Caray, Caray!

We are now back at the bar where Don C is one happy, happy bar owner, hiring Jorge has put him in a good mood! Oh and also he is cheating on his wife with The Lovely Mirna, there’s some talk about Don C being like a lion and something about marathons (I’m guessing this means they go at it like wild animals for long periods of time-ewww), Don C lets his hair down (literally!) locks the door and chases after his employee of the month, I bet with her extra services she wins this award every month!

This brings us to Colosos apartment.  He is there with Milamores who has come to discuss what songs they will be using for their next show. El Coloso, being an attentive host offers Mil some milk (did they run out of tequila? Someone update that shopping list and add tequila to it!), Mil, seems to have some hostile feelings towards milk and declines Colosos offer (doesn’t he know that milk does a body good? I bet Jorge Salinas drinks lots of milk…lots, sorry I get distracted!).

Milamores tells Coloso that he wants to ask him a question. El Coloso, who has not been having a good day or night or week gets a bit of an attitude to which Mil replies “bring the attitude down a bit and stop acting like a child, you know I love you and it’s the good kind of love, you are like my brother and I’m worried about your obsession with Maria, because I don’t see her ever giving you the time of day.” El Coloso agrees and tells Mil that the topic they are discussing is a hurtful one, what he feels for Maria is true love, not lust “me entro no por los ojos pero por el alma.” She has everything he wants and yet while he chases after her she is chasing after another man, then he breaks into a sad song about a man who is defeated and who pretends to be ok while he truly is just heart broken, defeated, sad, he sings this while holding a picture of Maria, and I’m starting to wonder if maybe he has a Maria shrine set up somewhere in his apartment, he strikes me as the kind who would build a shrine!

Now that their tummies are full our love birds make their way to an internet café where Jorge Alfredo sends an e-mail to his family.  He writes that this whole situation is a nightmare, but what hurts him the most is knowing that his loved ones are suffering because of him, he looks like he has shed a tear and Maria comes over and she wipes away the tears (she is a keeper!).

They finally make it to the vendor who will be renting them the mariachi suit but they get a nasty surprise. The price he is asking for is much higher than what he used to charge and there is no way Jorge Alfredo can pay that amount and also pay for his rent and save for his trip back to LA.  Disgusted with the merchant Maria drags Jorge Alfredo away and tells him there is no way they are going to pay that amount for the suit. The pair are then approached by a little boy selling candy.  He manages to get Jorge to buy some mazapan which he then gives to Maria, and this is when the best line of the night is said, as he gives her the candy he tells her “Here take these and as you’re eating them remember me and remember there was once a man, and that this man once invested everything he had in you.” (Marry me! Scream the female viewers.) She gives him a blushing smile and they go sit in the plaza, where they discuss how to get a suit for him.  Maria suggests making one and borrowing money from some of the guys for a few days in order to buy fabric, Jorge is having none of it, there is no way she is going to borrow money on his behalf, he will just rent the suit, after all this is just a temporary situation and in a few weeks he will be back home.

Maria walks Jorge home and they make plans for later in the day, she is going to the bar and he will meet her there, but first he will stop by the café to see if his family has replied to the email he sent. Fast forward to our boy checking his e-mail, Daddy Justo (who is not doing his name any justice) has replied with a scathing e-mail, he tears into Jorge for running away and for putting them all in this terrible situation and even questions his innocence telling him that there’s new evidence that suggests he is a bad apple! Jorge is horrified that his father would think him capable to committing any illegal activities.  As it turns out Jorge’s mother feels the same way and we see her and Justo engaged in an argument.  Justo is demanding that Jorge come back and face the authorities and if he is innocent why did he leave the country? His wife then points out that their son left only after she begged him to and with the advice of their trusted lawyer! This is their son who he saw grow up, he saw him take his first steps and this is the same boy whose first word was not “mother” but rather “father.” (We hoped this tongue lashing were enough to shame Justo for not believing in his son but even if Justo reconsiders I’m still annoyed with him and think he should return any mugs or t-shirts that say “number 1 dad,” also no Father’s Day gifts for at least a decade.)

The e-mail from hell has put Jorge in a bad mood and he fails to meet Maria as agreed, she of course thinks that something bad has happened to him and goes to his place to check up on him, once there he tells her that he is fine, he just lost track of time, she tries to figure out what’s gotten in to him, and asks if it’s woman trouble he is having.  He replies that no, there are only two women he loves...pause…while Maria holds her breath…his mother and his sister (ummm, do you know your sister, we all wonder). At any rate Maria has her protector hat back on and tries to get Jorge to open up and then she starts in on him for not eating properly and that’s when he snaps.

He tells her that he is tired of her having to take care of him.  She has no money and is just making ends meet and here she is trying to look after him.  He is just fed up with the whole situation (dude, it’s only been like 3 days, chill out!). Maria, stricken by his words asks if he wants her to leave and he says, “Yes, go, get out of here!” And so she does.  Jorge, upset by having treated Maria so poorly and by all his troubles collapses to the floor and sings us a sad song about how life sucks.  He is struggling with his emotions, gnashing of teeth, pulling of hair, crying out in pain.  He can’t have it both ways.  He either has to go back to L.A. and face the music and try to prove his innocence (which will mean jail for sure) or stay where he is incognito, abandon his family, start a new life and not be separated from Maria.  Viewerville holds its collective breath while he agonizes.  He finally gives one last agonizing grito and calls her name—M A R I A— which is really inconsiderate of him considering it’s probably really late.  He then runs out the door with no shoes on (did I mention that it started to rain?) and goes after his lady love.  He almost gets hit by a car but he’s a trooper and no little car will keep him away from the beautiful Maria.  He finally reaches her and in the middle of the street in the heavy rain takes her in his arms and they finally KISS!  A long one, fijate. Yay, the crowds go wild!

There is one problem with this tangled union.  He’s never been in love before, he doesn’t know how to love. (BTW, it’s still raining out there.)  Maria-Bonita doesn’t think that’s going to be a problem—we don’t think she’s ever been in love either, but that’s not what will keep them apart. Other things are looming.