🎭{Stage Fright}🎭||Original{Camilo Madrigal Angst}||{Encanto}||

{Chapter 67.} Possible Escape?

It had already been months since Camilo went missing, almost a year but it feels like its been forever.

Today Camilo woke up as if it was normal to expect the worse, or get hurt badly at all.

Camilo sighed. "Its been so long, what if I forget what my own family looks like..?" The questions he asked himself led up to more question that hurt to ask "What do I look like now? What would they think of me?" Things like that.

An hour later Camilo heard a noise, the same pattern of footsteps of the person who brought him here. They still havent told him their name. All he knew was that Mateo was a traitor who left him with this stranger.

The person walked into the room, but things were off about them. They didn't try hurting him this time, the stranger untied Camilo.

Camilo looked up at them with a look of pure confusion on his face

"Come on do you wanna go outside? You do know what day it is, right?" They asked after helping Camilo get off the ground

"No.. and why are you letting me go outside-?" Camilo had thoughts of what they would do, it frightened him so he backed away until he accidentally bumped into the wall behind him.

"Relax. And were going outside because it's your birthday. You didn't know that? I guess that's fair.. considering you have no way of knowing what day, or month it is." They laughed.

Camilo started thinking of how he would be able to escape until he felt someone slap him across the face, bad enough to leave a bruise.

"Hello?! I said your name multiple times why won't you listen?!" They shouted

Camilo quickly apologized. "I'm sorry."

The stranger sighed. "Just go put this on." The stranger gave Camilo a dark colored poncho with a hood, it looked normal,nothing like his. and he was sure to blend in with the rest of the town, he just had to keep the hood on the poncho over his head. "I cant let anyone know it's you anyways. You might escape and I can't let that happen. If you try anything and get caught trying to escape I'll make everything even worse from now on. I'll wait outside of the room, the doors unlocked." The stranger walked outside of the room, and they waited for Camilo as they said they would.

In a few minutes Camilo walked outside of the room.

The stranger grabbed Camilo's wrist. Making Camilo flinch again. "Your not walking around by yourself. And you cant try running, you know what will happen." They said, leading Camilo outside of whatever unknown building they had kept Camilo in.

It took around an hour to get to the town, how far were they from the town? Is that why no one was able to find them?

As soon as they got to the town, everyone walked into the town Camilo had to put the hood of his poncho up.

What the stranger didnt know was that while he was waiting outside of the room before Camilo had written a note, asking for help. Camilo had a plan, a plan to finally escape.

All of a sudden Camilo felt a hand tugging on his sleeve, it was one of the younger kids. Camilo looked down to see who it was. It was Antonio.

"Cam?-" Antonio looked up at him, like Antonio could recognize him through his disguise.

Camilo looked at the stranger, the stranger glared at camilo with a threatening look.

"No, I'm- I'm sorry. I'm not Camilo.." Camilo felt his eyes starting to tear up, and he walked away from Antonio.

The stranger still kept a tight grip on Camilos wrist, it was painful but Camilo wasn't gonna complain and possibly mess up his plan to escape.

Camilo saw Mirabel walking down the street. He wanted to hug her and tell her it wasnt her fault for him getting hurt, or going missing at all. But he couldnt. The stranger was watching him closely and one wrong move for all he knew could kill him or at least hurt him bad enough he feels like he would die.

Camilo looked at the ground as they kept walking. While the stranger had a tight grip on Camilo's wrist, Camilos other hand held to note that the stranger didn't know about.

He kept calm and stopped himself from crying.

If a few hours it was night. They ran into Antonio again by accident.

"I'm sorry, I didnt mean to bump into you." Camilo said as soon as he realized he bumped into Antonio.

"Its ok." Antonio said, he was still upset about Camilo disappearing.

"Here. Maybe this would make you feel better, you might not be able to read it.. so give it to your Mamá.." Camilo carefully gave the note to Antonio without the stranger realizing.

"Let's go." The stranger started to walk back to the unknown, and hidden building that was in the forest somewhere, dragging Camilo along with him.