Caray, Caray!

 [Here it is, in parts, mis patio peeps!  Enjoy a light brunch and the coffees of your choice.  Don't overlook the danish!  There are cheese and some apple, just for you, JudyB!  --Ed.]

PARTE 1~~

⦁ Vicente has entered Olga's hideout (looking very similar to Simba's dirty digs, we might add.   He sees Benji wearing a suicide bomber's jacket and La Vulga holding the button.  "--Don't force things or I will squeeze this and we all fly away in pieces!"  She whines that she was forced to this extreme just to get him to pay some attention to her.  Why couldn't it have been different for the two of them?  If he'd just loved her....."--We can still talk."  "--Tell the police not to enter!"  She continues to whine and whimper.  "--Everything I've done has been because I love you, Chente."  Since they're all going to die anyway, she is ready to confess all she's done for Luhhhhhvvv, she continues.

⦁ Across town, at his manse, Adrian has called Veronica to complain about what an ignoramus he's been all along, trying to hoodwink Natalia into believing he loved her so he could get his hands on her inheritance, and yet, she ends up moving in just to play him for the fool!  Vero says she just found out that Nata and Mario have been working for the authorities.  "--There is a warrant out for your arrest.  Get out of there immediately!  Don't waste any time!"  He takes the remaining cash from the safe and stops a moment to stomp on the painting of his family, specifically on Nata's face, as he leaves.

⦁ Chente returns from his chat with the police.  The police will stay outside and they can chat calmly.  "--Just please hand me the detonator, Olga?  None of us has to die."  She refuses. She teases him with it.  "--You told me I was worse than a monster!  You don't think I'd do it?"  Chente begs for her to think of his son who is just an innocent child. (Like that ever mattered to this sicko?  Chente still doesn't get it.)  "'--My love for you got me to cross all boundaries. (You can say that again, Chacha!) And I am not sorry about any of it!"  He approaches her and again wants the detonator.  "--You aren't capable of killing."  Oh, not so, Favorite Number One Son!  Vulga proceeds to tell him how this unending nightmare began:  "--The night you left me on the side of the highway, Veronica and I had planned to kill Natalia.  Vero paid me a huge wad of cash to give to Simba for him to kill her.  But it all went sideways because she never arrived; she'd gone to a hotel with her husband.  You went crazy.  I begged you to forget her in my arms, that you'd give me just one chance, Chente, but you rejected me and you left me out there alone!"  Chente apologizes in vain.  "--What does it matter now?   Simba didn't lie to you.  I asked him to help me pretend I got raped all on account of you leaving me there."

⦁ Back at the barrio house, Tere is bemoaning Claudio's death.  Andrea tells her that she'd done all a wife could do.  Tere wonders at so many tragic things happening to them all at once. (Clod feeding the worms is the best we could wish for him.  At least he died totally unawares after turning his life around.)  Andy adds to the emotional load by informing Tere that the person who'd been caring for Baby Omi was in fact Tia Constanza.  "--She isn't really dead, Grams."   

⦁ Vulga continues with the horror story.  "--There's more to tell and Nata will love this part!  About that time I met Adrian.  He wanted to get her back and, well, I wanted to get you.  It was convenient since I would get you away from her. He was desperate to get his daughters out of the barrio.  Simba began working for Adrian.  He and his gang began assaulting people on the streets.  It was all to turn this barrio into the worst of the city.  Adrian gave the order to have your auto parts shop robbed.  Also, he paid to have them wreck your house (along with Nata's Home-cookin' Kitchen).   He had the chance to kill her again, but the fool didn't do it.  You stopped him from doing it.  It was Adrian who shot him to shut him up.  Then the day I didn't come to the church for the wedding, I am  almost certain he had me attacked and assaulted so that Natalia would never learn that the baby I was carrying was his."  Chente and Nata nearly collapse from the shock and the relief, combined.  

⦁ Now at Adi's manse, the federales  (dressed like shock troops, I might add) come rushing in looking to arrest him.   However, he's long gone with the wind.

⦁ La Vulga continues her nightmarish tale.  "--When I told Adrian the baby was his, he helped me scheme to make you believe it was yours, Chente.  He gave me something to mix into your drink.  It was the same stuff Elias used to fool Andrea's boyfriend with."  The dumbstruck look on Chente's face, now that the truth of the matter has been 'splained, suits him.  Dumb as a box o' rocks and struck with every one of them....."--It was the happiest night of my life because finally, I had you in my arms.  I put on one of her camisoles and perfume so you'd think it was her in bed with you.  (This tale of woe woefully omits mentioning the evil way she took pleasure in purposely making Natalia feel betrayed and ashamed when she walked in on the two of them.)  He again beseeches: if she feels all this love for him as she says then please show it and give him the detonator. She finally agrees, but first, he's got to kiss her, and it better not be just a brotherly one, either.  Chente looks to Nata for permission.  She of course gives it with a nod.  The deed is done, after a dangerous misstep, to all of Viewerville's disgust, and then the beastie-bitch hands over the detonator.  He leads her out the door. 

⦁ The neighborhood curses Olga as she's pushed into the back seat of the cop car.  The bomb squad comes to the rescue and with a single, well-placed snip, Benji is free of the bomb.  (Somebody should have put that jacket on her instead, but I get ahead of myself.) Viewerville notes that there are no rotten tomatoes or banana and orange peels being pelted her way.  More's the pity.)

⦁ Two days later, Baby Andi-Omi is baptized.  Andrea says the name they chose is Vicente, because he's been like the father she never really had.  Smiles all around; Vicente it is!

⦁ The next surprise is for Valentina.  Mario has decided they'll stay in the barrio.  He's bought the two of them a pretty two-story house close to her job and all the people she and he feel close to.  (Pretty little place.  Maybe I just like the color combination.)

⦁ The third nasty surprise is for Tere when she goes to visit Conz in the loony bin.  There is Connie holding a baby doll.  She hisses at Tere when she comes and holds it too long. "-- Nobody will take my baby away from me!"  FF>>FF>>  (So whose fortuna is paying for this glorious home away from home for her?  Did it ever get adjudicated and returned from what Hadad had her sign away?)

⦁ Gustavo and Chole get the news from the OB that because of their ages, they should take tests to determine if the baby is healthy or will come with birth defects.  Chole and Tavo will take the baby as is and pray the child is born healthy.  

End Parte 1~~

~~PARTE 2~~

⦁ Chente arranges for a barrio breakfast brunch with Nata and proposes marriage.  They've got a love that manages to knock down walls, and overcome betrayals and abuses of all sorts.  Will she marry him?  She gives him the immediate YES!  And while all other friends look on and cheer, the spying Adrian also claps and claps loudest of all.  She tells him she'll never leave Chente to go with him ever and he'd better scram before the police learn where he is and arrest him.  Chente can have her for all he cares; he just wants his money back that she stole from him!  

⦁ At the women's prison, a huge hulking lady guard comes for Olga.  Olga asks dreamily if Chente has come to visit her.  The guard grabs her by the collar and tells her that in the barrio, all social norms are supposed to be respected. "-- No one ever messes with a child and you made a mess of it.  And since nobody there ever blew the whistle on you, we're going to dull your tongue for you so you'll stay silent.  (They proceed to cut off her tongue--an adequate response inside an institution that reviles those who prey on children.....)

⦁ Adi pulls out a gun to show he means bidnez!  Nata says she's got nothing left.  It was her inheritance and she signed it all over to Vero.  He and Chente scuffle for his gun and it drops.  When Chente grabs it he finds it empty and drops it before running after the escaping Adi.  Nata calls the police and gives them the warning he's there.  Chente catches up to Adrian in the park and they spar but Adi gets away by besting Chente and stealing a car from a well-meaning driver who stops to help him.  

⦁ Adi arrives at Vero's manse and takes advantage of Juanita the maid's good intentions.  He grabs her at the neck and warns Vero he'll kill her if she doesn't cooperate.  Vero says she could care less so kill her if he wants.  He breaks her neck and throws her off to the side.  He then comes after Vero.  Vero warns him he's in it up to his neck and all the ways out of the country are blocked.  He wants Nata's inheritance funds.  Holding a nasty pair of gardening shears, she sneers at him and snidely says that what he waited twenty years to capture she got hold of with a single phone call.  "--You are nothing and nobody without me, Adrian, just a measly con man, and swindler.  "--Whatever you do, I do it much better!  It was me and I took advantage of them all: Mario, Hadad, .that foolish Olga and even Natalia herself in order to see you just like this, brought down, defeated at your own game."  He tries circling towards her and threatens to kill her.  "--You'll come to the same end, either way, in jail or with the police after you forever."  All she asks him for is some recognition that she is superior to him.  Beg her a bit, even and they can have it all, everything they ever dreamed of.  "-- Me begging you?"  "--A woman always like playing hard to get."  

⦁ Adi tells Vero there's no way in the world would he get on his knees to her.  He'd rather serve twenty terms in jail than be tied a lifetime to a tarantula like her.  (Well, tell me how you really feel!)  "--You return all my money to me or you have no idea of the Hell that will await you!"  She throws down the shears swearing that he doesn't frighten her.  He jumps her and pushes her face down into the thorny rosebed.  He mashes her face in the thorns. (Ouch and a half!)  He then takes a hearty gulp of the wine she poured earlier for him. She's still screaming in pain and looks up.  Her face is cut to shreds. He smirks. "--Don't worry.  You're more beautiful than ever."  He begins getting stomach cramps.  "--You still don' understand that our souls were fused together the first time we made love together."  "--I want my money, you damned bitch!  I want my money!"  "--And I want YOU!  If I cannot have you in this life, then I will in death!  Oh, don't resist.  It's a fast-acting poison. It isn't the first time that I use it.  "  He falls down and begins crawling towards her, begging for help.  She tells him that's how she wants him.  She laughs insanely.  "--There you are in the same place I buried my parents after killing them."  He finally flatlines.  "--They didn't know how to appreciate me, either.  It was really easy to go on without them."  She pours herself a glass of the same tainted wine.  "--My only mistake, my love, my condemnation, was that I couldn't exist without you!  This world doesn't interest me if you're not living in it."  

⦁ Vero gulps down her wine, lays her head down on his chest, and waits for the rest in the next world just as sirens sound in the background.  After the hit squad arrives and takes a look around, Chente and Nata enter the garden.  The cops signal to the two of them that they're all dead.  

⦁ Benji has a final dream with his mother who tells him her favorite bird is the hummingbird and she will leave him in mama Natalia's loving care.  

⦁ A year later we are at the church where we hear Samia singing the Ave Maria.  Why it's Chente and Nata's wedding at the barrio church, and it's huge!  (Why did it ever take this long?)  It's everything Samia ever would have wanted.   All the kids and all the good guys are in attendance.  Viewerville notes: Kimberly is with Juanga and Tere is with Julio.  Tavo and Chole are there with their daughter in Chole's arms.  She looks healthy.  Little Chente is in Omi and Andi's arms.  Regina and JJ are still a couple too.  Mario and Tina are still together also.  Chente and Nata both agree that their greatest fortune is the love they hold for each other.  They all get onto the dance floor and then do the conga.  A grand time is had by all. Viewerville pays its respects and takes its leave.

~~ EL FIN

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