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The complicated love story of Santino and Erika in “FPJ’s Batang Quiapo”

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From strangers to soon-to-be-parents: Santino and Erika’s love journey in “FPJ’s Batang Quiapo”

Mary Ann Bardinas

He&#x27;s an ordinary young man from the slums of Quiapo who makes a living by working in a criminal group. On the other hand, she’s a happy-go-lucky young woman from the most affluent family in Manila. They may come from different walks of life and possess extremely different personalities, yet the universe still has its wondrous way of making the paths of “<a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/studios/tv/batangquiapo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FPJ’s Batang Quiapo</a>” sweethearts Santino Dimaguiba (Ronwaldo Martin) and Erika Guerrero (Gillian Vicencio) intertwine. As their budding romance gets challenged by the circumstances that they currently encounter, let us look back on how their connection started via their clips together that we’ve collated in this edition of Kapamilya Update.<div><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FABSCBNnetwork%2Fvideos%2F25446295958293058%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476&amp;t=0" width="476" height="476" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Those who have been religiously watching the long-running action-drama series can probably recall that they first met one evening at a club, where she used to be a regular customer while he and his friends in Red Phoenix were just first-timers. Stunned by her beauty, the sheepish Santino mustered the courage to approach her, introduce himself, and get to know her more. Since she’s a Guerrero scion, Erika was absolutely surprised that he didn’t know who she was, which made him interesting for her. While it was supposed to be kilig that they felt at the time, it was tension instead that emanated between them as Erika frankly told him that they were not a match just based on the way he dressed up. Apparently offended by what Erika just said to him, Santino clapped back by telling her, “Maganda ka lang pala, pero nuknukan ng pangit ‘yang ugali mo! Matapobre!” Erika may have been rude towards him, but Santino still chose to save her afterwards from being taken advantage of by a random man at the club. He confronted the man and introduced himself as her boyfriend, but Erika denied it, so a fisticuff ensued between him and the man.Both of them may have judged one another, but little did they know that they actually could relate with one another. She lashed out at him about how being in the club gave her the attention that she’d been yearning for from her influential family, which prompted him to open up as well about feeling disregarded by his family. Nonetheless, he worked hard to prove himself valuable, which is something that he had encouraged her to do as well.They apparently became closer with each other since then, with Erika even trying to seduce Santino once to no avail, as he rejected her. He might have been able to initially evade the advances that she made to him at the time, yet he was totally taken aback when she suddenly kissed him on the lips after being dared by her friends. While Erika was stoked to do it, Santino was completely displeased about what she just did since he’s the kind of man who only kisses the person he truly loves.Even though they once again got into another spat, Santino still chose to help her when she passed out. Since she didn’t have any IDs to tell where she lives, he decided to take her to their house in Quiapo and even let her sleep on his bed without taking advantage of her. As his father, Rigor (John Estrada), insisted that they would bring her back to her family, she told Santino that he couldn’t go home since her parents might kill her after a video of her being high on drugs went viral online. Seeing how helpless she was, Santino decided to help her by taking her to the Red Phoenix headquarters, where her family wouldn’t be able to track her.Unfortunately, they were mistaken, as Lucio (Ronnie Lazaro) used her as a pawn in order to extort money from Mayor Roberto Guerrero (Albert Martinez). Her family might be able to take her back to the mansion, but Erika managed to flee from them again by running away with Santino after he tried to assail her Kuya Miguelito (Jake Cuenca) to avenge the death of his Kuya David (McCoy de Leon).As we all know, they sought refuge at a motel somewhere in Manila, wherein they had the chance to talk and get to know each other deeper. They also had an intimate and steamy night before their encounter with Lucio and the Red Phoenix group, in which they almost got caught if his friends Teban (Bassilyo) and Kidlat (Smugglaz) didn’t let them go. Santino then brought Erika again to their house in San Dimas, but this time she could stay as long as she wanted since Rigor plans to eventually use her against her own family in his pursuit of avenging the demise of his favorite son, David.Just when the young and very much in love couple thought that things were going to get better for them, little did they expect that their relationship would be tested. First, they had an altercation when Santino reprimanded her for going out of their house without permission to buy personal hygiene stuff. The tension between them further escalated when Erika confirmed that she was pregnant, which Santino doubted at first.But they eventually made amends and agreed to stick with each other no matter what’s going to happen. Will Santino and Erika be able to prove that love can indeed conquer all? Let&#x27;s see by not missing an episode of “<a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/studios/tv/batangquiapo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FPJ’s Batang Quiapo</a>,” weeknights at 8 PM, on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live (KOL), A2Z, TV5 and <a href="https://app.iwanttfc.com/dFR6MWHAcVb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iWant</a>.

Let us look back on how the romantic connection between Erika and Santino in “FPJ’s Batang Quiapo” started.

Let us look back on how the romantic connection between Erika and Santino in “FPJ’s Batang Quiapo” started.