LEO & ARA francine drove ramon to the hospital. ramon called his grandfather to let him know his wherabouts. his grandfather apologised and immediately rushed to the hospital where ramon's at. marcelo called ara and leo to go to the hospital. they have no idea francine was there too. marcelo was taken aback when he saw francine by the bed.
francine greeted marcelo and he asked what was francine doing there. so, she just make up an excuse that she wanted to take some fresh air when she saw ramon lying on the road. then, ara went inside the room followed by elizabeth. they were shocked seeing francine. francine was usual, acted like it was her first time she saw them alive.
she hugged elizabeth and told her she missed her. still, they were much in shocked. they were terrified francine will tell all the people in manila about ara and elizabeth. ara offered francine to stay in her house for few days as she dunwan to let go of francine first.

francine told ara she wanted to get some air bcos of christian. she told ara why she didn't get married to christian and it was all a lie. she blamed it on maryanne. christian wanted to be with so many girls after ara' death. bcos of maryanne, he didn't marry francine. well, ara seemed like she can't believe and trust francine anymore.
francine stayed there for a while and roamed around the hacienda. one night, jade called elizabeth. she told elizabeth that she cannot go to manila bcos she might be arrested. jade failed to plead the lawyers. elizabeth hung up and saw ara. instead, she told ara that they are free at last. ara was elated that she hugged her mom. elizabeth dunwan her daughter to worry about her so much.
ara called shane and asked her to arrange her meeting with christian the following night. for her best friend, shane called christian and asked to be at somewhere i ferget at 8pm. christian assumed shane wanted to talk things out.


ara told leo the good news and will be going to manila the next day to meet christian. leo was worried but he trust ara. he knew ara will always love him. that night, they had some romantic moments. leo gave her a long letter and ara read it aloud. leo was thankful of having ara in his life. it's bcos of her he had changed so much and so on.

CHRISTIAN & MARYANNE christian secretly meet meloy to discuss about maryanne's surprise gift. he said he wanted to confess to maryanne he loved her. then, maryanne saw them together. at dinner, maryanne shed tears and said that her birthday would be lonely. christian still didn't accept her. meloy pity her sister so much that he told all christian's plan on her birthday that christian ready to accept maryanne's love.


maryanne gasped and fainted. she shudn't have cried and begged meloy to tell her what's been going on with meloy and christian. now that she know the truth, she regretted it. it should been a surprise for her.
christian got a call from shane that she wanted to meet him. but then, he got plans with maryanne. so, he'll meet maryanne after he meet shane...but then he had no idea that night would change his life forever. it was not shane he's gonna meet...it was his true love, ara...the night when he meet ara, it's gonna change his life forever and his love towards maryanne..... :(