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MALL TRIP!
Much celebration was present at the Madrigal house, Isabela had gotten herself perfect grades across the board, after lots of secret long nights of cramming that only Dolores knew about. She would text Isa with practice questions, and her cousin would just speak the answer out loud, knowing her Prima could hear her perfectly. Despite working almost just as hard, Dolores only managed high B's, due to all the noises not only in the exam hall, but throughout the school dividing her attention. It was lucky she got a bit of extra time otherwise she didn't think she wouldn't manage it.
Both of them got into their first choice of college, and a night of celebrations ensued. When Antonio was put to bed, the alcohol came out. Julieta made sure to keep an eye on Isabela as she had inherited her Tía's affinity for wine. Dolores had one glass of gin and tonic, but decided she’d had enough after that. It was then that Abuela came down the stairs with two fancy gold envelopes. One hand-painted with pink flowers, and the other with purple ones. The two young ladies gently took them, careful not to damage the wonderful art. Abuela stood back and smiled as her eldest granddaughters’ faces lit up in shock and awe, then appreciation, pulling out €200 each.
Isa was first to grateful tears, mainly because she was one too many drinks in. She went to give her Abuela a big hug, quickly followed by her Prima. Despite being slightly tipsy, she noticed Mirabel biting her lip, looking away, and holding her arm. She knew exactly what Mira was thinking, and wished her sister could just be happy for her for one day, but decided to open the hugs to her sisters and they all had a big squeeze. Dolores gave Camilo a fist bump as he was in a phase of not liking hugs.
Abuela spoke kindly "I saw a new shopping centre just into the city, maybe you all could have a trip out to start this new chapter of your lives."
"Thank you so much, Abuela." Dolores spoke and nodded.
"Yes, Thank you so much." Isa followed.
The rest of the night mostly consisted of a game where they had to tell which family member was themselves and which was Camilo. They both stood behind a curtain, Camilo would shift and then switch places a few times then everyone else had to take a guess. Isa was told by Juli to stop drinking as she was getting very sleepy and existential, but she needed to be carried to bed by her mum in the end as she overdid it.
The next morning, well, close to afternoon. Isabela finally emerged from her flower den after nearly overcoming her hangover, still in her pink nightgown deciding comfort was more important than appearance after the night she had. She headed down for breakfast straight away, having only one slice of toast even though she wanted two. Mirabel and Luisa sitting at the table, for a good 10 minutes now; she had challenged Luisa to an arm wrestle. Isa couldn't help but chuckle slightly, Luisa didn't want to win, but Mira was not giving up.
"Good morning, mi hermanas." Isa spoke softly, sipping her turmeric green tea, made by her mother for the expressed purpose to cure headaches, whilst also having a dash of caffeine to wake her up.
"Morning Sis." Luisa replied, taking her attention away from Mirabel tugging at her arm with both of her arms, causing Luisa's arm to hit the table. Mirabel slapped the table with her other hand and let out a huge cheer which made Isa glad she had started drinking the tea.
"Do either of you wanna go to the mall today? We can spend some of the money that we got, plus the money that we saved up from summer-" Isabela had barely finished asking her sisters on the trip before Dolores' footsteps rushed down the stairs to the dining room.
"Did I hear mention of a potential trip?" She poked her head round the corner.
Isa laughed slightly "No, your gift must be playing up.”
"I would like to go to the one in Santafé." Dolores suggested, barely paying attention to her cousin’s teasing.
"Alright, but you’re driving." She handed her now empty mug to Julieta and stood up. "Meet back here ready in half an hour and we’ll go. Oh and ask Camilo, though, I doubt he will be interested." Isabela told going to her flowery den once more to get dressed.
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Luisa chose to go casual but cute with her look, choosing a navy blue tank top that stopped just above her bellybutton. She paired it with a black skirt that reaches her mid thigh, and a pair of black converse high tops to add her cute dorky touch to the outfit. With her hair, she decided to let Pepa do two french braids.
“going with the girls into Santafe?” she asked when Luisa settled between her knees making it easier for her to do the braids.
“Si, i have all that money saved from my summer jobs, plus it’ll be time to spend time with my sisters and cousin,” Luisa explained
“That’s nice Lulu, what do you think you’ll buy? new clothes, maybe some room accessories?” Pepa asked parting Luisa’s hair.
“Well, there was this awesome book series i heard about from some of my friends i wanted to get from the bookstore along with maybe some more marvel decorations for my room; I was looking with pa a few weeks ago and saw this really cool journal i wanna buy , the cover looked like it was made of tobacco leaves and the pages inside were natural made. Maybe some clothes if I find something I really like,” Luisa told. pepa nodded and continued to talk to her niece while she braided her hair.
Dolores chose to wear a patterned off-the-shoulder white blouse, with a lavender skirt, and light wooden bracelets. She applied some light foundation, brushed her hair but chose to keep it down, and then put on her headphones. She didn't plan to listen to music, but she knew the mall might be full of noises that she didn't want to ruin her nice day out.
Isabela pondered on all her clothes for a while, before finally sighing and choosing a long white dress with a brown belt around her waist, as well as skin colour tights, and black heels with some lace details. She thought it would be fine for now, though an awful pimple was throbbing on her forehead. She quickly covered the seemingly glowing blemish with concealer and after she finished her makeup with some light eyeshadow and a bold lip, she returned downstairs.
Mirabel was struggling, she had barely got upstairs before she felt that ever-so-familiar ache of her entire body and the sharp sting in her abdomen. She hurried to the bathroom to be sick, before cleaning up, getting dressed, and decided to try and ignore it. She was very excited about this and didn't want to let her body ruin it. it wasn’t everyday your sister invited you to go with her to santa fe for a shopping spree.
Camilo wasn't bothered about going to the mall but asked for snacks, which Dolores laughed at but agreed to bring him some.
When the four girls met back in the dining room to leave, Luisa noticed Mirabel looked pale. Her normal pink cheeks were flushed and she looked miserable.
"Mir, are you ok? You look sick," Luisa asked, putting a hand on the younger girl's shoulder.
"I'm fine," Mirabel assured.
"No you're not. I heard you in the bathroom," Dolores pointed out. Mirabel mentally cursed her cousin’s gift before defending herself.
"I'll be fine, come on guys," Mirabel lied.
Isabela picked up on this lie and told Mirabel
“you’re not going, I’m sorry but you’re sick, I don’t want you to be miserable and like this, you would be,”
“She’s right mija, they’ll bring you something home,” Julieta said, guiding her daughter to sit down at the table with a cup of ginger tea.
“Ok, I guess we’ll go now. Sorry lil sis, I’ll bring you some new PJ’s, I saw some harry potter ones you’ll absolutely love,” Isabela said as the three eldest headed toward the door.
Dolores grabbed her keys and they all piled into her pristine white jeep to head into santa fe.
When they finally got into the city they found the mall and spent about 20 minutes trying to find a decent parking spot.
“Jeez nobody in the city knows how to park here,” Dolores grumbled
“Look there’s a spot,” Isa pointed to an empty spot between two cars, it was about as good as they were going to get so Dolores pulled into the spot putting the jeep in park.
The three piled out and straightened their clothes. Finally they made their way out of the parking lot and into the air conditioned mall. Dolores winced before pulling her headphones onto her ears.
The trio walked around the mall shopping and enjoying each other’s company. They went through lots of stores buying books, posters, and clothes before eventually coming across a Victoria’s Secret near the food court.
“C’mon, lets go we have plenty of money left over,” Isabela persuaded
“Isa, are you sure? it’s really expensive” Dolores asked, unsure of her cousin’s choice.
“I know, c’mon Lola it’ll be fine, plus it would help you win over that hunk you have a huge crush on,” Isa said pulling her arm.
“You know she isnt gonna let up Lola, might as well treat yourself to some new underwear,” Luisa told her cousin.
“ok,” Dolores sighed before her cousins dragged her into the shop.
The pink walls were inviting as Dolores looked at the many racks of bras and underwear that were everywhere around her. A display of bras caught her eye with an enticing red lace one being on the display.
“Let’s look at these Lola, I’m sure mariano would absolutely love them” Isa told, dragging Dolores over to the display she was eyeing.
“Red suits you,” Isa said as she held a red bra up to Dolores’s chest, seemingly surveying how it looked with her skintone.
Changing the subject to deflect the attention she asked Luisa, “Lu have you found anything you like?”
“Not quite, I’ve found some nice red and black sets, but I really want something dark blue,” she tells, placing a bra back on the rack.
“Isa, can you pick me out something while I help lu look for a set she likes?” Dolores asked
“Sure, once we find some we’d like to try on we can go to the dressing rooms.”
after about a half hour dolores had found about three sets for luisa and two sets of her own knowing isa probably had plenty more for her to try.
When they went to the dressing rooms, Luisa was the first to try her sets on. The first one was a dark blue push up bra with matching lace underwear. Taking a step out of the dressing room, Luisa felt really self concious. That feeling was quickly diminished as her sister and cousin hyped her up.
Spending nearly an hour taking turns trying on lots of different sets of lingerie they settled on two sets each and finally left the mall returning home 20 minutes to curfew.
“How was the trip, girls?” Julieta asked, finishing up the last of the dishes from dinner.
“it was good, how’s Mira doing?” Isabela asked
“She’s not feeling too well, her cv’s acting up because she’s due for her period,” Pepa said rounding the corner with an empty mug.
“So, what did you get?” Pepa asked nosily trying to peek in the bags that were put on the table,
“nothing much, I got some clothes and Cami some snacks,” Dolores said pulling various skirts and dresses out of the bag
“What did you two get?” Julieta asked drying her hands on her towel. She walked toward the table as Isabela told,
“Lu got some books and stuff for her room, we both got some clothes, I got some new shoes and a new set of sheets, oh and I bought mirabel some cute marauders map and ravenclaw pajamas”
“And just who are you three trying to impress with these?” Pepa asked teasingly as she held up one of Dolores’s lacy lingerie sets.
“noone,” Luisa quickly replied her cheeks tinting pink
“she’s right, we’re not trying to impress anyone. when we were getting ready to leave I suggested we take a look since we had enough money for each of us to get at least one set or something,” Isabela explained as Pepa pulled another set out of the pink and black bag.
“Well I must say you have some good taste,” Julieta told taking a look at the mauve bra Isabela bought.
“Did you bring me snacks?” Camilo asked, coming downstairs.
“Yes I got your snacks, now leave,” Dolores said, throwing Camilo a bag filled with his favourite snacks and candy.
“not a chance hermana, what else did you get?” Camilo asked, approaching the table where their lingerie was laid out. Isabela picked up on Dolores’s behaviour and slid some bags over to obstruct his view and give her more room to take a better look at some of the wall art Luisa got for her room.
“Just some wall art for my room and pyjamas for Mirabel,” Luisa said, acting as casual as she could, knowing her mother and aunt were looking at her underwear that she bought.
“Sure, I’m going back to my room,” Camilo shrugged, heading upstairs.
After about an hour of conversation with Pepa and Julieta the three eldest girls went upstairs to accompany Mirabel in her room and cheer her up.
hope you enjoy ❤
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