Notes & Disclaimers:

• Rio is Blue Sky Studios IP.

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Chapter Eleven: Settled

It was another beautiful morning in the city of Rio, and Blu, Jewel, and Eva were enjoying their time together through the new day.

"Whoa take it easy, girls!" Blu laughed.

"Oh come on, lover-boy." Jewel laughed along. She and Eva were trying to tickle him to death (but tried to take it easy since his wing was still broken).

"Yeah! Why can't you ever give in to laughter with us girls?" Eva joked.

"N-No! stop! Hahaha!" Blu couldn't help but laugh his beak off. As the girls stopped, Blu had trouble breathing saying, "You two...are the best." They smiled while secretly chuckling with each other about how Blu could be cute in front of them both sometimes.

Eva, "Man, he's such a goofball, Jewel."

"I know, and that's why I love him."

"Speaking of which, Jewel. What's wrong with letting the others know?"

"Oh Eva. Please don't even think about that. I always hated it when Nico and Pedro would tease us about it, and I'm afraid to even wonder what your parents will think about it. They would think I'm too young for this and probably make me not hang out with him anymore."

"What? My parents are nothing like that. Sure they may worry but they wouldn't stop you from following your heart. They're above that."

"Thanks Eva, um...is it okay with you if you give me and Blu some more alone time?"

"Sure."

Jewel then walked back to Blu, who was still laying on his back. As he sat up, Jewel brought her head closer to his. "Hey Jewel, what are you-?" Jewel placed her wingtip on Blu's beak. "Shh. Here's a little something for that kiss you gave me yesterday." She moved closer and kissed his nose. She then moved next to him again, and nuzzled herself on him. "I love you, Blu."

"Hmm. I love you too."

Eva couldn't help but smile at them. "My how we birds grow up so fast." While they continued hugging. Then she realized it was her opportunity to leave the room again and she took it.

Meanwhile, another toucan was still in his cage, laying down but didn't have his eyes shut, for he had been up all night thinking about nothing but the angel he witnessed dancing under the moon last night. "She's so beautiful. Could that really be Blu's Jewel? I hope not." Just then he decided to stand up and stretch his wings, and by his own luck, Eva was nearby. She kept (quietly) giggling because she was trying to enjoy herself and knew that she would make the humans crazy with her flying around for fun. Then, when she was close to the front desk, she was close to where Rafael was. He continued stretching as the sunrise reflected through the window, and when Eva looked up, she was dumbfounded as she saw another toucan standing looking like a strong and brave hero. "Oh my gosh. H-He's...so handsome. Have I found...my one and only?" She instantly thought, and kept staring at him dreamily but then snapped out of it as he heard her chuckling and began to turn. Rafael gasped and smiled, "Uh...Hi."

Eva was too nervous to say anything, so she flew up to his cage, until she finally said, "H-Hi there." She offered him her wing, and he accepted. "I'm Rafael."

"I'm-" Eva was about to say her name until he noticed a wound on Rafael's left wing. "-now wondering, are you okay?" She pointed to his wing.

"Oh my wing? Yeah I'm fine. It's just something I got from a storm last week. No big deal."

"Well you're certainly one who likes to be a tough bird, huh?" She smiled at him, and hearing that just made him blush, and seeing him blush made Eva blush. As they both blushed to each other, they just couldn't help but giggle. Eva began to like him more and more, so she made up an excuse to hang out with him.

"Hey, you don't mind if I call you Rafi, do you?" Eva still blushed.

"Oh of course not. All my friends call me that anyway."

"So it's official, I'm one of them, huh?"

Rafael laughed at that response. "Yeah."

"Um, do you mind if I hang out with you?"

"Not at all, I always like hanging with a pretty face…I-I mean friendly face."

Eva began to make a seductively smile at him, Rafael then sweated and said, "Would you wanna come in here?"

"Sure."

"Let me get that for you." He kindly opened the door for her, and Eva thought, "Wow. strong, handsome, and caring. Oh I can't wait to ask him out."

Back in the artificial jungle, Blu and Jewel were still hugging, and couldn't stop. So Jewel said, "Blu?"

"Yeah?"

"Have I ever told you how soft and cuddly you are?"

"Aww, well the funny thing about that is, I know we've only been a couple for probably a week, but every time when we hug, I always wish..." He began to speak slowly as he noticed Jewel seductively staring at him. "...It could...never end..." They couldn't stop staring at each other so lovingly, and as they began to close their eyes, moving their beaks closer, and then...BAM! They opened their eyes wide and noticed that they were officially kissing each other! They were shocked since it was their first official kiss. They just stood up and began to feel love going through their breaths as their eyes closed again, and enjoyed just that. Enjoying their first kiss, and it showed how much they loved each other.

As they broke the kiss after seven seconds, they opened their eyes and continued staring at each other.

"Blu...that was our first kiss."

"I know. Now...now I wish hugging wasn't the only thing we could do forever."

"Me too."

"Oh, and Jewel?"

"Yeah."

"Please listen to this…"

Jewel was all ears, and Blu breathed as he was about to sing again…"Wise men say, only fools rush in." He moved his wing to Jewel's cheek. "But I can't help falling in love with you. But I can't help falling in love with you."

After a few seconds, Blu asked, "What do you think?"

Jewel smiled, "Does this answer your question?" Then she kissed him again.

"Two kisses in one day? How lucky can one bird get?" Blu thought as he kissed her back.

"Hey ya, lovebirds!" They heard a chant, and as they stopped kissing, they turned and saw Rafael and Eva staring at them.

Before that…Rafael and Eva were still in the cage at the other side in the building, and they were having nothing but fun by playing tag in the cage.

"Whoa!" Said the out of breath Rafi. "You're...fast."

"Why thank you, you're not thinking of yourself as a slow poke, are you? Because I would never think so little of you." Eva smiled, and chuckled when she noticed Rafi blushing over her kind words.

"Thanks." He shut his eyes, and moved his head down, and Eva moved a little closer to him. "You know, I wouldn't think little of you either." He said.

As Eva was getting closer, Rafael brought his head up and their beaks touched. "Whoa. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-" Rafael was trying to apologize for almost kissing his new friend, but Eva cut him off. "Hey it's okay. I think that was my fault. I was moving a little too close."

They both blushed again, and an awkward silence filled the cage until Eva decided to fix that. "Hey, um...maybe to avoid any awkwardness, do you wanna come out and meet my friends, Blu and Jewel?"

"Oh sure, I…wait. Did you say Blu and Jewel?"

"Yeah, why? Have you met them already?"

"Well, I already met Blu a while ago, and after I saw you last night, I thought you were Jewel." Rafi felt excitement going into him seeing how Eva wasn't Blu's girlfriend. Until he realized what he just said "Oops."

"W-What? What did you mean when you saw me last night? We never…wait, I was…were you spying on me?" She was starting to look steamed.

Rafael explained, "No, no, no! Well, I think that wouldn't count since...look, what happened last night was that I was sleeping in my cage, but then something woke me up. Something that I thought sounded soft and sweet."

"What was it?"

"Your voice." Hearing that just made Eva freeze. "When I heard your voice, it just sounded so soft and soothing to me, and I hummed along with it, and when I got up and opened my eyes, I saw you dancing under the beam light of the moon. And...I thought you looked...beautiful."

"Really?"

"Yeah, and I tried to talk to you, but I was too nervous, and I also knew you were actually humming along to the radio. Then when it stopped, I saw you helping Blu up and going back to wherever you were going. I thought you were his girlfriend, Jewel." Rafael finished and Eva laughed. "Aww, Rafi. First of all, my name is Eva, and second, do you really think I look pretty when I dance?"

"Yes."

"Thanks. Only, thank you for the compliments but my singing is awful."

"What are you kidding? I don't believe that."

"It's true. Through most days I sing alone but then I keep hearing complaints no matter where I go, that's why I don't like singing unless it's night and when I try to be quiet."

"Oh come on. When I heard you, I thought you sounded nothing more than beautiful."

"Thanks. My parents say the same thing but I think they only say that because they don't want my feelings hurt, like what you're doing right now."

"No, no. I mean it, not everyone sings the same way, and not everyone has to. In fact, why don't we try it right now?"

"Oh, I don't know."

"Come on. We'll start off nice and slow. I can even remember the song from last night. Let's try it." Then Rafi began, "'Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking.' Come on, you can do it."

Eva took time, and mumbled, and when she wanted to pass up..."Hey it's okay. I'm not gonna rush you, and if you don't wanna, then I promise I'll never think little of you." Rafael touched her wings, and Eva could see confidence and kindness in his eyes. So she took her breath, and tried something else than her usual singing. And when she tried to reach her high note, the crowd went ahh!

She didn't sing like usual, she actually did it differently because of Rafael's confidence in her. He was happy for her, so he said, "Wow. That was like..."

"Like what?" Eva's smile dropped as she thought that he was gonna complain too, but Rafi smiled at her. "...like the river of the sweetest honey."

"Aw, Rafi." She hugged him tightly, and they both saw that their friendship may've started but already became strong. So for the rest of the time, they continued singing together, and eventually decided to go to Blu and Jewel, and have a friendly chat for the rest of the day.

More Notes & Disclaimers:

• "I can't help": "Falling in Love With You." I don't know who originally sang that but that was the song Blu was singing.

• "the girl from Ipanema": The same song mentioned in the last chapter and the movie.

Wow, for the first time ever, I actually made more than 10 chapters in one story, and I hope to continue on with this story and more new ones. Also, on another note, in the movie, Rafael said he met Eva during Carnival. But since Blu didn't get kidnapped and changed things, you can see that they met a little sooner, and with Rafi helping Eva more, she's going to be singing differently now.