Minnesota Love 59: New Cousins

This is the first chapter that I have written that features Alexriolover95's OC so I'm kind of excited but also kind of nervous to see where I can take this story.

As always I hope everybody enjoys this chapter.

Alex awoke in the shoebox made bed beside his new sister Ruby, Ruby was more than happy to allow him to share the bed with her until he was old enough to sleep alone.

He smiled as he cuddled closer to her feathered chest for comfort.

Ruby soon awoke as well with her wing still wrapped protectively around Alex.

"Good morning Alex." Ruby smiled hugging her little brother.

"Hi Ruby." Alex smiled returning the hug.

"You want to go see what Amanda is making for breakfast?" Ruby asked.

"Okay." Alex smiled.

The two then stood up and Alex climbed onto his sister's back like how she had done when she was younger.

"Hold on, I might do a few loops." Ruby joked to which Alex giggled.

Ruby then took flight and ew out of the bedroom and through the hall to the kitchen.

Amanda was busy peeling and cutting orange slices for her feathered family members.

"Good morning you two." Amanda smiled before stroking their head feathers.

Lucas and Alice flew from the couch and to the kitchen counter.

"Hey buddy." Lucas smiled picking up his son in his wings.

Alex hugged his father before they began to eat breakfast.

Afterwards the feathered family retreated to the couch and began to watch television.

After a few minutes, they heard a tapping on the window, Alex and his family looked to the window.

Alex was both shocked and confused at what he saw, five blue feathered macaws were standing on the window seal from outside.

"They're here already, perfect." Lucas smiled.

"Who is that?" Alex asked.

"They're family, they've been wanting to meet you." Ruby smiled.

Lucas flew to the window and opened it to allow them to enter.

"Hey uncle Blu, hey aunt Jewel." Ruby smiled as she hugged them.

"Hey sweetie." Jewel smiled, Ruby was nearly as tall as Jewel by this point.

"So this is Alex." Blu smiled looking down at the small Scarlet Macaw, "It's nice to meet you."

Alex back away and hid behind Ruby and peeked past her to see the new macaws.

"Don't be scared Alex, they're not going to hurt you." Ruby smiled trying to calm her little brother, "This is uncle Blu and aunt Jewel and their kids, your cousins Josh, Ashley and Danny."

"It's great to finally meet you Alex, we've heard a lot about you." Jewel smiled.

Ashley then walked ahead of them and walked to Alex who was looking at her sheepishly.

Ashley then held up her wing to shake and gave Alex a reassuring smile.

"Nice to meet you Alex." Ashley smiled.

Alex merely looked at her wing confused on what to do.

"You're supposed to shake her wing Alex." Ruby giggled.

After a little help from Ashley they shook wings.

Josh and Danny moved forward and began to talk with the younger Scarlet Macaw.

"Do you want to hang out with us?" Danny smiled.

"Um… okay." Alex said nervously.

"We should go play in the snow." Danny suggested.

"I don't know, your uncle Lucas and aunt Alice might not want Alex to play outside just yet." Blu slowed down his son.

"We don't mind." Lucas smiled before looking to his son. "Would you want to go play outside, Alex?"

"Um… okay." Alex stuttered out.

"Great! Come on." Danny smoked before turning around, he then opened his wings preparing for flight.

"I can't… I can't fly yet." Alex sheepishly admitted.

"That's okay, hop on." Blu smiled turning to allow Alex to climb on to which he done.

The Spix Macaw family then flew back out of the window and to a spot where they had played many times.

They touched down on the crisp snow making a crunch as their wait came down onto the snow.

"So what should we do now?" Danny asked, "Snowball fight?"

"Let's wait on that, Alex probably doesn't even know what that is." Ashley suggested.

"How about we go down a hill on a sled?" Josh asked.

"That sounds fun! What do you think Alex?" Ashley asked looking to him.

"Sled?" Alex asked cocking his head to the side.

"Don't worry about it, we'll show you what it is." Josh smiled.

The four young macaws were sitting in an oven tray that Linda allowed Josh, Danny and Ashley to have for a substitute for a sled.

Alex sat in the back, gripping the sides trembling as the sled was near the edge of a hill.

"You all ready?" Blu asked as he held the tray with his talon to which they replied with a cheer, "Okay, three, two, one!"

Blu then pushed the sled down the hill, Josh, Ashley and Danny laughed and screamed happily while Alex only gripped the sides tighter with eyes wide with fear.

Once they reached the bottom of the hill they began to slow having no more momentum, Alex who was frozen in fear began to chuckle, the chuckles then turned into hysterical laughter.

"That was…" Alex paused before thinking of a word to explain it, "Fun!"

"You want to do it again?" Ashley asked.

"Yeah!"

They spent the next few minutes going up and down the hill over and over having fun every time.

After an hour or so they began to teach Alex other games like snowball fighting.

"You just pick up a wrongful of snow and pack it together, like this." Danny explained before bending down and picked up some snow which he packed into a sphere, "Then you just have to find a target."

Danny then aimed his snowballs and threw it at Josh who standing near him, hitting him in the belly.

"Hey!" Josh gasped as he felt the cold snow hit him in the belly.

"Just a demonstration." Danny defended.

"Like this?" Alex asked as he picked up snow and made it into a snowball.

"Yep, now what are the teams?" Danny asked.

"How about Alex and I versus you two?" Ashley asked.

"That sounds good." Danny agreed.

"Don't worry, we're going to take them down!" Ashley smiled patting her younger cousin on the back.

The two teams split up and began.

Alex watched for a few minutes and began to get the hang of it.

Alex packed a snowball and threw it at Danny hitting him.

"Nice shot!" Ashley smiled to which Alex beamed.

"Beginners luck!" Danny objected throwing a snowball back.

The day went by fast and before they knew it the sun was setting.

Blu and his family returned the window seal of Amanda's home, they tapped on it and returned indoors.

"Hey Alex, how did you like playing in the snow." Alice asked.

"It was really fun!" Alex smiled, "Can I play with them again sometime?"

"I don't see why not." Lucas smiled.

"Awesome! We can hang out again tomorrow!" Danny exclaimed.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow." Alex replied.

He spent an hour or so with Ruby before going to bed with her in her shoebox.

As the days went on Alex began meeting Jameson and his family, Tony, Sydney, Alex and Chloe, soon the children spent almost every day together.

Sorry for the delay everybody.