As you snap back to the real world, you felt confused and genuinely disappointed.
The dream about you and Dolores kissing was still lingering in your mind, but now that you're face-to-face with the real Dolores, you understand the dream more.
"Wake up, (n/n)." Dolores taps your shoulder.
"Oh sorry, did I doze off there?" You mutter, as you rubbed your temple.
"Yeah.." Dolores scoffed.
The crowd of guests continued clapping as the two of you stood infront of each other.
"Let's eat?" You politely ask Dolores, earning a small chuckle from her.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, let's eat." Dolores jokingly laughed.
You and Dolores walk together towards the dining room, which had already had the other Madrigals waiting at the table.
The guests that were inside went outside out of respect, as they left the Casíta to the Madrigals and the two men.
Isabela and Mariano sat next to each other, while Abuela Alma and Señora Guzman talked about their grandchildren's proposal.
Casíta had dragged along another chair and placed it beside Dolores' place on the table, using the wooden floorboards.
The family notices your entrance as they greeted and congratulated the two of you for getting together.
You and Dolores move over to the other side of the table, where your spots were as the Madrigals that you passed each gave you an approving look, except one of them, Abuela.
In contrast to her utmost acceptance of Mariano Guzman, she didn't like the idea of you getting together with Dolores as much. Abuela had always expected the best out of her family, which was all part of her hierarchy, the Madrigals must maintain the perfect image, so that Abuela can feel content with them.
Abuela especially didn't like you, after you and Mirabel had broke down during Antonio's ceremony, having accused the Casíta of breaking down, and the magic fading. Noone believed the two of you ofcourse, except Dolores, and a few more people. Abuela had reassured everyone by telling them that you and Mirabel had too much to drink, which had caused everyone else's outlook on you to drop overall.
You and Dolores take a seat, Casíta pushed the chairs forward towards the table. But a little more subtle act from the Casíta made you smile a little, You noticed Casíta slowly move your chairs closer to each other, clearly liking the idea of the two of you being together.
"Now that everyone is here.." Abuela pulled away from her conversation with Señora Guzman, as she held up her cup, and called for everyone's attention.
Everyone sat up straight and directed all their attention to Abuela.
"Tonight, two of the women in the family spend time with their significant other, this will be very good for the Encanto ofcourse." Abuela stopped, as she smiled around the people at the table. "Salud!" Abuela cheered as she lifts her glass up, "Salud!" Everyone else replied, also lifting their glasses up.
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"Pst.." A whisper came from beside you, where Dolores was sitting. You turn your head to look at her, "Hm?". "I think it's time.." she whispered. The statement confused you, time for what? "What? What do you mean, Dolores?" You replied with a confused look on your face.
"It's time we go talk to Bruno." She lowered her voice, making sure noone else from the family heard her.
You had almost forgotten why you were here in the first place, investigating the lost Madrigal and looking for ways to fix the Casíta.
"Oh.. you mean right now?" You whisper.
"No, dumbass, later, after dinner." She replied.
Noone else seemed to pick up what the two of you were talking about, except one Madrigal, Mirabel.
You take a glance at Mirabel who was looking at the two of you awkwardly, after observing her for a while you deduce that she probably heard you and Dolores.
"You want in?" You mouth the words, as Mirabel understood and replied with an assuring nod.
The family continued to rejoice about the double date, Mariano was already ready with the ring, and Isabela was ready to say yes, to please her Abuela.
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You hear a small click under the table, which only you and Dolores picked up on.
Dolores looked at you to see if you also heard it, which you had mirrored, and did the same action to her.
You lift the tablecloth to look below the table, to see the source of the noise.
You were shocked at what you saw under the tablecloth, which noone was aware of besides you, and Dolores.
The cloth from the other side start to lift as another person showed their face to the two of you who were looking under, it was Mirabel.
The thing you noticed under the table? Cracks. Just like the ones you saw last night, during Antonio's ceremony.
The cracks only crawled further, which filled the entirety of the covered portion of the floor.
"Mirabel. Dolores. (Y/N)." Abuela sharply called, as the three of you collectively recoil after hearing your names.
The surprise from Abuela's stern voice caused you to jump back while your head was still under the table, causing the three of you to hit your heads on the table, the sounds of the three heads banging combined to radiate a big boom on the wooden table, causing the food and utensils to jump up.
You pull your heads back out to look at Abuela looking strangely at the three of you. "Are you okay?" Mariano Guzman, who looked awfully worried at the prima of his future-fiance, also looked at the two of you, with equal concern.
"We're great, we're great..." You chuckle nervously. Your were grinding your teeth, which only made Dolores more irritated.
The three of you look at each other quietly, with built-up panic clawing its way out of your faces.
Dolores leans her head to you, "Don't tell her, but I heard Mirabel putting together something in her room.".
You widen your eyes, as you put your ears closer to her mouth as you looked at Mirabel who she was spilling about.
"I went to check the nursery before I got here, and there it was.. A green tablet, which were byproducts of Bruno's visions. Mirabel was in it." She continued to whisper in your ear.
Your jaw dropped down, and your eyes were wide open. "Mirabel's in Bruno's vision!?" You burst out quietly, which you hadn't thought of, now you feel worried that someone heard it.
"Not so loud, dimwit." Dolores shushed.
You look around, and thankfully, everyone was busy chatting with the person beside them as they ate, noone heard it, except for three of the other people on the table, one was ofcourse Dolores, who would have heard it even if she was outside, then Mirabel, she was already paying attention to the two of you when the cracks under the table formed
Mirabel didn't hear the whole thing, but she managed to pick up two words, her name, "Mirabel" and the word that shocked her more, "Vision". She managed to combine the two into one thought, the vision she had hidden from the two of you earlier, in an effort to solve the problem by herself.
Mirabel had, again, forgotten that with her prima Dolores' gift, she really wouldn't be able to hide any secrets from her. Mirabel, knowing that you just knew what she did, put a sarcastic smile on her face, which told the words "Sorry!".
Well, it's really a good thing Mirabel was the only other person to hear you, it would be really bad if-
Dolores was looking strictly at Camilo, like if he did something that she didn't agree to, she would not hesitate to unleash fits of rage into her younger brother.
This looked weird to you at first, but then the thought snapped.
Camilo knows.
Camilo heard.
Fuck.
Camilo transformed into multiple people all at once, which was common when he was nervous.
He transformed into you, Dolores, Mirabel, then his interpretation of Bruno, then back to his frail figure.
Camilo always made a small wooshing sound when he transforms, so changing into this much people all at once, made the noise ring multiple times, which caught everyone's attention.
Everyone was now looking at the mishapen boy.
You take a look at Camilo, and just realized that while transforming, his gift had malfunctioned and the boy's eyes were pointing at different directions, which was actually kind of funny to you.
Abuela was growing more and more irritated with each disturbance. She takes a glance at Señora Guzman, who looked confusingly at the mishapen face of Camilo. Abuela quickly grabs her attention again by clearing her throat.
Señora Guzman quickly looks at the woman again as Abuela picks up the wine glass and pours it into the glass she was holding.
You and Dolores had your eyes back at Camilo, which still had his eyes wrong.
"Camilo, fix your face." His father Felix thankfully finally acknowledged Camilo's face.
Camilo quickly shakes his head around, as per his father's request. As his eyes flew around with his head, they eventually snapped back into their original places.
The embarrassed young man looked at everyone, knowing they just saw his face like that.
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Camilo kept giving glances to you and Dolores, as you glare at him with piercing eyes, with very much the intent of punishment behind them.
A voice distracted you from looking at Camilo,
"Water? Lola, (n/n)?" It was Isabela, she held the jug of water to the two of you as you both respectfully declined by shaking your heads.
Isabele hands the jug to her sister, Mirabel, who takes it to her dad, Agustin.
You look back and grow shocked to see that Camilo was whispering to his papa, Felix, most likely about the vision.
Felix spat out the water he was drinking after what Camilo whispered in his ear.
The sudden splash of water caught everyone's attention again, which Felix acknowledged.
Felix faked a cough, to excuse himself from the gesture.
Once you and Dolores had looked away for a split second, Felix was already also whispering to his wife, Pepa.
A big storm cloud appeard above your head the more Felix whispered to Pepa.
Soon, the entire dining room was covered with a cloud. Which was another disturbance in the otherwise perfect night.
"Pepa. The cloud." Felix whispered as the other Madrigals and the Guzmans looked at the big gray cloud.
You and Dolores look at the clouds above your head, raindrops dropping on your face as you blink uncontrollably with each drop on your face.
After you wiped the water off, you noticed that Pepa was now also whispering to her sister, Julieta.
Now the whole side of the table knows about the vision.
You hear squeaking under the table, which also came to Dolores' ears.
You peek under the table to see the Coati's from Antonio's room fixing the broken fragments of the vision like a jigsaw puzzle.
You quickly jump at the rodents under the table, bumping your body on every leg of the table.
Pepa grew a thunderstorm once again after your sudden movements.
Camilo shapeshifted uncontrollably.
Luisa started to cry even harder.
Dolores was getting overwhelmed with all the noise.
And Isabela grew flowers and branches all over the room, with one of them hitting Mariano in the nose.
You quickly pick up the tray that was holding the pieces of the vision and move out of the table with it in your hands.
Once you saw the dining room again, it beared no resemblance to the room that you saw before you jumped under the table.
The coati's followed your back as you ran around with the tray, moving it away from the rodents.
The coati's bite your leg, causing you to flinch and recoil in pain.
The vision slides away from your hands, and onto the table.
The tray slides smoothly until hitting the two wine glasses infront of Abuela.
Abuela takes a good look at the tray, in which she saw what she acknowledged as one of Bruno's tablets.
The whole family looks at you in confusion and worry.
What have you done?
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