Caray, Caray!

Capítulo 10

Since Eva's dress is ruined (with chocolate milkshake courtesy of the disguised Claw-dia] she thinks she'll have to miss the awards dinner. She asks Marisol whether she has a dress she could lend her, and Marisol lends her a red dress. (And here I thought Eva was going to have whipped it up in 5 minutes from some material Dona Justa had lying around. Oh well, I guess I don't have to tighten my beanie just yet.)

Eva surprises everyone when she suddenly appears in a raspberry number and looks divine. The two bimbutts, Victoria and Claudia, act sympathetic about the accident with the dress and pretend to be glad she’s managed to get there. Daniel invites Eva to sit down next to him. He agrees with Vicky and smiles at Eva. Victoria notes that eager smile and secretly frowns.

At Daniel’s place, Jackie and Laurita are discussing Eva’s being invited back. Jackie thought they didn’t like each other after the problem with the pool dunking. Laurita says no, Daddy smiles when speaking about her so he still likes her. Jackie says yeah, after Eva left that time he did stare after her with a peculiar look on his face. Before she can explain that “look” to Laurita, Francisco walks in beaming and telling them how he’s in love. Jackie frowns and tells him he says that about all the women he goes after. Franc says this time it’s different, and no, he didn’t meet her at some nightclub. He avoids the details about the pick-up, but does tell them that she’s an actress and teaches acting, tho’ the student didn’t show—all sooooo respectable.

At the same time in the dressing room at the stripclub, Marisol is telling her friend about meeting Franc and that she’s never believed in love at first site --until today after meeting the man of her dreams. She’s thinking about wanting to get married and having her as a bridesmaid. All the better if he’s got some money, too. They giggle.

Waiter Guy comes to help Alicia with her studies. Tony’s with her and goes berserk. He pitches a tantrum and throws her books and notebooks all over the place. He pushes Waiter Guy down and kicks him around and screams at him to scramola. Alicia screams back and says no, Tony’s the one leaving! Tony heads out, though none too happy about it.
At the awards dinner, Daniel receives his award and invites his entire team up to the stage along with Victoria and Eva. Eva makes a short and sweet speech about how her daddy taught her to use simple words and sentences. She’s happy to have added a “grain of sand to this campaign”. Daniel laughs and tells the crowd that it was a grain of sand that sold millions of apples. Everyone applauds. FF>>

Back at the boarding house, Justa is typing up recipes she’s getting online. She stops to think about Ricardo hugging Marisol and is jealously thinking he’s got something on the side with the girl. Ricardo comes by to chat with Justa and she gives him a hard time. She gets upset when he asks if Mariso went back to work at the cabaret, aka, the stripclub, and asks her why she’s angry at Marisol. Justa says she wouldn’t care except now her “work” is coming home with her. She says it seems she’s hitting on her boarders, in particular him! She saw the two of them in his room and him caressing her face. She storms out and he smiles to think she might be jealous of him.

After the speech Dano leaves the table to mingle. Claudia and Vicky chat till Claw wants to catch up with Leo. Vicky and Eva share a toast to overcoming adversity and Eva’s managing to get there despite her dress problems. Eva says she didn’t want to disappoint Daniel. Vicky starts frowning again and asks if she really did it for him and if he is that important to her. Eva realizes how it sounded and quickly adds she didn’t really want to disappoint either of them. Vicky gets friendly again and asks Eva if she has some guy she’s serious about. Eva says not really. Well, actually there’s someone but he’s interested in somebody else. Vicky tells her to fight for him then. (Yeah, we’re all thinking that if she only knew…..) Eva then decides to get some air.

Tony is waiting for Waiter Guy as he starts to leave. He pulls a knife and they start fighting. Waiter Guy finally wins when he gets Tony’s knife away from him and holds it against Tony’s throat. He tells Tony next time to fight like a real man with his fists and then walks off.

Eva looks up at the moon and worries about her feelings for Daniel. Dano walks up to Eva. He tells her he thought she might be leaving without saying good-bye. Eva explains she was there for some air is all and he was with his girlfriend so….. Dano tries making small talk and invites her back for a visit sometime to see Laurita’s drawing. They kid about pushing each other into the pool. She finally says it’s late and she’s got to get going. He asks her to stay a while longer. She asks why he wants her to stay. He looks up at the moon and tells her that under the moonlight she looks more beautiful than ever. She asks why he’d say something like that. He lets himself get taken away with the moment and kisses her. She lets him. It’s true love under the stars and moonlight. Finally they break to catch their breath and they stare at each other. She is a bit shocked and embarrassed and races out, leaving him there. He starts to run after her and then stops. He gets angry at himself for not going after her. He finally starts to chase after her but Vicky finds him and starts chattering. She tries to get romantic but he isn’t into it. He stutters a bit and looks around. Finally he mentions that Leo and Claudia are coming over. This saves his bacon.

Outside while waiting for her cab, Eva smiles to herself as she remembers her various semi-romantic encounters with Daniel and the kiss they finally shared.

Back at the patio area, Vicky mentions the room she’s got reserved for their private celebration. He begs off saying he’s tired and needs to get some sleep because he has to be in early the next day. She tries to get him to change his mind but Leo agrees he’s worn out and does need to get back. Claudia and Leo decide to leave and he takes Vicky home. We get another signature frown from Vicky.

Once she’s home, Eva again thinks of Daniel and The Kiss. She wonders why it had to happen. He’s engaged. She’s thinking she might quit working at Leo’s but that would mean she’d never see Daniel again.

Once Dan gets home he thinks back to their kiss also and worries about protecting Eva from Leo and his bad intentions. He tells himself he’s got to get control and that he can’t get involved with her. Then he realizes that he already is.
Vicky, meanwhile, is getting ready for bed and is thinking she doesn’t have to worry about Eva any longer because she’s interested in somebody else.

Eva gets ready for bed and tells Alicia about The Kiss. Alicia’s ecstatic! She wants to know the details. Eva does tell her that it was a terrific kiss and made her feel warm and tingly all over. Alicia wonders if he said anything afterwards. Eva says she didn’t stick around to hear; she ran out right afterwards before he had a chance to say anything. Alicia says the guy must be in love with her. Eva says no and what does it matter since he’s already got a girlfriend. She might as well forget it. Alicia says no, she thinks they’re both in love and just refuse to accept it.

The next morning Eva’s taking care of Don Julio while Marcella and Vicky are out for a jog in the park. The two talk about Eva’s managing to get to the dinner after all. Marcy tells her that’ll teach her to come up with a better plan the next time! Vicky asks about the dinner date Marcy’s got that night. Marcy’s excited about it and says she’s feeling frisky.

Don Julio finishes typing a report and hands it to Eva. He says it’s a history of the Arismendi ad agency and has a lot of helpful information in it. She thanks him and promises to read it when she gets home. He asks her how the dinner went and she says something happened that was a bit frightening but she doesn’t go into it. She helps him with his filing and such. He compliments her deftness with his things. They share a tender moment which puts them in a compromising position when Renata barges in with clean towels. Don Julio tells Renata that he wants Eva to have her own room there in the manse to be able to read and review his papers since she’s his personal assistant. When she’s got free time from other duties she’ll be reviewing his work for him now. Renata suspects the worst but has no choice and huffs her way out of the door.

Back at the park Jackie and Laurita are getting their exercise. Jackies jogging and Laurita’s on her bike. Laurita accidentally rides into Vicky and knocks her over. Vicky starts yelling at Laurita. Jackie and Laurita explain it was an accident but Vicky is too angry to care. When the two finally leave, Marcy scolds Vicky for going off on Laurita. She tells her she’ll have to apologize before the little girl tells Daniel and turns him against her. Vicky says can’t make herself get chummy with Laurita. It’s just not in her makeup. Marcy reminds her it’s the only way she’ll be sure to keep Daniel on her good side.

Bruno has another visit at his hotel room from Mystery Guest. He laughs and tells Mytery Guest that the dinner was good for business and soon Marcella will swallow the hook.

Renata takes Eva to the servant’s room she readied for her and tells her she’s not sure how Sra. Marcella will react to the news when she’s told. Eva seems worried.

Alicia runs into Tony at the boarding house again and tries to ditch him because she’s got to study for a test. Tony says he’s got a surprise for her first. She gives in and follows him.

Eva tries to read the file she was given but can’t because she can’t stop thinking about Daniel and that kiss the night before. She is smiling to herself when Leo peeks in. “—You’ve fallen in love with him, right?” Eva doesn’t know exactly how to answer him.