Caray, Caray!

 ⦁ Andrea tells everyone as she's ready to leave the hospital that she's going to join Omar.  Yup, she's moving downtown to the barrio boarding house that Omi now is renting from Chole.  Although Papi Adrian tries to find various excuses to make her change her mind and join him back at the new manse, Natalia has responses to counter every single one and the barrio it is.

⦁ Adi drives Nata back to his manse for Andi's things; he is still trying to convince her he was right to suggest one night at the manse.  "--Oh, so you can manipulate her like you did Regina to get all three of us living with you again?  --No.  Just drive.  I'm not in the mood to argue with you."  Ok.  He tries flirting with her again.  She responds NEGatively! It's over and get it through your thick head!

⦁ Valentina greets them both with gifts and wishes them well.  Wow!  We'll all be rooming besties!  After everybody leaves, Omi shows her where the crib will be.  FF>>FF>>

⦁ At the same time, Olga calls Adi while he waits on Nata, to gritch at him for not stopping Claudio from telling Vicente that he saw her go off with him the night before.  Adi says he's an old drunk nobody will pay any attention to him, and all he really wants is some cash to buy him off.  Nata comes down and he signs off pretending she's some client.  She learns, incredibly, that Mario and Adi are now business partners again.  Why can't she believe in him again?

⦁ Mario and Fernanda are spooning on the couch at her place.  They have another discussion about social class and his not feeling comfortable seeing Nata "slumming" like she is right now.  He chooses not to; again Fern suggests that's why he's ignoring his true feelings for Tina. Natalia may have handled the barrio life well, but he never was comfortable there.  He wants to get back to the life he had before.  (Viewerville certainly can comprehend. Different strokes for different folks.)   He asks her how she'd feel if overnight she'd lost her job, reputation, and finances, and that all doors would be closed to her?  She doesn't feel comfortable at all thinking about that.  He explains that's exactly what happened to him and he won't let it happen again!  He denies needing or wanting anything from Valentina or anybody in that milieu; He was happy to help Tavo and Chole out when he could.  So, what he really likes about Fern, he finishes, is that she and he are two peas in a pod.  They share a bit more than just sparks after that..

⦁ Adi and Nata spar over Mario's intentions and hers, and Adi's till Chente rings the bell; he's there to take her back to the boarding house. First, Chente says, he wants her and Adrian to know that Olga confessed everything to him.  Ruh-Roh!!! Does he have the courage to tell Nata to her face what this is all about?  

⦁ Speaking of La Vulga esa, she is once again mentally torturing Benji.  She climbs into bed with him and wakes him up to demand that from now on he will smile at her, act lovingly, and tell everybody what a wonderful person she is.  If not, she will cut his tongue out!    Lovely.....

⦁ Adi tries to stall while at the same time, Chente tries tricking him into giving them both what Olga really never divulged.  Nata asks what the two of them were doing together."  He tells a whopper: Vulga was Chente's lover for years; he promised he'd get divorced, but never did; once Lucia kicked the bucket, Vulga was free to marry Chente, and then Natalia arrives and mucks it up.  Of course, hearing all this b.s. he calls it what it is.  

⦁ Meanwhile, Kimberly visits Juanga at Chente's to inform him that she got the job at Chole's shop.  Now she's got a decent job and is grateful.  Juanga tells her that he got a job cooking with Nata for the new fonda.  Happy, happy.  Joy, joy!  She opens his dim mind to considering other women who would appreciate him and who'd like to start a family and settle down--like her.  They get close and she breaks "it" off.  He tells her to wait and he'll walk her home.  

⦁ Adrian is furious and calls Vulga to tell her what just happened and the whopper he told them.  She says Chente was leading him on, and that she's not that stupid to mention a word about their sleeping together.  They agree that the topic is verboten (as in prohibido) no matter what...Now as to how to get their stories straight.

⦁ Outside, Nata tricks Chente into thinking she really believed Adi's tall tale.  Not a chance!  Chente says Olga told him something totally different.  She told him that Adrian paid her bunches of billetes to keep him informed of everything going on in his house with Nata and the two girls, and to cause chaos and bad blood so Nata would go back to him.

⦁ Clod shows up at Adrian's manse.  "--I was expecting you.  Feel right at home.  A drink?"  Clod immediately relaxes and then talks bidnez.  His silence carries a price.  He doesn't want cash.  He wants Adi to use his and Elias's influence to get him an ambassadorship in the Caribbean or wherever it might be.  Adi slugs him and throws his drink in his face, and then gives him the bum's rush (ique` apropiado!) out the door.  Don't even think about coming there again!

⦁ So, after having a big laugh at Chente's expense. Nata and he decide to go on vacation, barrio style.  FF>>FF>>  Time passes and the backyard tavern gets ready for business while Mario and Adrian set up their classy new auto parts showroom and warehouse.  

⦁ Time has passed and the results of the prep school entrance exams are posted.  Regi is accepted but Jose Jose isn't even listed as not admitted.  They question the officials.  The lady administrator and the head of the school advise his was kept back because it was a special exam needing a 95% or better.  She looks and shocks the old fart head of the school with the resultant 98% J2P2 got.  He cannot turn the kid away or refuse admittance so he accuses him of cheating.  They take him back to give him an oral exam of the same questions.

⦁ Meanwhile, Teresa and Nata have been called by Constanza's worried maid.  Connie has locked herself in her room and is refusing to eat.  Nata goes up to speak with her.  Connie confesses all but is bitter that Andi tricked her.  Nata reminds Conz that the baby isn't her but is Nata's grandkid and Andi and Omi's child.  Nata says she's there to protect her from manipulative people like her, sister or not!

⦁ Back at the beauty shop, the gossip is all about the new tavern in Chente's backyard.  Kim notes that Chole's not doing well.  Chole tells her she's been dizzy and nauseous.  Earth to Chole!  Kim says seems she is preggers!  If so, Chole wants to tell Gustavo on her own time and choosing.

⦁ Connie suggests that Nata is the last person in the world to be handing out morality points, considering she's a married woman living in sin with a barrio joe sixpack!  (Can't fault Connie that one...)  On the other hand, Connie knew how to win the kid over and convince her to "sell" her kid.  What kind of a mother would Constanza be for that child with an attitude like that?  (Good point....)  Well, Connie offered her the best medical assistance, and a clean and healthy environment; but Nata couldn't do better than a filthy maid's closet!  (Of course, that was because Conz refused to help any of them at the time, lest we forget, dear Sis?)  They agree to disagree....Nata reminds her that she's sorry Connie couldn't ever have her own children, but that doesn't belie the fact that children are not snatched out of another's arms nor are they purchased!  Conz grinches that Nata never missed the chance to rub her nose in it.  She always was the queen of the May.  So, Connie is now embittered and alone.  Despite what Connie thinks of her, says Nata, it hurts her to see her sister like this.  They agree to disagree.  Connie screams at her to get the hell out, NOW!  

⦁ Omar talks business management with Chente and Chente says he has lots of competition in the barrio.  They need to figure out a way to deal with it.  The new computer system should help.

⦁ Nata tells Connie to consider insemination.  Connie says she hated Tavo horribly.  Why didn't she divorce him sooner?  She says he hadn't suffered enough, once she discovered....she doesn't continue with any further explanation.  She goes ballistic and screams at the top of her lungs for Nata to get the hell out.. Nata leaves.   

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