LOML {Camilo x Reader}

Rats

"You mean when you snuck out?" Bruno asked.

"Bingo." Camilo laughed, "I guess Ben already told you then."

"Of course he did..." I groaned mentally hoping both sides of Ben's pillow are warm tonight.

"Camilo!" Someone shouted from upstairs catching all of our attention.

"Alright, I guess I'll leave you alone with Bruno now." Camilo smiled, "Bye Y/N."

With that Camilo left the room to go find whoever had needed him.

Neither of said something for a moment,

"Er-"

"So-"

We both stopped as we heard the others voice.

"Sorry I'm not good at this." Bruno apologized quickly.

"Me too, socializing is hard." I said.

"I'm gonna be honest with you kid, I have no clue what I'm doing. Mirabel and Camilo asked me to do this and I felt like I couldn't say no. I didn't want to disappoint them." Bruno awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.

"That's fine."

"Sorry for disap- wait it's fine? But I'm supposed to help you with understanding your gift or something."

"That doesn't matter."

"So what are we gonna do for the next..." he paused to check the time, "6 hours?"

I thought for a moment, but I already knew exactly what I wanted to do.

"Rats." He looked at me uncertainly, "I wanna see your rats."

"You sure?"

I nodded my head,

"Okay. Most of them stay in my room so we could go there I guess." He said and I gave him a thumbs up.

As I walked into his room I was pretty shocked. My feet had sunken into the sand floor and there were,

So.

Many.

Stairs.

"Why is there so many stairs?" I questioned.

"Uh I actually don't know." Bruno responded.

"Oo what if it represents the length of time, or it just makes you think about the future. Because you know you wish you could just be up there already instead of walking up all those stairs."

"It could." I looked over to him expecting him to be amused by my dumb idea but he looked genuinely interested.

Suddenly I heard squeaking echoing around the large room. Then with a thump a small rat fell directly onto Bruno's head. Bruno put his hand out and just as he did another rat fell onto the palm of his hand.

He took the first ray off of his head and held them both in his hands.

"Let's see the one on the right is Maria and on the left is Alejandro." He held them out to me.

The one named Maria was a dark brown with little spots of white, while the one named Alejandro was just a light brown.

"Do you want to hold one of them?" He barely said before I shook my head excitedly.

Bruno moved Alejandro to my open hand gesturing for it to move. The rat sniffed my hand cautiously before stepping off of Bruno's hand and onto mine.
We both sat down on the sand with the rats in our hands.