CTTO: kitasgloves
summary:
— you've always had your eyes set on Camilo for a very long time, it was impossible not to. Camilo found you pretty too so why not take the chance? being a tad younger than he doesn't mean you're incapable of the things he says.
genre:
— songfic
notes:
— female reader. I do not speak fluent Spanish and all of the Spanish here is translated from google, feel free to correct me if I got something wrong though I will refrain from using too much Spanish.
warning/s:
— none
It really began with the townsfolk when you heard of Camilo Madrigal. You were only eight when you saw the shapeshifter, shining brightly in the crowd with his yellow ruana under the sunlight. There was a glimmer in your doe eyes as he twirled and made the entire town cheer with delight. He was like a dream, a blazing beam. The brightest star you have ever seen. Since that day, you never learned how to take your eyes away from Camilo.
The young Madrigal only heard of you after his 12th birthday. Camilo saw you among the crowd with a beautiful dress and eyes he can easily get lost in. You were the prettiest thing he has ever laid his eyes on. He would purposely seek you out in the crowd, your eyes will meet him and he'll melt inside. The way you look at him like that made him feel so bare like you can see his soul and he loved it.
Years roll by, there were opportunities for you two to get close, and you both did. Always chasing each other around town, often relentlessly teasing each other. It was a matter of time did you both developed feelings for each other that are more than friendship. Both of you wanted to stay with each other forever.
Eventually, your 16th birthday arrives. It wasn't much of a big deal except that you're growing aware of the world around you. First, there's puberty then self-consciousness. It bothered you sometimes how you present yourself outside, you wished you didn't care but you did. But you learned how to explore how the world works around you, therefore, you weren't naive. You're perfectly capable by yourself.
Camilo was older than you, he acted in a way like he's the boss and you're just a little girl when in actuality there's only a one-year age gap between you and him. He did age excellently, Camilo was more handsome and it's driving you loca when he parades around town and spares you a playful wink. It was no secret that he was a natural performer, always catching people's attention and setting them on fire. He's charismatic, fun, and everything a girl would swoon for.
After you blow your birthday candles, you head outside your house and let the guests enjoy your birthday party. Life has been awfully slow for you. You were pretty and all dolled up for being sweet sixteen. You huffed and sat outside by the garden.
"BOO!"
You screamed. You hear a loud cackle and your face relaxes. Camilo makes an appearance, dashingly handsome as always. He takes a seat beside you with a teasing grin on his lips, you roll your eyes at him.
"What are you doing out here, cumpleañera?"
He asks. You shrug and dust off the nonexistent dust on your dress. Every time Camilo comes around, your self-consciousness goes off the roof. You wanted him to see that you're beautiful and deserving of his attention. He raises a brow and whistles.
"What? Is being sixteen that boring for you?"
"Not gonna lie, it is"
Camilo scoots closer to you, almost making you tense up. It's hard trying not to admit that you're in love with him, it almost feels as if he's pushing you to your limit every time. Now, after many years, did you decide to change the situation.
"I wanna know what's out there, 'Milo"
You say. Camilo runs a hand through his gorgeous hair and scoffs at you. He gives you a look as if you said a funny joke.
"I think you're not ready to see what the world is like, princesa"
Your face turns sour at his words. Did he really think you're a vulnerable little thing that won't last a day out there in the real world? Ha! The jokes on him. Camilo places a hand on your knee and gives you a shit-eating grin.
"Why, you're such a baby!"
"I'm sixteen. What's such a baby about that?"
You rebut at him. Camilo tilts his head with mild bewilderment, amusement in his eyes. He crosses his legs then rests his arm on his thigh, slowly leaning close to you with a playful smile. You gazed at him, confused.
"You wait, little girl, on an empty stage. For fate to turn the light on"
Camilo begins to sing and nods as he looks into your eyes. He tugs your heartstrings with his melodious voice and you had to prevent yourself from swooning.
"Your life, little girl, is an empty page that men will want to write on"
He nods his head with each word he sings, not breaking eye contact. Camilo had to be purposely pushing you to the edge, so you smiled and decided to finally cross the line you made.
"To write on..."
You start to sing. Your eyes glance down to his lips then back to his eyes, your body starts to lean forward towards him. Camilo gulps, his eyes growing wide as he leans back, avoiding you. He watched you with sheer surprise while you inch your face closer to his.
"You are sixteen going on seventeen. Baby, it's time to think"
Camilo interrupts, pointing at you to stop yet his eyes remain wide and waiting for what was actually going to happen. You bite off a large grin as you watch him lose his cool.
"Better beware, be canny and careful"
He regains his signature smile and composure as he continues to sing. You lean back and stopped towering over him, knowing you just made him nervous which rarely happens.
"Baby, you're on a brink"
The tone of his voice was heavenly but teasing, he softly pats your shoulder like a pal and you had to tilt your head then roll your eyes at him. Camilo stands up, avoiding your watchful gaze.
"You are sixteen going on seventeen. Fellows will fall in line"
He makes his way on your other side and looks at you. His hand gestures in front of you, singing about how a lot of lads will fall in line to get to you.
"Eager young lads and rogues and cads Will offer you food and wine"
Camilo continues and motions to you. He sees the look of excitement in your eyes when he mentioned food and wine, it was adorable. He smirks then walks behind you.
"Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men"
He looks forward, taunting you as he sang. You turn your head with a cheeky smile and slowly moved your face close to his, your noses brushing. But Camilo abruptly pulls his face away, ignoring the nervous pounding of his heart.
"Timid and shy and scared are you"
You raised a brow at him as he sings teasingly at you like you were a little child. You copy the playful look on his face, you lean forward eager to get close to his again. Camilo raises a finger at you then keeps his distance away.
"Of things beyond your ken"
Camilo keeps his eyes on you when he sings. He was baffled to see you so set on to get close to him, he almost believed you were going to kiss him if he gets too close, maybe he'll let it happen but first, he has to continue playing.
"You need someone older and wiser. Telling you what to do"
You gaze at him as he pointed at you. Camilo marches, facing away from you as he sang. You can tell that he wanted to play with you, so you take the bait. He swiftly turns around with a charming smile.
"I am seventeen going on eighteen. I'll take care of you"
He winks with a hand on his chest and proudly sings, successfully making your knees feel like jelly. You couldn't take what he was doing to you, so you open your arms wide then ran into his arms as you twirl him around with glee. Camilo's breath hitches at the sudden contact, he halts you with a serious look on his features. He gestures his finger at you to stop, your smile purposely drops as you pretended to become upset at him. You held your chin up and walked away.
Camilo sighs in slight regret, not knowing if you were even joking or not. He gently touches your arm, taking his hand out for you to take. You look at him for seconds then took his hand only to give it a firm handshake. You start to walk away and he chased after you, Camilo's hand slides down from your shoulder to your hand as you immediately take it. Your smile returns and you gracefully lead him back to take a seat, thinking victory is yours.
Suddenly, thunder roars in the sky. Camilo feels the raindrops, he glances around and finds a cover. He stands and runs toward the dry shade, leading you with him to avoid getting soaked in the rain. Surely, it starts to pour and he clicks his tongue now that he has to wait until the rain passes. You grin, knowing you have him all to yourself. You walk up to him and tapped his shoulder.
"I am sixteen going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive"
You sing. You reached to touch his forearm as you slide to take his hand and pull him closer to you. Camilo reluctantly watches, your voice sounds so sweet in his ears.
"Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet. And willingly I believe"
You let go of his hand and let your arms open wide, you cutely twirled in front of him. Camilo can't stop the toothy smile appearing on his face as he laughed.
"I am sixteen going on seventeen. Innocent as a rose"
You lock your eyes on him and teasingly swayed from side to side, the fake innocent look on your face morphs into a sly grin as you twirl and sat down on a vacant seat.
"Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies. What do I know of those?"
Camilo sees your shrug and extends your hands. As the rain begins to pour hard outside and thunder continues to roar, he finds himself in a bit of a tricky situation.
"Totally unprepared am I. To face a world of men"
You stand up nodding your head, he keeps his eye on you as you walked towards his side with your hands behind your back. Camilo swallowed with disbelief, you take a huge step next to him as he feels your fingers slowly tracing upwards towards his shoulder. He shuddered.
"Timid and shy and scared am I. Of things beyond my ken"
Your fingers reach to tickle him on the ear as he recoils and tries to walk away. You swiftly stop him by standing on a small platform, boosting yourself up making you taller than him. You look down at Camilo and caught him by his shoulders.
"I need someone older and wiser. Telling me what to do"
Camilo listens to you sing as you wagged your finger at him. He starts to be short-circuited because of how angelic you are singing. With unblinking eyes, he gazed at you dreamily.
"You are seventeen going on eighteen..."
You smirk at the lovestruck look on Camilo's face. You reach and twirled one of the curly strands of his hair around your finger. He melts by your touch and blissfully closes his eyes as he feels your other hand caressing his hair.
"I depend on you"
You sing with a victorious look on your features now that you got him where you wanted. You stroked his face. Camilo slowly opens his eyes and sees your face silently inching closer to his, he almost gasped. So he grabs you by the waist and dips you, making sure his face is away from yours. You peek through your lashes and noticed the evident blush on Camilo's cheeks as he gazes at you.
Camilo immediately pulls you back up, raises both of his hands telling you to wait with a flat look on his face. When he spins then held out his hand for you, the smile on your face as big as ever. You gladly take his hand as you two dance together. He grins as he spins you around, unable to believe if his feelings for you were getting reciprocated. You continue to dance with him, your hand remaining in his with his other resting carefully on your waist.
The two of you looked at each other with identical smiles on your faces as you danced around. The hard rain outside was ignored as you and Camilo moved in sync like you were the remaining people in the world. One more spin with your hands on each other's waists and a free hand extended. Your hands meet again and spun together as you both performed your choreography, deep at the moment. Eventually, you both pull away, spin, and sat opposite, and face each other.
You were panting, there was an unsure look on your face. Camilo was the same, looking like he was questioning what you two were doing was alright. You both gently rise, not breaking your gazes on each other. The sound of the pouring rain was loud but not louder than the pounding of your heartbeat. You deliberately tried to spin away from him, slowly becoming nervous. However, when your spinning comes to a stop, you meet face-to-face with Camilo. He was breathing loudly as he peered down on you with uncertainty.
The moment you spun again, you didn't know he was doing it too and it happens again. You end up facing each other, forcing to realize that this wasn't some game anymore. It repeats one more time, without a word being exchanged after all the dancing, singing, and teasing.
Soon, you spin one last time and meet him. Camilo couldn't resist it anymore. As you were about to resort to running away and hiding forever. Camilo grabs your shoulders then firmly placed a kiss on your lips. Your pupils were as wide as the moon when you felt his lips on yours, a warm feeling within you blooms, and your entire body feels so fuzzy. But when you were about to return the kiss, he pulls away then looks at you for a second before sprinting away towards the pouring rain with a relieved smile on his face leaving you.
You stood frozen until a smile of disbelief formed on your face, you couldn't believe it, Camilo just kissed you and he feels the same! The amount of happiness you were experiencing was bubbling inside of you and it overflows so you had you let out a huge squeal in the open. Maybe being sixteen wasn't that bad at all.