Previously on Rebelde Way: Lola got it into her head that Marizza is her “invisible friend”, despite there being literally no proof to support that. And now she holds in her hands a new letter from her pen pal, basically saying, “LOL, of course I’m not Marizza, you dumbass.” “I told you,” Dante says, having sneaked his way back into the cast after like ten episodes of absence.
And then Lola decides that Marizza’s just messing with her, and she really is her invisible friend after all. For fuck’s sake, Lola!
Meanwhil, Andres told Sonia that he hasn’t been able to find a single trace of an Octavio Andrade. Sonia promptly flips out, as is her wont. She wants to go to Martavio’s house and investigate, but Andres tells her to back off and leave everything to him. What? Andres couldn’t detect his way out of a paper bag.
Feli confronts Sol about stealing her date. She says “Alan” (ah, so that’s his name) told her everything, and she wants the truth from Sol now. Sol looks conflicted…and then a ball hits her face repeatedly, crumpling up the image and transitioning us into the next scene. The special effects on this show are so weird.
We shift over to Pablo bouncing a ball off the walls of his room. Tomás comes in, and Pablo yells at him for hanging out with Ana. She’s a snitch! Tomás swallows and fesses up: Ana didn’t tell God and everybody about the enema; Tomás did. Pablo drops the ball: Tomás…betrayed him? Well, that is a thing that has never happened before! Tomás bleats that he didn’t mean to, it just came out. “You’re an idiot!” Pablo yells at him. Duh, Pablo, are you new? Pablo is all pissed at him and storms out.
Back in Mia’s room, Sol’s successfully BSed her way out of Feli’s anger, making up some shit about how she knew Alan was bad for her or whatever. Feli tries to stand her ground, but then Sol says that as proof of her friendship, she’s going to leave the campaign for Feli. The…campaign that she didn’t get? Oh, Sol. Feli’s dumb ass starts to believe her.
Lola posts her reply back to her invisible friend, and once she’s gone, Laura picks it up. Dante and Bianca, spying not at all subtly from behind a pillar, are all like, “OMG, that’s not Marizza!” Dante wants to tell Lola right away, but Bianca snaps at him that they have to keep their mouths shut.
Manuel’s still sitting in front of the computer, whining at Mia to come back. Manuel? If she’s logged out, she can’t hear you. Francisco rocks up, and can I mention how weirdly he resembles Børns? I honestly can’t even tell you what Børns looks like, because every time I try to visualize him, he keeps morphing into Francisco Bass. Anyway, Francisco trying to ask Manuel’s advice on how to ask Sabrina out, and Manuel’s like, “Dude, I have problems of my own right now.” Francisco’s solution is to impersonate Feli all, “Omg, you’ll never guess what that idiot Sol did!” Hee. Mia doesn’t reply, and Francisco’s like, “Yeah, guess she’s gone. Anyway, back to my problems.” Manuel’s like, “Mia’s out with some other guy right now! I must yell at her! Even though I’ve been running around town with another girl for the past three episodes!”
Maria Jesus whines to Blas about how Sonia’s stealing her class, and asks him who he thinks is better: her or Sonia? “You, always,” Blas creeps at her. Ew. I mean, I guess I should be glad that Maria Jesus is his age, at least. Then Maria Jesus spies some notes on Gloria’s desk, which turn out to be from the fourth year students. Blas reads them and shrieks, “No puede ser!”
Marizza tells Laura and Lujan that her plan to get Hilda to move back in failed. They’re interrupted by Blas, who wants to come in. “No, we’re waxing ourselves,” Marizza calls. Pfft, like that’s supposed to stop him? Blas comes barging in and drags Lujan out, for…reasons. Whatever. After they leave, Laura tells Marizza that she’s Lola’s invisible friend, but Lola thinks that her friend is Marizza. “You’re such an idiot,” Marizza groans. Laura wails that she just didn’t want Lola to feel alone, since their parents hate her and their grandma won’t talk to her. Uh, the only reason your grandma won’t talk to her is because you told her not to, Laura. Whatever. And then there’s Francisco, who keeps blowing Lola off for Laura. Marizza tells Laura not to worry about that, as Francisco’s all in love with Sabrina now, and Laura gets all salty and jealous. Marizza advises Laura to just stop with this stupid invisible friend BS before Lola finds out it’s her.
Blas drags Lujan into the teachers’ lounge and yells at her for letting her grades slip. He starts grabbing her and shaking her and yelling WHY AREN’T YOU GETTING GOOD GRADES?? YOU’LL NEVER GET INTO A GOOD COLLEGE LIKE THIS! YOU ARE NOT BRINGING HONOR TO US ALL! Marcos and Fernanda just happen to be walking by, and Marcos rushes to Lujan’s defense. “If I don’t let go of her, are you going to hit me?” Blas asks. So Marcos does. Yes! I live for bad things happening to Blas!
Marcos and Blas start fighting, while Fernanda starts crying and shrieking for them to stop. “Do something!” she yells at Lujan. What, are you incapable of moving yourself, Fernanda? She’s the worst. Lujan grabs a fire extinguisher and hoses the boys down, and Blas and Fernanda run out in all the confusion. Lujan and Marcos are conveniently left alone, and Lujan tells Marcos not to help her anymore. “Forget about me like I’ve forgotten about you,” she snaps. Then she dumps the fire extinguisher on him. Heh.
Tomás tells Ana that he fessed up to Pablo, and Ana’s like, “Good job! You’re doing so well!” Is she going to give him a gold star sticker? Then Pablo comes by and apologizes to Ana and Tomás, and they all make up. Pablo and Tomás talk more about Pablo’s money problems — Pablo still needs cash, but Tomás refuses to go back to the butcher shop. So…don’t? Pablo needs the money, not you. Tomás suggests Pablo sublet his apartment instead, since it’s not like he has to live here. Did Tomás just invent Airbnb?
Back at her house, Sonia wails to Andres that she’s scared, and Andres oh-so-generously offers to stay overnight with her. But then the door opens and Hilda walks in! Sonia sees her bags and squeals that she’s moving back in, and she and Hilda hug. Andres’s boner is all sad. Hilda says the whole mess with the hobo was just a joke by Marizza, and Andres is like, “Did she tell you she had an accomplice?” and Hilda’s like, “What?” and Sonia’s like, “What?” and Andres is like, “What? Nevermind.” He leaves, and Hilda says she’ll stay with one condition: that Sonia let her help discipline Marizza. Sonia’s like, “Yeah, I probably do need help on that front.”
The next day. Sol rocks up to Pilar, Vico, and Feli, and Vico snarks at her, “Why don’t you us a favor and make some tea with poison, and then drink it?” Damn. Sol is all hurt, and Vico snaps at her that she’s just treating Sol how Sol treats others. Feli thinks Vico is being mean — oh my God, love yourself, Feli! — and insists that Sol is her friend. She’s going to leave her campaign for Feli! Vico’s like, “Uh-huh, sounds legit.” Pilar sides with Vico, and offers to go investigate Sol and see if she’s really planning to ditch the campaign.
Sol calls Pablo the Model Agent and pretends to be Mia. She tells him she can’t do the campaign, because she actually has moles all over her body and they’re really ugly. So, no can do on the campaign, bye! Pilar sneaks up behind her under the guise of signing up to be a cheerleader — Sol says she wants to sign up too, and Pilar says she won’t have time, what with the campaign and all. Sol tells her that she’s given up the campaign for…personal reasons. Hmm.
Then Pablo hustles by them and puts his “For Rent” sign up on the bulletin board. Hilariously, he’s just written, “Room for Rent. Great for parties or whatever.” Sol and Pilar exchange a weird glance. You can’t tell me they’re thinking of moving in together.
Manuel is still keysmashing away at the computer, like that’s going to get Mia to log in. Fucking MSN, how does it work? Francisco comes up and tells Manuel they have to get going. Laura rocks up and tries to talk to Francisco about their homework, and Francisco blows her off hella passive-aggressively, sniping at her that he’s tired of doing what she wants. If the word “friendzone” had been around in 2003, he would’ve used it right about now. Francisco drags Manuel off, and Laura’s all hurt.
Pilar tells Feli that Sol was telling the truth about the campaign, and Feli runs off to go suck up to Sol. “Like I said, I would do anything for you to believe me,” Sol says, and Feli falls all over herself, saying, “You’re so good! So good!” Jesus Christ, Feli. Then Sol cries that she wishes she could be a cheerleader like Feli, but she can’t, because she’s not in Sonia’s class. Feli says she’ll find a way to get Sol onto the squad, and Sol squeals that they’re such good friends. “I’m not Vico, or Mia,” she tells Feli. “I have a different concept of friendship.” Indeed.
Fernanda and Belen are checking on Marcos’s injuries, when Blas comes in and tells Marcos to go see Dunoff. Fernanda says she and Lujan will testify that Blas attacked Marcos, but Marcos is all, “I regret nothing!” He walks off, and poor naive Belen is all, “We must find Lujan!” Fernanda’s like, “No, dumbass, we’re not gonna tell her.” She cackles that Marcos will think Lujan doesn’t care, and that will leave room for Fernanda to ingratiate herself to him. “Why?” derps Belen. “Because I like Marcos,” Fernanda says, and Belen’s all shocked. What? I thought she knew! I thought everyone knew!
Sonia tells Hilda that Octavio Andrade is using a false name. She wants to go check out his house — and in order to do that, she has to steal his key, so if Hilda could be her lookout while she does that, that would be awesome. Hilda’s like, “Excuse?” but of course she gets roped into it anyway. Hee.
Rocco tells Feli that he thinks something weird is going on with Vico. Feli’s all like, “Whatever, nerd,” but then Rocco produces Vico’s friendship bracelet, and the receipt from the shop where she pawned it. Man, he came prepared. Feli wants to know what Vico would need money for, and Rocco says she’s using it for drugs. He insists that’s what Vico told him, but Feli doesn’t believe him. Rocco’s like, “Well, if not for drugs, then why does she need money?” Feli’s like, “Okay, that is pretty weird.”
Gloria finds a complaint about Sonia’s class on her desk, apparently demanding that the class and the cheerleading squad be shut down. What? That’s like the only extracurricular this entire school has! Gloria, who you’ll recall got a self-esteem boost from Sonia’s class, clutches her pearls at the thought of the class being canceled. Then Martavio comes in, and Hilda fakes a heart spasm or whatever so Sonia can steal his key.
Fernanda barges into Dunoff’s office and tells Dunoff that Blas was being mean to Lujan. Dunoff’s like, “Abuse against a student! I am outraged!” What? You’re never outraged by Blas’s misbehavior, Dunoff. Don’t try to play like this. Dunoff asks where Lujan is, and Fernanda’s like, “Idk, I guess she doesn’t like Marcos enough to show up.” Marcos is all crushed, but Fernanda smiles at him and he smiles back.
Maria Jesus tries to needle Sonia all, “Someone complained about your class and now you’re getting shut down and I’ll get my P.E. class back, SO THERE,” but Sonia’s got Martavio’s key and she’s all, “Can’t talk, Maria Jesus! Later!”
Fernanda goes back to her room and tells Marizza and Laura that Lujan’s failing like, everything, and Blas is pissed at her. Marizza jumps to Lujan’s defense, and says that Lujan’s going out with some new guy, so she’s way too distracted to pay attention in school. And this lie definitely won’t blow up in anyone’s face! Aaand cut to Lujan, crying over Marcos. She confesses to Marizza that Luciano isn’t real, and she just made him up so no one would pity her. Marizza’s like, “I would never pity you! But, uh, I might have told a few people that you had a boyfriend, so, whoops.”
The keys Sonia stole don’t work on the building door, and the landlord won’t let her in. She sees a woman going in, and offers to help her with her bags. She’s all, “Ugh, manual labor!”, but sucks it up to get inside. She finds Martavio’s apartment, and is all, “Holy shit!”, because inside, his table is COVERED with pictures of Sonia and Marizza. Yeah, that’s pretty weird. That’s some serial killer shit. Martavio’s dog starts growling at her, and Sonia runs away before she can look at anything else.
(By the way, Tiempo, Erreway’s new album, is out! You can buy it on CD or cassette! God, this show is ancient.)
Lola’s left a letter and a present for her “invisible friend.” Laura feels guilty about leading her on, but then Lujan hustles her and Marizza off to gym class. Maria Jesus has taken over the squad, which Marizza is not happy about at all. Feli asks if they can add Sol to the squad, and Vico’s immediately like, “Aw, hell no.” Maria Jesus is like, “Whatever, you guys vote on it, I’m going to go be somewhere that’s not here.” Sol thinks that Pilar, Belen, and Fernanda will vote for her, but they decide not to, and let her think that the other girls voted against her. Despite this, Sol still gets enough “yes” votes to be let on the squad. What? Besides Feli, who the hell voted for her?
Sabrina shows up to the school, and she tells Manuel and Pablo that her dad wants to meet with them tomorrow. She tells them to come up with 2 uptempo songs and a ballad to present to him. Then Francisco comes in and tells Manuel that Mia’s logged back in, and Manuel nearly knocks his chair over running away. Francisco’s like, “Sup” to Sabrina. I guess he’s choosing to ignore her staring after Manuel.
Lola is all bummed to see that her invisible friend hasn’t picked up her letter. And she told Marizza it was there! Dante rocks up and he’s like, “Seriously, your invisible friend is NOT MARIZZA, GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD.” He says he’ll tell her who it really is, if she goes somewhere quieter with him. Uh, Lola? I think he’s just trying to hit on you. Dante takes Lola to some stairwell and says he’ll tell her who her friend is if she kisses him. What did I say? Lola gets all offended and leaves, and Dante’s like, “Well, now I’ll never tell you! So there!”
Manuel’s Skyping with Mia, whatever the 2003 equivalent of Skype is. She chirps that she was out with some guy named Pierre, which is only the most obvious French name ever, but Manuel falls for it and gets all jealous. Mia goes on about how much fun she and Pierre have together, while Manuel gets madder and madder. Francisco and Sabrina spy on them, and Sabrina’s all, “Where his girlfriend at? Is she hefty? Is she tall? Is she getting him Mike n Ikes? Oh, does he like Mike n Ikes?” Francisco says Manuel and Mia are actually really cute together, despite their current shouting match, and Sabrina’s like, “Hmm.”
Pablo finds Marizza and tells her that they have the afternoon off tomorrow. “Thanks for reminding me! You can go now,” Marizza chirps. Heh. Pablo tells her that they have the meeting with Sabrina’s dad tomorrow, and Marizza says they can’t go: Mia’s not here. “I mean, she’s an idiot, but there’s four of us. The four of us have to go.” Aw, Marizza cares. Kind of. Pablo says that he and Manuel have already decided, and Marizza’s like, “Too bad,” and flounces off. A couple of girls come up to Pablo to inquire about his apartment, and Marizza’s like, “Say what?” but he hustles them off before she can find out.
Sonia makes Gloria look through Martavio’s file to find…his social security number? I don’t know, it’s some kind of ID number, and it turns out that “Octavio’s” number is the same as Martin Andrade’s. They’re the same person! But…how did Sonia even find Martin’s? Wasn’t she under the impression that she was in Octavio’s apartment? Whatever. Martavio walks in at just that moment, and Sonia confronts him, and he’s just all, “You’re crazy, bye.”
Sabrina tells Francisco to get her something to drink, and he leaves her alone with Manuel. Oh, dear. She starts needling Manuel about how Mia doesn’t really seem his type, and she’s sure their relationship is totally fine but wow, they sure are fighting a lot, and how can he know what Mia’s up to with that guy in France? She’s sure Mia’s not cheating on Manuel, though. He’s such a catch, being such a mature, thoughtful guy. Sabrina tells him that he should live each day like it’s the last. “That’s what I’m doing,” Manuel says, as they lean in closer to each other. Oh, hell no!
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