All right, so here's chapter 2. Just a warning, there will be minor swearing. I also decided to write a little differently. The writing will seem a bit scattered and all over the place, but I did that on purpose because I am writing in first person. So, enjoy!

I had finally gathered enough nuts to last us a few days. Satisfied, I started to fly back to our hollow. I had put the nuts in a leaf, which I folded so I can carry it without spilling. It was slow going, but I finally reached our hollow

"Hey, Jewel? I'm back!"

I was greeted by silence. "Jewel?" I poked my head in the hollow entrance. Nobody was there. I presumed she was still gathering fruits, so I brought the leaf in and tucked it into a corner. I decided to wait for her. After all, she was better in the jungle than I was. So I waited, for a while. Just as I was about to step back outside to look for her, I heard the flapping of wings. I backed up into a dark corner, the wall I was leaning on was the wall with the entrance, so I could surprise her. Jewel entered, and I was about to step forward, but something was strange. She was smiling and looking back behind her. Then the most confusing thing out of the whole situation made its appearence. Another bird stepped inside. He was a Lear macaw. If you don't know what they look like, Google them, because I won't explain.

"Hmm. Nice place." he said, looking around.

"Thanks, Carlos." Jewel said with a voice that she only used with me, one that had just a hint of seduction in it. Before I could even scream, she leaned over and kissed him. KISSED HIM! I stepped out of the shadows. Unfortunatly, I was quiet and the traitors were to wrapped up in thier own passion to notice me. I watched in horror as Jewel sat there, eyes closed, seeing her beak open and close slightly as the kiss intensified.

"Son of a bitch!" I yelled. That was the first time I had ever sworn in my life, and it was for a good reason.

Their eyes immidiatly opened. Jewel's widend at the sight of me and she quickly broke off the kiss.

"Blu! W-what are you doing here? I-it's not what it looks like!"

"Babe," the bastard who Jewel cheated on me with said, "who is this?" Hot anger boiled inside me. It was completly unfamiliar to me, but I treated it like it was my best friend. Despite that, I kept my beak shut.

"Carlos, this is just, uh...-"

Maybe I couldn't shut up after all, "What the hell, Jewel! What the goddamn hell!" I briskly pushed past the Lear who just destroyed my life and flew off before a word was spoken. I heard the sound of someone sobbing in the background.

"Hey!" the Lear yelled, "no one makes my Jewel cry!" I heard the rapid flapping of wings and knew what was coming, but I was too depressed and too shocked emotionally to turn around to defend myself.

The pain was a lot worse than I had expected. His claws raked down my back and I heard the sound of ripping feathers. The intense stinging pain made me almost black out. I saw documentaries on TV of people who worked through pain and only now did I realize how hard it is. The rest of my vision that wasn't shrouded from the darkness of my consiousness saw that I was falling. Fast. But the pain was so great and my emotions were so strung out that I was thinking that dying wasn't such a bad thing. But I remembered Linda, and Tulio, and Fernando, and I realized that I couldn't let them down.

I didn't know how I found the stregnth to pull up, but I managed. The darkness, however, intensified and threatend to consume my vision, which would result in me losing my consiousness and plumeting once again to the ground. But I refused to let that happen. I continued flying, away, farther, until I reached a small river. I (crash) landed in it, feeling the cool water sooth my injuries. I looked at my back, four long, ugly scratches going from below my neck to the beginning of my tail feathers. It will take a long time to heal. I turned back around and cried. Why me?! I screamed to myself, WHY ME?!. I never even thought about leaving Jewel, and she told me that she would never be the same without me. Then she stabbed me in the back and now I am left with absolutely nothing but physical and emotional injuries. I cried myself to sleep that night, right there beside that river, not caring if that bastard found me and finished the job. I wanted to die.

...

I slowly woke to the fimiliar sounds of the jungle. But there was something different, something I knew I would find out if I opened my eyes. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that I was lying on the jungle floor, alone. It didn't make sense. Then the events of the previous night hit me like a cold wind and I almost threw up as the emotions slammed into me. People think heartbreak feels like a rusty knife to the heart, but that is not true, it feels like a baseball in the pit of your stomach trying to slowly move its way up to your throat. I slowly got up on my shaky legs and looked around. There were hollows everywhere, and I knew that there were birds in them, snuggled up together, and I realized that I couldn't be here. I needed to be alone, quite possibly for the rest of my life. I took one last look at the direction of where Jewel's hollow is and thought, [Well, I hope you have a good life with Carlos, I wish you all the best and hope that you will raise a family with him, because I wasn't good enough to.] I meant that sincerly, I hoped that Jewel found the bird of her dreams and spent the rest of her life with him, because that bird isn't me. I didn't feel mad, what I felt was sadness, but a little happiness too now that Jewel had someone who was not a nerd who spent the first fifteen years of his life in a bookstore. I pushed off the ground and flew off to a place where I knew I wouldn't be disturbed.

I landed on a branch in the deadest part of the jungle. I looked up and saw the black clouds only minutes away. I heard thunder, so I ducked into a hollow. I looked around. It was small, but big enough for just me, there was no nest or anything, so I presumed that if someone ever lived here, they were alone. I watched as the first storm clouds reached Rio. As lightning flashed and thunder boomed, I leaned on the inside of my hollow and wept. The emotions came flooding out of me. I wept for a while and I tried numerous times to stop myself, but to no avail, it was only making it worse as I tried to bottle up my emotions. No one ever understands the heatache, no one feels the pain, no one ever sees the tears, when you're cryin' in the rain. The lyrics of that song finally made sense to me. If no one's around, they can't see you cry, and that's exacly how I wanted it. No one sees me, no one cares.

The storm finally let up the morning after. I didn't sleep at all that night because I had cried frequently. I poked my head out of the hollow. My cheeks had dry tear marks on them, but I didn't care. Also, my back was throbbing painfully, but I didn't care about that, either. I checked my surroundings, nothing but emptiness and silence. This part of the forest was completly deserted. I'd been here before with Jewel and... I drew a shaky sigh. My life just turned upside down in a matter of minutes, and I of course wasn't handling it well. I thought about what Jewel and Carlos were doing now. The thought of Jewel with another bird tore at my heart even more. I sniffled and realized how hungry I was. I had not eaten since lunch at Linda and Tulio's yesterday. That felt like weeks ago, even if I was only there less than twenty hours ago. I slowly flew to a nearby papaya tree and clipped a ripe fruit. I cut it open and tore into it, of course it tasted great, but it didn't keep my mind off my depression. I suddenly got an idea, even if I was happy for Jewel for finding the bird for her, she still destroyed my emotions in doing so very harshly. I clipped another papaya and flew in the direction of her hollow.