I’m up to May 17, 1999.
Rick finds the article about cochlear implants and asks Abby if she’s considering it. She gets angry and accuses him of conspiring with Michelle and Reva, and says everyone thinks she’s defective. Rick is able to calm Abby down and reassure her that he will love her no matter what and for always. Abby then tells Rick they can at least go to the doctor and just hear him out. They visit the doctor and he says he can give her a test to see if she’s a viable candidate, but they’re booked out about 6 months in advance, which bums Abby out.
Reva is spending the day with Marah and Susan and overhears Susan talking about how much she likes Max. Reva warns her to watch out for his bad behavior, but Susan then sees the San Cristobel brochure and says she knows that place. She did a report about it at school and can tell Reva everything she wants about it. She says it’s ruled by royalty, a Prince, and they’ve ruled for over 100 years. Reva shows them the ring she found and Susan notices an August 22 date inscribed inside, which is a huge holiday where they celebrate the royal family. They now wonder if Sarah knew the royal family and the girls think it’s so cool while Reva seems shocked, but becomes resolved in believing it’s just a memento she bought. Later at Millennium, Susan and Marah see Max and Susan gets giddy. Max apologizes to her and says he’d love to come to her birthday party, if Harley will allow it, and she says of course Harley will and Marah gives her a side eye look.
Vanessa is debuting a new lighter hair color (5/12)! She’s with Matt and meets Bill at Millennium, who acknowledges the blonde and says he likes it. She notices he’s distracted and he then says he wants to stay in town now over the summer, so she presses if there’s a girl in his life. He says yes, but it’s nothing too serious yet, but once Vanessa hears she’s a waitress, she’s a bit disappointed at first and then quickly recovers by saying she’ll support him with anyone.
Michelle angrily confronts Drew about sleeping with Danny. Drew apologizes and says it was a mistake and meant nothing, but Michelle still lays into her. Drew tells Michelle that Danny still loves her and she doesn’t want to lose their friendship, but Michelle says she’s embarrassed to have known her just as Jesse walks in. Michelle yells at him and says she now sees their true colors and leaves. Meanwhile, Pilar is giving Danny a hard time about sleeping with Drew too, and losing Michelle. Disappointed, she storms out of her room just as Bill and Vanessa are walking by to his boarding house room. She blows Bill off and walks away, and Vanessa questions why he would be with her, but Bill says to just forget everything he said about Pilar. Later, Bill confronts Pilar about her attitude and she says all guys are the same and tells him about Danny/Drew having sex. After talking, Pilar cools off and Bill says that was his mother with him earlier and she feels awful that was her first impression. He asks her on a date that night and she says yes, but she wants to wear a special dress that is at her mom’s house, so they plan to sneak in and grab it without seeing her.
An angry Michelle gets drunk with her college guy friends, but Danny takes her away from them. He tries to sober her up, and tells her again how he wants to be with her. She is angry and begs him to have sex with her because it’s clear that’s all he cares about with women, but he throws her into a cold shower and she breaks down crying and they hug each other fully clothed under the shower. They dry off and Michelle says their worlds are too different and she can’t handle his lifestyle, but he promises to change for her because she’s his world (aww).
Carmen calls Ben over and tells him about her children disowning her. She comes up with a scheme to make her children want her back by staging a shootout at the house. Ben reluctantly agrees to help, with his role being to get Danny over to the house to see Carmen in danger/almost dead. She thinks they’ll realize how much they love her when she almost dies. Later, as the house is dark and empty, Bill and Pilar arrive to grab her dress. We then see Danny/Michelle kissing, but Ben calls and tells Danny that he just dropped his mother off at home and as he drove away, he heard gunfire and there might have been an attempt at her life. Danny freaks out and they both leave to head to the house. We then see Pilar and Bill kiss in the dark living room while a mobster starts loading his gun outside (Friday cliffhanger!). Boo, we don’t see the actual shootout, but the next scene shows Carmen walking into the house and seeing blown out glass, smoke and Bill and Pilar lying on the floor. She screams out “what have I done?”, and cries just as Bill wakes up and they realize Pilar has been shot and is unconscious. Danny and Michelle then arrive and Pilar comes to, but Carmen almost gives up her story by saying it was her fault that Pilar almost died. Ben arrives and says there was an assassination attempt on Carmen’s life and she snaps out of it and continues to go along with their plan, but Michelle questions her on why she said it was her fault. Ben is able to move the conversation along and Carmen thanks Bill for saving her daughter’s life. Danny decides to stay at the house and get to the bottom of what happened. Carmen thanks Ben privately and says he’s one of them now, and she pulls him into a kiss!
Josh has his bachelor party with Billy, Matt, Jim, David, Rick and Phillip where they’re playing poker (5/13). Seeing Phillip here reminds me they’ve completely dropped the ball on the Lewis Oil ownership story because last we saw Phillip/Josh/Reva together, they were not on good terms. Anyway, Rick is funny per usual and later tells Phillip about Abby’s possible cochlear implant journey.
Reva has her bachelorette party at the country club with Vanessa, Blake, Abby, Harley and Cassie, where they’re having tea and being posh (5/13). On the side, Vanessa apologizes again to Cassie about Hart and says she hopes they will one day be friends again. Lillian and an apprehensive Beth arrive and Lillian raves about Vanessa’s new hair color. Beth and Cassie have an awkward encounter, with Beth commenting it’s interesting that Cassie is able to wear a short dress just after her pregnancy (Beth is such a jealous lady). Beth later tells Lillian that Cassie is a very insecure woman (pot calling the kettle black!). While Reva opens gifts, Abby has an experience of not being able to hear everyone have side chats about the gifts and you can tell she’s frustrated. Reva later asks Blake about Holly, saying she misses her. Cassie then gives a toast, wishing Reva a happy ever after fairytale with Josh. The ladies are then surprised with ‘entertainment’ when the guys all come over from their party and start dancing to Macho Man LOL. Some take off their shirts (Phillip, Jim and David) while others keep their tank tops on, and Cassie is hilarious standing on a table filming the whole thing with a 90s-style camcorder. As the party ends, Reva shows Vanessa her ring with the San Cristobel crest and Vanessa says there is no way Sarah got that from some street merchant as memorabilia, because it’s real gold and worth a lot of money.
While at the party, Drew (who is catering a cake) talks to Harley about Max, in hopes to get her to lighten up about him. They then talk about how Harley was helping Selena find her daughter before she asked her to quit. Drew is now determined to find Selena’s daughter, given how finding her own ‘mother’ brought her happiness and a new brother. Harley gives her the names/numbers of people she worked with when investigating before, and Drew hugs her. Meanwhile, Selena is back and tells Jesse and Frank the news about Buzz being a millionaire now. But, Frank is still upset about Buzz forging the birth certificate and continues to flip flop on what he wants to do, but Selena promises that Drew will keep Max on the straight and narrow and he finally concedes.
After the festivities, Reva/Josh/Cassie ponder on how Sarah could afford something so valuable, but Josh notices there is a tiny slit in the ring. He’s able to open it and there is a picture of a baby inside! Reva is really uncertain now, but Josh asks her to stop thinking about this at least until after their wedding and then he promises while in San Cristobel, they’ll do some research. She then has another dream of rocking a baby and wakes up and tells Josh about it, saying the baby she was rocking was the baby in the picture in the ring! Josh starts to get fed up and they get into an argument, with Josh telling her she always needs drama in her life and he’s sick of it. They eventually make up and cry to each other about loving each other.
After the party, Jim and Beth stay at the country club and have a romantic evening of dancing and they start kissing heavily and talk about how if they don’t stop, they’ll end up having sex which they both want but are afraid since it’s been so long for either of them. As they’re making out, Cassie walks in because she forgot her purse. Cassie awkwardly leaves and Beth asks to go back to Jim’s, but he says it’s best he takes her home for now, which upsets Beth.
Blake visits Holly and they talk about how courageous Holly is for letting Fletcher go. Blake talks about how she’s ended things with Ben and she will be firm in that decision. Blake says the two of them have a new chapter in life coming up and they are going to conquer it together. Ross overhears all of this, as he came by to check in on Holly. He tells Blake he heard their conversation and that Holly is lucky to have a daughter like her. They talk about Holly’s upcoming hearing for the judge to decide whether she’s been rehabilitated or not, and Blake has an idea. The judge is up for reelection, so Blake wants to have a media blitz about mothers loving their children and then apply pressure on the judge to free Holly so he looks like he’s a man of the people and supports mothers. Ross likes the idea and said he’ll help her, and Holly later tells them she likes to see them together, which makes both Blake and Ross look at each other in a fond way.
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