Stars Burn - CamiloxM!Reader

Something Happened - Part 21

CASITA?!

  My feet took off before I could even think about what I was doing.

I sprinted as quickly as I could back up the very path I had pondered on.

Gasps roared from the townspeople down the path,
What's happening?
Is everyone ok?
Is Camilo ok?

  It wasn't long before I was standing in front of the once magical house. As soon as I had made it everyone was flung out, screaming.

Screaming for Mirabel.

  Camilo's steps were uneven and much more erratic than normal. He ran over to me and asked if I was alright but how am I supposed to focus on that right now?

Mirabel is in there.
Is Bruno in there?

People are in a house that's about to fall in.
  I ran into the doors that desperately kept me and Julieta out, but they wouldn't budge. I have no choice, I'll have to find another way in.
I sprinted away to the sides of the house, running my fingertips along the plastered wall till…

"Yes!" I exclaimed.

A hole in the wall.
That must mean someone got out.

  Either way I ran in, the halls were long and narrow meaning it was most likely Bruno's escape.
  I continued running my fingertips across the walls trying to find another opening and when I did I used the same tactic again until I was in the main room.

Where is she?

Is Mirabel still here?

"Mirabel?" I screamed out.

To my surprise she wasn't that far away.

"Y/N?!" She screamed back but not in quite the same way. Was something wrong?

Did something happ-

A/N: From this chapter until Part 28 there's lots of the grieving process!

Camilo POV:

  Everything is going wrong!
Mirabel is stuck inside Casita.
Casita is collapsing.
I turned around and started walking away from the front of Casita to the spot I saw Y/N.
At least he's alright, maybe he can help calm me down a bit.
Just holding his hand right now would help me so much.
I just need him right now.

  I turned my head left then right but no Y/N was there. Where did he go? He was just right there! Everyone is freaking out about everything that's happening, I don't want to add another thing but where is he?

That's when I heard Mirabel scream his name...

"No." I whispered meekly. This can't be happening.

  Our Casita tumbled in on itself and Mirabel was left sitting with the candle. Her expression was blank but tears were welling up in her eyes. Maybe they were in mine too.
  No, I know they were. He had to be ok. He has to be. I love him. I need him. He can't leave me here. He can't. He wouldn't.
  Tìa Julieta ran up to Mirabel and tried to calm her down but mama started yelling. I want to start yelling, I need to know what she saw. I started to move around the lump of cement that I had been near and towards the rubble that had fallen around Mirabel, but as soon as I made it around the cement she was gone.

  I felt my eyes go wide, she couldn't have just disappeared.
What?
What's happening?

  I felt the tears burning at the bottoms of my eyes, my vision slowly glazing over before Tìa Julieta started calling out for her. I turned towards mami as soon as I could and ran into her.

"Milo-! You can't just-" Mami's voice haltered into a murmur the moment she turned to see me.

"What am I going to- What is Antonio going to do? What are any of us going to do now?" I said quickly, too much is happening.

"I- I don't know, Milo." Mami shook her head and hugged me close to her.

"Mami, I think Y/N was in there." The words barely came out of my mouth.

"That's impossible, mi hijo, Casita wouldn't let anyone in."

"He's gone, he disappeared just like Mirabel." The tears stung my eyes more than ever before. I felt like I was burning.

"We'll find him."

  I don't want to tell her I don't believe her but Mirabel screamed his name.

Mirabel wouldn't even look up. Mirabel is gone.
All I have is unanswered questions.

"Is everyone ok?!"

No.

  I pushed slightly out of the hug to look at who it was.

And I was right.

Andrés.

  My eyes got wide again and I turned away. I can't look at him. My eyes hurt. My hand hurts. I'm hurt. Andrés will be so hurt too.

Who will tell him?

  Will they lie to him the way they are to me? No- stop. They aren't lying. Y/N is ok, we'll find him.

"Camilo?" Andrés questioned.

  Looks like it's me that'll have to say it. I pulled out of the hug and stood in front of Andrés. My gaze down on his shoes, my tears still rolling down my face. My body is still burning. Andrés' hand curled into itself leaving only the pointer finger out as he counted everyone that was here.

"Where's Y/N and Mirabel?" Andrés' tone was no longer calm. His legs started shaking more the longer I stayed silent.

"He disappeared too." I quietly let out.

"What do you mean disappeared? Where did he go?"

"I don't know." I said, biting my tongue.

"Camilo." Andrés said sternly.

"He was in Casita. Mirabel yelled for him then she wouldn't meet my eyes and disappeared." I finally looked up at Andrés and his eyes were emotionless.

  His face was completely devoid of any emotions. Then he fell down onto his knees and clasped at the dirt beneath him.

            And he…started crying.

  I pulled my body over to the spot beside his and sat down on the soft earth. The dirt felt like it swallowed me whole…then I started crying too.

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