Idea from Luv_My_Lip_Gloss8
Leah appears and looks at the Madrigals. Kamie also appears.
Me: I didn't wanna be alone - My mama just got into a car accident and I don't know how to feel. I feel indifferent.
Leah: I - Okay, well, Madrigals, I have come to abduct you all.
Mira: What -
Camilo: We're gonna die!
Leah: I'm taking you to 2022.
Camilo: That's years into the future!
Leah: Well, for you guys. I live in that time.
Mira; Wow.
Leah teleports them all to 2022.
Me: Yay!! They can all watch their show now!
Leah: Movie.
Me: Whatever.
Leah: You guys ready?
Mira: This oughta be good.
Antonio: It'll be awesome!
Camilo: I hope it's comedy.
Isa: It's our movie, Milo, it's not going to get comedy.
Pepa: SHHHH, it's starting!
Leah presses the remote and it starts. She then sits down beside Kamie.
They hear the sounds of nighttime in a Colombian cloud forest: birds, insects, nature. Then the voice of an older woman, warm, nurturing and intimate...
ABUELA ALMA: Abre los ojos... open your eyes....
(Abuela smiles sadly at the TV screen)
The closed eyes of five-year-old Mirabel Madrigal; light of a CANDLE reflects in her over-sized, greenrimmed glasses. Mirabel opens one eye, then the other to find a wondrous, magical candle rippling with firelight magic.
(Antonio: Is that Mirabel?
Mirabel: Yes. When I was younger.
Antonio: Cute!)
YOUNG MIRABEL: This is where our magic comes from?
ABUELA ALMA: Mm-hmm, this candle holds the miracle given to our family.
YOUNG MIRABEL: How did we get a miracle?
Alma pulls Mirabel onto her lap and the light of the candle grows. As Alma speaks, they dissolve to her as a young woman, along with her husband, Pedro, and their three babies. The candle burns brightly nearby.
(Antonio: Who are they?
Pepa: This abuela, abuelo, tío Bruno, tía Julieta, and me!
Antonio: Aww, you guys are cute!)
ABUELA ALMA: Long ago, when my three babies had just been born, your Abuelo Pedro and I were forced to flee our home.
Strong light grows outside Young Alma and Pedro’s window. Alma and Pedro look concerned.
Young Alma and Pedro (holding the candle) leading a frightened group of displaced people. They struggle across a beautiful river.
ABUELA ALMA: And though many joined us, hoping to find a new home... we could not escape the dangers... and your Abuelo was lost.
(Abuela looks down as she forces the tears not to fall)
The candle flickers and Pedro looks back from where they came, troubled. Pedro hands Abuela the candle as he throws his arms out protectively as... marauders approach. As they advance, Pedro vanishes into the wind in front of Abuela, who collapses...
