Chapter 9 First night together.

(While Yoshi was talking to Jewel,)

Happy: "Hey Birdo! Can I catch a word with you?"

Birdo: "Sure! What about?"

Happy: "You were being pretty rough with Yoshi over there."

Birdo: "Well... It only tickling..."

Happy: "You had him PINNED TO THE FLOOR!"

Birdo: "Um... Yeah... that is kinda rough."

Happy: "You shouldn't even be tickling him IN THE FIRST PLACE! That's a HUGE invasion on personal space!"

Birdo: "But Yoshi ask me to tickle him!"

Happy: "Oh come on! No one enjoys being tickled!"

Birdo: "I being serious! You can ask Yoshi!"

Happy: "Jewel is talking with him now. I'll ask him later. I highly doubt he would ever ASK someone to tickle him. If you're right... I'll be worried about him but I'll be fine with you. If he says he didn't ask you then I'm never letting you over here again!"

Birdo: "No please I never do it again!"

Happy: "Hey! If you're not lying then by all means tickle him again! I'm going to kick you out based on a lie. That is, if you're lying."

Birdo: "I not lying!"

Happy: "I'll find out later. Until then you can pretend we never had this discussion. If you're telling the truth, I'll apologize. Deal?"

Birdo: "Promise! Can we do pinky promise?"

Happy: "That's stupid! Your word should be good enough!"

Birdo: "Fine... I promise."

Happy: "Goodbye. You'll hear from me again. Either an apology or forcing you out."

(Happy exits. Birdo thinks: "Please Yoshi tell the truth!")

(Meanwhile Jewel is still talking with Yoshi:)

Jewel: "I still think it is time for her to go"

Yoshi: "MAMA I NOT LYING! PLEASE LET BIRDO TICKLE ME AGAIN!"

Jewel: "I trust you Yoshi but look at the time."

Yoshi: "IT TWELVE!? How'd it get so late?"

Jewel: "Yoshi, you were supposed to be in bed 2 hours ago. It's late."

(Happy walks in)

Happy: "Hey Jewel, mind if I interrupt?"

Jewel: "No. What happened?"

Happy: "Birdo says Yoshi WILLINGLY ASKED TO BE TICKLED! Is that true or is she lying?"

Jewel: "I find it as hard to believe as you but he told me the same thing."

Happy: "HOW IN THE WORLD COULD YOU LIKE TICKLING!? THAT IS THE WORST, MOST UNMANLY, INDIGNANT, MOST INVASIVE ACTION EVER! ARE YOU LYING TO ME JUST FOR HER!?"

Yoshi: "Please no get mad! I no know why I like it... Mama told me about how much work yall went through to get me. So I not lying."

Happy: "YOU TOLD HIM ABOUT HIS... Eh, he can't spell very well yet. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.?"

Jewel: "I only told him about the surguries I had to go through."

Happy: "Phew. You really scared me there. He can't know about complicated issues like that."

Yoshi: "Mama? What daddy talking about?"

Jewel: "Something very sad Yoshi. Hopefully you never find out."

Happy: "HEY BIRDO!"

Birdo: "Yeah?"

Happy: "Yoshi backed up your claims about the tickling. I believe him. I really should've gone easier on you so... Sorry and all that."

Birdo: "Thanks Happy."

Jewel: "Even though it's late Yoshi, how about I drive Birdo home and you two can sit in the back?"

Yoshi: "WHAT!? YAY YIPPEE!"

Jewel: "Birdo, it's very late but I will drive you home and Yoshi can sit in the back with you!"

Birdo: (thinking: "WHAT!? Yoshi can't see that me live under bridge! He probably not like me already. Yoshi for sure not like me if I homeless") "N-no. I just gonna walk home... Alone."

Jewel: "No that's not right! I'm not going to let a teenage girl walk home alone in the dark! What if some creep kidnaps you again!? How old even are you?... Birdo?"

Happy: "She's already gone. I'll try to get her!"

(Happy, being a green yoshi as well, uses his super speed to run and try to find Birdo. He finds her not far from the house.)

Happy: "What do you think you're doing?"

Birdo: "W-well... My..."

Happy: "We are not going to let you walk home alone. Especially not after how mean I treated you."

Birdo: "My... House looks terrible. I not want Yoshi to see that..."

Happy: "Why wouldn't you?... Unless... The only time I didn't want Jewel to see my place was when... Do you have a crush on Yoshi?"

Birdo: "*sigh* yeah..."

Happy: "Don't try to force him into anything."

Birdo: "I know..."

Happy: "Don't think he likes you just because he saved you. Yoshi has saved other yoshis in dangerous situations. Fires broke out at school and Yoshi would run back inside to get other yoshis to ride him out against the teachers orders. There were also shootings and a girl was trapped at the gym and Yoshi broke the rules again to go and get her out. He saved you because it's part of who he is. Not because you look pretty to him. Let him decide if he likes you. And he's already made it clear to me that he does not like you any more then a friend."

Birdo: "I know... Just don't want him liking me any less. I never gonna find a boy who likes a swyer anyway."

Happy: "That wouldn't be an issue for my son. Anything others can't help, or do by accident he typically feels sympathy for. Now come on. Let's go back. Jewel will drive you two."

Birdo: "fine."

(both walk back to the house)

Yoshi: "BIRDO! WHY YOU LEAVE LIKE THAT ALL ALONE!?"

Birdo: "Me?"

Yoshi: "YES! I SO WORRIED WART TRY TO GET YOU AGAIN! DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!"

Birdo: "Yoshi actually worried about me?"

Yoshi: "Of course I worried! Please no do that!"

Birdo: "Since Yoshi care so much I won't."

Jewel: "Alright you two. Enough time wasted. Let's get in the car."

Happy: "I don't want to assume anything. I know those two will play, so I'm going to stay here."

(All three get in the car.)

Jewel: "Where's your house Birdo?"

Birdo: "132 Aves street."

Jewel: "I didn't know they made houses on that street."

Birdo: "Just... Go... You'll see it."

(Jewel pulls out and starts driving.)

Yoshi: "Biro?"

Birdo: "Yeah?"

Yoshi: "Is Birdo feeling ok?"

Birdo: "Why?"

Yoshi: "Wanna... Play?"

Birdo: "Play what?"

Yoshi: "Maybe tickling?"

Birdo: "Jewel, can I tickle him?"

Jewel: "I'm pretty shocked to hear Yoshi ask that. But yes you can. Only if you're ok with him getting you back."

Birdo: "I want him to!"

Yoshi: "I GET FIRST ATTACK!"

(Yoshi grabs Birdo's belly first. The two play until Jewel gets to Aves street where there's nothing but a bridge.)

Jewel: "There's nothing but a bridge here Birdo!"

Birdo: "Yeah... That it. I... uh... don't have a home."

Yoshi: "BIRDO HOMELESS!?"

(Birdo looks down)

Birdo: "*sigh* Yeah. Sure beats working for that stupid Wart though..."

Jewel: "I'm turning around now. I'm not letting a teenage girl sleep out in this cold weather. Or even if it was warm I'd never let a little girl sleep outside."

Birdo: "WAIT! I gotta get something."

(Birdo gets out of the car and goes to the sheet. She picks up some small toy. Then walks out of sight behind a bush and comes back. She goes to the front window where Jewel is and whispers something.)

Jewel: "Yeah go ahead and show him! Yoshi sleeps with one almost every night."

Yoshi: "MAMA! I SAY NOT TO TELL ANYBODY!"

Birdo: "Yoshi sleep with teddy bear too?"

Yoshi: "Birdo sleep with one?"

Birdo: "ME ASK YOU FIRST!"

Yoshi: "Uh... Yeah."

Birdo: "Aw! Here mine! His name is... Safe. He make me feel safe. My mama gave it to me."

Yoshi: "My teddy bear name is Silly!"

Jewel: "It's too late tonight but tomorrow I can contact the orphanage Birdo. They'll give us the money we need and a place for you to sleep. But tonight you can sleep at our place."

Birdo: "HOORAY!"

Yoshi: "Yes! Birdo, why go behind bush?"

Birdo: "Is it not obvious?"

Jewel: "Yoshi, that's not a very nice question to ask. Even I know why."

Yoshi: "Nevermind. Me get it."

Jewel: "Hey Birdo, it's not very comfortable, but how about the living room couch?"

Birdo: "The one with the windows!?"

Jewel: "Uh... Yes?"

Birdo: "And yall's bedrooms are back in the hallway SO FAR AWAY! That so scary! Everyone know where I staying! What if Wart smashes windows and gets me?"

Jewel: "Hm... Alright let me thik of somewhere else."

Yoshi: "Me got a huge queen size bed!"

Birdo: "No! Definitely not!" (Birdo thinking: "With what I do in sleep? That even more embarrassing then what happened earlier!")

Jewel: "Birdo, Yoshi isn't like that. He doesn't even know how all those adult things even work yet. He is pretty clueless."

Yoshi: "Clueless to what adult things? What so wrong about a girl sleeping one night with a boy because she has no home?"

Birdo: "I not think Yoshi gonna do anything gross like that. It just I kinda... Well..."

Yoshi: "Birdo what?"

Birdo: "Nevermind."

(Jewel starts driving back home.)

Birdo: "Hey Jewel."

Jewel: "Yes Birdo?"

Birdo: "Even thou I gonna go to an orphanage, will I still see Yoshi?"

Jewel: "Birdo, you can come back over to our house every day. You will even attend the same school Yoshi does."

Birdo: "OK. Th-*yawns* thanks."

Yoshi: "Are you tired Birdo?"

Birdo: "Mmhmm."

Yoshi: "Then I guess tickling is off."

(Jewel drives home. Yoshi and Birdo are silent.)

Jewel: "Alright. We're here."

(Yoshi and Birdo both fell asleep.)

Jewel: "This is why I set a bedtime." *blows horn*

Yoshi: "AAAH! WHAT HAPPENED!?"

Jewel: "You fell asleep because you didn't go to bed when I wanted you to. Come on. Out"

Birdo: "Wart! Please! I so hungry..."

Yoshi: "Huh?"

Jewel: "She still has her eyes closed. She's sleep talking. Guess my horn wasn't loud enough."

Birdo: "O~OW!"

Yoshi: "BIRDO WAKE UP! DON'T HAVE NIGHTMARES!" (Yoshi grabs Birdo and shakes her.)

Birdo: "AH!... Did I fall asleep?"

Yoshi: "Yeah. Birdo sleep talking about Wart."

Birdo: "Oh... Sorry."

Yoshi: "Birdo, quit getting embarrassed."

Birdo: "hm..."

Jewel: "Alright. You can get out."

(All three get out and go in.)

Happy: "Birdo? What are you doing back here?"

Jewel: 'Happy, don't get mad. I know we don't have the money to support her, but I'm contacting the orphanage tomorrow. She is homeless."

Happy: "Oh. Understandable. You uh... Already determined where she would sleep right?"

Jewel: "I trust Yoshi. In there with him."

Happy: "Alright. Fine."

(Yoshi and Birdo go into his room. Yoshi takes off his shoes. Yoshi doesn't have any claws on his feet.)

Birdo: "Why Yoshi not have any claws!?"

Yoshi: "Never grew."

Birdo: "Then why Yoshi wear shoes all the time?"

Yoshi: "My feet are always cold. One second Birdo. Me gotta go really bad. I be right back." (Yoshi goes to use the bathroom.)

Birdo: "What if I sleep talk again? Or drool? Or what if I move in sleep and accidentally grab his hand!? NO! I just wanted to feel safe. I used to sleeping on ground anyway. Besides this is carpet."

(Birdo lays on the floor and curls her knees to her belly and curls her tail inward. Yoshi comes back in.)

Yoshi: "BIRDO! That not comfortable! Come on! get in bed."

Birdo: "zzz"

Yoshi: "*sigh* I can't wake her up. Fine."

(Yoshi gets into bed.)