Gimme Shelter Page #3

I was getting abused

and suffering all these years, huh?

You can't help me!

You think you know me.

You don't know anything!

Now get out!

Leave!

Just press the nurse's

station on the phone

when you want me to

come and get you, okay?

Agnes, I was so worried

about you, baby.

What are you doing here?

Agnes, I'm Marie Abeanni,

your social worker.

I will be handling your

discharge when the time comes.

I had a long talk with your mother.

She's very concerned

about your well-being

and assured me that this

was an isolated incident,

that things at home are

okay between you and her.

Is this true?

Yo, I already told you we good.

Why you asking again?

Excuse me.

I need to talk with Agnes

now and hear it from her.

Agnes, look at me.

Your mother has custody,

so it is better if we

work this out together.

If you run away again, we may have

to place you back in foster care.

Going home is the best

solution for you.

Your mother wants to talk with you

now to settle your differences.

Do you think you can do this?

Yeah, whatever.

Good.

I'll be sitting right outside the

room if you have any other questions.

Now, you got people asking

all types of questions,

coming around my place

looking around.

You crazy?

Huh?

She said you carrying a baby?

And I got to hear about

it from a stranger.

That's nice. That's real nice.

Humiliate me like that!

What's wrong with you?

No, come on.

Why you think I'm here, huh?

State's going to take care of us.

You, me, and baby, that makes three.

That means when that baby comes out,

they're going to be

paying us more money.

Yo.

We got another chance, all right?

We're going to be a real

family now, sweetie, for real.

Come on.

Look at you.

Taking me back.

You know, I wasn't that

much older than you.

You know, seventeen.

Don't look at me like that,

like you all high and mighty.

You know, I didn't have no

social worker caring about me.

Nobody wanted me to have you!

Come on, wait, wait, wait.

You think I always

looked like this, huh?

Like I born in the streets?

You don't know what

I wanted out of life.

You don't know who I was,

who I could have been.

You're so stuck up.

You think you're so

much better than me.

Like you're so different.

Baby, you are me.

Oh, you'll see, you know?

When you're fighting for your baby,

and you're so young,

and you ain't got nobody

to take care of it,

you can't even take

care of yourself.

And all you want to do

is protect your baby.

You know, that's all

I wanted to do.

Hold my baby.

My little baby girl.

You don't know.

You don't know, but I did.

I did everything

that I could, Agnes.

I did.

And I messed up, okay?

That's right, I did. I messed up.

And then when they

took you away from me,

that was the worst day of my life.

I hurt so much right here.

I just...

I just wanted the pain

to go away, baby.

I didn't want to feel nothing.

I didn't want to feel anything.

Look at me.

Look at me now.

Look at me now.

I deserve a second chance.

A second chance.

Please, baby?

Please just give me

one more chance.

- Um...

- Please?

I don't know.

Baby, I'm your mother.

I'm your mother

I just can't do this anymore.

- Just one more chance, baby.

- I can't do this anymore.

Oh, please, baby.

- You got to let me go.

- Just...

- You ready?

- Yeah. We're done here.

Agnes!

"But we will build"

"with hewn stones."

"And the sycamores..."

"...as men rejoice when

they divide the spoil."

"For thou hast broken the

yoke of thy burden..."

Father?

I...I just...

I just wanted to...

to come here and... and...

to tell you that...

I probably shouldn't

have yelled at you.

I mean, I know... I know why I did.

I just...

I just... I didn't think that...

that you would...

Are you apologizing to me?

No. Not really.

Seems like it to me.

Never apologize for

your true feelings.

Now that you're here, grab a book.

Make yourself useful.

Page seventy-two.

We'll talk later.

Go on.

And?

"For I know the plans

I have for you,"

"declares the Lord,"

"plans for your welfare

and not for evil,"

"to give you..."

"give you a future"

"and hope."

"Then you will call upon me,"

"and... and come and pray to me,"

"and I will hear you."

Father McCarthy.

Hi, I'm Afra, one of

the housemothers here.

Welcome to our shelter.

I'll let Kathy know you're here.

That's Kathy right there

with Mother Teresa.

And that's her in that

one there with, uh...

at the White House

with Ronald Reagan.

Oh, hello, Father. Good to see you.

Please bear with me.

We were having a little incident.

Everything okay?

Yeah, everything

worked out just fine.

Well, thank you for

meeting my friend, Apple.

Hello, Apple.

Kathy's the founder.

She started this shelter,

what, twenty years ago...

Mm-hmm.

Taking young mothers

into her own home.

This is your home?

Well, it's... it's

grown quite a bit.

Afra will give you a tour.

I'm going to wrap some things up, and

then you and I will meet in the morning

and we'll have a chat

about the rules, okay?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

See you suddenly, Apple.

Hey, everybody, this is Apple.

She's staying with us.

Her name is really Apple?

You all will get to

know her better later.

You'll be sharing a

room with Tawana.

Uh-oh.

And she'll show you to your room.

And I'll be on duty if

you need something.

Apple, huh?

Goes well with caramel.

Carmel, caramel.

Nah, I'm just saying.

We just playing.

She can't... She can't take a joke?

I told you, whatever.

Another one?

Oh, my God.

- It's about time.

- Shut your mouth.

For real.

You can put your stuff in here.

I don't have any stuff.

Well, don't worry. You will.

Would you mind holding

her for a second?

Uh...

Thanks.

Okay, Isaiah.

I hear you.

Shh.

I hear you.

- What's your name?

- What the...?

- Where you from?

- Get that out of my face!

What is going on in here?

I like your PJs.

Cassandra, you missed

curfew again tonight,

and you didn't tell anybody

where you were going.

I'm writing you up, and it's

not going to be good for you.

Who is responsible for letting

her in here after curfew!

Was it you, Apple?

Look, I don't even know

her, okay? She's crazy.

Apple?

This is not going to look

good for your first night.

That's a really nice name.

We will deal with this tomorrow.

But, you know, you shouldn't

call people crazy around here.

I actually prefer Cassie.

It's five a.m.,

and I want everybody

back in their rooms now.

What happened with

you two last night?

Cassie, why were you

late for curfew?

I went for a walk.

I got locked out.

I'm sorry? You got...

I went for a walk.

I got locked out.

It was nothing, really.

Good, because I'm going to put you

both in the same room temporarily.

You're going to be roommates.

- With her?

- Mm-hmm.

Why?

It'll to give you a chance to

work out your differences.

We have a twenty-four-hour

rule in this house.

Whenever two girls are disputing,

they need to work

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