Chapter Three: Some Convincing Words

Blu came out of the artificial jungle later that day. He grabbed a paper and pencil and wrote on the paper what Jewel wanted so he could retrieve it.

"Oh Blu, Linda told me you could read and write." Tulio said while reading, "Ah, taking good care of your mate I see."

Author's Note: When I say mate, I mean married couple. This is here for younger readers. Again, in my story, Mate=Married couple. Plus in the wild, you would refer to a mother and father bird (or other animals) as "mates".

Blu took a step back thinking on what Tulio just said. Mate? I'm not her husband, He thought. Not yet, said another voice inside his head. He blushed at that thought. He wrote a quick note on the piece of paper.

Blu handed Tulio the piece of paper. It stated, "We aren't husband and wife, yet. By the way, don't force us to have chicks." Tulio was a little shocked by this.

"But what about when you arrived?"

Blu wrote on the paper again, "We were having a fight and I caught her. Watch the rest of the footage where she attacks me."

"So you're leaving Jewel?" Tulio asked. Blu quickly shook his head no and pointed to the piece of paper where he wrote that they weren't husband and wife. He then underlined the word 'yet' to get his point across. "Oh, okay. I understand. I'm going to visit Linda. Do you want to come?" Blu shook his head no and pointed to the note on food. "Oh, right, I almost forgot!" Tulio went and got the food. When he returned, he gave Blu two mangos. Tulio said bye to Blu and left to Linda's apartment.

Linda has just finished packing for the trip back to Minnesota and thought of a way to break the news to Blu that she'll be leaving. Well, I can't bring Blu back with me, he loves Jewel. But what am I going to do without Blu? It's kind of lonely without him. Oh, should I even leave? she thought.

Knock Knock. "Come in." Linda said.

"Linda?"

"Oh, can I help you Tulio?"

Tulio was hesitant. He grabbed a huge fistful grasp of courage, and spoke, "It's been nice having you around. I was thinking that you could stay here and open a bookstore. Then you wouldn't have to leave Blu and me." He said.

"I don't know Tulio. Wait, leave you?" Linda asked, surprised.

"Well, yeah. I've been happy the past week that doesn't have something to do with birds, and it's you."

Linda didn't know what to say. "I don't know Tulio."

"Just think about it?" after that, Tulio headed back to the aviary.

"Tulio!" Linda shouted as she ran to catch was on his way to the aviary. He was walking because the apartment was close by the aviary and that his jeep was traded.

"Yes Linda?"

"I'll stay, but don't tell the lovebirds yet."

Thank the Heavens! Tulio Thought.

"And what about Fernando?" Linda suddenly realised.

"Oh, right! Maybe I could adopt him and he could help out around the aviary." Tulio exclaimed.

"That sounds great. I'll see you tomorrow." Linda exclaimed as she walked back to her apartment.

Back to Blu and Jewel

Author's Note: This story is rated K+. That means 5 years of age and up are fine reading this. What happens next is not about what you dirty thinkers think it's about. Enjoy.

"Yes Jewel, I have thought about it and I am not ready for it yet." Blu said.

"Well, why did you come here in the first place? And why did you say you loved me then?" she asked.

Blu knew where she was headed. She was going to try and contradict him. "To save the species." Blu mumbled.

"What was that?" Jewel said in a seductive way, rubbing herself up to him.

Blu blushed and lost all courage to say anything afterwards. "Um..uh."

"Aww, is my Blu bird nervous in front of his love?" Jewel asked in a sarcastic tone.

"A-A little." he managed to say.

"Come on Blu. I'm not going to bite," she said, "yet." she mumbled under her breath just loud enough for Blu to hear. She was joking, of course.

"What? Yet!?"

"So my nervous Blu bird heard me? So to avoid my wrath," Jewel giggled, "why did you come here in the first place?" she asked again.

"To save the species, but we've only known each other for a few days." said Blu.

"Says the bird who tried to kiss me the moment we met." Jewel said, rubbing up against him.

"Says the bird who attacked me after fifteen seconds." Blu said with worry in his tone while blushing. Blu still struggled a little when it came to hanging out with Jewel. He thinks it's from how their first interaction went down and how she treated him on their jorney.

"Yeah, but this time, we love each other, and you don't plan to leave anytime soon, right?" she said, putting a little emphasis on 'right'.

"Um…" Blu said. He was still unsure what to do. He had yet to talk to Linda about this. My options are go back to Minnesota once Jewel was free, stay with Jewel, or bring Jewel back to Minnesota with him. Maybe the last option is the best option. "For you."said another part of his mind. Uggg, why can't this be an easy decision!? "R-right. B-but maybe you could come to Minnesota for a little vacation, just to understand where I'm from, since I spent the night in the jungle and now understand where you live."

Maybe. He has done so much for me, and what if I like it there? Maybe that could be our summer home for him to visit Linda every once in awhile. "Sure! Why not?"

Huh, I thought she'd be hesitant. "Okay, I'll see what I can do."

As he started walking away, Jewel shouted, "And think more on what we were arguing on before this Minnesota thing came up!"

Jeez, I thought I was a little stubborn at times. "Um, a-alright. I'll think about it again."

Author's Note: Sorry guys and gals. I had to keep updating it because none of the bolding and itallicing worked on the story, so I had to manually put it in. Sorry if it was a little confusing. If you did understand it, I did not change any part of the story. It is all the same. I just updated how the letters look. Sorry again and I'm sorry in advance if this happens again. :)