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After the destruction of casita and its reconstruction, the Madrigal family was more united than ever, with the returno f Bruno, little by little things were resolved.
Camilo made a statement that shocked all Madrigal, he would marry his fiancé Diego in a month, the boy in question had made an informal and secret request, something outside the Madrigal standards.
Pepa did not react well at first, thinking that it was a bland joke of her precious son, and Abuela almost fainted. Felix calmed Pepa while Juliet and Isabela help Abuela. The only one really excited was Antony, who didn't seem to be understanding the situation very well and just congratulated his older brother.
Abuela and Pepa scolded Camilo and then ordered Diego to come personally to make a formal request to Madrigal's parents, and only then could they get married as they wanted.
Dolores was a little offended by her brother getting married first than her, but the girl did not fail to be happy and congratulate the shifter, along with the cousins, and Isabela were the ones who seemed more excited and did not fail to boo Camilo when Diego came to see him the day after Antonio's party, to make the formal request.
"Camilo, your boyfriend is here!"
Five years later
The Madrigals decorated casita with preparations for the birthday of Moana, Camilo's eldest daughter, who would now be five years old and her gift would be revealed.
The family was very excited, the casita increasingly colorful and agitated.
Only Camilo was stressed because Moana had disappeared!
"Moana!"
Camilo screamed in the middle of the courtyard, drawing the attention of the people who worked, but he didn't give a damn. Pepa ran up to her son, with a small stormy cloud on his head, the woman seemed as frustrated as her son.
"Mamí, I can't find Moana anywhere!"
"Dolores can't hear her?"
Dolores went to mother and brother only to deny with his head.
"Strange, for the first time she's silent because I can't hear her" Dolores reasoned.
Mirabel was the only one who came up with the idea to ask Bruno for help, and here she was in her uncle's tower.
Bruno's forehead and neck flowed sweat of nervousness, he sat facing his niece in the center of the circle of sand on the ground, with the whole ritual prepared, his eyes shone green as the man held Mirabel's hands firmly.
The sand walls shone green showing the shape of a girl, it was Moana, the two recognized by the flower that was in their hair.
"Try to find out what this place is, uncle Bruno"
Bruno got up off the ground still holding Mirabel's hand, and the two tried to follow the girl, she was lowered to the ground looking down, Mirabel could not decipher what she looked at.
The scenery of the vision was opening and then revealed to be the river of the miracle, Moana ran her hands through the water and laughs sweetly.
Mirabel wide-eyed as he recognized the place.
"How did she get there?" Bruno turned his eyes "She's in the river where the miracle happened!"
"What? But how?"
"I don't know, that's what the vision shows"
"We have to warn others before something happens to her"
The vision turned into a green glass table in Bruno's hands where he perfectly showed the girl playing in the water. Mirabel and Bruno hurriedly left the room and went down the flights of stairs carefully so as not to fall or knock down the table.
Camilo huffed and ran through his hair, pulling the strands between his fingers.
The shifter felt firm hands touch his shoulder’s, and he turned to face Diego, who flashed a small smile to comfort his husband.
"Calm down, mi vida, our daughter must not have gone very far"
Massaged the shifter's shoulders, Camilo closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"I'm listening to hurried footsteps" Dolores touched the back of his own ear, looking for the direction of the sound.
"Camilo! Uncle Bruno saw everything, Moana is in the river!" Mirabel and Bruno arrived panting in the courtyard where the rest of the family was.
Camilo had no other reaction after popping his eyes, Madrigal ran out of the house leaving everyone behind who shouted for his name.
{...}
Moana was sitting on a rock swinging her little feet in the water, the white dress she wore for the ceremony was dirty with clay and wet on the bar, her hair remained intact with her flower, but were dusty with dirt.
The girl heard the noise of a small branch breaking and turned her face, finding a chameleon walking calmly slowly, when the chameleon seemed to have noticed the girl's presence and attention on him, the little animal quickly changed color disguising himself in the sand and Moana laughed gracefully.
Moana took her feet out of the water to turn around and approach the chameleon slowly, taking care not to scare the animal anymore.
The girl approached her hand slowly to touch the animal and make a cuddle on her head, calming the animal that gradually went back to its color.
"Hola, friend" Moana turned her face aside, laughing when the animal imitated her "I am...
"Moana!"
The child got up and saw Camilo running towards her, when she saw the little chameleon was already gone again and then she felt arms surround her body and she being lifted into the air.
"Why did you disappear like that? We were so worried."
Camilo hugged her little girl and kissed her cheek, Moana did not react, her attention was still on the ground while looking for her new friend.
"Papí, you scared him" Moana muttered sulkily and Camilo frowned at her as he took the child back to the village.
"Who?"
"My little friend"
"Look how dirty your clothes are"
The man patted Moana's skirt to try to get the dirt out, but he knew it wouldn't work out.
"When we get home, you'll take another bath"
Moana pouted and crossed her arms sullenly.
"Don't look at me like that, you've soiled your whole dress" Squeezed the girl's nose without force, pulling a childish laugh out of her.
They stayed halfway in silence, Camilo carried Moana in his Arms until They returned to the village while the girl wrapped her little finger in the curly strands of Camilo’s hair.
"I don't want to go home, papí"
"Are you nervous?" Moana shook her head in a nod "No need to worry, today will be a special day, it's your birthday, but not like everyone else, because today you will receive your gift!"
Moana pressed her small hand into a fist on Camilo’s shoulder.
"But what if I don't get a gift?"
Camilo looked down to the ground and sighed, so that was the problem.
"Even if you don’t get a gift, it won’t change anything, we’re going to continue to live our lives normally as usual” Camilo put his hand on his shoulder to hold his daughter’s little hand “You’re going to get out of bed in the morning and try to wake up Zoe, so you will runa round the village looking for someone to play with, like every day, and we will continue to love you as we Always have.”
Moana smiled and when they arrived in the casita courtyard, her abuela Pepa appeared in her field of vision with a thundering cloud on her head and took the girl from Camilo's arms.
"Oh! Moana, look how dirty you are, where have you been? Did you get hurt?"
"She's fine, mamí" Camilo took her daughter from Pepa’s arms “I’ll bathe her and put on another dress, can you let Diego know we’ve found her?” Pepa nodded, seeing her son walk away with her granddaughter in her arms.
"Papí, is Zoe still asleep?" Camilo smiled and turned his face-to-face Moana.
"Yes, but soon we will wake her up for the ceremony"
"Will she gain a gift also on her birthday?"
"We hope so, mi hija"
{...}
Diego rushed into Moana's room; Camilo finished buttoning buttons on the back of the new, clean dress of the girl standing on a chair. Diego went to his daughter and hugged her, ignoring Camilo's complaints.
"Diego, you're going to crush her dress!"
"Where were you, Moana? We were so worried" Diego kissed his daughter’s soft hair "Don't do it anymore, mi hija"
"I'm sorry, papá"
"All right, just be more careful" hugged her daughter before putting her on the floor and straightening the skirt of her dress.
Camilo held Moana's little hand and went to the courtyard while Diego went to pick up Zoe, a few minutes to go, casita was lit and filled with the guests.
Even watching her friends run through the courtyard, Moana wouldn't let go of Camilo's hand.
Zoe walked next to Diego, the little girl was still drowsy and constantly rubbed her eyes with her fist. Before they left her room, Diego had to fix Zoe's hair that was messed up by the pillow and her dress was crumpled, he tried to make his daughter as presentable as possible.
Her black hair was very full and curly, having just as embellishment a red tiara equal to that of her Aunt Dolores to hold the front of the mane. Zoe let go of Diego's hand to walk in haste to her older sister.
Moana opened her arms waiting for Zoe's hug, which came quickly and she squeezed her little sister in her arms.
"Happy birthday, hermana"
"Gracias, Zoe" Moana kissed her sister's two chubby cheeks.
Camilo bent down to his daughters height and gently held Moana’s face, making their eyes meet and smile at the girl.
It was obvious the traits the girl had inherited from the shifter like her caramel skin tone and her Sweet, mischievous smile, and her hair a darker shade as if just like Camilo and Diego. Indeed Moana was their daughter, but it’s not as if anyone doubted it.
Diego caught Zoe on her lap leaving her sitting on her arm.
"Today is your day, nothing will spoil it" Camilo stroked her daughter's head and fixed the pink flower in her ear, Moana smiled more confidently.
"It's time," Dolores said to the small family at a meeting.
"Come on" Camilo reached out and the girl held.
They walked to the center of the courtyard where the guests were gathered in line, leaving free the way to the stairs, Camilo returned to near Diego and Zoe, but Moana's grip on his hand was firm, causing the shifter to stare at the daughter who was looking at the shiny door on the second floor, nervous.
"Mi hija"
“Don’t leave me, papí” Camilo smiled in understanding.
"All right, I'm here"
Camilo accompanied his daughter to the stairs “I’m so proud of you, mi princesa” Camilo kissed his daughter’s forehead and Moana knew that was the endo f the line and she had to let go of her father’s hand to climb towards the path of your own future.
Camilo moved Away until he was next to Diego and Zoe who was sleeping on his father’s shoulder.
Abuela held the candle beside the door, she smiled at the girl, but her look was a little apprehensive. Moana took a deep breath and stood facing the woman, listening intently to the standard speech as she touched the trunk of the candle with her two little hands.
She looked down the corner of her eye and saw Camilo smiling towards her while Diego was distracted trying to wake Zoe shaking the girl's body.
Moana was apprehensive, facing the door and with her little hand inches away from the golden handle that contained a drawn M. I to be the prid of my family.
Madrigal took a deep breath and turned the doorknob slowly and a glow spread through the door, but before the girl could open the door, she felt a wet sensation in her legs until she was lifted by what appeared to be water, a long skirt made of water smothered from the girl's body and then the door finally opened revealing to all of Moana's room and her gift.
"We have a new gift!"
People were overlooking the uproar, but everything was in the background, while Moana was analyzing the scenery around her, it was a beach.
His body was lowered by that water until his feet touched the sand of the ground, it was really a beach! Moana raised her hands and the waters rose like a giant wall, and when she lowered her hands, the walls quickly lowered, wetting some people in the process, but that did not shake the party.
Moana turned around looking for her parents in the crowd.
"Time passes so fast" Diego whispered near Camilo's ear, causing her husband to take a slight fright "It was yesterday that Moana was just a newborn baby, crying at the top of her lungs, almost killing Dolores with a headache" Camilo laughed softly of the last part.
"With Zoe it was different, she was born asleep and I remember i panicked thinking the worst" Diego hugged Camilo's thin waist with his free arm.
"I remember your despair, but couldn't get over mine, and when Zoe finally cried showing she was well and healthy, I fainted" Diego sighed dramatically and Camilo put his hand in her mouth to drown out the scandalous laughter.
"You've always been so exaggerated" Camilo accused laughing.
“Just me?! You cried when Moana hurt her knee for the first time, and she wasn’t crying” He narrowed his eyes accusingly and Camilo blushed in embarrassment, looking away.
"We were so entertained with our daughters that we didn't notice the time going by" Camilo stroked Zoe's soft, curled hair drooling on Diego's shoulder, sleeping again. She's so lazy.
"Two years from now it's going to be Zoe's ceremony, I don't know if I'm ready to see my little princesses growing up so fast"
"Zoe and Moana will still be our babies, Moana is just five years old, it will be worse when she turns fifteen"
"The age of rebellion?" Diego arched his eyebrow and Camilo snorted.
"I've never been rebellious if you're insinuating"
“I didn’t insinuate anything, you gave yourself away Camilo Madrigal” kissed the sullen man’s cheek.
"Papí, Papá!"
The two men turned toward the voice and Camilo lowered himself to hug Moana who threw himself into his arms.
"We are so proud, mi hija" Camilo stood with the girl on his lap and kissed her cheek "Your gift is as magnificent and wonderful as you"
Diego smiled and approached more until he was glued to Camilo's torso to kiss Moana's other cheek "We love you, Moana, mucho mucho" deposited a few more blown kisses on the girl's face until heard her laugh.
Moana stretched out on Camilo's lap to reach her little sister sleeping on Diego’s shoulder "Wake up hermanita, vamos a bailar" poked Zoe's shoulder.
It took a while and the girl finally raised her face with her eyes down and stared at her older sister and waved.
Camilo and Diego lowered the girls and Moana took off her own shoes and helped Zoe take theirs off too and handed the shoes for the parents to hold as they ran together holding hands through the sand of Moana's room.
"Take care of Zoe!" Camilo screamed, but the girls were already out of sight.
"Don't worry about them, Moana is careful" Diego passed both arms wrapped from Camilo's hip over the poncho and pulled him close, using one of Zoe's sneakers to hit her husband's buttocks.
"Hey, there's people looking" Camilo slapped Diego in the chest with Moana's sneaker
Diego smiled in a corner and kissed Camilo's cheeks and began to swing their bodies along the rhythm of Dos Oruguitas. "I love this song, she played at Isabela's party when we met" Camilo blushed lightly and passed her arms on Diego's shoulders.
"You remember so many events and the details, I always forget what I did yesterday" laughed blandly and cheeked Diego's chest.
"I would never forget such important events of my life, such as the day we met or the birth of our daughters, and also the days you announced the pregnancy, I remember everyone's reaction" Camilo stared at him with his shining eyes and rosy cheeks and Diego took the opportunity to kiss his lips "Our wedding is also another day i will never forget the details.
You wore a white poncho, and you were so adorable!" Camilo smiled shy ly and Diego took the opportunity to kiss his lips and cheeks.
"And what else do you remember?"
"Our honeymoon" whispered with his lips leaning over and Camilo held his breath.
"Diego! Dolores is listening to us."
"She shouldn't even be paying attention to the loud music playing" camilo pressed in his arms leaving their bodies glued together.
Camilo sighed after a while and kissed Diego "All right, so keep talking" smiled mischievously.
"Do you want me to tell you what I remember about our honeymoon?" Camilo blushed.
"N-no need, we're at our daughter's birthday party!"
"Exactly, on our honeymoon she was conceived" Camilo wide-eyed.
"Diego!"
"I'm not wrong, I remember right that night"
Camilo turned his face to the sides seeing if no one was nearby and listening to their conversation, Diego laughed at her husband's despair.
"You were so beautiful" Diego whispered in Camilo's distracted ear "It was our first time and you were shy"
"Diego, I'm going to hit you!" Diego laughed louder with the heed, he couldn't take Camilo seriously while he looked so adorable with his cheeks inflated and rosy.
"Okay, forgive me mi vida, I will no longer bother you" smiled mischievously and kissed her husband "I just want to say that I love you and our wonderful daughters very much"
"I love you too, we love you so much"