Caray, Caray!

Hola amigos, I am reeling from my first double header of Friday Pasion and Monday Juan which were a sandwich for a weekend intensive at "El Portal a Fluidez en Español...". This message will be replaced a bit later today with the Juan recap. Sorry to mess with the breakfast readership. Mil besos, Cheryl

Thanks for turning the volume down on the screeching protagonist, Juan writers. We can all use the relief. We pick up the review scenes with Juan giving Marely a thank you kiss and compliments that seems pretty sexy. Apparently he thinks so too. Nidia packs her little red bag and while resisting the truth of her need to face the consequences of her actions and clean her conscience. The loving Angarita will not let her hide from herself any longer. She is sarcastic with him about leaving but is cannot deny his clear vision and in the end cannot hoochie coochie her way out of a situation for a change. The next review is of Señora Pomposa revealing to Juan that she insulted her husband so deeply by calling him a mediocre. Who wouldn't rather be regarded as a villain than to receive that deadly epithet from a loved one. She swears to Juan that it was really meant to get her husband to react. Juan counsels her to try to like the good qualities about her husband and not be so critical.

Juan hits his bedroom in the dark coming in late but realizes that Marely is asleep curled protectively around little Juanito. He thought murmurs how beautiful she looks as the great Mom figure for Juanito as he slips out for a few hours of sleep on the popular sofa downstairs.

Nidia reappears at Angarita's house saying she is scared and can't face a life in jail. She admits he is always right and she needs help to face this. He holds firm that she will have to do it.

Sra. Pomposa enters the men's game room to all the gentlemen's astonishment. As she approaches the table with her husband, he reacts that she must have come to criticize him? She says no but within seconds is spiraling downward into what sure sounds like a critical rant about her worries of his diabetes, his diet, his comportment. He finally defies her by announcing that his pancreas and his life are his problem to deal with. She relents momentarily to declare her love and caring but ends the sweetness with a demanding tone that he return to the house NOW. He capitulates but insists that from time to time he is going to continue coming to spend time with his buddies.

Nacho determines that the sleeping baby is really asleep then tries to rush a snuggle with the sleeping Yadira who is whiny about being awakened. His pursuit of some greatly craved intimacy is futilely met with enough rejection by Yadira that baby Nidia Michaela awakens with renewed howling. Yadira's simple retort to the unsatisfied Nacho is for him to have more patience with both her and the baby. Break.

Kike wakes up Juan sleeping on the sofa with questions about why he is sleeping there. Juan says the angelic Marely was asleep with Juanito and he didn't have the heart to disturb her. Kike agrees that Marely certainly loves the little Juanito. Juan asks if Kike has talked with his wife yet. Kike relates his trip to Nacho's apartment and Yadira's stubbornness. He worries about the shoddy apartment and yet isn't sure how to assert his rights for time to be with his daughter.

Meanwhile Nacho is having sensible thoughts that this new family unit is not working out well. He reasons with Yadira that the baby could be better off with her Dad until they are back on their feet economically with jobs. Yadi threatens to leave but he continues with more reason (unusual for this cast) this will be for the baby's good too. Yadira fears that if she lets go of custody for even a minute she will lose her rights. Nacho already knows that she can't if the separation is only two weeks, then he sneaks in.... or a month,,, and you can visit on weekends. It is all going to be good.

Paula is telling Ana that she is going to the lawyer to GET those ROBBERS when the phone rings. It is Angarita asking Paula if she can come to his house for something urgent he wants to discuss right away this morning. She agrees to come and he agrees to wait there for her.

Juan leaves Juanito off at school counseling him not to fight again but the little mensch bravely asserts that he won't look for it but if a fight finds him, he is ready. Juan seems secretly proud of his little chip. Off he goes and Juan turns around to see Señora Pepita Pomposa approaching him with her red suitcase. However hers isn't full of her stuff it is full of Don Lorenzo Pomposo's stuff... Break

We see a seaplane land in Vancouver and soon after Cesar Luis appears dragging the third bag of the evening, presumably his.

Back at Angarita's Nidia admits her cowardice says she feels like a cockroach. He encourages her to take courage/ charge her batteries. (carga las pilas) The doorbell rings and it is Paula. Nidia hides momentarily behind the palm but emerges and faces Paula with a trembling Good Day, Paula. After a BREAK, Paula on a slightly lower volume berates Nidia for robbing her and her mother of all the money. My mother thought of you as a true friend...you betrayed us.... whine whine, but controlled whine. Nidia assures her that her friendship for Ana was very sincere. Nidia then recounts her side of the pain of knowing Samuel was cheating on her and favoring Ana. Then realizing that Samuel had left her and her daughters nothing but had left everything to Paula, She felt desparate with pain and rage. It was hard to realize he would do that. Paula counters with how her Mother adored Samuel. Nidia gets in the deep truth that Marely and Yadira were his daughters too. Her actions seemed to her like justice at the time but it was also revenge. Paula says several other self centered things that will go unwritten here. Nidia continued that she doesn't know if Paula realizes that she (Nidia) will lose her house. It was her house for life. Paula's voice softens and she looks a bit softer, like she may be even thinking for a change, but continues her march toward her revenge that this house was to be hers by her father's wish.

Don Lorenzo tells Juan that he needs some time away from Pepita his wife. Her attitude toward him is just too much to bear.

Ana is in her gallery and when Willy learns that she plans to close the gallery, he asks why.

Back with Paula, Nidia is assuring her that the scandal did not involve her daughters, Juan it was all and only Perafan and Nidia. When Marely finally did discover the truth she was relentless in insisting her Mother reveal the truth to Paula. She finishes with saying she is ready to accept whatever Paula decides she must do up to and including jail. Paula wants to know if she expects to be pardoned. I am going to use all the remedy of the law. I"M DOING THIS FOR MY PADRE. This was a crime, a lousy thing (porqueria), you and Perafan will go to jail. Nidia totally abashed admits she deserves it.. [At this point, I was screaming "heartless bitch" at the screen and scared Willa, sorry I just lost it] BREAK THANKFULLY.

Ana is explaining to Willy that she started the gallery with a friend who betrayed her, then goes on to tell him about Nidia falsifying the will of the man she (Ana) loved the most. He committed suicide to show her his love. [Ed note: ???]

Kike asks Marely where Nidia is. He needs to talk about Yadira.

Nidia has gone. Paula stays on talking with Angarita who asks her if she is going to proceed to denounce Perafan and Nidia. Paula admits that Nidia seemed sincere but finally admits her own fury and asks him to help her understand this.

Back in Vancouver, CL snaps his fingers, claps his hands for service. He wants more drinks!

Ana goes on explaining how much she loved Samuel. Willy wants to know if she still does. No. But about the business, she has no partner. He offers to be that partner.

To speed up the chest beating mea culpa y culpa tuya ad nauseum the result was that Anagarita asked Paula to at least think about what she needed for revenge and perhaps to be softer with Nidia. He realized that his love for Nidia were in part responsible for his attitude but cautions Paula to think of Nidia and not only herself. He acknowledges that he would be full of fury in her place too.

Ana declines Willy's kind offer but he presses on that it would be a good business decision for him. She doesn't want another problem with partners but he assures her that she would manage it, he would just be investing money but is sure that the returns from sales of her art would make it a good business decision.

Cesar Luis is pretty soggy by now as he thought bubbles back through his meeting, courting, loving, fighting, marrying, betraying him with Juan, and what all with Paula in a beauty and the beast panorama in his head with Paula appearing as both. She is in all her stunning outfits and sexy as all get out until she carps at him in some of the scenes.

Yadira comes back to the house with Nidia Micaela and is telling Kike that she is leaving the baby with him for the baby's sake while she gets on her feet and finds work. but she will be back. Kike lets out little puppy yelps he can't contain his glee in having his precious daughter back. He asks Yadira if she doesn't want to say goodbye to the baby. She does with a sad look while a radiant Kike has a moment of glory. Yadira goes down stairs, encounters Marely and asks to go with her if she is going to work. Marely catches Yadira up on the news that Perafan had an attack of conscience and told Paula about the will switching. They are worried about the effect on Nidia who might do who knows what. We see Nidia leaning on a tree in desperation. She sees two rough looking men being hauled into a cruiser by two police and has a panic attack. We fade into the scene's reality being a coincidence as both Nidia and Cesar Luis consider flinging themselves off bridges and boats.

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