Baze Bazile quotes from Life Unexpected

Baze

Not everything in her life was bad. I don't like the looks of it, but Bug, Tasha...

Cate

What?

Baze

I don't know. To Lux, they're the good. I mean, if you think about it, we both had families before Lux. So maybe she just wants you to realize that she had a family before us.

Cate

Pretty insightful for a quarterback.

Baze

Coffee three sugars.

Lux

Blueberry waffle slightly toasted.

Baze

I shouldn't have yelled. I don't wanna be that guy.

Lux

You're not, Baze. You're not your dad. He's not all bad, though. Maybe he's just one of those old-school dads who can only show love by hitting you on the head or something.

Baze

Yeah, or he just likes hitting me on the head.

Baze

I try to be her friend, I get punked, and then I yell at her like a jack-hole.

Cate

Lux deserved it...except maybe that part where you called her stupid.

Baze

Ugh, stupid...that's my dad's nickname for me for the last seventeen years. You know, it's one thing not being as good a businessman as my dad, but I thought that if I ever had a kid, I...maybe that's why I just like being Lux's friend. Because I'm afraid that if I'm a dad, I'll be him.

Cate

You don't have to be your dad. You just have to be a dad.

Baze

Cate, come on, let me explain!

Cate

Explain? I mean, I just walked in on you on top of my boss. Oh, god, that image! I, I, I just...I feel assaulted. You essentially just raped my eyes!

Baze

God, Cate, I am so sick of you and Ryan acting like I can't be a good parent to Lux. She's been in our lives the same amount of time, Cate. You don't have any more experience than I do.

Cate

Well last time I checked, giving birth to her counts for something.

Baze

And then you gave her up! What, what does that count for? Let me be clear: I am not dropping out of that competition to make you happy. You were the one keeping me from Lux. You were the one with a douche fiancée, and you were the one coming here, yelling at me. So the only way I am walking away from that contest is with a car.

Lux

Is this a sex talk?

Baze

It's...it's more of an anti-sex talk.

Abby

There are many other ways to get the same feeling without actually having sex. Um...flexible shower heads, vibrating back massagers, the spin cycle of the front-load washing machine. (Lux and Baze stare are her)

Cate

You're wearing a shirt that says Tap that.

Baze

You're wearing a small garden on your wrist.

Bug

Cher. But not in a gay way.

Baze

Is there another way?

Fern

(to Cate and Baze after an emotional confrontation with Lux) I know it doesn't feel like it, but what you had today was a breakthrough. Trust me. I've seen other kids have moments of honesty like this, and that's usually when things take a turn for the better. I know that you tried to shoulder the blame, but it doesn't belong with you. I'm not going to remove Lux from you care. If anything, this shows me that you're a real family, with all the bumps and bruises that a teenager brings, like anyone. And as far as I'm concerned, you two should start the process of having your parental rights reinstated.

Baze

Really?

Cate

Is there, is there really a chance at that?

Fern

In my opinion, yes. I can see how much she means to you, and that all three of you are committed to making this work...perhaps Lux most of all. It was a hard thing she did, saying that. She risked losing you all over again.

Cate

(crying) She doesn't need to worry about that, ever.

Fern

You don't have to convince me. Convince Lux.

Fern

That's what this is really about, right? Cate not being there?

Lux

I say yes, and what? You send me away to live with someone else? I don't want to live with someone else. I want to work it out with Cate and Baze. I just...

Fern

Look, I'm the one who's going to decide if you stay together, but ultimately, it's not up to me. It's up to you. If you can't be straight with me, you're never gonna be straight with Cate and Baze, and then you'll be right back on my couch six months from now, so when you say that Cate wasn't there for you, tell her what you mean.

Lux

(long pause, turns to Cate) Where were you?

Cate

What?

Lux

I was out there my whole life. Where were you all that time? You never even checked. You never wondered what had happened, if I was okay?

Cate

I...I mean, I...I didn't really think that I had to worry, because they told me that you were gonna be adopted, that you were gonna have a better life. I really, I really thought that I was doing what was right for you.

Lux

It wasn't for me. If it was for me, you would have checked! But you did it for you. You did the right thing for you!

Baze

Lux, it's not all on Cate. I wasn't there exactly, either.

Lux

Yeah, but you didn't know, and nobody who knew you would have expected you to be there.

Cate

I was sixteen years old. You know, I didn't have anyone to turn to. You know my mother. She was drinking her way through another divorce. I even wrote a letter to my father, but when I realized that I didn't know where to send it...you know, that's when it hit me. I had no idea what a good parent was. There was just no way that I could be one. Not at sixteen.

Lux

Then...what about a few years after that, when I was three and stuck in a hospital where no one visited? Or two years after that, when my foster mother shoved me into a wall and told the social worker that I fell off a swing? Where were you? We used to make up these stories about why we were given up, because we didn't want to believe that our parents, our mothers, could hold us--their babies--and just give us up! But you did. You gave me away to nothing, like I didn't matter to you, because I didn't!

Cate

No, no, Lux. You do. You matter now.

Lux

No.

Cate

No, Lux. You matter. You do. You matter now, Lux!

Lux

No! (stands up) Now doesn't count! I...I'm sorry. I don't forgive you, Cate. I don't. (walks out)

Lux

How long has it been?

Baze

How long, how long has what been?

Lux

Since you've had feelings for Cate.

Baze

I just...I thought that if I gave it time, the feelings would go away. But after the last two days, I don't know if I want the feelings to go way. We felt like a family, the three of us, for the first time. It felt really good.

Baze

All right, if I tell you something, you know, big dude to little dude, can you keep it on the DL?

Bug

Sure.

Baze

Do you remember Cate's sister? She thinks I have a thing for Cate, which I don't. I mean, I know I don't, but she got this idea stuck in my head and now I'm all screwed up. I mean, I don't know, lately whenever Cate's around, it's like she's changed her shampoo or her dryer sheets or something, ahh..is it weird to want to smell someone?

Bug

Yeah.

Cate

Thank you for being there.

Baze

Always.

Lux

(referring to Cate) Are you really not gonna say anything? About how you feel? You're just gonna watch her get married tomorrow?

Baze

I'm not gonna watch anything. I'm going to steer clear of all things wedding. I don't wanna see it, I don't wanna hear anything about it.

Lux

So that's the kind of family we're gonna be? The kind that just sits around, lying to each other because we can't say how we feel?

Baze

Lesson numero uno: that's every family.