How did I get here?| Camilo X Reader

Chapter Seventeen-Preparations

I laugh nervously, "you're joking, right?"

He raises an eyebrow with a big grin on his face, "what do you think?"

I roll my eyes playfully, "what I think is that we need to go back to the Casita before they start to ask why we were taking so long."

"Oh come on! Aren't you going to at least answer my question? Would you like for me to be your boyfriend or not?"

I pretend to think, "I don't know, do I?"

He frowns, "then never mind."

I laugh, "if you want to ask me out, you have to ask me the right way. Not just on our way home from the grocery store."

"I will think of one then." He smirks.

I look at the basket full of things, "by the way, did you buy the cheese?"

He stops walking, "the...THE CHEESE! I FORGOT!"

I laugh, "don't worry, I noticed before you did and I bought it in advance." I say, pointing at the inside of the bag.

He sighs, "oh thank you."

———

Is that...the tulip?

It is floating and then, I see a hand. Someone is holding the tulip. I walk towards them.

'Y/n' the person says. I realize that it is the same voice that was calling me back in the tulip field.

'Y/n'

As get closer, it repeats my name faster and louder, I get there and the voice gets quiet, then a mirror appears. I only see my reflection...and the tulip. I keep looking and on the reflection, I see a butterfly, I turn around and there is nothing. I then look back into the mirror and it's Y/n again, but they are my reflection.

I wake up with sweat all over my body and my heart pounding loudly.

"Y/n?"

I turn and see Mirabel on her bed, "are you okay?"

Tonight, I stayed with the Madrigals since tomorrow I would be coming here anyway for the festival preparations. Abuela said it would be easier for me since I have to walk all the way here everyday, even though that is kind of my choice. It's actually fun doing sleepovers in Mirabel's room. After the house got fixed with magic, Casita gave Mirabel her own room and door, even though she still doesn't have a gift. The room is filled with a lot of supplies for making clothes, and her walls are covered with sketches of designs and some drawings that she made of the family.

I smile at her, "yeah, I'm fine."

"Then—then why were you talking in your sleep?" She says with a worried face.

"Oh, I just had a...nightmare, I guess. I'm going to go downstairs and get a cup of water, I will be right back."

She smiles, "okay."

I throw off the covers, put on my slippers, and head out the door. I walk downstairs and go into the kitchen.

I was serving myself some water, when I feel something behind me. I turn around and almost faint when I see Tio Bruno standing behind me.

I sigh with relief, "hi Tio Bruno, what are you doing here?"

"Oh hi y/n, just getting a midnight snack, what about you?" He asks.

"I'm just here to get some water, but I'm going to go back to the room, good night Tio Bruno." I say and start to walk out but I stop, and turn around, "by the way, can you give me another vision tomorrow?"

"Sure, but why is that?" He asks as he opens a drawer.

"Oh I don't know, I have been having weird dreams for the past few days. Or I guess I would call them signs." I frown.

"Do you have any idea of what they could mean?" He takes out a cutting board and starts cutting some cheese, then he feeds it to the rats along his back.

"I don't know, that's why I'm asking for another vision."

"Okay, we can do it tomorrow. Now, go back and try to sleep because we have a lot of work to do tomorrow."

I smile, "okay, good night."

"Good night, y/n"

I turn and go back to Mirabel's room.

"Finally! What took you so long?" She asks while hugging her pillow, the lamp beside her bed is now turned on.

"I saw Bruno while I was at the kitchen," I say as I close the door behind me. "Sorry for making you wait so long."

"It's fine, anyways, let's go to sleep."

I go towards my bed and lay down, she turns off the light and does the same.

"Good night."

"Good night Y/n."

———

"Rise and shine!" Mirabel opens her window, letting sunlight and the sounds of the Encanto into the room.

I groan as I pull the covers over me, not wanting to get up.

"It's too early!" I complain.

"Come on! We have a lot of work to do today, I will head downstairs first but make sure that you get up on time for breakfast."

She exits the room, and I try to get up. I stretch, and take my clothes to the bathroom so I can change. After that, I headed downstairs to the table in the back of the house where we were eating breakfast. I served myself some food and made my way to the table. I sit beside Mirabel.

"Someone decided to wake up early," Mirabel says.

"For once," Camilo comments, coming towards to the table and sitting down across from me. His plate was full of food.

I roll my eyes, "I need my beauty sleep."

"Attention everyone!" Abuela starts when everyone is seated, "today, we have a lot of work to do. Everyone in the village is going to be doing all a task and I will assign each one of you a task too."

I was excited for this. It was going to be so fun to put up decorations around the town and help Julieta and the rest of the village cook food for everyone.

After she finished talking, we all began to eat. Me and Mirabel were discussing about what task we would be assigned.

"I have a feeling that you will be assigned with the decorations." I tell her.

She nods, "that sounds fun, I think you and Camilo will be in charge of the kids."

I raise an eyebrow, "why do we need to be in charge of the kids?"

"Oh, that's because they need to make the posters to place around the town and we need good art teachers."

I pause, "how do you know I'm good at drawing?"

She shrugs, "I don't, but you're good with kids."

"I guess you're right."

We finish eating, clean up, and go to Abuela for our tasks to be assigned. As expected, Mirabel got the job of helping with the decorations and I got the job of helping the kids with Camilo.

I go up to him and tell him what our task is. He leads me to a big house, and he knocks on the door. The door opens, and more than a dozen of kids come out.

"These are all siblings," Camilo tells me and my jaw drops.

The parents come out and thank both of us for helping them take care of the kids and help them make the posters. After that, they leave and we are left with 13 kids to take care of.

'This is going to be fun...'

Hey everyone! Here is chapter seventeen! 🧍‍♀️

Here is an early chapter because I had a lot of motivation to write today. 😌

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it!

Word count: 1,250