Caray, Caray!

All the news from Real del Monte to follow shortly. I've got to run the dog to the vet and the computer is bonky. OK, I think I've gotten the computer thing sorted out (just needed to do some rebooting after I downloaded some stuff). As for the dog, she's OK. She's diabetic and recently has developed cataracts. Just needed to get some eyedrops to help with the irratiation in her eyes.

All right,on with the show. Iñaki pays a visit to Paloma's house, looking to talk to her Tia Carlota. He wants to formally ask permission to see Paloma openly. Cruelota tells him no way. She cites Paloma's young age and her not having time because she needs to be devoted to her studies as her reasons. We just know that Cruelot exists only to be a killjoy. Iñaki tries to plead his case further, but Cruelota will hear no more. She tells him that she never wants him to darken their door again and better yet, never go near her niece. She warns him that he doesn't want to cause problems (subtext is you don't want to find out what I do to people who cause problems). "Pero, pero" Iñaki stammers. She gestures to the door, indicating the way out of the house. Iñaki leaves.

Emiliano goes in to show Orlando (his boss) some ideas he came up with for the business. Orlando wants to know how he found time to do this and E tells him he was working on it last night at home. Orlando is impressed by E's devotion to work. E tells him that his job is important and his main priority (I'm sure Romy has no idea about this). Orlando compliments him on his ambitiousness. He assures Emiliano that he'll succeed at whatever he puts his mind to doing.

Outside the girls' school, Iñaki is waiting. Romina and Paloma catch sight of him and a smile comes over Pal’s face. Just as quickly the smile disappears, when she catches sight of Cruelota, who is also waiting. Cruelota says she was on the way to the bank and realized that it was time school was letting out, so she figured she and Paloma could walk home together. Romy makes hand signals to Iñaki to keep his distance. He can put two and two together and get four. Romy makes her exit from Pal and her aunt. She tells Iñaki that she can’t believe that the witch (la bruja) has the nose (tener olfato) for messing with Paloma. Iñaki tells her what happened earlier when he went to visit the house. Romy is disgusted, but not shocked to hear the news.

Back home Cruelota tells Macarena that she picked Pal up from school. Mac questions why Cruelota is being so vigilant with Pal. Cruelota questions why Mac has a problem with this. Mac says she just doesn’t understand the game that Cruelota is playing. “It is not a game”, she replies. She only wants to keep Pal safe and nearby. She would be watching over her with the guardianship or without it.

Romy is walking home alone, talking on the phone with her mother. Germán approaches her and tells her that they have some issues to resolve. “About what?” , Romy asks. “About us,” he replies. “There is no 'us'.” She answers. He gets upset and tells her that this isn’t a game. She tells him there is no need to shout (no hace falta que grites). He urges her to go some place to talk. She says she has to go home and he decides to follow her.

Paloma gives Iñaki a call on the secret cell phone. He tells her about his earlier visit to the house and how Cruelota turned him away. He wants to see Pal, with or without Cruelota’s consent. He tells Pal that he’ll be waiting in the park on the chance she’ll be able to meet him. If not today, than every other day until they can meet. Pal hangs up the phone and hides it right before there is a knock on the door. It is Mac (we knew that by the knock). Pal pulls her into the bathroom, they need to talk.

At Romy’s house, Romy warns Germán that things are going to be as she wants them to be. That means that Emiliano is to know nothing about her former relationship with Germán. Germie doesn’t see it her way, as he sees it he and Romy were an item before E came back to town and still should be an item. We are treated to some never seen before flashbacks of Romy and Germie as a couple—it seems like they were pretty hot together and besides I think G is cuter than E and based upon what we know of Romy, I’d say that would be her criteria. I am wrong however, Romy says that the problem is that Germie didn’t asks Romy to be his novia and E did (let’s face it, almost as shallow as appearance being the deciding factor). G says he didn’t think it was necessary. Romy lets him know that she needed some formalization of their relationship. If that’s the case, Germie says they should be a couple. Romy says too late and besides she can’t end it with Emiliano. So, if something were to continue between them, it would have to be on her terms. Germie threatens that E will find out that there was something between them before and still something between them. Germie moves in like he's going to kiss her to make his point, but he’s interrupted by the arrival of Camila. It is apparent by the introduction that Romy makes between her mother and Germie, that they’ve never met before. Germie makes his leave. Camila lets her daughter know that she thinks it inappropriate to be entertaining a boy who is not her novio. Romy tells her mother that G’s one of E’s friends and he walked her home, but she didn’t invite him.

Cruelota is spooning some white powder into a teapot. When she hears someone coming, she hides the powder behind something in the pantry. This, along with the suspenseful music, indicates that whatever it was has to be something bad. Mac enters the kitchen, she’s forgotten to take her medication again. She goes to take it with some water, but Cruelota urges her to drink it with the tea she just made. Mac drinks the tainted tea and says she’s got to go out to the parish clinic (el dispensario). She tells her sister that she’s taking Paloma with her.

In the park, Iñaki is playing his saxophone (un saxofón) in front of the fountain (la fuente). Paloma is walking in the park and they spot each other.

Meanwhile Mac is at the dispensary talking to Elisa. She finds out that the priest (el cura when referring to a parish priest, otherwise el sacerdote) is leaving and they’ll be getting a new priest in Real del Monte. Mac is upset to learn that Padre Jacinto is leaving, she’s gotten along really well with him. Mac starts to feel weak and Elisa asks her if her blood sugar is low. Mac doesn’t answer and instead ends up fainting (and she didn’t even find out who the new priest is yet--that's sure to make her faint when she learns his identity).

Pal tells Iñaki that they should just forget everything, her aunt will never let them be friends. He’s not so willing to call it quits. She insists that it would be best for them to not see each other. He questions if it has to do with how she feels or because of her aunt. She lets him know she’s still interested and he tells her that they’ll continue to be friends, even if they have to hide it from Cruelota. Pal worries what would happen if Cruelota were to find out. Iñaki tells her that they’ll take it one day at a time.

Elisa has gotten Mac home and Rufi is properly fussing over her. Cruelota only wants to know where Pal is, wasn’t she with Mac at the dispensary? Elisa answers that Mac was alone, like always. Before Cruelota can get more info, Rufi insists that the take Mac up to her room. Cruelota says she’ll call the doctor and she picks up the phone, pretends to dial, and has a conversation with the dial tone (tono de marcar).

Pal wants to take Iñaki to meet Mac. They head to the dispensary, only to find that Mac is gone. She asks Ines where Mac might be and Ines has no idea. Pal tells Iñaki that she’ll wait for Mac and he can feel free to go, he can have an introduction to her aunt at another time. He agrees and says they’ll be in touch. He kisses her cheek goodbye and leaves. Pal caresses her cheek. Her cell phone rings. It is Rufi and she lets Pal know that Mac fainted (se desmayó) and is now back at home.

Iñaki runs into Germán and they have a drink. They talk about Paloma. Iñaki comments that Germie doesn’t seem to have his eye on anyone (echar el ojo a nadie). Germie says that he’s got someone in his sights (fijar en alguien – watching someone).

Pal gets home and asks Cruelota how Mac is doing. Cruelota doesn’t tell her, instead she demands to know where Paloma was when Mac fainted. Pal tells her the truth: she was walking in the park on Mac’s permission. Of course, she leaves out the part about running into Iñaki while she was there. Cruelota tells Pal that she’s given Mac some medication the dial tone, I mean doctor, ordered. I suspect that it is more of the mysterious, hidden powder, but since they didn’t show this, I don’t know for certain. Cruelota says that the last thing that Mac needs now is any stress or worries. They need to make sure that they don’t do anything to risk Mac’s health and if Paloma does, well Cruelota will never forgive her. Nor should Paloma forgive herself. Cruelota lays it on a bit more heavily. She’d hate to live with the weight on her conscious if she were to do anything that would cause Mac more stress and put her in harm’s way. Pal looks horrified and runs outside. Cruelota makes the sign of the cross.

Pal is upset and ends up running into Emiliano. He sees she’s crying and he hugs her and tells her to let it out. She tells him that Mac is sick and she feels responsible.

Romy gets a call from Di. She wants to meet Romy the next day, so they can talk. She begs Romy to not mention a word of this to E. Romy agrees and then looks out her window, only to see E giving Pal a hug.

During the commercial break there is enough time for Romy to run downstairs and outside. She pushes E and Pal apart and lights into her best friend. Why is she hugging her boyfriend!?! Pal tries to explain that she’s upset and E was only comforting her. Romy saw them hugging and won’t listen to reason, from either of them. She questions Pal as to what she thinks her tias might think if they saw her hugging a boy in the street. This comment, more than any others really ticks Emiliano off.

Di gets a mani and pedi and because her nails are wet, she is unable to have supper waiting for Rafa when he returns home. He takes it in stride. He wants to show her some of his designs, to get her opinion. She begs off, saying she doesn’t have the slightest idea. He comments that he’ll get E’s opinion and Di doesn’t like this idea. She tells her husband that their son has no time for things like that. Besides, she’s worried that E might be planning on moving out and she’d rather speculate on this to her husband. He tells her that it is part of life that children move out, they’ll just have to let E live his own life. Di is upset by her husband’s words and she questions why he always has to ruin/spoil (estropear) things for her.

E and Romy argue about what she saw between him and Pal. E tells her that he doesn’t like her attitude, especially because Pal is her best friend. He decides he is not staying for dinner. Romy can’t believe he’s angry because of Pal. He tells her that he’s not angry, but rather upset by her jealousy.

Pal is back in the house and finds out from Rufi that Mac is awake. She rushes off to Mac’s room. Mac assures her that she’s fine and that none of this had anything to do with Pal’s secret meeting with Iñaki. Now, onto pressing matters, Mac asks what happened with him in the park? Pal fills her favorite aunt in on what she learned (Iñaki’s visit with Cruelota) and what she and Iñaki discussed. Mac wonders if they are novios. I wonder if Cruelota is eavesdropping because the door to the room is open during this entire conversation. When will they learn? Pal says that Iñaki would like to be novios, but she’s not sure….not because she’s afraid of Cruelota, rather she wonders if she can truly be in love with him, like Romy is with E. Mac teasingly questions if Pal has feelings for Emiliano. Pal laughs at the silliness of her aunt's question. Luckily there is no one eavesdropping.

At her home, Romy is pouting in her room. Camila enters and asks what is wrong. Romy admits she’s mad and proceeds to tell her mother about catching E hugging Pal outside. Camila comments that perhaps it is just as they said, he was comforting her. Besides, Romy had Germie over that afternoon and that’s pretty inappropriate. Romy doesn’t like to hear her mother defend Pal. She tells Camila that she wants E for herself and she will not tolerate him stepping out with another girl, unlike her mother who put up with it for years from her father. Ouch!

Germie’s flashing back some more to the never-before-seen scenes of his romance with Romy. He wonders why he cannot stop thinking of her.

The next day Romy hails Pal as she’s leaving the house for school. Romy acts as if nothing happened. Pal is upset and says they’ll be late for school. Romy asks if she’s upset. Pal says she cannot believe that after all their years of friendship that Romy has no confidence in her. Pal tells her that in no way is she Romy’s rival for E’s affection. She’d never be anyone’s rival, let alone someone like Romy.

Rafa shows E his designs. E offers some ideas and Rafa is really thankful to have his son back home. He asks E if he intends to move out, like Di thinks. E tells his father that he just started a job, just got back home. He needs to save up some money before he can even think about moving out, but when the time comes, well he probably will do that. Rafa offers his support and E thanks his father for it. They seem to have a very healthy relationship, despite Di.

Cruelota has a conversation with herself in the mirror (very wicked stepmother-esque, ala Snow White). She knows that Mac and Pal were up to no good the day before. For sure Pal was trying to meet up with that boy. Cruelota goes to see Mac and questions her once again. She doesn’t understand why Pal was not with Mac when she fainted. Mac sticks to their story and tells her sister that Pal was taking a walk. She was doing nothing bad. Hmm, Cruelota doesn’t think that Mac is a good judge of that, since they don’t want Pal to go down the same path that Mac took. Ouch. Cruelota ends the conversation, saying she’s off to church to pray for Mac….that she gets well. Very ominous music plays, this isn’t boding well.

Romy and Pal discuss Romy’s upcoming meeting with Di. Pal wonders if Romy is nervous. Nope, she’s only curious as to what the meeting will be about. If Di thinks she can scare Romy away, she’ll be mistaken. Romy adds that Di better watch out, because it will be Di who will lose E, not Romy. Romy’s cell rings and Pal urges her to not answer it in school. Romy doesn’t care, it might be Emiliano. It isn’t, it is Germie. He tells Romy that they have some unfinished business to discuss. He’s going to meet her after school. She tells him no. He’s insistent, he’ll be there. Pal asks who Romy was talking to and she flippantly answers another one of her loves. Pal says this doesn’t sound good. Romy says she won’t let Emiliano find out.

Cruelota gives some money to the waitress at the coffee shop. She wants to know information about Iñaki. The waitress is able to tell her that he’s a musician and Spanish. Cruelota tells her there is more money if she can dig up more information when he returns to the sidewalk café (la terraza).

Rafa visits Camila’s shop. He’s there to purchase the painting (el cuadro) that Di wanted. He intends to give it to her as a gift.

Mac doesn’t want to rest in bed, because she doesn’t want Pal to worry about her any more. She and Rufi discuss whether Cruelota suspects that something is up with Pal. Mac decides that they need to be more discreet. Perhaps having Paloma take some additional “classes” will give her time to hang out with Iñaki. Mac tells Rufi that it is important for her girl to enjoy life, to be happy, and to fly. She’s going to look into signing her up for some painting classes right away. Rufi warns that they need to be careful of Cruelota finding out.

After school, Pal begs Romy to forget about meeting Germie. Romy doesn’t heed her advice and takes off with him. Pal heads home and runs into E. He asks after her aunt’s well-being and then comments on Romy’s reaction to him comforting her the night before. He wonders if the girls have made up. Pal says they have. He questions where Romy is? Pal looks taken aback, apparently not prepared to lie for her friend. END OF EPISODE

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