A forward-dated birthday post...s...

[nonmagical]

WHO: Mirabel and the network
WHERE: The network
WHEN: Forward dated to March 6th!
WHAT: Mirabel has an announcement
WARNINGS: Shirtless dude's chest in the second image

[There's a Mirabel on the network! She has a Very Important Announcement:]

The kid version of my app disappeared! I'm not sure why, maybe it has to do...

... WITH THE FACT THAT I'M SIXTEEN NOW!!!

[She means to link this image:https://c.tenor.com/w6860KTKCLYAAAAC/birthday-its-my-birthday.gif but instead links this one: https://www.muscleandfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Male-Chest-Open-Zip-Up-Hoodie.jpg

She doesn't seem to notice.

The post stays up for about 15 minutes, until it's deleted. Huh! Wonder why.

Instead a new text goes out:]

So we're all just gonna pretend we didn't see that last post, right?

More importantly, I'm sixteen now!

[JUST IGNORE THAT LAST TEXT IT DOESN'T EXIST. She wasn't googling dude's chests because she can now ok ok.]

Comments

text| un: blackbirdtarot

[drewthetower]

happy birthday Mirabel. what do you want for your birthday?

[HE IS LAUGHING SO HARD poor kid.]

text: un: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

[THANK YOU FOR NOT ACKNOWLEDGING AUGUST. She is dying on the inside.]

Thank you. I guess a new shirt would be nice?

[You know, a shirt. Like the one that wasn't on the dude in the picture.]

Text; Un: Hikari-VI

[whiteshroud]

Aw, but they were nice abs!

text, un: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

YOU DIDN'T SEE IT.

I DELETED IT.

IT DOESN'T EXIST.

text; un: riftdancer

[thavnairian]

for a second i was worried someone had leaked my camera roll.......

happy birthday!

text, un: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

[INTERNAL SCREAMING.]

What camera roll? I didn't post any pictures.

Thanks.

Text | un: pequeña_montaña

[neverbreaks]

[ Now, of course Luisa knew it was Mira’s birthday, and had already gotten her sister a gift. But…well she can’t help herself. ]

Well I was going to ask what you wanted for your birthday, but I guess now I know.

[ Sweet revenge. ]

[nonmagical]

[OhmyGAWD how many members of her family saw this...

I mean she totally deserves it, BUT STILL LUISA-]

No you don't.

...

I'm going to go find an ocean and live in it.

Forever.

un: GoldenGuard; text

[cardinalrule]

[Mirabel, you can't just post that and expect him to not dunk on you.]

Happy birthday and welcome to being sixteen. You're off to a great start so far! I'm sure we're all dying of anticipation to see what else is going on in the mind of a teenage human girl.

un: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

[She deserves this. It's true.

It takes all of her willpower not to scream.]

Look it's just

it's for art??

[Can she use that as an excuse.

Oh god.]

un: spiderlily;

[higanbana]

oh, hey! happy sixteenth!!

and good taste tbh 😉

[nonmagical]

Uhh thanks.

No one was… supposed to see that first one.

video; un: undecided

[camaleonico]

Mira~ Escandolosa~

[ Like Camilo's gonna pretend he didn't see that. He's nice but not that nice. He's, like, obligated as her cousin, by the few months between them. Though it's tripping him up to think Mirabel is sixteen before he is because technically it wasn't March when he "left" the Encanto so does that mean he's still fifteen or did he travel to the future too or— he can't think about it too hard...

So focusing on the sexy abs, it is. He doesn't know much about the Internet yet, but he can guess sexy abs don't pop up by accident. ]

[nonmagical]

[Camilo DO NOT…

She buries her face. She doesn’t understand the times-wimey of this either but she’s. Starting to have regrets.]

Camilo… don’t…

[Have mercy?]

1/?

[pan_acea]

[Julieta had every intention of just happily making a birthday feast and Mirabel's favorites and of course, making a Torta de Tres Leche cake for the festivities in Casita.

When her daughter posts she clicks on the link.]

2/?

[pan_acea]

[Oh.]

3/?

[pan_acea]

[OH!]

4/?

[pan_acea]

[Mirabel was...]

5/?

[pan_acea]

[And she didn't have Agustín here to help with the Talk.]

6/9

[pan_acea]

[Well, whatever, Julieta has helped with plenty of deliveries and other... problems. She IS basically the Encanto's doctor, after all, and that included more... personal matters.]

7/9

[pan_acea]

[Okay, now, how to approach this...

Should she play dumb and like she didn't notice, or dive head first into the Talk? Maybe a middle ground?]

Text; un: antonio

[speaksanimal]

Happy birthday! I don't know how much money I have but what would you like for your birthday?

[Stranger or not, he's still going to give a gift for someone's birthday!]

[nonmagical]

[Ah… it’s Antonio. By now she knows that this isn’t the same Antonio from home. And that… does hurt.

She can’t help but smile when be responds…and be grateful that the Zodiac made his app kid-friendly.]

I don’t know… what kind of present would you get for your birthday?

video; un: oyente

[escuchando]

[It's just this face.]

[nonmagical]

Sooo… 16. That’s a pretty cool age to be, right?

[SHE KNOWS THAT LOOK AND SHE’S IGNORING IT.]

text, un: moonbunny

[eternalfuture]

...oh, he was cute.

But more importantly, happy birthday!

[she links this.]

text, un: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

He was, wasn't he?

[If she wasn't screaming from embarrassment right now...]

Thank you. It's been an interesting one so far.

text: un: BRUNO

[wedonttalkabout]

[Oh no, this is the Amal Tiddies Incident all over again.

For a brief, horrible moment, Bruno wonders how he's supposed to navigate this, because teenage hormones are definitely not his remit. And then he remembers he doesn't have to. ]

you take after your mamá. i look forward watching her try to handle this from a safe distance where i don't have to actually get involved.

feliz cumpleaños, enjoy it while it lasts

[nonmagical]

I don’t want you to get involved. I didn’t want ANY of you to get involved.

I can’t believe I ruined my life 15 minutes into being 16!!

[Another year older but still the same level of dramatic.]