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- Previously on "Teen Mom: The Next Chapter"...

- The facility's in Texas.

So I think I'm gonna go over there.

- Do you know a time frame of how long

you're gonna be there?

Six weeks?

And she's, like, the main person

that helps me with the kids. - Mm-hmm.

- I still see her as, like,

the most important person in my life.

- You just feel alone? - Yeah.

I want you to come around more for the kids.

- Just ready to the point where I can say I'm here for you.

- I don't know if I want to go to college.

- But it's good to go, and I will tell you

it's an experience you're gonna want to experience too.

- I wanted to come over and talk to you

about me having Ryder for Christmas this year.

We'll fly to Michigan.

- So her whole Christmas break? - Yeah.

- No. - I'ma be real with you.

The trip's already booked.

Probably should have asked you first.

- Please get out of my house.

I talked to Ryder about it.

She is excited about going.

I'm not gonna take that away from her.

- Good!

- Oh, I didn't tell you. So I have a new boyfriend.

- I'm scared.

- Why are you looking like that?

- She has a boyfriend, so she's not gonna text anybody.

- How's things been going with you and Gary?

- Oh, um, the other day, he experienced,

like, my first manic episode.

So we started going to couples therapy.

- Finding somebody that I actually truly love,

it's like-- that's what I've wanted.

[upbeat music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- ♪♪ I cannot face it ♪♪

[soft pop music]

♪♪ We're coming ready for the fight ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

- Hey, ladies.

I'm still adjusting to my mom being in rehab,

and I'm not really having as much help as I used to.

And even though I love my new house,

the girls' school is way further away.

Devoin helps me sometimes.

When he can, he'll pick the kids up.

But the other day, Devoin texted me,

saying that he'd rather put the girls on a school bus.

Honestly, with my mom being gone,

I'm really not trying to change up

the girls' routine too much.

I'm a little frustrated because I always

have to remind Devoin how to step up

and to be an involved dad.

[upbeat music]

I don't understand this.

♪♪ ♪♪

Hola! - Hi.

- Hiya!

Hi, mommas.

Oh, my goodness.

She's so pretty. How are you guys?

- Good.

- All right, I want you guys to take a quick shower.

I want to talk to your daddy.

But, yeah, I wanted to talk to you about, like,

the girls and the pickup situation,

and, like, what we can do

because I know you sent me a text message saying

that it was a lot for you.

I took your message, like, not in a great way.

I was hurt by what you said.

- If that bus was an option, I just feel like why not?

I would rather pay for them if they're comfortable

with getting on the bus. It's a lot. Like--

- Well, they--they get it. They understand.

We went from only, like, 10 or 15 minutes

coming to and from at my mom's to now this,

and they see it.

Like, damn, Mom, another 20 minutes till we're home?

But if--we need to figure something out,

because when are you gonna spend time with them

if we put them on the bus?

Because that is your time with them, right?

- Well, yeah, of course.

For me to pick them up at 4:00,

I have to leave my crib at 2:30 to be on time

and then come back here. - Mm-hmm.

- By the time we get back here, it's 5:30,

so that was cutting into my time here.

Like, as long as we're not working,

we can hang out, for sure.

If they was to catch the bus here,

I can meet them here and--

- And then it's also like, OK, if you don't want to do it

and let's say they're not comfortable to be on the bus,

then this is something that I have to continue to do.

- If they say no, then we're back to the drawing board.

- Yeah, and what happens then?

Like, what is that gonna look like if you have to work

and then I have to work?

Like, who's gonna [bleep] pick them up then?

Luis is not in the picture.

Somebody in this-- between the both of us

are gonna have to make a sacrifice,

and sometimes, I feel like it's always me.

- Well, the thing is, I can't afford

to make some sacrifices when it comes to, like,

just saying, "I can't work today."

I literally can't afford to do that ever.

- And you think I can?

- I'm not saying you can.

I'm just saying if I do it, I'm living in the streets.

[soft dramatic music]

Like, that's literally what's gonna happen.

And if I'm in the streets, I can't do nothing for them

at all. - I don't want that.

I will look into the bus. I'll look at numbers.

- Yeah, and like I say, we can talk to them first

and foremost, see what they say,

how they feel about it.

If it's not even something they want to do,

then we go from there. - Yeah.

- By no means was I saying is if the bus ain't an option,

I'm not gonna be there no more. No, we'll figure it out.

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Yeah, for sure.

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- ♪♪ This is our moment, let's go have some fun ♪♪

♪♪ Dancing and moving however we want ♪♪

♪♪ If you will catch it ♪♪

♪♪ Go ahead, live it up ♪♪

♪♪ It's so good, yeah ♪♪

[upbeat music]

- Thank you. - Bye!

- Thank you!

- Guess who is moving to the neighborhood?

So Cory and Taylor are moving five minutes away from us.

They just got their house.

I'm actually excited because it's gonna make

co-parenting a lot easier.

Ryder will be able to go back and forth with less stress now.

So we are gonna take her over to go and see their new house.

- Whoa! There's so much.

- Oh, my. - Oh, my God.

[laughs]

- What is all that?

- Why do you guys have so much stuff?

- Are all those filled? - Yeah.

- What can they have?

- Cory, what is all this stuff?

- Bro, look how the truck is stuffed.

- I mean, my goodness.

- 15 boxes just for my clothes.

- [laughs]

- Well, that's aggressive.

Wow.

How many boxes did you have, Tay?

Of clothes?

- I think I had, like, four. - What?

- [laughs]

- Ry, are you glad that we're moving here

and closer to your mom now?

- Um, yeah. - Walking?

- I don't know about-- - No.

- I don't know about walking, girl.

- We didn't move that close to Mommy.

- ♪♪ I gotta move in my running shoes ♪♪

♪♪ Running, take a chance ♪♪

♪♪ Yeah, it's how I do ♪♪

- OK.

- [laughs] - [imitates whooshing]

- Oh, wow.

- Ooh, hoo, hoo!

Snow angels!

[giggling] - Snow angels?

Oh, God.

- [grunts]

♪♪ ♪♪

- [laughs] - She's snowboarding now.

So I have a question for you.

- Oh, God.

- A little bit of brainstorming that I've been doing.

Behind every strong woman, there's a strong man.

You've never heard that saying? - No.

- Well, it's true.

You know, I think us dads, we don't get

the credit we always deserve. Right? Right.

So I think there's only one way to go about this.

It is now time for the dads to take an all-guys trip.

- OK, so you're gonna get drunk and drink beer

with all your guy friends? That's what I gathered.

- I want cold. I want mountain.

I want skis, snowboards, and lots of beer.

What I'm asking is for your blessing

to go have fun with my guys to talk to them about dad stuff.

- Plan your little trip. - All right.

- I'll hang out with my kids.

So who are you going to invite on this little boys trip?

- Basically, all the dads,

Gary, Devoin, Zach,

Taylor, Tyler, Sean.

Basically, a lot of the people that were in Colombia.

I'm gonna shoot all the guys in the group chat

a nice little text, seeing if people

can get on video chat... - OK.

- See kind of what they say. And...

- I'm gonna put Maya to sleep. - Yeah.

And I'm out of here. - OK.

- I'll talk to you later.

- ♪♪ Whoa, walk into the room and I got 'em like ♪♪

♪♪ Hey, I'ma light the fuse ♪♪

♪♪ I'ma make it go boom ♪♪

♪♪ I'ma do my thing ♪♪

- Yup. What up?

Yo, fellas, what's good? - What's happening?

- Hey, what's up, guys? - What's up, dog?

- Gary, you on here? - Hey.

Yeah, what's going on, guys? - My man.

Yes, sir. Everybody.

The reason on why I wanted

to get everybody on here is just to--

listen, Devoin and Gary, because we didn't get

to see you in Colombia, I think all of us

want to catch up with each other.

- For sure. - Yeah.

- You got somewhere in mind already?

- I got something in mind.

- Uh-oh. What is he about to do?

- What the [bleep]?

- Baby, we're hitting the slopes!

- Oh! - We gon' hit the slopes, baby!

- No way.

- Let's [bleep] go, baby.

- Listen, I want to bring you where I'm from,

and that's Michigan, baby. - Oh!

- Oh, [bleep]. - Go blue, baby!

Go blue, baby. - I've never been to Michigan.

Let's do it.

- I think a weekend's a good amount of time for us

all to get away, have some fun, and, you know,

get back to business afterwards.

I'll shoot you guys the dates once I have the dates.

We can lock in that. We'll hit the mountain.

We'll hit the slopes.

You know, we got these things called moon bikes

that we all got to try.

- Let's [bleep] go, baby. - Let's run it.

- It's been real.

I appreciate you guys. - Sounds good.

- All right, fellas. - All right, fellas.

- ♪♪ Yeah, chin up, mama ♪♪

♪♪ We're gonna be OK ♪♪

♪♪ Gonna be OK ♪♪

♪♪ We're gonna be OK ♪♪

♪♪ Every time is mine ♪♪

- So I talked to Cory,

and I think we're trying to get together

and do like a dad's little trip.

- Oh, really? - Mm-hmm.

Something snow-related, some skiing or something.

Who knows? - Wow.

It's been a while, I think, since the guys

have gotten together, right? - Yeah.

It's the guys' time, baby.

- Can I whisk it up?

- You know what'll be fun is if we had Amber's Gare-bear go.

- Yeah.

- I need to meet this Gary, you know?

- I know she brought him up at Leah's birthday party.

And then after that, we didn't hear from her.

- I messaged Amber recently.

- What did you say to her, though?

- I was like, "You need to reach out to Leah,

just to say hi or something, a text or something."

"I've texted and called Leah a million times,

"no answer, nothing ever back.

"I've done everything to be in her life.

"I've gotten crapped on.

"I never get to spend time with her.

"I'm tired of being unhappy and fighting

"for attention from everyone.

"I'm not a horrible person. I'm a loving mother.

I refuse to live a miserable life anymore."

So...

- I mean, that's kind of shocking to me

'cause, I mean-- - That's what I'm saying.

And I haven't even told Leah about this.

I don't even-- I don't want to.

- I don't think--

- Because that right there, if I say, "Hey, by the way--"

you know? That's, like--

- That's her giving confirmation that her mom's

just not wanting to be there. - Like it's down to Leah.

Like, she's already, like, at that point,

and I know what Leah needs, you know?

And she needs her mom.

Even if your kid is pushing you away,

you have to show the interest. - Be persistent, yeah.

- And if she's not coming around

or putting forth that effort,

it's just gonna make it much harder.

She wants to have a mom that's there,

that you can depend on, you know,

somebody that doesn't always make it about herself.

- And that's one thing.

Like, I do all the motherly things for Leah.

I attend all of her cross country.

I do all of her schooling.

But sadly, I can't fill that void

in her heart of Amber.

I can be the motherly figure, but she still has that hole.

- I think that a lot of this stuff

will weigh on her for the rest of her life.

[somber music]

- ♪♪ Come on, let's go ♪♪

[upbeat music]

♪♪ Come on, let's go ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

- Have fun. Be careful.

- Mm. - Are you leaving me?

- I'm out of here. - I love you.

- Oh, baby.

- I hope that you have a good time.

- Bye. I love you. - Love you.

- Have fun, but not too much fun.

- I'm gonna miss your lasagna. - I know you are.

It sucks to be you.

♪♪ ♪♪

- No kids. Whoo!

- ♪♪ Come on, let's go ♪♪

♪♪ We'll get away ♪♪

♪♪ Just get ♪♪

- First time on a guy's trip.

You made this thing happen, big dog.

Ooh. OK.

- ♪♪ Let's go ♪♪

♪♪ It's all behind ♪♪

- Whoo! Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!

This is perfect.

- Exactly the [bleep] I pictured.

And we're here, baby.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Well, damn!

- Hey! - Oh, hey!

- Hey! [bleep] happening?

- What's up, dog? - Hello, brother.

- My brother.

- Oh, ho, ho!

[cheering, laughter] - My brothers.

- Aw, yeah. - My brothers.

- What's up, Taylor? What's up?

Yeah! - There he is.

- What up, dude? - What's up, y'all?

- Yeah, in the midst! In the midst!

- Hey!

- I'm happy as hell right now.

We made this [bleep] happen, baby.

♪♪ ♪♪

- ♪♪ Let's go ♪♪

♪♪ Let's go ♪♪

- Pizza, pizza, pizza. Pizza, pizza, pizza.

♪♪ ♪♪

- I just moved into this house, man,

and this guys' trip is everything

that I needed right now.

With all the stress of moving, it's just been a lot.

You know what I mean? - How's Taylor liking it?

She's liking the new house? - Oh, bro, she's loving it.

But I want to hear about what everyone else is going through.

- I'm dealing with a 15-year-old that's driving.

- Yeah. - Gary, you know.

- We're driving in the van, and she's sitting next to me.

And I'm like, "Oh, my goodness."

- Nice. - How is it with Amber?

- Uh, actually, Leah hasn't seen Amber since her birthday.

- Oh, that's crazy, bruh.

- You don't want to hear it. - I can't go--

I can't go more than three days without at least

speaking to my kid or, like, hearing her voice or something.

- Is that Leah's choice? Like, you probably--

- No. - Oh.

- So Leah is kind of like

the damage is-- like, almost it's like--

it's all done. - Is it unsalvageable?

Like, you can't--

- I think it's salvageable, but what Leah would need

is her mom there all the time consistently.

- Well, you know, there's only one way to build trust,

and that's through consistency.

There's no other way to build trust.

It's consistent and consistent. So if she ain't--

- At this point, it's almost on Amber to do that.

- Yeah, yeah. - It's not on Leah.

- As a mother, you--

Amber has to try, no matter what.

It's never gonna be Leah's fault

if she's not talking to you

because, Amber, you're the first one.

You're the reason why it's this way in the first place.

And I've been very--

I didn't want to throw Amber under the bus.

For so many--so many times--

- Can we stop doing that? - Well--

- Can we stop worrying about throwing her under the bus?

- That train has gone.

Leah has now realized that she is not

number one in her mom's eyes.

And once the kid realizes that, man--

- It's a wrap, it's a wrap. It's done, yeah.

- And she has other people there that has her--

that have her-- are there for her.

So it's like, you know-- - Yeah, your wife--

- If Kristina wasn't there, I mean, it'd be a whole other--

- Yeah, that's a blessing right there.

- Trust me, the best thing that ever happened to Leah

was Kristina. Kristina is a loving parent.

- She's a saint.

She came up there, [bleep].

A saving angel came down. [trills]

- Yep, and Leah is, like, wanting

to be adopted by Kristina.

[tender music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- Wait, does Kristina want to adopt Leah?

- Kristina would in a heartbeat.

- Does Amber know she said-- she knows nothing about it?

OK. All right.

♪♪ ♪♪

- That's a tough one.

[energetic music]

- Hit it. Hit it, hit it.

- Hit. - Go for it.

- Y'all just [bleep]. - I mean, look at the score.

♪♪ ♪♪

[phone chiming]

- Hi, honey. - What are you doing?

- Nothing. We're just chilling.

- Vaeda is always asking about you.

- She is? - Mm-hmm.

- Aw. Yeah, have you talked to Amber at all?

- Um, I mean, I reached out to her.

I was thinking about her a lot today.

and I texted her like, hey, how are you?

- Oh, you did?

Yeah, Gary mentioned something about,

like, Leah, like, wanting to, like,

have Kristina adopt her and stuff.

I know, I-- ooh, I know.

I don't know. I mean, I told--

I said whatever, Leah, like, you got to listen to your kid,

and you can't-- you can't protect Amber.

- And, yes, that's inevitable.

I don't--obviously, Amber doesn't know about--

- Uh, well, Gary needs to tell her.

- Uh--

- You can't just blindside her.

When she does find out,

that's gonna trigger the [bleep] out of her.

- You're right.

- She might need some extra support.

That's gonna be hard on Gary, too, because--

- Dude.

- Gary's very much like a people pleaser.

- Oh, yeah.

The way he's explaining it, he's like,

I reached out to us.

I said, please reach out to Leah.

You haven't talked to her in a while.

I'm like, Gary, stop doing that.

Amber's a grown woman. She can handle her [bleep].

- ♪♪ Up in the air, up in the air ♪♪

♪♪ Yeah, don't care ♪♪

♪♪ Up in the air, up in the air ♪♪

[upbeat music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- You ready to make LEGOs?

- Yep, and I need help.

- Do you want to sit here and help her?

Yeah? Let's switch.

Let's switch-a-daisy, switch-a-roo.

So I wanted to talk to you guys about school and the drive.

It's becoming a lot for Mommy to pick you guys up

and take you to school every day with the traffic.

Your dad also lives extremely far.

He can't do it all the time.

So I was wondering if there's any possible way

that you guys would be OK taking a school bus.

- No. - No? Why?

- It's so hot in the school bus.

And there's a lot of people in the school bus.

- But it wouldn't be like a regular school bus.

It's like private transportation.

How do you feel, Stelly?

- Let me see this. - I don't want to.

- You don't want to? Why?

- I don't know.

- It's just out of the question?

Like, no?

So what do you think we should do then?

- Where?

- So if Nova's OK switching schools,

are you OK switching schools, Stella?

- Yeah.

- You would have to obviously finish this year out, though.

I wouldn't want to switch you in the middle of the year.

- Yeah.

- Do you know I met your dad in high school?

- Huh? - Mm-hmm.

- Wait, Dad-Dad or my dad?

- Devoin.

I met your dad at the club.

[laughter] - OK!

- He was a DJ.

- Ew. - And I was--

- Did he call you out?

- Yeah, he was like, let me get you a drink, shorty.

And I was like, OK.

And God was like, here's Stella.

- It doesn't mean that's my real dad just

because you met him at the-- - Yes, it is.

- It is your real dad. Luis is your dad.

- But you accepted-- - Yes.

- To let him be my dad.

- Yes, I accepted that.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Mom, let me out.

- ♪♪ On this path that I'm on ♪♪

♪♪ A pink elephant when I hit the room ♪♪

♪♪ Look at me now, look at me go ♪♪

♪♪ Better believe how far I've come ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

[phone line trilling] - [clears throat]

♪♪ ♪♪

- ♪♪ Gonna keep chases ♪♪

♪♪ Give me all this interest ♪♪

[phone ringing] - Hello?

- Hi. - Hi.

It's such a pretty day.

- Oh, nice.

- I was about to say

please tell me y'all got some fishing poles.

- No. What did he say?

- Really?

- Amber, like, is she communicating with Leah

like she was, like, on--

- Yeah, no.

I love Gary to death,

but that pisses me off because Gary shouldn't be going around

telling people [bleep] like this.

Like, that's not fair.

This is a hard and sketchy situation.

- Yes.

- 100%, it's literally throwing a fire

on a whole thing of gasoline.

- Yeah.

- Truth be told, it's such a tough spot,

what Gary's dealing with right now, it's one of those times,

like, as a parent, you truly don't know

what the right decision is.

It's kind of sad even going through something similar

in my situation with Bentley.

From Gary's perspective, you just never want your child

to have to feel like they want to make a decision

that is so serious and so final.

But for Catelynn and

me, we've been put in a really tough position.

My biggest concern is that if it happens,

it will affect Amber tremendously.

And as Amber's friend first, I definitely want to be there

for her and support her and I want to help.

I just don't know how to help yet.

Cate and I might just be the ones that have to tell Amber.

[somber music]

- ♪♪ 'Cause I'm the next big thing ♪♪

♪♪ I want to spread my wings ♪♪

♪♪ You want to hear me sing ♪♪

- And we're ready to hit the slopes.

- There's our hill, guys.

- There it is, man. That's it. [laughs]

- Welcome to the world of Sno-Go.

Let us brief you on what the Sno-Go is all about.

Go ahead and put your boots in the bindings.

There's three ways that we move with our Sno-Go.

The easiest way is just to walk right beside it.

Number two, you propel yourself.

And then the third one,

we straddle our snowboard, then we go.

Any questions?

- Hell, no. - Send us to the top.

[upbeat music]

- Yup, let's go. We got three here.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Let's do it.

- Taylor, Mila, Ryder, Maya,

Daddy loves you, but I'm out of here!

♪♪ ♪♪

- Look, Ma, no hands! - Whoa!

- He can't stop.

- There you go. - There we go.

- Bye-bye. - Oh!

- Help!

[laughter]

- [bleep] [laughs]

- ♪♪ Become oh, so dangerous ♪♪

♪♪ Touch me, man, you're so contagious ♪♪

♪♪ Must be, man, I can't contain it ♪♪

♪♪ Can't lose, and it ain't my--♪♪

- Whoa!

[tense music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- I'm dead.

[groaning]

♪♪ ♪♪

[bleep]

- Oh, my God.

- Didn't see him go down. I know he's going fast.

He's right there in that tan jacket.

- I'm gonna call ski patrol.

[tense music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- I'm dead.

[groaning]

♪♪ ♪♪

- I tried slowing down. I probably shouldn't have.

- Oh, my knee.

I'ma be all right. It's not that serious.

But it did hurt. [groans]

♪♪ ♪♪

Never put me on that [bleep] again.

Where the bar at? I'm going straight to the bar.

[upbeat music]

- Devoin. Devoin. - [laughs]

- Here you go, bro. [overlapping chatter]

- No way!

[laughter and applause]

- Hey, send a snap to Briana right now.

- I'm about to send this to Briana right now.

- Just be like, hey, I'm in the hospital.

- I'm about to send it to her, see what she says.

She gonna be like, I don't give a [bleep].

- If you call Jade, tell her, she'll call Briana.

- They airlifted Devoin... [laughter]

To the hospital.

- Oh, my God. - This is so good.

- That's so good.

- Wait, are you sending it to Jade?

- Yeah, like it's me. - Oh, it's so good.

- Like I don't have my phone on me.

- [laughs]

- ♪♪ Here we go ♪♪

- To guys trip.

- We got four people doing it.

- Two, one.

- Shotski. - Shotski!

- ♪♪ It's about to go off ♪♪

- You got to take one off your ski.

- Yeah, put one over here. [laughter]

- Yeah, bro.

- ♪♪ Here we go ♪♪

[all cheering]

- You got to call Jade now and let her know what's going on.

[phone line trilling]

- Hello? - Hello. It's Devoin.

Yeah, we were just--we was literally [bleep] with you.

It was just a joke. - Are you [bleep] serious?

- [laughs]

- Now I got to call everybody.

- Hey, but--they ain't even call me yet.

They don't care.

- You were airlifted to a damn hospital.

[laughter]

- ♪♪ Check it out ♪♪

♪♪ Check it, check it, check it out ♪♪

♪♪ Check it out ♪♪

♪♪ Check it, check it, check it out ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

[phone line trilling]

- Hey, bae. - Hi. What are you doing?

- I literally just got out of the shower.

- How's your trip?

- Oh, it's a good one. It is going.

We just got off the mountain.

We were, um-- we got on the Sno-Gos.

- What is that?

- Picture like a tricycle, so, like,

a ski on the front and two skis on the back.

- Was it fun?

- [laughs] Yeah, it was fun. Yeah.

Gary and Devoin, they had a collision.

- Oh, my God. Are they OK?

- They're OK.

They're a little banged up, but they're fine.

- OK.

- We're all enjoying, you know,

each other's company and the time away

from our wives and girlfriends and women and kids.

- You didn't even ask where the kids are or anything. [laughs]

It's been fun having them, like, by myself.

But tomorrow, I'll be with my mom.

My mom is gonna bring Kyle's boys

and then we're gonna take all the kids to, like,

an indoor playground and let them hang out for the day.

- OK.

- What are you doing tonight?

- Nothing. I think we're just about to hang out.

Uh, there's a hot tub here, so I'll probably get in that

and just relax, and drink, and--

- I hope you guys have fun.

- Yeah, I'm gonna get out of here and go back.

I'm hungry, so I'm about to go eat.

- All right, well, have fun.

Call me, because I've been calling you.

And it doesn't seem like your phone works out there.

[playful music]

You're not frozen.

[laughing] I know the phone isn't frozen.

You're ridiculous.

No. [laughs]

♪♪ ♪♪

[energetic music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- Guys. - Hey!

- Hey. - Hey.

- We've got more men. - Oh, shh--

- What? - My shoe's untied.

- He was trying-- - Oh, no.

- Oh, hell naw. - Oh, God bro!

- I'm out of here, y'all. I'm going.

[laughter]

- My shoe was untied!

- Moon man in here. - We out, y'all. Hell naw.

- I think a fifth person's a little tight.

[laughter]

- What grade is Ryder in? How old is she now?

- She's in first grade. She's six.

- Six now. OK, how often do you get her, though?

How's it going with-- - I get Ryder every weekend.

Do you get a lot of one-on-one time with your daughter?

- I used to get a little more.

But now it's more so when I get one, I get two, bro.

It's hard to get her without getting Stella,

honestly, because-- - Oh, you get both?

- You get one, two. - Yeah, yeah.

- They're a combo package, bro.

- I'll just say this, bro,

that's something that I've always looked up to you about.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- Is the way that you pick up the second one.

- That's just natural, bro. - That's dope.

- Yeah, but you know what I mean?

- That's still a choice that you make.

- It is, but it's not a hard decision to make.

- Yeah, I know. - It's easy.

- I definitely notice what's going on

with her situation and her dad.

It ain't no secret, bro, what's up with that.

He's not really been there 100% for her.

I'm not gonna say he ain't there at all.

- Stella's dad? - Yeah.

- OK.

- Yeah, she needs somebody, bro.

- It's that Luis dude? - Who is he?

- That's Luis.

- When I met him, he was a cool cat.

- I haven't seen him in a minute, bro.

- You want to spend more time with Nova?

- Of course. I wish she lived with me. [bleep].

- Yeah. So what's stopping-- what's hindering you

from spending more time with her? What is it?

Is it her? Is it you?

Is it just life in general? - It's more so me.

- Schedule?

- I've been on a [bleep] roller-coaster for life, bro.

Like, I work, I don't work.

Now I'm working again.

- Like, say if you wanted to,

you could pull up to the school and pick her up?

- It depend. I pick her up every [bleep] day from school.

- OK, yeah, yeah. And then, like, if you--

- I am their ride, every day.

- Yeah, and you can hang out with them like that.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- But keep the consistency. - Yeah, yeah.

- I mean, it sounds like, you know,

but that's what they want, consistency.

- For sure. I'm woke to the situation, bro.

I know what she need. I know what she want.

- And I think you have to give yourself a little bit of grace.

And I think for you to take the time to get

your [bleep] together is OK.

- You got to better yourself

before you can better anybody, bro.

That's big facts. - Yeah, man.

- I agree, man.

- ♪♪ No stress, say less ♪♪

♪♪ All you gotta do is keep it fresh ♪♪

♪♪ Do you, quick flex ♪♪

♪♪ Ain't nobody better at doing it best ♪♪

- Hi! - Hi!

- Say hi, Nova. - Hi.

- We are going where?

- To our school tour.

- Yeah, we're gonna go see

if this is the right school for you guys. Let's go tour.

Let's go check it out.

Bye.

♪♪ ♪♪

All right, let's go.

How are you guys feeling about it?

- I like it. - Do you like it a lot?

- Mm-hmm. - Me too.

How about you, Stella?

- Loved it.

- I think that school-- I can't believe it.

It is such an amazing school.

And you want to know the best part about it all?

- Because we're 12 minutes away?

- Yes! [laughter]

[upbeat music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- I don't want those. [groans]

- It's a straw. - It's a straw.

♪♪ ♪♪

Well, first of all, I'm proud of you guys

for, like, wanting something different,

because I know you guys also have struggled

with this whole, um, commute.

I know it's been a lot.

Us coming together to find a solution together as a team,

I think that's super important,

and I'm proud of us for doing that.

So, can we all agree that this is the school

you guys want to go to?

- Yes!

- That's what I have to live with.

- When Devoin gets home from this trip,

we'll have to let him know you both really liked it.

I'm gonna get my computer so I could enroll you guys.

I'm putting Brittany as your emergency contact.

- [giggles]

- And then it says "persons not authorized to pick up."

Is there anybody you don't want to pick you guys up?

- Mm.

- Who do you not like when they come pick you up?

Is there anybody?

- My dad.

[somber music]

♪♪ ♪♪

I haven't seen him in a long time,

so I'ma be like, what are you doing?

- I'm sorry.

Do you want to see him?

Hmm? - Not really.

- No?

♪♪ ♪♪

[upbeat music]

- ♪♪ Let them say what they gon' say ♪♪

♪♪ 'Cause I'm doing so fine on my own thing ♪♪

♪♪ And I'ma do my thing every night and day ♪♪

- Last night, baby.

- All right, ladies, breakfast. - It's ready?

- Breakfast? - Yeah!

- Bon appétit. - Yeah.

- Thank you, young chef.

- Thank you, Gary. - Thank you, Gary.

- Gary, how you feel today? Sore?

- Every time I rolled over, it hurt.

- I don't think a lot of people are snowboarding today.

- Keep me away from Gary. - Hell, yeah.

- Everyone's had good phone calls?

You called home? - Yeah.

- Yeah. - I talked to Jade briefly.

- Because usually on, like, a trip like this,

there's always that one phone call that something goes wrong.

- Are you gonna, like, fill Amber in on the situation or--

- So as far as that goes, it's kind of,

um, letting Leah stew and think about what she wants to do.

Um, and I think--

I pretty much know what she wants to do,

but I just got to make sure that she's thought about

the end results of, you know, everything.

[somber music]

- ♪♪ I'm unstoppable, unstoppable ♪♪

♪♪ Yeah, I'm unstoppable ♪♪

[upbeat music]

- What is this?

Feelings about Dad.

Do not like that he won't come.

[somber music]

- ♪♪ When you're searching in the dark ♪♪

♪♪ It's heavy in your heart ♪♪

♪♪ You've got a friend ♪♪

- [babbles] - Hello.

- Mm. Hello.

- Let me see my bestie. - [babbles]

- Hi, bestie. - Oh!

- Hi, Mommy. - Say hi.

- Want to go for a walk? You're a big girl?

- How is she doing? - She's OK.

- How have you and the girls been?

- I ended up, um, having to look at

a different school for the kids.

- How do Nova and Stella feel

with you changing their schools?

- They're for it. Because I told them,

I was like, listen, this is a lot for all of us.

- Mm-hmm.

- And Devoin helps, like, when he wants to help.

It's not consistent help.

We don't have a set schedule.

- Is Luis involved in any of this?

- The last time Stella has seen Luis has been, like, a year.

- Holy [bleep]. You never heard nothing at all?

Damn. Has she asked?

- Well, I'm gonna show you something.

This is what I found in her notebook.

That's what she wrote. - Feelings about Dad.

Do not like that.

- [babbles]

- Oh, my God.

I would have cried if I seen this.

- Mm-hmm. Yeah.

- Did you ask her about it? - No.

- You don't want her to know you--

you know, you're looking at her stuff?

- Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

It's such like a--like a sensitive, touchy subject.

- Mm-hmm.

- And I knew it was bound to happen,

because, like, we haven't really spoken to him.

It's been a year. I know she's wondering.

- That's crazy.

- I don't know how to deal with rejection from my father.

Like, I'm still going through that myself, you know?

♪♪ ♪♪

Stella's growing up, and she's starting to notice things.

And she's kind of understanding,

like, our situation here and how Devoin

is not her dad but her--

but Devoin is like a father figure to her.

It's a really hard situation to see Stella

go through the things that I went through

and even still to this day, I'm going through.

I don't know how to, like, help her

because I don't even know how to help myself.

- ♪♪ Yeah, all right ♪♪

♪♪ I make it look easy ♪♪

♪♪ Uh, yeah ♪♪

- Oh, no, he-- - Go!

You're too late. You got to commit!

Commit, surrender!

- ♪♪ Motorcycles, denim jeans, neon lights, Tennessee ♪♪

- Chey, I love you. - Oh, [bleep].

- Oh! - Oh, [bleep]! Oh!

- [shouts] - Oh, man!

- [laughs]

- ♪♪ Head bop, doo-wop, doo-wop, doo-wop, doo-wop ♪♪

♪♪ Yeah, landlocked surf rockabilly kind of feeling ♪♪

♪♪ Keeps me dreaming of the day when I'm gonna get my star ♪♪

- Mm. - Gary, what you making?

- Tacos.

[upbeat music]

- Gary, I appreciate you, man.

- I'm out of here. No tacos for me.

- You what? - Maybe Taco Bell.

- Yeah! - Thanks, guys.

♪♪ ♪♪

- I appreciate your talk. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Drive safe. Drive safe, bro.

♪♪ ♪♪

- What we think about the first guys' trip?

- Success. - Oh, yeah.

- Everyone had a good time? - Whoo!

- That's what I'm saying. - It was dope.

You know what I mean?

- I don't know about y'all fellas,

but I'ma call it a night.

- Yeah, it was a good trip. - Yeah, I'm done.

- Thanks for dinner, Gary.

[somber music]

[phone line trilling]

♪♪ ♪♪

[phone line trilling]

- Hello? - Hello.

Are you good? You look a little stressed out.

- Took Ryder, Buzz, and Ace.

And so my mom and I took them to, like,

the place where you can go on, like, all the slides.

But Mom starts, like, pacing

like she's looking for somebody.

And I'm like, Mom, what happened?

Because Ryder's crying and--

- Oh, Ryder was crying? - Yeah, and--

- Uh, hold--hold on, hold on one second,

because Cory's right here, too.

So let me just-- let me fill him in.

Ryder's crying, apparently.

- She cried and, like, got, like, weird.

So I'm like, what the [bleep] happened?

It was at this other table

with a dad and another little boy.

So my mom goes, is this your son?

And the dad kind of looked at her crazy

and was like, yeah, what's up?

And she's like...

- Oh, Lord. Mm-hmm.

Mm. - They're not Black.

Let's just--to say that.

The dad, like, looks at the son and is like,

you need to apologize. - OK.

- So the little boy apologized,

but he kept on saying, no, she's a liar, she's a liar.

So we walked away.

Ryder was still very upset because in her head,

she's like, why are we at this, like,

super-fun place but this really nasty thing

happened to me and nobody did anything?

And I'm like, feeling, like, defeated as her mom

because I'm like, what am I supposed to do

in this situation?

So-- - Chey.

- I mean, she's a six-year-old. You know what I mean?

- Chey, I don't want you to put it on yourself right now.

I feel like you doing enough is--

- Oh, no. I look back and I did more.

- I'm glad Ry's OK. I'm glad, you know, you're--

you know, you're OK.

- Well, it just got, like, really, like, too much.

- I mean, yeah, Ryder's six years old.

You know, it's hard to explain to a six-year-old...

- Like, you're six, yeah. - On that meaning.

Me and you should kind of talk on how we want to attack it

in the future, because it's gonna happen again.

- I know. It's gonna happen.

- Like, if you think that this is the only time.

[somber music]

- Yeah.

- Like, I've been called that my whole life.

You know what I mean?

- Got to find a way to break this to her.

- Any time a white person saw me and wanted

to hurt my feelings, what do you think they called me?

You know what I mean? - Yeah.

- Like, that's any time someone wants to hurt you,

that's what they're gonna go to.

- I've dealt with it at her age.

I've dealt with it young

and I've dealt with it my whole life.

- I don't know. It's just--

♪♪ ♪♪

- It's OK.

- I hate that she is six,

and we're having these [bleep] conversations.

It's like these babies are so young,

and we're already dealing with this stupid [bleep].

♪♪ ♪♪

- ♪♪ Don't take me anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ Anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ Don't take me anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ Anywhere, anywhere but here ♪♪

♪♪ Don't take me anywhere, anywhere, anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ But here ♪♪

♪♪ Don't take me anywhere, anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ Anywhere but here ♪♪

♪♪ Don't take me anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ Anywhere ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

- The boy called Ryder the n-word.

- What? - I was just so upset.

- I can start looking for a new job.

- You have to have made yourself disciplined.

- Jeremy doesn't want Addie to go to counseling.

- So what are you supposed to do?

- Call my family attorney.

- Our lives are busy and I don't get to sit down.

- Sometimes I just want you to listen.

- I have court today. I keep having panic attacks.