CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: A ROMANTIC TIME OUT (PT.2)

Continuing on with the lovely day, the two last blue macaws on earth were flying (BTW, Jewel was carrying Blu since he still can't fly) through the jungle, and after a good time of playing, they thought it would be great to visit their human friend, Tulio. After making it, they noticed the building hadn't changed. Every detail of color on the walls, doors, and everything wasn't different. But once the two landed, it seemed a little dark inside, so Jewel went for the front door knob, and once they went in, they found nothing harmful, just seeing Tulio alone in the dark on his dad's "old" computer (which was a 1996's module).

"Woah. Guess everyone's taking a day off." "Maybe. Come on, Blu, let's go surprise him." "Oh yeah." Jewel flew herself and Blu on a shelf above Tulio, and just at the right moment, Blu brought himself hanging upside down, "HI YA." He squawked surprising Tulio. "Ah!" He screamed like child and fell off his seat. "Woah. Oh, hey!" Tulio got up and was proud to see "Blu, Jewel. Hey it's great to see you guys again." Tulio smiled out as the two jumped onto his shoulder and rubbed their cheeks against his. "Haha, yeah I missed you two as well. So how have you been doing?" Blu raised his wing-thumb up to that question. "Good. Now in case you two are wondering about Linda, she's doing great. She's back home in Minnesota and we never lost touch with each other. In fact I'm writing to her right now."

Blu and Jewel bounced onto Tulio's table, and they both gave him a sly smile. "What? Why are you two look at me like that?" Then he got the idea. "Oh. I-It's not like that. I'm just making a friendly chat with her. So why don't we drop this and I'll write to her about you guys, okay?" Tulio blushed and went back to typing. Blu and Jewel then winked at each other, knowing that Tulio was just trippin' over the subject.

After a few moments, Jewel was feeling at ease with having the nervous thoughts out of her mind, and Tulio got a reply from Linda saying how glad she is to hear that Blu and Jewel were visiting Tulio, knowing that they were still safe and still together.

A few more moments after that, Blu, Jewel, and Tulio took their time together just sweeping the floors of the building, and then took a break by sitting in the wreck-room watching a movie, one film that Blu usually called one of his favorite NMs.

"NMs?"

"I'm sorry, did you say something, Jewel?"

"No, you just said this movie's one of your favorite NMs. What exactly is an NM?"

"Oh right. Well you see NM is just a little term I made up. It means: a movie that you would mostly enjoy watching at night, and the kind of movie that would make you feel good about having a social life, all that fun stuff."

Jewel chuckled a bit before turning back to him. "Okay, Blu, I love you and I wanna say this as your girlfriend…that's never gonna catch on." Blu made a sarcastic haha and did like a pouting smile with his wings crossed next. Jewel then put her wing around him, and as Blu made a normal sly smile again, Jewel was about to kiss him and got prepared for that. But as her beak was reaching Blu's, she slowly stopped and opened her eyes to see that Blu's handsome face was glowing with the TV light in the dark room. "Woah. He's so…handso-Ah, I can't take this anymore!" In her mind she slapped herself and just jumped off of the chair she, Blu, and Tulio were at, and flew off with a fit. "What the?" Blu wondered, then he tapped Tulio, informing that he was now leaving. "O-Okay, bye guys." He said, and Blu ran out trying to find Jewel through the building and hopefully nowhere too far outside.

Once he did make it outside, he saw Jewel on a nearby tree, banging her head against it. "Why? Why? Why?" She kept repeating to herself quietly, but it was loud enough for Blu's ears. "Jewel, you alright?" She turned to his boyfriend looking worried but even more than appealing out in the sunlight. "Oh no." She mumbled.

Blu continued walking up slowly to her, and wanted to start talking.

"Jewel, I'm starting to get worried. You've been acting distant since this morning, can tell me what's wrong?"

Blu placed his wing on her shoulder, causing her stutter and blush more while covering her face.

"Y-Yes, B-B-Blu, I'll tell you."

"Okay."

He got her and himself to sit down together.

"Go ahead, Jewel."

"Well…last night when you said you've been practicing to fly for me, it made me feel good about how much you've done for me. Still again and again, I say that you've made my life whole, and now the real problem here is that…I've noticed the work you've been doing. You've been learning how to survive in the jungle all on your own, and everyday you look so strong to my eyes, and now seeing how you decided to 'kick it up a notch', you look like…the most suave blue macaw I've ever seen in my life."

Blu felt beyond flattered from those words.

"That's it? You're saying that I look better to you now than normal, and that you feel nervous around me because of it?"

Jewel's blushing was getting brighter as she softly nodded without a smile.

All Blu could feel then was the feeling of a dream coming true. "Well in that case, my little Jewel…" He made a real sly look and placed his two wings on the tree Jewel was sitting in front of. "Blu, what are you-?" "Shhh…don't move." He continued smiling at her and brought his face closer to her, making her feel a chill while she could see that her boyfriend was flirting with her. Then, as time started to move slowly around her, she closed her eyes and waited for her doom but instead…Jewel got a soft and slow kiss from Blu.

She opened her eyes and could only see her boyfriend kissing her respectfully on the cheeks. Jewel wanted to fight back but couldn't resist Blu's affection, so she gave in and only let Blu hug her next. She could only feel Blu comforting her tightly, and making her really feel at ease without any worries.

After a whole minute, Blu and Jewel decided to take another moment of rest together at the tree until sunset. A good chance to take a break and no longer feel paranoid about their feelings towards each other. But while they were still enjoying their alone day, the two toucans (mentioned earlier) thought they saw enough and had a really big plan. So while Blu and Jewel were still resting, those toucans pounced.

"Ahh!"

"What the!?"

"Hey!"

"Jewel!"

"Blu!"

"Help me!"

"Ah!"

The four were in a real brawl but only the toucans were victorious. They were able to bring Blu and Jewel down on their backs and tied them together with vines uncomfortably. "Hahaha!" Laughed the toucans. Blu and Jewel were clearly ticked off. "Grrr! Who are you jerks, and what do you want?" "Well thanks for asking. Just call us the Rough Stones, and our boss wants your friend, Eva. Now seeing how we finally got you lovebirds together, she'll have an excuse to stay with our boss and ditch that other loser toucan." "What!? Oh I promise you jerks, when we get out of here, we're gonna-" "Don't bet on it, Blue Boy!"

The (so called) Rough Stones dragged them off in the air and were on their way to their little HQ.

As the hours of the day passed, Rafael and Eva have been enjoying their day too but without any worries through it all. Rafi accomplished so much trying to woo her, and despite Eva feeling nervous, she could only give in to the respect Rafi showed her. Then, they were dancing on the top of a fancy restaurant, waiting for something.

"Having a good time, my dear?"

"Absolutely, Rafi. We've only been dating for two days and yet you make me feel like it's been years, all long and enjoyable lovely years."

"Glad to hear it. I just hope it stays that way."

"Oh it will. I promise it will, and I promise I won't leave you, especially if someone forced me to like those jerks from last night."

"Yeah. But don't worry, I have a feeling we won't see them again. On a totally different subject, where's Blu and Jewel?"

"Beats me. After what I heard from my mom that Jewel told her that she wanted to make a double date."

"Hmm…well until they get here, we might as well savor the mo-" Rafael and Eva stopped dancing and just looked at each other, and getting their beaks closer together. Making it the best way to savor the moment. But then, by a single flash, something bad did come up.

"Haha! (Bang) Hello, lovebirds!" It was one of the toucans from last night, and he was apart of that Rough Stones gang.

"What the!? Eva, get behind me."

She what did Rafael did, and began to talk. "What are you doing here?" "Ooh, tough guy. Don't worry, I'm not here to cause trouble, I'm just here to send a message." "What message?" Rafi asked, then the Rough Stone toucan tossed a rolled up photo of Blu and Jewel as the Rough Stones' hostages. Rafael and Eva gasped. "What did you do to them?" "Oh nothing…yet. And I can assure you no harm will come to them as long as you two come alone to the center of midtown. From there, my boss will tell you everything he wants in exchange for your friends. And that is you, girl."

The toucan laughed evilly before flying away, leaving the two to wonder what was going on, hoping that Blu and Jewel would be safe, and wonder if coming alone is a good idea.

Another twist. You better hope the story doesn't end there. Because you never know, and I edited some parts to make it more appropriate from the original draft.

After this, comes another good chapter from the Restart. Now I might've taken a total interest in continuing Restart a little more than the others, but don't worry, that doesn't mean I'm done with this. Just get ready. Oh and happy SPRING BREAK!

One more thing, just last night and the week before, I saw the new movies KONG: SKULL ISLAND and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and can I just say...neither of them were a waste of money.