Author's Note: Hey Guys! I recently saw the new movie Encanto and was immediately thrilled, but the idea for this story only really came to me when I saw a picture on Instragram. I don't own the character or the picture on Instagram of sa3inlustrate, only the story.
In every love story theres always this moment. That moment, when you look into each other's eyes for the first time and you can only call it love at first sight. Pepa Madrigal didn't believe in it for a long time. Flashbacks of the fateful day flooded her mind as she sat alone on the bench of an anbandoned playground, suppressing another sobbing. Boy, she had been naive at the time.
Flaschback: (Pepa's Pov)
Everything had started like a normal day. At least normal for the Madrigal family. My life was close to perfect at that point. I had a loving family, the most caring boyfriend you could imagine and me and my two siblings Julieta and Bruno had our 18th birthday today. As you can see, everything was perfect.
In a good mood, I woke up that morning and looked around the room. There were two more beds in the room. One of them was already empty, but that didn't suprise me. Julieta had always been a morning person. In the other, Bruno seemed to sleep soundly, but even that was not unusual. I tried to wake him up, which was probably not as easy a task as I inhitally thought.
Carefully, I crawled onto the mattress. "Bruno. It's time to wake up." I murmured, but Bruno didn't budge. "Bruno." I tried again, this time a little louder, but Bruno just turned to the other side. That's when I lost patience. "Bruno!" I shouted directly into his ear. He immediately awoke in terror and fell out of the bed. "Oh." he groaned as he slowly straightened up. "Did you know what day today is?" I asked him ethusiaistical, barely able to hold back my enthusiasm. "Eh...monday?" he asked, still sleep-drunk. I rolled my eyes at his answer. "It's our birthday." I said as Bruno's face lit up and his eyes began to shine with joy. "Oh, right. Todays is our birthday. It's our birthday. It's our birthday." he sang happily as he jumped through the room. At that moment Julieta entered the room and informed us that breakfast was ready. Until then, everything was still good, but from then on everything went downhill.
Although, I don't actually meet my perfect boyfriend Trevor until afternoon, I decided to visit him after breakfast as I couldn't possibly wait until the afternoon. I knocked at the door of the house. That's when I realized that he was either still asleep or in his room where he couldn't hear me. I took the spare key out of my handbag and opened the door. I went into the house and called his name. When I didn't hear anything, I decided to go to his room to wake him up if he was still asleep. But what I found in my boyfriend's room broke my heart. My eyes widened in horror at the sight of my boyfriend lying in bed with another girl and kissing her eagerly.
I felt my heart sink and it broke in millions of pieces. Tears formed in my eyes and the clouds above me perfectly reflected my mood. "What the hell!" I shouted as it began to rain over me. Both froze for a moment, then my boyfriend or should I say my ex-boyfriend put on one of his smug grins, which I have never been able to suffer. "You Asshole!" I yelled at the girl. "Don't talk to her like that, Pepa. I'll drop you. It's over," he yelled at me. I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I had to get out of here. As fast as I could, I stormed out of the house. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. I had no idea where I was going. I just wanted to get away from here. Away from him an his stupid new girlfriend. At some point I stopped running and just walked disoriented down the street until I came to a playground. Tears rolled down my face and a sense of rejection spread within me as the cloud darkened an ignited into a storm. Everyone around me was already fleeing into the dry and left me alone on the playground.
Flashback ends
I didn't know why it led me to this playground every time I was sad, but I didn't mind when I looked around the abandoned playground. Everywhere I had gone in the last few weeks, I was alone. My mother said I needed to control my emotions, but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Deep down, I knew that my mother was just worried and Julieta and Bruno just wanted to help, but I still couldn't bring myself to tell them what had happened.
So I looked up at the sky when gray clouds moved over the sky again. It wasn't a storm like it was two months ago, but it was still pouring quite violently. Self-doubt overwhelmed me at the sight. Julieta had always been the triplets' favorite child and I couldn't blame her. She was so caring and always ready to help others. Bruno was also able to help with his gift. He could foresee the future and thus prevent bad things from happening, but me. What could I contribute to the community? I had always been an emotional whirlwind and through my gift this had even become a reality. And, if I was honest with myself, I had no idea how to control my gift, let alone how to help others with it.
But at that point, I didn't care if the whole city Encanto had bad weather because of me.