Opening monologue: Life is magical and so is love until it crashes and burns horrifically, as it tends to do in telenovelas. Occasionally literally!
As you’ll recall, Manuel walked in on Mia crying and as ever, his response to her tears is to start making out with her. Sonia walks in on them, and they’re all embarrassed, but she’s like, “Omg, I ship you guys so hard!”
“Do you guys need anything? Some snacks? A condom?”
They’re like AWKWARD and say they’re going back to school to escape getting the sex talk from Sonia (again). Once they’re outside, though, they realize they can’t take their relationship back to school with them — they’re both in relationships, and how are Feli’s crazy eyes gonna take it? They decide to just spend the day playing hooky and making out instead.
Meanwhile, Marizza’s run into Facundo in the middle of a park somewhere. “What a coincidence, huh?” Facundo says. You guys live in the same town, Facundo. I mean, being a friend of Pablo’s, I guess we knew he’s not that bright. Anyway, he’s really aggressive about getting Marizza to talk to him, for some reason, and he lets it slip that Pablo’s using his apartment for “a friend.” He has his own apartment? How old is Facundo? Marizza gets all pissed, and tells Facundo that Pablo’s not using it for his FRIEND, he’s using it for his side piece. Predictably, Facundo’s not thrilled at the idea of Pablo getting it on in his bed. Yeah, he’s definitely gonna need to burn those sheets. Marizza storms off, and Facundo calls Pablo to ream him out.
Fernanda catches up to Tomás in the hallway, already calling him “mi amor” and shit. Man, she moves fast. Tomás is like, “We gotta talk,” and she’s like, “Oh shit, did you hear that story from my ex-boyfriend?” Tomás is like, “What boyfriend? What story?” and Fernanda’s like, “Nevermind! You didn’t hear any of that!” Tomás looks like he might be cottoning on that something’s up, but then Mansilla and Lulu rock up and they are not happy with him. Lulu sits Tomás down in the library and he apologizes to her, and she tells him, “Look, the important thing is that you’re a student and I’m a teacher.” THANK YOU, LULU. “But you know, if you were a teacher…I totally would.” NO! DON’T GIVE HIM IDEAS, LULU.
Meanwhile, Blas is still interrogating Vico. She won’t tell him anything (because she doesn’t know anything), and finally Blas is like, “WHATEVER, you’re still the dumbest skankiest student in school and I hate you. Go away.” I’m glad Blas always remains professional in these moments. Vico runs into Lujan as she leaves, and says she’s more committed to destroying him than ever. Lujan’s like, “That’s the spirit!” It occurs to Vico that they could run his license plate and find out Blas’s real name via the car registration.
Hallway. Guido’s freaking out that Mia and Manuel have run away together, and Pablo’s like, “Pfft, that would never happen.” Oh, couldn’t it, Pablo? Then he’s like, “Hold up, my problems are more important than yours,” and answers his phone to find Paula flipping out because Facundo’s come back to the apartment and is now staring her down with his scary judgmental goatee.
“OUT OF MY HOUSE, SCARLET WOMAN!”
Paula passes the phone to Facundo and he’s like, “DUDE, the fuck is wrong with you?” Man, I think I like Facundo.
Music montage to “Amor prohibido” of Mia and Manuel riding around town and making out. I was hoping they would actually talk about about their issues for five seconds, but I guess not.
Mansilla and Lulu have lunch together in the gym. Ew. I’ve never been in a gym that didn’t smell like sweat. Maybe they’re into that. Who knows. Anyway, Mansilla kind of rubs some food off Lulu’s face, and she’s like, “Sorry I’m jumpy, pretty much every guy in this school has hit on me at this point.” Fair enough. Mansilla asks why she’s so tense, and she’s like, “You were right, I’m not a good teacher.” Well, at least she admits it. She says that she doesn’t actually want to be a teacher; all she really wants to do is dance, but her family doesn’t think that’s a real job. Mansilla’s like, “AHA! I have figured out your family trauma! AND I WILL TRY TO FIX YOU!”
Vico hella unsubtly takes down Blas’s license plate number while the Men in Black II song plays in the background. Hee. It’s not that serious, guys. Blas almost catches her, but she manages to BS her way out of it. This is a lot of drama for a 6-number plate.
Marizza and Lujan hang out in the sad trailer. Marizza rants about how much she hates Pablo’s stupid face and Lujan muses that she thinks Marizza actually liked Pablo. Who is this person and what has she done with Lujan? But changing the subject, what’s up with Mia and Sonia? Marizza snarls that she doesn’t know, but she’s never going to forgive Sonia or Pablo, ever! But at least she has friends like Lujan, who would never ever go behind her back and do stuff without telling her! Lujan’s like, “Uh…about that.”
Marizza is not pleased, to the surprise of absolutely no one. She tells Lujan she has to break up with Marcos, and Lujan’s like, “But he’s so hot now that you’ve given him self-confidence! He’s THIS CLOSE to not wearing glasses anymore!” Marizza’s like, “If you’re so in love with him, why don’t you do it?” and Lujan emos that Marizza is the one he likes, not her. Aw, Lujan.
Tomás runs into Vico and asks if she’s seen Fernanda. Vico hasn’t, but she does know the ex-boyfriend of whom Fernanda spoke: “The one she sent to the hospital?” Tomás is like, WHAT. Yeah, apparently Fernanda’s boyfriend stood her up, so she…set him on fire? Because apparently he was a part-time clown (Jesus, love yourself, Fernanda), and she was assistant, she fucked up his fire-juggling trick and sent him to the hospital.
I’ll admit I didn’t hear about 60% of Vico’s monologue because I was distracted by the batshit crazy flashback. Anyway, back in the present, Vico’s like, “Well, that’s just what I heard, good luck!” and waltzes off. Fernanda comes up and sticks her tongue down Tomás’s throat and is like, “Can’t you just feel the FIRE between us?” Poor dumb Tomás sweatdrops.
Vico enlists Pablo to look up Blas’s license number, and he gets Papa B’s secretary on it. This is bizarrely nice of Pablo, I must say. The secretary gets the car registration, and Lujan and Vico find out that it belongs to a “Ricardo Fara.” They do the finger gun move on each other. Aw!
And now, a bizarre cut over to Pilar’s storyline! She’s being all emo in the cafeteria, and Sandra and Cata spy on her. Luna rocks up and is like, “Man, you guys look sad,” and they’re like, “We’re just staring at Pilar and pitying her, no big.” Luna takes it upon herself to be there for Pilar, and Pilar spills everything to her in about five minutes. She asks Luna not tell anyone and Luna promises, like she doesn’t spill the beans to Nico and Marizza the second they ask.
Facundo comes storming into Elite Way to yell at Pablo for fucking around on Marizza. I gotta say, Facundo does kind of seem like the better boyfriend option in this moment. He went on half a date with her and he’s all up in here defending her honor. He wants to know why Pablo cockblocked him with Marizza all those episodes ago if he really wasn’t crazy about her, and Pablo’s like, “Well, the truth is, I am a compulsive liar just like my ex-girlfriend. Sorry, them’s the facts.” Facundo is pissed, but then Pablo promises to fix things between Facundo and Marizza if Facundo lets Paula stay in his apartment. Facundo’s like, “Oh okay, we cool then.” Look, I said he KIND OF seemed like better boyfriend material. On this show, that’s not saying much.
Mia and Manuel come back to school, and they agree to keep their relationship on the DL. Mia wants to know why, and Manuel’s like, “Because…reasons. We can’t be together. This is a soap opera, remember?” Mia’s like, “Oh, that’s true.” Didn’t they have this conversation before they went on their day off? Whatever. They part at the gate and Erreway warbles on in the background about how their hearts are BLEEDING. Whatever, guys.
Mansilla meets Manuel at his locker and Manuel’s like, “So as you can see, I have brought Mia back to school, and I did not make out with her AT ALL.”
“If you say so.”
Julieta rocks up and Mansilla’s like, “This is gonna be awkward. Peace out, guys.” Julieta is, as usual, pissed that Manuel went running off after Mia. Manuel says he did it for Papa C, Julieta doesn’t believe him, blah blah blah. Finally Manuel says they should break up, and for some reason Julieta’s all surprised by this, like they haven’t been fighting about the same issue every frickin’ episode.
Scene change to “Time is Ticking Out” by the Cranberries. I only mention this because Google somehow could not find the song lyrics, and I only managed to find it because the singer’s voice is so distinctive. I also like how they so clearly only pick the songs for this show based on the first few lines. “What about Chernobyl?” asked no one on this show, ever.
Evening. We’re nearing the end of the episode show, and thus, we have our various cliffhangers:
Mansilla’s made a date with Lulu to talk about her family problems, and he runs into Guido as he leaves. Guido’s like, “Dig that turtleneck, you could only be wearing that if you were up to something.”
The International Turtleneck of Getting Some.
Mansilla says he’s going out with Lulu, and Guido’s like, “No way man, she has this giant boyfriend, and he will END YOU.” Mansilla’s like, “Hold up, how do you know that?”
Papa C comes back from New York, and Mercedes is super OTT about his return. She tries to put him off calling Mia or the school, and is like, “Manuel found her, everything is chill.” Papa C’s like, “Everything is NOT chill, and I must know what made her run away!” Mercedes snaps that she’ll tell him. OR WILL SHE?
Marizza’s sleeping in the sad trailer, when she hears noises outside. The door opens and she’s like, “WHAT YOU DOING HERE?” I love how they always end on characters saying that, and it always ends up being someone they shouldn’t be surprised to see at all.
Manuel and Mia flashback to all the times they made out before this episode. Manuel gets up and finds Mia in the lounge. She’s crying, so he’s probably going to start macking on her again. Just kidding, he exercises some self-restraint this time. Manuel says that he has tell her something very important. Dun dun dun!
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