Marcelo In the Real World 101-200

Jasmine and Marcelo talk about beauty a lot. Marcelo wonders if Jasmine knows that she’s beautiful. Marcelo doesn’t find women beautiful, and eh think that makes him weird or wrong. The only thing he finds beautiful is the music he listens to. Wendell asks Marcelo to help him “get” Jasmine. Wendell wants Marcelo to ask Jasmine if she will go on a ride on Wendell’s yacht with them. Wendell knows he has no chance of getting Jasmine by himself, because Jasmine hates him. However, he thinks if Marcelo invites her, she might come. Marcelo doesn’t want to do this, because he knows that Wendell is going to try to take advantage of Jasmine. Wendell basically says that if Marcelo doesn’t do this for him, then he will ruin Marcelo’s chance of going back to school at Paterson. Marcelo still hasn’t decided what to do about that. Jasmine tells Marcelo that her brother was killed by a horse, and also that her mom died. The only family member she has left is her dad. Arturo, Marcelo’s dad, moves him to work with Wendell full time, instead of with Jasmine full time. Marcelo doesn’t like this at all, because he really likes working with Jasmine. Marcelo found a picture of a girl while he was helping Wendell. This girl has half a face. The bottom half was somehow destroyed. He found it in a box marked “trash”. He feels very drawn to the girl, and he wants to find out who she is, and what happened to her. Marcelo takes clues from the background of the picture and finds out where the picture was taken. It was taken in a law firm in Boston. Marcelo goes to that law firm and asks the man who works there what the picture is about. He tells Marcelo that the girl is named Ixtel. Ixtel is one of his clients, and she’s suing Arturo’s client, Vidromek, a windshield company. One of the windshields that Vidromek manufactures shattered incorrectly and ruined the bottom half of the girl’s face. Marcelo realizes that his dad isn’t the person he thought. He can’t believe his dad could see this picture and throw it in a trash box.