Caray, Caray!

Aurora has told Teresa that Martin caught her and Mariano in a liplock

CHEZ BARRERA: Luisa can’t believe Arturo has taken Teresa to live at the vecindad. Arturo asks her to butt out and let him do things his way. She doesn’t understand why he’s being so proud, especially with Fernando who’s proved himself again and again as a loyal friend. He tells her she’ll understand in time. Until then, he asks for her to support him and not complicate matters and definitely not say anything to Teresa.

CASA CHAVEZ: Aurora is filling Teresa on the drama that has been her life these past few days: telling Mariano she wants nothing to do with him and Martin broke it off cuz he knows she doesn’t love him. Teresa’s confused, Martin is out yet Aurora doesn’t plan to go after Mariano? Teresa understands why she wouldn’t since he’s still in love with her (Teresa). Then, in true Sharkita fashion, she tells Aurora how Mariano told Arturo he was coming for her (Teresa). She acts as though she didn’t mean to tell her this. Aurora isn’t fooled by this little act and knows Teresa wouldn’t have mentioned it unless she wanted Aurora to know. She tells Teresa she’s only happy when everyone is after her and sees Mariano as her property and vice-versa. Aurora refuses to play this game so it would be best if she doesn’t mention him to her. Teresa is impactada. I guess she can’t believe Princess Aurora actually raised her voice.

HOSPITAL: Dario gives Mariano a disk that Aurora left for him containing all the information on the project. Dario asks what’s up and Mariano pretends nothing’s going on. Dario sarcastically assumes this is why they’re both avoiding each other and Mariano acts as though he’s a dog without an owner (perro sin dueño). Since Mariano isn’t likely to provide a response to this, Dario leaves and Mariano calls Aurora.

CASA DE JUANA: Aurora is visiting Juana when the call from Mariano comes through but she doesn’t answer it. She tells Juana she will follow Martin’s advice. He always said that in order to forget someone, it’s best to pretend they never existed. Juana understands completely because Mariano stubbornly refuses to stop thinking of Teresa. She wishes he would change because he and Aurora would make such a lovely couple. He’s an excellent guy. Aurora agrees except that he has what Dario likes to call the “Teresa effect”. Juana understands and wistfully talks about the difficutly of forgetting someone no matter how hard one tries. Aurora notices this and questions her. Juana shrugs it off and changes the subject by asking about Hector. Aurora says he’s still upset with her and will be more so after what she tells him today.

BACK AT THE HOSPITAL: Ay, ay, ay, AEEEEEEEEEEDA drops in on Mariano. He tells her she’s always welcome so long as she’s not here to raise a ruckus. Good one, Mariano! Aida apologizes and again says it was just that she was so angry over Teresa cheating on her husband with Mariano. He tells her there was no need for her to be bringing that up, especially in front of everyone. Does she want to ruin his image by bringing it up in front of patients, nurses, the whole world. Aida apologizes, saying she wasn’t thinking. That’s precisely her problem, he tells her, she’s too impulsive and doesn’t consider who’s hurt by her actions. Esperanza’s married now and doesn’t bother her for anything. It’s clear Aida doesn’t want her father to have any contact with the baby and yet she instigates an altercation (agrediste). All right already, she says, she didn’t come here to fight. She came her because she has to know if he’s going after Teresa now that she’s in the vecindad. Mariano says he’s finally realized she loves Arturo and he needs to live his life without her. Aida of course assumes this leaves the way clear for her. Mariano makes it very clear nothing has changed between them. She wonders if it’s because of Aurora. She knows he kissed her and wonders if he’s interested in her. OMG, what are we in high school? I’m almost embarrassed for her.

CASA DE JUANA: Now Teresa is visiting and she’s holding Rodiguito, fawning over him. They talk of her financial situation. Juana is sure Arturo will treat her as a queen once again but they both have to work very hard. Teresa complains it will take years to make that kind of cash again. She doesn’t want the money when she’s old, she wants it now! She explains she’s in a bad mood because of Aurora. She finds out Juana already knows the story about The Kiss and the breakup and that Aurora still have feelings for Mariano. Juana wonders if she’s angry because of Mariano. Teresa says she’s angry because she split with Martin, who is so rich and handsome. What more could she want? Teresa is sure Mariano will never love her. Juana’s not so sure and tells her Mariano’s been trying to call Aurora at all hours and she refuses to take his call. Teresa’s not too happy to hear this.

HOSPITAL: Aiiiiiiiiiida continues her clingy act. Mariano feels bad about Aurora and Martin’s breakup but all Aida wants to know is what’s up with him and Aurora? He tells her to butt out. It’s over between them, this is none of her business. Ay, ay, ay, she still wants an answer and doofus Mariano says that although he’s interested, Aurora won’t even take his calls. Aida doesn’t let up. Mariano begs her to stop pressuring him. He was always straight with her. He tells her Aurora has resigned from their project and wouldn’t be surprised if she takes her residency at another hospital just to get away from him. OMG, Aida hasn’t heard a word. She’s hurt he doesn’t pay attention to her but she’s at least happy to hear he’s not involved with Aurora, or Teresa who has caused him so much harm. Ack, she finally leaves.

BARRERA HOUSE: Poor Reina is lugging Teresa’s suitcase down the stairs and asks if she should have it delivered to the vecindad. Teresa instructs her to use the term, “casa nueva”. Fernando is there and tells her he, and Luisa, have been worried about her. Teresa tells him not to worry, she’ll be fine. She needs to support her husband during these trying times. Besides, he and Luisa must focus on preparing for the wedding. She herself is going to take some time off work to dedicate herself to helping them with the preparations.

HECTOR’S OFFICE: Aurora tells Daddy they must talk. He’s still disappointed at what she did. She understands but she doesn’t want him to stay angry with her. He only hopes she’s not going to waste her time on Mariano. No, she needs to take some time by herself to decide what she wants to make of her life and that’s why she wants to go spend some time alone in Cuernavaca.

“CASA NUEVA” DE BARRERA: Teresa’s back at her new digs and talking to good ol’ Mariano Teddy Bear. She pats it and says these jewels are hers and she really needs them. She also says Mariano can never be with Aurora. He can never stop loving her, Teresa, NEVER! CARAAAAAAZZZZZY!! There’s a knock at the door and the Twisted Sisters (Oriana and Aida) have come a-calling saying they’ve come to check out the “Nueva Casa”. Aida tells her she’s returned to the vecindad, the place she never should have left to begin with. They both enter her bathroom and laugh at the condition of the sink and tub. Aida declares it a dreadful (espantoso) place befitting a rrrrrrrrrata de vecindad. They’re both laughing and jeering at Teresa who calmly pulls out her phone and takes their picture. She wants to keep it as a memento for when they come to visit her at her next home which will be bigger and better than Casa Barrera. Oriana doesn’t believe she’ll be lucky enough for that to happen again. Teresa tells them it won’t take her as long as it did the last time. She studied and worked hard and it did take some time the first time around. But she knows the way now and she will surprise them, muy pronto! Especially Madam O! Oriana is intrigued by this. Teresa tells her life takes many turns and it usually comes at the price of what one loves most. Oriana doesn’t know what to make of this, but she ain’t laughing now!

HECTOR’S OFFICE: Hector’s not happy to hear she’s planning to take off on her own. She reminds him she’s a grown woman and knows what she wants to do, at least until she finishes her residency. He points out that she’s never been alone. Well, it’s time she was and if he doesn’t want to let her use the house in Cuernavaca he should let her know now. It doesn’t matter where, but she’s leaving. Hector’s perplexed.

CASA NUEVA DE BARRERA: Oriana is well aware of what Teresa is capable and that’s why she convinced Fernando to push up the date of his wedding. It’s best to take precautions (previnir). She also tells her they they will live in Spain after they’re married, far away from Teresa. Teresa’s glad to hear this. As long as they’re happy because she really does love Luisa……not to mention Fernando! All this while, Aida has been poking her nose in every nook and cranny of the apartment. Teresa offers them a drink but Aida declines saying she prefers to drink champagne at her own home, her big home. Teresa says she’ll have a toast here because she hears Mariano left her and now he and Aurora will be very happy. She wonders if Aurora’s told her that he is constantly looking for her. This really gets to Aida and Oriana just shakes her head.

HOSPTITAL: Mariano sits at his desk and begins to write an e-mail to Aurora.

CASA BARRERA: Ruben is visiting with Arturo telling how surprised he was to hear he sold his firm. Arturo tells him he’s had to make many changes, even his place of residency. Ruben sees he’s had a run of bad luck, just like him. Ruben is bitter, thinking of how he lost Mayra because of his affair with Esperanza. Arturo reminds him he once told him to decide which one he would want to stay with. He hopes that Mayra’s travels will help her recover from the divorce and everything he did to her. Ruben still can’t believe Esperanza got married. Arturo tells him she’s very happy and that he and Teresa are Rodrigo’s godparents. Ruben balks at the name and Arturo asks that he allow that child to be happy. They’re planning a party for him this Saturday and he warns Ruben not to come near him. Ruben swears he won’t cause any problems. He’s continuing his fight for custody/visitation and knows he must be patient. Arturo takes a call and leaves him alone. Ruben quickly calls Fito telling him he now knows how they can proceed so he can get what he wants.

VECINDAD: Oriana and Aida finally leave. She has no doubt Arturo’s bad luck began the day he got involved with Teresa. Aida warns her she knows Teresa will not stand idly by. She’s sure she’s plotting against them. Aida bids the old battleaxe good bye and plans to visit the clinic as long as she’s here. She tells Oriana she plans to continue volunteering in order to stay close to Teresa so she can harass her. Oriana walks toward her car and Buttberto. Goofus notices Juana walking up and makes a big show of placing his jacket over Oriana’s jacket to ward off the chill in the air. He goes so far as to hug her. Juana does notice and then goes into the building. She doesn’t see Oriana fling the jacket at him and shout at him for having the audacity to act so familiar with her. The nerve!

CASA CHAVEZ: Buttberto’s ploy worked. Juana’s jealous and complains to Refugio and Esperanza. She also tells them he expects a response to his proposal on Saturday. Refugio mentions Aurora’s situation with Martin as an example of how badly things can turn out. FF>>>

BACK AT CASA BARRERA: Arturo comes back after his call. They chitchat a bit more about Arturo’s circumstances and the talk turns to Luna Turqueza and waiting for the condos to sell in order to have some money. Ruben wonders how Teresa has taken Arturo’s reversal of fortune.

VECINDAD: Speaking of our Sharkita, she stands on the roof of the building surveying her new, old surroundings. She’s having flashbacks of her romantic rooftop dinners with Mariano when they spoke of their hopes and dreams for the future. With tears in her eyes, she thoughtbubbles and says she needs to forget about the past and plan for the future. She runs into mom, who has a full load of Arturo’s shirts to wash (by hand). Refugio suggests she ask Pati to help her keep the apt clean for a small fee. Teresa likes that idea and she’s going to ask Juana to help with the meals because she has better things to do with her time. She looks around the rooftop in disgust.

CASA DE JUANA: Hector has come by in the evening and they discuss Aurora’s breakup. He’s very worried about her going off to Cuernavaca alone. Juana reminds him she’s no longer a child. She needs to be by herself to get over Martin. He needs to let her go. He’s afraid she’ll become depressed (deprimir). Juana promises to visit her if that will make him feel better. He likes the idea of them having a woman to woman talk. He thanks her for helping him. He could tell Aurora not to go but he knows she’d do it anyway. He’s never seen her so determined. She tells him it’s difficult sometimes for women to come to a decision. They’re not as practical as men. (ahem, speak for yourself, sister). Poor delusional Hector. He tells her it’s a good thing she loves him as much as she does. The best thing that could happen would be for them to unite their lives for-ev-er! She just stares at him with that guilty look as he kisses her hands and caresses her cheek.

SPEAKING OF AURORA, back at the hospital she finds a white rose with a note from Mariano waiting for her. He thanks her for the info on the disc. He realizes she doesn’t want anything to do with him but he misses her. He longs to see her smile and share their morning coffee as usual. He misses their talks and all the things they’ve shared. He misses her very much. She sighs. Then she tears up the note and puts the rose back on the table. Magda walks in just then and admires the rose. Aurora tells her she can keep it in water for everyone to admire. She doesn’t want it. It isn’t the rose’s fault that she doesn’t want the person who sent it to her. How dramatic.

MARIANO is brooding in his office in front of his computer. As he gets up to leave we see that he’s been looking at a photo of him with Aurora. He arrives at the conference room as Magda is placing the rose in water and she tells him Aurora didn’t want it. She assumes Martin sent it to her. Mariano is crestfallen.

HONEY I’M HOME!!!! Arturo arrives home and Teresa begs him to get her outta here! He assumes it’s because she can’t stand the poverty. Oh no, she says, it’s only because she doesn’t want to run into Mariano and risk an altercation between him and Arturo. Arturo doesn’t understand why that would be so if she loves him (Arturo). She swears she does love him but she doesn’t understand why he brought her. She warns him if he doesn’t do something to get her out of here, she’ll do something about it. He reminds her they will leave here but not from one day to the next. She cries that she doesn’t want to be here. It’s worse than before. Before, this was her home and she worked to get out despite all the jeering she got from everyone. Now, people like Aida and Oriana are enjoying see her come back to this. She tells him of the visit from the Sisters of Satan and how she defended herself and told them they would one day live in a grand house bigger than the one they left. Cue the Jaws theme. And that’s what she intends to do, with him or without him! He demands to know what she means by that. She’s already told him. They need to work on their cases, getting Luna Turqueza to pay off, whatever needs to be done to get out of there! She doesn’t want to continue living there and frankly, I don’t blame her. No way am I doing laundry by hand. That’s where I draw the line!

JUANA’S APT: Hector and Juana joke about Teresa’s new living arrangements. Hector starts putting the pressure on to get married, even asking if she’d like to stay with him while Aurora’s gone! Hernan comes by to discuss Rodriguito’s fiesta. He tells them he’s hired a wait staff so no one will have to work the day of the fiesta, especially Juana. Hector agrees with that, saying she’s his strength, his reason for living. He needs her even more now that Aurora is leaving him alone for awhile.

A NEW DAY HAS DAWNED as we see Grumpy Grandpa (boy, we haven’t seen him in awhile) and he’s looking a little green around the gills. He runs into Pati who is singing “Las Mañanitas”. He can’t believe she’s wishing him a happy birthday. She’s brought him a gift, a homemade shirt. He tells her he doesn’t want gifts, he wants her. He wants her to leave that scoundrel. She remains cheerful and asks him to come and see her and join her for breakfast. He doesn’t want to but she insists. She leaves and he thinks about it.

CASA BARRERA: Fer, Luisa, and Momzilla discuss wedding plans. She tells them they can use her home in Madrid after the honeymoon. He tells her they haven’t made up their minds where they’ll live and besides they have unfinished business in Mexico. Oriana reminds him he has many issues pending in Spain related to his inheritance. She’s received word from the attorney that he’ll have his entire inheritance within 3 months, so they’ll need to be in Spain for awhile. Luisa sadly says she’ll go wherever Fernando goes. Fernando notices the sadness in which she says this. Luisa says it’s due to her concern for Arturo. She doesn’t want to leave him now under these circumstances. Fernando is sure he’ll be out of the vecindad by the time they leave for Spain. Oriana hopes so and hopes no one finds out he’s staying in that pigsty (pocilga).

SPEAKING OF THE POCILGA: The Barrera’s are sitting down to breakfast and Teresa comes up with a new plan. What if he sells her wedding ring and all her jewelry for that matter so they can get out of the vecindad. She begs him. He stands firm. He doesn’t want her to sell her jewelry. She feels it’s no use keeping them since she can’t wear them anyway for fear of thieves cutting off her hand to get her jewels. It’s not the same as it was when she’d come by on a visit with a chauffeur. Everything is different now. He asks her not to despair and hang in there. He wants her to keep everything he’s given her with so much love.

CASA BARRERA: Oriana has to admit she’s visited the vecindad, saying she accompanied Aida on a social call to Arturo but they only found Teresa home. Fernando confronts her: did she go visit Arturo? Or to harass Teresa? Oriana sarcastically says Fernando acts as though Teresa were a victim. Luisa responds that Teresa is a victim, of poverty and the scorn of people like Oriana who believe she’s different because she was poor. Oriana exclaims, but she is and her condition has made her ambitious. Fernando heats up saying there’s nothing wrong with ambition and Teresa has worked hard and that’s why he’s so angry Arturo has taken her back there. Oriana notices his passionate defense of Teresa. Oriana tells Luisa to be careful and then repeats that she’s convinced Teresa married Arturo for his money and time will prove her right. Fernando vehemently disagrees with Momzilla, saying Teresa loves Arturo and he took her back to the vecindad to put her to the test. Ooops, did he say that out loud?

VECINDAD: Refugio drops off Rodriguito with Pati while she goes to the roof to get her laundry. Knock at the door, no, it’s not Fito, it’s Grumpy Grandad. She still has Rodriguito in her arms and tells him to think of the day she’ll give him a great-grandson. He’s mortified at the thought.

CASA BARRERA: Luisa’s shocked to hear of Arturo’s plan. Oriana feels it’s obvious he would test her in a place where Mariano visits frequently. Fernando tells them to both promise not to repeat what he said. Luisa still can’t believe Arturo would do that to Teresa. Oriana feels Arturo’s insecurity is justified after learning Teresa slept with Mariano the day before she vowed eternal love for him in church. Fernando feels Arturo has already proved Teresa’s love for him and will be taking her out of the vecindad soon. He asks that they both be discreet. Oriana’s proud of Arturo. He’s not so dumb as she thought. Luisa feels this plan is offensive to Teresa. Oriana thinks it’s the perfect plan to see what stuff Teresa’s made of. If the plan works out even she’ll have to shut her trap! She feels it’s best not to say anything. This way, Arturo will be happy and Luisa will be helping her future husband.

JOHNNY/PATI’S APT: Grandpa has stayed for breakfast. Ay caray! Suddenly the old goat doubles over in pain. Pati suggests they go to the clinic but he refuses.

HOSPITAL: Aurora visits Hector in his office. He accepts her plan to go to Cuernavaca.

CASA BARRERA: Luisa asks Arturo to reconsider and move away from the vecindad. She swears Teresa didn’t ask her to intervene. She just knows how Teresa must feel about living there again. Arturo says Teresa must realize life has its ups and downs. Luisa asks if he’s punishing her because he speaks as though he’s trying to teach her a lesson. Arturo feels Teresa is young and immature and this experience will help her and will also strengthen their relationship. Luisa advises him to get Teresa out of there quickly if he loves her.

OUTSIDE THE VECINDAD, Teresa and Mariano run into each other. She assumes he’s happy to see her living here again after she rejected him for a better life. Of course he isn’t but he is sad because he knows how much she hates the place. He wants her to be happy. She tells him that for a moment she forgot he still loved her. Mariano tells her he was sincere with Arturo when he told him he loved her that day he went looking for her when he thought they were divorcing. She responds that when he was dating Aida she knew he still loved her. He admits this to be true. But all that has changed. He’s come to realize he’s much more interested in Aurora than he had realized. He never thought he’d feel that way for someone other than Teresa. Now that Aurora has stayed away, he realizes he can’t stop thinking of her and doesn’t want to be without her. Sad music as they stare deeply into each other’s eyes.

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