Caray, Caray!

Caray, I missed a few minutes here (not used to this early time slot) not much happened I think, but I guess I missed Perafan’s conversation with Juan as the first thing I saw was Cesar Luis telling Perafan that Juan isn’t just a simple executive, he’s my right hand man. I think Juan told Per that he’s an executive instead of a chauffeur, and CL played along. Juan thanks El Nino again for his assistance. Cl tells Perafan they have to go to an important meeting. Juan tells Per he’s sorry he can’t chat but he’s got to go obviously.

They drive off with Fernando at the wheel and Juan in the backseat with CL. He asks Fer to stop and leave them alone. They rehash this in the car, and CL knows perfectly well what kind of a bad person Perafan is but wants to know why Juan lied. Juan tells him the truth is that he did it for love because he’s in love and the girl won’t be interested in him if he’s just a chauffeur. CL tells Juan that he is a sucker for being a romantic, so he is in luck, CL lets him off the hook and won't fire him, but he does bank this as a favor owed in the future. Juan’s happy for now that he managed his way out of this mess and tells CL he’ll never forget this, (nor will CL).

Ana is burning, literally, mementos of Cachon Transporte and Samuel, pictures of them together and she is crying.

Fer drops CL, and asks him what happened with Juan. Cl says well he likes women by the way. Fer says well he could play both sides. CL says maybe anyway he doesn’t care what people do with their lives and he’s got to get to his meeting.

GAYtan bugs Juan about where he went during work hours and Juan says he left because CL asked him to go. Juan says, what if he wanted me for personal things. Isn’t he the one who gives orders around here? G says look he orders me, and I order you. They bitch fight about this a little until Paula shows up.

Nidia awaits Perafan at Cachon. She’s mad because he was late. He says don’t be mad I have bad news. She worries then that Juan is taking advantage of her. Perafan says on the contrary everything is true about his story. She’s happy because she knew it!

Juan is driving Paula who wonders what’s wrong. He says he knows she’s asking because she overheard his conversation with GAYtan. He says look, that guy thinks he’s in a market and that he can just take out his wallet and buy people cheaply as if they were things and I’m not accustomed to that kind of defrauding. She thinks maybe he did something to let him think he could act that way. Juan says, no way, I have always been really clear with him. She says OK, but maybe you are interpreting things to harshly, she asks how long they have been “friends.” He says not long, we met in the business and she says well maybe this is normal when you are just getting to know someone. He decides maybe he should just shut up because he can’t imagine what story she’s got going on in her head, and he’s trying to score points with her.

Nidia now berates Perafan for even suggesting that Juan is hiding something.

Pastor is crying about his conversation with Juan to Yvonne. Among other things she consoles him by saying that he really needs to just ask Juan straight up if he has the same feelings for Pastor as Pastor has for him. Pastor says he has a grand fear of being direct like that with people. She says well, he really needs to do it so he stops suffering on this emotional roller coaster.

Paula goes into see her Mama who is still crying about her situation. Paula tells her she should be happy on her birthday. Mama tells her she just doesn’t understand the circumstances. The love of her life is gone, and she wonders if her devotion was at all worth it, and he didn’t recognize us by leaving us anything. She cries that it’s as if he didn’t care about us at all, and she questions living as a second hand love for nothing. Paula asks her why she is feeling this way and if she went to see the Cachons. She finally admits that she went and saw the will. Paula wants to know why she would do this on her birthday, it hurts her to see her this way.

Nidia tells Per that she went to Ana’s house. He thinks that was a bad idea to provoke them because he has everything under control with their strategy. He tells her to be more prudent. Nidia says she only warned Ana a little to leave well enough alone with all this stuff. She tells him as Samuel’s wife for 20 years it was her who helped him build the business etc. and she deserves to protect her place. He tells her she might be screwing this all up. She says she wants to do it her way.

Paula begs Juan’s pardon that she can’t go to eat with him because her Mama is upset right now. He wonders if she’ll be ok for tonight’s surprise. She says yes. He asks if he can have the afternoon free then in order to arrange everything because tonight is going to be very special. She agrees, and he beams at her again.

Paula calls CL to let him know this situation, that her mom is depressed, and he says she should stay home with her Mom in this circumstance. She thanks him. He then tells Yvonne that she should get the largest arrangement of flowers and send it over. Of course she doesn’t like this idea and gives him attitude.

Juan gets home and sees Marely’s backside and dreams again of how lovely she is. She wonders where he snuck up from. She asks him if he shouldn’t be working. He says yes, but he’s had a horrible day so far with meeting after meeting, solving all kinds of problems, so they told him to take the afternoon off.

Marely asks him about her request for him to help get her a job. He tells himself he hates lying, but flesh is weak, and he tells her that he’d like her to come for a meeting tomorrow, he’s got a friend who has a business and he’s mentioned her to him, so they should talk with him, as it will hurry up the process of maybe getting a job to have his attention for a bit. She tells him to avoid problems with her mom who doesn’t like her to go by herself, she wants to bring a friend. He is happy because of course that was his plan, and she came up with it first!!

Paula is still trying to cheer up her Mom and tells her that CL sends his birthday greetings. Ana tells Paula there’s something she didn’t mention yet, that Nidia came this morning. Paula gets really mad that this chick would dare to show up in their home. Mama says this is between her and me so nevermind. Paula says yes, but it concerns me to. She wants to go over and give her a piece of her mind. Ana forbids her and won’t give the address.

Kike is telling Juan in the study about all of the arrangements he made for him for Ana’s birthday celebration. Kike tells him the mariachis and food and everything are top notch. Juan tells him it’s a secret and not to tell Nidia or the girls. Just then Nidia, who was listening in at the end through the door crack wants to know what secret he keeps. He says he wants to talk to her. He wants to know what Perafan was doing at his office. He yells at her that they don’t trust him and if not, maybe he should just leave the house. She says no, she didn’t know Perafan would go, but he knows that guy wouldn’t move a finger if she didn’t say so. He tells himself something in his soliloquy that I missed. My machine bugged out for a few seconds.

Back at the house with Ana, Paula finally agrees she won’t go slam Nidia because her Mom asked and she’ll try to calm down. She wants to make her up so she feels better. Just then the door bell rings and that large arrangement of flowers shows up. Paula begs her Mom to come down to see and they discover they are from CL. Paula speculates that maybe CL is in love with her. Her Mom jokes with her that she had a torrid romance with him a while back.

Yvonne is trying to get some from CL. He’s got other things on his mind and asks her for Paula’s address. She claims she doesn’t have it, and he says he knows she does because she sent the flowers. She huffs giving it to him. On the way out GAYtan asks if Paula is coming in and CL says no, he gave her the afternoon off to be with her Mom. (Wish I could pull this stuff). He wonders where Juan is in that case.

We go to the Plaza Garibaldi to pick up the mariachis. Juan thinks Kike did poorly with the tamales in a plastic bag that he got, that they are not special enough for this occasion. They are negotiating with a mariachi who seems to charge more than he told Kike on the phone. Juan says to Kike to just give him the extra money because this is special. Kike realizes he doesn’t have enough. They end up compromising by taking only four people for the reduced price, instead of the full band.

Back at the house, Ana & Paula are still chatting, and Ana thinks CL has never done anything like this for her in all the years he’s known her, so she wonders what’s up. Just then the doorbell rings, and it’s the devil, CL.

Happy 4th!!

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