HE LOVES THIS FAMILY!!

ENCANTO

ALI'S POV

It's officially been 10 years since Bruno left. My eldest daughter Lizzy is now 19 and my youngest daughter Rosita is now 11. Soon Antonio's gift ceremony will take place and I'm very happy for our family it has become bigger and better...... minus loosing Bruno. I'm still not allowed to talk about him but I know that there is no possibility he's in the walls watching over me and my daughters. I wish I could see his face but I can't. It scares me to see him after all this time. And who knew, he's probably never coming home.

Lizzy is the spitting image of him and Rosita acts like him in many ways. They both bring back memories of him and sometimes it hurts. Lizzy refuses to even speak to me for a couple of hours when I bring up Bruno, I know deep down she loves and kisses him just as much as I do. She also knows that I am equally as mad at him as she is. I had to raise two beautiful daughters without him and god did I do a good job.

Al: "Lizzy! Please come to my room!"
Li: "Of course, mama!"

I heard her run up the stairs. I knew it was time to give it to her.

Al: "I wanted to give you something..... I think you'll love it. Close your eyes!"
Li: "okay mama!"

I placed a emerald green necklace around her neck. It had one of the shards of glass from one of Bruno's visions in it. He was going to give it to her for her 18th birthday but..... he wasn't here.

Al: "You can open your eyes, amor....."

She opened her eyes and looked at it.

Al: "Before you try and take it off, I suggest your read this."

She opened the letter and began to read it a load.

Dear, Mi Princessa

I wanted to give this to you in person but if your reading this it means I didn't get the chance. I love you with all my heart and I know at the time I'm writing this letter your only 4 but I wanted it to be something special for you to remember me by....
I'm not the youngest of people so if I'm gone. Just know that I love you more than life itself and for whatever reason I left or if I passed on. It was never your fault and I will never stop loving you.

Yours sincerely, Papi Bruno

I watched as she started crying in front of me. She looked at the necklace and held onto it tightly.

Li: "Mami..... I miss him so much....."
Al: "I know, amor..... I do too....."
Li: "why'd he leave mama?"

I paused and sighed. I walked over to a draw and pulled out the letter. I gave it to Lizzy and she read it.

Li: "He left to keep us safe......?"
Al: "Yes...."

Time skip to "we don't talk about Bruno"
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P: "We don't talk about Bruno, no no no! We don't about Bruno~ but! It was my wedding day!"
F: "It was our wedding day!"
P: "We were getting ready and there wasn't a cloud in the sky!"
F: "No clouds aloud in the sky!"
P: "Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin!"
F: "THUNDER!"
P: "You telling this story or am I?!"
F: "I'm sorry, Mi vida. Go on!"
P: "Bruno says it looks like rain!"
F: "Why did he tell us!"
P: "I'm doing so he floods my brain!"
F: "Abuela gets the umbrella!"
P: "Married in a hurricane!"
F: "What a joyous day, but anyway!"
F/P: "We don't talk about Bruno, no no no. We don't talk about Bruno~"

D: "Hey! Grew to live in fear, Bruno stuttering and stumbling. I can always hear him sort a muttering and mumbling. I associate him with the sound of falling sand. CH CH CH! It's a heavy lift with a gift so humbling. Always left Abuela and the family fumbling. Grappling with Prophecies he couldn't understand! Do you understand?!"

C/Li: "Seven foot frame, rats along his back! When he calls your name, it all fades to black. Yeah, he sees your dreams and feasts on your screams. We don't talk about Bruno, no no no! We don't talk about Bruno!"

Fish lady: "He told me my fish would die! The next day dead!"

Fat man: "He told me I'd grow a guy and just like he said."

Priest: "He said that all my hair would disappear! Now look at my head!"

Everyone: "Your fate is sealed when your prophecy is read!"

I: "He told me that the life of my dreams would be promised and someday be mine! He told me that my powers would grow like the grapes that thrive on the vines."

D: "He told me that the man of my dreams would be just out of reach, betrothed to another!"

I: "Hey sis! I want not a sound out of you!"

Everyone began to sing there verses as Mirabel ran into me. She looked me dead in the eye so..... I began to sing.

Al: "We don't talk about Bruno, no no no..... we don't talk about Bruno~"

Mirabel looked shocked. Out of everyone in the family, I should be the one who wants to speak about him but every time someone brings him up I start to cry.

Al: "I heard them everyday, chasing his name away. A harbinger since he was young, to humble their minds with a prophetic guise. No child should envy or want. Eyes so deep, a sadness you can swim in. Another prophecy, yeah, let's see where it gets 'em and I know they pin the blame on him, Mirabel. This future ain't meant to be seen, I can tell."

She was shocked yet again. I took my ring off for the first time in 10 years and handed it to her so she could look at home it was one of his visions of us from when we first got together.

Al: "Yet I couldn't help keep a piece of him home. Fingers crossed mi familia still loves him so and they just don't talk about Bruno no no no. Not a word about Bruno~"

I took my ring back from Mirabel and placed it back on my finger. We all went to the dinner table and sat down. It was time for Marianos proposal dinner.