Caray, Caray!

⦁ Mario offers to front the fonda [little tavern/inn] serving simple neighborhood favorites that Natalia and Teresa were thinking of starting.  He'd be the silent partner.  Nat likes the idea but says she thinks the best place to locate it is there in the house.  She needs to see what Vicente thinks, though.  

⦁ Andrea receives a number of bags of baby and maternity clothes.  She rudely tells the maid to take them to her aunt as they don't belong to her.

⦁ Chente walks in and wants an explanation.  Mario asks him to listen closely to what Nat has to say.  "--Sure, sure. I know to speak to the head of the circus, not to the clown. (We all know who he's talking about....) She informs him that since she hasn't any cash to rent a space she's going to put the restaurant there in the house.  "--My house?"  "--Our house!"  

⦁ Constanza makes her grand appearance at the rooming house to speak to Chole.  First she must insult Gustavo about his rendezvous.

⦁ Chente is, shall we say, less than pleased to learn that not only must he turn his house into a restaurant but must abide Mario's input because he's fronting the cash.  "--That aside, do you agree on the fonda or not?"  "--Yes, but one condition: I am also made a partner." 

⦁ Chole presents herself to Conz and the two have it out. "--Aren't you a bit ashamed that, despite being my husband's lover, you still live in this rooming house?"  Nope, Chole says, since all the while he was married, he was faithful and they didn't do anything dishonorable.  She was his sounding board, his good friend during all the rough times.  Now that Tavo has left her for good, she should note that she has become the woman he has chosen to remain with til death do they part.  Soon she'll realize, says Connie, that Tavo's just a weak milquetoast. "--That's why you found another guy to screw around with?"  "--How charmingly shameless you are!  So at least Tavo found somebody as common and vulgar as he is."  Connie then delights in telling her she wants her and all the other scum living there to leave by tomorrow. And of course, the beauty shop is off limits now also.  If she doesn't like it then take her to court, but Conz doubts she can afford to pay for one.  Chole is shocked into silence.  (Sad lesson in life.  Don't run your mouth blindly just because you feel like it.)

⦁ Jose Jose meets up with Juanga who is down and out because he's got no job and no money to pay for a room let alone to get married.  Even Chente is upset with him over smack talking about him and Nat in Valle de Bravo.  Jojo tells him to at least smooth things out with Chente.  Junga has an idea and wants Jojo's help.

⦁ Chole gives Valentina the bad news.  No, she's not giving anybody notice.  

⦁ Tina rushes into Olga's room while Vulga is practicing black magic "--What's all this?"  Tina scolds La Vulga and blows out her candles.  This is dangerous do-do!  All for a guy that could care less about her.  Stop wasting your time!  She's throwing away a decent and devoted dude like Juanga. and for what?  Vulga says he may be great, but he'll never be Chente!  Tina warns her that if she keeps this up she'll lose Juanga and remain alone.  Chente is nothing but some dopey fantasy of hers and he'll never even give her the time of day!

⦁ When Nat and Chente come back downstairs, Nat explains to Mario that Chente's now part of the business as he's part owner of the house.  Just then Juanga and Jojo arrive with some loud receiver playing dance music outside and it's lloud enough to burst everyone's eardrums.  Party down, peeps!  Claudio and Mario are cringing.  Clod complains.  "--What's with these nacos?  Everything's a reason to party!"  Chente takes his brothers outside and tells them he doesn't need their ridiculous type of "help."  He will take care of things on his own, thank you very much.

⦁ In the meantime, Connie has shown up at Nat's.  She's surprised by the visit.  Connie tells her the boarding house and the salon are going to be vacated.  She and the family can now all have a space of their own over there.  Nata says that would be impossible because she'd be throwing all the people she knows out into the street with nowhere to go.  "--Oh, they can find a place anywhere!"  Nat says she realizes the only thing Connie is really trying to accomplish is to punish Chole because her husband fell in love with her.  That is a result of his and Connie's issues.  Couldn't she just be practical about this?  It's a business like any other.  It's full and the rents keep coming in regularly.  Leave it be; she doesn't love Tavo anyway.  

⦁ Vulga thinks over what Tina has told her.  Juanga comes with his corny radio/receiver to serenade her.  

⦁ Chole and Tavo enjoy the song while chatting on the bed.  (I cannot hear what exactly they're talking about except the "scandalous" music?  And/or the silly way Vulga leads Juanga around by the nose?)  

⦁ Once everybody leaves, Nat has Chente and Mario hold their first business meeting.  Mario says he's not willing to have Chente as a business partner.  She says he must because Chente owns part of the house and will be fronting some of the expenses.  They argue til Nat shuts them up.  (Aye, yai-yai!)

⦁ Over at the rooming house, everyone's come to listen to the serenade.  Vulga walks out and makes nice with dopey Juanga.  Clod shows up with a couple of bottles of bubbly and makes it a real celebration.  Juanga takes Vulga to her bedroom but she stops the celebrating once he makes his intentions clear.  She tells him she's not going that far with him.  He whines that he hasn't any place to stay now.  She says he still cannot stay with her.  

⦁ The next morning Magos is slow in getting up to meet with the specialist Fernando has arranged for her.  Nata will take her, not Chente and she demands that he and Juanga solve their spat.  

⦁ Across the way, Nata is having morning coffee with Chole.  Chole swears to Nata that she's always respected her sister's marriage to Tavo.  Nata says she's not sure if she can figure anything out but will try to make her sister see reason so nobody there is really kicked out.  Tavo, who is still ignorant of what Conz has done, walks in on her crying at the table with Nata.

⦁ Outside, Chente and Juanga make their peace.  Juanga admits he was wrong.

⦁ Tina tells Mario what Connie did last night.  Mario tells her that by law they have to have a month's notice.  He will do his best to see that she doesn't run everyone out.  

⦁ Adrian is suprised when Regina comes to the jail to see him.  He tells her how sorry he is.  Regi says she's not interested in anythng he has to say.  She's only there to demand that he gives her mother a divorce.  No, her mother doesn't know anthing about this.  He wants to explain.  Regi won't listen.  Why, after the way he left them in the street, hopeless and helpless?  Maybe Andi could be fooled, but not her.  

⦁ At the same time, Andi gets a call from Omar.  He wants to explain. She won't listen.  She is out of his life forever!  Click! 

⦁ Regi lays it out for Adrian.  He humiliated them all, leaving after twent years of marriage with his wife's best friend; he stole all from everyone and left them holding the bag while he went off with his lover to places unknown like the thief he is.  "--I hope you never get out of jail and that you pay for all the harm you did your family!"    

⦁ Jojo is waiting for her outside.  She's in tears because despite all what she said was true, she feel horrible for having said it.  Jojo says he needed to be told and she needed to get it out.  Healthier that way.  This visit will be their secret.

⦁ Tavo tells Chole he'll speak to Connie about the rooming house.  It was something his parents began, anyway.  

⦁ Chente and Benji stop in at church to pray.  

⦁ Mario begs Tavo to let him handle the situation with the rooming house.  Tavo says no.  He'll get nowhere with her.  Mario says he's earned her trust so just let him try.  

⦁ Andi tells Connie about Omar's call.  They are both surprised he said nothing about her pregnancy.  Connie says well, that is just the way some men are, totally irresponsible.  Andi says she hates Omi with all her being.  Connie's answer is to calm down and distance herself from him.

⦁ Omi confides in Veronica: she called him a coward and hung up on him.  Ver asks what did he expect?  Well, at least she should have heard him out, he says.  Ver says Andi's nothing more than a selfish little girl.  She has always been that way.  "--You're better off without her."  

⦁ A bit later, Tavo pays Connie a visit at the manse. He came to tell her that she's not evicting anyone at the rooming house.  He tells her none of her insults affect him anymore.  "--Well, well, it took the hairdresser to finally bring the man out in you!"  "--I've come to propose a solution.  I will leave go anything unresolved in the divorce because none of it really belongs to me; all I want is the rooming house and the garage as they originally belonged to my parents."  

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