"Rio De Janeiro. The city of music, party central, a city of dreams…"
"mmhmm"
"Where birds of all shapes and sizes sing their hearts out and party till dawn…!
"mmmh"
"And Carnival, oh Carnival..it's the most magical party to ever exists…"
"Kalea…."
"You know Blu and Jewel found each other in Rio?"
"Kalea ple-"
"Too think music can bring two birds together like tha-"
"KALEA! PLEASE…stop going on about Rio sweetie, I've got a lot to do around the nest and you're really not helping…"
"Oh sorry mom…" the Sun Conure sighed "It's just that I heard some birds talking the other night and apparently its Carnival next week and-"
"I don't want to hear it right now, you know your grandparents are coming and I can't have the nest looking like a group of monkeys have trashed the place now can I? Besides, weren't you supposed to be practising your little routine today with Carla?" The older bird asked.
"We had to postpone it. Apparently they had a family meeting or something" Kalea shrugged, hopping over to the edge of their home in the knot of a tree.
"Well why don't you go see if she's free now, hmm? Either that or you can help me out here?"
"Okay sure, I'll go see if she's done…"
"See you later sweetie, just don' fly too far away okay?"
"Mhmm"
With a stretch of her wings, the Conure dived out of the nest and made her way up out of the treetops and into the blue sky above. A small sigh slipped out of her beak as she looked back at her families nest. Even though she was an adult parakeet, her mother insisted that she stayed at the nest until she found someone to settle down with. She would say that she was safer at home with her family than living on her own. Kalea knew where her mother was coming from but there was only so much she could take. She was an adult, ready to move out and get on with her life. But she knew leaving -even to a nest of her own would have consequences.
It only took a few minutes for Kalea to arrive at the blue macaws nest. She'd become quite friendly with the family since she'd auditioned for amazon untamed a year ago. She and Carla would often preform a few songs and their weekly parties that would take place all around the rainforest. Aside from that, the two of them would often be seen sitting down at the waterfall with each other talking about whatever came to mind or practising for their next gig. Although Blu and Jewel had been quite concerned that Kalea was a bad influence on their daughter since sun conures were known for being very loud neighbours, they did slowly come around and realise she was more like a big sister to Carla than the 'thug' who lives in the trees across the way.
"Knock, Knock?" Shouted Kalea, tapping one of her claws on the entrance of the tree. No answer. The mango feathered bird decided to take a few steps into the nest to get closer look. She tilted her head as she heard muffled yells coming from further inside the nest.
"But mom, please! We've flown there before, we can do it again!"
"She is right mom, we've flown there a number of times, why is this any different?"
"Because you know your brother is joining the guard regiment that weekend! Besides your father in a pretty bad state after his wing accident and won't be able to fly for a number of weeks."
"Then why doesn't dad stay for Tiago's ceremony thing and we go to Rio?"
"Rio?" Breather Kalea, where they planning a trip? OR at least the kids were? Maybe Carla was trying to go to Carnival, she had been talking about it a lot recently and making both them and their other acts, practise extra hard for the past few weeks.
"Absolutely not. You're not missing your brother's ceremony, you know how hard he's been working on this." Blu added into the dispute.
"But how's that any different from me practising my singing? I've been working just as hard as him!"
"Because singing isn't a real profession, sis. I might become captain of the guard one day! And what are you going to be? Queen of singing? I don't think so, you're not even that good-"
"THAT'S NOT FAIR TIAGO!"
"Tiago that's enough! Say sorry to your sister right now!"
"Why should I? I'm only speaking the truth!"
"He does have a point, sweetheart." Added Blu
"Blu please you're not helping the situation. Carla, I think what your brother is trying to say is-"
"I don't want to hear it mom, I'm out of here!"
"Carla wait-!"
Kalea gasped slightly as the sound of a bird coming towards her, she scrambled her way out of the nest and onto a branch nearby. She watched as the sobbing macaw fly out of the nest her mother following her.
"Jewel leave her, she just needs to calm down." Shouted Blue. The larger macaw stopped and watched as his daughter disappeared into the brush.
"Do you think we were too harsh on her?" He asked once the female had returned to the nest.
"She's a teenager Blu, she's got her head full of dreams and a heart full of fire, she'll be fine.
The sun conure waited until the older birds had went back inside the nest before chasing after Carla. She'd not seen her this distraught since the first time she'd dropped her ipod in the river. Music was this birds passion, she lived for it, she loved to party and preform and not to mention organise events and even a whole group of singing birds so it was understandable why she was upset. Even though her family were very musical, they wanted their children to grow up out here and to be free just like the other macaws of the amazon, they wanted none of the city lifestyle or at least not 24/7. Kalea knew exactly where the younger bird was going, when arguments like this happened, she'd often find Carla at the top of the brazil nut tree that dangles over the waterfall. As she approached the glistening falls, she spied a blue ball of feathers, sitting exactly where she's predicted. It was the perfect spot to look out over the amazon and even better to watch the sunset. Kalea landed next to Carla, giving a small sigh.
"I thought I'd find you up here, C." she hummed softly. "What was that all about?"
"Mom and dad wouldn't let me go to Rio for Carnival because my brothers got his stupid guard thing that same week." Sniffled the bird. "They say it's more important than our routine"
"Well it IS a pretty important moment for your brother, wouldn't you want to be there for him?"
"I guess but he's following his dream, while I'm still stuck here. Besides, he's mean to me."
"That's just what brothers do, Carla. I should know, I've got some."
"Mmhm" she grumped, wiping tears from her eyes. Another sigh came out of Kalea as she put a green wing around the macaw.
"Hey if it helps any, I'm not going either."
"But why? You're grown up, you can do whatever you want." She sniffled again
"Oh if only it was that easy, C. I'd fly there in a heartbeat if I had the guts to."
"Hey maybe we should just go ourselves." Laughed Carla.
"Oh yeah and how would we do that? Follow the birds who usually go to Rio and take the plane like they do?" Asked the parakeet.
"Well I was going to say steal my dad's GPS and we'd use that but your idea works a lot better."
"Idea? I was just joking, C. Besides they leave early tomorrow morning, we'd basically have to sneak out before everyone wakes up and join them."
"Why don't we?"
"Well…ummm…I could think of a number of reasons"
"Oh come on please, how awesome would it be!"
"Well…"
"What was it your father used to say, something about taking risks?" The blue bird nudged the others side.
"Well…."
"Oh come on! We'd get to go to Carnival!"
The female sighs before nodding,
"O-okay..y-yeah…YEAH! LET'S DO IT!"
"That's the spirit!"