sparks | camilo madrigal

01

"Now, we have gathered here today to welcome the newest member of the family Madrigal. Everyone let us welcome Amora Madrigal!" Abuela slowly stepped aside revealing Dolores carrying their baby while Mariano stands besides Dolores, staring at their baby with full of love.

Everyone from below cheered as Mariano covered his wife's ears, both of them exchanged smiles. Abuela had a big smile on her face, she could feel the love through their smiles.

"Wooo! Congrats sis!"

"We're already grandparents huhu"

"Their baby is beautiful"

"Of course, Dolores is the mother"

"You got this Dolores! Only four more babies to go!" Isabella shouts, teasing her cousin. Mirabel who heard it couldn't stop laughing until she was already tearing up.

Pepa was in the verge of crying again, she remembered the night when they introduced Dolores to the village and now it was her turn to introduce her baby. Felix smiled and rubbed Pepa's back.

Camilo stood there, staring at his sister and his his brother in law staring at each other lovingly. He never understood how love works, how do you know if you love someone, what do you do when you are in a relationship.

He had so many questions running through his mind but was left unanswered. He guessed that he will never know unless he gets in a relationship.

"Everyone come! Let's take a picture, tonight is a beautiful and memorable night!" Abuela announced as the family members gathered around in front of the camera.

"La Familia Madrigal!"

"Hey grew to live in fear of Bruno stuttering and stumbling, i can always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling" Bruno sang as he bopped his head with the beat.

"Tio Bruno! Have you seen Mirabel anywhere?" Camilo asked. He had been searching for Mirabel for the past twenty minutes. Seriously, what's wrong with that girl, why does she keeps on disappearing.

"Oh hey Camilo, no i haven't seen her the whole day, did something happen?" Bruno said with a hint of worry in his voice, Camilo shook his head.

"Nothing, i just have something to ask her"

Bruno just nodded and gave the boy a small smile. "Grappling with prophecies they couldn't understand, do you understand" Bruno continued. Making his way to the kitchen he saw his Tia Julieta cooking some arepa, his stomach grumbled at the sight.

"Hey Tia, have you seen Mirabel" he grabbed four arepas with one hand and started chomping on it. No matter how many times he ate Julieta's arepas, he would never get tired of it.

"Woah, have you been eating properly earlier, you seem like your very hungry" Julieta smiled as the watched the boy enjoying her cook.

"He's always hungry, there's nothing to be surprised about" Isabela teased as she grabbed a glass of water for herself.

"Haha very funny Isabela" he rolled his eyes at the girl as she did the same.

"I think Mirabel was with a friend, why'd you ask is there something bothering you?"

"I wanted to ask her about something, but it's nothing important" Julieta hummed in response as she continues on cooking.

Camilo sighed in frustration as he decided to take a stroll around the village, finding something that could entertain him.

For the past years he was the one the finds joy on entertaining people with his gift, but as time goes everyone would only want to see him to shape shift into someone else.

Of course he knew that was the purpose of his gift, to entertain people but he couldn't help but feel like everyone's happy because he's someone else. Mirabel was the only one who he can talk to freely without being ashamed.

"Camilo! Hey, can you-" Camilo immediately cuts him off knowing what he would say next, he didn't feel like entertaining someone today.

"Not now, I'm busy" Camilo said as he walked passed the boy who was dumbfounded. There was no way the Camilo Madrigal just refused to someone.

Well who wouldn't be surprised, it was also their first time seeing Camilo not being happy. To be honest, he kinda look scary when he's mad.

As he was walking around the village, he spotted a familiar curly hair and that familiar blue skirt at the market. He was definitely sure it was Mirabel. He noticed that she was with someone, they laughed together as the other girl placed some bread on her basket.

"Oh and by the way, I didn't saw you last night where were you?" Mirabel asked the other girl which Camilo assumed was Mirabel's friend.

"I was there! I've tried shouting your name a couple of times but you didn't even noticed, it was really embarrassing" Her friend playfully slapped Mirabel's arms.

"Really? I must've lost my hearing when Isabella kept on shouting and cheering for Dolores" Both of them laughed once again. Camilo couldn't help but to notice how pretty the other girl's voice was.

He was sure that he had never seen her around here before. Did she just recently move here? But she also seems so familiar, he couldn't just put his finger on it.

Mirabel and her friend walked away from the market as Camilo unconsciously followed them. He was aware that he was looking like a creep for stalking his cousin with her friend, but his curiosity got the best of him.

"Dolores' child looks a lot like her" The girl said as Mirabel nodded in agreement.

'It would be concerning if it looked a lot like Isabela' Camilo thought. Both of them were chatting and laughing like there was no end, while Camilo just silently listened to all their conversation.

"Oh! And i almost forgot" the girl searched for something in her bag for a moment before taking a paper and handing it to Mirabel. Was it a letter?

Camilo noticed that Mirabel panicked a bit before she took the letter from her friends hands. He swore that he just saw Mirabel blushed. Does Mirabel have a-

"Camilo?" He flinched when he heard his name being called by Mirabel which caused him to accidentally shapeshift into someone in the village. He started to panick and pretended like he didn't hear anything.

"I know it's you chameleon, now stop pretending like we didn't see you shapeshift there a second ago" Mirabel crossed her arms as the boy shapeshifts back to himself.

"Uh hey?" He awkwardly waved his hand as he tried to act as normal as possible. Mirabel's friend was looking at him with confusion written all over her face.

"Now what were you doing? Were you following us this whole time?" Mirabel asked as Camilo immediately shook his head and tried to come up with something so he could defend himself.

"I was just strolling around, then i saw you. Then you called me and i got startled, that's all" Mirabel didn't looked convinced at her cousin's words but just nodded.

"Oh! Camilo, meet my friend Y/n! Y/n this is my cousin Camilo. I'm pretty sure that you guys haven't met yet" You stared at the curly haired boy as you gave him a smile.

"Hola, my names Camilo Madrigal! Are you new here? Because i haven't seen you around here before" Struggling to keep up his usual cheery voice, he gulped.

"I'm Y/n L/n. I've been here since last year actually, but I don't see you around here often, only Luisa and Abuela" you explained, it was the first time you saw Camilo this close. His freckles didn't go unnoticed to you, you noticed so many details on him.

You've always found him really pretty, but he looked even better when he's close.

"Yeah, i don't come here often, only when Abuela or mama asks me to help around here"

Mirabel silently listened to the both of you having a long conversation with a proud smile. She think that she might've just started a new love story but things aren't as easy as she think it would be.