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Chapter 1:

As you woke up to the sun beaming onto your face you glanced over at the time and jumped up. Today you were helping your father take a family photo of the “amazing madrigals” and you woke up 30 minutes after you intended to, leaving barely any time to get ready. You threw off your pajamas and slipped into a nice outfit before collecting your things in your bag and slinging it over your shoulder. As you grabbed your camera you rushed downstairs to eat some food and head off.

“Dad why didn’t you wake me?” You say to your father who is sitting at the end of the table eating silently. “You looked so comfy Amor!” He says, munching on his food as you threw some onto your plate. “You got everything right?” You say, mouth half full as your dad stares you down and you quietly swallow your food. “First, yes I have everything, and second, eat your food before eating dear.” He lectures you as you grab your plates to quickly wash. “I’ll be outside, come out when your done” he says kissing your cheek and leaving out your front door.

You step outside into the warm air and quickly follow behind your dad. You could feel the stares and your happy mood quickly turned sour as you sighed, running to catch up to your dad. You both march up the hill to the madrigals home. You felt a bit nervous thinking of the family, all being amazing in their own way, while you and your dad were just photographers. You gulped as your father knocked on the door and Alma answered. “Ah! come in come in!” She says, ushering you two inside their beautiful home.

You studied the patterns and colors of the wall and quickly switched your attention back to Alma. “Where do you think would be best? We all fit right here” she says, gesturing to the open space in the middle of their home. “That would be a lovely spot! We should take it with your backs facing the door to show a bit of town in the background” your father said, smiling at the women. You and your dad were complete opposites, if he wasn’t there helping you get jobs you probably would be labeled intimidating and never hired but your father was warm and helped shine a better light on you.

As you and your father started pulling the necessary items out Alma herded her family together. Eventually a women with long orange hair approached your father and started chatting with him about weather, the best weather, blah blah blah. You were halfway done setting up when you felt a shadow loom over your crouched down body. You turned around to see another you staring down curiously at you setting up the camera.

You kept a straight face as the person shifted into a boy with curly brown hair and tan skin and smiled at you. “Hi I’m Camilo !” He said, extending his hand to you. Then you remembered that this was the boy who could you shape-shift you were told about weeks earlier. You shook his hand as he started bombarding you with questions and dumb puns. You just continued setting up the camera as you heard dad joke after dad joke. When you finished setting up the camera you stood up and turned around to look at the boy again and for the second time saw yourself staring back. “That’s quite creepy” you said turning back to the camera to make sure the setting were fine. “That’s so mean !” Camilo said, throwing his arm over his eyes and falling back a bit, being as dramatic as possible. You hear a girl who’s slightly over yell “CAMILO! Stop bothering the poor lady.” As he sighs and walks over to her.

After all of the family is huddled together for the photo your father snaps a few photos and checks if they are any good. “I think these turned out ok ! Can you all make sure real fast?” He asked as the oldest family members scrambled to see. “Ah they are amazing thank you so much !” Alma says, hugging your father and then you. You see the boy from earlier, Camilo, whisper something to Pepa, who you assume is his mother, and then see her whisper something to Abuela. She nods and smiles at you and your father before saying “you two should stay for dinner! It’s the least we can do!”. “That would be lovely !” Your father says as you nod, agreeing. “Come back at 7:30! Dinner starts at 8 but it would be nice for you to two to meet the family better.” Alma says as you two nod and walk out the door to prepare for dinner.

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You sat in front of your mirror trying out hairstyles. Your cat swirled around your feet as you played with your hair. “Maybe a braid? Or should I just wear it down.. ugh.” You thought out loud as your cat let out a mew in response. “Ok baby,” you said as you picked your cat up. “Stay silent for my hair down and meow for a braid”. Your cat let out a loud meow and you then let them down. “Braid it is” you thought out loud as you braided your hair and fluffed it out. You grabbed two flowers and stuck one at the top of your braid and the other near the bottom of your braid. You ran your fingers over your dress, picking at it and trying to make sure it looked clean and tidy.

You fixed up your little makeup and stood up. “Goodbye baby.” You said to your cat as you walked downstairs, closing the door behind you. “Dad I’m ready!” You called out near the bottom of the stairs as you saw your dad waiting. “You look amazing dear!” He says as you walk up to the front door. “Let’s get going” you say as you open the door.

You stick to your fathers side yet again feeling everyone in town glance at you, probably asking each other why you were dressed fancy. You looked down, picking up your dress as you walked the path to the madrigal home. As you arrived to the door your father knocked, no fear or nervousness in his eyes as you gripped your dress in fear of embarrassing yourself. As the door opened you saw a girl with curly hair stuck in a bun answer. “Oh hello, come on in the foods almost done.” She said calmly holding the door open.

You walked inside and she walked off to talk to someone in another room. You followed your father as he started talking with some of the adults as you stood next to him , nervous. As you sat there you felt a hand on your shoulder and you shuddered before turning around to, yet again, see your face staring back. You sighed as the mischievous boy turned back into himself and laughed. “What’s a pretty lady like you doing alone?” He asked, grabbing your hand and lifting it up. “Trying to avoid you.” You sighed back at him and he let out a very fake gasp. “Your so mean to me!” He says, turning away from you and putting his other hand on his chest. “Your such a baby” you say, lifting the hand he was still holding up to his face and wiping away a fake tear. You can tell he wasn’t expecting you to do that and he stammers for a second, a bit of red on his cheeks.

You pull your hand away and start walking to the kitchen deciding you should probably help, you felt bad just standing around while the family prepared dinner. “Hey Julieta do you need help with anything?” You asked to the women as she turned around and smiled at me. “Actually I was preparing some dough for tomorrow if you wanted to help. Everything else is baking so there’s not much to do.” You nodded and walked over as she handed you a ball of dough. “Could you flatten the dough? I feel like pizza would be good tomorrow. We haven’t bad it in forever!” She said as you started kneading the dough and flattening it. After a bit, yet again, Camilo entered to bug you. “What are you making?” He asked as you barely glance at him before continuing to knead the dough flat. “Wow ignoring me?” He said as you nodded. Julieta laughed and nudged Camilo, “help us out Camilo. You’ve just been bugging Y/N all day.” Julieta says as Camilo rolls his eyes.

After a while Julieta claps her hands and announces that dinner is ready. You hear everyone scurry into the dining room as Julieta puts away the dough you were working on. You wash your hands and dry them as you walk into the dining room. You let everyone else sit down before sitting on an empty seat next to your father. After you eat the empty seat next to you is quickly scooped up by… sigh… Camilo. He immediately turns to you and gives you a smug smile. You immediately look away and wait for dinner to start.

Eventually Abuela stands up and begins talking. “I’m so glad the L/N’s could join us for dinner! I hope you enjoy” she says and keeps talking about other things that your brain just kind of ignored. Mid speech you feel something touch your hand and look down to see Camilo poking your hand, obviously trying to get a reaction. You try to ignore him but you know if you just sit there he probably won’t stop until everyone starts eating. You think for a moment then quickly snatch his hand. He glances at you and tries to avoid your glance, blushing. You feel his hand heat up and then Abuela says “im sorry for my ramble, let’s eat!” and you let go and start digging in.

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Dinner to be continued in the next chapter….

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As everyone grabbed food and began happily chatting you couldn’t help but fidget with your dress as you ate the food on your plate. After everyone was fully settled in you and your father started getting questioned like you were prime suspects in a murder. “How old are you? What’s your favorite food? Where did you live before this?” And a million other questions. You stuttered as your dad laughed at the million questions you two were being asked and happily answered. You went back to eating as you listened to the conversation. You couldn’t help but glance over at Camilo and caught him staring. You watched him transform into you and then get elbowed by Dolores, turning back into himself again. “Have you ever smiled before?” Camilo said as he poked you in the shoulder a couple times. “Yeah” you say, finishing your food. “I doubt that” he says as he rolls his eyes, earning another elbow from Dolores.

As everyone finishes their food they start bringing their empty plates to the kitchen and you follow. As you walk in you see all the dishes and feel bad. “Hey Julieta can I help with dishes?” You ask as you set your dish down. “Oh I would love that, thank you” she responds as she smiled at you. You pick up a dish and start washing as Dolores slides up next to you. “I’m sorry about Camilo, he has way too much energy” she tells you as she picks up a dish as well. “Don’t worry I don’t really care.” You respond as you continue washing dishes. You two chat as you wash dishes and she tells you the most embarrassing stories she can think of. “And then this other time Camilo tried to-“ she quickly stops mid sentence as you feel someone else walk in and realize it’s probably Camilo.

You turn around as you set a wet dish down and see exactly who you thought of. “Speak of the devil” you sigh as Dolores makes a squeak sound. “What? Were you talking about me?” He exclaims to Dolores as she slowly turns around to dry dishes leaving him confused. As you finish the dishes you join Dolores in drying them as Camilo continues quizzing you two about what you were talking about. Eventually Dolores caves and turns around to snap a response. “I was telling her embarrassing stories about you” she says as he turns red. He silently walks up to the dishes and finishes drying the last one.

He strides over to the sink and after getting his hands wet he runs to Dolores and begins splashing water on her. “Ugh stop it Camilo!” She exclaims as she walks around the kitchen. Eventually she gets sick of it and runs behind you, making you like a shield. Camilo laughs as now his target just becomes you. You turn around and cup a bunch of water in your hand before whipping back and throwing at all on him in return. “Doloressss are you gonna let me get bullied” he whines as she peeks out from behind you and laughs.

After a few more minutes of Camilo splashing you two with water your father walks in and smiles at the scene. “We should be getting home” he says as he laughs and you turn to him. “Oh alright” you say as you quickly dry your hands and walk over to him. “Bye you two” you say as you wave goodbye and start walking out with your dad. “Oh uh bye! See you tomorrow” Camilo says right as you exit the kitchen. “He’s a nice kid” your father says as you two walk outside into the dark night and you shrug. “Uh I guess” you say as you two walk down the road.

As you enter your room you fall onto your bed and bury your face in your pillow. Why was he so dedicated to bugging you? You roll over as you keep your face stuffed into your pillow. You stand up and throw your pillow back onto your bed before walking to your window. You stared at the madrigals house before grabbing your camera and sitting down in front of the window. As you position your camera to face the beautiful house you take a photo of it and then bring it down to enjoy the view.

After a minute you decide to check the photo and hold it up in front of you. As you study it you see that in one of you windows you can see a few family members chatting and see Camilo in the middle. You couldn’t help but stare for an extra minute and study his face. Once you realize you quickly look away and throw the photo onto the floor before laying on your bed. As you think back in the night you replay what he said in your mind. See you tomorrow? Was he planning on seeing you tomorrow? You grab your pillow and stuff your face in it. As you think about tomorrow you feel your eyes get heavy and eventually fall asleep.

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EMETEPHOBIA TRIGGER WARNING!

Today when you woke up you felt like you were on fire. You reached down to pull the covers
off of yourself but grabbed at nothing soon realizing you fell asleep on top of your bed. You
realized you were most likely sick as you stood up, wobbling to try and reach the drawer you
kept a thermometer in. when you snatched it out and took your temperature you read "100" in
red numbers on the thermometer as you groaned. You opened your door and called down to
your dad, "Dad I'm sick, can you grab some arepas or something from Julieta?" as you hold
the door for support. "Im super busy today dear, ill see if there's anything i can do " your father
responds as you soon hear the front door open and then close. You sigh and close the door
making the short trip to your bed which feels like a marathon now. As you flopped down you
closed your eyes to take a quick nap.

When you woke up around 15 minutes later you slapped your hand over your mouth, realizing
you were about to throw up. You bolted up and ran to your bathroom, slamming the door
behind you as you kneeled at the toilet before puking. As you finally stopped you heard some
noise coming from your room and soon a knock on the bathroom door. Assuming it was your
father you shouted out "come in". As the door opened you realized it was not your dad but in
fact Camilo with a basket full of food. "Uhh... What the fuck are you doing in my house" you say
as you stumble to stand up. He hesitates for a second but then quickly starts talking about
how he got there. "Your dad wanted someone to bring you food so of course i volunteered but
then your front door was locked so i had to crawl in through your window" he said with a dumb
smile on his face. "So you broke into my house?" you question. "Yes, yes I did" he responds
as you look in confusion. You silently flush the toilet before starting the trek downstairs to grab
water as Camilo follows. "You really shouldn't be walking down stairs in that condition mi
amor!" he says along with other reasons he should get whatever you need instead. You don't
know why but that kind of made you happy, "mi amor"? You replayed it in your head a few
times as you reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Was that first part your lame attempt at flirting?" you ask as you walk into your kitchen to try
and find a water bottle. "Yes but it wasn't lame!" he says as you grab the bottle. Before you go
back upstairs you see a pen and snatch it up with an evil plan. As you start walking upstairs
you use the pen to stab a hole in the bottle, right above where the water was. Camilo was too
busy ranting about how much misery you must be in and how he "just MUST!" take care of
you. As you reached your bedroom you opened the door and stepped inside. Right as you got
inside you turned around and squeezed the bottle, aiming the hole right at the boy who
decided to break into your home 5 minutes ago.
"Hey!" he says as he jumps away and you
stop. "You're so mean! I'm just trying to help you!" he says dramatically as you roll your eyes.
You lay on your bed as the boy, instead of leaving, sits on your bed and shoves the basket of
goods on your bed. You silently pushed it back, the smell overwhelming you. "If i eat i'll just
puke it back up on you." you say as you shake your head lightly. He sighs and sets it down."Don't get mad at me for breaking in here to give you delicious food just for you to deny it." he
says which earns the second eye roll of the day from you.

You lay down as the boy goes on and on about different things, while you just slowly started
falling asleep. Eventually you can't help but close your eyes and start falling asleep. Camilo
glances over and notices you sleeping and can't help but stare at your sleeping face. He
walks over trying to be as quiet as possible and sets his hand in front of you so he can stand
there and admire you for a second. After years of being used to your cat walking in front of
you mid nap you developed a habit of snatching your cat and pulling them on top of you, not
even having to look, just being able to sense something in front of your face. Now today was
the worst time for that habit to kick in, your pretty much asleep brain quickly grabbed onto
camilo's wrist, making him jump, and started pulling him onto the bed. He tried fighting back
thinking you were finally trying to murder the man but years of being active made it easy for
you to overpower him. As he started falling onto the bed his life flashed before his eyes as he
begged for forgiveness until he realized you werent tearing him apart but had just thrown him
onto you and had slung your arm around his upper half. For a minute he laid there with only
half his body on the bed, legs hanging off until he decided you would actually kill him if he
stayed there so he tried again to get up, just for a second arm to snatch him and pull him right
back. He sat there for a minute as his face slowly got more and more red, why did you
randomly decide you liked him? He racked his brain for an answer before looking at your face
to realize you were still fast asleep. Then he realized you were just dreaming. He sighed and
slightly relaxed realizing this was actually quite comfortable. Eventually his eyes slowly started
closing and he fell asleep right there.

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I'm in the car but I wanted to say thank you all so much for all the support!

I'll make sure to get the next chapter out today! <3

Ok bye sorry for interupting your reading hope you enjoy!

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Today when you woke up from a nap you expected a fluffy cat to be laying on you, not the person who’s been bugging you for days. As you opened your eyes and found your face full of curly brown hair you sat up a tiny bit to see why you saw Camilo laying on top of you, trapped by your arms. Your first instinct was to pull your hands back to your sides, letting the boy fall flat on the ground. “OW!” He exclaimed as you threw your pillow at him. “What was that for?” He said, a bit muffled by the pillow now laying on his face. “For deciding laying on top of a sleeping girl is perfectly fine” you respond as you get out of bed to stand over him. “Your the one who pulled me onto you” he says as he throws the pillow right back into your face. You grab the pillow and throw it onto your bed as an excuse to try and hide your blush.

“So you decided ‘yeah I’ll just sleep here’?” You asked before walking to the basket holding your, now cold, arepas. “You obviously wanted me there so who was I to complain.” He said smugly as you took a bite out of one of the arepas and swallowed. “I probably though you were my cat or something” you quickly responded, grabbing the basket and tossing it onto his chest. “And why are you still chilling on my floor?” You questioned, watching his face turn a bit red. “Your floors just soooo comfy” he replied, grabbing the basket as he stood up and threw a second arepa at you. You quickly started ushering him out in embarrassment, “yeah yeah nice having you have a good day” as you pushed him out your door and slammed it shut leaving him in the hallway as you finished the arepa you were eating and started feeling better.

As you sat back down onto your bed you finished the arepa as fast as you could, then throwing your face into your pillow and contemplating your life. You screamed into your pillow as you wondered why your asleep brain decided you really had to cuddle someone you had known for a little under a week. As you lifted your head, finally feeling better, you got back up and walked into your closet to change into regular clothes instead of your pajamas. As you grabbed your camera you decided to see if Dolores wanted to hang out, I mean, you didn’t really have anything else to do. You stood at your window and asked out loud if Dolores want to hang out. Of course you couldn’t hear a response but a few minutes later you saw Dolores happily exit her home and look at your house. You walked downstairs and opened your front door to sit out front and wait. Dolores quickly approached as you stood up to give her a hug. “I heard what happeneddddd” she said as an evil grin spread across her face. “Oh shut up” you replied before covering her mouth with your hand. “Your such a chismosa” you say as you invite her inside. “So why did you do that?” She asked giggling as you rolled your eyes. “I didn’t do it on purpose I was pretty much asleep” you sigh before sitting on the kitchen counter.

After Dolores grabbed a chair to sit in front of you she laughs as you turn your head in confusion. “What?” You ask as she keeps laughing. “Camilo- pff… he decided ranting to Antonio was a good choice and Antonio told Mamá” she whispers out before breaking out into a fit of laughter. You barely stifle a laugh by slapping your hands over your mouth and leaning over. “Now he’s hiding in my room” she says before sighing. After you two chat for a while you hear a knock at the door as Dolores answers. “Oh hi Mamá” she says as Pepa walks in. “Oh hi Y/N!” She says as she smiles at you and turns back to Dolores. “Where is Camilo hiding?” She asks as Dolores quickly responds “my room” and Pepa charges out back to her house. “Camilos gonna die of embarrassment.” She says, shaking her head. “I hope so” you say sarcastically as Dolores giggles. You grab the camera next to you that you almost forgot about and quickly snap a photo of Dolores.

“What was that for?” She asks as you check the photo. “I don’t know, I don’t like spending an entire day without taking any photos” you respond as you get up to show her the photo. “How did you do that so effortlessly?” She asks as she smiles. “Keep it” you say as you hand her the photo. “Thank you so much!” She says as she smiles even brighter. “I should head home” she says sadly as she stands up. “Bye Y/N!” She says as she waves goodbye and walks out of the door and you do the same back. “She’s nice” you think out loud, knowing she probably heard. As you walk back up into your room and fall onto your bed you realize you can still smell Camilo on your pillow and blush. You check the time as your father walks in the door and calls out to you that he’s home. You bury your face in your pillow and die inside a bit realizing your gonna have to see him again eventually.

Your dad enters your room as you look up and say hi. “What’s up? Did you get the food?” Asks as you nod and bury your face in your pillow, remembering the night. “I’m gonna head to bed early, goodnight amor” he says as he kisses you on the forehead and then leaves. You roll onto your side and stare out your window as you wonder what’s going on at the madrigals house. After a minute you bury your face in your pillow again and relax a bit at the smell before tensing up a bit realizing what you just did. You kick your feet in embarrassment and sigh. You let yourself relax again as your eyes close and your cat jumps onto your bed. It lays down on top of you and you pull her into you more and open your eyes again realizing your brain must’ve thought that Camilo was your cat and you blush. You roll back and forth in bed in embarrassment and sigh as you stop. Why does this have to happen to you?

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After the embarrassment of yesterday you started a new and today your father had decided instead of helping him, you had to do all the grocery shopping. As you skimmed over all the fruits you stopped at the apples to feel them before picking up a few particularly hard apples. You approached the salesman and made small talk as you pulled out the money from your purse and set the apples in your bag. After a minute of talking you feel someone bump into you from behind and notice it’s Mirabel. “Oh hi Mirabel” you say as you set a hand on her shoulder and feel her jump a tiny bit. “Oh uhm h-hi!” She responds, fumbling her words. “You gotta help me find some good groceries” you say as you quickly shake off her nervousness and grab her by her hand and start pulling her around. You rant to her about the food as you look over to see her blushing madly.

“Uh are you ok?” You ask as you pause in your step. She nods but you don’t take that as an answer. “Do you have a fever or something?” You question, hitting her with your hip. Right after that you see her turn into Camilo and you realize you were dragging around Camilo disguised as Mirabel. You both sit there frozen for a minute before you slowly retract your hand to your hand back to your side. You both stand there for another long minute before you reach into your bag and pull out a fresh apple. You then quickly chuck the apple at his forehead and run away, making your escape into a random alley way.

You bend down, covering your face realizing you still cant even face him a day later. As you sit there thinking of what your going to do you feel a figure loom over you as your too scared to open your eyes. You slowly look up to see Dolores staring at you with wide eyes. You scream a bit as you kick here in the leg on accident, sending her toppling down and revealing Camilo yet again. You swiftly stand up and speed walk away as Camilo scrambled to get up from wiping out on the floor. He quickly catches up and starts poking you questioning you like a cop about why you threw an apple at him. As you walk you grab yet another apple and chuck it behind you at the boy trailing you as he shouts out “HEY!”. “Oo free apple though” he says as his mood quickly changes and he bites into the apple. “If you follow someone around 24/7 expect something to be thrown at you” you say as you look back at him to glare at the boy who seems quite unbothered, more focused on the apple. “This is a really good apple- wait what did you say?” He blurts out as he looks back up from the apple who he seemed to have a crush on back up at you. You scoff as you shake your head and whisper a never mind as he turns his head in confusion. He speeds up a bit to stand next to you as he scoots way too close to your face. You blush a tiny bit and whip your hand up, lightly pushing his face away as he acts like you just assaulted him.

“Oh calm down” you sigh as you gently put your hand on his face as an apology feeling your hand heat up. You quickly flick his forehead as he flinches back before immediately walking back to where he was earlier right next to you. You reach into the basket you had almost forgotten about and dig for your watch. “Ugh did I drop my watch?” You think out loud as Camilo peeks over at your basket and glances at you. “Wanna track back?” He asked and you shrugged. “I don’t really care, don’t worry” as you kept walking before realizing you had no clue where you were even going at this point.

“Uh where are we going?” You ask him as he stops, realizing he doesn’t even know either. “Uhhh… your house? Disneyland?” He says, listing more pretty much impossible places as you roll your eyes. “My place I guess” you mutter as you keep walking making the boy quickly jog up to you. “Wow inviting me to your house I didn’t know you liked me like that” he said laughing as you roll your eyes. “You invited yourself pretty boy” you reply as you attempt to speed up so he doesn’t see your blushing face at your attempt of flirting back. He short circuits for a second before quickly running back to you blushing like a tomato. You both walked the rest of the way to your house in an awkward silence.

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I am so sorry I haven’t updated, I’m gonna post this to my other ongoing fic but my mother has a temperature of 102 Fahrenheit and I’m not feeling very well so we might have the new Covid variant. I wanted to officially let you all know that I will most likely not be able to update and if I do it might be shorter chapters. I hope you all can understand! Stay safe and wear a mask <3

- Marley, aka the author (｡’▽’｡)♡

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As you two walked in silence you couldn’t help feel the atmosphere grow a bit awkward. After a minute of racking your brain just as you opened your mouth to speak you heard a loud crash behind you two as you both snapped around to behold the sight. Mirabel had crashed straight into a stack of wooden buckets at the streets corner and was now scrambling to get up. You sighed as you and Camilo walked up to her as she was now on two feet. “Well that’s embarrassing!” She said laughing as you shook your head. “How did you knock into them with so much force!” You say as you lightly kicked a battered bucket. “Poor buckets” Camilo says as he turns back from the traumatized buckets to Mirabel. “Anyway what are you two doing?” She asks as she shoots Camilo a big grin and he turns away. “We were heading to my house” you say as she gives you the same big smile. “Ooh I don’t wanna intrude I’m so sorry” she says giggling a bit as she starts to walk away and you roll your eyes. “It’s not like that Mirabel” Camilo says, a bit flustered as you glance over at his slightly red tinted face. “So I can join?” She exclaims happily as she whips around to you two. “Well uh- sure I mean- no uh- sure I guess if it’s ok with Y/N” Camilo stutters out, obviously not really wanting her to come but also not wanting to shut her down. “I don’t really care” you shrug as she claps her hands together and smiles. “Let’s go! Lead the way!” Mirabel giggles.

As you lead the way to your house you hear the cousins bicker behind you but you can’t quite make out what it is their talking about, something about Mirabel being annoying. You eventually get to your house and open the door as Mirabel glides in front of you. “What do you wanna do?” She asks as she plops herself onto a chair. “I don’t know, got any ideas?” You asks as you go to set the basket down. “Hmmm oh! We should talk about Antonio’s ceremony coming up!” She gleefully says as you turn around to grab a seat. Camilo quickly sits in the chair next to as Mirabel slaps her hands down on the table. “Ok so! It’s gonna take place…” Mirabel says as she rambles on about Antonio’s ceremony and how excited she is to see his awesome gift. Your glad you don’t remember anything from her ceremony, just a few snippets. If you did remember it you would probably be quite sad by how excited she is to see what gift he gets. “Also what gift do you think he’ll get!” She says, quickly snapping you out of your trance. “I don’t know, maybe something animal related?” Camilo says as he rests his head on his hand. “Yeah, what are some gifts related to animals though?” You ask as you do the same thing as Camilo. “I dunno..” Mirabel adds, and becomes the thirds person resting their head on their hand. You three sit there for a minute before you look over and see Camilo half asleep. “Uh are you ok?” You ask as you wave a hand in front of his face making him jerk awake and sit up straight as a board. “AH! Sorry I didn’t sleep well..” he sighs, earning a laugh from Mirabel as you keep your stone face. “Then go nap” you say bluntly and gesture your hand to the air. “I can’tttt Abuela would see I was sleeping and get mad at me” he whines as you roll your eyes at him. “Then nap in my room I don’t care.” You sigh out as he perks up immediately. “Oh thank you so much Mi Vida” he says as he exaggerates his gratitude with his hands clasped together at his chest. You try your best to keep your face from turning red at the nickname but when Mirabel interrupts with a “get a room!” You can’t help but turn a bit red as you flick your fingers on her forehead.

“Anyway I’m gonna go get back to my chores bye bye!” Mirabel says as she waves before leaving the house leaving it quite in the previously loud room. “Cmon you can nap and I get some time away from you.” You say and get up, ignoring the dramatic gasp that comes from Camilo. You start walking upstairs as you remember the last time he was here and shake your head trying to get rid of the memory. As you open your door Camilo smiles at your room. “Thank you so much Ma’am you are oh so kind!” He says grabbing your hands to shake them. “Yeah yeah enjoy” you say as you shuffle him to your bed and give him a light push. He flops down on the bed and immediately goes limp. “Uh you want a water or…?” You ask as he gives you the weakest mumble in response, it’s not even a sentence and you have to cover your mouth to not laugh. You quietly walk to your closet and grab a blanket and drape it over him. He’s already sound asleep and you can’t help but stay there watching his face for a minute. As you snap out of it you realize just how pretty the boy actually is. Tan skin, freckles, curly hair. You wander closer to him and as lightly as possible touch one of his curls and pull away a bit at the softness. You shake your head and walk to your door scolding yourself for watching the boy sleep. As you start to close the door behind you, you swear you could hear him sleep talking, and your name being mentioned. You contemplate turning around but just close the door and start leaving instead.

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As his eyes opened Camilo glanced around at the unfamiliar room surrounding him. He doesn’t have that window.. and these aren’t his sheets. Wait. He quickly remembers how you let him sleep in your room to avoid his families scolding for sleeping and he felt his cheeks heat up. He buried his face into the soft bed and couldn’t help but think about you. The second he did the door opened and he froze up. He heard you sigh as you walked around doing something, but he couldn’t tell what. After a second he felt a light smack on his head and shot up. “Ouch what was that for!” He said as he looked up at your face. “For fake sleeping on my bed?” You replied quickly as Camilo fumbled for a response. “Well- uh- I-I was just uh.. I was trying to fall back asleep! Yeah!” He finally stuttered out. You stifled a smile as Camilo talks about how he had woken up and was trying to fall asleep again in detail.

He jumped up from your bed and set his hands on his hips. “Anyway I gotta go! Thanks! Bye!” He said as he shot you a smile and quickly scattered out of your room down the stairs. After he finally got out of your house he covered his face with his hands. “That was so akwarddd” he mumbled before sliding his hands off his face and started the walk back to Casita. His mind raced as he thought abut how he reacted and he just wanted to bury his face in his pillow and scream.

He opened the door to Casita and tried to get to his room as fast as possible. He tried to ignore the questioning look his mother gave him as he glided to his room and shut the door behind him. He flung himself onto his bed and silently screamed into his pillow. He used his hands to keep the pillow on his face as he spun back around to lay on his back. After a minute he heard his door open and a familiar voice. “Hey Camilo.. what’s up” he heard Mirabel say as she laughed at him quietly. Camilo sat up as he rolled his eyes at his cousin who was leaning on his door frame. “Oh shut up Mirabel!” He shot back at her as he threw the pillow he was holding at her. Mirabel laughed as she closed the door just before the pillow could hit her.

He threw himself back down to his bed and silently cursed himself for being so awkward around you. But how could he blame himself? I mean he thought you were so pretty… and he loved how funny you were and.. Camilo slapped his face with both his hands as he realized what he was thinking. “Wait a do I?” He stopped himself before saying it but he knew what was happening.. he definitely liked you.

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I have decided to discontinue this work. I had a huge Encanto hyperfixation while writing this but now that it’s gone it’s impossible for me to write this. I plan on privatizing this in a day or two but I wanted to make sure everyone who followed this knew. Thank you for all the love and support, I will continue writing for other fandoms but to the encanto fandom goodbye!