Caray, Caray!

We are rolling full steam ahead into the Gran Final on Sunday. Now it’s my turn to say it’s my last full recap of Yo Amo a Juan Querendón. It’s been a great run, folks, and I’ll miss it—the long hours of checking my dictionary to recap notwithstanding [and that’s my own fault, anyway.] ;-) See you for the last time at the Gran Final and then it’s on to Querida Enemiga!

As our Friday episode opens, Juan and Fern are full steam ahead leading a new choral group of the buddies they recently made in a barroom brawl—even the magistrate sings along and an officer declares they aren’t too bad for farmers. Only the bar owner is unenchanted. Order is eventually restored with a promise of jail for all involved. The boys get dragged off to cells. Ivonne gets the “puh-leeeze come and bail me out!” call while she and Paula are talking girl stuff about their respective love lives, or lack of. What should she do? Well, answer it already, Paula tells her. Ivonne is impactada at his whereabouts and Paula is, too.

Kike tries to comfort Marely as they watch over baby Nidia Michaela in the hospital. Kike gives her his take on the bender the boys were on. Marely’s pretty sure it was for Paula, not her, he was drowning his sorrows. Yadi adds to Kike’s attempt at comfort, that Juan’s suffering and probably sorry for everything. Kike’s phone rings and he gets the “puh-leeeze come and bail me out!” call. He tells Yadi and Marely that the boys just got slapped in the slammer (los que acaban de entambar-just got put in jail). Guess what? The girls are impactadas!

Delirio wearily shuffles down the sidewalk out of Casa Cachón, his usually dapper dress in dreadful disarray. Juanito runs after him, and Delirio is hopeful and sweet with the tyke. He wants to see Juan, but Juanito has no idea when Juan will be around. Delirio’s going—he sees the Grim Reaper waiting for him down on the corner. [Ed. Note: actually, if he wore glasses he’d know it was just two thugs doing the Grim Reaper’s work for her.] Juanito has no idea what he means. He’s sure it’s because Delirio hasn’t been eating enough. He encourages Delirio with a big smile. Nope, it’s not food, what’s needed to save his hide is money, Delirio tells Juanito. Juanito doesn’t understand what the Grim Reaper wants with his money. No, Delirio tells him, it’s not her, it’s her messengers. [Ed. Note: Oh, he did see them.] Juanito sweetly hugs Delirio and tells the viejo he’ll save him. He runs off, leaving Delirio wondering qué the heck? Delirio watches the corner for the Grim Reaper’s boys again.

At the delegation, the whole world is coming out for the Great Bail-Out. The bar owner counts off on his fingers for Paula and Ivonne that 100,000 pesos, more or less, will do it. They’re righteously indignant. That’s 100,000.00 MXN = 9,732.08 USD. Paula accuses him of taking advantage of the situation and the magistrate tells her no pay, no release. Ivonne doesn’t have that kind of cash and Paula assures her that she’ll work this out. Marely and Kike come skidding through the door, and Marely wants to know qué the heck Paula is doing here. Paula and Ivonne exchange looks.

Juanito rushes back outside the front gate at Casa Cachón, carrying a bright green thing. Delirio is still hovering around, waiting. Juanito proudly announces he’s brought his bank with the allowance his Daddy gives him every Sunday. He thinks it will help. Delirio holds the green and yellow plastic frog bank in his hand. He pats Juanito gently and is touched at Juanito’s generosity and caring. For once in his life, he does the right thing, and won’t take Juanito’s savings (ahorros). Not even if it will ensure a hot meal. Juanito tries to insist—his Daddy says it’s good to help those in need. Delirio says it’s so lovely, that it’s not worth it to break into it. Delirio strokes his cheek gently and thanks Juanito several times tenderly as he walks away, leaving Juanito looking at the frog.

At the police station, Ivonne scolds Marely not to make a big fuss (hacer panchos - make a big fuss). Marely spits back that she wasn’t talking to Ivonne, so don’t butt in. They try to explain to Marely why Paula is with Ivonne. She’s not altogether satisfied with the response that Paula’s helping Ivonne because Fern called. The sisters fuss at each other with the ghost of Juan in the middle. Paula is insistent that she and Juan have ended that chapter of their lives, IOW, that’s not why she is here. The bar owner butts in—who’s paying up? Paula is. Marely says she isn’t paying anything. Paula drops the trump card, the big company will pay, not her, and…..he takes a recount of items and the price goes up to 150,000 pesos, in that case. [150,000.00 MXN = 14,598.12 USD]. Ivonne yells at him that he just said 100K. Okay, it’s back down to 120K pesos. Paula drags the bar owner away, offers 50K take it or leave it and how long would it take you to earn that anyway, and finally it’s a deal. [50,000.00 MXN = 4,866.038 USD.] She shuffles the bar owner off to finalize the payment and leaves Marely fuming. Both Kike and Ivonne point out that it’s better Farell paid and Paula’s a great negotiator, the last thing Marely wants to hear. Perfect Paula!

Yadi hesitates in the hospital lobby as she struggles about making a telephone call. Finally, she calls Julia. Julia’s home, sobbing gently and wiping her nose. She’s not thrilled to get a call from Yadi. You? Of course you know by now that Enrique is not living in my house now. Yadi tells her she knows and it’s urgent that they talk.

Paula finally gets the paperwork done and hopes that everything will be forgotten. The bar owner assures her it will as the boys are released. Juan sees Paula at the desk and is impactado as he comes into the police station lobby—his usually tamed mullet all askew and shirt open to the waist. [Ed. Note: some last minute gratuitous flesh shots for us, ladies.] He muses to himself—who would have thought he’d call Kike and his Palomita would end up rescuing him? Marely rushes to ask him how he is, Kike on her heels. He tells her he didn’t think she’d want to see him again. She retorts that after what he’s done, she shouldn’t—and leaves him wondering which thing it was that he did to make her say that? He mentally lists all the possibilities and wonders why the little females (goats) are never specific! Whatever made him think of getting so drunk he’d get in a barroom brawl! Oh, it’s THAT! He tries to explain how the other guy took exception to his singing, right Fern? Fern walks away to talk to Ivonne leaving Juan to his fate with Marely…..and Paula, who cuts in scolding about the wad of cash she had to give up for this little adventure. She snaps at Ivonne that they’re going. Ivonne throws Paula off a little by wanting to stay with Fern and get some stuff cleared up. Fern thanks Paula and Marely fumes. Paula looks at Marely and says she hopes they can clear up their differences, then strides out with Marely now fuming at Ivonne. Marely heaves a frustrated sigh—finally Paula’s gone! Juan begs Marely not to get angry and she wonders why she shouldn’t be if this is how he shows her how he loves her. He tries to interrupt but she’s angry about his lies and stalks off. Kike jumps up and tells him it’s a pain that he’s getting hit from all sides. The magistrate calls Juan to sign a register and Fern grabs Ivonne—when he called, he didn’t really expect her to show up. She’s just glad she was with Paula so it could get resolved. Fern stumbles through an apology for his behavior earlier. Ivonne tells him they need to talk, but this isn’t the time or place for all of it. She realizes he must have had powerful reasons for the rejection. Fern mumbles that it was his jealousy. Juan is done and tells Ivonne and Fern it’s time for them all to go. Fern thanks him, but he and Ivonne have a little matter to work out. Juan excuses himself and Kike, who makes a few “oh-oh” gestures to Fern behind Ivonne’s back. Fern invites her out for coffee and they can calm down; but Ivonne thinks they need to go to her apartment because there are very important things she needs to tell him. She strides out of the police station lobby with Fern trailing.

After Kike lets Juan and Marely off, he stammers that he wants to talk with her. Juan comes around to face her, and she stands with her arms crossed tightly, scowling at him, while we note that Delirio is still hiding in the bushes. Marely tells him they’ll talk in the morning—it’s late and she’s tired. Delirio gestures wildly to catch his attention and Juan does a double take and waves over Marely’s head to signal him to lay off. Marely is clueless, apparently, to the waving but she asks if he’s not going in or what. Nope, he’s going to take a walk, and Marely says goodbye to go in. What’s up, he asks Delirio—are you going to set up camp again or what? No, Delirio needs to talk to him urgently. Juan gives him a suspicious look. What does he want now? Delirio has a very serious problem. He describes the problem—the huge sum of money he needs so he won’t be rubbed out—Juan is impactado.

Paula arrives home to find her Mami sitting on the steps, waiting anxiously. Paula wearily tells Ana that the boys are bailed out; it was just a drunken fight. Ana scolds her gently to stop driving herself crazy. Paula tells her to back off. She’s not up to being tormented at the moment and hasn’t got the strength for it. She gives Ana a kiss and goes up to bed.

Delirio continues his explanation of why he did it—for Nidia, to show her he could be successful. He blames Gutis. Juan tells Delirio he’s sorry but he doesn’t have that kind of money, much less by tomorrow morning. Delirio asks that when they find his dead body in some corner, that Juan makes sure he’ll get a Christian burial and Juan tells him he better just march himself down to the po-lice right now. It’s time to own up to his misdeeds. Let justice take its course. Delirio doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a little dark cell. Juan reminds him it’s better than a deep, dark grave he’ll be in if he doesn’t go to the police.

Ivonne and Fern are ready for the heart-to-heart that will make or break them. It’s about that operation she had. What about that? She thanks him for being there at her side, and she realized how much he loved her through that experience. He tells her that he realized how much he loved her, as well. Ivonne continues that she simply thought they’d be together forever, sweethearts, and never thought beyond that. He tells her he loves her and wants to marry, have a family, children. Finally, it comes out. She can’t give him what he wants. She can’t have children. Fernando puts his hand over his heart, unable to speak.

Nidia has corralled Juan in the study to scold him soundly for the barroom brawl and make completely sure he’s going to do right by her little girl. Juan thought bubbles about being called on the carpet and he really can’t defend himself here. She scolds that “Pauli-Pauli” showed up. And who has ever treated him better than her Marely? No one, Juan admits with a hangdog face. Does Marely deserve this treatment on his part? No. He knows he Did Bad. Nidia, like a dog with a big bone, continues the scold about how she’s given up everything for him. Juan can’t make eye contact as he agrees she’s right. Nidia says he should be telling Marely all this. Nidia points out he chose her and no one forced him, not even a little [Ed. Note: Apparently she doesn’t know what kid pressure from one’s son can do.], he needs to respond with responsibility (formalidad), with seriousness—her Marely deserves it. The message is clear: marry the girl already. Clear as water, he tells her when she asks, looking up shamefacedly at her. He thought bubbles –that night she left him very clear that he shouldn’t be playing with the feelings of a girl who is so noble, so good. Nidia comes behind him and pats on his sore shoulders as he thought bubbles and grimaces. He himself asked Marely to be his girlfriend.

Ivonne and Fern continue their sad and serious discussion of the future. Ivonne tells him that one ovary was removed and the other seriously damaged to save her. She doesn’t fully understand the scientific explanation, but the doctor was clear—there’s very little possibility of Ivonne having children, and he has just said that’s what he wants. Fern nods glumly, chin on his hand, elbow resting on his knee. She weeps gently as she explains her reasons for rejecting marriage. Fern gently tells Ivonne that two can be a family, with love and a roof over their heads; it can form the warmest of families. She tells him it would take a miracle for her to have a child. Fern moves beside her on the sofa and hugs her. He doesn’t need miracles—he got the most important one when God saved her life. There lots of ways to form a home—her, him, a skinny dog. Why would he want children if they didn’t look like her? Why would he want grandchildren if she wasn’t the grandmother? The pain is incredible on their faces as he holds her and they mourn some of their dreams. Ivonne tells him he’s the best man in the world. He tells her he’s just a guy in love. She doesn’t know what to tell him. He tells her there’s on thing he can’t pardon—that she refused to marry him. He kisses her forehead and they hold each other tightly.

Delirio runs toward a “Central” location, where lots of people are milling or working outside. He runs right by one thug and smack into the other one. They grab him under the arms—was he thinking of going on vacation? [Ed. Note: The Central Bus Terminal? Gee, these guys are clairvoyant.] He assures him the economy isn’t good for vacations at the moment as the one contemplates his torta from a street vendor and they both put a squeeze on Delirio in the middle. No, Delirio thought he’d see a friend who also is a good friend of Gutierrez, and he works right over …. There! Bonetero, that’s who he was going to see. [Ed. Note: Bonetero may mean a haberdasher, since bonetería = (esp Méx) haberdasher's (shop), notions store]. Pobrecito, he’s grasping at straws and they’re breaking off in his hands. He smiles nervously and chuckles with the thugs, who chuckle with him and not nervously at all.

Fern and Ivonne have recovered enough to get back to the Sandro/CL discussion and eat a bowl of popcorn [which happens to be my dinner at the moment, too]. Fern tells her it left him cold to find out that someone looking like Sandro/CL left the apartment at the same time that someone looking like Sandro/CL was at the office with them all. Ivonne is relieved, because she was beginning to think she was just hallucinating. Fern points out they still have no concrete proof of anything. His buddy took photos but they need some of the two guys together. It needs to be a single blow and they get the guys. Ivonne knows CL is really sharp and he’s not going to be nailed that easily. They’ll have to be more intelligent than CL. Fern nods and thinks.

The thugs aren’t letting up on Delirio. They remind him of the unfinished business that has to be resolved first thing in the morning. Delirio tries to flatter them and the thug with hair wishes they always could deal with such good people. Sarcasm isn’t his strong suit. He’ll even give Delirio his torta! Delirio refuses adamantly. He’ll gain weight, he doesn’t like them….The boys stuff it into his face.

Juan lies in bed, a sleeping Juanito at his side, and thought bubbles about how he’s the only one to blame for his own mess here. He decides that the only thing of importance is his little rose garden’s happiness. [Ed. Note: Now that a whole year’s gone by with this term, I finally looked up “jardinera” and discovered it not only means a gardener, but also a flower bed, window box, and a couple of other things. So, rose bed is a good definition, or rose garden.] He tells himself with this in mind, he finally was able to catch a few winks.

Kike and Yadi prepare to get their precious one out of the hospital and Kike’s glad because the place gives him the creeps (escalofríos – shivers). He puts the baby’s bag on his shoulder and makes ready, telling the baby they’re on their way. Yadi shyly thanks him. Why? For being with us through this. Well, it’s about my daughter, and her mother. No one can change that! She just had to tell him. Kike takes a step forward and shyly tells her thanks, too—he has to tell her something, that she’s changed a bunch. He smiles broadly as he gives her the compliment and she smiles sadly as she receives it. It makes him happy, above everything, for her. With that, he’s off to pay. Yadi whispers sadly to herself “late, very late.”

Juan comes into the living room the next morning at Casa Cachón calling for Marely. Nidia informs him she’s just gone. Juan wants to know if she said where. Yes, some company….oh, Nidia can’t remember the name. She told Nidia she couldn’t wait for Juan. Or, maybe she didn’t want to. Nidia gives Juan a very pointed look. He thanks her—he’ll talk to Marely later, he awkwardly tells Nidia. He’s going to the office.

Paula puts on the last of her make-up and hears from Ana. Ana advises her that her eyes need bunches of make-up today. What should she do, Paula asks? Ana is surprised she’s going in to work, but Paula points out the shares aren’t sold yet. After that it’ll be over and she’ll never have Juan in her life again. Ana tries to talk to her again more seriously and Paula tells her “not now, please.” Ana presses, she just wants to see Paula make the right decision. Paula kisses her goodbye and goes off to the war.

Nidia feeds Anga in the bed. How charming. And messy. And unsanitary. Nidia thinks this engagement of Juan’s and Marely’s is taking a turn that she doesn’t like. It’s looking like it’s over. Anga thinks it’s better. Nidia now realizes that for Juan it’ll be better, but for Marely it’ll be a tragedy. Poor child, she fell for Juan from the second she saw him. How can that be better for her? Well, Anga says, he’s talking about the big picture. At first she’ll hurt—he understands why Nidia’s looking at it like a mother-- but what if they make a commitment and get as far as marrying—without love? Yadi knocks and come in. Anga calls her all kinds of endearments—his lovely chubbette (gorda linda – lovely fat woman), precious wench (preciosa chula) and Yadi comes to hug him as he moves the tray away with Nidia’s help. How’s the grandbaby? Much better! She’s sleeping. Yadi wonders if she can leave the baby with them a little while. Yadi tells them she has an appointment. What? An appointment? With whom? It’s personal. She tells her Papá that she’s talked to Remolacho and he knows what all to do. Anga is pleased with her, and hopes this fool won’t ruin his business. Yadi scolds her Papá and says Remo’s behaving very professionally. She hopes they can promote the boy. She kisses her parents, who give her varying degrees of fond looks and sighs, and goes off to her appointment.

Kike opens his office to find a note from Julia. She’s gone to breakfast with her boyfriend and won’t be late. Kike wads it up, thoroughly annoyed and jealous, and tosses it.

Ana tells Nidia they haven’t talked in a long time—Nidia must be reading her mind because Ana had been about to call her. Nidia agrees they need to catch up on the gossip. Maybe Ana can come by for dinner and bring Willy—they can dine with their respective gallants. Nope, Willy’s on a trip but since she’s alone….Nidia tells her to come on by, that’s even better, to dine alone together. Ana asks about Angarita, and Nidia fills her in. She’s taking care of him well, and sent him to bed early, got the television on for him (enchúfelo la tele—plugged the television in for him, my best guess), and there you are. Tell Pauli-Pauli you’re coming here and we’ll have a good chat/fun time (cotorreo). Ana’s fine with that, so Nidia tells her they’ll expect her at 9:00 p.m. and says goodbye. [Ed. Note: That’s bedtime, for Pete’s sake!] Nidia hangs up with a very smug smile.

Yadi hesitantly approaches the table where Julia waits. Yadi is late and Julia chides her—she almost left! Yadi mumbles that she still has things she’s learning. Julia tells her to get on with it and say what she has to say concisely because she has to go to work. Yadi explains gently that she’s learned that the supposed relationship with Kike was meant to make her jealous and nothing more. Julia spits back that she should be happy with that. Nope, she’s not. She’s clearer on lots of things now. Well, you always knew Enrique was in love with you, right? Yes, that was her error, Yadi admits. She took for granted that she had him eating out of her hand. But all the theatrics came to an end. Julia doesn’t understand anything. Yadi explains that she lost Kike’s love long ago and didn’t realize it. Now he’ll never come back to her. He’ll never fall in love with her again and that’s exactly what she deserves. Yadi’s expression is pure grief and regret. It’s because she never knew how to treasure him. Julia asks what she means by that. Yadi tells her it’s that Enrique has fallen in love with Julia. Julia is impactada and doubtful.

There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Alirio tries his best, but he’s not slick enough for thugs. He carries his jacket and rushes through a serene playground, but the thug with hair is on his trail. When Alirio plops onto a bench to catch his breath, and remembers Juan’s warning about a dark grave being worse than jail if he doesn’t go to the police, the thug stalks up and peers at Alirio through the branches of an evergreen. Alirio senses the presence and looks over his shoulder—nothing. Then he sees the thug’s legs and jumps up, yelling “What?” He continues his flight from his fate. The thug calmly strolls out from behind the tree and strokes his rather large….Magnum.

Yadi asks why Julia is looking at her with such an expression. Julia begins to cry and retorts that she wonders why Yadira is inventing something like this. Yadi assures Julia it’s no invention. It’s the truth. Julia insists it’s not true; Enrique is not in love with her. He still loves Yadira. Yadi tells her no, he told me himself that he loves you. He loves you for who you are, your loving gestures. He admires you in a way you can’t imagine, Julia. Julia is dumbfounded. Yadi asks if Julia thinks it’s easy for her to say that. No! So why are you telling me, then? Yadira tells Julia it’s for Kike, and for her daughter. She doesn’t want him to suffer. For all she’s done to him, he deserves a bit of happiness at the side of the person he loves. That’s Julia, not Yadira. Yadi continues that the poor guy’s devastated because she’s returned to her ex and sent him to the devil—that’s just a saying, of course. They were only friends, anyway. He had begun to feel something for Julia—didn’t she feel anything for him? Julia never thought he’d fall in love with her. Yadira was too much in his heart. Yadi tells Julia she doesn’t know Julia’s ex, he could be really clever (picudo) and handsome, but Kike’s the best guy on earth. She knows this having been his wife. Julia cries—she knew that. They don’t make them like Enrique. Yadi is nearly in tears, too. She loves him with all her strength. Julia explains that there was no boyfriend—she told him that so he’d go back to his wife and daughter.

The elevator is such a good place to meet people. Heri somehow got on behind Pastor, and they ended up on the elevator alone together. That’s a stretch. Heri greets Pastor, who just looks up at the floor indicator. Pastor gives him a very terse “Buenos días.” Heri glances down at him, assessing the mood. The bell rings and they exit at their floor simultaneously so they bump coming out. Heri drops books and Pastor actually leans over to help pick up—finding books about homosexuality and finding out who one is. He asks what the heck this is; they’re books. Really? Since when are you into these topics? He gives Heri an earful—did he wake up this morning feeling like making fun of Pastor? Heri tries to protest, Pastor scolds again, and Heri just gets frustrated. [Ed. Note: For the record—Por qué the heck did Heriberto bring all his new reading material to the OFFICE??? That’s our Heri for you.] Ivonne sees the tiff and scoots over. Heri complains that he wonders what he did. She expresses surprise and Heri tells her Pastor did nothing more than notice his books and thought Heri was making fun of him—Ivonne notices the books and says no wonder it ticked him off! Heri is left wondering again, poor thing.

Julia continues with her story—when she saw Yadi and Kike at the hospital, she thought of their daughter. Nidia Michaela needs both her parents and Julia decided not to get in the way of the two of them getting back together. Yadi is bemused—you did that for me and my daughter? Yes. She wanted Enrique to be well. She needs her parents close and it’ll kill him to be without his princess. Yadi is touched. She never thought to take NM away from Kike. She wants the baby to grow up with his example—he’s a great father. Julia noticed. Yadi points out that the baby is their daughter and will always unite them. She asks if Julia is prepared to have Kike sharing time with Yadi during their daughter’s special moments—when she’s sick, when she begins school, birthdays, everything. Julia would not erase this part of their lives—their past. Julia wonders if Yadira is ready to share NM with her. Seeing the sacrifice that Julia was willing to make for NM, Yadi doesn’t doubt that she’ll be a great friend to Nidia Michaela, and though it hurts her to say it, a good second mother. Now she understands why Kike fell in love with Julia. Julia never dreamed they’d be talking like this together. She appreciates the sensitive subjects Yadira has brought up. Yadi tells her to go look for him. Go after him and tell him how she feels. They come to a tender, though bittersweet accord for Nidia Michaela’s and Kike’s sakes.

Ivonne tries to explain what happened with Heriberto to Pastor. He’s trying to get insight into Pastor’s way of being. Then, it’s just a question of him airing it publicly in the halls? No, she protests. Ivonne tries to tell him there’s an explanation for everything. Out with it right now, he demands. She can’t give it. He demands to know why this troglodyte tried to humiliate him in front of everyone. Ivonne tries to get him to calm down, and he Doesn’t Want To. For her information, this guy isn’t going to mock him with impunity. He’s going to kick Heri out whenever the feeling hits him. He glares at Ivonne defiantly and she gulps.

The Fugitive is still on the run, with the One-Armed thug with hair right on his tail. Alirio runs through a construction site, and trips over a 4x4 lying on the ground. He picks himself up, looks over his shoulder and tries to run on, going through a hallway in a building. The thug appears behind a dump truck and runs along behind Alirio, still stroking his….magnificent Magnum. [ Ed. Note: Sigh, what a fate for Alirio]

Ivonne’s cornered Fern on the upper balcony above the Farell lobby. She’s out of ideas and he needs to help her. Ivonne tries to fill him in on the latest problem; he doesn’t want to hear about Heriberto. Doesn’t he want to know why Heri came back? If it’s for her, he’ll take the fool out. No, it’s not for her! Ivonne hits him with the News of the Day—Heri thinks he’s in love with Pastor. Fern’s jaw can be heard down to the garage in the basement as it hits the floor. ¿¿Qué?? Ivonne tells him it knocked her over, too. Was that why she went out to talk to Heri? Yeeep. She couldn’t stand around with her arms crossed—deep down she thinks Pastor still has feelings for him. Fern doesn’t think she can do too much about it. Ivonne tells him he has to help her think of something. Fern covers his mouth in horror as Ivonne smiles smugly and nods at him. [Ed. Note: ¿¿Qué??]

Paula studies papers on her desk, standing in front of it instead of sitting in her chair. Juan comes in and starts to talk to her. She asks him not to say anything, please. He ignores that and tells her he was thinking about everything she told him the night before and she was right in so many of those things. He realizes he’s behaved like a roughneck (gañan – farmhand, laborer) with Marely. Like Paula, the last thing he wants to do is hurt Marely. Paula’s glad he’s getting a grip, but he tells her that doesn’t mean he’s quit having those feelings for her. They do all the woulda-shoulda-coulda chest-beating stuff—he shouldn’t have made all those mistakes and she shouldn’t have either. Hablablablabla. "Sandro/S2" bursts in with no knock, of course. Paula says Juan was just leaving, but Juan’s fists and glare at "Sandro" say otherwise. He stares back at Paula. Then he turns and lets "Sandro" have it with both barrels. "Sandro" tried to invent a relationship with Paula but he knows perfectly well who she loves-she loves Juan! "Sandro" is speechless as Paula looks away and Juan stalks out. He scowls at Paula and we are reminded that any similarity to reality is purely coincidental.

Sunday: The Gran Final, three hours from 8:00/7:00 Central until 11:00/10:00 Central and I have a vacation day on Monday to recuperate.

Vocabulary:

Los que acaban de entambar - just got put in jail
Ahorros – savings
Dar escalofríos – Give someone the creeps (shivers)
Hacer panchos - make a big fuss
Enchúfelo la tele—plugged the television in for him, got the television on for him
Cotorreo – chatter, fun/good time

Jeanne

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