we see alma having drink of tea with her best friend, the matriarch of the Guzman family Maria Guzman in the cafe of the plaza in encanto. Alma stopped drinking frowning slightly hearing her voice*
Mirabel:ah Mariano glad I've caught you!
Mariano:hey Mirabel can I help you with something?
Mirabel: actually yes the kids wanted me to sing a song that's a duet mind helping out?
Mariano:i...I don't know my voice isn't really made for singing
Mirabel:oh nonsense it's fantastic! I've heard pleaaaaaaase it would really make the children very happy
Mariano: hm... Oh alright if it's for the children I suppose
Mirabel:great!
Mirabel grabbed Mariano's wrist and dragged him away, Mariano laughed as he was being dragged by the 15 year old girl*
Mariano:and here i thought it was Luisa with the super strength
That was the last thing alma and Maria heard before there respected grandchildren disappeared from sight. Alma was about to scoff when she heard Maria chuckle*
Maria: hay that Mirabel, you can see why she's the favorite madrigal of encanto huh? She's like a ball of energy
Alma did a spit take, tea falling on her dress as she looked at Maria as if she grew a second head *
Alma: what are you talking about? Isabela is the favorite madrigal, she's the flower the next figure head of the miracle
Now it was Maria's turn to look at her best friend as if she grew a second head*
Maria:what are you talking about? Isabela isn't even the 5th favorite madrigal hold on, Miguel! Miguel come over here!
An older gentleman walked up to the table with a smile on his face*
Miguel:hello ladies what can I help you with?
Maria:quick question who's your favorite madrigal?
Miguel:Mirabel no question no hesitation
Miguel said his smile becoming bigger, alma looked at Miguel with her eyes wide*
Alma:b...but why?
Miguel:why? What kind of question is that? She's Mirabel! That girl has helped me so many times in the bakery that I feel guilty not paying her, I tried but she just refused and insisted I give that money to an orphanage. Hay what a sweet girl, shame my son has his eyes set on another I would love to have her as my daughter in law
Alma:and isabela?
Miguel;. . .what about Isabela? I mean I've seen her in town but she's never come in to my shop, good thing do those petals and pollens would be a nightmare to clean
Maria:thank you Miguel I'll be sure to come for a visit~
Miguel chuckled winking at Maria as he left before alma could say something Maria screamed again*
Maria:Carlos! Come over here a second!!
Carlos;hello ma'ams what can I help with?
Maria:favorite madrigal?
Carlos:Mirabel of course, she fixed my wife's wedding dress an hour before the wedding. That girl deserved that extra piece of cake
Maria:thank you, hernesto!!
Hernesto:you rang?
Maria: favorite madrigal go
Hernesto:Mirabel, my kids love her, same goes for every parent of the kids Mirabel babysits
Alma:but that's just a job right? Everyone in the madrigal has a job to do
Hernesto:a job she does for free whenever we try to give her money she refused. One time we all but forced her and the next day she came with new toys for the children with the money we gave her
A few of the adults around chuckled at the memory and the absolute look of defiance the younger woman gave them*
Maria:Maya!
Maya:yeah I heard, Mirabel since Julieta's food only works on humans it couldn't help my little paco, Mirabel refused to accept that and went to the forest to find some herbs, she found them and gave them to me and now? Paco is better then ever that girl has a heart of gold
Lucas:what's going on?
Maria:talking about the best madrigal
Lucas: oh, Mirabel obviously, help my mother paint her house when I was too busy to help
Lily:Mirabel? We're telling Mirabel stories because I have one, the time she jumped to the lake to find my wedding ring that slipped off my finger when i was swimming
And so it went on for another 3 hours of maria calling people out and asking each time the answer was the same Mirabel, Mirabel and Mirabel. Alma was more then shocked she was astonished that Mirabel did so much for the community for free, that astonishment quickly was replaced with horror as she remembers each and every time she pushed Mirabel away*
Maria:so Mirabel is first followed by Julieta on a veeeeery distant second, Antonio on number 3 for being so adorable. Luisa in Fourth and Pepa number 5 and leaving Isabela at number 9, Agustin and felix are scored higher then her
Alma:I don't understand, what about Isabela? Why is she so low? Don't people like her?
Maria: don't get everybody wrong. Isabela is a good child but like you said before she's the flower of the encanto, a flower you look at but the second you walk away from it you forget all about it. Mirabel on the other hand she's just...well she's just Mirabel, there's no hiding, she has her flaws of course but those flaws makes her endearing they make her human. Isabela well... she's just too perfect to be relatable
Alma felt as if someone gut punched her, all the wind was taken out of her body. While Maria just drank her tea*
Alma:I...I don't even know what to say I thought...
Maria:what? That Mirabel did nothing but get in the way?
Another gut punch and another slurp of the tea. Maria sighed*
Maria: it's not my family so it's not my place to judge how you raised your children and I never did but since it's all out in the open now I guess I'll give you my two cents.
everyone knows how you see her alma they just don't say anything since they know you'll just blame it on Mirabel making trouble for attention. But hey it could be worse people like Isabela, not like she's Dolores
Alma:oh God now what...
Alma said having her hands on her face, not sure if she could take another reveal at her old age. But the cat was already out of the bag might as well take the kittens out"
Maria:yeah, she quickly became the new black sheep after your son left the village. And this time it's all your fault she became that. People call her "Alma's rat" want to take a guess on why?
Alma:I...I would never use there secrets against them! I'm simply making sure...
Maria:puta shut up
Maria said 105% done with Alma's victim mentality. Alma sighed and remained quiet Maria being one of the few that could get alma to do that*
Maria:it doesn't matter what YOU do with the secrets since it's Dolores who'll get the blame at the end they don't care that it's you that's making her do that they don't care if it keeps them safe
Maria got up and paid for her drink, she looked at alma who just stuck in her head*
Maria:Dolores became the new Bruno and you have no one to blame but yourself, if something doesn't change soon they'll also be saying 'we don't talk about Dolores'
Maria said as she left leaving alma there with her thoughts*
Scene change
It was the end of the day everyone was at dinner. And Mirabel was extremely uncomfortable, why? Well since she noticed alma looking at her*
Mirabel:uh...do you want me to pass the bread abuela?
Alma:hm? Oh yes thank you Cariño, and how was your day?
The whole table stopped what they were doing and looked at alma, that was the first time since they could remember that alma was even remotely interested in mirabel. Mirabel looked shocked but quickly shook it off and gave a nervous smile*
Mirabel:it uh, it was good? The children wanted me and Mariano to sing a duet after duet. I'm pretty sure we sang Pimpinela whole album before they were satisfied
Alma:well I'm sure you sang wonderfully, What else did you do today? I'm sure it wasn't just that?
Pepa and Julieta we're looking at each other as if the other knew what exactly was going on*
Mirabel:I uh, oh yeah I helped the church with the food collection/food drive
Julieta:what? That's the first I've heard of something like that
Mirabel: well because we don't need it? There's not a single person in the encanto that goes hungry. But father Alves god bless him he can't sit by while the towns around us aren't so lucky, so he along with others me included of course, we collect food cans or make food that father Alves takes with help of the construction workers of the town and they climb up the mountain to give food to those that need it the most
Now Mirabel was feeling even more nervous since something was very very wrong, she was the center of attention in Casita that hasn't happened since her failed ceremony*
Julieta:again, why wasn't i informed? I could've helped out with food
Mirabel:well, uh actually, you kinda were? Um it happened months ago like I want to say February I think? Yeah February, you were so busy running around making food that you weren't paying attention to father alves ask for your help, you just said yes and forgot about it. Since you were so busy I decided to help and make the food for you
Mirabel said as she kept eating hoping that the conversation was over and it almost was with everybody in there own head, that is until Dolores decided to speak*
Dolores:your leaving something out
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