Daytime Soap Opera Short Recaps

Recap written by Michele and Cheryl
Javi was with Tesoro and gushed about how happy he was to be one of his foster parents. He admitted he wouldn’t be ready to let him go when he gets adopted. Steve suggested that might mean he should adopt him. Sophia rushed to Melinda’s office to let her know that Brady questioned the adoption lawyer. Melinda planned on creating adoption papers for her to give to Tate that state that the baby was a girl and that she was in semi-adoption mode. It protects the identity of the parents. Communication would go through a third party. Melinda assured a scared Sophia that Brady and Tate wouldn’t know anything as long as they covered their tracks. Sophia knew she had to give the baby up for adoption, but it was hard for her since she kept running into him. Javi knocked on Melinda’s door while they were talking. Sophia panicked while Javi and the baby were in Melinda’s office so she made an exit. He talked to Melinda about exploring his options because he and Leo were ready to take on adopting Tesoro. Melinda told him that he would be better off adopting the baby as a single parent. He would have to have a background test, but he didn’t do anything wrong so it wouldn’t be a problem. He admitted to Melinda that he had a child, but the baby died. Melinda was empathetic about it. She didn’t think his secret should be a problem. Melinda warned him that the investigators would check into how the baby died. Javi was afraid of that. With tears in his eyes, Javi left her office.
Tate was upset to find out that the picture of the couple that were going to adopt his came from a casting company. The picture came with the frame and weren’t his daughter’s adoptive parents. Brady told him that he didn’t think his baby was a girl. He advised Tate to ask Sophia to see the adoption papers while he wanted to go to Steve with the fake photos. While he was at the private investigation office, Steve told him that the picture Sophia had was from a website. He also told Brady that Kayla couldn’t reveal much about Sophia, but she warned him to keep investigating. Steve talked to Brady about running into Javi and Tesoro at the pub. Brady wondered if it was possible that Javi could have had Tate’s baby. The timeline didn’t match up so Brady felt like he let his son down. Steve told him that he had his back. He was there for him like his father would have. Tate ran into Sophia, and he asked to see a copy of the adoption papers. She agreed to let him see them. Marlena had another nightmare about being the Queen of the Night. She screamed when she woke up and saw Rachel’s snake in her bed. After getting the snake out of her room, Rachel wanted to talk to her. Rachel told Marlena about the kids bullying her because of her mother. She was excited to tell her some gossip. Rachel saw her Uncle Chad kissing the blonde woman who pretended to be Abby. Marlena said it wasn’t their business, and Rachel agreed not to say anything.
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