Darian Derrick could have utilized to NYU after her mother inspired her, however she’s unsure what her future holds after commencement.
Tuesday, June 25 sequence Doubling up with Derricos started with Darian, 18, anxiously awaiting a response from the college after she utilized to their music program. Darian admitted that she was “nervous” and worst-case situations started to play out in her head. Nevertheless, throughout the dialog along with her dad and mom, they tried to cheer her up.
“What God has for you is for you” Karen Derrickwho inspired Darian to use for this system, informed her daughter how Deon Derrick quipped again: “Says the one who intervened.”
Karen, 44, reiterated her level that what should be can be. Nevertheless, Deon, 53, added that everybody has “freedom of alternative”. Darian took her dad and mom’ phrases to coronary heart and determined she needed to think about another choices in case NYU did not work out.
“So I do not need you to get your hopes up, however I am additionally another schools simply in case, you understand, like [a] backup,” she shared. “So I booked a time to go on a tour of UNLV.”
Darian informed her dad and mom that she could be glad in the event that they got here along with her to take a look at the campus, so long as they did not attempt to sway her opinion. In the meantime, Deon was thrilled that Darian was contemplating going to highschool nearer to dwelling, and Karen was glad that Darian was on the lookout for different alternatives.
“Actually, I do not even know if I need to go to varsity, nevertheless it’s been hectic figuring out my dad and mom disagree with my school functions,” Darian mentioned in a confessional. “So I simply need to discover my choices and attempt to hold the peace between the 2 of them.”
Later within the episode, Darian and her dad and mom go on a tour of UNLV, and it seems like Darian had fun on campus. Nevertheless, this go to solely strengthened her need to go to New York and make her goals come true.
Someday after the tour, Darian lastly heard again from NYU and shared along with her dad and mom and grandmother that she had not been accepted. Though Darian was finally disillusioned, Deon, Karen, and Gigi comforted her.
“I’m so pleased with you for happening this journey. You labored arduous and I simply love you for it,” Karen mentioned. “So that you go upstairs and you are going to relaxation your drained little thoughts by giving it your all.”
Regardless of the help of her household, the rejection harm Darian and she or he admitted that she is now rethinking her “alternative”. Whereas Darian did not inform her dad and mom she wasn’t taking the information properly, Deon and Karen mentioned how they needed to be there for his or her daughter so she would not really feel “not ok.”
As Deon and Karen apprehensive about Darian and her future plans, additionally they needed to take care of the truth that their major dwelling was not but move-in prepared, stopping tenants from transferring into their extra dwelling. Along with the monetary struggles of getting to repay two mortgages, Deon additionally apprehensive about his mom Gigi’s well being when she stopped chemotherapy remedy.
Though the household dwelling wasn’t 100% prepared, Deon and Karen deliberate to maneuver in as quickly as potential. To make a very good impression on their neighbors, they determined to have a barbecue at their home for all of the residents of the block.
Deon and Karen continued to work collectively to get every little thing prepared for the day of the barbecue, together with the pair making ready a menu that included Deon’s household recipe referred to as “what’s up” in beans. Deon and Karen bantered with their neighbors, seemingly profitable them over, whereas their 14 youngsters made pals with a few of the different youngsters on the block.
Throughout a barbeque at some point, Darian talked to her dad and mom and their neighbor Amy about her plans after highschool. Darian admitted that she wasn’t certain if she needed to go to varsity and as a substitute needed to deal with her budding music profession. Darian’s confession was not what Deon and Karen had been hoping to listen to from her, main them to ask her about her subsequent steps.
Darian shared that she was going to get her “identify” on the market by social media and search for alternatives to showcase her voice. Deon thought that a part of his daughter’s plan was good, however she wanted to do extra, particularly after highschool. The household determined to debate this matter extra after the social gathering.
“You realize [Deon] and I, we each agreed that we’d step again and let her do it,” Karen mentioned in a confessional with Deon. “However I am simply actually involved, truthfully, about what this plan of motion seems like for Darian proper now, like we have to speak to her.”
Doubling up with Derricos airs Tuesdays at 8pm ET on TLC.