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Ok so plz comment your request here. I will not do the wrinkly old grandma or Antonio he is a CHILD. Also can attempt smut. No promises it'll be good. Plz be as specific as you can with your request or just tell me to take it into my own hands.

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"omg y/n. We are finally getting married!" Dolores said excitedly as she paced her room the day before the ceremony. "Y/n?" She said when I didnt reply.

"Oh sorry. I was thinking. But yeah super excited" I said giving her a thumbs up. After realizing you had feelings for Dolores you learned to control your heart rate around the girl and made sure you never said anything that might make her think you had a crush for fear of ruining your friendship. To say you were down about the marriage was an understatement. You had loved her for four years and she never looked your way.

"You're lying. Your heart sped up slightly which happens when your lying." She says looking at me confused.

"You sure you love him?" I ask for the hundredth time since her engagement.

"I mean yeah. I wouldn't be doing this otherwise. Why do you keep asking?" She questions and just like every other time I shrug my shoulders.

~time skip to 2 hours before the ceremony~

Dolores looks beautiful in her dress.

"Oh you look so pretty." Pepa coos tearing up as a cloud starting to form.

"Mi amore, her dress." Felix says pulling her away as to not wet the gown.

"You do look gorgeous. Mariano is lucky." I tell her and she smiles and thanks me.

"Dolores. Oh you look wonderful. Such a nice set up out there." Abuela says as she enters the room. I look at Dolores and roll my eyes lucky no one else saw. I still don't like Alma. She thinks an apology is gonna solve years of family trauma and it's dumb.

"Gracias Abuela." Dolores says.

"Felix, Pepa, Mama let's go and leave Dolores and y/n to talk for a bit." Bruno says from where he has been sitting in the room. Bruno found out I liked Dolores pretty quickly and so he gave me a note saying he knows and he won't say it aloud as to not let Dolores know. I don't know how he found out considering the rest of the family was oblivious but I was thankful he kept my secret. As the others left he winked at me and grinned before leaving.

"Do you think my hair looks nice." Dolores asked.

"You always look perfect." I reply honestly and she smiles.

"Thank you. For all your help with this."

"Anytime." I smile.

"Are you alright?"

"Course why wouldn't I be?" I question.

"You looked at the clock and your heart rate sped up. Also don't say I didn't I can hear it." She says and I look away. She lifts my chin to make me look at her and I can't help the flip my heart does at the u expected action. She tilts her hand practically telling me she heard it. I pull away and sit on one of the chairs.

"I'm sorry" I say pulling my legs up in front of me.

"For what. You haven't done anything wrong. Please tell me what's been going on" she pleads.

"I like you" it's a whisper but not to Dolores who makes a squeak in response. I can't bring myself to look at her.

"princesa look at me" she says and I look up with a blush at the nickname.

"Is this true?" She asks and I nod.

"I like you too. I have since we were kids." She giggles.

"Ughhh. Not helping." I complain.

"What. We both like each other what do you mean not helping?" She says confused.

"Um your getting married lores" I remind her.

"Right." She sighs. "That's not gonna be a big problem. Hold on " she says before going to the bathroom and quickly coming out in her normal clothes. "Come on " she says taking my hand and leading me to where I assume Mariano is.

"Mariano." She says coming in the room.

"Oh hello Dolores. Y/n." He says looking confused at why we burst in the room and why Dolores didn't look ready for the ceremony in an hour.

"Where's Jake?" She questions.

"Grabbing something." Mariano says.

"Your heart rate speeds up when around him. And you also blush." She says and my eyes widen and my jaw drops.

"What Dolores I love you not him." He stutters out with a blush creeping up and my jaw is in the floor.

"You do realize I hear everything. And he likes you too. Plus y/n and I like each other." She says pointing to me.

"Oh. Ok" Mariano shrugs. "So what now?"

"We don't know." I laugh. "You could just not show up. Or just say I don't see everyone become shocked,"

"As funny as that would be, no." Dolores says.

"Why do we have to be responsible." I complain.

"We should just go tell everyone we won't be going through with this." Mariano says and Dolores agrees.

"Fine be boring." I say and Dolores laughs before placing a kiss on my head.

Mariano and Dolores head out to talk to their parents first and ask Abuela to tell everyone. Abuela announces the break off to some peoples surprise but everyone would be over it by the end of the day. Once everyone was gone Abuela, Pepa, Felix, and Mrs.Guzmán question the children.

"We just have our eyes on other people." Dolores explains calmly. The parents accept this answer with the promise of more info of or when they want and leave the three of us alone. Jake finally finds us.

"Hey?" He phrases as more of a question.

"Hello" Mariano smiles as Jack blushes.

Dolores and I sneak out the room to let them talk and quickly make our way back to Casita and into her room.

"Ah silence finally." She says gesturing to her soundproof room.

"Except my voice." I joke.

"That is the one sound I could listen to forever." She says and I don't try to hide my heart speeding up at her words.

"Thanks." She smiles at me after a bit.

"For what?" I ask confused.

"You were always my first choice. Not Mariano." She smiles.

"Oh." I reply happily not trusting my voice to say more.

"Would you wanna be my girlfriend." She blurts out and I nod. "Can I kiss you" another nod before her lips meet mine.

We pull back both smiling. I'm really glad I said something.

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~age 7~
"Hey, you okay?" I ask when I see one of the girls at my school crying a bit. She looked like the Madrigal girl Mirabel is her name I believe.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine sorry." She apologizes and wipes her face.

"People don't cry when they are fine. Unless you do but that doesn't seem likely." I say and she smiles a bit.

"I have no gift." She states.

"I know," I tell her.

"They think I'm messed up" she states looking over at the boys who were teasing her..

"But they don't have them either?" I question.

"But I'm supposed to" she argues back.

"No one is supposed to do anything really. You just do what you can and what happens happens." I shrug back. "Just cause you don't have a gift doesn't make you any less important than the rest of your family." I smile and she smiles back.

~age 12~
"Why do you hang out with the nerd?" Kiro asks keeping me pinned against the wall he had shoved me against.

"Mirabel isn't a nerd she's a nice person but you don't care," I argue

"She's a disgrace to the madrigal name. I guess if you can't see that you're just as bad" he laughs. After kicking me he lets me go leaving me to fall to the ground.

"Thanks for trying to stand up for me I'm sorry you don't deserve to get bullied on because of me," Mirabel says coming around the corner.

"It's not your fault Mira. Don't listen to jerks like him. I like you just the way you are." I smile.

"Still doesn't mean you deserve to get shoved around because of me," she says still obviously blaming herself for the encounter.

"If dealing with jerks like him means I get to be with you it doesn't matter," I say taking her hand and leading her back to class.

~the present~

"Y/n you will never believe what happened!" she says running to me while in the town square and smiling.

"What?" I ask.

"Ok, so you know how there is gonna be a huge party in town for the rebuilding of the house and tio Bruno coming back?"

"I do now," I say laughing a bit.

"Oh did I not tell you? Huh. Sorry. Anyhow, Mama said I can help with more than just decorations this year. I don't know what else I can do but I can try!" She says excitedly. Usually due to her family gifts Mirabel would get put on non-magic-related decorations for parties which she got bored of very quickly.

"That's great Mira," I say and she smiles at me. Recently when she did that my stomach felt strange I have a feeling I might know why but I can't. I shouldn't.

"I know!" She says excitedly spinning and her dress flutters around her.

~time skip bc idk y~

Mirabel and I were in my room hanging out before we had to go to bed (she was sleeping over) and just talking.

"Which is so unfair right? ...Mira?" I say looking at her to see she had fallen asleep on my shoulder. I blush at it and immediately scold myself for the response.

I shouldn't be thinking things about her but I do. I can't help this growing feeling I have but I'm scared to ruin everything. She is just so gorgeous and her laugh is even more so. The way she just looks over at me and smiles whenever she finds anything even slightly funny. Or when she goes out of her way to help others even if they swear up and down they don't need it. When Luisa said it was fine Mirabel went to the donkey man and "kindly" told him to fix his fence.

I kept thinking and mentally listing a reason I liked her versus a reason I should not date her but ended up with much less reason to not. I go to sleep after that still unsatisfied with my thoughts.

The next few weeks I thought things over and realized I do indeed have a crush on her. We have sleepovers almost every night now and I don't know what to do. Should I tell her?

The next morning I wake up to the smell of pancakes and head downstairs. "Mira it's 7 a.m. Why are you making pancakes in my kitchen?" I question.

"Well n/n you're such a good friend and you deserve them." She replies and although the friend part stung a bit the rest of her sentence was nice and brings a smile to my face. We fool around for the rest of the day and she convinces me to come to the casita for dinner not wanting to separate from each other. Her parents let me stay used to my unannounced presence and later Mirabel and I hung out in her room.

"C'mon n/n please just let me do some simple make-up." She begs.

"No Mira I don't like it." You laugh as you both begin to fake wrestle. At some point, Mirabel pins you down making you too flustered to fight back or reply.

"Now hold still Mi Vida." She whispers coming close and putting some on. You sit patiently just admiring her as she does your makeup putting on eye-shadow and lip gloss. You close your eyes as she puts some eyeliner on. "There you look great." She smiles not moving from where she is situated on your hips still pinning you to the bed.

"Do I not look great normally?" You joke and see her laugh.

"You always look great. You know this." She smiles looking down as your eyes lock. She quickly gets off and apologizes. "You should go wash it off though almost time to head to bed." She says not looking at you.

You go in the bathroom and wash it off getting mad at yourself for the crush. She knows now and you think you made her uncomfortable. As you leave the bathroom you see her getting into bed and you go to your usual spot beside her.

"About earlier." She begins

"I'm sorry," You both say simultaneously then looking at each other and laughing.

"Why are you sorry?" She asks.

"Because obviously, you realized I have a crush on you and it made you uncomfortable." I state and look at Mirabel to see a smile on her face.

"You like me?" She asks and I nod. "Omg I like you and I was gonna apologize for the same thing." She laughs.

"That means we both like each other." I point out. "Would you want to go on a date maybe?" I ask and she nods but I can see there is something she isn't telling me. "What's up? I can see there is something." I ask

"Why do you like me? I'm nothing special." She says sadly.

"You are special to me Mirabel Madrigal," I say kissing her on the forehead.