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Alvin and the Chipmunks; The teen years
Prologue
It was quiet in the house when David Seville was reading the newspaper at the kitchen table. Dave momentarily looked away from the paper he was reading and glanced down the nearby hallway then he glanced the other way. Dave then let out a sigh of relief; the boys aren't getting into trouble for a change, he thought as he went back to reading the paper, but before he could read another word, there came a ring from the phone. Dave got up to walk across the kitchen floor to pick up the phone on the wall opposite of him when there came a sudden disrupting yell "I'll get it!!!" it was Alvin jumping up onto the counter to grab the phone first. "Hello?" Alvin said as he picked up, but Dave took the phone from Alvin's hand "I can take this if you don't mind Alvin", Dave said giving him a look as if to say not to interfere.
"Hello? sorry about that" Dave had said into the phone,"uh, yeah, we've had a contract for that recording company for a number of years now.." Alvin looked up, very curious as to who Dave was talking to. "What do you mean by do we have any money that wasn't invested in the recording company?" as Dave had said that, moments later his eyes widened. "Oh no! how did this happen?... a large rival record company... oh my... what about our remaining profits?.. none?! what about the contract?.. terminated?!... no, don't worry about it, we'll think of something, bye." Dave hangs up, and Alvin, just seeing Dave's reaction, immediately asks "What was that about Dave? what happened?" "I've got some bad news," Dave responded "go get Simon and Theadore". Alvin then shouts up the stairs "Simon! Theadore! Dave has something to tell us!!!" as soon as Simon and Theadore were downstairs, Dave began to explain what happened "The thing is boys..." Dave began " A large rival recording company has sold out our own company and took it over.." "Couldn't we just make a contract with this company?" Alvin says, interrupting Dave "Alvin! it's rude to cut someone off like that! anyway, to answer your question, we got sold out to a major company that records adult pop music, they would never be interested to sign contacts with us because you guys are child singers" Dave pauses, then Simon asks "Correct me if I'm wrong, but our contract would state that we at least get a slice of the remaining profits, right?" "that's the thing Simon" Dave continues " the contract was terminated, and all our savings were in that company.." Simon then replies " So you're pretty much telling us we're..."
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"Bankrupt?!" Brittany yells out to the other Chipettes after seeing a breaking news story on T.V "The Chipmunks are bankrupt?!!" Seconds later, Eleanor runs into the T.V room "What? they're bankrupt?" she says shocked by the news "Wow, I can only imagine how this is effecting Dave and the Chipmunks.." Brittany is standing in front of the T.V with her mouth wide open "this, this is.." Eleanor walks to Brittany's side to comfort her when Brittany suddenly finishes her sentence "the best news I've heard in a while!"
Eleanor, shocked by what Brittany had just said, shouts disapprovingly "Brittany!!" After a momentary pause, Brittany responds "What? it is! with them out of the spotlight, that means we can take this opportunity to become more popular and make bigger profits!.." Eleanor cuts in saying "You think that our career status is more important than our friendship with the chipmunks and Dave?" Brittany responds saying "It's just there company that went bankrupt! It's not like they themselves are bankrupt, right?..." Brittany pauses briefly for she is now not sure how to back up what she has just said, during this brief moment Jeanette, who has overheard the argument that her sisters were having, walks into the T.V room, where Brittany turns to Jeanette and says "Jeanette! back me up!".
Jeanette, however, who had heard Brittany's statement, shakes her head in disagreement "I'm with Eleanor on this Brittany, what you said was very insensitive, even for you" Eleanor nods agreeing with Jeanette's opinion, "Brittany, they could possibly lose there jobs, remember when we first came her from Australia? was it not the chipmunks that helped us get noticed here in North America?" "y...yes..." Brittany says sheepishly "And was it not them who supported us?" Jeanette adds "Yeah.." Brittany says with a look of shame on her face, Eleanor concludes "As they have been our friends and have supported us, we should.." Brittany finishes Eleanor's sentence saying " Support them, as we are their friends" Eleanor gives a small smile "That's right, taking advantage of their misfortune wouldn't be right, and I know inside you feel just as sorry for them as we do," Brittany looks up at her sisters and gives a weak nod in agreement "I guess I was hasty and a little careless to say what I said" she continues "We got some extra money, we could help support their money problems a bit, it would be tough for anybody to recover from a loss of money like that.." suddenly Jeanette says "I'm not sure if we will have the chance to help them, look!"
Jeanette points to the T.V as a news reporter is saying " It is said that David Seville, along with the Chipmunks, will be moving from their current residence for they no longer have the means to pay the bills for their house. It was a sudden decision, but David Seville says that it's the best thing they can do in such a tight situation, and says that they don't want to borrow money, saying that it doesn't feel right being given money that isn't theirs" "That's terrible!" says Eleanor with her mouth wide open " we got to make Dave reconsider!" Jeanette, with a look of deep thought in her face replies " I know, but can we really convince them to stay?" Eleanor scratches her head "and how long do we have to convince them before they move?" "Not too long, I'm afraid"
The Chipettes turn to see that their caretaker Miss Miller was now standing with them in the T.V room "they're apparently moving tomorrow morning," continues Miss Miller "It's a shame, Dave and the boys were really sweet, I want them to stay too, but we can't interfere with their choice, if they feel that moving is the best thing they can do, then we must respect that." Eleanor grabs onto Miss Miller's dress "But it's not fair! don't Alvin, Simon and Theadore have a say in this? I'm sure they don't want to move!.." "You don't know that for sure Eleanor," said Miss Miller stroking Eleanor's head "but regardless, if you feel so badly about this, the least we could do is get up early tomorrow and see them off one last time, I know Dave and the boys would like that, what do you say?" Eleanor looks down for a few seconds and looks back up at Miss Miller and says "Yeah, I guess you're right Miss Miller, there's not a whole lot we can do..." Miss Miller turns to the other girls and says "Well, how about it?" Jeanette nods slowly with a look of disappointment on her face, Brittany raises her head to look up at Miss Miller and answers "I..I guess.." and lowers her head back down. "Then it's settled!" said Miss Miller in a more cheerful voice to try to raise the Chipette's spirits " Tomorrow morning, well give them a farewell they won't forget!"
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That night, neither the Chipmunks or Chipettes could sleep, but how could they?This is the last night that the Chipmunks will be spending in their childhood house, and the next day will be the last time the Chipettes will ever see the Chipmunks again. After tonight, Alvin, Simon, and Theadore will have to leave their home due to circumstances that are beyond their control. The three boys, still wide awake, discuss this new situation that they are now knee deep in. Theadore is looking around their bedroom and let's out a sigh "I really don't want to leave here, Simon, do we really have to leave?`
Simon turns his head to Theadore and says"I've done the math a bunch of times, I'm sorry to say that moving out of this place is inevitable." After hearing his brother's response, Theadore turns to look out the window. "Well regardless" Theadore says "I'm really going to miss this place." Alvin, feeling that Theadore has missed the big picture suddenly responds, "You're just worried about the house? c'mon Theadore! a house is a house! don't you realize that we can't sing and play music anymore without a contract? and if we can't perform, we don't get paid! we've hit rock bottom!" "Now, hold on Alvin!" Simon says "we could still get signed to a different record company, I know the odds aren't good right now, but we're the Chipmunks, someone will want to sign a contract with us eventually." Theadore, still looking out the window, turns his eyes to the house next door to theirs. "But I think I will miss the Chipettes the most," Theadore tells Alvin and Simon, "After all, they're the best friends we've ever had."
"I agree with you Theadore," Simon says "It will be hard to leave after all the stuff we have been through with them and after all that Miss Miller has done for us as well." Alvin crosses his arms offensively and says "I beg to differ!" Simon turns to face Alvin and crosses his own arms offensively, "The news of us moving has been all over T.V for days, right? so the Chippettes probably know by now. If there such great friends, they why haven't they been over here to see us? doesn't sound like any friends I'd want!" Simon shakes his head and says "Alvin, Obviously they probably just got the news about the move today since they haven't been home all weekend due to performing in small towns about a hundred miles away." Alvin rolls his eyes and says " Still, I doubt miss know-it-all will want to waste the energy to walk a few feet to our place and say goodbye, I'm sure that Eleanor and Jeanette will see us off, but as for her royalness, I wouldn't count on it."
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"I can't believe as soon as the sun comes up, the Chipmunks will be gone" Jeanette said to her sisters with her arms wrapped around her legs sitting on her bed, "It was nice being around them and doing things with them. who would have thought that a rivalry would become a close friendship? I can honestly say that I've grown quite attached to them. I will hate to see them go," Eleanor, who is laying on her back on her bed responds "Me too Jeanette, I"ll miss Simon, and the great advice he would give us, Theadore, and just how sweet and happy he always was, and Alvin..." " How can you miss a manipulative, big-headed jerk like him?" Brittany replies, hearing mention of missing Alvin, "Common Britt, don't be so hard on him," Eleanor answers "Yes, I'll admit he has caused a good amount of the trouble we have been in, and yes, he's really into himself, but his gutsy thinking has gotten us out of alot of trouble too, and he almost always ends up doing the right thing in the end." Brittany rolls her eyes as she partly agrees with Eleanor and replies in an unenthusiastic tone " I suppose THAT much is true, but that doesn't make me want to miss him anymore than I did five minutes ago." Brittany then flips over to her other side and pulls her bed covers over her "You're going to sleep already?" Eleanor asks "Well, yeah" says Brittany turning her head to face Eleanor, "we will need to go to bed early if we want to see the Chipmunks one last time before they leave.." "Awww, you do care about them" Eleanor says, smiling at Brittany "don't get the wrong idea," says Brittany as she quietly groans " They have been very nice to us, even Alvin.." Brittany clears her throat and continues "and even Alvin is n..n..n..." she stutters as if the next words to come out her mouth required a lot of effort to get out. "...Not that bad, there, I said it, now let's go to sleep." The Chipettes each turned off their lamps that stood on tables next to their beds, and over time, they finally dozed off.
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It was still dark out and really late, The Chipmunks and Chipettes were sound asleep; except one. Eleanor slowly got out of bed trying to make the least amount of noise as possible as she put on some warmer clothes. She slowly creeps out of the room, then slowly makes her way down the stairs, across the door, through the dining room, heading across the kitchen, and finally to the back door, she crept out and shut the door softly. Eleanor starts tip toeing across the grass layered with early morning dew toward Dave and the Chipmunks house next door. As she gets onto their side yard, Eleanor starts picking up some stones and heads to the windows on the far left at the side of the house; the Chipmunk's bedroom window.
Looking up, Eleanor tries to angle herself, so she can see where Theadore was sleeping. Eleanor and the other Chippettes have been in their house and bedroom before, so she knew that Theadores bed was closest to the window. Okay, steady Eleanor, she thinks to herself,I want to throw the stone just hard enough to make a sound that will be loud enough to wake Theadore, but not so loud it will wake up the other boys or Dave. Positioning the stone in her fingers firmly, and holding her breath, Eleanor throws the stone at the window, making a tiny ping sound, nothing happened, Eleanor positioned the next stone and threw again, this stone made a slightly louder tong sound. Through the window, she could see Theadore roll over and suddenly sit up in his bed, Eleanor successfully only woke up Theadore.
Theadore goes to the window and looks to see what has been hitting the window. Eleanor waves with both her arms to get Theadores's attention. Theadore opens the window. "Eleanor!" said Theadore in an excited whisper as not to wake his brothers who were still asleep "what are you doing here?" Eleanor signals with her fingers for Theadore to come to her "Come down here. I want you to go with me somewhere" she says trying not to go beyond a whisper.
Theadore puts on some warmer clothes and climbs out his window, onto a tree branch, and climbs down the tree to Eleanor. "Where are we going?" Theadore asks, Eleanor just smiles and says "You'll see, c'mon!" Eleanor takes Theadore's hand starts heading through the yard onto the sidewalk. They continued for a few blocks until they circled the last block and went through to a park, and went through the park to the forest clearing at the edge of the park. There they stood under a worn out but gigantic tree house. "Oh, I know this, place!" Theadore suddenly remembers "This is we're you and the other Chippettes lived before Miss Miller started taking care of you guys." Eleanor smiles and nods "C'mon, let's go up into the tree house!"
Eleanor grabs the rope ladder and starts climbing up first, and Theadore starts climbing, keeping a close distance. Soon they were both at the top, and Theadore followed Eleanor into front entrance of the tree house, and sits down on one of the couches. `Come and sit beside me,`Eleanor tells Theadore, without any argument Theadore takes a seat beside Eleanor."I wanted to talk to you and spend some time with you before you guys leave tomorrow," Eleanor began "I really don't want you to go, I"ll miss you guys too much, especially you."
Theadore looks at Eleanor and says "I know, we don't want to go either, but Simon and Dave say that we have to move somewhere cheaper so we can save money." Theadore thinks for a second, then asks "Why did you just wake me and not Simon and Alvin as well? All of us could be here to enjoy each others company one last time." Eleanor answers "I originally wanted that too, but if Alvin and Brittany we're with us, our last bit of time that remains with each other would just turn bitter as they would start a really silly argument. I believe they really do care about each other and will miss each other, but being as stubborn as those two are, they would never say that to each others faces." Theadore nods "That's a good point" agrees Theadore.
Both Theadore and Eleanor look out the window across from where they're sitting out at the starry night sky, then seconds later, Eleanor starts the conversation again asking "Do you know where you're moving?" Theadore answers "I don't , Dave keeps saying we are moving somewhere out in the country, but he never said where. Eleanor frowns, "I guess I should've expected an answer like that", says a disappointed Eleanor, "After all, this is all last minute, you guys are just as confused as we are, aren't you?" After saying this, Eleanor sighs and starts staring at the ground. Feeling bad for Eleanor, Thgeadore inches closer to her on the couch, and puts his hand on her shoulder. "I wish there was something I could do to make you feel better" Theadore tells Eleanor, " It hurts me to see you this wa..." Before Theadore could finish his sentence, Eleanor leaps on Theadore with open arms and wraps her arms around him, sobbing
"I don't want you guys to leave!" she says with tears going down her cheeks "You were the best friends we've ever had." Theadore, now breaking into tears too answers "I'll never forget you guys either, you were the best friends we ever had too!" Eleanor and Theadore held each other for a while until they both stopped crying then spent the next few hours just sitting together, looking out the window. No words were said for they weren't necessary, then eventually Eleanor said, "It will be morning in a couple hours, we should go." Theadore nods in agreement, they both climbed down the rope ladder out of the tree house and headed back home, Theadore climbed up the tree and in went in through the window, waving back at Eleanor as he closed the window. Eleanor waves back and heads back across to her own house, going in through the back door, tip-toeing through the kitchen, the hall, then up the stairs, and back into the bedroom.
Eleanor finally made it to her bed, and got under the covers. Just as she was about to close her eyes, she is startled by the words "you're back" Eleanor jumps up and looks where she heard the voice; it was Jeanette. "I saw you and Theadore going somewhere together, I'm glad you got to spend some extra time with him" Jeanette says, warmly smiling at Eleanor. Eleanor smiles back at Jeanette and lays back down, " Good night Jeanette" she whispers to Jeanette "Good night Eleanor" Jeanette whispers back.
Jeanette then moves to the window, and takes a telescope from the right side and positions it in front of the window. Jeanette angles and move the telescope until she finally stops and looks through it. Jeanette has pointed the telescope so that she can see in the window of the Chipmunk's bedroom pointed at a sleeping Simon. I wish you weren't going, Jeanette thinks to herself as she looks at Simon through the telescope, You mean alot to me, yet I never had the courage to tell you how much I appreciated your company. Tomorrow, I won't let my shyness get in the way of telling you what you deserve to know. After that brief thought, Jeanette got up and put the telescope back where it was, jumped into her bed, and went to sleep.
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The morning had come, and no one from the Seville or the Miller residence were looking forward to it. It was around 9 in the morning, and Dave's van was packed with h ardly any room left in the back , and the rest of their stuff was in a moving van on the road passed the driveway. Miss Miller and the girls were watching as Dave and the boys were loading the last stuff they could fit into Dave's van, after that was done Dave let out a big sigh and said "Well, it's time to go guys, I'm really going to miss this place.."
Alvin, Simon, and Theadore to one last look at the place that was their home yesterday, but was now an empty lot for someone else to move into. Miss Miller and the Chipettes walk from the grass were they were standing to the paved driveway where Dave and The Chipmunks are standing. Miss Miller waves to them saying "Take care boys!take care David! it's a shame you have to leave us like this, but regardless still wish the best for you!" Eleanor runs down and hugs the chipmunks, sobbing and crying "bye!, I'm really going to miss you guys!" next comes Jeanette as she hugs the chipmunks, with tears running down her eyes, she suddenly spoke "Simon.." Simon looks at her and asks "yes Jeanette?" Jeanette responds saying "Well, you see, I..I..I" but, trying as hard as she could to tell him how she feels, she ended her sentence with "Uh.. never mind."
Next to walk down was Brittany, when she stopped in front of the boys she said, in sort of combination of sounding sympathetic and a little sheepish " It's very unfortunate that you have to move away like this, I know this must be hard on you guys, so good luck." Simon responds to this saying "Bye Brittany, thanks for the support." Theadore was after Simon "Goodbye Brittany, we'll miss you." he says, Then Alvin, not knowing exactly knowing what to say, responds saying "Bye Brittany... that was very considerate." After this was said the Chipmunks turn around and head for the side doors of Dave's van, but just as they were about to get in, Alvin turns around and says "hey! wait a minute! what's that supposed to mean? 'good luck?!' are you implying we can't fend for ourselves?!"
Brittany, startled an a little offended by what Alvin just said responds saying "what?.. no! I didn't mean it that way!" Brittany then crosses her arms defensively "what makes you think i meant it that way?" Alvin answers "Oh, gee, I don't know, the way that you're being so nice to me, since when do you ever say anything nice to me? look, I appreciate the gesture, but we don't need your pity!" Brittany, angered by Alvin's assumption, snaps back "So it's a crime to be nice to you now? and no! I'm not here out of pity! believe it or not, I'm actually going to miss you, you airhead!" Dave, hearing that things are getting out of hand cuts in saying "Enough you guys, this is not the time to.." but before he could finish his sentence, the argument starts again. "We'll I'm sorry if I have to assume that," Alvin shouts back "I'm not a mind reader you know! is it really that hard to be nice to me any other time? ...you know, what? forget it! if I ever see you again, it would be too soon!" Brittany, now fed up with Alvin yells back "That does it! I'm tired of wasting my time trying to talk to you!" Brittany then turns around and storms toward the Miss Miller's house, at the same time, Alvin turns around and gets in the van with Simon and Theadore, who already went in to avoid getting in between Alvin and Brittany, and slams the door.
Dave puts his hand on his forehead and shakes his head, "Sorry Miss Miller, I don't know what came over Alvin.." "Don't worry about a thing, they probably didn't mean what they said, they're full of mixed emotions right now," Miss Miller insists, "You should probably go now, before there is a lot of traffic." "We'll thanks anyway, Miss Miller!" Dave says to be polite, he starts the van and slowly backs out of the driveway. As they start driving away, the boys look back to see Miss Miller and the girls (Except Brittany) waving at them one last time, As they turn back around Alvin crosses his arms and grunts "The nerve! who does she think she is?" "If I recall" Simon says, not too proud of the display he just saw minutes ago "you brought that problem upon yourself! Brittany was trying to be nice, and you had to make a case out of it! you know she was never that mean to you, she can be insensitive, yes, but she always apologized for it afterwards, you should think about what you had said to her!" Alvin thought for a second, and answered "I guess I was a little harsh, but there's nothing I can do about it now, we still have their phone number, right? I suppose when we move in, I"ll call them and apologize to Brittany.." "That's taking responsibility!" Dave says, hearing what Alvin said "I'm not too thrilled with what you said to Brittany either, but at least you're trying to make it right, I'm glad to hear that!" Alvin then rests his head on his palms and looks down in deep thought.
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Meanwhile, Dave's van had just disappeared from sight, and Miss Miller, Eleanor, and Jeanette walk back to the house to see Brittany standing at the front door with her back facing them. Eleanor walks up to he and says "I know Alvin started that argument, but you weren't necessarily nice either, what were you thinking.." but when she turns her sister around to face her, she was shocked to see Brittany in tears, crying "I know I was hard on him sometimes, but I didn't mean for him to think I was faking sympathy, I really am going to miss him!" "I know, I know," Eleanor whispers to her , rubber her back trying to comfort her. Jeanette walks over and hugs Brittany, and Eleanor continues to rub her back. Miss Miller, seeing this says "Oh dear! I'll just leave you girls alone, you can come in when you're ready ok?" then walks through the front door, leaving the Chipettes out on the front walk.
Little did the Chipmunks or Chipettes know, that this wasn't the end, but just the preparation of even more wondrous things to happen in the near future, for they would meet again.
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