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Chapter 2: Is This Real?
…For there was a sleeping little Scarlet macaw chick, but not just any, it was Lisa, just as I imagined she would look like when Alex, my lead OC, finally got to meet her in the Amazon rainforest. And well… She was exactly the same, no really, she was… Well to put it in one word, animated.
As I just stared down at the sleeping little bird, I was just frozen, that is until my arm moved the box a little and woke up the chick, who blinked her eyes a couple of times and saw my shadow, looking up at me. I managed to get out a few words as I was still stunned.
"Hey there…" I began as I raised my hand in greeting. "What are you doing here?"
I wasn't sure what to do, I couldn't call anyone and if anyone else found her she would luckily be taken to a government lab, to be tested on because they probably would have thought she was mutated or something. So I decided to take her and it was just in time, she looked cold and was starting to shiver, it did rain after all.
As I picked her up gently in my hands, she seemed a bit scared as she was shaking more, looking at me with fearful eyes.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not going to hurt you." I told Lisa, which looked like it calmed her down a bit as she felt a bit warmer from my hands around her.
This day has certainly been a big change in my life as I wondered how my little Lisa came into my life, into my real life. But she's here, no question about that, she's real and alive right before my eyes and in my hands.
I went back home and after taking off my jacket I got a small blanket and wrapped it around Lisa, she was clearly thankful for it as she once again closed her eyes, back into sleep. I gently laid her down on my bed in my room and opened up my laptop, going straight to my fanfiction page. Now I normally don't reread my own work, but in this case I did as I read all the stuff I wrote about Lisa and there was no denying that this was really her. I turned around and saw her head poking out from the wrapped up blanket, that pretty face all peaceful and quiet as she slept and I just smiled.
I turned back around and I quickly wrote my very last thing on fanfiction before closing my computer and going to the living room, taking my jacket and putting it over me as I laid down on a couch and slept, never letting go of the huge smile I had…
Several months had passed since I found my little Lisa out on the sidewalk. And let me tell you it has been a joy as Lisa got comfortable living in the house with me and honestly so did I, because I was no longer alone, I had Lisa to keep me company.
Now in my stories Lisa is my little sister, having been born from the same parents even thought we're many years apart in age, but in real life I'm way too old to be her brother and she's way too young to be my sister. So I'm more like a father to her and she's more like a daughter to me and that was true when I was surprised that Lisa could actually speak to me, I could actually understand her. And over the months she has been calling me daddy, which always made my heart warm up.
Now since she's so young, she doesn't know a lot of words, so being like a parent now I taught her the best I could and even how to write. Now she doesn't use her beak to write, she uses her wings, which I found really interesting, but that's good because I don't really want beak marks on my pens and I don't want her to have her beak worn out and she eventually can't eat. I even started teaching her how to use my laptop if she wanted to use that while I was at work.
And this is where I made one of the toughest decisions I had to make when I did find my little Lisa. I retired from fanfiction, apologizing to all my readers as I left and the reason was well… Why did I need it when my most favorite part of my imagination was really in my life? However I just didn't have the heart to actually delete all the word documents or my profile and the stories on it. So I made sure that all my browsing history related to fanfiction was gone and all the word documents in a different folder labeled, "Important Work" instead of "Fan Fiction Writing" and told Lisa that she was not to touch the folder so she wouldn't play with my work. When in reality it was to spare her from the horrible truth…
Now I don't know her actual birthday as I didn't know it in my stories, so I just made the day I found her in that cardboard box out on the sidewalk her birthday, which was April 11. Funnily enough that was the day Rio 2 came out in theaters in America, what a coincidence! Hopefully I get to celebrate all her birthdays in her life as she grows up with me.
As the days pass by with Lisa, I notice she stares out the window, looking out. I'm not worried that people would see her, since where I live is a forested area, there's one row of houses and instead of another row of houses on the other side of the street, there's woods. I figured she was only longing for fresh air and a chance to spread out her wings and have a flight, so I decided that during the weekend, when no one was looking I would take her into the woods and let her enjoy the wonderful feeling of flight…
And that's a wrap on that!
I forgot to mention that the image is from the mini movie My Little Dashie, but pretend that instead of Rainbow Dash it's Lisa in the cardboard box!
See everybird in the next update!