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"Did I tell you how much I love your dress?" I give my biggest fakest smile.
"It's 6:30... a.m." She says unimpressed. Dang, she's good.
"Did you sleep well?" I say still smiling. She gets up and slowly walks up towards me.
"And you said goodnight my love to Camilo."
"Oh, so that's what it means..." I avoid eye contact. Mirabel starts to really get close to my face and slowly back away.
"I knew you like Camilo!" She shouts with excitement.
"Shhhh! He might hear you!"
"Oh, the only person who will hear this is Dolores." She says as if it's nothing.
"Well, it's his sister! She might tell him," I panic.
"It's ok, she won't tell anyone! Just calm down. And tell me everything." I give her a "really?" look.
"What? You've been gone for a couple of hours. I deserve to know what you were doing." She makes a good point, so I told her everything except for the part where I was looking for clues.
"Aww. But why did you snap at Camilo?"
"I didn't want to fall."
"Ok, my mom can heal you with just one arepa, and looking at your scars and bruises, falling at a high place seems like nothing. What's the real reason."
"I just... I don't want to lose someone special. That's why I've been traveling alone. I don't want to lose someone and feel guilty."
"Well, it wasn't your fault, right?" I looked at the ground. "OMG did you murder them! Stay back!" Mirabel backs away quickly and grabs the closest thing and holds it up. Unfortunately, it was a stuffed animal.
"No no no! I didn't murder them! They were the pilots! My pet eagle got loose and she started to attack my parents and turned off autopilot. So I had flown the plane and I crashed." Mirabel slowly drops the stuffed tiger.
"Oh. I'm so sorry." She walks up to me and puts her hand on my shoulder.
"It's ok," I say softly. The casita started to move and put an alarm clock in front of us.
"We should probably get ready for breakfast." Mirabel laughs. We got ready and before we left the door Mirabel stopped me.
"Y/N, I want to remember that crash was not your fault," she gives me a small smile, "It was your eagles." I laugh. "Also that you love mysteries and adventure. Don't let that ever change."
I nod, "Thank you."
I lingered by the door so Mirabel would be ahead of me.
"I'll be right over. I just have to head to the bathroom." I looked around and Mirbel pointed to... I'm not sure where. I walked slowly to wherever she pointed. I waited until Mirabel was all the way downstairs and ran to Camilo's room. I knocked a couple of times before he opened the door.
"Yawn! Morin-"
I hugged him before she said anything before I swoon.
"Someone's excited to see me? ...Why are you excited?" Camilo asks with a yawn.
"Just missed the feeling. Now let's go get breakfast!" Miral was right. I do like the adventure.
"Ladies first," he gestures with his hand out. And instead of taking it, I held it.245Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6g1wOzHDU1
