Caray, Caray!

There was a lot of talk tonight between our couple, so I just tried to stay faithful to their conversations and didn’t add a lot. Plus, I had a late night tonight and an early morning tomorrow. I’m just glad that these two are talking like adults, even if everything isn’t cleared up.

We start in the marvelous place where we left our couple yesterday- alone, in a secluded cabin, in the midst of a passionate kiss. This has been a long time coming, so let’s all take the time to enjoy it fully. Rafa and Ale certainly are. The fireplace burns almost as hot as their kiss. We’ll give our lovers some privacy for a little while.

In the city, Jaime’s intense studying of the law is once again interrupted by loud knocking at his door. He’s smart enough to look through the peep hole, but Vicky’s smart enough to cover it up with one of her perfectly manicured fingers. “Did you miss me?” (Me estrañabas?) she asks. We and Vicky know the answer to that, so she doesn’t wait to hear one. We and Jaime also know what she wants. She wants Jaime’s help in getting Rafa back. No is not an acceptable answer. She will help Jaime get Julieta back by telling her there was never anything between her and Jaime, IF Jaime finds out everything there is to know about Alejandra and tells Vicky. Vicky is not going to let that woman have Rafa. Jaime doesn’t understand Vicky’s obsession with Ale since 1) Ale hates Rafa (Vicky has a woman’s intuition and knows this is not true); and 2) Ale is married. Vicky is impactada at this news.



Back in the Cabaña de Cariño, Rafa and Ale drink all of Daniel’s fine French wine, while making fun of him. Ale wants to know what they’re going to do about them. “First, enjoy the moment, and tomorrow we decide.” Ale is incredulous. “No, no, no mi amor.” (No my love.) Rafa, grinning ear to ear only hears the “mi amor” part and points out to her that she called him that. “Yeah, and you don’t know how much I hate it!” Rafa is offended. “Here we are, we’re together, very much in love, and you tell me you hate to call me my love?” Ale brings up Rafa’s other amors- Vicky and Marian. Rafa claims both of those were related to business, and Ale isn’t business. He wants to clear everything up between them.

Ale turns to him and asks him to look her in the eyes. “I don’t want to be your lover (amante).” Rafa proclaims that he is not married, but Ale reminds him that she is. Rafa declares that even without the physical, they are lovers anyway as they will continue to love each other deeply no matter what. Ale says that it’s easy for him as a man to have this attitude, but it’s not easy for her. He brings up the day she got married and that he tried to stop her. “Why did you marry that abogaducho if you don’t love him?” “You’re not a woman, you wouldn’t understand.” (I’m a woman and I don’t understand Ale!) She doesn’t know who feels worse about the whole thing— her or Rafa? Rafa wants to know if she did it out of pain (dolor), revenge (venganza), disillusion (desilusión), or spite (despecho).

Ale tries to explain. After they were together (in the Biblical sense) for the first time, she was very disillusioned when she found out he was still with Vicky. She wants to know why he didn’t do anything to stop her from marrying Marco in all that time. He tells her how he tried, but she wouldn’t believe what he had to say about Marco. This is all too much for Ale to compute (she has a real blind spot when it comes to Marco), so she changes the subject. She reminds Rafa of the butterfly (mariposa) kisses they shared in Cocoyoc (where they were first together Biblically). She gives him a refresher— she flutters her long eye lashes on his cheeks and follows it up with some sweet kisses.

The talk soon turns back to Marco. Ale feels guilty. She just can’t believe he’s as bad as Rafa says and she thinks she’s being really unfair to him. Rafa understands. He would have never believed that Vicky was as crazy and as devious as she turned out to be. Ale wants to know the details. What did Vicky do to him?! She starts to get upset that Vicky might have hurt him in some way. He calms her down by saying she just lied to him. He’ll only give Ale the details after telling her he loves her, over and over again, and covering her with kisses. “Te amo, te amo, te amo, mi amor.” And he loves calling her mi amor. She pretends to be disgusted by the sentiment, while accepting each and every kiss eagerly.

We’ll give them some space to continue their cooing and billing, and check in on the folks who have come to ruin their fun. The search party, consisting of Susana, Dandy, Pepeto, Jimenez and a very annoying Marco, has found an empty Pantera by the side of the road. Marco freaks out thinking about the possibility of Rafa and Ale alone somewhere in the woods. The others worry. They decide to delve into the woods to find them.

Surprise of the night--we hear Jaime’s grandma for the very first time! She wants to know what all the noise is about. Vicky wraps up her torture of Jaime for the night by swearing she is going to make Ale the most unhappy woman in the world! She takes her leave, but does not give Jaime any farewell kisses. She only gave him those as part of her previous devious plan and not because she ever got any pleasure out of them. She flounces out and Jaime’s ego is deflated even more than usual.

At casa Medina, Leonor is praying to the Virgin for the safe return of her children, and snaps at Julieta when she finally gets home from her date with slimy Cesar. She informs Julieta that her brother is missing in action, and now Julieta’s worried too. But she assures Leonor that Rafa will be fine.

“José Tomás, do you know where we’re going?” For some reason the search party has decided to trust Pepeto’s sense of direction, and only Susana is questioning that decision. “We’ve gone from two people being lost, to seven!” They all begin to panic and Marco gets more snarky. Susana bypasses Buddha and Vishnu and prays to the Angel Gabriel for help. Suddenly they all hear rustling in the bushes, which prompts a major freak out.



Things are much more tranquil in the Love Shack (hopefully this one won’t burn down like the one in Soy Tu Dueña). Ale is lying on Rafa’s lap as he sits on the floor, and he’s just told her the whole sordid Vicky tale. “She’s a good woman. She’s just possessive, passionate and jealous.” He compares her to Ale, which Ale protests vehemently. Rafa thinks it’s the fault of a lack of education and self esteem, and Vicky’s insecurity. Ale has Rafa look her in the eyes once again. “If Jaime hadn’t stopped the wedding, would you have gone through with it?” “Yes.”

He tells her he didn’t have any other choice since he owed Don Gaston 4 million pesos. Ale points out that he owed her the same amount. He admits that he borrowed that money from Don G to pay her back, and she laments that now he owes so much money. He admits that he has to work miracles with his money to pay her and Don G back. Ale’s really worried about him, but he assures her he’s been managing and now he only owes them both about 30% of the original total. Ale is amazed and wishes everyone was as responsible with money as he is. He hopes no one else has to deal with the problems (broncas) and debts he has.

Ale wishes and hopes that one day the two of them can be happy, and Rafa tells her that each day he gets to see her he’s happy. Ale admits that she’s happy by his side too, but obviously others don’t feel the same as they’ve worked hard to separate them. Rafa asks why she won’t just get a divorce and be done with it, since she doesn’t love Marco. How does he know she doesn't love Marco, she wants to know. Because it’s what he wishes and hopes. They share a loving glance.



The search party have picked up twigs from the trail and begin to throw them in the direction of the figure rustling in the bushes. They then attack the poor campesino when he emerges. Hey, it’s Donkey Alejandra’s owner! His name is Gelson. Yes Marco, Gelson. And he’s pretty cool about being attacked by a bunch of city folks in the middle of the night in the woods. They explain they’re looking for a man and a woman. He invites them to join him as he’s searching the woods for someone too. He thinks they should head back to the pueblo and gather up a search party. Once there, the search party turns into a posse with torches and dramatic orders to find them, since each minute they wait could be fatal!

Oh great, I thought we’d have a Daniel free night. I’ll make this brief. Marian doesn’t believe his version of what happened with Ale. In fact she’s totally guessed what really happened, but Daniel denies of course. She calls him out for not being a gentleman, not knowing how to treat women, and acting like a real asshole (patan). All of this just rolls right off Daniel’s back. Marian also totally knows he and Muskrat staged this whole impromptu dinner/date. She once again lets him know that they will never be an item. He tries to convince her of this, and that he’s a gentleman, by laying a huge unwanted kiss on her. Way to go Danny boy. At the end of the night, when he drops her off at home, she repeats that his attempts are futile, and he once again refuses to believe her. She blames him for throwing a wrench in the progress she was making with Rafa. She says goodnight, and he swears to himself that Rafa will not have her. (At least he didn’t say, If I can’t have her, no one can!)



In the Hut of Happiness, our couple has moved to the couch and look more happy and relaxed than ever. Ale accuses Rafa of being nosy (chismoso). Rafa lies unconvincingly that it was all a coincidence that he found her. He then accuses her of being a chismosa, and brings up the time she overheard him giving instructions to Pepeto about Carmela and jumped to conclusions. “Sigues con eso?” (You’re still going on with that?) He assures her it’s true. (No son inventes mi amor.) He just wishes he had proof to show her. He assures her that Marco is the Master of Deception. Ale stops him. She doesn’t think that they can build a relationship by slinging mud (echandole tierra) at each other’s partners and ex-s.

Rafa agrees. What’s truly important is that they love each other. But Ale needs to trust him, just a little bit. She assures him that she trusts him a lot. But it’s not her fault that the evidence so far does not support the things he claims. He knows, and one day he’ll prove everything with evidence and paperwork. Ale brings up how he promised long ago to clear up the sale of his house debacle in the same way. He explains again the scam his mother fell into, and how Marco came down hard on them. Ale listens, but does she believe?

We won’t find out tonight, because when we come back to them, Ale is determined to get going to call her aunt and father. She knows they must be worried sick about her. Rafa doesn’t want her to move, plus they’ve already tried and know there’s no cell phone signal. He wonders if she's also worried about what Marco thinks. Ale sighs wearily. She admits it was a mistake to marry him. She doesn’t really care what he thinks right now. Rafa wants to know why she doesn’t divorce him.

Ale explains that it’s not so easy. She’s already asked him for a divorce, but her hands are tied. It would kill her father if she divorced Marco. Rafa reminisces about Jorge fondly. He likes her dad, they got along, but he knows that Jorge doesn’t think Rafa is right for Ale, and how much he likes Marco. Rafa asks Ale how bad off Jorge is and Ale explains about his bad heart and his worsening Alzheimer’s. She’s afraid that soon he won’t know who she is. Ale tries unsuccessfully to hold back tears, and Rafa moves in close to hold her. He tells her not to worry. He won’t be the cause of anguish for her dad. Now Ale’s tears flow freely, but she tries to put on a brave face. “Eres muy bueno. Although at times you make me really angry.” Rafa claims that no one’s perfect and points to her difficult personality flaws. She jokes that she’s got a lovely character! He smiles and hugs her close and says that to him, she does. They beam at each other.

More worrying. This time it’s Jorge, Rosario and Quintana. Jorge is annoyed by Quintana’s declarations of love at a time like this. Quintana quips that no news is good news. Jorge thinks this is hooey. He wants his hija. He can’t live without her.

In our most random scene of the night, Vicky has barged her way into the home/headquarters of the Great Mololongo. She bullies his assistant into to letting her see him, despite the late hour. Hmmm...Vicky and Marco really do think scarily alike.

The search posse has found a couple in the middle of some passionate kisses in the woods. It is not Ale and Rafa, however. But it is who Gelson was looking for. He shoos the young woman home and scares off the young man. He then takes off to straighten things out with the female half of the unlucky couple at home, leaving our city dwellers in the hands of his compadres. Unfortunately for our crew, the townspeople would much rather head to Gelson’s house to hear some gossip and see the fallout of the interrupted tryst, than continue the search for some folks they don’t know. Our search party freaks out once more, but continue the search on their own.

Ale is now more determined than ever to get going so that they can call home. She thinks they should make their way to the nearest pueblo and assures Rafa that she is feeling much better. She convinces him with a mix of compliments-- telling him how handsome he looks, and threats—saying they leave together, or she’ll go on her own. Rafa says he now understands how she got into this mess lost in the woods. “You men just don’t know how to deal with a decisive woman.” She smiles at him, and he gives in. She tells him again how handsome he is.

He helps her gently from the couch and they make their way slowly out the cabin. Once outside, Ale says “Abrazame. Tengo mucho frio.” (Hold me. I’m so cold.) Rafa quickly obliges, and then Ale admits it was just a pretext to get him close. (Good girl Ale.) They lean in for the kiss, and are lost in each other when we hear (but they don’t) the search party approach. “Look, a cabin. Look, a couple kissing. Hey, that’s…”

“ALEJANDRA!!!!!!” Marco is not happy with what he sees.

Tomorrow: Vicky gets some Love Potion #9 from Mololongo and declares to a picture of Rafa, “Soon you’ll be mine forever!”

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