Honey eats dinner with her parents, who explain that they simply can't afford to lend her the rest of her down payment. Honey's mom is disappointed in her daughter's ambition to open her own Centah, insisting that Honey is too young to know what she wants, and should see beautiful things in the rest of the world. Honey points out that she sees beauty in helping troubled kids.

Later that night, Honey finds a damning note on her door, and visits Gina to apologize for missing her birthday. Gina tells Honey she has talent, and just needs to believe in herself in order to make it.

So far, Honey has demonstrated an unprecedented ability to manipulate the world around her through the power of positive thinking. However, it appears that Honey's greatest challenge lies at home, in the disapproving eyes of her mother. Even a sardonic loan officer was persuaded to believe in Honey's dream; Honey's mom, on the other hand, harbors such bitter and relentless disdain for her daughter's passion that we can only imagine she tried out for a Ginuwine video 30 years ago and got fired at the last minute.

Even more remarkably, Honey's mom seems to hate her own profession, as well as the neighborhood in which she chose to raise her daughter. Judging from the mood lighting and elegant decor of Honey's parents' home, they are apparently quite wealthy and could surely afford to live somewhere nicer than the Bronx, not to mention fronting a measly $8,500 for their daughter to open a dance studio. As it is, Honey's mom expresses concern that Honey will get "stuck" in the ghetto despite her insistence on living there herself.

Furthermore, not only does Honey's mom live in the ghetto, she herself owns a Centah even as she informs Honey that owning a Centah is a stupid idea that will prevent her from seeing beauty in the world. In fact, everything we know about Honey's mom suggests that she cares about the Bronx and its troubled residents; what she does not seem to care about is Honey. While Honey's passion is so genuine as to nearly inspire the viewer to lend her $8,500 themselves, Honey's mom remains convinced that her daughter's wildly successful career is merely a reckless phase.

Honey later finds a passive-aggressive note taped to her door, including a newspaper cutout of Honey and Michael pictured at last weekend's party. As Gina lets Honey into her apartment -- which is notable first and foremost as proof that they do not live together -- she has the gall to act as though Honey is in the wrong, despite the fact that Gina was the one who encouraged Honey to do whatever it takes to advance her career, and Honey was the victim of a cagey lothario.

Instead, Honey tells Gina, "It was everything I always wanted, but when I had got it, it felt like nothing," which is a baldfaced lie considering how thrilled Honey was with her burgeoning fame before Michael tried to have sex with her. As for Gina, while she obviously did not find time to throw on a bra before letting Honey in, she does find the graciousness to forgive her best friend for the crime of being more talented and interesting.

-- Honey on her lack of experience in the choreography capitals of the world

"I'm just your friend. You're the one with the goods. You're the one that people want. You don't need me."

-- Gina, clearly trying to get off Honey's shitlist so she'll give her more scenes