(She also has a habit of pointedly asking, “Did you have fun with your friends?” anytime Victor hangs out with a group that includes Benji, very much more than a friend.) And yet, despite that bizarre dynamic, and the fact that Victor hasn’t spoken to Mia since the night of the dance, Victor’s actually thrilled with how this summer has panned out, as he, Benji, Felix and Lake have enjoyed some serious bonding time for the past two months.

Victor claims he’s ready to tell people at school that he’s gay and dating Benji, then worries that’s a ridiculous milestone to achieve when Benji has still never come over to Victor’s apartment.

Thus, Victor tells Isabel that he’s inviting Felix, Lake and Benji over for dinner (“Oh!… Great,” Isabel replies, selling absolutely no one on her enthusiasm), and Isabel prepares her famous chicken ahead of everyone’s arrival that evening.

But when Isabel looks out the kitchen window and sees Victor and Benji chatting and kissing outside, she turns the homophobia up a notch, opening the trash can and dumping her entire home-cooked meal into it.

Victor brings out some chips and salsa to give everyone something to do with their hands, but everything Benji says to Isabel lands with a thud, despite everyone’s best efforts to endear him to Victor’s mom.

Eventually, when Benji caresses Victor’s arm at one point, Isabel’s apparently reached her extremely low tolerance limit, and she snaps at Victor before leaving the room altogether, prompting the teens to bail on dinner and head to the lake for a bonfire instead.

At the bonfire, Benji reminds Victor that he doesn’t have to keep cutting his mom slack for how she’s acting: She’s been pretty terrible, in fact.

He wishes everything could stay as simple as this glorious, fun summer, and Benji suggests it can: “You and me, that’s what matters,” he tells Victor.

And when Armando agrees that Victor’s coming out has been tough to process, Isabel asks if he’ll ever be able to wrap his head around it.

When Victor returns home a few hours later, Isabel once again asks, “Did you have fun with your friends?” He says he did, then makes an important announcement to his mom: “Benji’s my boyfriend, and I’d like you to call him that.

His job is set to end when school starts back up, but Felix asks Victor if he could maybe continue picking up shifts, explaining that dating Lake isn’t cheap?