We pick up where we left off: Mia’s just overheard that Sonia and Martavio have a daughter together, and now she has to report to Marizza. Thankfully, instead of dragging it out for a million bajillion years, Mia straight up is like, “Yeah, so I heard your mom and Martavio talking, and they said they had a daughter together, what’s up with that?” Marizza immediately starts blustering that there’s no way Sonia and Martavio could have ever had a thing, so it must not be true, so thanks for the help, Mia, but she’s just gonna choose to live in denial about all of this. That’s healthy.
Manuel tries reaching Sabrina, but whoever answers tells him that she’s on vacation. Manuel promptly starts flipping his shit, because despite all his talk, he loves the validation he gets from her and is salty that she’s not around to boost his ego. Marcos notices Manuel’s weird mood, and points out that really, Sabrina fucking off and never bringing his affair up again is really the best result that Manuel could’ve asked for. Manuel’s like, “Oh. That’s true.” Still, he ominouses that he hopes she’s just on vacation, and not lying to cover up something more serious.
Sonia’s fretting to Hilda about Martavio and Marizza and Papa C and how her life is just a disaster in general. I won’t argue with that. Then Maria Jesus barges in, yelling at Sonia for getting her fired. Sonia, for her part, looks genuinely upset by this, and tells Maria Jesus that she didn’t do it. They all start arguing, even Hilda, while Blas pokes his head in and smirks. Yeah, way to fuck up the woman you were dating because she called you out on your criminal past! Blas is the worst!
Pablo rocks up to Marizza to yell at her about the photos — Marizza doesn’t respond, on account of being emo over her parentage — but then Manuel tells him that Sabrina’s run away and left them the photos, so Pablo doesn’t have to worry about them getting published anywhere. Manuel drags Pablo off, and Mia comes up to see Marizza. Marizza confesses that she’s still upset over Sonia and Martavio, and Mia offers to take her shopping. HEE! She’s so cute. Marizza’s like, “Thanks, but no thanks,” and wanders off to be emo elsewhere. Pablo’s like, “What’s up with her?” and Mia tells Manuel and Pablo that Sonia and Martavio are dating. What? Mia, you heard them mention having a daughter together, and THAT’S the conclusion you drew? I’m taking away your detective card until further notice.
Over in the courtyard, I guess Dunoff has told Pilar that he and Mama D are divorcing, because Pilar is bawling her eyes out. Dunoff is like, “The important thing here is that it’s not my fault,” to which Pilar says, “Sure, it’s never your fault, is it?” Dunoff’s like, “Yup.” Dunoff, that was sarca — you know what? Whatever.
At cheer practice, Sonia notes that Mia, Marizza, and Pilar are all missing. Pilar comes in late, and she’s distracted all through practice. She bumps into Vico and knocks her on the bruise (my God, can anyone touch Vico without hitting that bruise?), and Vico gets her newly-acquired violent tendencies on, shoving Pilar off and yelling at her. Sonia notices that Vico’s holding her shoulder (good parenting!), and makes her show her bruise in front of everyone (bad parenting!). Vico insists that the bruise is from Pilar bumping into her. Her home life is totally not abusive, not at all!
Marizza hides in a corner and has a flashback to…Papa Spirito raising her? It’s hard to tell because of A) all the lens flare and B) we haven’t seen Papa Spirito in like a hundred episodes. Anyway, Pablo comes by and notices her being sad. “Parents, huh?” he says. He bitters about how his dad has a new girlfriend, which, is this really the time, Pablo? Like, did you come here to comfort Marizza or not? “When did we grow up?” Marizza emos. “Things were so much easier before.” Ha! Teenagers are so cute. Pablo tells her that even though she’s crazy, she’s stronger than all the rest of them. AWWW. Their moment is broken up by Lola, who wants to hang out with Pablo. Pablo tries to tell her that he’s busy, and calls her “Marizza” in the process of blowing her off. YIKES.
Sonia comes up to Rocco and says she wants to talk to him. “Me? A cheerleader? NEVER,” he says. Heh. Sonia tells him about Vico’s bruise (way to spread it around her classmates, Sonia), and asks if he knows anything about it, since they’re besties and all. “I always see you together,” she chirps. That’s because he’s stalking her, Sonia. Anyway, she asks Rocco to try to talk to Vico about it, and he agrees.
Papa C swings by the school, and naturally Mia gossips to him about Sonia and Martavio going out. Papa C is like, “EXCUSE?”
Rocco tells Vico that Sonia thinks Vico should go to the doctor — she thinks Vico has anemia, how very Spring Awakening of her — and that Sonia wants Rocco to go with her. Vico’s like, “Wow, that’s the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” Rocco gets fed up and snaps that he knows SOMEONE hit her, and he wants to know who it is. Vico yells at him to leave her alone, and finally Marcos rolls up and has to break them up. He tells Rocco that something’s happening with the rival rugby team, whatever, I don’t really care, and Rocco’s like, “Tell the Mexican that I’m not going,” and Marcos is like, “Who’s the Mexican?” Marcos, were you asleep all through season 1?
Lujan frets to Laura that Sonia and Martavio dating is weird and is making things weird for Marizza. She’s not wrong. Laura’s like, “Maybe Mia heard wrong?” “She’s dumb, and she’s shallow, but she’s not deaf,” Lujan says. That was ALMOST a compliment, and I’m choosing to interpret it as such, because Lujan and Mia are my faves. Then Francisco walks by, and he spots Laura. He grabs her face and kisses her, then keeps walking. Lujan’s all like, “OMG!!! That was so cute! Was there tongue?” My God, Lujan. Laura’s like, “No, I hate him, and that was GROSS.”
Augustina gushes to Lola about how adorable Guido is and how much she loves him, because she is a sad, sad girl. Lola, on the other hand, is emo over Pablo. It’s almost like she’s just a decoy love interest until he gets back together with Marizza 🙁 Who could’ve seen this coming 🙁
Marizza storms into the teachers’ lounge and confronts Sonia and Martavio. She knows they’re dating! Martavio’s all set to deny it, but Sonia’s like, “Yup, you caught us, we’re in love, for the first time ever, and we never had a kid together.” Seriously, is Marizza just skating over the part where Mia heard Sonia and Martavio talking about their kid? Maybe she’s repressing it because the thought is too depressing. I can understand that. Martavio gets up in Sonia’s face and creeps that she doesn’t want Marizza to find out the truth about her parents, because Sonia’s afraid that Marizza might want to live with Martavio instead.
WHY! DOES MARTAVIO’S DUMB ASS THINK THAT HE HAS HAS PARENTAL RIGHTS TO MARIZZA, EVEN THOUGH HE LITERALLY JUST DISCOVERED HER EXISTENCE FIVE MINUTES AGO! AAAAGH.
Papa C walks in just as Sonia and Martavio are putting their faces wayyy too close together, and he’s like, “Hey, that used to be our move.” Sonia stomps out, and Papa C snarks at Martavio that he and Sonia are over, so Martavio should “enjoy her.” EWWW. Papa C, why you gotta be like this?
The rival rugby team spies on Elite Way, and is weirded out to see that they’re actually kind of good. Omg, could Elite Way be cheating, too? COULD THEY ALL BE CHEATING? I swear to God, you guys, this subplot puts together sports and the male characters, aka my two least favorite things on the planet. I fell asleep a little watching this. The rival rugby team and their evil coach plot to throw a party before the game, so they can get the Elite Way guys drunk or whatever and put them at a disadvantage. I care so little I almost passed out. Dunoff doesn’t want to let them throw a party, but then Etchamendi calls, yelling that the Uruguayan team has complained about their treatment, and he wants Dunoff to kiss their asses to appease them. Dunoff hangs up, and he’s like, “Party it is!” He tells Sonia that she, Martavio, and Blas have to be there as representatives of Elite Way — wow, that is the saddest representation ever — and Sonia invites Gloria, too, because she’s a good wingman even though the rugby coach is a douche.
Mia is selling raffle tickets for the cheer squad. Aren’t raffles in this school illegal? Oh my God, whatever. Everything is made up and the points don’t matter. Manuel and Rocco ask her if she knows what’s up with Vico. Mia is all shocked to hear that they think Vico’s dad is abusive (wow, I would’ve loved to see how they got to that conclusion), but they yell at her that Vico can’t be left at that house any longer, until she comes around and agrees with them. Blas rocks up and says that the boys have to be at the rugby party, so Mia offers to go to Vico’s house herself. Manuel and Rocco are like, “That’s the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” They make her promise to wait until tomorrow, when they can all go together. Literally the second they walk off, Mia asks Feli to cover for her so she can go to Vico’s house.
Sol and Belen are all twitterpated over the party. Belen wonders what she should wear, like there’s an outfit on this earth that will make anyone care about her character. Sorry, them’s the facts. Pilar doesn’t hop on the excitement train, because she’s upset over her parents. Pilar snaps at Sol that she’s selfish and doesn’t care about anyone but herself, and Pilar’s done with her. Didn’t…Pilar just have this conversation with her? Whatever. Sol snarls that Pilar doesn’t know who she’s messing with, and she immediately runs off to tattle to Tomás that Pilar likes him. Sol, I know you weren’t here in season 1, but that’s not gonna be embarrassing at all. Tomás and Pilar have already dated! It’s so hard actually remembering what happened on this show, when the writers don’t care at all ;_; Anyway, Tomás is like, “Uh-huh, sure,” and blows her off, so Sol sets about talking shit about Pilar to everyone else who will listen. Admittedly, that’s just like, Fernanda, but still.
Sonia frets to Hilda about her whole Martavio/Marizza/Papa C situtation, and Hilda’s like, “You know, there’s never gonna be a good time for you to be like, ‘Hey, Marizza, your whole life is a lie,’ so you might as well do it now.”
Guido tells Tomás that he and Augustina have matching necklaces now, and Tomás is like, “This is really embarrassing for you.” Augustina rocks up and tells Guido that she has another present for him, and Guido’s like, “Leeching off my girlfriend is the best!” She tells him that she’ll only give him the present if he tells her the truth: does Pablo like Marizza? Guido admits that Pablo and Marizza used to have a thing, which is obvious to anyone with eyes, but whatever. He makes Augustina promise not to tell Lola. Augustina immediately runs off to tell Lola. Heh. Poor Lola wails that Pablo must still like Marizza — otherwise why would he have mixed up their names? — and she’s tired of nobody loving her.
Sonia sits Marizza down so they can have a serious talk, right in the middle of the school hallway. Why don’t any of these people seem to have their own houses? Anyway, Marizza snaps at her that she’s tired of Sonia messing around in her life — she’s coaching the cheer squad at HER school, and dating HER teacher. Sonia blusters that she wants to be involved in Marizza’s life, and Marizza’s all, “It’s too late to apologize!” (IT’S TOO LAAAAATE~) She’s all salty over Sonia working so much when Marizza was little, which made Marizza feel abandoned. Sonia cries that she just wanted to give Marizza a good future, and Marizza’s all, “I don’t care about money!” which is easy for her bougie ass to say, but whatever. Then Sonia’s like, “I wanted you to grow up independently, without boundaries,” to which Marizza says, “Well, maybe I needed boundaries.” OH MY GOD, SOMEONE FINALLY ADMITS IT! Marizza snaps that all she wanted was a family, like all her friends have. What? Lujan is an orphan, Mia has a workaholic single parent too, Pablo has a single abusive parent, and Manuel doesn’t even remember that his mom and tiny lisping sister are alive. Who in this school has a functional family, Marizza?
Francisco comes into the cafeteria as Laura and Lujan are sitting there, and Laura’s like, “There he is! Lujan, go beat him up for me.” Hee. Lujan’s like, “Why?” and Laura’s like, “Aren’t you the violent one? Isn’t that like your whole character?” Lujan’s like, “True,” and threatens Francisco into staying away from Laura. Heh. You can’t resist your true nature forever, Lujan!
For some reason, Guido is on board with this whole Tomás/Pilar thing, and he makes Tomás go talk to her. They’re cutely awkward around each other, and Pilar offers to help Tomás with the homework. Fernanda spies on them from behind her magazine and runs off to tell Sol. She’s like, “Was your plan with this whole Tomás/Pilar thing actually to get them together, because that’s what’s happening.” Sol sweet talks Fernanda into helping her. Why is Fernanda falling for this? Why do these girls want to be Sol’s friend so badly? Literally her entire character arc has been her revealing how evil she is, over and over.
Mia goes to Vico’s house, and before he opens the door, Vico’s dad creeps to himself, “What a nice present my daughter’s sent me.” EW! Some guy stops Vico’s dad before he opens the door, and Vico’s dad tells him to hide. “Do you think people aren’t going to find out that you’re drunk?’ the guy asks. I don’t know who this dude is supposed to be. A caretaker? Whatever. Anyway, he tells Vico’s dad to go to sleep, while he feeds Mia BS about how Vico and her dad don’t have any problems at all, and why doesn’t she run along back to school now? Mia’s all like, “I’m glad to hear that nothing’s wrong at all!” and hops off, all appeased.
Back at school, Rocco asks Feli where Mia is, and Feli not at all subtly blows him off. Rocco is suspicious, and asks Vico if she knows. Vico doesn’t, either, and Rocco takes the opportunity to ask her to go to the rugby party with him. Vico’s like, “LOL, no,” and walks off. Then Mia comes back, and chirps to Rocco that she talked to Vico’s dad’s friend, and everything’s fine! That dude was absolutely telling the truth, and there’s no way he was lying! Rocco loses his shit and storms off, and Mia’s like, “Okay, that’s weird, but okay.”
Night falls, and everyone gets ready to go to the party. Sol sneaks over to the boys’ rooms, and tells Tomás not to go to the party with Pilar, because she’s obsessed with him and is probably going to stalk him all night. Then Gloria gives Tomás a note, purportedly from Pilar, that says that he’s going to be hers FOREVER. Tomás is not a little weirded out by this, and when Pilar comes by to leave with him for the party, he snaps at her that he’s not going with her. Aw, poor Pilar.
Feli and Vico are getting ready, but Vico is emo over the party, as Rocco might be there to harrass her. Then Gloria comes in, and Feli and Vico cutely hype her up. Aw! Gloria tells Vico there’s a call for her, and she and Feli leave. It’s Vico’s dad, naturally, and Vico freaks out when he tells her that Mia came by the house.
Marcos and Lujan bump into each other on their way out, and they’re about to get into a fight when Marcos’s dad shows up. He tells Marcos that something has happened to his mom, and of course Lujan is like, “Tell me more!”
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