In case you don’t know what happened last time, let me show you:
Yes, that’s right. The ladies kissed; passionately, very passionately. It was the accumulation of weeks, months even, being on the outs with each other over a variety of things.
One thing you cannot deny is that these two have chemistry, a lot of chemistry. It doesn’t hurt that Carlota Olcina (Teresa) and Marina San José (Ana) are friends in real life as well.
Let’s get back to the scenes at hand.
After the extremely passionate kissing you could see from the video above (go ahead, re-watch. I know I did a gazillion times), Teresa had a minor ‘oh my god what did I just do?!’ moment. Yes. If you watched that clip properly, you definitely saw that Teresa was the one who initiated that kiss. Ana was just trying to fend off some flailing hands.
At home, Ana is reminiscing about not only the hot passionate store kiss, but also the loving and sweet first kiss in the elevator. While looking through her memory box with pictures, she thinks back to moments the girls shared.
Meanwhile, Teresa isn’t having such a great morning; she has been quite upset since their kiss, to the point where she is worrying Héctor and Carmen. Teresa plays it off as her breakfast not agreeing with her and the pair let it go for now.
At the Rivas home, Ana is talking with Cristina and tells her that after thinking hard and long, she is still going through with the divorce from Alfonso, though she knows, and is warned by Cristina, that it will not be an easy road to take. Ana tells her that if it even comes close to what she’s had to put up with from Alfonso, she’ll be able to handle it just fine.
Teresa is working in her shop when Ana walks in and Teresa immediately goes on the defence, albeit quite softer than how she used to react to Ana being in the same room; claws out and ready to dig in.
She accuses Ana of coming in to take a jab at her business, but Ana reassures her she’s not in for Teresa’s or her own business – just the business that happened the day before.
Teresa: There’s nothing to talk about.
Ana: If you want to bury your head in the sand go ahead, but be aware of what you are doing, and do not deny it.
Teresa: Think what you want.
Ana: What happened yesterday was important to me Teresa, not because we kissed, but…
As soon as Ana says the ‘kiss’ word, Teresa flings her pregnant self across the room so fast I got a whiplash.
Teresa: Don’t please, be quiet, be quiet.
Ana just picks up where she left off.
Ana: … but because it made me remember what we meant to each other, and because it confirmed to me that we are still what we were.
Teresa: We aren’t anything.
Ana: Yes, Teresa, we love each other.
Teresa: God. I cannot believe I am hearing such madness.
Ana: So you can think about them, but you can’t hear them.
Teresa: Are you calling me a hypocrite?
Ana: Coward.
Teresa: I just have one love in my life and that’s Héctor. I love him with all my heart.
Can you two just stop breaking my romantic heart already? Jeez Louise.
Ana: You can fool yourself if you want, deny all what happened between us, but you’ll end up hurting yourself like you are already hurting me.
Teresa: You are crazy, completely crazy! You… how can you think that I can love a woman?
Ana: We are not talking about a woman, we are talking about me and you love me.
Teresa: Get out.
Ana: Teresa, we are adults.
Teresa: Go, please, go.
Ana: To deny the obvious is not adult behavior.
Teresa’s had enough and pushes Ana out of the door, clearly devastating her.
Teresa’s not so sure either though. The attractions are there; Teresa was the one that kissed Ana first. Yes, I will keep milking that fact for as long as I can.
You have to understand, though, that while Ana is clearly more open-minded than Teresa in the scenario of expressing her feelings openly, most of the reasons why Teresa keeps denying Ana is because of the times they lived in.
It was absolutely not done back then to have a relationship, or even be in love with, the same-sex. Teresa knows she has the feelings, she is comfortable around Ana, she has been since the beginning, but everything that happened in between made Teresa doubt everything she believes in.
The attraction was clear from the beginning, even before their first kiss; they were comfortable around each other, they spent most of their time together and no matter what they did, they always gravitated back towards each other. And when that first kiss did happen, it was Teresa who made the first move; Ana was just asking what was going on. While it is clearly Ana who is more comfortable with her sexuality, it has always been Teresa who initiated the kiss.
But I digress.
Back in the shop, Teresa isn’t doing so well after Ana left and when a friend walks in seconds after Ana left, she notices it too and hurries over to Teresa to dispense some motherly type love.
Teresa tells her that she is fine, but as motherly types do, they often know best. She tells Teresa that it is fine to feel upset after a father dies and Teresa just whispers “that”, as in “that is not what I’m upset about” before bursting into tears.
After Teresa calms down a bit, she asks if there is something else bothering Teresa, but Teresa says there isn’t. The friend tells her that she seemed to be thinking about something else because she was so far off in thoughts. Teresa explains that she was thinking about her father and how he loved them, but sometimes couldn’t show it to them.
Isn’t that exactly what you are doing at the moment?
The friend tells her that some men just pretend to be hard and Teresa reflects it to herself and wonders if it is something that runs in the family, not being able to show how you really feel, or if it is just something she and her father shared. The friend tells Teresa not to worry and that both she and her father knew how much they loved each other, even if they didn’t express it. Then her friend dispenses her a little advice: “Look Teresa. Love… you have to take love when you have it in front of you, because it never lasts too much, nothing lasts too much.”
A few moments later, Carmen walks in and the friend asks Teresa what is going on as she looked like she expected the devil to come walking in.
Not the devil, just Ana.
Teresa plays it off as pregnancy protection instincts, which all parties agree and accept. Carmen then goes all tough love on her daughter and tells her she should have stayed home, to which their friend agrees, but Teresa goes on an ‘I don’t want to think’ mantra and starts crying again.
Oh, the pain we suffer when we cannot accept the things that are.
Ana, meanwhile, is on a bit of a rampage of changes at her office, telling her assistant she wants some changes done; not only redecoration, but also expanding The Rivas Department Stores. She then calls someone on the phone that she apparently hasn’t seen in quite some time and is quite friendly with.
Next week:
Teresa gets some advice, and romance novels, from her teacher, while Ana gets reacquainted with an old friend and Rosa seems to be finding her way back into Teresa and Ana’s lives.
You can read previous recaps here.
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