I own Nothing.
Year 2016
After the adoption became official many people were surprised that a new door appeared in Casita with the initial M on the doorknob, but the confusion started after all of the married women in the family were checked and found that none of them were expecting a child, it became more obvious who the new door belonged too, and as a Madrigal, an entire event was planned for me to open my door. Papi and Mama Juli were standing next to Abuela who also stood next to Bruno and it had only been a month since I lost Mami so I wasn't entirely excited and I actually felt overwhelmed at the whole ordeal.
I made my vows of servitude for the family and the Encanto and I was nervous before touching the doorknob and I could tell that everyone else was too, but when I touched the doorknob I felt my soul reach out as the gold sparkles covered the door and instantly my nervousness went to intrigue and surprise until a beautiful butterfly landed on my arm and then one by one other butterflies appeared around me.
My picture appeared on my door of an older me with a well decorated shirt and skirt surrounded by insects but mostly butterflies. I looked up at him with a hopeful smile and then I saw the pride and surprise on all four of the faces that stared back at me full of happiness. Then the party continued in my new room as many people felt worries about being surrounded by insects but I was able to control their patterns with a wave of my hand.
At first, having butterflies flying around me was annoying but over time I got used to them though as I got older bees, ladybugs, and dragonflies came around as well which was worrying to others but they never hurt anyone, and after time passed I was able to control my powers and only kept the butterflies around the same with Tia Pepa's clouds my emotions show depending on what insect I have flying around me, but that was before I gained control though there may be a bee or too whenever I am frustrated, ladybug have been known to fly around when I am on my period, dragonflies stuck to me whenever I was sad, and butterflies show that I am happy.
It has been 8 years since then and some nights I am not able to sleep, now I am 13 and my mind is working too hard and my body was becoming achy so I sat up in my large magenta bed as butterflies fluttered around the room, I still missed my Mami a lot but nothing could change the past and my dry throat told me that I needed some water, not like I would be sleeping much anyway.
So I slipped out of my bed heading towards my glowing door, the dark blue carpet always felt comfortable under my feet, I looked around my room still loving its comfortable atmosphere, with white walls decorated with black butterflies and swirly patterns. Tapestries hung around the room in colors of magenta, pink, red, blue, and green. Tall windows were all around the room showing the Encanto of the day being lively but the windows were shaded and didn't let in a lot of light. set in the center was my bed that had a large oak wood butterfly-shaped headboard and footboard that also had a black canopy draped around it, then up against the far wall was a tall white and gold embellished wardrobe, dresser, and mirror vanity. It had my daily essentials thrown around but it wasn't chaotic. Then a next to the wardrobe doorway leads to my pink, blue, green, and white bathroom with a large comfortable bathtub and a relaxing shower.
I walked down the tall winding carpet covered wooden stairs holding onto the wrought iron handrail that had a butterfly design then counting down the 23 steps to the main floor was the sitting room with a wall-mounted tv, a couch, a tall well-stocked dark oak butterfly-shaped bookshelf, butterfly wall decorations, and a small kitchenette with pale yellow and pink colored tiles and gold appliances. My entire room had flowers around as well letting the butterflies and ladybugs live happily, while there was a door leading to a garden outside that also had many flowers and trees, then 3 beehives that constantly dripped honey into never full pots, a small pond for the dragonflies,
I exited my room into the courtyard to see the late morning sun barely lighting up the place because of the protective shield that surrounded Casita that helps to block the sun during the day, I quietly descended the stairs and headed towards the kitchen where Casita already had a glass ready for me sitting on the counter so that I wouldn't have to try and reach the high cabinet. She even scuttled an Arepa towards me.
"Gracias Casita." I said happily biting into my favorite snack, I went over to the fridge and used the ice maker to get cold water and filled my glass. With my late night snack in hand I headed back up the stairs but then a noise caught my attention and I was careful in peeking around the corner. My heart skipped a beat as I saw them, I knelt down as I watched, she was a woman of caramel skin and blonde braids pulled back in a ponytail, she wore a blue sparkly dress with a short skirt black lacey panty hose and sparkly high heels. I was entranced as he had her up against the wall his large hands that held held me and pet my hair now held her hips in a strong grip as she gyrated in is grasp. They were chest to chest as they kissed and I heard her moan when he moved his mouth to her neck.
This wasn't the first time I had seen him with a woman and it has been different woman each time, but I couldn't hate him, believe me I have tried, I kept reminded myself that they are lying to me but when all they do is treat me like family how can I hate them? I kept watching as I felt a thrum go through my body as he grasped her leg and he wrapped her arms around him his dark green shirt made her sparkles look brighter and she used her thighs to squeeze his hips that was covered by his black pants and he even had his hair in the hairstyle I like. I shuddered a breath as I just stared curiously but then I jumped when I got caught.
"HEY!" I heard making me gasp in surprise to find her glaring at me and it made him stop and look in my direction to see what made her stop, he was angry at first until his eyes landed on me. I quickly stood back up and turned away until I was stopped.
"Mirabel?" I heard making me stop and turn back towards them.
"You little brat how dare you spy on us!." I heard as the pretty painted lady glared at me with anger making her look ugly and when her head was thrown sideways by his hand I gasped.
"You are not allowed to talk to her." He growled angrily at her as she held her cheek and giving him puppy eyes.
"You can't treat me like this." She tried in a baby voice, but he wasn't taking the bait. he just pulled out his wallet and threw a bundle of money at her which she caught.
"You can go. Casita?" He said nonchalantly making Casita rumble her floor tiles and taking the woman out of the house. I stood there as he watched me carefully before he looked at my Arepa and glass of water.
"Couldn't sleep?" He asked me with a small smile making me smile and shake my head.
"Go sit over there and wait for me, Mi Vida." He said and instantly making me go to the small living room next to his room. This was another reason why I tried hating him, whenever he gave me an order I couldn't fight him and my body is forced to obey, but then he never actually took advantage of it.
"Can I watch tv?" I asked setting down my snack and getting up in the couch looking back at him.
"Sure, just not too loud ok?" He said smiling keeping his hands in his pockets before he turned and headed back to his room.
"Si Mi Principe." I said happily grabbing the tv remote. I turned on cartoons as I ate my Arepa as he left me.
This wasn't the first time I saw him with a woman and it wasn't the first time I got caught either.
The first time I caught him I actually screamed and cried at his betrayal which awoke the house, Mama Juli and Abuela comforted me in my room as I cried and when he came to see me he had showered and change clothes.
But when he told me to sit up and listen to him and I couldn't disobey. I listened to him tell me that he has been alive for a long time and waiting or me to grow up is painful for him because he has feelings for me but because I am too young he took to having woman spend the day with him and he gave me deep eyes of pain and regret when he reassured me that he doesn't love them and it is difficult for him to wait until I am old enough so he uses these women to help release his pent up adult feelings. I was very confused by it but he reassured me that he only loved me and always will.
I felt bad for those women because I now that there are many women in the Encanto that are in love with him, but then again I reminded myself that if he did love any of them then he might not love me and I figured out later that he wasn't completely lying to me that time because I wasn't the only one he loved.
But I did figure out what he meant as I got older and what I knew was that he had the women for sex since I am still too young for his power and he only started doing this back when I was 11 and I had my first bleed.
