I haven't gone to sleep in a while, sleep the one thing I need right now. I felt around my eyes, feeling the irritated eyes in my head.

I stood up and at once all of the blood pumped to my brain, my veins opened up and my vision became blurred. I need help, everyone else is asleep except me. I rose up from my book and walked to my bed, I had no I deal where Jewel and the kids were at the moment they left to Rio in the morning.

The blood finally started to flow through my body and my brain regained focus. And no, im not drunk just tired.

Lying down seemed to be harder to do then it was a hour ago, yet closing my eyes was the hardest part. Jewel, Tiago, Bia, and Carla would return in the morning and my role as a father would return. Whether that was a good thing or not was unclear at the moment, but I would love to see another bird so I wouldn't be so…lonely.

The pain in my eyes ceased as the eyelids closed and instantly I fell deeper into the hole of sleep. After a minute I hit rock bottom my eyes still closed. I had no blanket over me but I still felt warm.

I opened my eyes and the sun was shining happily through the hollow entrance. Better I thought, rising, stretching. The tiredness left my eyes and I felt great. I looked around the hollow and expected to see Jewel and the kids but they were nowhere to be see, well they will turn up later I thought.

I walked outside to see the lush green of the Amazon forest, a brown rabbit was eating a plant, a mole arising from a tunnel. But no Blue Macaws. Usually they would be flying about, especially around this area but not today.

"strange" I whispered to myself.

I walked to a clearing of the trees in a grass field, it was mostly hilly but I saw the blue sky for the first time, white cottonballs floating in the sky and the smell of grass filled my nose. The Macaw tribe would always gather here for important things so I think that's the reason I found myself here, except I usually never come here. I never cared about the things they squabbled about here. I was always dragged here but since it seemed no one was here now and I played down in the grass, a butterfly greeted me from the sky as I looked from below.

The suns light shone on my body and the grass began to warm. The sun was blocked for a while by a big white cloud providing a little shade, I never felt this before I thought.

I knew in my heart I should be looking for my family and tribe but at the same time if I find them I will have to leave here, leave heaven. I rolled onto my stomach and looked at the top of the hill, a few trees were at the top and the rolling green grass blew in the wind, yellow dandelions also blew in the wind poking between grass blades. Peace. Something I haven't had in a while. I could virtually live here.

I rose to my feet after what felt like a eternity I sadly went to find my family.

I reentered the tree line and the sky faded, sunlight became a filtered light green color and it dispersed on the forest floor. Maybe they went on a expedition and left me. Nobody was home, except for all the other animals in the jungle. A mouse crossed my path into a very dense bush, other species of birds flew under the tree leaves.

I returned to my hollow and for the first time, ate breakfast.

I had all the time in the world as of now to do what I have wanted to do since I came to the jungle.

The book I was reading the night before was still opened in another room in the hollow, and with no one to tell me what to do, I had nothing else I wanted to do but finish it. Well at least until everyone came back home.

But as I walked toward the room where the book lay, I began to think.

Wait! If the entire village went on a vacation of some sort why did they leave me behind? And where would birds go to vacation, up north. Macaws don't migrate. Do they? I thought.

My spirit filled with greif.

My friends, and family. My own wife and kids, just… Abandoned me? I shuddered to think of that.

No they just went on a hunting trip or camping trio and forgot to wake me up, and maybe missed my name in a roll call. Yeah that's it!

My brain made excuses for them, but my heart never believed it.

"Well while they are gone I might as well do something until they come back." I said aloud. No one heard me except the walls of the hollow and the floor. And maybe any insects that were creeping inside the walls of the hollow.

I picked up the book and flipped to the page I was at the night before.

The hours went by like shooting stars, one, two, maybe three hours? Four hours, possibly? I sat near the entrance of the hollow reading, the sentences seemed to float off the pages into my brain, traveling through my eyes and nerves.

I sat there, for four hours straight reading a simple book.

The last word of the story entered my brain, and quite simply, I was finished.

I looked up, my neck aching from my head hanging down for so long. The sun was right above the tree, noon, but it was starting to go to the east.

I got back up to my feet to find something to drink.

Flying through the forest I looked for water, the creek that ran through the area contained fresh water but fish that ate birds like myself were lurking beneath the water. I peered into the water, a low swimming fish lurked in between rocks and swaths of plants on the river bed.

It was swimming with a school if other fish, they looked like catfish but catfish don't swim in schools.

I served the rest of the creek. No other fish was in the water, so I took a scoop of it and raised it to my mouth.

After satisfying myself I flew around the amazon, where I ran into the Blue Macaws enemy. Felipe.

"Woah there Blu bird! How did you get here?" He asked.

I was stunned for a minute, mainly because I was finally talking to someone but why did he ask how I got here.

"I live here, Felipe!" I said.

"Well you shouldn't be here, all the macaws left overnight!" he said.

"Why?"

"I don't know. They just packed their stuff and left, they took everyone. "

Dangit! I thought.

"Are they coming back ?" I asked, semi-desperately.

"I wouldn't count on it. They left in a hurry, like they were escaping something."

"where did they go?"

" hey you're the smart one! You should know! No one told me! If you want you can follow me to my tribe, maybe I can get more info!"

I followed him a couple of Kilometers and we landed.

The red macaws looked at me like a stranger, like I was a wolf in sheep's clothing. The children ran to their mother and everyone waited to hear what Felipe would say.

"This guy here, is named Blu. His tribe left him and he will be staying here until we can figure out what happened! " he announced. I sat down, away from the rest of the tribe. Most of them went back to their task but I still caught a few glances.

At around the time of dusk I flew to my hollow, the only thing I could think of as I could no longer bear the Scarlet Macaws.

I went inside, and the inside of the hollow were dark. My shadow formed a realistic yet eerie shape of me on the wall surrounded by a halo of dark blue light. I looked at the closed book to the side of the entrance, so far it was the only thing I had. And I needed something more.

That's when my mind went a turn for the worst, I realized if the tribe is not coming back I have all the time I ever wanted. I could live my life without being judged by the rest of my tribe. I had Time enough at last. So I took off and headed for Rio.