Primrose ~ Camilo Madrigal x Reader

Part 29

I woke up in a bed that wasn't my own, sun seeping through the open window and cascading onto what I assumed was my bed. My body moved on it's own, gleefully getting out of bed and running towards the wardrobe. I couldn't control my own body. I felt as though I was a co-pilot, sitting back as someone else took control. When I was standing next to the wardrobe I realised how small I was. I was much smaller than I was a few minutes ago, and it felt like the dream I had yesterday.

After changing into an outfit that was made out of primarily white clothes, I walked out of the room I was in and out onto a balcony. I didn't get long to look at the house I was in, but it seemed to be an extremely similar layout to the Madrigal home. A balcony with many doors leading to different people's rooms, a ground floor where there was plenty of room to set up a table in the centre.

My body dragged itself down the stairs that were near the door to my room. When I walked into what I assumed was the dining room I was shocked at the amount of people that were around me. My parents were there, looking quite a bit younger than they looked now, and around them were about four other couples their age. There were two people who I assumed were my grandparents, and then about fourteen or so people in the room who I assumed were cousins. It was shocking to see this many people in the same room, and it did seem as though we all lived in the same house.

My mother walked over to me with a sweet smile on her face, pulling me in for a gentle hug. "Are you ready for the ceremony tonight?" she asked quietly, and while I was confused at what she meant, something in me made me feel happy and excited, it made me feel different to how I felt with her earlier. "Don't bring it up now mi vida, it'll make them nervous" my father commented, and my mother left our hug to go kiss him on the forehead. "They have nothing to worry about. I know everything will go perfectly" She said, and it made something in me calm down, but I knew it wouldn't, I knew something here was going to go wrong.

After breakfast I was brought out of the house with someone that I was having breakfast with, and even though I didn't trust her, the smaller version of me did, and I walked with her down to the village. It was obvious now that we weren't in Encanto. There were no mountains surrounding us, but rather miles and miles of empty fields full of yellow flowers, and the sight of it made me feel happy inside.

"Are you ready for the ceremony tonight?" the girl next to me asked, and I shrugged slightly at the comment. "I'm a bit nervous, but I think that it'll be fine" my younger voice said, and the girl next to me nodded. "That makes sense. I was nervous when it was my ceremony too, but it's going to go absolutely perfect, I'm sure of it" she consoled, pulling me into a tight hug so it would make me feel better. "Let's go for a walk down to the fields, away from everyone else. That'll make you feel better, I'm sure of it".

The girl pulled me by the arm through the streets and into the fields. The smile on her face gave the younger me a feeling of comfort, but I knew that this moment would be bittersweet from the reaction of my parents. When we reached the fields I noticed what flowers they were. Primroses. Yellow primroses. The same ones that Camilo gave to me. It made sense to me now why my mother and father gave the yellow primrose in my hair the first time I came home from the Madrigal's home. It was something that protected them.

I laid down amongst all of the flowers with the girl, holding her hand softly. "What do you think my gift will be?" I asked her, but I was confused at my own question. "I'm not sure," she said, casually lifting her hand into the air, then water appeared and moved with it. 'A gift' I thought, but to my younger self it seemed normal for this to happen. I then realised what was going on. We were a family like the Madrigal's, a family that was given a miracle. A family that had gifts. "Maybe it'll be as cool as mine" she laughed, and it was quite contagious as I began to laugh as well.

The two of us laid there for hours in the field, talking to each other casually and watching the clouds fly by. I didn't know what was going on, I didn't know who she was, but I felt safe and happy with her. I didn't know what about this would make my parents act the way they did, but I guessed that the answers would come later on.

When the sky turned to light pinks and oranges and yellows we knew it was time to go, and I was pulled up from the ground by my arm. She pulled me back through the town, but this time I was pulled through the backstreets, away from the crowd that was walking towards my house.

The girl handed me over to my parents, and I knew that this was my gifting ceremony, like it was Antonio's not too long ago. "We'll be waiting at your door for you" they told me. Hugging me tightly and kissing me on the forehead before leaving me alone at the curtain. As I stood there, all I felt was nerves. Both in my younger self and older self. My younger self was nervous because of the ceremony, and my older self because I knew it would go wrong. And as the curtains opened, light beaming onto me, I knew that this would be something that would change my life.