Caray, Caray!

Morning patio peeps, this will be a quick recap but I think I'll be able to cover everything! I ask once again that peeps post with a name rather than Anonymous (cause I like knowing who I'm talking to) and as always reader participation is highly encouraged!

Note: Recap might be out of order just to allow me to get through the process faster.

Charming info out of the assistant:

So Aaron continues his plan to get information on Veronica from Jorge's assistant, and it works! From her he learns that Veronica was adopted by the Prado-Castellos, that everyone knows she's adopted and that her parents were not hot stuff, her father was an awful drunk and her mother abandoned her to run off with her lover.

Again, how do people know so much about Veronica's past when no one ever talked to Magadalena or Aaron? And even if Jorge was aware of Veronica's parents past I doubt he would have shared this information with people outside of the family. Whatever, I'll roll with it. Aaron also learns that Vero is a good egg.



Salma goes on a trip:

Salma is off to Cancun- she and Jorge argue-again, she keeps talking smack about Vero and tells Jorge she's happy Emiliano is getting married to a good girl who will love and value him, then she blames Veronica for Emiliano's drinking problem. Jorge sets her straight and tells her Emiliano's drinking problem was not Veronica's fault, before the argument gets worse Salma tells Jorge to use the time she's away to reflect on their problems. Did I mention that Jorge sent Nicolas with Salma? That can't be good.

Speaking of Cancun Emiliano and Ginny are off having a good time and who do they happen to run into? Claudia and Pierre. Ginny shows off her ring and this leads to Claudia talking about how much she looks forward to getting engaged, picking out a wedding dress, planning the wedding, Pierre looks less than pleased, is it because deep down he knows that Claudia is a gold-digger? Emiliano makes a joke at Claudia's expense and tells Pierre that if he's scared of marriage there's a cruise ship that can take him back to France *snort*

Once Emi and Pierre go off to talk about the competition Ginny and Claudia stay behind and Ginny gets the truth out of Claudia- she does not love Pierre, the love of her life is and will always be Martin, but if she can't have him she'll settle for Pierre who loves her and treats her right. Run Pierre, RUN!

Now the part of the novela that I hated to have to watch, I had to drink two beers to get through this you guys! The struggle is real!

So Pablo is still trying to sort things out with AP and her crazy family, he says he will have AP talk to Mariana so she can get clarification on what REALLY happened, clearly I've given Pablo too much credit because the boy is dumb. Seriously Pablo, you expect your spurned ex-lover to help you?! The ex-lover that is *this* close to becoming a bunny boiler? Seriously?! Dude, come on. Anyway, Mariana bursts through the door and tells everyone that AP is a slut who had an affair with her boyfriend.

Mariana makes things worse by telling the family that she caught Pablo and AP in a compromising position, the violence escalates and Mariana finally manages to get Pablo to leave. Sadly, this is not where things end, on their way back into town Manuel finds them and he has a gun. He shoots Pablo in the hand! A struggle takes place and Manuel gets shot in the belly, he faints as he starts to lose a lot of blood. Mariana takes Pablo away telling him that he has to get away from the crime scene before he gets sent to jail and that he needs medical treatment.

Can I add that I don't feel sorry for these people? If Pablo had been direct with Mariana she never would have thought that the wedding was still on, and if Marty and Co had pressed charges against Manuel he would have been stopped long ago. Eli's sympathy level is at zero.

AP sees everything go down and hugs her good for nothing brother, the same brother that TOLD her he hated her and wished she would die, the brother who verbally and physically abused her and asks him not to die. Guys, forgive me but I can not take more of AP's crying and whinny voice, I just can't, it's awful and it makes me wanna stab a baby seal. Something else that bothers me is the fact that the writers (and not just in this novela) seem to think that in order for someone to be a good person they have to forgive those that hurt them, and I just can't get into that.

AP loves her brother, sure, but does she have to forgive him all the awful things he's done? From my point of view you can be a good person and be able to say to someone that's hurt you "you know what? No, I don't forgive you"- because why should you forgive someone who treats you like gum stuck at the bottom of their shoe? In this case I think AP would be more than justified if she did not forgive her awful brother.

Instead we get to see her cry over him and I'm so over this whole mess. Die Manuel, die and maybe take AP with you.

FF scene with Dorita and Polo, she finally gets to go to school, yay! Ooooh hey, here's another thing that bothers me, why do writers find the need to have kids as young as five/seven develop crushes? Can't we just let kids eat dirt and play?


Botel to the rescue!

Julio has fetched Botel and asked him to come help Manuel who has been shot by Pablo, Botel takes off and gets to work. He arrives to find AP still crying over Manuel and saying over and over that he's dead and ok I feel another rant coming on:

Dude, when someone gets shot you know what you do? You call for help! You don't sit there like a dummy crying when someone might very well be bleeding to death, also, and I know this is a small town but don't these people know about a little thing called "checking the victims pulse" cause if they have one they are not DEAD.

Manny is lucky that Botel is a good guy who is willing to forget that Manuel treated his wife with total disrespect (and so did the OG) and renders help anyway. He tells them that Manny is not dead, but he will die if they don't get him to a hospital soon, his only shot is to be transported via helicopter to the nearest medical facility, OG tells Botel to do whatever it takes to save his boy, no matter the cost. Botel takes off and arrangements are made for Manny to be taken to the hospital (booo hisss)

By the way, through this all the one level headed person has been Joaquin, Raymunda's husband who I'm starting to think deserves better than this crazy family, take your kids and run sir!


Mommy!

Mag is desperate to get a DNA sample from Veronica, so she puts her plan into place. She offers to do a new hair do for Vero (the plan is to get some hairs with the roots attached and send them off for analysis). Vero sits in front of her and then Magda pulls her hair with the brush super hard, Matilde witnesses this and accuses Magda of doing it on purpose. Magda says she would never hurt her daughter (oops) and Matilde says something odd is going on with Magada and she wants the truth.

Magda cracks like an egg and tearfully tells Veronica that Matilde is right, she did pull her hair because she needs to be able to prove that Veronica is her long lost daughter. Veronica is like "WTH lady?" and then the tears come full force. Magda tries to explain to Veronica that she did not abandon her but Vero is not having any of it and tells Magada that she hates her, Magda tries again and again to explain things to Veronica but fails, she finally leaves. Veronica crumbles into the ground and cries. By the way, when someone is upset and tells you to get the hell out, you get the hell out. Don't try to explain yourself, don't try to hug them, don't even touch them, just leave.

Oooh also we know now that Vero remembers her dad beating her, so maybe Aaron's plan is doomed.

Magda bumps into Marty and tells him what's happened, she needs his help to talk to Vero but he gets on his high-horse and tells her that his loyalty is to his wife.

He comes home and comforts Vero who is still crying. Later he finds out what happened with Manuel and tells Vero and Matilde that the town bully got shot.

In other news Pablo's injury is really bad, the bullet destroyed some tendons and he will never paint again!

End of recap.

I'm sorry I can't give you a more detailed account of Vero and Magdalena's scenes but I have a very busy morning!

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