{Chapter 5.} Broken

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"Camilo?" Mirabel knocked on his door gently.

"What do you want Mirabel?" Camilo said in response.

"Can I come in?" She waited outside of his door, patiently.

"N-No, not right now Mirabel." It sounded like he stuttered, and he only called mirabel 'mirabel' instead of 'Mira' when something was seriously wrong.

"Camilo what's wrong?" Mirabel said, then reached for the door handle to open the door, she didnt wanna wait anymore.

"Nothing's going on! Please go!" He yelled, his voice cracked when he tried speaking. Quickly, Camilo ran to his door, locking himself inside of his room.

"Camilo! Let me in or I will tell Abuela and Tía Pepa!" Mirabel yelled, in a tone that sounded like she was serious.

"Fine! Please dont tell Abuela, or Mamá.." he opened the door slowly, revealing to Mirabel his room that was filled with shattered mirrors, and glass was everywhere on the floor, and Camilos eyes where almost red like he had been crying again.

"Camilo!-" Mirabel looked around the room, in shock, there was shattered glass all over the floor, Mirabel then saw a book that belonged to camilo, before camilo could see mirabel quickly took the book and shoved it into her bag, and looked at camilo. "What is going on?! Why is your room-"

"Its not important okay!?" he yelled, his voice cracked again, and he wiped any tears off of his face.

"Camilo, I'm your cousin.. you can tell me anything that's wrong, you know that right?" Mirabel said, in a gentle voice.

"Yeah.. b-but I dont like talking about it."
Camilo said.

Mirabel thought to herself "he's acting like a whole new person... like hes been hiding everything about himself... under a fake smile..?"

"Please tell me what's wrong Camilo.. I promise I won't tell anyone!" Mirabel said again.

Camilo looked at mirabel "Promise?"

"I promise Cam, now tell me what's wrong." Mirabel said.

"Everything. Everything is wrong, no one has ever asked 'How Does Camilo Feel?' They treat me like I'm an Object, and to Abuela I'm just everyone else in the Encanto, and on top of all that people call me weird, and most of the encanto dont even know my name cause i'm always another person.. and I- I dont know what to do anymore, and because i never talk about everything, and it makes me want to just hurt myself for being such a crybaby, like carlos calls me, and it just feels like- what you would call 'stage fright' but I'm all on my own. And I would run but theres no where to go."

-Camilo said, Now there was tears running down his face and he hugged mirabel. "I dont know what to do Mira.."

{Downstairs at the table}

-Dolores POV-
She had been listening in on everything "I knew it.. poor camilo.."

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//sorry this chapter was horribly written. I had no idea what to do\\

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