Heh, totally understandable. If it hadn’t been for the plot parts that kind of needed it, I wish they’d just done away with that, it didn’t add anything to anybody’s arc.
Right before, you had Juls and Val at Chivis’s house after returning from Camilo’s, that older gray haired therapist friend of Val’s father, where Val kept on staring at her, remember. They’d broken up but Val had found out about Jacobo being Juls’s dad so they went to ask Camilo about him. So at the house, they flirt a bit on the stairs, then inside in the kitchen, and then just as they kiss, Lupe sees them and yells at them and Val leaves. Juls leaves soon after too and that kinder older restaurant lady Perlita takes her in, and then you can skip to Juls being kidnapped. Because the parts in between, where Juls walks in on Lucho comforting Val and walking off in a huff, that was already just contrivance for the Sergio plot.