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Capítulo 38: Linda and Bruno MIA--OR--Grifters in Training

At Ana's after her tiff with Julieta, Linda leaves to call Bruno. She cannot stand her family. She has to get out of there. Bruno gets Cornelio to drive him over. Cornelio is worried Bruno is falling in love with Linda.

Eugenio wonders why Tulio always has an excuse to not get together with the family on holidays. Tulio answers because things never change. Tulio gets into it with Audifaz again.

Blanca is sorry for opening her mouth about the pregnancy and apologizes. Robert and Julieta are willing to forget it all. Blanca wants to to help prepare for the baby's arrival. Julieta and Robert insist that they will take care of their own baby issues but in the end the family thinks that Julieta and Robert are selfish not wanting to include them in their baby decisions. Julieta chalks it up to them just thinking differently. Imelda has to remind them the baby is also a part of them; he carries their genes. Ana with a drink in her hand watches the whole discussion from afar.


Xavi runs into Linda who is leaving her apartment with a bag packed. She cannot talk. She is in a rush. A car is waiting. She get in. It leaves.

Audifaz's crisis continues at Ana's as he tells Eugenio that he hasn't done anything important in his life or has provided for his family as he should have.

The pressure is on from Imelda and Blanca for Julieta and Roberto to get married. Julieta says it will be in a month. Robert is going to plan it with her. Of course, Imelda, Blanca and the whole female contingent of the family want to be involved. Julieta wants a simple wedding but the women of the family do not agree. They tell Roberto to go with his dad. Julieta assures Robert that she will be okay with his female relatives. It looks like Robert will have no input. Eugenio thinks that Robert should let the women plan it. Robert is aggravated with the women taking control. Eugenio tells him you have to find ways to work around them. Eugenio blames Ana for getting everybody together like this. It wasn't too smart but that is how Ana is never thinking about the consequences. He is sure she does not do it intentionally. (He may be sure but I am not) Eugenio also gives Robert a heads-up on how Ana became embittered after not being able to have a child. On top of it all she is envious.

Where is Linda? The family wonders what happened to her. They keep getting more and more worked up. If only they knew. She is with Bruno having a fine old time. She wants to go to infinity and beyond (with Buzz Light Year?). She does not want to go home. She is fed up with her family. She wants to go to the beach. Where is Bruno? Catalina wants to know but has no idea.

After they get home, Julieta and Robert talk about the family. They wanted the wedding in two weeks while Julieta wanted a month. They both feel like they are getting farther and farther away from what they planned their life to be. Julieta reiterates that when she decided to stay there with his family, she told him she would be with him no matter what. She will not allow the situation to affect her. Julieta decides that it is their wedding, their child, and they will continue to be who they are. Robert agrees.

Eugenio stands on the street waiting for Linda to come home. Marisol goes to bring him back in. It turns out that Linda has snuck out to parties before. Daniela tells her parents that Linda didn't think that they would care if she went. Of course they do! Daniela gives Blanca, Eugenio and Imelda an earful as she reminds them that what happened at Ana's is like what has happened to them their whole lives. Before it was the pain of a lost Juan Pablo and today, at Ana's, all they talked about were Julieta, Juan Pablo and the baby. By scolding Linda to defend Julieta Blanca made Julieta more important than any of her own children. Daniela is out of there.

The next morning, Bruno wakes up Linda sleeping in a tent on the beach. They think about their families. Linda has gone out at night before but nobody at home cares. She feels very alone. Bruno and Linda have a fun time in the water and on the beach. Linda tells Bruno they are now novios as they drive around, kiss, and eat lunch and then run away without paying. Some security guards chase them but don't catch them. Later, Linda lets it all out with Bruno. She tells him what her life has been like with her mother constantly crying for Juan Pablo, her granny praying for Juan Pablo and her father simply not talking. Linda felt like a package that was carried here and there. Bruno thinks she must have imagined that. Linda says no, she lived it. Bruno now understands her and why she did what she did with those guys. Linda explains that she wanted to get their attention, have them buy her things and to feel loved. Bruno has something to tell her but then just kisses her hand.

The next morning at the bakery, Blanca is crying again and blaming herself for Linda's disappearance as well as her daughters feeling unloved. Eugenio comments on Linda always doing what she wants.

Catalina blames Diana for poisoning her son against her. Diana should be waiting on him. Hugo explains he agreed to help around the house while he is getting a job. Hugo says he feels pretty useless. Diana blames Catalina for driving off Bruno. Hugo tells Catalina that she won't let him breathe.

Robert suggests that they go see a colleague of his for their first baby doctor's appointment.

Xavi informs Marisol he saw Linda leave in a car but he doesn't know whose. Marisol informs the family what Xavi saw. Blanca wants to call the police. Marisol reminds her that Linda left of her own volition.

Blanca comes to tell Robert and Julieta the latest about Linda. As she is commenting on what a mess their place is, Blanca trips and falls backwards on the floor. She is in pain. She blames Julieta for the disorganization in her apartment so she is responsible for her tripping and falling. Julieta apologizes. It was an accident. Robert insists on taking Blanca to the hospital. Julieta tells Luz she has had it with Blanca.

Cornelio is not happy that Bruno and Linda have ended up at the beach. He tells Bruno that if he has ended up liking Linda, Cornelio will take his own revenge. Bruno insists he does not like Linda.

On the way back from the hospital with Robert, Julieta is still moaning about Julieta. She thinks that Julieta might have enjoyed her fall just a bit. Robert tells her not to go there. Robert had X-rays done. Blanca has no fractures. She is just suffering from sore muscles. She asks him not to tell Eugenio. Blanca is moaning and wailing from her "pain". Blanca concludes that Juan Pablo must love her because he took her to be treated at the hospital.

Marisol stops by to see Julieta for help in getting her a job selling items by catalogue. Marisol would like to get her own place with Frida. Julieta tells her it is never too late to start again. She is capable and she can do it. Marisol is not her past.

Eugenio is going crazy threatening to cut off all of Linda's hair so she will be ashamed when she goes out. He is stalking around the living room with scissors in his hand clicking them incessantly. Blanca sees that tactic as useless. Blanca is still "audibly" suffering from pain. Eugenio wants to know where the pain came from. Blanca blames it all on worrying about Linda. Eugenio sees it as Linda having no respect for them or or sense of responsibility.




Capítulo 39: Linda Eats Crow

Robert talks to David who would like to be invisible so nobody could see him.

Robert finally tells Eugenio what happened to the ever wailing Blanca with the understanding he does not tell her that he knows.

At the beach, Linda has decided the time has come to go home. As she and Bruno sit and talk, the security guards have spotted them yet again and they head off running.

Julieta shows up at the hospital and Robert introduces David to Julieta. He says he is sad because his mom hasn't come back. They smile at each other.

Robert and Julieta go to Julieta's first doctor's appointment for the baby. They do a video call so that Blanca and Imelda can share in the ultrasound. Julieta and Robert are overjoyed to hear the baby's heart beats. It is too early to know the sex of the baby.

Linda has returned with her "novio". She runs into Eugenio on the street outside the apartment building who has his scissors ready to cut her hair. He grabs her and her hair. She struggles to get away from him. One of the workers records the happenings on her phone. That distracts Eugenio for just a second. Linda makes a break for it and runs down the street. Eugenio is running chasing her down the street threatening Linda with making her bald. Marisol catches up to him and tries to calm him down reminding him that Linda is of age and can do what she wants. Eugenio is upset that she slept outside of her home with a man. As far as he is concerned, as long as she lives under his roof, it is by his rules. Marisol gets him to come home. Blanca and Imelda agree it is not right what Linda did. Eugenio wants order and discipline. Imelda can only think of what the neighbors thought. Blanca is sick of Eugenio scolding her like a child or ignoring her.

Benjamin shows up at Daniela's restaurant. She is reluctant to greet him as he hugs her. Gabriel puts on a chef's coat and hat and spies on them. They sit and talk. Benjamín says her eyes are no longer sad. She tells him about Juan Pablo's return. She wants to know why he never called. He thought she wasn't interested. She thought he wasn't interested. They are both sorry. The truth comes out. The afternoon he was going to tell her he liked her, she wasn't talking so he cried on her best friend's shoulder nd the rest is history. After Benjamín leaves, Daniela has a good cry in the bathroom and Gabriel listens outside the door.. He tells her that he is worried about her. She doesn't have to be the tough one all the time. He knows she is sad about the guy who is marrying somebody else. Daniela starts crying again.

Bruno has made it home. Catalina is laying the guilt trip on Bruno telling him the same old story about his father having left them. Bruno is sick of hearing the same old same old. Doesn't his mother want something different in her life? Does she really want to repeat the same chapter over and over?

Linda calls Bruno. Her dad threw her out of the house.

Marisol is talking with Xavi and is happy having a job selling catalog items. She offers to sell Xavi's cd's at the same time. He tells her he does not know what he would do without her.

Linda tries to find some help from her aunts Amalia and Belén. They both basically tell her that she asked for it. There is no sympathy from Amalia but Belén does offer her a place to stay with them. Linda leaves in a huff tired of everybody judging her. Belén is concerned about where Linda will go. Amalia says she can go with her little Bruno.

Robert gives David a pep talk about dealing with scars and peoples' reactions to him when they see his. The message is for him and Max: you are not your scars. Robert and David have a good hug.

Julieta gives Marisol more info on what she has to do on her new job and how she will be earning money with every item she sells from the catalogue. They talk about motherhood and how Julieta feels like she is no longer afraid and is ready to have her baby.

Marisol reminisces about her earlier good days with Ignacio. She runs into Ignacio near the park and he wants to talk. Marisol is not interested. He offers her money for Frida. Marisol won't take it and reminds him how "convenient" it was for him to remember he has a daughter when he just happened to run into her.

Audifaz is all worried about what Aristóteles' friend will think of him. Aristóteles walks in with David. They have a great meal together.

Xavi and Frida dance together on the roof. Marisol comes to talk to Frida about her dad and to tell her they are getting divorced. Frida is upset and cries. Marisol takes off her wedding band and buries it in a potted plant. (She should have sold it)

Julieta tells Luz how happy she is being pregnant.

Somebody is hiding and watching Robert leave the apartment building. Next, somebody is knocking at Julieta's door asking for help. On her knees, Linda begs for Julieta to let her stay with her and Robert. Linda uses the "they are family excuse" to try to force Julieta to help her. According to Lind, it was all Julieta's fault anyway. Linda runs past Julieta to the guest room and installs herself there.

Blanca is playing up her accident for all of the sympathy she can get.She is still wailing and moaning. Robert tells her to get up and move so she will feel better. Julieta and Roberto tell Blanca that Linda is staying with them but she cannot tell anyone. Robert assure Blanca that Linda will be home today.

Julieta walks in on Linda rubbing her expensive face cream on her legs. Julieta puts an end to that. Linda is hungry. Julieta has already eaten out with Robert: no leftovers for Linda. If there is nothing in the refrigerator, there is nothing. Also, if Linda is going to stay she will have to help clean. She just cannot stay for free. Linda is shocked. Linda does not know how to clean! Julieta does not see that as a problem but if Linda has a problem with that, she can always go back home across the hall . . . where her father is. . .

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