Nicest Boy In Town

chapter 7: time for shenanigans ... or not-

"good morning, everyone! we're eating outside today!" camilo happily exclaimed. "oh-" he could tell isabella was about to swear but then abuela came out and she immediately went into princess mode with a bright happy smile as she pretended to not have just been woken up from her pretty sleep by the noise. "oh, how sweet of you to tell us, cami!" she said instead. her focus on abuela who simply went about her day but once the old woman or anybody else for that matter weren't looking -

the flower princess's smile faded and was replaced with an annoyed look which she sent right to camilo.
silently flapping him off before the next moment returning to her perfect princess attitude as she walked out to the patio.

camilo then could catch the sound of laughter coming from mirabel- or well, one of her handmade stuffed doll clones.
"did you see the look on her face?" it asked with their prima's voice wiping away invisible tears of laughter underneath it's button eyes with it's finger, "that.. was priceless!"
"okay, mi vida.. time for you to get of bed" spoke up juileta, "you wouldn't want camilo eating all your food, now do you?"
"oh! real mirabel is getting ready right now!"
"well, that's good to hear"

and minutes later the real mirabel herself came out of her room. all ready for the day. her embroidered one strap bag filled with all her knitting supplies. balls of yarn. as well as crochet supplies. some of it falling out as she was heading out of her door causing her to stop in her tracks to pick all the things up causing more things to pour out of her bag. camilo went over to help mirabel pick everything up. once everything was inside her bag safe and secure mirabel closed up the bag before heading off to join the others. camilo watched as she went before feeling a elbow nudge before looking over to see... dolores.

"so.. we're eating outside today?" she asked her brother.
straight to the point as everyone should be with somebody as adhd as camilo madrigal.
"uh, yeah, apparently abuela has some big announcement"

dolores frowned in response, "you don't think.." she didn't finish her sentence but camilo knew what she was gonna say. she was worried it might be about mariano and isabella. abuela has always been hyperfocused on her oldest granddaughter. her favourite grandchild.

"well, tía said that she didn't say.. why? did you hear something?"

silly question.. dolores hears everything.

but dolores gave a nod in reply. "I heard abuela talking to señorita guzman last night.. after you left..."
"and?"
"and.. mariano is ready to propose"
"I'm so sorry, dolores. you know.. after breakfast I'm gonna look for bruno's vision"
"I'm aware."
"soo, we could use it to ruin the proposal. whenever it is. would you like that?"
"... I would absolutely love that"
"good. I'll wait in your room when I find it, okay?"

"uhhh.. what are you two whispering about?"came pepa's voice. the two siblings then looked over at their mom.
"oh, y'know, sibling things" camilo replied. pepa then gave a suspicious look, "... right"

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the family was gathered around the patio. the sun out with not a single cloud in the sky while a gentle breeze blew through. camilo was currently grabbing himself some food as he noticed juileta talking to abuela. hopefully about that donkey situation but camilo didn't have dolores' superhearing so they didn't know. just grabbed themself food, a drink and headed off as luisa was carrying a table over with one hand. thinking they had a lot of time before mariano's proposal to isabella camilo grabbed as much food as he usually did. however that didn't seem to completely erase the suspicion his mom was having but then attention would switch over as abuela spoke up sounding agitated,