Chapter 7

Yes

"Yes!" Jewel immediately yelled. She hugged Blu tightly, shedding tears of joy behind his back. Blu smiled, not sure how to react, so he just hugged her back.

"I promised myself not to cry." Nico said, bursting out in tears. Pedro had just joined in, oblivious of what was happening. He let Nico cry into his shoulder.

"Did he say something bad about samba again?" He asked.

"No, Pedro." Nico said. "They're getting married."

Jewel finally released Blu. She looked at him, but quickly kissed him on his beak. Blu lived in with the kiss, forgetting everything around them. After the long kiss, Blu noticed Nico and Pedro, and even Rafael, who had joined in just too late to see it all happen, looking at them. He looked down, avoiding their eyes, as if he was ashamed.

"Blu, come on, at least look at your fiancé." Rafael said to Blu, having heard the news from Nico.

Blu looked up at Jewel, who was looking at him rather nicely. Blu looked back at her. He felt really special right now. He was about to marry the most beautiful bird in the world.

Later that night, when Rafael and Pedro had already left, as had most other birds at the Club, there were still three birds in the Samba Club. One of them was Nico, who had to run the place, and the other two were Blu and Jewel. They had been more in love this night than most other nights it seemed.

"Did you like my surprise?" Blu asked, knowing the answer, but still wanting to hear it.

Blu, you're the most special bird in the world for me. Doing something as amazing as this is the best thing that has ever happened to me."
Blu smiled.
Jewel kissed him again.

"Alright lovebirds, hate to break it to you, but club's closed." Nico said, fluttering up to them.

"Is it that late already?" Blu asked.

"You should have left more than an hour ago, but I didn't want to interrupt you."
"I'm terribly sorry." Blu said. "Linda never let me stay up this late."
Jewel smiled. "Let's not hold Nico up any longer." She said.

"Alright. See you later, Nico." Blu said.

"Later Blues. Later Jewel." Nico said.

Jewel took the Brazil Nut and flew back towards home with Blu.

"Jut how late did Linda let you stay up for?" Jewel asked on their way home.

"In weekends I could stay up to 12AM, but on weekdays I had to sleep at 10PM." Blu said.

Jewel giggled. "How sweet."

"I sneaked out sometimes." Blu asked, a little embarrassed about his bed times.

"And what would you do then?"

"Read books." Blu said, exited. He didn't know that that was a lame thing to sneak out for.

Jewel smiled. "You really were the rebel back in Minnesota."
"Yeah, you could say that." Blu said, not realizing Jewels sarcasm.

They arrived home not much later. Jewel instantly drags Blu inside to give something nice back for all the amazing work he had done for her today. Blu took the nut inside, making sure nothing would happen to it as they had fun the rest of the night.