Caray, Caray!

⦁ At Constanza's palatial manse the familial reunion "de verdad" is finally taking place. Samia asks how her adoption plans are progressing and Elias adds the icing on my cake by telling her how he admires Connie's courage to become parents at her age.  (Finally,a bit of sparsely sprinkled sanity.)  Connie defends her actions to assist her niece, Andrea, in her time of need as well despite nasty accusations of her family.  No matter.  That is resolved now with the marriage.  Samia takes her leave and Eli makes his proposition to Conz: how would you like to raise my future heir out of the country but by your side and avoid his being a social climber like his mother?  Connie is prepared to do ANYTHING!

⦁ Queue the now happily engaged future parents of the Hadad Heir, little prince Andreomi.  Samia takes one look at Andi's belly and crudely suggests it's a good thing the wedding is around the corner or her dress would never manage to cover it.  

⦁ In the belly of the barrio, Kimberly rollerskates into the rooming house patio area to visit with Juanga.  She commiserates over Jose Jose's legal calamity.  Chole joins the chatter.  Vicente comes in stating the obvious: they must find a good lawyer to resolve JJ's plight or he'll spend the rest of his life (well, at least veinte years of it) in prison--courtesy of rich Regina (showing her true loyalties) who accused JJ without knowing all the facts. 

⦁ Eli asks about Lorenzo, who's still in serious condition; Samia suggests their taking the city apartment and getting out of such a dangerous neighborhood.  Andi refuses and takes offense.  Millions of people live in similar places and do very well as middle-class citizens!  There's no reason to leave.  Eli insults his son for being childish and leaves.  

⦁ Back at the boarding house, Olga rubs her arms up and down on "her intended's" back and arms while she voices her "adult" version of concern over the vicious, well-heeled, bankrolling bullies once in the barrio. (Viewerville recoils the moment they see those maniclaws appear anywhere near Chente.)  According to Ms. Knowitall, aka, "La Sabelotodo", these wealthy won't stop until they have his head!  (Will somebody please put her back into her Bride of Chucky's toy box?) Chente mentions that Hair Boy's tia has now hired an expensive mouthpiece to defend her case.  They are all noes and woes as in enters Gustavo, shocking Chole at the sudden and unexpected sight of him.  She rolls her eyes and leaves the room.  He offers his assistance.

⦁ We beam back to Conz's majestic manse to watch as Mario of the Barrio and his maiden mechanic make their premier entrance to the party as the daring duo of the evening.  Valentina trips on her "tacones" (high heels).   Conz and Samia agree that a taste of the common can be, unfortunately, habit-forming.  They escape the room.  Andi walks over and teacheTina the proper way to balance in them.  (10 points to Team Barrio.) 

⦁ Meanwhile, although Tavo's there to lend a hand to Chente with JJ's legal situation, Chente chides him for abandoning Chole.  Both arrogant men are convinced of false "facts" of circumstance.  (Yawn.)  FF>>FF>>  Tavo agrees to disagree.  Chente says he doesn't recognize his old friend and leaves the room.

⦁ Chole thanks the diosito for her child.  Tavo cries over the picture from the ultrasound.  FF>>FF>>

⦁ Elias advises Mario he should learn not to bring his trailer trash to upper-class social functions.  Mario changes the subject to wanting to become a part of his truly high-income bidnez dealings.  Elias wonders if Mario truly has the testicles to triumph in such atmospherically elevated dealings and more so, where such a desire has come from.  But, just before Mario can answer, "The Couple of the Evening" arrives.  Conz gives a grand toast.  

⦁ Vulga purposely tells Magos about JJ's being jailed and the old lady becomes immediately subject to whatever ailment.  (Queue the rattlesnake tails.)  

⦁ Outside the manse, Adrian calls Simba and orders him to rob and burn down Natalia's house so she has nothing left but him to rely on..  Simba says after what happened to Lorilocks, with the cops and such it would be better to hold off a while till things calm down there. Adi says not possible and it better be done tonight.

⦁ So, Magos cannot believe that Nata despite the jealousy would allow her grandson to be thrown to the wolves like this.  Vulga says do believe it.  They've got their chess pieces ready for a checkmate.  Everyone from Natalia and hubby, to the police to the judges --They will be well paid to throw the book at JJ.  Magos cries over all the brutality towards them.  Vulga says she warned her and Chente.  Now they can see it themselves how they'll blame JJ and he'll go to prison for the rest of his life.

⦁ Inside now, Adi is toasting his wife and promising to live for her alone and he's extremely grateful for this opportunity.  Before the others can applaud or even drink to the toast, in walks Veronica.  She claps and makes her entrance. She chides him over what trash he told Nata.  It's a shame he truly feels nothing for his wife.  Suddenly Nata recognizes the ruby necklace and earrings Vero's wearing as those given to her by Adrian as her 20th-anniversary gift.  "--How wonderful of you to notice!"  This has made Vero's evening.  Nata yells over to Connie that she sold it to Conz and answers how Vero now has it. Vero lies in front of the gawking guests, that Conz loaned it to her.  

⦁ Connie rushes over to call Vero a liar and no friend of hers; it was stolen!  How does Vero suddenly have it?  "Well, Constanza, if you're not with me, then you're against me."  Vero will clarify why this dinner is such a ridiculous fraud.  She walks over to Nata and hands her the necklace.  "Nata's the rightful owner."  She hands it over to Nata and tells her to keep it as a reminder that on the night of her anniversary her hubby chose to run off with her instead!  Conz runs over and tries grabbing it out of Vero's hands but it breaks and falls to the floor.  Oh, Connie wants it, informs Vero in front of fixated family and friends, because it represented Connie's triumph. Conz commands her to shut up, but the vamp is on a roll.  "--She always knew that Adrian and I were lovers and of course, didn't tell you.  She wanted to see you humiliated and impoverished."  

⦁ Back at the rooming house, Magos finds Chente and yells at him for not telling him about JJ's being in jail.  Why did she have to hear it from that vulture Vulga instead of straight from him?   For health reasons.  (Ding, ding, ding!)  The reasoning of Vulga's pointedly divulging this bad news goes right over his dimwitted head.  Magos says she knows that Regi's a sweet child down deep, so why accuse him like this?  He explains that everyone, including the police, found him (this most brilliant of boys) holding the pipe in his hand.  It's got to be some sort of mix-up.  Magos begs him to convince Nata of his probable innocence and to help them avoid this tragic injustice.

⦁ Nata drags off her sister to the woodshed and Andi reproaches Vero.  She tells her to recognize Papi's chosen Mami over her.  So, scram!  Vero smirks and says Nata's making the mistake of her life to believe that.  Adi keeps telling her to get out but pointedly won't confirm Andi's statements that he feels nothing for Vero now.  Suddenly Andi has belly pains.  Vero caresses Adi's face and tells him to come to her when he gets bored with the whole family scene again.   

Parte 2~~

⦁ While Omi worries over Andi's upset tummy....Nata yells at Connie for having kept her mangled marriage from her.  Conz shouts back it's not her fault Nata chose to turn a blind eye to it all and live in her family fantasy world.  Nata says it's more than that and she knows it!  She purposely wanted to humiliate her and see her struggle.  That's because Nata always was criticizing her at every turn.  AS if that's not enough, Nata was always rubbing Connie's nose in it: Nata had such a perfect life!  You had a dreamy husband, perfect, beautiful children...while I was barren !  (And, we might add, married to mehhh-looking mechanic from the barrio who was too ugly to want to have children with.)  Therefore, she admits she was thrilled to see her world fall to pieces, to be forced to live with the bilge of the barrio, then to have found a new love and to have lost him due to his knocking up another woman.  "--I was happy.  I am overjoyed because you don't deserve to be happy!"  Nata slaps the crap ouwda Connie; she returns the favor.  Both sides of  Viewerville are content...sort of.  Nata tells her that Life/Fate can judge her.  She won't.  (She's too dim to do it anyway.) "--People who judge others--like you do-- always come to a bad end."

⦁ When Nata arrives home from the party, her house is being vandalized.  She tries fighting them and calling the police but cannot manage it.  Somehow Chente just happens along and runs in to fight the remaining vandal.  He's in a ski mask.  She has managed to scratch him.  However he manages to fight off Chente and runs into the street where Mario hits him accidentally with his car.  Mario gets out to check on the body, just as Chente runs out and the guy jumps up and runs away.  Chente tells Mario to not let the guy get away.  They race after him.

⦁ Inside the house, Nata cries over the mess they made.  Tina comes in and Nata tells her about what just happened and that she managed to scrape and draw blood with her nails on the dirtwad's neck.  

⦁ Chente and Mario catch up with the guy and beat the snot out of him till his four gangster buddies corner them and pull a gun on the two of them.  So much for heroics.

⦁ Returning to Connie's now, Tavo remarks that the dinner party seems to have ended early.  Yup. Vero showed up.  So....and the worst of it was that she had on her ruby necklace.  What did he know of that?  Nothing, he answers.  She says better be cuz the tramp is jumpiing from lover to lover: first Adi and now Eli, not to mention Mario. 

⦁ Simba runs into Claudio in the park and says he wants to borrow some cash or else!  Clod hands him the cash and remarks on Simba's neck scratch FF>>FF>>

⦁ Chente and Mario return to Nata's home and get a bit of medicine on their wounds.  They don't understand the reason to have torn her house apart.  Suddenly it dawns on Chente and Nata that maybe this same gang is responsible for all the recent mishaps and brutality in the barrio.  Could it be that they beat up Lorilocks and his brother's paying for their crime?  She's never believed JJ capable of such a thing.  Yes, she will definitely speak to Regi about this and see if she will see reason.  

⦁ At the same time, Simba races over to Vulga's room and tells her about the monkey bidnez that just went down at Nata's and Chente and that he gave Chente a good knifing for trying to play heros and villains with him.  She tells him no way he gets to do harm to the father of her kid.  "--I wish I'd have killed him!  Why should he marry you when the kid you're expecting we know is mine!"  Uh-unnn!  Understand that kid's not yours!  "--Of course the kid's mine! and I am only warning you that things have gone bad and now I have to hide.  I'm not going alone.  You and my kid are going with me!"  

⦁ Nata is totally depressed over the way her entire household and especially her professional kitchen was left in ruin.  She agrees to his sleeping downstairs this evening.  "--I will never leave you alone."  They hug.  Just then Adi, Andi and Omi arrive.  Adi makes a big deal about what could have happened there.  

⦁ Simba threatens to spill the beans on Vulga if she doesn't leave with him.  She threatens to go to the police.  He tells her she's got more to lose than him.  However, he's got to leave there till the business with the rich kid is over.  Olga gives him crap for doing it and allowing Chente's kid brother go to jail for it.  Well, says Simba, it's a shame cuz the guy's one of them but that's the way the cookie crumbles.  He only cares about her and his kid now.  And if she doesn't get her crap together the whole barrio is going to know he's the baby daddy. He checks if the coast is clear.

⦁ Clod arrives at the rooming house with 3 months rent in his hand.  Chole agrees as long as he keeps his drinking under control.  

⦁ Tina persuades Mario to spend the night with her.  FF>>FF>>

⦁ Simba goes to the bad boy cave and pays off his buds.  He tells them to hide out for a while and tomorrow he also is heading out with Olga.  How does he plan to win that babe over?  Because he is the baby daddy but don't tell anybody!  

⦁ Nata and Adi send Andi and Omi home.  There's been an annoying unknown phonecall coming in to Adi's phone.  He won't answer it he says becaus it's a stranger calling.  Nata refuses to stay anywhere but at her own house for the night.   He says he will stay.  She says, then stay down in the living room on the couch.  He tries, but she ably refuses to kiss each other good night. AS she walks up the stairs to her room, Adi tells himself that eventually Nata will fall into his trap.   

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