•~Telepathic~• | Camilo Madrigal x OC

Deny it

-Amira's pov-

They're...

They're getting married?

"Oo! They're starting the music!" Mirabel squeals delightedly.

I'm worried about my best friend, but I can really barge in on wherever he is right now. So, I figure I'll just distract myself briefly.

"You go ahead Mira, I'm hungry," I giggled. She nods before pacing off without hesitation.

I make my way over to the food tables, grabbing a serviette I scoop up two arepas.

My mouth is practically drooling over the food, the warm aroma sneaking into my nostrils. I waft in the scent, letting myself drown in the delicious smell of the empanadas. I'd rather distract myself with food then stress over Camilo.

"You seem to be enjoying my Mama's arepas quite a lot," I hear a voice giggle to my right. I whip my head around to face them, my cheeks puffed from the food filling my mouth.

"OH! Mrmfph mhm?" I respond unsuccessfully. I take a second to swallow before repeating myself, "You're Isa right?"

"Yep, I saw you talking to my hermana earlier, are you her friend?" She kindly asks me while grabbing a piece of food for herself.

"Yes actually, she's really nice," I try to shine the friendliest grin I could think of.

"Nice, if you get along with her then my primo Camilo would probably like you too. He's the same age," she shrugs.

I internally laugh because she's not wrong, but I play it off like I didn't know. "The shapeshifter? I've seen him around school, he's a popular kid," I roll my eyes with a smirk, imagining Camilo's glare if he'd heard I called him popular.

"Of course he is, he's such a show off," she rolls her eyes after me, stuffing her face with a lot of food.

"Super good right?" I gesture to the food.

"My biggest flex is that I get her cooking for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Everyday."

"So not fair, I just get generic food, like normal townsfolk eat."

Her eyebrows lift, "Are you calling my family not normal?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Well- I suppose so," she giggles, "would you like to stay for dinner? I'm sure the family would love to have you."

My eyes broadened at the offer, worried I'll mess something up and they don't like me. Or Camilo spills the tea on our gift because he won't be able to stand having me there while he just pretends he does know me. I could definitely see something like that happening.

"Uh, helloo~?" I'm snapped out of my thoughts when Isa waves a hand over my face.

"I'd like to stay for dinner sure, I mean, who would pass up a chance to have dinner with the Madrigals in casita? Not to mention Julieta's cooking, this is going to be the best dinner I've ever had!"

"You're going to have a great time! Dinner is never boring, Dolores loves spilling tea on drama around town, it's surprisingly entertaining to hear about."

"Thank you so much for inviting me Isabela, I should get back to Mira as well, I chose food over dancing with her."

"I would too," we laugh in unison, before I wave goodbye and walk off to the dance area. Without having to scan the crowd too much, I easily spot Mirabel's vibrant skirt flowing side to side.

I grin, admiring her unique dancing skills, but as I'm walking over I bump straight into someone.

"Oh! Sorr-" I freeze when I see their face.

"Andres?"

I tilt my head, examining his face as if I'm wondering whether he's even real. Technically, we hadn't broken up. And we hadn't gone out of our way to purposefully avoid eachother.

But we also weren't trying to see eachother, either.

The last time we saw eachother, I has slapped him hard across the face.

"Uh, yep. That's me... heh," he glances everywhere except me, his dark pupils darting across the room. "Look, about what happened at school. None of it was my fault, and I don't know why you stood up for Camilo over me." He eyes meet mine this time, a look of hurt, anger.

I had a justified reason to do that!

I arrive on the scene.

I see Andres beating the crap out of his own best friend.

I stop him from beating the crap out of his own best friend.

Simple, right?

"What was I supposed to do!?" I pause to take a breath, I can feel the anger rising already. "You were beating him up, I'm not going to let you get in trouble for that."

"You would get it if you knew why," he gives me a sarcastic look. It bothered me because he had a point, I actually wasn't told what happened.

I sort of just, assumed it was some dumb guy thing. Nothing I haven't seen before, and usually the cause is extremely irrelevant.

"Yeah, you didn't know did you?" He spat.

"Well... no. Care to elaborate?" I awkwardly smile, feeling dumb.

"He practically admitted to liking you, and then gets mad at me for being your boyfriend!"

Camilo Madrigal is a selfless, loving, sweet guy, sure. But somehow- I hated it -but somehow I didn't find it all that hard to believe. I dug down that doubt though, it felt like I was betraying Camilo.

"That doesn't sound like something he'd do." I state, wanting to defend him.

At this point, I still thought I liked Andres, at least a little bit. He comforted me at the river, he understood like no one else had.

But, was that all?

My expression falters as it clicks.

Andres has done a couple sweet things for me.

Camilo though? He's been my shoulder to lean on for my entire life. And I've never even realised it because I was just so used to it.

The second I try to deny it, is the second I make the realisation.

I'm in love with Camilo Madrigal.

As I switch back to reality, I cut Andres off when he separates his lips to begin speaking.

"I'm really sorry Andres, please don't take this personal but we have to break up. I really have to be somewhere," panic washes over me as I steer myself through the overbearing crowd of dancers. Arms swinging in my direction left and right do not help.

Camilo.

Please just...

'Don't go through with the marriage.'
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If it's not already obvious enough, this was not my original plan for the ending of this chapter 😅 this is just a last minute switcharoo

So instead, when Amira is looking for Mirabel she spots Andres making out with some other girl. Amira gets upset, tries to hide it during dinner with the Madrigals- blah blah blah.

I decided this would be better though 😄