She noticed how Junior always seemed to land on his feet. He always looked cool and collected. The way he leaped off the building to deliver babies and dive in amazing speed, made Tulip's mouth open in sheer awe. She wished to fly like him. She would never admit it to anyone but the real reason she built her jet pack is to fly, just like Junior.

She nimbly connected the two wires together, watching as the electricity sparked before she glued the two live fuses. She removed her goggles and wiped the sweat off her brow as she looked at her jet pack. The two cylinders made out of oxygen tanks were fused together as she melted the metal together with her blowtorch. She adjusted the straps to the vest that was attached to her pack and made sure her back up wings was folded neatly in her emergency bag. She admired her work and grabbed a dirty rag, making it shine. She was certain that this time, she was going to fly.

He brushed her frizzy red hair back and felt an unusual warm breeze hit her ear.

"What are you working on?"

"Gah!" She yelled out In surprised and scrambled across her desk and covered her precious with a sheet before turning around to the person, or bird that sneaked up on her.

She blinked when she saw no one but looked down to see the dull expression on Pigeon Toady's face.

"What's up brah? Didn't mean to scare ya." He said nasally titling his head to the side. Her face fell and crossed her arms at him.

"Hey pigeon Toady, what brings you to my workshop?"

Pigeon Toady blinked slowly, taking a moment to process her question before replying. "Oh yeah, Boss bro needs tah see ya brah, says it real important..."

"Junior wants to see me? Why didn't he text me?" She glanced back to her work desk and brushed aside the loose pieces of paper as she tried to find her phone.

"I think he did brah..."

"No, I would have heard-there it is!" She snatched the rainbow colored case and flipped it over to the screen. She cringed when she saw the missed messages.

15 missed calls

21 unread texts

3 voice mails.

"Oh boy." She said as she stood up from her chair. "I guess I really didn't hear him, thanks for telling me Pidgeon Toady!" She said as she rushed towards her spiral metal staircase. Pigeon Toady lifted up his wing and gave her a thumbs up.

"Sure thing brah!"

"Oh and don't touch anything please!" She yelled out as she ran up the stairs. "I have very sensitive equipment."

"Sure! Yeah! Okay! No problem!"

Tulip ran across the floor of the building of stork's mountain running passed the employees delivering the babies for today to their families. She avoided making eye contact with the babies because if she does, she will be compelled to stay and play with them. She ran even fast to avoid that situation. She ran into a small office space as she kicked open the door.

"Okay!" She gasped, struggling to catch her breath. "I'm here! What do you need Junior?" She asked. Junior was surrounded with state of the art computers. Each screen had lists of babies marked with green or red.

Green meant that they had been delivered and Red meant they haven't yet. The only difference today is that all of the screens had a massive error message.

Junior appeared ready to pull of his feathers when she burst in.

"Tulip! Oh thank gosh! You gotta help me! I think I pressed the wrong button again!"

Tulip rolled her eyes. Typical. Junior was cool and collected when flying and delivering but doing simple time management and list checking on the computers is too much for him to handle. This was the fourth time she came in here to help him with computer problems.

"Junior, not this again." She complained softly as she made her way beside him. Her fingers danced along the keyboard as Junior watched her in amazement as she began fixing the problem. "Mr boss man needs to learn more about computers." She grinned. Junior gave her a mock laugh.

"Just give me a delivery any day, but a computer? Forget about it. I always seem to be a jinx when it comes to computers." He replied with a slight annoyance. Tulip smiled gently at him and pressed on the last key making the error sign disappear. Junior let out a sigh of relief.

"Thanks Tulip...I wish I was smart like you." He said when he began typing on the computer, continuing where he left off. Tulip straightened at him and rubbed her elbow slightly, a small blush began to form.

"Really?"

Junior chuckle as he tapped on the keys, not taking his eyes off the screen. "Yeah, I mean who builds a plane with all the scraps she finds? Not to mention all those inventions you're working on..."

Tulip snorted and smiled with embarrassment. "Oh I don't know about that, I always kinda think that you..." She brushed a piece of red hair away from her eyes, her mouth going in a thin line. Junior didn't catch her sudden silence until he slowly turned his head.

"Huh? What about me?" He asked with a smile.

"I was just thinking that you were always so co-!"

The sudden alarm of the error message appeared again making Junior turn back around and groan loudly. "Ugh! Not again, I don't get what I'm doing wrong!" He slammed his face down on the keyboard, giving up. "Maybe I should hire someone else to do this." He muttered on the dirty keys.

Tulip placed her hand on his back.

"No, come on Junior, it's simple! I'll teach you!"

He lifted his head up and slumped into his hand that was his wing. "Let's just face it, I'm dumb when it comes to computers."

"No, come on cool guy! Here I'll show you!" she quickly grabbed a chair and sat close to him. He turned his head at her.

"You think I'm cool?"

Tulip stopped typing and slowly shrugged. "Um yeah, I mean I always thought you were cool even before we became friends." She typed again and pointed to the screen. "See you keep accidentally pressing the send key which makes the computer freeze up."

Junior nodded absentmindedly. "Why'd you think I was cool? And I'm not asking that to fuel my ego, I'm just curious." He said quickly.

Tulip ran her fingers up to her pony tail again. "Because of how you flew, I mean you fly better than any other stork or bird here! It made me want to fly just like you...that's why I built my jetpack." She began typing on the keys more rapidly. "And I never seen you brag about it! And I seen pigeon Toady brag about using two squares of toilet paper an entire day!"

Junior nodded. "That day was the worst."

"And, I thought you are cool in that way too." She pressed on a key and made the error signs disappear. "There, just avoid this key and if it happens just click on this and this, it's a shortcut."

Junior glance back at Tulip making her suddenly turned pink in the face. "B-but I know I'm not the only one who thinks that!"

He smiled at her. "Thanks Tulip, I think your cool too."

She scoffed and brushed the comment away. "Oh nah!"

"No, I'm serious." He said turning towards her. "When I finally got to know you, you are the kindest person ever, you're intelligent and when...we were taking care of Diamond Destiny, I thought you were really sweet."

Tulip slowly let out a large smile and snickered softly. "Wow, I'm so embarrassed right now, um thank you Junior."

Junior smiled slightly at her. "Sure, and thanks for helping me out."

Tulip got up, ready to head back to work on her project. "No problem. Always happy to help!" She headed to the door with a spring to her step. Overwhelming happy to have heard those words out of Junior's mouth. She would be smiling all day.

"Oh uh Tulip?" She turned thinking that he needed more help with the computers. "Do you want to...hang out after work today? There's this cool sushi restaurant that opened up on shore, they have tuna!" he said excitedly, she smirked since Tuna was his favorite fish.

"Oh my gosh, no way! I would love to!" She gasped loudly as she had an idea. "We could fly there! I did some stuff with my jetpack!"

Junior's face fell in concern. "And are you sure it's...controllable?"

"Pssh! Yeah of course, I made it super easy to control." She said slyly, smirking to herself. Suddenly they both flinched when they heard a scream and a sudden crash. They both ran out to the floor, worried that someone might have gotten hurt or worse, have gotten one of the babies hurt. There eyes darted to the ceiling to see Pigeon Toady attached to Tulip's jetpack which was not stuck in between the metal bars, with smoke and fire coming out from the bottom of it. Tulip grabbed her hair and screamed up towards him.

"Pigeon Toady! What are you doing with my jetpack?!"

"If you didn't want me to touch nothin', you should have said something brah!" Pigeon Toady called out with his beak up in the air. Tulip would have yanked out her hair if Junior hadn't slowly put down her hands to her sides.

Junior swiveled his head towards his employees who were gawking at the ceiling. He pointed out to two of the storks that didn't have their feathers full of babies. "You two! Get the fire extinguisher!" 

Tulip growled and stomped the floor. "Pigeon Toady! Just wait till I get my hands on you!"