Caray, Caray!

(For some reason the first 15 minutes of this episode consisted of clips from the past couple of weeks.)

Cristobal has come to the House of Horrors to confront Carlota the Horrible, but Macarena prevents him from entering because she doesn’t want Paloma to know what’s going on. Cris insists that he has to talk with Carlota about what she did to them. Mac begs him to talk with Carlota another time and somewhere else. He doesn’t understand why Mac is afraid Paloma will find out about them and what Carlota did, but of course she doesn’t tell him why. Mac doesn’t want Paloma to be hurt by this and proclaims she’s capable of doing everything to prevent it, and when Cris asks “you love her that much?” once again invites an anvil to come crashing down on her head by answering “I’d give my life for her.” Cris finally agrees not to go in.

Emiliano wants to know why Romina has come with a suitcase, and she weepily explains that she fought with her mom and left home. Diana comforts her and promises that this will always be her house. Romina doesn’t want her mom not know where she is and when Emil tries to protest, Diana tells him not to pressure Romina, and then dotes on Romi some more while Emiliano looks on suspiciously.

Angelica Dario that Luz (one of the ladies from his office, I guess) came to see her and offered her a job, but she’s not going to take it. But why, isn’t your future--and mine--important to you? Angelica tells him she’s only responsible for her future, not his. He guesses that she doesn’t love him anymore and wonders if there’s someone else. She answers “maybe”, but it has more to do with her than another person. She realizes that she doesn’t have room for him in her life and doesn’t want to get back together with him. He asks what if he left Georgina, but she says no way, it’s over, forget about me.

Rafael tells Orlando that although he knows he can’t offer anything to Camila right now, he’s going to fight for her. Orly thinks Rafa should just accept that he came into Camila’s life too late, she’s with him (Orlando) already. Rafa points out that Orly and Camila just started going out, anything can happen. Orlando demands that Rafa keep his distance from Camila, but Rafa refuses, saying only Camila can demand that of him.

Both Macarena and Cristobal wonder why did everything have to be like this? She tries to get him to ask her instead of Carlota if he wants to know more, but he says there are things that he can only say to Carlota. Before he leaves he asks her to promise that she’ll be all right, and for a second it looked like they were going to kiss.

Joel and the lady from Camila’s shop (the stranger he kissed in the street) are chatting over drinks and he confesses that he was just so happy to have some good news that day, because lately he’d been feeling down because of a woman. But he doesn’t have anyone with whom to share these things, no family, no girlfriend, not many friends. The lady offers to be one of his new friends.

Paloma tells Aaron that their pretend relationship has to end—she doesn’t want anyone to be hurt by this. Aaron claims he doesn’t care if he gets hurt because . . . time for a commercial break.

While Romina waits in the living room, Emiliano asks Diana what she’s up to, it’s not good that Romina’s here, you know she and I are finished. Diana thinks they could get back together and shooshes Emil when he tries to protest. She orders him to try to talk with Romina while she’s at their house, the pobrecita is so alone, and gives him a tray to take to Romina. He just plunks the tray down in front of Romi and leaves the room.

Paloma asks Aaron to forgive her and she laments that she doesn’t know how to fix this. Aaron suggests maybe it could be fixed if she starts to think of him as a romantic interest, not just as a friend. Paloma says there can only be friendship between them, nothing more.

Ines comforts Angelica as she cries about what happened with Dario, and counsels her to have faith that God will help her to overcome this pain. Angelica thinks she also has to ask herself why she always chooses men who have eyes for someone else.

Liliana is on a date with her new boyfriend Eric when German comes to the same café and sees them. When Eric leaves for a moment German goes over and says he’s happy she’s going out with someone. I didn’t get a lot of what Liliana said but I think she basically says she’s over him, and she disparages his “affair” with Romina--if you like to be treated badly and to be second best (ser plato de segunda mesa), that’s your deal.

Diana is quite the hostess, unpacking Romina’s clothes for her and saying she hopes Romina will like it there. Romina sighs that she’d be happy to be there if Emiliano would change his attitude towards her. Diana tells her to give it time.

Aaron arrives home all upset and breaks out the booze to drown his sorrows. Really, I cannot fathom why he or Emiliano like Paloma so much, other than that she’s the protagonista. Ines comes in and wants to know what’s wrong, and when he tells her that Paloma dumped him, she says I told you not to get involved with her, her boyfriends and the people she loves die, so it’s better to thank God. That’s easy for you to say, replies Aaron, because you don’t know what it’s like to be in love. After he leaves Ines says maybe I don’t know, but you should be a man and not take refuge in alcohol. Then she wonders what it must feel like to be in love and gulps down the drink Aaron left on the table.

Camila finds the note Romina left saying she’s outta there, don’t look for me, I'm of age now so I can do whatever I want with my life.

Macarena tells Rufi about Cris coming to the house and frets some more that Paloma could have found out everything. She’s afraid that Carlota will follow through with her threats, and Rufi points out that that is what Carlota has always done, scare Mac so that she doesn’t do anything. Rufi tries to give her a pep talk, don’t lose the courage you’ve recovered in recent days. Mac can accept anything, but not that more harm is done to Cris or Paloma.

Angelica talks with Paloma on the phone--she remembers that Paloma had something important to tell her. Paloma denies that there’s anything important right now and they agree they’ll see each other soon.

Camila has come to ask Paloma if she knows where Romina is, but is first subjected to Carlota being a jerk and smirking “oh, you don’t say, your daughter abandoned you too.” Carlota refuses to call for Paloma so Camila starts yelling for her. Everyone comes running and she begs Paloma to help her.

At Camila’s house, Paloma tries phoning people to ask if they’ve seen Romina. Camila cries to Macarena that Romina is getting more and more rebellious and she doesn’t know what she’s going to do with her. Mac thinks if Samuel appears that will cause even more problems. Camila says Samuel ruined their lives, and laments that Romina hasn’t been able to overcome being abandoned. For many years Camila felt so small, so devalued--it’s terrible to wake up one day and have your husband tell you he’s leaving because he’s in love with someone else. Macarena asks, just like that, from one day to the next? Camila answers that she saw it coming. We see a flashback of Samuel coming down the stairs with a suitcase as he and Camila argue--he says he’s leaving because their relationship isn’t working, they don’t understand each other. Camila tells him she knows that he’s been going around with another woman, and she was hoping he’d change. Samuel asks if you knew, then why didn’t you say anything? Camila answers that she didn’t want to break her daughter’s heart telling her that her father doesn’t love her and is leaving. Samuel accuses her of exaggerating everything. Camila warns him that if he walks out that door, he’s not coming back, and his response is “and who told you I want to come back?” She yells at him to get out before Romina comes home.

Back in the present, Camila explains that ever since they married, Samuel was cold and indifferent. They had a bank account in both their names but he didn’t have much money, so she helped him set up the shop. She basically supported him. When he left with the other woman, he had more money than she did. Camila wonders if he really loved her, or was it her money. Mac is sure that he loved her, she’s a woman that any man would love. Camila cries that she hasn’t been able to be a good mother, she turned Romina into a willful (caprichosa) and hard-hearted (insensible) girl.

Previews: Paloma comes upon Macarena and Carlota arguing, and Carlota reveals to Pal that they’re talking about the daughter Mac had.

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