Caray, Caray!

"Momentos decisivos" my foot. That announcer guy is an even bigger liar than Silvana.

We begin with leftovers from last night: Ceci finally gets some…I mean, smooches Mario. And they get a cool song, Camila's "Abrazame." The world's most ridiculous newspaper headline gives the whole fake story about Silvana, Diego, and their alleged baby. Seriously, the guy missed the day in journalism school where they learned the difference between a headline and an opening paragraph. Silvana fakes stomach pains and gets Diego to feel sorry for her. Gloria makes Azul a morning sickness remedy and takes her out for a walk in Guadalajara. I bet Gloria knows a bunch of good hangover cures too.

Diego won't marry Silvana, despite her pressuring him. He says the kid won't have a mom and dad who live together. She tries to make a threat about finding another man to be with her.

LuisFe and Mario have a nice breakfast and talk about how to find Azulcena. Between what Diego and Ceci have said about Silvana, they suspect she knows where Azulcena is. Mario suggests getting Ceci's help and he tells LuisFe that he and Ceci are now an item. LuisFe says that's cool, since he could never love Ceci for wanting Azulcena.

Azulcena babbles to Gloria about not having seen her picture on the news or anything yet. She wants to buy a little TV for the house. Gloria tries to find out if what Silvana said was true; Azul says she both wants to find her family AND hopes she's single so she can be with LuisFe. Silvana calls Gloria and while they're talking on the phone (a bunch of lies, as usual), Azulcena finds the paper with the ridiculously long headline…or the article with the ridiculously large font, whichever. Azulcena feels bad about what's allegedly happening to Silvana with Diego and the alleged baby. Commercials. Gloria and Azulcena return to the house. Azulcena is highly offended at that Diego guy's behavior towards Silvana. She wants to call Silvana and offer her support, but Gloria asks her to wait until they both calm down. Gloria looks really upset.

Ceci and Caty are playing on a trampoline outside. Ceci announces to Caty that she and Mario are now together. Diego comes to collect Caty because Silvana wants to talk to her. After Caty leaves, Ceci says she found out about Silvana's hellspawn…I mean, the baby. She asks what Diego's going to do.

Silvana works on Caty by telling her she'll love her little brother or sister and can see he/she/it whenever she wants to. Caty says if Silvana moves back in, she promises to never get mad at her again. They hug, giving Silvana the opportunity to grin maliciously.

Azulcena and Gloria talk about LuisFe and how great he is. Gloria says you've got to grab onto the good ones and not let them go. Seeing as how there's a man shortage on this show, that's not bad advice…at least, a shortage of the non-stupid, non-tialoving-abuelokilling kind.

Emilia's restricted to sitting at the dining table except for trips to the bathroom. She's hired a maid to help out. Silvana shows up to mope and try to get sympathy. Again. GSD overhears and comes over to clarify that while he doesn't approve, he'd never forbid Emilia from hanging out with her, and he respects her personal life.

Diego and Caty go for a walk. Caty works on Diego, being sad about Silvana maybe going to live somewhere else, or marrying someone else.

Silvana tries to get more sympathy from Diego over the phone. She's playing the martyr. Manuel's in the hotel room. Silvana says she's getting everyone on her side with the pregnancy scam. Silvana thinks she'll get Diego when he realizes she and the baby won't necessarily be around. Manuel thinks that if he talks to Diego about what a bad dad he was, it'll get Diego to come around. And there's something about Silvana giving him more money, but that's par for the course.

Ceci greets Mario with smoochies. He greets her with a rose. Pink--my favorite color! He brought LuisFe with him and they ask to talk to her about Silvana. They explain that Azulcena disappeared and Silvana was the last person to see her and refuses to tell them where Azulcena is.

Gloria and Azulcena call Silvana. Azulcena offers her sympathies. The fact that Silvana fainted that time at the orphanage (as recalled by Azulcena) plays nicely into her whole pregnancy story. Azulcena mentions the story in the paper, but Silvana says it's a lie, they just had a little fight. The music gets a little freaked out as Azulcena says that's great, since the baby should grow up near its father.

Ceci goes over to Silvana's. She says she's not against Diegovana, now that there's a baby involved. She came over to ask about Azulcena as LuisFe and Mario think Silvana knows something. Silvana says it was Azulcena who wanted to leave. She tells her it's LuisFe's baby that Azulcena's having.

The lawyer comes to visit Diego at the boutique. He's got 3 weeks to gather info that Frijolito's not a bad kid. He tells Diego that the accuser is Hector Manuel Moran Aguilera, better known as Bad Daddy. Commercials. Diego recognizes not only the name, but the signature. He goes over to ask Manuel about what happened.

Ceci is shocked about the news of Azulcena's pregnancy. Silvana says it was a scandal because they were carrying on in the orphanage. Per Silvana, it got Azulcena kicked out and she wanted to get away from LuisFe for a while. Now Ceci feels sorry for Azulcena. Silvana feeds her the lie about dropping her off at the bus station. Ceci's a little confused now that Silvana would let her pregnant upset friend who's in such a complicated situation just get on a bus by herself without knowing where she was going. Silvana insists she's telling the truth and if they don't believe her they can find Azulcena themselves. And BTW, MS can back up the story about the sexin' in the nunnery, so there. *sigh* This is so annoying, that people keep thinking that if one thing Silvana says is true, the rest must be true too.

Manuel sticks to his story about being robbed. Diego thinks it must have been on the day Caty said that Frijolito came looking for him. The lawyer thinks this is good news, since Manuel can ask for leniency, seeing as how it's one of those poor orphan children. Ha! I bet Silvana didn't think about that when she planned the whole scam.

Ceci goes to have coffee with Mario and chew him out for not telling her the whole Azulcena story. Since she's upset and keeps cutting Mario off, he never gets to the part where he explains that it's not LuisFe's baby.

Silvana and Manuel are in the hotel room again. Silvana says she thinks she's convinced Ceci that she doesn't know where Azulcena is. Manuel fills Silvana in about Frijolito's case and tells her that Diego's asked him to pardon the kid so they can get him out. Silvana tells him to take his time doing it and not let them notice (as if!). She's not worried because she thinks she's got Frijolito in her pocket with her promise to hurt Azul if he tells.

In juvie, Frijolito asks a friend to ask his uncle to bring old copies of the paper when he visits. Frijolito wants to investigate on his own whether what Silvana said was true.

Lidia's doing well selling the insurance policies, though I can't tell out of where--it doesn't look like Anibal's office and when Mario and Ceci come to visit her, Mario's wearing his lab coat. Lidia says she thinks she's going to be able to get all the money Tavo needs within three weeks and she's not going to see him until then.

3 weeks pass

Tavo's still angry and bitter about Lidia. Lidia gets to the garage just in time to hide and overhear Efrain say that Tavo had it coming with his lies about being broke. Oh, the fur's gonna fly now!

Clemi comments that Diego's not looking so good lately. Diego's worried because Silvana's not around, she's doing her own thing and he hardly knows how she's doing, let alone how the baby's doing. He's concerned it's only going to get worse after the baby is born. Clemi points out that Silvana is young and hot (and completely nuts, she forgot that one) and has a right to have a life and maybe even to marry someone else. That's the part that really gets Diego because then "his" kid will consider someone else "Dad."

Righteous indignation theater! Lidia throws the money in Tavo's face and he still has the gall to ask such a stupid question as "Where'd that come from?" She tells him she earned it to prove her love by saving his garage and now she knows it's all a lie. He starts to pick up the money to give it back to her, but she says he can keep it--as proof that she was never interested in the money. She also throws his engagement ring back at him and leaves, even though most etiquette experts agree that an engagement ring is a gift, and therefore doesn't need to be returned in case of breakup. It's the gesture that counts. Efrain refrains from saying "I told you so."

Frijolito's friend's uncle brought some newspaper clippings, but he saves Frijolito the trouble of reading them and says that Mauricio seems to have been a rat bastard (ok, my words; translating "un infeliz" as "an unhappy person" or "an unfortunate person" just doesn't cut it). He also says it looks like Azul was a nice person and one of Mauricio's victims. Frijolito is happy now.

Ceci cooks (or, as I suspect, has Arnaldo cook and just serves) Mario a dinner to thank him for making her happy the past few weeks. She admits she's afraid to be happy because you never know when your boyfriend's going to turn out to be a tialoving abuelokiller. Mario says there's nothing to worry about, as he doesn't have a tía. Probably I made some of that stuff up. I love the big picture of the muffin in the kitchen. Was that always there?

Lidia cries in front of Clemi and Anibal, but before she can tell them what happened, Tavo comes in and does so. Clemi is now filled with righteous indignation: "Who are you to be testing my daughter that way?!" Tavo says he was insecure and tries to apologize, but Lidia won't take him back. Anibal grabs his arm and shoves him out of the office. That was pretty damn satisfying. The question now is, with so little time left to go before el Gran Final, will Lidia find someone else or take Tavo back? Or will they be progressive enough to just have Lidia sell insurance, get rich on her own, and enjoy the single life?

MS and the lawyer talk. According to the lawyer, Frijolito might just get out of juvie today.

Except that…Frijolito has decided to take matters into his own hands. His plan is to go to Diego, find Azul together, and save her from Silvana and the bad man. He gets his friend to pick a fight so while the guard is otherwise occupied he can sneak out and find Diego. This is obviously not a high-security place.

And in the end, Diego finally caves and asks Silvana to marry him. *gag*

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