Without much thought, Pilar pulls an envelope of cash out of her backpack - her tips from selling pretzels at her summer job - and gives $200 to Felix. This time he confides in her and tells her he is $200 short on rent. Pilar later finds Felix doing his homework outside on the front steps, and she invites him to open up again. The first episode ends with Felix eyeing a “Past Due” rent notice on their fridge when he is also trying to get his mom to eat something.
Normally Felix waits it out because it doesn’t last too long, but this time she stopped going to work and lost her job. When she asks Felix what he was talking to the landlord about, he isn’t honest with her and then Victor walks out and they are off to school.įelix’s mom has bipolar disorder, and her manic depression set in recently. On the first day of school, Pilar overhears Felix talking to their landlord about needing a few more days to get him the month’s rent. ‘Love, Victor’ Returns to Disney+ After All He also shares that he is dating Benji now, and they walk off hand in hand down the hallway. Victor takes a swing at one of his teammates who takes things too far with Mia, and of course gets in trouble, but his parents don’t punish him because he came to her aid.įollowing the bumpy first few days, Victor stands up on a chair in the hallway and declares that he is gay, and that is why he and Mia broke up over the summer. The next day, the Creekwood gossip mill has gone to work and people are spreading rumors that Mia cheated on Victor with a guy at camp. Mia’s dad invites her to a Botany Department social at the nearby college where he works, and she strikes up a conversation with a college freshman Tyler, to whom she gives her number at the end of the night. Victor shies away from telling the guys he’s gay and dating Benji. Then his basketball teammates ask if they are still together and he says no, and they immediately assume it’s something to do with Mia and not Victor. Victor sees Mia and tries to apologize to her. His mom warns him that kids can be cruel and he can’t take back what he says once he says it, which gets in his head. Victor claims he is ready to come out and tell the world he is with Benji on the first day of the new school year.
When he visits Isabel that night, she confesses that she didn’t handle Benji coming over very well, and Armando tells her it’s hard for him too, but he has to wrap his head around it because it’s who his son is and he loves Victor. Adrian doesn’t want to miss his turtle and his dad, so he says they should return her, but Armando gives in and buys another cage. On the way home, Adrian realizes they forgot to buy a second cage for Isabelle’s apartment, and Armando says he only intended for Heather the turtle to stay at his place. Victor’s dad moves out of their current apartment to a new one, and when Adrian comes over and he asks him what would make the apartment more fun, they end up going to the pet store, where Adrian picks out a turtle. Lake tells Mia to come anyway, and Mia heads to pick up Chinese food, runs into Andrew who sent her a care package and note saying he wanted to be with her over the summer, sees he is dating Lucy and then drives the hour to the lake only to get back in her car when she sees Victor and Benji together. When Mia comes home from camp earlier than expected, she calls Lake to hang out and escape her dad Harold and his pregnant fiancée Veronica (Sophia Bush), but Lake and Felix are going to a bonfire at Lake Lainier with Victor and Benji to close out their summer.