Caray, Caray!

One thing I didn't mention before - it's silly, but I don't know how to do accented characters and the n-tilde; and from what I understand, it's a little time-consuming. Unless it becomes confusing, I'd like to skip the accents and so forth. Yes, it does look much better when people write their words correctly, but since I'm doing all of this in English, only the characters' names will be "wrong," and I don't think there will be much room for confusion.

Moving right along...

Wasn't planning on doing these recaps that week (I had just started watching), so wasn't taking good notes at this point...

Fernando, Omar, and Lety have a "meeting" to talk about some business idea of Lety's, I think to help them make payroll. Omar is encouranging Fernando (hereafter "Fern") to drink heavily, and Lety is trying to keep Fern from drinking too much, because his drunkenness is making her nervous.

From what I understand from the Colombian show recaps, what was going on here is that Omar was encouraging Fern to woo Lety to prevent her from leaving Conceptos, partly because she owns the shadow company, and partly because she simply knows too much. They have an idea that she has a rich boyfriend, too, and therefore she could leave them at any time without so much as a backwards glance. It never occurs to these guys that some common courtesy and fair pay would secure her loyalty; they have to hatch a ridiculous plan, or else there'd be no story.

They go to a club, and Lety calls home to tell RoboPapa that she's running late (I guess that's what she's saying). RoboPapa is upset, as usual, while Mom seems thrilled - I guess she thinks Lety is on a date? I wish I knew. Or maybe Mom is coming on to Dad - yuck. All I can tell is that Mom's excited about *someone* being in love.

Back at the club, Omar leaves early, much to Lety's horror. Some popular singer performs at the club, and Lety screams so loudly and enthusiastically that Fern is embarrassed, but, being so drunk, I guess he gets over it. Marcia calls at least once during this ordeal, too, and Fern assures her that it's a business meeting, even though it sounds suspiciously like a club to Marcia.

Eventually, Fern is thoroughly plastered. They end up outdoors, and (again, I'm sorry, I wasn't taking notes so I don't recall exactly how this happened) he kisses her in a most hesitant and comical manner. Then she splits - I think she takes a cab home - and Fern scrubs his lips with the mint leaves from his cocktail.

Meanwhile, Tomas (who has a Les Nessman type of "office" at Lety's house) is at some kind of business meeting with two older men who are giving him a LOT of alcohol and he's babbling like an idiot. Clearly, something is going on with these guys, but I can't tell what.

Later that night, a starry-eyed Lety writes dreamily in her diary, and Fern feels guilty and confused.

Next day:

Yazmin is flirting on her cell phone with Lola's ex-husband, and Lola is enraged. Lola takes the phone away from Yaz, and it gets damaged. Alicia shows up, finds out what is going on, and then Lopez the HR guy shows up, wanting to know what is going on (there is quite a lot of screaming from the feas at this point). Alicia recounts the story to him, and stomps the phone to pieces in the process. Her version of the story makes Lola sound much worse than Yazmin, apparently, plus Alicia and Yazmin both suck up to Lopez, so he fires Lola.

The feas band together and all threaten to quit. Lopez seems delighted with this idea, but Marcia hears the commotion and saves the day, especially for Lola, since Marcia very well knows what it is like to have to deal with a cheating lover.

Lety and Fern (not together) make faces in their respective mirrors and talk to themselves about their weird and forbidden kiss. Lety is in the ladies' restroom, and Alicia comes in to powder and fluff her boobs. She makes a gratuitously unkind remark to Lety, which deflates Lety's ego. And Fernando is looking at a photo of an attractive woman (can't tell if it's Marcia or someone else).

Alicia runs into Omar and tries to crawl all over him. He doesn't seem to want any, and later we see him leave the office with a hot model.

Meanwhile, Tomas is at home, swooning again over Alicia's photo, while Mom offers sympathy.

Fernando takes Lety to dinner at an outdoor restaurant with an amusement park. I'm not sure what excuse he used to make this outing. She did try to protest, but I guess he wasn't having any of it. At dinner, he flirts with her and says he likes her. He almost kisses her, but gets self-conscious because he knows people are looking at him eating dinner with this fea.Lety can tell.

They leave and walk around the carnival rides, finally settling down on some playground swings. He keeps trying to kiss her (often stealing a glance at that woman's photo in his jacket; Omar had told him to pretend that Lety was the woman in the photo), but she expresses doubt as to why he would want to kiss her. Fern explains why, and this is one of those times when I *really* wish my Spanish was better; whatever he says seems to help, and then they talk about the moon, which is all full and romantic. Finally he says exactly the right thing (would that I knew what it was), and they kiss. It's not creepy and awkward like last time, but she quickly gets spooked and argues with Fern some more about how there's no reason he should like her. He tries to keep up with her, but eventually she bites his head off for some reason.

He continues his smooth talk, holding her hand. He says the right thing again, and this time she actually pushes her face at him! He kisses her again, but he's clearly reaching his limit.

Meanwhile, at Marcia's, a blond chick (is this Ana Leticia?) and some man come over with stuff for the wedding, including some extremely ugly Egyptian-looking invitations that have the wrong initials on them. They also show off some ugly clothes - clothes so ugly they couldn't even pass for bridesmaids' dresses - and Marcia is repulsed. The blond chick is offended by her reaction, collects her ugly things, says "ciao" to Marcia, and leaves.

Lety thanks Fern for a nice evening. Just as they are about to kiss yet again, Fern's phone rings. It's Marcia, of course! Fern takes Lety home, and while they chat in the car outside Lety's house, RoboPapa watches from the window, seething. When she gets in the house, he gives her hell for making a spectacle of herself in the street. Mom takes a break from comforting the sad Tomas to talk RoboPapa down somewhat.

Tomas follows Lety into her room and they argue about something. Tomas leaves and Lety writes in her diary some more. She believes that Fern really loves her, and seems to come to some sort of conclusion.

Meanwhile, Fernando gets home to Marcia, but he won't let her kiss him (not sure what his excuse is; perhaps onion breath). He brushes, gargles, and has some wine, then kisses her, but there's something about the kiss that makes her suspicious. She questions him, but I guess he manages to allay her suspicions.

Next day, Lety wants to talk to Mom privately. I'm not sure what they talk about, but she does take her mom's perfume and wears something slightly less ugly than usual. Also, Tomas has a big wad of cash - not sure where that came from.I guess the old dudes gave it to him.

Alicia's car runs out of gas on her way into work. Hunky men push the car for her, and Marcia gives Saimon some money to pick up a gallon of gas to help Alicia out. Alicia thanks him in her usual snotty, ungrateful way.

Paula Maria (hereafter "PM") is late to work, angering Marcia. Saimon had done his best to cover for her, but since he was out on an errand, he wasn't able to help her out this time.

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