Previously on Rebelde Way: Manuel collapsed, again, some more. Everyone was concerned about it, again, some more. Whatever, guys! He’s been hit on the head so many times I’m amazed it took this long to get to this point.
Anyway, Mia frets over him but Manuel picks himself right back up. He’s all, “How very dare you all be concerned about me!” and stumbles off. Ugh. Just let him die, you guys!
Back at Sonia’s house, she and Marizza finally talk it out. Well, actually, they talk about Sonia’s sob story childhood first: Sonia reveals that her mom was her dad’s third mistress, and her grandma didn’t approve of her existence and kicked Sonia out when she was fifteen. Sonia cries that she’s just like her mother and grandmother, because she couldn’t give Marizza a proper family, either. Marizza’s like, “Okay, let’s not exaggerate.” They sniffle all over each other and are about to make up, but then Hilda comes in and tells Sonia that she has a meeting. Sonia hustles off, but Marizza says that she’ll stay and wait for her.
Guido, Pablo, and Tomás are hanging out. This never ends well. Guido says that he found a letter in their room; he’s sure it’s from Augustina, begging to get back together with him. Don’t do her any favors, Guido. He starts reading the letter and tugging at his collar because it’s just SOOO STEAMY. He’s like, “Damn you guys, my 10th-grade girlfriend is NASTY AS HELL.” He passes the letter around and Pablo and Tomás start tugging their collars (this is a running gag, obvs) and they’re all like, “Damn, Augustina is FREAKY.” What? She’s 15 years old! It does not occur to any of them that this letter might’ve been written by, you know, that 20-year-old waitress Guido’s also been dicking around with. Guido decides that he has to get back together with Augustina so he can try out whatever weird kinky shit is in that letter.
Laura confronts Lujan over her crying jag, and Lujan insists that she was crying over Blas, not Marcos. I mean, she broke up with Marcos about a million years ago while Blas still emotionally abuses her every day; I don’t know why no one considered this before. Anyway, Lujan vagues that like, she’s just got stuff going on with him and Laura’s like, “Okay, whatever.” Then Lola rocks up and tells Lujan that she’s found out that her mom’s moved to…Jujuy? Full disclosure, I thought she was saying kukui. Lujan says that Lola should write to her.
Sonia comes back from her meeting to see Marizza asleep on the couch, having fallen asleep waiting for her. Papa C comes in and Sonia shoos him out before Marizza can wake up and find out that they’re together. Papa C pretty cutely slinks out at Sonia’s behest. All jokes aside, I love them together. When Marizza wakes up, she and Sonia talk about their feelings and hug it out. Marizza gives a long ass voiceover (with flashbacks to season 1! See, I know they remember that it happened, they just won’t acknowledge any of it!) about how parents aren’t perfect and they’re just trying their best, and we should love them unless they’re actually abusive like Papa B. I guess it’s a pretty nice speech if you’re a teenager and need to hear these things — I mean, I can’t really relate, as I stopped feeling like my parents dIdN’t UnDeRsTaNd mE about 10 years ago, but it’s nice nevertheless. Anyway, Sonia and Marizza have made up and it’s quite sweet.
The next day, Rocco’s immediately having misgivings over dating Vico. Dammit, Rocco! I love you two together! Don’t ruin this for me! Vico hasn’t told her friends yet and isn’t sure when she will, since Mia and Feli are each having their respective meltdowns over their own issues. Rocco immediately interprets this as Vico being ashamed of him — she tries to reassure him that she wants to be public with their relationship, but he gets all passive-aggressive about how they should just not tell ANYONE AT ALL.
Papa B swings by to cackle and plot with Dunoff. Dunoff’s like, “I have come up with a brilliant plan to get rid of Martavio! I’ll reassign him to the first year class, and then he’ll stop hanging out with Pablo!” and Papa B’s like, “What? No, we should fire him from this school ALTOGETHER, keep up.”
Marizza goes back to school, and everyone is in the middle of art class. Vico stands up to announce that she and Rocco are dating, and Rocco is blushingly happy to be acknowledged in public. Aw!!! I love them!!! The class all claps for the affirmation of Rocco’s heterosexuality.
Michi comes in and tells Martavio that Papa B is here to see him, and then Papa B himself shows up. He’s like, “Shouldn’t you be at your desk?” and Michi bleats that as the receptionist, her job is to like…show up to classrooms…and hand out envelopes…and stuff. A red envelope for Guido falls out of her binder, and Guido’s like, “More sexually explicit correspondence for me, a teenager, from my 20-year-old girlfriend who I think is my 15-year-old girlfriend!” He reads it and insists that he has to find Augustina RIGHT NOW, before his dick explodes or whatever.
Papa B announces that the homophobic guys have been arrested, and everyone cheers. Francisco cheers the loudest, which is weird because he definitely called Rocco a f*g at one point and I don’t think he ever felt bad about that.
Papa C and Sonia celebrate Marizza not hating her mom anymore. Heh. Give it a few weeks, guys. Papa C thinks now would be a splendid time to also tell Marizza that they’re engaged. Sonia’s like, “Aw, hell no!” and points out that Mia still hasn’t taken it well. Papa C says that he talked with Mia and figured out that she has serious mommy issues; Sonia volunteers to talk to Mia herself. Then they start talking about the house they’re going to buy together, and Papa C says the interior designer is a genius, but he wants it to be a surprise for Sonia. Let me guess: she’s going to hate it.
Lola’s found out from some guy who knows her mom that her mom has been very sick — that’s why she moved — and she might be dead. Lujan’s like, “That’s such a cop-out, just suck it up and write to her.” But more nicely.
In the cafeteria, Vico tells Mia and Feli that she told Rocco that she loved him and he reciprocated, and now they’re together! Mia ships it, but Feli is all sexist about how the man should be the one to say “I love you” first. Feli has very high expectations for someone who’s never been in a relationship longer than like two weeks. Anyway, Manuel comes in and orders some food while whining about his headache some more. Mia overhears this and starts fretting over him.
Marizza comes up and asks Mia what she was going to tell her earlier. You’ll recall that Mia was all gung-ho about spilling Papa C and Sonia’s relationship to Marizza. Now that the moment is actually here, though, she punks out and starts BSing about Marizza’s hair until Lujan drags Marizza off.
Meanwhile, Pilar and Augustina are gushing over…someone. Diego? I don’t remember. Can’t say I care that much about Augustina’s love life. Anyway, Tomás rocks up and shoos Augustina off, and then he tells Pilar that she has to stop hanging out with Augustina. He’s like, “She’s a SEX PSYCHO!” What? Tomás, you’re friends with GUIDO. And Francisco is your cousin! SIT DOWN. Pilar rightly snaps at him that if she has to put up with his janky friends, he can deal with her friendship with Augustina. Ha! I love that Tomás thought he could intimidate Pilar, of all people.
Apparently, Blas has tasked Lujan with writing him an essay about her bio mom, to prove to him that she found out the whole sordid truth about her family and that she feels properly shamed. Lujan has instead borrowed Lola’s mom’s sob story and intends on passing it off as her own. She obviously didn’t take into account how, apart from both being poor and giving up their kids, Lola and Lujan’s moms are two different people. (Weirdly, Lujan says that HER mom was a good person, while Lola’s mom was obviously trash. This show has such an uncomfortable attitude towards adoption.) Marizza’s like, “Whatever, Blas won’t be able to tell the difference.” I bet he will.
Mia calls Papa C and tells him that Manuel collapsed on account of his headache. Like all people on this show, Papa C is overly concerned with Manuel’s health. Can’t relate, guys.
Dunoff yells at Michi for never bothering to confirm that Martavio had credentials and she’s like, “Was I here when you hired him? No, I wasn’t, that was Gloria’s fault.” She says that she called the school that Martavio supposedly studied at — and they call back just then, saying that they’ve never had a student named Octavio Andrade. The plot thickens! Dunoff immediately runs off to tattle to Papa B, and Papa B cackles that they now have a perfectly good reason to get rid of Martavio forever. Hee. Papa B is the worst but I have been WAITING for someone to figure out that Martavio is in no way qualified to have this job.
Pablo goes to his locker and finds that Papa B has tried to buy his love with a new cell phone. It’s pretty snazzy — it’s a Nokia without an antenna! Pretty high tech for 2003! — but Pablo acts way excited about it. Doesn’t Pablo already have a cell phone? Wasn’t he texting with Marizza way before this? Whatever. He gets a call and runs off, as Sonia comes up and gushes with Martavio over making up with Marizza.
The call turns out to be from Consuelo, who wants to come by and mack it with Pablo. He tries to stop her from coming, but then he’s like, “Yeah, whatever, if you really want to, it’s fine.” Heh. Put some more effort into it, Pablo.
Tomás shows Pilar the letter from “Augustina”, and Pilar gets all hot under the collar like the boys. She insists there’s no way Augustina wrote this, and storms off to go ask her. Tomás chases after her all, “Wait, don’t ask Augustina directly! That would make too much sense!”
Meanwhile, Guido tries to make out with Augustina in the middle of the hallway and he basically assaults her. God, he’s such a fucking creep. It’s not even funny; I just hate him. Diego has to pull Guido off of Augustina, and then Diego and Augustina kind of wander offscreen while Pablo runs up to Guido and asks him to help with the Consuelo situation.
Sonia tries to talk to Mia, but Mia snaps that she’ll never accept Sonia’s relationship with Papa C. Sonia finally loses it and tells Mia to grow up, and Mia snipes that Sonia better have this same energy for Marizza, because Marizza won’t accept their relationship either. Sonia’s like, “Idk, she’s really matured in the past ten minutes.”
Pilar and Tomás show Augustina the letter, and she’s like, “Wow, I don’t even know what half of this stuff means.” Pilar’s like, “Fucking duh, Tomás.”
Pablo tries to get Mia to accept Sabrina by appealing to her ego: if they don’t get to play the Gran Rex again, Mia won’t get to sign autographs and be adored by the public! Except for their parents who still don’t seem to grasp the extent of their children’s fame! Mia’s like, “True” and agrees to play as long as they get rid of Sabrina after the show. The boys grudgingly agree to look into this option. They also try to hammer out how Pablo’s going to get around his dad, but Pablo’s like, “Whatever, I do what I want!” Marizza thinks that’s hot, and they smile at each other.
Papa C comes by to talk to Manuel about his headaches. Manuel is all pissy about it, but Manuel drags him off. Mia also leaves, and Pablo tells Marizza that he told Javier the truth about their relationship. Marizza thanks him, and there’s more exchanging of smiles. Javier walks by and gets all salty at the sight of them.
Then I guess Javier can teleport, because he suddenly pops up in the main hall, eavesdropping on Guido and Tomás. Pablo has tasked Guido with keeping an eye out for Consuelo and blowing her off once she shows up. Tomás drags him away from his post to explain to him that Augustina, a high school sophomore, is not in fact into whatever freaky shit Guido wants to try. Javier intercepts Consuelo instead.
Pablo and Marizza rehearse and make eye contact and Pablo fantasizes about kissing her — until Javier rocks up with Consuelo. Marizza immediately gets salty and bails, and Javier chirps that he’ll go off with her. Pablo is not pleased.
Lujan turns her biography of her mom in to Blas. Blas is all, “Tell me how it emotionally destroyed you to write about your mom!” but Lujan snipes at him that she felt NOTHING because she has no feelings because she’s from the streets, or whatever. Sol comes in as Blas starts to read it, and he muses to her that he doesn’t think the details in Lujan’s essay are exactly right. He tells Sol that he thinks she can help him out. Sol lights up at the thought of enabling Blas’s predatory behavior. This girl needs so much therapy, I can’t even begin to express it.
Papa C tells Manuel that he has to go to the doctor for his headaches, and Papa C plans to accompany him. Manuel whines on about how he’s TOTALLY a grownup and he can TOTALLY go to the doctor by himself. Okay, but you’re not grown enough to stop attending high school for the second time on Papa C’s dime? I don’t even know.
Guido finally puts two and two together and realizes that Andrea wrote him the letter. He asks Michi if she saw anyone bring the letter for him, and Michi’s like, “I guess I saw a girl out of uniform in the office earlier?” and Guido’s like, “Obviously it was Andrea!” Tomás facepalms, which is how you know this is bad.
Feli walks in to the cafeteria with her hair pinned all weirdly, as she’s getting ready for the party. Why she is walking around like that, I do not know. Michi tries to nudge her into wearing the red dress again, and says that she’ll go with Feli to the party to give her confidence. HA! I’m sure Feli’s mom would love that.
Javier whines to Marizza that it’s so UNFAIR that she’s forgiven Pablo but won’t forgive him. Maybe it’s because Pablo is a teenager while you’re clearly a weirdo 40-year-old, Javier. Thankfully, he’s interrupted by Mia, who runs up wanting to know if Sonia’s spoken with Marizza. Marizza’s like, “No, I didn’t even know she was here.” Mia gets all shifty and weird about Sonia again, and Marizza’s like, “Oh my God, can you just tell me what’s going on with you two?”
Papa B comes by and tells Dunoff that he’s found out who Martavio really is: some second-rate actor, whose name is really Martin! “How awful!” Dunoff gasps. Hee. Papa B goes off to put his evil plan in motion by inviting Martavio to have dinner with him and Pablo that night.
Papa C and Sonia discuss how Sonia’s little chat with Mia didn’t go over well. Maybe they should just keep this secret from them forever! They can be secretly married, too! Sonia insists that she’ll talk with Marizza alone to explain it to her. Aaaand then Mia and Marizza walk in, and Mia loudly announces that Sonia and Papa B are dating. Marizza’s like, “Say WHAT?”
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