Nicest Boy In Town

chapter 8: cleaning day

camilo's plan to search for bruno's vision was thrown out the window as they had to help their dad with cleaning around the house. it was a task the teenage boy would avoid in the regular and their father would have to track him down in order to make him do it. cleaning wasn't exactly any fun ... but camilo wanted to help out. tagging along with his dad to each part of the house.

camilo's curly mess of hair being held back and kept out of the way by a yellow and golden yellow bandana. no longer wearing his ruana as it would have gotten in the way. the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up as he wore gloves. felix taking the time to show his son the proper way of moping the floor as they went along with cleaning. yeah, sure, it wasn't something a teenager would want to be able doing on their weekend but it was their dad. it was usually only felix and tío agustin who clean up the house each day or at least each week. it took two people to clean up the entirely of casita as it was two stories but camilo was starting to think it might acquire more that that now that the house was filled with different animals ranging from a jaguar to alligators. toucans, anteaters, frogs, coatis.

that would be making a whole of mess. with the fur, the leathers. and the fact that animals can just shit wherever they want. camilo was unfortunately correct in this assumption which made the cleaning process much more unbearable

but if pa and tío would have to put up with this on an almost daily basis then camilo can suck it up for one day.

besides- camilo was being helpful. yes. the work was tiring and long but as long as camilo was actively doing something that was also useful to the family then camilo had no complaints ... okay, that would be lying.

camilo had so many complaints.
they complained throughout the whole several hours that felt like an eternity.

you see..

the he/they little piece of shit had zero filter which meant whatever camilo thought ended up coming out of his mouth just as he was thinking it which did not make him that likeable in most people's eyes but pa says it was good that camilo was so open and honest.

you always knew what was going on camilo
or well, usually anyway. camilo also tended to be all over the place.

randomly sprouting out random thoughts, questions.

talking and talking and talking nonstop.
practically to anybody who would listen and about literally anything.

as camilo was doing right now as they were bent over on their knees. a bucket of soapy water beside them as he was scrubbing the floor with a scrub brush. aghhhh!! we love tonito and his new gift but..

the bear and jaguar and the many other of antonio's animal friends ...
left behind a lot of dirty footprints as well as other things-

okay. we definitely will need to have a talk about house training all these animals
because this sure ain't the wild anymore!

you don't really realize how dirty a place is until you have to clean it up ..

"so much dirt.. everywhere.." camilo muttered to themself as they scrubbing the floor, "I get they lived the wild their whole life but..
"this isn't the wild anymore! you can't just shit-"

"language!" came abuela's voice which never failed to startle the teenager
causing them to almost knock over the bucket full of now dirty soapy water.