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#poor celeste didnt have a clue what was happening.
adoptedmadrigal2 · 2 years
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Celeste is growing up fast, and she's scared of the changes.
@needs-to-stop-looking-at-valves Dulce is pregnant! With Camilo’s baby!
Everything's OK mi estrella.
Celeste was a month away from her tenth birthday, and she was kind of dreading it in a way, she knew that from what she'd heard she was going to get some kind of talk after her birthday, and she was scared she'd done something to get herself in trouble.
Dolores was concerned since she'd heard rumors of the young girls in the encanto getting their first period as young as 8 years old, she wanted celeste to know what was going to happen before it happened so she wouldn't be scared.
For all Dolores knew Celeste could start her period any day now, I mean she herself had started when she was 11, so Celeste starting at ten wouldn't be surprising. Though it might be really early for her baby girl to get her first period, but it wasn't anything she and celeste couldn't get through together.
While Dolores drank her morning tea the trio of hunters approached her.
"Mama, can Rio and Songbird and me go hunting tonight?" Celeste asked Dolores.
"Let me ask tia if we have room for any more meat," dolores informed
"Tia juli? How are we doing on meat supply?" Dolores asked
"I'm gonna be using the last of our elk cut for dinner, and we have a few small fish left after that, why?" Julieta told as she buzzed around the kitchen taking care of her herbs and healing food
"The Golden trio wanted to go out and hunt," Dolores said walking back to the three awaiting children
"You can go, but go to the river to get some fish first. Then once you bring the fish back you can go find and elk or something. Do any of yoy need anything from town? Crickets, arrows, knife sharpening?" Dolores asks
"I need to restring my bow, the line's gone slack, and I need a new silencer since my other one fell off when we were hunting last time," Elena said
"My knife needs sharpening, it's gone dull to the point it'll frey a fishing line instead of make a clean cut," Celeste added.
"I need a new hook for crocodiles, I had a crock break my line and take the hook with him last time, and I need crickets," Bek told finishing the list of needs.
"Well then, let's get the three of you to town so we get a good haul tonight," Dolores said
"You're going into town?" Isabela asked curiously
"Yeah these three need some hunting stuff, why?"
"We need some things for the bathroom, and Liv needs a few things from Osvaldo’s" isabela said handing dolores a scrap of paper with a short list on it.
"Ok kiddos grab what you need to bring with you to get your gear, and we'll be leaving once I let tio mariano know that I'm leaving." Dolores declared
The kids started gathering their things, Elena getting her bow, with the slack string, Celeste grabbing her knife to get sharpened, and Bek grabbing his cricket bucket and his hook caps so he doesn't hurt himself on his new crocodile hook.
"Mi amor, I'm taking the kiddos to town for some hunting gear and isa needs me to get some chocolate for liv and apparently we're almost out of pads too," dolores tells as she ties her espadrilles around her ankles.
"Ok mi buho, be safe" he says pressing a kiss to her cheek as he catches a sneaky grope to her rear. Loving the little squeak he gets a a response.
Once the group is in town she leaves the trio in the little hunters market while she places an order for the chocolate cookies and treats liv wants.
She returns, to see that senor ruis is helping her restring her bow with a silencer on it, Celeste is looking at some hunting boots, and Bek is looking at the spears.
"Alright there señorita, strung up just right with a fresh racoon tail silencer on it," senor ruis plucking the bow string to double check its taughtness.
"Gracias senor," Elena thanked as Dolores approached to pay for the restrung bow.
"No need dolores, on the house today, I can tell Elena doesn't misuse that bow of hers, she just wears the string out with how much she hunts." He tells
"Gracias," Dolores said guiding the trio to the tackle shop.
"Hola mis pequeños pescadores, what's got you three here today?" Senor DelRio said as soon as the trio walked in
"We need some crickets, and i need a new crocodile quad, had one bite through the line and take the one I had with him," Bek told the older man.
"Mhm, sounds like you got a mean crock on the river, do you need some stronger line?" He asked the boy
"If you have some stronger than the black paracord I always get," Bek said
"I got you covered hombrecito, " Senor DelRio said as he gathered the crickets and placed them into bek’s bucket that he made from wire fencing and some wood.
"Here you are, take care with that quad hook," Senor DelRio told.
"Here you go senor," dolores said handing him the money for the hook line and crickets.
"Good luck with the fish," Senor DelRio called as the group left.
"Now, I'm going to ler you thre go to the blacksmith on your own, because I have to pick some things up from Osvaldo’s. Stay together, don't leave the blacksmith until I come for you
The trio walk through the square until they get to Rosita's place.
"Hola Rosita!" Celeste said.
"Hola estrella, what brings you to the blacksmith today? Did your tio send you?" She asked
"Nope, it's me this time, I need my knife sharpened por favor, it's gone dull." Celeste explained
"Of course, can I see this blade of yours?" Rosita requested.
Celeste handed her knife over, and rosita tutted softly
"This knife is getting thin mija, tell you what, I'll sharpen it for you this time, but then I'm gonna make you a new one. And since your la sobrina de mi novio, I'll do it free of charge as a gift for your birthday." Rosita said.
"Really?" Celeste asked
"Of course mija, do you want a carved handle?" Rosita asked
"Si can you do a star carving with my birthstone embedded in it?" Celeste asked
"What's your birthstone?"
"Aquamarine,"
"It'll be ready by your birthday," rosita promised
"What will? Dolores said as she walked into the blacksmith shop.
"Her new knife, it's my birthday gift to her, her knife that she has is getting down to the bone, and she deserves a good strong knife to gut an elk with," Rosita answered
"That she surely does, I don't want her getting all of her clothes disgusting trying to spend an hour gutting an elk when she can do it in 20 minutes with a sharp knife." Dolores said as Celeste was given her knife back freshly sharpened.
"See you at casita Rosita," Dolores called wxiting the shop.
"Ok you three have all you need, I've got what isa asked me to get, let's get home and have some lunch before you three head out on an elk hunt and fishing trip." Dolores declared as Elena shifted her bow sling from her right to her left shoulder, Bek placed his hook caps on his quad hook, and Celeste put her case over her knife.
" I want you three home by no later than midnight, and if you can, catch a duck, I can hear dulce's baby, and if we can assume anything from her last pregnancy she's gonna want duck," Dolores told
"Lips sealed, secret safe," Dolores said, making the trio vow to secrecy with a silly saying
"Close the vault, lock the safe," the three choruses vowing their silence.
Once the sun started to set, the trio got their hunting clothes on.
Elena dressed in black boots and a simple light dress with shorts underneath, since she was gonna be in the trees,
Celeste was in her yellow pants and black top with dark burgundy boots.
And Bek, was dressed in a green pair of shorts and accompanying top, his green boots in hand. Isa had their faces smudged with green and yellow pollen so they blended in more. And Luisa was tying the girls' bandanas on their heads isabela doing Bek’s around his collar.
"There you go girls," luisa said happy with her handiwork
"To the river," Bek declared.
Celeste hid them with her invisibility. And the three headed off into the shadows.
"Ok, I'm going to set a crocodile line, and then stop the river flow for us to catch some fish for tia julieta," Bek said as they walked through the mountain crack.
"Here's my knife, did you bring the crock line?" Celeste asked
"Sure did, this stuff ought to hold that beast, we'll have to check the line tomorrow" Bek said through his teeth as he tied the quad hook,onto the line.
"Did one of you grab the chicken off the counter that tía cut for us?" Bek asked taking the caps of the hooks, stuffing them into his pocket.
"Got it," Elena said handing the raw chicken over
"Good," Bek said hooking it on the line, once the chicken was hooked he set the line, tying it to a tree to make sure the crock wouldn't escape.
A rustle in the woods behind them caused them to go quiet, Elena drawing her bow, Bek pulling the dagger he snitched from his tio Felix's hunting supplies, and Celeste being handed her knife back.
"JAGUAR! STAR WATCH OUT!" Bek screamed as he watched the jaguar pounce out of the shrubs
When it jumped at Celeste, when Elena caught a shot as the jaguar was in mid air, still, the claws scratched Celeste, tearing her shirt but not breaking skin.
Celeste fell onto some rocks, thst left a few scratches on her back. But nothing more than slightly reddened skin and barely bleeding marks. Not to mention when she fell, she landed on a sharp rock right between her legs.
Celeste cut the loose pieces off of her shirt to use wiping the jaguar blood off of Elena's hands which resulted in it's new length stopping right below Celeste's ribs showing her toned and flat stomach in the moonlight.
"Celeste, are you ok?" Bek asked, looking at her stomach searching for a mark.
"I'm fine, he only tore my shirt, by the way nice shot Lena."
"Thanks... Celeste are you sure your OK? Your pants are bloody," Elena said pointing to the growing red stain coming from between Celeste's legs.
"Well I'm not hurting, so I don't know what that is, but since we have a jaguar and a bucket of fish courtesy of bek's gift, we should head home. " Celeste suggested.
When they returned back to casita, Bek took the jaguar in to tia julieta and got some of her arepas for them as a post hunt snack, and hopefully to get Celeste to stop bleeding. Elena scaled the fish, and Celeste ate the arepa that healed all of the scratches and marks, but the red stain still grew even after the arepa.
Celeste, Elena, and Bek began to panic.
"Maybe you should go to the bathroom. See if you can see the cut," Elena suggested, and with her invisibility. Celeste snuck through the kitchen and into the bathroom. Locking the door behind her, she pulled her pants off and she didn't see any scratches on her legs.
Maybe it's further up, underneath my underwear. Yeah, it looks like the blood's coming from this front bit of fat Celeste thought.
When she pulled down her underwear she saw that the blood was concentrated further back on her underwear than she thought it just seeped into the fabric making it look like the blood was coming from somewhere else. There was no cut, atleast not visible.
"Celeste! Did you find the cut?
"No, can you go get pepa por favor? Maybe she'll know what to do" Celeste requested
Pepa was walking toward Isabela's room to help her with some plant things when she saw Elena run up to her.
"Tia pepa! Celeste needs you, she's in the bathroom," Elena told
Pepa followed the girl down to the bathroom, rapping her knuckles on the door when she got there.
"Mi nieta? What's wrong," Pepa asked
"I don't know!" Celeste squeaked
"Can I come in?" Pepa asked
"Si," Celeste said quietly.
Pepa opened the door and stepped in, seeing the bloody mess on her nieta.
"I'm bleeding, and I don't see a cut anywhere. What's happening to me?" Celeste asks desperate for answers as to what's going on.
Pepa looks down at Celeste's pants that had been abandoned on the floor, and it dawned on her what was going on.
"I think I know, can you take your panties off for me?" Pepa asked
Celeste was desperate to figure out what was wrong so whatever pepa asked, she did.
Pepa took one look at Celeste's underwear and the blood on her thighs. Poor girl was a month away from turning ten, and getting this talk.
"OK, I can assure you you will be just fine mi nieta, I need to get a few things, go on and shower while I get what you need," pepa told, Celeste breathed a sigh of relief at the assurance that she would be just fine. She pulled her top off and took her red tresses out of their shirt ponytail and stepped into the shower.
"Lola! Can I come in?" Pepa asked rapping her hands against the door to her daughter's bedroom
"Si mama.... why do you look like you've seen a ghost?" Dolores asked pulling her door open to see her very anxious mother with a cloud above her head.
"tu niña acaba de tener su período, ella pensó que era una herida, y está asustada," Pepa explained, going full Spanish due to her panic.
"OK that tradition about the talk after their tenth is changing to after their 9th, mi bebita" Dolores grumbled as she grabbed a pad from her closet, along with on of her old nightgowns, knowing Celeste found comfort in wearing some of her mamí's clothes.
"Gather up Elenita, Ava, Elena, tía juli, and Mira, I'll meet you guys in my room with star once she's taken care of," Dolores instructed entering the bathroom where her little girl was.
Pepa went to gather the aforementioned adults first before gathering the girls.
"Hey Pepa," Elena said as she sipped her tea, she was sitting with Julieta at the bar. Julieta deboning some jaguar cuts.
"Hola, we have a situation," Pepa said.
"Who got hurt?" Julieta asked peeking around behind Elena.
"Nobody got hurt per se, but there's blood involved. " Pepa said,
"Which one?" Elena asked finishing her tea.
"Celeste," Pepa said before rummaging through the wine cupboard, "wine? Were gonna need it for the awkward conversation ahead of us," pepa asked as she uncorked a bottle of red wine.
"It isn't awkward pepi, you just get really bad secondhand embarrassment for the kids," Elena said watching Pepa pour herself a glass of wine.
"Anyway, we need to get Mirabel, Elena, and Ava, and head to Lola's room," Peoa told taking a long swig of red wine.
"I'll go find mi mariposita, Elena, you find Elenita, Pepa, you find Avalyn," Julieta concluded wrapping the last cut of jaguar in parchment, and placing it in the meat chest.
After each of the eldest three found their niña, they all went to Dolores's room, taking a seat on her bed, sofa, or on the floor near the bed.
Dolores walked in moments later, Celeste attempting to hide behind her.
"Well this is certainly not how I expected to bring this subject up," Dolores mumbled, sitting on her bed with Celeste beside her.
"What happened to Celeste?" Elena asked since se was one of the ones to witness the blood on Celeste's pants.
"Celeste got her first period," Dolores said simply hoping her prima or tía will jump in and explain.
"What's that?" Ava asked
"Well, it's what makes all of us able to have bebés, each month, your body prepares for pregnancy by thickening the lining of your womb, and sending an egg down to be fertilized by a boy, if it isn't fertilized all of the lining and the egg come out, that's what makes the mess. The bleeding is most commonly referred to as your period. And the cycle as a whole is the menstrual cycle." Julieta explains
"So Celeste isn't hurt?" Elena asked
"Not at all mi Elenita, at least not in a traditional sense of having a wound. She may feel pain in her stomach, back, or around her nipples due to all the hormones, these pains are common, they're called cramps," Elena chuckled ruffling the younger girl's hair.
"Does it happen to all girls?" Ava asked
"Si, while these two don't have it anymore," mirabel said pointing to her tía and mama "Me, tía Elena, and Lola do, once you start your period, you'll have It every month for a long time, but when you get to be about 55, it stops, that's called menopause," mirabel said.
"Do you have any stories to tell?" Celeste piped up for the first time since entering the room.
"Goodness yes, I could tell you loads of stories about your Mami, or your abuela, even mirabel," Julieta said with a little chuckle
"And I could tell stories on you, you were awful when you were on," pepa said poking her sister's side
"You wouldn't dare!" Julieta gasped
"I would. Want to hear about the time she bled on tío gus," Pepa asked getting a collective yes from the young girls
"Dios mio," Julieta sighed
Hope you enjoy ❤
Now to dissappear and watch Harry Potter
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