Chapter Eight: Dinner and Chaos (Part One)
Celestia walked back to the Casita with Fernando. "Hey thanks for taking the time to talk with me. I had fun." He told her. "Hey, does your family mind if I stay over for dinner?" Celestia thought about it. "I don't know Fernando.. we're supposed to be having a proposal dinner for my Big sister Isabela to that Mr. Guzman man." She shrugged. "I honestly kind of think it's a bit of a stretch. They barely even know each other. I can certainly ask though. Might not get a straight answer out of it though." Celestia opened up the door to the Casita and she looked to see Luisa wailing about losing her gift and then Mirabel going back to the nursery.
Abuela turned to the main entry and sees Celestia back. "There you are, you two." Fernando waved to her. "Hello Ma'am." He greeted her and then Celestia proposed the question that he had. "Fernando was wondering if he could stay for dinner. I understand if it's a no, since we're having guests already." She rubbed the back of her neck, laughing softly. Abuela thought about it. "Well.. alright. The more the merrier." Celestia pulls up an extra seat for Fernando. Then her eyes looked to the family portrait and the little portrait of Bruno that was there. A Tió she never met that people always saw bad in him.. all she saw was a misunderstanding.
Celestia shakes it away and decided to show Fernando her room before dinner was ready. She opened it up for him and Fernando walked inside. "Well here it is." Fernando sat on the bed. "Wow. This looks really incredible." Celestia nodded and stretched. "Yeah, I just wish that I could meet my other Tió.. Bruno, and let him see me." She told him and then Pepa entered the room to check up on them a cloud over her head. "Oh Tiá. Hi." Celestia looked a bit surprised. "Hola Tiny one. Ay, shoo! Shoo!" She pushed the cloud out and shuts the door, setting down some of the stuff that Celestia forgot to get yesterday.
"I'm just here dropping off the rest of your things.. when I heard the name we don't speak." Celestia gulped. "I know Tiá, and I'm sorry." She looked at her little pendant that she wore and it only sparked for her, no one else around. Pepa looked up to see another cloud. "Oh great, now I'm thundering. And the Thunder will lead to a drizzle, and a drizzle leads to a sprinkle." Pepa calms herself down by saying "Clear skies.. clear skies." She breathes out and Celestia helped put the rest of the stuff away. Fernando got up from the soft bed and looked at her. "Mrs. Madrigal, why can't she meet the one person that might not even know of her existence? Celestia is just a kid, we all have curiosity about lost family members we might not know."
Pepa sighs gently and smiles at the formalities. "Well, Fernando, I am flattered." Then she turned her attention to Celestia. "I know our little sunflower is yearning for something like that but the prophecies were more bad than good." Felix comes in to see them. He tries to tell her more but Pepa interrupted him. "I know she wants to know about Bruno, no, no, no! But We don't talk about Bruno... Well, It was my wedding day!" Pepa and Felix dance together as it cuts to them in their wedding attire.
"It was our wedding day!" "We were getting ready, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky!" Felix waved his finger around. "No clouds allowed in the sky!" Pepa points to a figure of Bruno walking to them and Celestia approached him. "Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin-" Felix interrupted her and the thunder was heard as he says "Thunder!!" Pepa crossed her arms at her husband. "You telling this story, or am I?" Felix calmed down his wife and Celestia followed them. Fernando did too. "I'm sorry, mi vida, go on!" Pepa danced around with the two kids.
"Bruno says, "It looks like rain"" Felix cried out "Why did he tell us?" "In doing so, he floods my brain." They both got out umbrellas. "Abuela, get the umbrellas." "Married in a hurricane!" Celestia and Fernando held onto each other so they didn't get blown away by the winds. "What a joyous day... but anyway-" Then Felix and Pepa both sung together. "You wish to talk about Bruno, no, no, no! But we don't talk about Bruno!" Celestia and Fernando were both spun around. They got a bit dizzy before Dolores caught them both and they snapped out of their dizzy states.
"Hey! Grew to live in fear of Bruno stuttering or stumbling. I could always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling. I associate him with the sound of falling sand, ch-ch-ch." Celestia danced with her big cousin. Fernando unexpectedly went into a salsa Caleña with Celestia. "It's a heavy lift, with a gift so humbling. Always left Abuela and the family fumbling, Grappling with prophecies they couldn't understand. Do you understand?" Celestia shakes her head no before turning to Camilo as he transformed into Bruno. He was trying to scare her about it, but she wasn't buying it.
"A seven-foot frame! Rats along his back. When he calls your name, It all fades to black! Yeah, he sees your dreams, And feasts on your screams (hey!)" Celestia falls through a hole with Fernando but Camilo catches them both. The two children went through a dark pathway as Pepa, Camilo, Felix and Dolores all sang together. "We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, no! We don't talk about Bruno!" Celestia and Fernando ended up in the town where three townspeople that were affected by Bruno approached and talked about their prophecy readings.
"He told me my fish would die, The next day: dead! (No, no!)" Celestia looked at the tank and says "Fish like that aren't meant to be in tanks that small." A guy approached them and had a big gut. "He told me I'd grow a gut! And just like he said... (no, no!)" Fernando was confused. "Didn't you eat like ten arepas a day?" Then the priest was the last one there. "He said that all my hair would disappear, now look at my head (no, no! Hey!)" Celestia puts her hands together and said "Blesses Father." "Your fate is sealed when your prophecy is read!" Then Isabela came down on her flower swing talking about the little good that was in him.
"He told me that the life of my dreams would be promised, and someday be mine." Mirabel was there and she rolled her eyes. "He told me that my power would grow, like the grapes that thrive on the vine!" Abuela called to the house while walking with Mariano and his mother. "Óye, Mariano's on his way!" Dolores started talking about her prophecy reading. "He told me that the man of my dreams would be just out of reach.. Betrothed to another! It's like I hear him now." Isabela turned to Mirabel. "Hey sis, I want not a sound out of you." "I can hear him now!" Dolores sighed unhappily.
Celestia looked to Mirabel and sees her bag had something glowing green inside. Mirabel began to sing too. "Um, Bruno... Yeah, about that Bruno..." Celestia sings with her sister "We really need to know about Bruno! Give us the truth and the whole truth, Bruno!" She went back to the nursery and Celestia followed her, taking Fernando with her. "Isabela, your boyfriend's here!" Camilo turned into Mariano and laughed as the others called out "Time for dinner!"
Everyone set the table while singing their verses of the song. Mirabel looked to Luisa's door as it flickered in and out. She goes to the nursery and picked up the shards and began putting them together. Soon enough, after putting everything together it all came together. What Mirabel saw.. was herself. "He's here! Don't Talk about Bruno!" Both her, Celestia and Fernando sang out "Why did we talk about Bruno?" "Not a word about Bruno!" Celestia carried out the last bit "I never should have brought up Bruno!"
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