[ Stevie Wonder's "All in Love is Fair" plays ]
♪
♪ All is fair in love ♪
♪ Love's a crazy game ♪
Zoey: Love. Life's most intense game.
♪ Two people vow to stay ♪
Excuse me. Queen, would you be interested in joining the BSU?
Yes. Yes, I am. Yes?
♪ In love as one they say ♪ The thrill of the chase...
...The excitement of the hunt....
Do you want to be with me?
♪ All in love is fair ♪
...The adrenaline of the match....
♪ A writer takes his pen ♪
♪ To write the words again ♪
♪ That all in love is... ♪
Well, I'm here now.
♪ ...fair ♪
♪
[ Cellphone chimes ]
[ Groans ]
But when you finally take your shot,
is victory any less sweet
if you know you had to cheat to get there?
[ Cellphone chimes ]
♪
I'm sorry...
I gotta go.
Okay.
♪
♪ Watch out, world, I'm grown now ♪
♪ I'm grown ♪
♪ Learn something new every day ♪
♪ I don't know, so I'm‐a feel my way ♪
♪ Got the weight of the world on me ♪
♪ But no regrets, this is what I say ♪
♪ Watch out, world, I'm grown now ♪
♪ I'm grown ♪ ♪ You can tell me ♪
♪ My heart beating so loud ♪
♪ Mama, look, I'm grown now ♪
♪ I'm grown ♪
♪
Unless you want the entire campus
to know you got the high hard one last night,
I would take that little afterglow, bouncy walk
down to, like, a nine.
[ Sighs ]
Better? Maybe try incorporating some of that guilt
you should be feeling
for sleeping with another girl's man?
Look, the reality is Aaron and I
have been going back and forth for ‐‐ what? ‐‐ three years now.
I was here way before Rochelle ever was, so...
Yeah, but she's here now.
And Aaron is actually her boyfriend.
Which makes you a boyfriend‐burglaring
penis‐vulture now.
Wait, where's all this grossly descriptive shade coming from?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're right.
I'm probably just projecting my frustrations
with Javi onto you. Mm.
The no sex thing? I get it, girl.
No.
The "Javi cheating on me" thing.
What are you talking about?
He's been acting super weird
whenever me, him, and his phone are in the same room.
Sly texts, sneaky phone calls,
screen brightness alarmingly dim...
Okay, Ana, these are really huge accusations
to throw on somebody who legit doesn't have sex.
So are you, like, sure?
Deeply suspected but not confirmed...yet.
Oh. Hey! Ah!
Welcome home!
Oh, my God, Sky, congratulations!
Ah! You're a freakin' Olympian!
Thanks, I ‐‐ That is so insensitive of me.
Mm. I'm sorry, Jazz.
I feel awful about you not...
uh, making the, uh, you know, on the...
Hey, how was the plane food?
Vivek, it's okay. You can say it.
I didn't make the Olympics.
It's all good. Of course it is!
You made it to the trials!
What more could someone want
than to compete against the country's best?
You are the country's second‐best.
Doug, my man! Great airport pickup!
Yeah. [ Chuckles ]
I'ma go put these in the room.
Yeah.
He's been doting on me like I had a concussion
or we had a false‐positive.
Hey, I'm not mad at it.
[ Chuckles ] Who would be?
Welcome home.
Is she really as okay as she's acting?
Who knows? Every time I try
to talk to her about it, she won't tell me,
and all she says is, "It's all good."
So, maybe it is?
Are your neck muscles choking the oxygen
to your dumbass brain?
Aww. I'm so glad to see success hasn't changed you.
♪
It's just so hard for me to wrap my head around the fact
that your presence here in my astral plane
is coming to an end.
If I've learned anything from you
during my transfer year here,
it's that I was never really here at all.
No, you were definitely here
'cause my heart feels weird watching you pack.
Aww.
You know, you could come to Tokyo with me
while I film Sky at the Olympics.
Just Sky?
Unfortunately, yeah.
Life, man.
So, what do you say, Lucs?
Me, you, Tokyo?
And after the Olympics, we can backpack around
before I have to go back to Spelman.
I would, but I legit got to focus on Anti‐Muse.
Plus, carrying a backpack is gonna trigger my scoliosis.
Okay.
Well, it is an open invite.
My tiny, windowless room at the Tokyo airport
is your tiny, windowless room at the Tokyo airport.
I'm just saying, you can't call dibs on a human being
just 'cause you laid eyes on him first.
Okay, see, I would argue, though, that that's fair.
Okay, my point is, the fact that you don't care
that Aaron has a girlfriend means that you're ‐‐
you're relegating yourself to being his side‐piece.
Oh. See, I'd never be his side‐piece.
That's just not on brand for me.
Mm. Well, Zoey,
what is on brand for you?
Uh... [ Chuckles ]
Well, girlfriend.
Okay, see, once Rochelle is, like, "removed"
from the situation, then Aaron and I will be together.
Cue the fairy tale,
complete with our little happily ever after ending,
all scored by Oscar‐winning composer Alan Menken.
Music swells.
♪
[ Ding! ]
What? Oh.
Hot start to your fairy tale.
Oh, my God.
♪
Damn it.
[ Ding! ]
[ Door opens ]
Hey.
Uh...
Thanks for, um, you know, letting me come over.
Just wanted to check in, you know, and see how ‐‐
Oh, see how your side‐piece was doing?
I'm good. I'm really good.
I'm just tucked over here by the side
so no one can see us talking.
You know that's not what this is. Mm.
And you know you're not my side‐piece,
so why are you even ‐‐ No, but I'm definitely not
the main girl you were hugged up with on campus today.
[ Dogs barking in distance ]
Zoey, I know that what happened was a big deal
to the both of us.
But what did you think?
It was just gonna erase everything else in our lives
and we were magically gonna be together?
After I told you I loved you and then we had sex?
Yeah, it's kinda what I expected.
I just need a second, you know, to...go over all this.
Graduation's coming up, Cal U is still waiting for an answer
on whether or not I'm gonna accept their money,
and now...this confusing, uncomfortable situation
t‐that I feel bad for putting you both in ‐‐
Oh, my gosh. Please, do not feel bad for me.
Don't feel bad for me because I have obviously played myself.
Zoey, what do you want me to say?
I care about you,
probably more than I've cared about anyone
in the past three years.
I came over the other night
to tell you that I needed to take a step back, and then ‐‐
And somehow, I managed to become your side‐piece, so...
[ Sighs ] No, you are not that.
You're ‐‐ You're you.
You're Zoey. Okay, and what does that even mean?
You're the girl that floats in and out of my life
whenever she wants and just kinda screws with my head.
Mm. Yeah, you know, so,
I'm guessing in your mind,
I'm just supposed to drop Rochelle,
someone I care about, so that we can be together
while you follow Joey Bada$$ all over the world
and you just leave me ‐‐
leave me here waiting for you indefinitely.
That was the plan? No.
No, actually, I quit my styling job with Joey,
and I was thinking about re‐enrolling at Cal U.
So, I'm not floating anywhere anytime soon.
I'm really sorry if that screws with your head.
Mm.
♪
[ Sighs ]
♪
[ Horns honking ]
[ "Oh Yes Baby I Love You So" plays ]
♪
♪ Oh, yes, baby ♪
♪ I love you so, yeah ♪
Hey. Hi.
You know, this diner might have a C‐minus rating,
but that bathroom soap, give it an A‐plus.
My hands smell like roses.
I trust you. Smell.
I trust you. No, smell it.
I trust you ‐‐ You have all my trust.
Thank you. Thank you.
Mm‐hmm. Appreciate it.
Actually, I am gonna go wash my hands, too.
♪ And only me, till the end of time ♪ Okay. Hurry back.
♪
Hmm.
♪
[ Indistinct conversations ]
[ Cellphone chimes ]
♪
[ Chuckles ]
Hey. What are you watching?
"Proud Family."
LaCienega taught me how to be comfortable in my own skin.
Mm‐hmm.
[ Laughs ] Girl: Nooo!
[ TV shuts off ]
Are you mad at me?
What?
Are you mad at me?
Okay, why in the world would I be mad at you?
Because in the past seventy‐two hours,
everything in our life has changed
and you don't want to talk about it.
You've barely even acknowledged it,
and you're giggling way too hard at a children's show.
Have I not told you how proud of you I am?
A bunch, a‐a‐and it means everything to me.
[ Sighs ] That's only half the story.
Okay, well, the other half
I'm trying to ignore and move on from.
Now can we please go back to my show?
[ Laughs ]
[ TV shuts off ]
Okay.
Then I'm mad at you.
What? Why?
Because! It is so unfair
that you're just trying to brush over and move on
from the biggest thing that's ever happened to us.
Us?
You qualified for the Olympics.
Yeah, but it's what we have both been working our asses off for,
and now it's over and you're shutting me out
like we haven't taken this whole journey together
for the past thirteen years.
Give me something.
Some emotion other than this "I'm okay" bullshit.
Fine.
You want me to be real with you?
I am so humiliated.
I am disappointed and I'm embarrassed in myself.
But above that, most of all,
I am devastated that we can't finish this journey together.
♪
[ Sobbing ]
[ Voice breaking ] It wasn't supposed to be this way.
I know, but it is.
And listen, I was being real when I told you
that I am so, so proud of you.
[ Sniffles ] Come here.
I love you.
Love you.
Zoey: After my latest head‐to‐head with Aaron,
never before had I felt so bruised
by the intense game of love...
[ Cellphone chimes ]
[ Birds chirping ]
...And up until that moment,
I hadn't truly considered that there were other players
who were just as invested in this game as I was.
Okay, I don't understand. Why would you give Aaron's girlfriend your number?
I didn't. She just casually
slid into my DMs with a bone‐chilling message.
But she just said she wants to talk, right?
It could be nothing.
Her exact words were, "Hit me," period.
"Need to talk ASAP," all caps, period.
Oof. You're busted. Mm‐hmm.
Do you think Aaron maybe slipped up
and accidentally told her that you two smashed?
Oh. He is an idiot.
I'm sorry, but as a fellow scorned woman,
Rochelle deserves to know that her man strayed with a harlot.
A harlot? Since when are you a "fellow scorned woman"?
Since Javi cheated on me with "Somebody."
With who? Somebody.
Yeah, but do you know who she is?
I just told you. She's Somebody.
Together: Bitch. What. Is. Her. Name?
Bitch, I just told you. Somebody.
Javi is smashing somebody named Somebody.
Ana, Javi is celibate.
Javi is smashing nobody.
Or because he's not smashing Ana,
he's definitely smashing somebody.
Mm. See? Thank you, Sky.
Zoey: Okay, guys, can we please stop?
'Cause I actually have a very real somebody
named Rochelle who "needs to talk ASAP,"
which I'm interpreting as "needs to kill me ASAP,"
'cause I slept with her man.
What in the world am I supposed to do?
Okay, well, maybe Rochelle doesn't know
what went down with you and Aaron.
Or maybe Aaron told her that he wants to be with you
and she's trying to gracefully concede.
Yeah. Maybe she wants to congratulate you with her fists.
So, you're saying
any way I look at this, I'm getting my ass beat?
Mm‐hmm. For sure. Deserved.
Can I give you some practical advice?
Please, Sky.
Protect your face,
unless Aaron is into scars and disfigurement.
Pull your hair back into a high bun
so that she cannot pull it.
Jewelry must be removed so that she can't tear your lobes,
and maybe bring some Timbs
so that you can ground yourself before you take a swing.
Okay, wait. Why don't you try responding to Rochelle's text
and see if you can get a hint about what she wants?
You know, that is ‐‐ Yeah.
That's actually a very mature idea, Jazz.
More mature thing is to overnight yourself
a pair of Timbs. "Hey, everything good?
Want me to call you?"
Yes. That's good.
[ Cellphone swishes ] Okay. All I can do is wait.
Okay, in the interest of poking around
just a little bit, what if I send a text to Javi?
You know, just saying something like, um,
"My darling Javier,
I just need you to know that you, my love,
are my favorite somebody."
Together: No.
You guys suck. [ Cellphone chimes ]
Okay, it's her. "Face to face is better.
It's about Aaron."
♪
Just got the last bag.
Putting it with the rest of them.
Hey, guys. What up?
Hey.
[ Dog barking in distance ]
So...
You know, I wanna say that we should do
this long‐distance thing, but...
Yeah. It doesn't really feel like us.
Nah. You know you were the best surprise
to happen this year, right?
I wanna be modest and say I don't, but I do.
I mean, hey, you were a pretty great surprise, too, though.
Thanks.
So, I guess this a "Until we meet again" moment
instead of a "Goodbye"?
Either way, I'm gonna miss you.
Me too. Guys, come in.
We're gonna do a toast before you have to leave.
Damn. Alright. Okay.
To Sky.
For three years,
we have been terrified of you. ‐So true.
But never before have we been more proud.
Mm. Tokyo has no idea what's about to hit them.
Literally.
In the face. ‐Literally.
A toast to our girl, who's about to go out there
and bring home the gold!
‐Whoo! ‐Yes!
For Team USA, for Cal U,
and most importantly, for the Forster family
and all of South Central.
[ Cheering ]
‐Cheers! ‐Cheers!
‐Whoo! ‐Cheers!
‐Oh, that's hot. ‐Whew!
Thank you. I love you all so much.
‐I love you, too. ‐I'm gonna miss you.
‐We love you, too. ‐I'm gonna miss you.
But I love you the most.
Mm.
[ Sighs ]
You better go out there and smoke all those Kenyans
and Jamaicans, okay?
[ Chuckles ]
Okay.
Hey, we better get going.
Um...come on, Rod'Nae. Grab my bags.
‐Oh. ‐Rod'Nae, get those bags!
‐Bye, Sky! ‐Bye!
‐Love you! ‐Bye!
[ Indistinct talking ]
♪ Hollow ♪
♪ A doubt can make it ♪
♪ Borrowed ♪
♪ A love that never came ♪
♪ Followed ♪
♪ In every other shade ♪
♪
♪ Let it bury you away ♪
♪ In all your blame ♪
♪ In all your pain ♪
You okay?
Honestly?
I'm not doing too good.
I'm gonna miss her so much.
♪
♪ Whoo ♪
[ Ding! ]
Oh, I got this.
Homegirl has Birkenstocks on.
Pssh. Consider that pedicure messed up.
Zoey. Hey.
Hey, girl.
Look, I saw you on campus the other day
and how you reacted when you saw me with Aaron.
I know why you scampered away.
Please don't tell me she's about to hit my face.
It's my money maker.
And that's the reason I hit you up.
I wanted us to meet so we could address this thing
woman to woman. Mm.
I want to apologize.
You want to what?
The thing is, when I asked you to fall back from Aaron,
it ‐‐ it wasn't about you, or him.
It was about me, you know, and my insecurities.
And I was wrong to put that on you.
R‐Right.
Right. [ Chuckles nervously ]
I mean, clearly there's nothing going on between you two.
Mm. And the fact that I jumped to conclusions
because a woman has a guy as one of her best friends
is just...one of the worst things
a woman can do to another woman.
One of the w‐‐ Wow.
Well, I mean, it is definitely up there, possibly top two.
Uh...yeah.
I just hope that I haven't messed things up between us
so badly because, moving forward,
I'd really like it if we could all three be friends.
Why couldn't she just punch me in the face?
From a young age, we're taught a win is a win,
to take no prisoners, to fight the good fight,
but we're also taught good sportsmanship.
So, when you have to look your opponent in the eye
and know that you played dirty while they played by the rules,
it can definitely make the victory
much more bitter than sweet.
[ Kettle whistles ]
Ooh, tea?
Your boy would love some of that matcha action.
I'm not making tea. I'm on a mission.
Is this some kind of religious mission
where you destroy all your technology?
No.
And it's not my tablet. It's Javi's.
It fell out of his backpack when I took it out of his backpack.
Do I want to ask why?
Only if you want to be impressed.
[ Lever clicks ]
Ah.
Fingerprints on 2, 5, 7, 9.
Okay.
Some combination of these four little numbers
will unlock all of my answers.
Living with women is cool.
[ Kettle whistles ]
Ooh, tea?
Your boy would love some of that matcha action.
I'm not making tea. I'm on a mission.
Is this some kind of religious mission
where you destroy all your technology?
No.
And it's not my tablet. It's Javi's.
It fell out of his backpack when I took it out of his backpack.
Do I want to ask why?
Only if you want to be impressed.
[ Lever clicks ]
Ah.
Fingerprints on 2, 5, 7, 9.
Okay.
Some combination of these four little numbers
will unlock all of my answers.
Living with women is cool.