TODAY TUESDAY ON "FALL INTO TEMPTATION"
EPISODE #20
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Santiago had slept on the couch without having changed his clothes. Lola came down the stairs in her robe. She couldn't sleep either and came down for a glass of milk. She was worried that he and her mother had argued about her going to work for Damián. Santiago told her that it wasn't about that or about her. It was about themselves.
“Maybe your mother is right. I'm a macho jerk and sometimes I get out of control.”
“No, you're not.”
“You say that because you love me.”
“So therefore do you think she doesn't love you?”
“That who doesn't love me? We'll work it out; don't worry.”
He looked at her; she did not look as though she was reassured.
“What's wrong? Why did you wake up?”
“I feel strange.”
“Is this about stuff you and your mother think I don't undertand? Is it a boyfriend?”
“That's if he is my boyfriend; I don't know.”
“Lola, you can always confide in me what you've done. You don't have to hide it. Did he do anything?” Lola shook her head. “Are you sure?
“No, nothing,” she said as she got up. “I want to get back to sleep.” Santiago wouldn't let her go.
“Stay here. Talk to your dad. What happened?” She said nothing. “We always could talk. We talked about everything. Now you're hiding it all. I'm here. Tell me.”
“We did it. Forgive me.”
She looked as though she might cry, so Santiago embraced his daughter.
“Nothing is wrong. I'm here,” he said as he held her and said reassuring words to her, telling her the guy should still respect her.
Carolina, who also had trouble sleeping, stood just outside the room and listened. She remained silent because she was in shock that Santiago was able to talk to Lola in ways that she couldn't.
The next morning Santiago drank down some coffee as Nicolás came down. There was no breakfast on the table because Carolina was still in bed. Lola was not feeling well and was staying home from school that day. The men decided to get breakfast on the way to work – or in Nico's case, school – and headed for the door. Carolina came downstairs but her “Good Morning” to Santiago fell flat. He went out the door. Just as the door closed she felt nauseous and headed for the bathroom.
Raquel was at that time trying to get her family's day started, but for her and Damián things were no better. They were as apart from each other as Carolina and Santiago. Damián suggested that they go out for dinner together that night, just the two of them. Raquel was a little suspicious. Before this was officially decided Federico came down the stairs with his books. Damián told him he was driving him to school that day. Mia came down and was pleased to hear that her father would be driving. He took her hand.
“Kisses?” Raquel asked her children.
“Mother, I'm not two years old anymore,” Mia said, without looking at her.
“See you tonight,” Damián said as they left.
A little while later Damián was working at his desk when Santiago returned to the office to see him. They spoke behind a closed door. Both apologized for their stubbornness and Damián expressed the wish that their families' closeness not be ruined by misunderstandings. Santiago agreed and said that if Lola wanted to work there it was alright with him. They shook hands and smiled.
While this was happening Juan had the unmitigated gall to visit Lola's house and introduce himself to Carolina. If Carolina had caught his predatory smile she didn't have time to act on it as Lola came down and asked him “What are you doing here?”
“He came to see you and to see how you were,” Carolina said.
“You could have sent a message,” Lola told him.
“I wanted to see. I was worried.”.
“Okay; now you've seen me.”
“If it bothers you, I'll go,” he said.
“If you'll like, I'll get you something to drink,” Carolina said.
“I'd rather we see each other tomorrow,” Lola said. “Alright?”
“Excuse the intrusion, Senora. It wasn't my intention,” Juan said to Carolina with a slight bow. “A pleasure to meet you.” He then left.
“You were a little rude,” Carolina said to Lola when he was gone.
“What does that matter?”
“Lola, you never told me you had a boyfriend.”
“Yes, well, you're always so busy so I couldn't.”
“I have time for us to talk so you can tell me what's going on with you.” She took Lola's hands. “Above all so you can forgive me. Do you want to talk with me?”
“No, because I talked with Dad. Now you can go out, can't you?”
She left Carolina alone in the kitchen. Alone to realize she had failed again with her daughter. She then took a deep breath and went out herself.
Santiago sent his workers home as Raquel came into her new kitchen. She was delighted with it but noted the issues with Damián. Santiago hoped that he would like it and told her that they had cleared up the problem.
“That's good, because I'd die if you didn't come back.” Raquel said. She put her arm around his shoulders. “I'm serious.”
“You're serious.”
“You've become someone indispensible to my life,” He looked a little ill at ease.
“Really?”
“Yes.” She released him and looked him in the eye. “What is it? Something's up.”
“No.”
“You look a little dispirited. What's going on?”
“Well, what happened is – I don't know if this is weird – that Lola talked to me. She talked about Her First Time.”
“No! With you? With you? With her father? She told you? Why?”
“I don't know.”
“How weird you must be feeling.”
“Well, no.”
“Oh, don't tell me that.”
“Well, lately she hasn't gotten along well with Carolina. Perhaps she couldn't tell her, or me either. Things are a little weird at home.”
“Let's talk about this.” She took him by the hand to lead him to the living room while callin to Jovita to make coffee.
Carolina went into a pharmacy and requested a pregnancy test. As the clerk stepped away from the counter her cell phone rang. She hesitated to answer when she saw it was Damián, but finally did.
“Damián.”
“Are you alright? Did you get home alright yesterday?”
“Yesterday was a difficult day,” she said.
The clerk returned, saying “These are the two brands we carry of home pregnancy tests.”
Carolina did not have time to mute her cell; she looked shocked, knowing that Damián could hear this at his end.
“Which do you want?”
“Whichever is better of the two.” Carolina went back to her phone. “I'll talk to you in a little while; I'm out shopping.”
“Yes, yes. Okay.” He ended the call, looking shocked.
Azucena came into Damián's office with documents he needed to sign.
“Azucena, not now, please.”
“Is there a problem?”
“I'm sorry. [???] Leave me the papers and I'll get back to you. Thanks.”
She left the office and he tried to breathe.
Carolina had gone home and used the pregnancy test. She looked at it and saw the result she didn't want. Lola knocked on the bathroom door and called for her.
“Mother, do you need anything?”
“No; I was just out.”
Lola knocked again.
“Mother, I need to talk to you.”
Carolina quickly hid the test unit under a towel and came out of the bathroom.
“What happened?”
“Forgive me,” Lola said, sounding like she was going to cry.
“What is it? What's happened to you?” She pushed back Lola's hair. “Tell me what it is. Are you alright?”
Lola shook her head and Carolina embraced her. She led her out to another room while encouraging her to talk.
Federico and Nicolás were at school, talking. Federico had discovered that Joaquin had created a false profile exactly like Mia's on Facebook and it was causing problems because it revealed that Mia was cutting herself. He didn't want to talk about it. Nico was offended, as he considered himself to be a friend, but Federico told him that this was why he didn't think that Nico should get involved with Mia, telling him again that for both his good and Mia's he should forget about her.
“But, he's older,” Carolina told Lola.
“Yes, he's older. Does that bother you? It's that guys my age are such fools.”
“No, that doesn't bother me.” She looked Lola in the eye. “Do you love him?”
“I like him.”
“Love, at times that's not enough. It's important to know lots of things about a person before having relations. It's not good to just have sex with anybody. You have to hope for better.”
“Hope? When you got pregnant so young?”
“And I didn't regret it. But if I had been more responsible and more careful we wouldn't be talking now. [???] Did you take precautions?” Lola didn't answer. “Tell me the truth. Did you protect yourself?”
Lola shook her head.
“It was only once.”
“Lola, listen. You have to know something. You are the one I love most in the world. With your father it was also the one time. You have to be responsible. You have to protect yourself because it's not just that you can get pregnant. You could also catch diseases.” Her cell rang and she checked it but didn't answer.
“You should answer.”
“No, I'm turning it off for now.” She then turned it off to continue the conversation.
Santiago and Raquel had coffee in the dining room. They both drank it black.
“We met at a [???]. I don't know, it was something overwhelming. We were together all the time, laughing and.... the first time we did it she became pregnant.”
“The first time?” Raquel asked. “No! How odd, but it's a blessing.”
“Maybe.”
“Now, I worked with Damián in the business. We got married and I got pregnant shortly thereafter. Does that sound crazy?”
“Not as much as you think.”
“Actually I think you and I are very fortunate.”
“Yes, I know.” He looked away. His tone said he thought otherwise.
“We're with people who love us and after all this time we're still together.”
Damián paced in his office, then finally gave in and took out his cell. He started calling Carolina but put his phone down when Miriam entered his office.
“Damián, when are you going to tell these beasts you call workers that we can't go on without water?” she asked.
“Mother, not now, please.”
“Son, yes, now. Do I have to remind you that we are losing a lot of money?”
“Very well, wait a minute.”
“What are you going to say?”
He left the office, leaving his cell phone on the desk and ignoring her question.
“Therefore, Dad was the first?” Lola asked.
“Yes. I was so in love with him. I always loved seeing him. Your father has such beautiful eyes, doesn't he? I always had butterflies in my stomach when I was with him.”
“And now?”
“Now, after all those years it's different. It transformed into something much calmer, much more profound. Not quite as passionate.”
“And what if Dad suddenly developed this passion again for someone else? Are you ever afraid something like that can happen?”
“Well, I trust your father.”
“Therefore he was the first and the only?”
“Yes, I told you he was the first.” She smiled.
“Well, if Dad was the first and the only how would you know when he got the invitation? How do you know when you feel love?”
“Well, it's when the only thing you want is to be with that person. Because you think you will die if you are separated from him and you'd like everything else to disappear for this.”
“Well, I hope I will be in love the way you were in love with Dad.”
Carolina smiled at Lola and kissed her cheek. Her smile disappeared shortly thereafter.
Nicolás went into the bathroom and washed his hands. When he dried them on the towel hanging on the wall he found the pregnancy test stick with its results on display. In her haste, Carolina had not hidden it entirely under the towel on the shelf. He came out of the bathroom and overheard his mother and sister in his sister's room.
“Therefore, you're going to protect yourself?”
“Yes. I'll take precautions and thanks for listening to me.”
“I love you. You need to take care of yourself, be responsible,”
Nicolás stepped away from the door, not wanting either to know he had been eavesdropping.
“You promise?”
“I promise.”
“Good.”
“Is this other chapter as good? You're patient, but to be the only man in someone's life as you said isn't bad, understand me, but to to regret not having another life, work –”
“What do you want to say? That that was premature?”
“I didn't say anything!”
“I never was with another woman.”
“What?” Raquel could not quite believe this. “Wait, look me in the eyes. You don't seem to be a liar but you've never even thought of another woman? Not even another thought?”
“No. No.”
Based on his manner, Raquel had no reason to believe he wasn't telling the truth. However, it was difficult to think he had never had opportunities.
Lola was looking out her bedroom window when Nicolás came in.
“I was right,” he said. “You fooled around with that idiot teacher of yours.”
“What are you talking about?”
“This.” He held up the test stick.
Meanwhile, Carolina was in the bathroom looking for it. She panicked when it wasn't where she knew she had left it and looked under the other shelves and behind the wicker unit. Even in the drawer. She took out her cell.
Azucena returned to Damián's office for the folder with the documents and noticed the screen on Damián's cell, which was still on the desk. Damián was telling the workers to fix the water problem. Augustin told him that they could have it done overnight if they were there when nothing else was going on. Azucena found him and told him he had a message. Her expression said that she was perhaps another keeper of his secret. He took his phone into his office and Carolina called him before he could read her message.
“What's going on?”
“Damián, I'm losing my mind. When I was talking to you I bought a pregnancy test and now it's not here. It was in the bathroom and now it's not. I've very afraid that my children will find it.”
Damián looked out his office window into the corridor and turned around. “You know, I think it would be better to go to a lab. I'll take you to one.”
“No. After this I don't think it's a good idea for us to see each other again.”
She ended the call. Damián didn't need to hear more to know what this meant.
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