Safe and sound ( C. Madrigal )

This side of paradise.

(in Y/n's perspective)

Right after dinner excused myself and went outside and sat on an empty bench, staring at the moon. "Luna, you look beautiful as always. You make me jealous." I said as if I was talking to the moon itself and smiled taking deep breaths and closed my eyes. 

"And you make the stars jealous, just like how you are to luna."  I flinched and turned around to see Camilo resting both his hands on the bench, looking at the night sky, he suddenly smiled. I looked up to see clouds beside the moon, somehow shaped like a heart.

 "See? even the moon agrees." he puts a hand on my shoulder gently, I breathe rapidly by the sudden contact. He then sat next to me. 

"This side of paradise, Querida." he said, reaching for my hand making me look at him.

 "In this side of paradise, you can be lonely with me." 

(Camilo's)

A few years back I remembered how Señora Rodriguez came here along with her husband. I never meant to listen to older people's conversations but I heard how their granddaughter was left back in Señor Rodriguez's hometown with harsh parents. 

As a kid, I thought I never understood it right. But when I saw her the first time tonight with her head down, the way she didn't answer my question immediately as if she's not used to talk without permission or no one talked to her, and her staring at the kitchen knife, clearly panicking but won't say. 

I understood her.

I looked into her eyes, and they told me she was in pain.

well, eyes never lie.

Papí raised and taught me how to be a good man, Mamí thought me how to read or understand a woman.

I'm the "fun" Madrigal. And I want everyone around me to be happy.

From now on, her happiness is my top priority.

(Y/n's)

" I see tía Julietta's cooking only healed your wounds on the outside." he said and I just nodded, as I ate her food a while ago, my body felt relieved from all the physical pain I've been feeling.

  " And I'll heal the wounds inside." he said tucking my hair behind my ear. "I promise you this, with Luna as witness, princesa."

 I didn't know what I was supposed to feel, those words.. I felt safe. aside from Abuela and Abuelo's presence, why did I feel safety with a person I only met a couple of hours ago? Why did I let him touch me and I was comfortable with it? 

"Tell me. how's your day, bonita?" he asked, breaking the silence. I never thought someone would be interested on how my day went.

 Excited, I told him everything. From the moment I wake up, up until now. I bombarded him with stories, and I watched how he was eager to listen which made me a lot happier. He didn't bother, he stayed.

He stayed with me.