool ♪♪
- It really takes a lot to shock me like that.
- Yeah. I know.
It was so crazy, though, when he just freaking proposed.
Me and Maci's face, we were just
staring at each other like.
- I'll be honest.
At first I was like, [bleep], this is--
he's joking.
- Right.
- I thought he was [bleep] with us.
- I sincerely did not think he was going to do that.
- I know.
I could see it in your face.
- I'm actually going to marry him.
I really am.
Like, that guy is worth it.
- You said yes, you know.
- Yeah, you did. You said yes.
- Exactly.
[upbeat music]
- I'll take a spicy margarita on the rocks
with, like, all the salt in the world.
- You want salt.
- I want high blood pressure.
- If they have mint, I definitely want a mojito.
- All right. I'll be back with those.
- Thank you.
- How have you guys been doing, though?
- I mean, I'm doing well.
Just raising kids.
- How's it going with you and Leah?
- Honestly, I feel like I'm bothering them.
- Yeah.
- I had asked her, you know, can we
have a day together, go shopping, just me and you,
get something to eat?
- That's so nice.
- And she said yes.
This was months ago.
And then I asked her again, and she
just kind of was, like, vague and then sent me her schedule.
So I took that, like, damn, you know, we
took a couple steps back here.
- Now, do you think she was sending you her schedule
to see if you would like--
does she want--
- Oh, it was clear.
It was clear that she was saying, I'm just busy.
They've been saying lately, actually, they want to meet up,
but they never make, like, a date.
They never make, like-- they'll just ask.
- Like this Wednesday, we're free.
Let's do it here. - Yeah.
- Gary told me that Leah had said that she feels
that since I'm with another guy that I'm
just forgetting about her.
- Can you think of any reason of why
she feels like when you get boyfriends that you pull away?
- I think she's just scared.
Because in the past, it always seemed like that when I guess
I was with certain people.
But those guys were isolating me.
- Yeah.
- Like, if she doesn't know about, like,
the hard [bleep] you were going through, could you see
maybe from her perspective?
- Oh, I already have.
- Like why she feels like that.
- I get that.
- A lot of the things that I hear about Leah
remind me of the way that Bentley was
at certain points with Ryan.
And I even had to tell him this in the last year.
It's like, first of all, I live with Bentley,
and we've always been side by side.
And he don't want to answer my phone calls.
That's just how it is right now.
No matter how mad she is at you or how much she's
like, I don't care, blah, there is no other reason
but you being her mother.
She wants you around, even if she's going to be a little brat
while you're around.
Like, I totally hear that you feel like you're bothering her.
Bother her.
- What are you doing tomorrow?
- Tomorrow?
My birthday?
- Being engaged. - Being engaged.
[laughter]
- OK, well, I was asking, because I
wanted to know what you thought about possibly going to Gary's.
- Yeah.
- To have a barbecue.
- Yeah.
Hold on.
So you guys, like, planned this?
- We actually met with Gary today.
- And new Gary can come too.
- To be honest, that's the only place where I would want to be
for my birthday, with my--
- Yeah.
So you can see Leah.
- So everyone will be there.
- I think tomorrow, though, will be like the perfect bridge
for you to maybe even set something up with Gary tomorrow
and say, hey, what day are you guys free?
We need to put a on the calendar.
And make it like a priority.
- She didn't even, like, mention an inkling that Leah
wants Kristina to adopt her.
So I don't think we should bring it up.
- Yeah. - And I think we gave her
really good advice about, like, just showing up.
- And a better understanding of,
like, getting over your insecurities for Leah's sake.
- ♪♪ We hit the ground ♪♪
- [singing in Spanish]
- All right.
Love you.
- Mwah.
- Thank you guys for everything.
- What a time to be alive.
Phew.
[phone line trilling]
- Hello? - Hey.
Me and Maci are driving back to the Airbnb.
- Yeah, well, we went to Amber's house.
- No, we show up, straight up, Tyler,
I haven't even got a good look at this guy's face yet.
- He literally, he proposed on the side of the couch,
just in front of the couch.
- It was so awkward.
- I'm not lying.
- No, I swear.
No, I swear, Tyler, that's what happened.
I'm like, are we--
- Being [bleep] with?
- Are we still on planet Earth?
Like, tell me this [bleep] isn't doing this right now.
We thought we were going to be throwing a bomb on the table.
- Yeah. - [bleep]
- And then, Tyler, think about how we feel.
- Yeah, I know.
- ♪♪ You can move a mountain ♪♪
♪♪ You can part the sea ♪♪
♪♪ I know that ♪♪
- Hey.
- Hi, Mom.
- What's that?
- She said, don't go in my pantry.
- Oh, that's your clubhouse?
OK, I get it.
- I want to show you guys something.
Isn't it so cute?
- That is beyond beautiful.
- Wait, let me see it.
Oh my God.
It's so beautiful.
Is it heavy?
- No.
And it's the ones that stick on the wall.
- This picture is perfect. - Right?
I love it.
How have you been feeling?
- Exhausted.
I've been up since 4:00 in the morning, girl.
- You still can't sleep?
- My back is not letting me sleep.
It's hurting so bad.
Plus, I'm still recovering from that stupid insomnia,
which I still struggle with.
But more now because my back is kicking my ass.
- How were you feeling during the photo shoot?
I felt like you were a little distant.
- Just tired.
Tired.
- But tired and distant are two different things.
- Remember, I was working.
I went after work.
The drive.
You know. - But you're never like that.
You were never like that.
- The person who I was and the person who I am today
is different.
My body's still adapting and my body's still adjusting.
But I suspect that eventually, I will slide into base
and I will be normal.
But right now, if I--
if I'm detached, it's not intentional.
If I'm forgetful, it's not intentional, I promise you.
- Are you getting therapy?
- Yeah.
It's just a matter of finding a new normal.
That's it.
- Well, what does that look like?
How do we get there? - We don't know.
This is the first time we're experiencing it,
so we just have to ride the wave and hope for the best
and figure it out.
- Yeah, Ma, I just want you to be, like, mentally OK.
If you can, get your therapy and get better,
because I don't want this version of you,
a version that's distant, a version that, you know.
I already see in your body language,
you don't want to hear it, but it's the truth.
- No, no, no.
Listen, I don't want that either, Brittany.
- Yeah, I want you at my wedding.
I just need you to get, you know, your stuff together.
I did not like giving you that boundary, but like,
to protect myself, I had to, because I never thought
I was going to get married, and I am.
- I don't want to feel like what I felt on the photo shoot
on your wedding. Trust me.
- I don't want that energy.
- I'm doing everything that I can.
I'm doing my infusions.
I'm going to my therapies, I'm going-- taking my medications.
I'm doing everything I'm supposed to,
but it's still going to take my body some time to heal.
I'm just asking for some grace, because right
now it's still very hard.
- It's a hard pill to swallow that
knowing that I may not get the same mom back that I once had.
I wanted her to work on her issues,
but I didn't realize that meant
she may completely change.
I hope and pray that things will get better,
but now we all have to navigate this new norm.
- ♪♪ Come hell or high water ♪♪
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hey, guys.
So today is Amber's birthday.
- Yay.
- And what?
It's been a crazy weekend so far.
- It's been crazy.
- We have some wild news and a big surprise
that we can't share yet.
- But we can't wait to share it.
- OK, off to Gary's for a barbecue
to celebrate the birthday girl.
- Let's get this show on the rainy road.
- I guess so, right?
Man, my hair. There goes my hair.
- ♪♪ On your mark, ready get set ♪♪
♪♪ Let's go, whoa ♪♪
♪♪ All your heart ♪♪
♪♪ No regret ♪♪
♪♪ Let it show ♪♪
- Are you ready for your birthday spectacle tonight?
- Actually, I'm so excited.
- ♪♪ Whoa ♪♪
- Hey. - Hi.
- Hey. - Hey.
- How are you? - It's so cute here.
- I'm good. How are you?
- Good.
- Good to see you. - Good to see you.
- Hey, Leah.
- I named it that.
- Leah. How are you?
- Good. - Good to see you.
- ♪♪ What if I said I didn't need a name ♪♪
- I have to say, like, I know it's my birthday
and everything, but I'm kind of looking at today
as Maci and Cate and everybody's setting up,
like, me to actually spend time with my daughter finally.
How do you feel?
- I feel good.
I'm going to be meeting a lot of people, a lot
of very important people.
- And my daughter.
- Yes.
That would be one of the important people.
- Thank you, honey.
- Perfect.
- Are you driving already?
- I like driving.
She doesn't like me driving.
- I don't blame her.
- I feel like me and the handle are best friends.
- Hello. - Hi.
- ♪♪ I knew you never cared about me ♪♪
♪♪ Stabbed me in the back ♪♪
♪♪ It was your plan of attack ♪♪
♪♪ Rip my heart out ♪♪
- Hello.
- Hey, what's up?
How are you doing? How are we doing?
- Are we walking to Gary first?
- Happy birthday.
- Hey, what's up, man. How are you doing?
- I'd shake, but I'm on the grill.
- No, I know. Hug.
- There we go.
Garys don't shake, we hug.
Well, welcome, guys.
There's filet mignon over there.
There's sirloin.
There's the veggies.
- So good.
- It was-- yeah, it's very good.
- Hi. - Hi.
[laughs] You're not going to melt.
Come on.
- Hi.
- You're not going to melt. Hi, Gary.
What's up? - Hi, sweetie.
How are you feeling?
- Good.
- Thank you.
- Sorry.
I interrupted.
- She's eating anyway, so.
- I'm in the middle of chewing.
- That's OK. Hi, honey.
You look cute.
- Good to see you.
- Good to see you again.
- How are you? - Hi, Emi.
- Since last night.
- A lot's happened then.
Leah.
Nice to meet you finally. - You too.
- Yeah, I'm Gary.
So you shouldn't have a problem remembering my name.
Nice to meet you.
And you--
- This is Emilee. - Emilee.
- Have you met Leah? - I've met Leah.
Yeah, yeah.
- This is my--
- I see the resemblances already.
Actually, she's not-- you're a little bit taller than her.
- Where are you at right now?
- I'm like, I'm 5'2".
I'm done growing.
- You think you're done growing?
I don't know.
- You're not done growing yet.
- My doctor said I am.
- That's OK.
Fun size.
- You should try it.
This is filet. - That's the filet?
- Look at all this good food.
Baby, well, birthday girl.
- Is that macaroni salad?
- There you go.
- I want to try a piece.
- Try it.
So what do you think, honey?
- Good food.
- Good food?
What do you think about seeing your mama?
You talk to her?
What did you say?
- Said hi.
- Give her a hug?
She give you a hug?
Good.
- I met Gary 2.0.
- [laughs]
He seems nice.
- Yeah.
- You feeling all right?
OK.
- So did you plan on telling all
these guys about your proposal, or do you
think you're going to wait?
- I kind of wanted to wait.
I was just so excited to even see her today.
I just, I really wasn't even thinking
about it like that right now.
- Right, right, right.
I get it.
[soft music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Mommy.
You jealous? - Huh?
- You jealous?
- Yeah, but I think I'm going to throw some barbecue on mine.
- Ew.
- Ready for you to join.
- Yeah, I think I'm about to go there.
- It tastes so good.
- Amber, hurry. Take it.
It's hot.
Hot dog for you.
[laughter]
- You scared the crap out of me.
- ♪♪ Today's everything I dreamed of ♪♪
- We're at Gary's house, Gary and Kristina's.
Thanks, guys, for Amber's birthday.
- We miss you.
- Happy birthday, Am. - Yeah.
Old. Whoo!
- Old lady club.
- ♪♪ Don't want this day to end ♪♪
- Me and Maci will probably have to go in a few minutes,
because she's got, what, she's got to get
up at 3:30 in the morning.
- Ooh. - Wild.
- Another early flight. - All right.
Thank you, guys.
- This was an amazing birthday.
I'm happy for you guys to finally meet him.
I had a lot of fun, honestly, and I miss you guys,
so I want to start doing this more often if we can.
No, I'd love to spend more time with you and all of you guys.
I love you guys.
- We love you.
- I love you, you butthead.
And I miss you.
- Yeah, I'm glad you was able to come,
and I think we need to do this a lot more.
- I just say I'm open whenever, and then
we just don't ever hear.
- Yeah, that's why you don't do the whenever anymore.
- I know. I know.
- Like, date and time.
Let's get a date and time.
- We can go tomorrow.
- All right. Dinner tomorrow at Fox Garden.
And you got to be on time.
Can't be late.
We have like little windows, you know, bedtimes.
- I know that.
- OK, Leah's in heaven now.
- Yeah. Whoo!
- This was my mission today actually accomplished.
My birthday wish.
- ♪♪ A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do ♪♪
- Instead of coming in and dropping bombs and everything,
I think we helped her kind of understand
from Leah's perspective what she can
do to continuously show up.
Even if you feel nervous, you're
getting in that shame cycle, you just fight through it.
- I think she feels more empowered to do that.
- Yeah, just do it.
- I love you.
Happy birthday.
- I really appreciated the fact that Maci and Cate really
wanted to give me such amazing advice for me
to actually have my family back.
- When I saw my daughter, I just
like, it's like butterflies.
- Thanks for having us. I appreciate it.
It was great. - Thank you, sweetie.
- Happy birthday.
- Thank you.
I couldn't be any more happier, honestly.
[horn honking]
- All right, we're out.
Love you guys. - See you later.
See you tomorrow.
- Nice to meet you guys.
- I do like him.
We just got to see how long it lasts, though.
- ♪♪ You're gone with the sun ♪♪
♪♪ On a road to the unknown ♪♪
♪♪ I'm asleep when you rise ♪♪
♪♪ The weight of the world in your eyes ♪♪
♪♪ The dusk of our time ♪♪
♪♪ The power you chose to reside ♪♪
♪♪ The ember, the fire ♪♪
♪♪ The burden you bear when it dies ♪♪
♪♪ Feeling my way through this shadow ♪♪
[dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ Carry the dark of the night ♪♪
- Next on "Teen Mom: The Next Chapter"...
- Need help? - Yeah.
- Ron's been sober a year.
We're gonna celebrate you.
- Me and Amber are engaged now.
- I get my eggs pulled on Monday.
- Mom gets out from jail tonight.
Oh, my God, you look sick.
- I've had anxiety.
- I asked my mom to do a drug test.
She flipped out.
- The only way to protect you and your family
is to completely cut all of them out of your life.
- I'm just so [bleep] upset.
[upbeat rock music]
♪♪ ♪♪