"Having the doctor's permission to move forward with their plan to have a baby was foremost in Mateo in Hayley's minds. Mateo returned to the condominium and he and Hayley planned on spending a romantic night in each other's arms. Flickering candles glimmered in the couple's already sparkling eyes. While their intentions may have been to spend the night trying to make a baby, the fates had other plans for them. A knock sounded on the door and try as they might to ignore the knocks, neither Hayley nor Mateo could tune out the little voice that was about to call out. "Daddy, open up!" chirped Max. Hayley and Mateo quickly dressed and Mateo opened the front door. Isabella looked at the burning candles and realized that she and Max had interrupted something special. Max, however, had been having horrible nightmares about not being able to find his mother. Max begged to go to the hospital to see his mom, but Mateo wasn't sure that it was the best idea. Hayley urged Mateo to take care of his son, saying that a few hours wouldn't spoil their plans. After everyone had left, Hayley blew out a candle and mumbled to herself that it was a good thing she'd purchased dripless candles. Ryan arrived on her door a little while later with some marketing idea for the new club. If the club was to have a Latin feel to it, what better way to celebrate a grand opening than on Cinco de Mayo. Hayley loved the idea, but quickly realized that the fifth of May was just a few weeks away. Ryan had buried himself in marketing ideas for the club, but one thing was halting his progress: The club remained nameless. Ryan and Hayley put their heads together, but could come up with nothing. Ryan decided that the should send an SOS message to an advertising agency for some ideas. Those three letters ignited a flurry of ideas and eventually the name of the club---Sounds of Salsa. Hayley worried that Ryan was using his new gig as a way to take his mind off of his troubles. Hayley admitted that she'd done that in the past, but with alcohol instead of work. Hayley broke the good news about her latest test results. Ryan smiled happily and told Hayley that he knew true love would win out in the end. Hayley told Ryan that everyone can experience a true love of their own---you just need to listen to your heart.
Adrian and Tad continued their bickering all the way back to Tad's house. Tad asked Adrian to stop his "bellyaching," a condition that Adrian argued was brought on by Tad's "grousing." The two men stood in the living room area of Tad's house unaware that they were being watched. Opal strolled into the room with a big smile. "Pinch me," she said gleefully upon seeing her two boys in the same room. Tad and Adrian exchanged confused glances; they wondered why Opal would be so happy to see them squabbling. Adrian's cellular phone rang. He and Tad both knew that the call was probably from Barry. Tad tried to get Opal out of the room by telling her that the chicken she was frying smelled like it was burning. Opal got the hint and headed back to the kitchen. By the time Tad returned to Adrian's side, Adrian's phone call had ended. Tad doubted his half-brother's claims that the call was from Belinda. Convinced that Adrian was holding something back from him, the two men once again engaged in a war of words. Finally, the real phone call from Barry rang through. Adrian took the call, which was unusually short. Opal returned to the room with a platter of fried chicken. Adrian gave his brother the slip. Opal looked at Tad sternly and asked him if he was going to let Adrian "run off without back up." Tad was surprised by his mother prowess. He grabbed a piece of chicken and raced out the door after Adrian.
"What the hell is this?" Jack yelled above the growling motorcycle engine. Hell, Brooke mused, was "getting [the motorcycle] up the steps." Silence embraced the room as Brooke turned off the motorcycle. Jack didn't comprehend what he saw as irrational behavior on Brooke's part. "You're not the only one with dibs on a life change," Brooke explained. Jack understood why he was in search of a new path. He noted that Brooke was "an editor, a publisher, a mother, and an activist." Brooke changed the subject slightly by asked Jack if he'd heard about the time she rode into town on the back of then-boyfriend Benny Sago's motorcycle. Jack shook his head. Brooke said that she, Phoebe, and Jamie had been leafing through an old photo album when she'd come across a picture of her early days in Pine Valley. While Jamie was revved up about his "biker mom," Phoebe remained embarrassed by her niece's past antics. The photograph brought back many memories for Brooke. She wondered what had happened to that carefree young woman. "Life," Jack offered. "You've been through a lot." Brooke rolled her eyes and accused Jack of "thinking too much." She asked him if it was possible for him to "get stupid for a day." She realized that she and Jack were alike in many ways---and she wanted them both to set out on a "twenty-four hour adventure." Unable to completely dismiss his heavy thinking, Jack mulled over the idea for a few moments before asking Brooke to hand him an extra helmet.
In one of the examining rooms, Gillian carefully put away some medical supplies. She found a stray stethoscope in the cabinet and could help but play around with it. Her mind drifted off and conjured up images of "playing doctor" with Ryan. She diagnosed Ryan as needed a dose of a special medication---her. In the daydream, Gillian reached for a bottle of alcohol and prepared to pour some on her hands. Back in the real world, Gillian readied to do something quite similar. Jake entered the room and yelled out for her to stop what she was doing. Caught up in her fantasy, Gillian nearly poured a bottle of hydrochloric acid on her hands. Gillian blinked her eyes several times and returned to the present. Jake snatched the bottle out of the volunteer's hands and urged her to pay attention before she seriously hurt herself. Jake wasn't upset with Gillian, but he was concerned that her daydreams might compromise her or her patients' safety. Gillian couldn't help but wonder why Jake was being so nice to her. "Because I'm a nice guy?" Jake smirked. He later admitted that he was nice because he likes Gillian. The words stunned Gillian. "People usually don't like me," Gillian said softly. Jake admitted that in the beginning Gillian did act pompously, but he quickly noted that she'd really changed in the pat few months. Gillian chalked up her change to Ryan, the man who'd helped her find her heart and then later broke it. Jake asked Gillian to head upstairs and ready a patient for transport. As she was leaving, she quickly remarked, "By the way, I like you too."
Gillian's patient, Mr. Pilcher, was a pleasant but troublesome older man. He continually praised Gillian's physical beauty and offered her compliment after compliment. He asked to took at her hand and Gillian, sucked in by his flattery, agreed. The man grasped her hand and began fondling her hand and arm. The man muttered filth about the softness of her skin and memories of an illicit affair with a young girl in Asia. Gillian demanded that the patient unhand her, saying that if he refused she'd break every bone in his body. The man let go, but threatened to have her kicked out of the hospital. Jake appeared in the doorway and told Mr. Filcher to be quiet because he'd already overheard his lewd remarks to Gillian. Jake told Gillian that she'd put in a long day and urged her to call it a day.
Elsewhere in the hospital, Max burst into Raquel's room. The young boy was overjoyed to see his mother and immediately asked if he and father could spend another night at the hospital. Rather than give her son the harsh reality of what was really going on between her and Mateo, Raquel came up with an idea to appease her son. She told Max that she'd be going home in a few days. To make her homecoming more enjoyable, she asked Max if he would draw her some picture to hang in her new bedroom. Max happily agreed and said that he'd sleep at home tonight. While Mac was in the bathroom, Mateo told Raquel that he thought was time for them to tell their son about their impending divorce. Raquel didn't argue that Max deserved to know the truth, but she questioned the timing. She thought it might be better to wait until after she was out of the hospital so that the young boy would not be inundated with bad news. "[Let's] deal with one sadness at a time," Raquel whispered.
Gillian returned the boarding house and slowly made her way to her room. As she opened the door to her room, she found Ryan waiting inside."
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