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Mirabel awoke to the sudden push of Casita waking her up, she looked around blindly and groggy from being awakened. She instinctively reached her hand to get her glasses when she realized that she wasn't in her room. She couldn't feel the softness of her bed and she wasn't surrounded by the blurry green colors that adorned the nursery. She turned to her left and didn't see the outline of a bed where Antonio had to be sleeping.
“Huh?” she wondered starting to get panicked looking around trying to feel for her glasses. When she finally felt the rim of her glasses, she quickly put them on and looked around at her surroundings.
She wasn't in the nursery; in fact, she didn't recognize the room at all. She was laying on the floor in a big, dimmed room when she turned behind her, she saw what looked like rows of seats and at the very end a large screen with the words "The show will start soon” and a black background.
Mirabel looked around back around her and realized that the rest of her family was there all sound asleep scattered around her. She heard a curse from her left and when she turned, she saw the face of a man she hadn't seen in years, a face she would most likely forget if it weren't for the mural in the town of her family.
“Tio Bruno?” she voice came out in a hushed whisper, her voice laced with disbelief.
The man in question turned to her panic in his eyes, “Mirabel” was his simple answer.
” Do you know where we are?” she asked him, thinking he might have an answer. The man still in a state of shock in suddenly being in the same room as his family and talking to his sobrina after 10 years simply shrugged. He began to mutter in a panic his words to fast for the girl to understand.
Brunos mutterings had started the process of waking up the rest of the family as they all stirred awake. Confused glances at their surroundings and questions of asking where they were where interrupted by Pepa.
“Bruno?” she asked her hand covering her mouth in shock, everyone turned to look at the man who was still in the same position in shock as well. A few moments later Pepa and Julieta got up quickly, sprinting to their long-lost brother tackling him in a hug.
Bruno stayed frozen in the hug until the shock wore off and he quickly wrapped his sisters with his arms returning the hug. Oh, how I've missed them was his only thought.
Julieta pulled out of the hug and cupped her hermanitos cheeks getting a good look at him “oh you look so tired hermano, where have you been?” she asked him tears and worry glazing her eyes.
“I-” Bruno began and stopped unable to say anything else, to stunned by what has happened to even begin to explain.
“I uh…hate to interrupt this moment but where are we?” Camilo asked breaking the silence.
“Are we even in Casita?” asked Isabela getting a confirmation as the tiles next to her began to move.
“Casita what is the meaning of this?” asked Abuela asked finally getting over her shock of seeing her lost son again.
There was no answer for a minute before the tiles around the family started moving them all towards the seats. Some yelped not used to Casita moving them and they were all sat. In the front sat Abuela, Pepa, Julieta, Augustin and Felix in the row behind them sat Dolores, Antonio, Camilo, Isabela and Luisa and in the very back in the middle-sat Mirabel and Bruno.
Everyone looked around at their setting positions in confusion when a sound came from the screen in front of them grabbing their attention. The previous words had faded from the screen and new text appeared.
“This family and their miracle will brake if nothing changes, so in order to do something about that you all will watch this movie on your future”
“What do you mean our miracle will break?” asked Mirabel worried.
“You will soon see if any of you want to pause what happens to discuss at any part of the movie just ask. Now enjoy the show.”
When the words faded again, before anyone could ask any other question the words “Encanto” appeared in the screen.