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Ashley tells the viewers money is still tight, Tiffany has been a little emotional under her bed rest orders but that some great stuff is happening for him hes been meeting new producers and he feels like his songs are getting stronger every day.
Ashley and Tiffany go to see Tiffanys doctor at the Saint Johns Health Center .
Ashley looks at pictures of babies Dr. Ewertz has delivered.
Tiffany wonders what the baby is going to look like when it comes out.
Ashley tells her the baby will probably look like her.
Tiffany says she thinks the baby will look more like Ashley.
Dr. Ewertz asks how its been going with the bedrest.
Ashley explains its been really hard, because Tiffany wants to be doing things.
Ashley tells the audience it hasnt been easy for him either because Tiffany never stops and has been ignoring doctors orders. He says hes the one who has to enforce the bedrest but that its almost impossible to tell Tiffany what to do.
Tiffany tells Dr. Ewertz that shes been very emotional, yelling and crying.
Dr. Ewertz listens to the babys heartbeat while Tiffany is hooked up to the sonogram monitor.
The baby is shown on the monitor Dr. Ewertz says it looks terrific.
Dr. Ewertz says to hang in there and keep on the bedrest.
Ashley tells Tiffany hes going to be there for her in every way he can so that she can just chill.
Ashley heads off to a session with songwriter/producer Xandy Barry.
Tiffany asks him what hes up to Ashley tells her about the meetingthat they really vibed and he digs him.
Xandy Barry
Ashley tries out some material with Xandy. Cause Ive been so far and Im half way there
Thats what it is!
Everything is changinglife is re-arranging
but I feel so aliveso alive
Ashley opens up to Xandy - Im trying to songwrite right now but its so hard to be focused with everything thats going oneverything thats going on with Tiffany
Xandy counsels Ashley - Let it all outand it will all come out in these awesome tunes like youve been doingyou know?
Ashley says goodbye to Xandy, telling him hell call him the next day and theyll make a plan for the following week.
Meanwhile, back at the house
Tiffany is having problems staying in bed. Does sitting on the couch count as actual bedrest? Ashley asks. Im nesting, Tiffany explains.
Scarlet chimes in, I agree. He didnt say sofa/chair rest, he said bedrest.
This is gonna be fun.
Get off my back about it, Tiffany tells Ashley and Scarlet. I got stuff to do, and then Ill go lie down.
If I dont come down here and help do stuff, you dont do anything.
Thats not true, Ashley says.
Tiffanys expression shows her disbelief at Ashleys statement.
Yes it is.
In the morning, Ashley wakes up to find Tiffany not in bed.
He calls out but gets no answer.
Ashley goes downstairs to find Scarlet on the couch. He asks her where Tiffany is. Shes not here, Scarlet answers. I guess maybe she went out to get coffee or something. You know how she is. Shes supposed to be on bedrest, Ashley fumes.
Ashley tries Tiffanys cell phone. Yo, independent womanwhy arent you picking up your phone? Youre too far pregnant. Youre supposed to be on bedrest and now I cant get in touch with you. This is ridiculous
Shes just not picking up her phone, Ashley tells Scarlet.
Scarlet tries to call Tiffany. Maybe its just bad reception.
Mom, Im sorryI think this is really disrespectful.
Im really concerned. I love her to death. I dont know what Id do if something happened to her.
Scarlet tells Ashley to keep trying Tiffany on his phone.
Ive called like five or six times already. Shes just not picking up.
Ashley paces as he puts in another call to Tiffanys voicemail. I dont think I need to repeat to you what your doctor said about bedrest, and about the fact that you should always have somebody with you right now. Im really worried, and I dont think its fair that you would do this to me and then not pick up your phone. Im seriously concerned. When you get this message, please call me back.
Ashley heads out in his car to look for Tiffany.
He calls Scarlet to see if Tiffanys come home. Scarlet says no, and Ashley tells her if she calls, tell her Im pissed.
Im out in the car trying to find her right now, and my stomach is in knots. Scarlet tells him not to panic, that shell keep calling and that Ashley should too.
Ashley takes a call from his manager, Larry Rudolph.
As Larry talks to him, Ashley keeps his eyes peeled for Tiffany.
Larry says hes checking in to see how things are going with the Matrix, and tells him hes getting some pressure from the record company to go in and clean up the record.
Ashley asks if he can call Larry back, telling him hes in the middle of something and that hell explain later. Larry says thats fine.
Ashley heads to the beach to their favourite spot to look for Tiffany.
He calls Larry back and tells him whats going on.
Ashleys face shows how worried he really is.
Larry tells him that its a stressful time for Ashley, that he can imagine where his heads at.
He says he thinks its just Tiffany picking up and blowing off some steam.
Ashley tells him that he feels like hes spreading himself really thin at the moment that hes trying to be everything to everybody, and that all the pressure is only going to get worse when the baby arrives. Larry tells him this is only the beginning, that its going to get worse, but that hes sure Tiffany will be home soon.
Ashley thanks Larry for talking him down off the ledge.
Back at the house, Scarlet and Ashley wait for Tiffany to return.
Tiffany finally comes home. Oh great, says Ashley. Look who decided to come home.
Ashley informs Tiffany theyre having a family meeting. Scarlet tells her to get her behind into the living room.
Baby come on, Im not in the mood for this, Tiffany tells Ashley.
Ashley says he doesnt care if she is or not, that he wasnt in the mood to wake up and look around for her for the last three hours. This is about me making up erroneous reasons why you have to be at home. This is doctors orders.
Tiffany ignores him and Ashley walks out of the room. Daddy is grouchy today, Tiffany tells the cat.
Im not telling her. Shes annoying me, Ashley says to Scarlet while Tiffany rolls her eyes.
Ashley comes back in to continue the discussion.
Im not disrespecting you. Im not going to talk with you if youre going to be rude to me, Tiffany tells him.
Youre being rude to me. You wont even listen to me. Youre talking to the cat while Im trying to talk to you.
Scarlet listens to the two of them trying to communicate.
We just came up with some good reasons here why we want to talk to you.
Your doctor said, so that you dont have a premature baby, that you be on bedrest right now. And how would you feel, if going out to get coffee, resulted in you going into early labour?
Tiffany listens to Ashleys concerns.
But tells him, Baby, Im not the kind of girl that hangs out in bed all day.
Well for the next couple of weeks, youre gonna be, Ashley tells her.
Then why dont you lay in bed with me, Tiffany asks him. Ashley says lets go.
Tiffany tells him hes a grouch and never wants to lay in bed and snuggle, but capitulates anyway.
Ashley calls Xandy Barry to get him to listen to a song hes written.
He tells Xandy that he and Tiffany have been at each others throats and that he just sat down at the piano and felt inspired by it.
He wants to know if Xandy will be around the next day to get together and work it out.
The next day Ashley plays the beginning of his song while waiting for Xandy to show up.
Close to you, so far away
The doorbell chimes.
Ashley goes to let Xandy in.
They start to work on the song.
Theres something in there, Xandy agrees.
They switch places and Xandy plays the piano.
Cause even when I fall asleep
These are necessarily the words I want to use, Ashley explains. Its just the feeling and the concept
Ashley and Xandy take a break to have a drink.
Ashley says he thinks he should call the song Apology. Xandy agrees.
Scarlet enters the kitchen.
Xandy tells Tiffany that shell be able to join them in a couple of weeks.
Tiffany disagrees, saying forlornly that shell be pregnant for the rest of her life.
Scarlet tells her not to be sad, that she wont be.
Ashley and Tiffany go to the doctor for another checkup. This could be the last visit, Ashley tells her.
Im sure youll be plenty of help giving birth, Tiffany laughs.
Im going to be right there, coaching you along, Ashley assures her.
How about you give birth, and Ill watch, and Ill coach you, Tiffany suggests. How about that?
Dr. Ewertz enters the room.
Im still here, Tiffany tells him.
What is going on, actually? Tiffany asks.
Dr. Ewertz tells them that as of the next day Tiffany can officially do anything she wants.
Tiffany asks the doctor if they can take the baby out.
I cant be pregnant anymore, she explains.
Im finished. I dont want to be pregnant anymore. Im done. I swear.
Dr. Ewertz explains that the hospital wont let him induce her, even if he wanted to, because it has certain protocols it has to follow for the safety of her and the baby, so that they dont get a baby born a little bit too early in case it has problems with its lungs.
Tiffany tells him the baby is so far down that she can barely walk and that she doesnt sleep anymore. Dr. Ewertz tells her to lie down so he can listen to the babys heart.
Ashley listens to the babys heartbeat. He seems worried the doctor will find something wrong.
The doctor says the babys going Mommy, be patient which makes Ashley smile.
The doctor asks Tiffany if she can just make it another couple of days. She said she wont, that shes going to freak out.
Scarlet suggests they go swimming. While Tiffany cries I dont want to be pregnant anymore! Ashley looks on, concerned.
Tiffany is clearly at the end of her rope.
Youre so close. Just hang in there, the doctor says as he leaves. Dont give up.
You dont understand, Tiffany sobs.
While they drive home, Tiffany tells Ashley people stop her on the street and tell her Dude, have that kid. Men stop me and say that kid needs to come out. We think its feet might be hanging out. She says she just wants to have the baby and see that its ok.
Ashley brings Tiffany home.
He checks their bank balance online and sees that it reads minus $27.
He sighs in concern and looks over to see Tiffany sleeping in bed.
Ashley paces around the dining room where Scarlet is reading her paper.
He tells the viewers Here we go again This is the second time Ive had to ask to borrow money from someone in the last few months, and now this time? Its from my girlfriends mom.
Ashley tells Scarlet about their money woes. I just had a rude awakening. I just looked at my bank statement online and I have negative $27 in the bank, he explains. He informs Scarlet that Larry called and offered him bridge money if he needed it but Ashley says its super embarrassing for him to come to those guys and ask them for money. He asks Scarlet for some money.
Scarlet explains she has some severance money sitting in the bank and she wants to give them some.
I swear, I swear.this album is going to be so successful, and I promise Ill pay you back, Ashley exclaims.
Scarlet says shes not worried about it. Ashley thanks Scarlet for helping them out.
Tiffany and Ashley have another conversation about how neither one of them understands the pressures the other one is experiencing, but Ashley assures Tiffany hes there with her. Tiffany says you say that now but youll change your mind.
Ashley says hes honestly trying to do his part but that its not a walk in the park for him.
Tiffany says it its not a walk in the park for you and its not a walk in the park for me, then what are we doing here? Lets get the baby out.
Were doing what Mother Nature designed, Ashley explains to her.
You just want to hear yourself talk at this point. Stop repeating yourself and Ill answer you.
You dont understand, really, what its like to walk in my shoes. I feel a lot of pressure all the time. I have all my eggs in the basket of coming out and trying to be a successful musician, and Im coming up against a huge stereotype.
Im trying to write an amazing album here. Lets not forget that.
So help me here, and understand every once in a while that I have different pressures.
Is anything ever going to be back the way it was before? Tiffany asks Ashley.
Yeah, Ashley assures her. Except were going to have a baby. And hes going to be awesome.
Ashley decides to play his song Apology for Tiffany.
He calls her over to listen to it.
Next week - Dan comes for a visit!
I want you to meet Dan! Ashley exclaims.
So are you going to come to the show tonight? Dan asks them.
They chat in the living room.
Dan explains how hes doing these shows with a couple of other boyband guys like Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block and Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees.
Tiffany says a friend of theirs is going with them and he claims the show has been cancelled.
Dan checks this information out on the computer. It does say cancelled, Dan says, clearly surprised.
Tiffany prepares to give a surprise birthday party for Ashley.
Ashley tells the viewers money is still tight, Tiffany has been a little emotional under her bed rest orders but that some great stuff is happening for him hes been meeting new producers and he feels like his songs are getting stronger every day.
Ashley and Tiffany go to see Tiffanys doctor at the Saint Johns Health Center .
Ashley looks at pictures of babies Dr. Ewertz has delivered.
Tiffany wonders what the baby is going to look like when it comes out.
Ashley tells her the baby will probably look like her.
Tiffany says she thinks the baby will look more like Ashley.
Dr. Ewertz asks how its been going with the bedrest.
Ashley explains its been really hard, because Tiffany wants to be doing things.
Ashley tells the audience it hasnt been easy for him either because Tiffany never stops and has been ignoring doctors orders. He says hes the one who has to enforce the bedrest but that its almost impossible to tell Tiffany what to do.
Tiffany tells Dr. Ewertz that shes been very emotional, yelling and crying.
Dr. Ewertz listens to the babys heartbeat while Tiffany is hooked up to the sonogram monitor.
The baby is shown on the monitor Dr. Ewertz says it looks terrific.
Dr. Ewertz says to hang in there and keep on the bedrest.
Ashley tells Tiffany hes going to be there for her in every way he can so that she can just chill.
Ashley heads off to a session with songwriter/producer Xandy Barry.
Tiffany asks him what hes up to Ashley tells her about the meetingthat they really vibed and he digs him.
Xandy Barry
Ashley tries out some material with Xandy. Cause Ive been so far and Im half way there
Thats what it is!
Everything is changinglife is re-arranging
but I feel so aliveso alive
Ashley opens up to Xandy - Im trying to songwrite right now but its so hard to be focused with everything thats going oneverything thats going on with Tiffany
Xandy counsels Ashley - Let it all outand it will all come out in these awesome tunes like youve been doingyou know?
Ashley says goodbye to Xandy, telling him hell call him the next day and theyll make a plan for the following week.
Meanwhile, back at the house
Tiffany is having problems staying in bed. Does sitting on the couch count as actual bedrest? Ashley asks. Im nesting, Tiffany explains.
Scarlet chimes in, I agree. He didnt say sofa/chair rest, he said bedrest.
This is gonna be fun.
Get off my back about it, Tiffany tells Ashley and Scarlet. I got stuff to do, and then Ill go lie down.
If I dont come down here and help do stuff, you dont do anything.
Thats not true, Ashley says.
Tiffanys expression shows her disbelief at Ashleys statement.
Yes it is.
In the morning, Ashley wakes up to find Tiffany not in bed.
He calls out but gets no answer.
Ashley goes downstairs to find Scarlet on the couch. He asks her where Tiffany is. Shes not here, Scarlet answers. I guess maybe she went out to get coffee or something. You know how she is. Shes supposed to be on bedrest, Ashley fumes.
Ashley tries Tiffanys cell phone. Yo, independent womanwhy arent you picking up your phone? Youre too far pregnant. Youre supposed to be on bedrest and now I cant get in touch with you. This is ridiculous
Shes just not picking up her phone, Ashley tells Scarlet.
Scarlet tries to call Tiffany. Maybe its just bad reception.
Mom, Im sorryI think this is really disrespectful.
Im really concerned. I love her to death. I dont know what Id do if something happened to her.
Scarlet tells Ashley to keep trying Tiffany on his phone.
Ive called like five or six times already. Shes just not picking up.
Ashley paces as he puts in another call to Tiffanys voicemail. I dont think I need to repeat to you what your doctor said about bedrest, and about the fact that you should always have somebody with you right now. Im really worried, and I dont think its fair that you would do this to me and then not pick up your phone. Im seriously concerned. When you get this message, please call me back.
Ashley heads out in his car to look for Tiffany.
He calls Scarlet to see if Tiffanys come home. Scarlet says no, and Ashley tells her if she calls, tell her Im pissed.
Im out in the car trying to find her right now, and my stomach is in knots. Scarlet tells him not to panic, that shell keep calling and that Ashley should too.
Ashley takes a call from his manager, Larry Rudolph.
As Larry talks to him, Ashley keeps his eyes peeled for Tiffany.
Larry says hes checking in to see how things are going with the Matrix, and tells him hes getting some pressure from the record company to go in and clean up the record.
Ashley asks if he can call Larry back, telling him hes in the middle of something and that hell explain later. Larry says thats fine.
Ashley heads to the beach to their favourite spot to look for Tiffany.
He calls Larry back and tells him whats going on.
Ashleys face shows how worried he really is.
Larry tells him that its a stressful time for Ashley, that he can imagine where his heads at.
He says he thinks its just Tiffany picking up and blowing off some steam.
Ashley tells him that he feels like hes spreading himself really thin at the moment that hes trying to be everything to everybody, and that all the pressure is only going to get worse when the baby arrives. Larry tells him this is only the beginning, that its going to get worse, but that hes sure Tiffany will be home soon.
Ashley thanks Larry for talking him down off the ledge.
Back at the house, Scarlet and Ashley wait for Tiffany to return.
Tiffany finally comes home. Oh great, says Ashley. Look who decided to come home.
Ashley informs Tiffany theyre having a family meeting. Scarlet tells her to get her behind into the living room.
Baby come on, Im not in the mood for this, Tiffany tells Ashley.
Ashley says he doesnt care if she is or not, that he wasnt in the mood to wake up and look around for her for the last three hours. This is about me making up erroneous reasons why you have to be at home. This is doctors orders.
Tiffany ignores him and Ashley walks out of the room. Daddy is grouchy today, Tiffany tells the cat.
Im not telling her. Shes annoying me, Ashley says to Scarlet while Tiffany rolls her eyes.
Ashley comes back in to continue the discussion.
Im not disrespecting you. Im not going to talk with you if youre going to be rude to me, Tiffany tells him.
Youre being rude to me. You wont even listen to me. Youre talking to the cat while Im trying to talk to you.
Scarlet listens to the two of them trying to communicate.
We just came up with some good reasons here why we want to talk to you.
Your doctor said, so that you dont have a premature baby, that you be on bedrest right now. And how would you feel, if going out to get coffee, resulted in you going into early labour?
Tiffany listens to Ashleys concerns.
But tells him, Baby, Im not the kind of girl that hangs out in bed all day.
Well for the next couple of weeks, youre gonna be, Ashley tells her.
Then why dont you lay in bed with me, Tiffany asks him. Ashley says lets go.
Tiffany tells him hes a grouch and never wants to lay in bed and snuggle, but capitulates anyway.
Ashley calls Xandy Barry to get him to listen to a song hes written.
He tells Xandy that he and Tiffany have been at each others throats and that he just sat down at the piano and felt inspired by it.
He wants to know if Xandy will be around the next day to get together and work it out.
The next day Ashley plays the beginning of his song while waiting for Xandy to show up.
Close to you, so far away
The doorbell chimes.
Ashley goes to let Xandy in.
They start to work on the song.
Theres something in there, Xandy agrees.
They switch places and Xandy plays the piano.
Cause even when I fall asleep
These are necessarily the words I want to use, Ashley explains. Its just the feeling and the concept
Ashley and Xandy take a break to have a drink.
Ashley says he thinks he should call the song Apology. Xandy agrees.
Scarlet enters the kitchen.
Xandy tells Tiffany that shell be able to join them in a couple of weeks.
Tiffany disagrees, saying forlornly that shell be pregnant for the rest of her life.
Scarlet tells her not to be sad, that she wont be.
Ashley and Tiffany go to the doctor for another checkup. This could be the last visit, Ashley tells her.
Im sure youll be plenty of help giving birth, Tiffany laughs.
Im going to be right there, coaching you along, Ashley assures her.
How about you give birth, and Ill watch, and Ill coach you, Tiffany suggests. How about that?
Dr. Ewertz enters the room.
Im still here, Tiffany tells him.
What is going on, actually? Tiffany asks.
Dr. Ewertz tells them that as of the next day Tiffany can officially do anything she wants.
Tiffany asks the doctor if they can take the baby out.
I cant be pregnant anymore, she explains.
Im finished. I dont want to be pregnant anymore. Im done. I swear.
Dr. Ewertz explains that the hospital wont let him induce her, even if he wanted to, because it has certain protocols it has to follow for the safety of her and the baby, so that they dont get a baby born a little bit too early in case it has problems with its lungs.
Tiffany tells him the baby is so far down that she can barely walk and that she doesnt sleep anymore. Dr. Ewertz tells her to lie down so he can listen to the babys heart.
Ashley listens to the babys heartbeat. He seems worried the doctor will find something wrong.
The doctor says the babys going Mommy, be patient which makes Ashley smile.
The doctor asks Tiffany if she can just make it another couple of days. She said she wont, that shes going to freak out.
Scarlet suggests they go swimming. While Tiffany cries I dont want to be pregnant anymore! Ashley looks on, concerned.
Tiffany is clearly at the end of her rope.
Youre so close. Just hang in there, the doctor says as he leaves. Dont give up.
You dont understand, Tiffany sobs.
While they drive home, Tiffany tells Ashley people stop her on the street and tell her Dude, have that kid. Men stop me and say that kid needs to come out. We think its feet might be hanging out. She says she just wants to have the baby and see that its ok.
Ashley brings Tiffany home.
He checks their bank balance online and sees that it reads minus $27.
He sighs in concern and looks over to see Tiffany sleeping in bed.
Ashley paces around the dining room where Scarlet is reading her paper.
He tells the viewers Here we go again This is the second time Ive had to ask to borrow money from someone in the last few months, and now this time? Its from my girlfriends mom.
Ashley tells Scarlet about their money woes. I just had a rude awakening. I just looked at my bank statement online and I have negative $27 in the bank, he explains. He informs Scarlet that Larry called and offered him bridge money if he needed it but Ashley says its super embarrassing for him to come to those guys and ask them for money. He asks Scarlet for some money.
Scarlet explains she has some severance money sitting in the bank and she wants to give them some.
I swear, I swear.this album is going to be so successful, and I promise Ill pay you back, Ashley exclaims.
Scarlet says shes not worried about it. Ashley thanks Scarlet for helping them out.
Tiffany and Ashley have another conversation about how neither one of them understands the pressures the other one is experiencing, but Ashley assures Tiffany hes there with her. Tiffany says you say that now but youll change your mind.
Ashley says hes honestly trying to do his part but that its not a walk in the park for him.
Tiffany says it its not a walk in the park for you and its not a walk in the park for me, then what are we doing here? Lets get the baby out.
Were doing what Mother Nature designed, Ashley explains to her.
You just want to hear yourself talk at this point. Stop repeating yourself and Ill answer you.
You dont understand, really, what its like to walk in my shoes. I feel a lot of pressure all the time. I have all my eggs in the basket of coming out and trying to be a successful musician, and Im coming up against a huge stereotype.
Im trying to write an amazing album here. Lets not forget that.
So help me here, and understand every once in a while that I have different pressures.
Is anything ever going to be back the way it was before? Tiffany asks Ashley.
Yeah, Ashley assures her. Except were going to have a baby. And hes going to be awesome.
Ashley decides to play his song Apology for Tiffany.
He calls her over to listen to it.
Next week - Dan comes for a visit!
I want you to meet Dan! Ashley exclaims.
So are you going to come to the show tonight? Dan asks them.
They chat in the living room.
Dan explains how hes doing these shows with a couple of other boyband guys like Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block and Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees.
Tiffany says a friend of theirs is going with them and he claims the show has been cancelled.
Dan checks this information out on the computer. It does say cancelled, Dan says, clearly surprised.
Tiffany prepares to give a surprise birthday party for Ashley.
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