Encanto stories, AUs, and oneshots

A Sister

(Isabela POV)

I watched the town below me, I watched the people living their normal, imperfect lives, and I wished more than anything that I could do that too, I loved it up here on the mountain, there was a small patch of flat ground where I had a view of the entire town and all the people in it, I watched for hours sometimes dreaming of living a normal life like one of them, but that would never happen.

I made my way back to casita and already heard some sort of commotion there, I walked in to see Camilo being yelled at by tia Pepa

"I know you're hungry but you cant eat dinner before dinner is served"

"but i'm soooooo hungry"

she smacked him in the back of the head and walked away while he put his food back

suddenly abuela stood in front of me and smiled, I quickly fixed my posture,

"Isabela where were you?"

"I was just, uuuh, getting ready for dinner" I replied quickly, she smiled at me and said 

"good, because I invited a guest for dinner tonight, you know that boy Carlos?"

I knew him, barely, and whenever I saw him he always said something creepy to me, but I forced a smile and nodded my head

"well I was hoping you guys would get to know each other better tonight"

I was panicking on the inside, I really didn't want to, but I had to.

I went to my room and tried to stay composed but failed miserably and started crying on my bed, every couple weeks abuela pulled something like this and grabbed some nice looking boy from town and invited them over, she was so fixated on me getting married so she could get more gifts, I was so busy crying I didn't notice someone open my door or walk over to my bed

"Isa, whats wrong?" I whipped my head around to see my hermanita, Luisa, I tried to formulate words, to tell her i'm okay, but I just sobbed and Luisa came over and wrapped her arms around me and squeezed, but not too tight

"abuela again? who is it this time"

"Carlos" my tears were starting to stop flowing

"hey don't worry about him, hes just socially awkward and he probably wont even talk to you" she reassured me

"okay, thanks Luisa"

I wiped my tears and did my makeup and went down to dinner, and Luisa was right, Carlos barely talked to me at all despite abuela and my parents urging, it was just awkward silence, at the end of the dinner he quickly got up and practically dragged his parents away.

abuela sighed and went up to her room while I helped clean up dinner and afterwards the grandkids wanted to play cards, but Luisa just went to her room, we started playing and we were having a great time when Doloress eyes went wide and she abruptly stood up and ran to tia Pepa, Pepa got the same look but she ran and started rounding up all the kids

"everyone to the cellar, now!" and soon everyone was talking because we all knew what this meant, it meant something bad got through the mountain.

we all made our way to the cellar and started a head count

"1,2..,3,4,5- wait, wheres Luisa?" everyone started looking and panicking, everyone except one person

"abuela did you see where Luisa went?"

before she answered Dolores let out an "eep" and everyone looked at her and some questioned her further

"shes outside, with the men in our village, shes fighting the bandits, abuela led her out there, that's all I know" she said covering her ears