Chapter 1
On Monday morning which was the week when the chipmunks didn't have school because thanksgiving was approaching, the Seville family were home and all of them including Dave who decided to take the week off because he wanted this years thanksgiving to be special and better than the previous ones and he wanted to spend the week with the boys, slept a few extra hours as well.
The birds were singing and the sky was still a bit dark with no clouds. Suddenly one of the boys wakes up and he was the only chipmunk who causes trouble resulting in getting himself grounded by his father. Yep you are correct, it's none of other than Alvin Seville. The 15 year old boy who everyone thinks, that he only cares about himself but, deep down they know that Alvin loves his brothers and his fathers and would do anything for them to be happy. Alvin yawns before stretching for a few seconds. "Boy, I feel like I've been born again" he said to himself feeling energized and ready to start the day. Alvin puts on his sandals before heading to his closet to grab his usual red sweater with the yellow A on the front and a pair of jeans.
After getting dressed, he puts on his Nike shoes and heads to the bathroom to brush his teeth. Meanwhile Dave, who woke up a minute after Alvin, heads to the kitchen to make his morning coffee as he still wears his pajama pants and a white t shirt. As Dave pours water in the coffee maker, he looks out the window in front of him and sees Miss Miller approaching his home so, he puts the coffee on the counter and heads to the door.
She was about to knock but, Dave opens the door which surprised her. "Well good morning Miss Miller, sorry i didn't mean to scare you. Anyway I saw you coming here from the kitchen window so what brings you here?" questioned Dave. The woman looks at him frowned and says "good morning David, I'm so sorry for coming this early but, could you do me a favor?" the man nods "of course" Miss Miller takes out a pice of paper from her purse and hands it to him. "I need a few things from the supermarket that's close to here but, I can't go because lately I've been having some back problems and I'm amazed that I was able to get here without falling to the ground not being able to move. Also, my car doesn't want to start so, could you get me those few things that I need from the super market please?" the woman pleaded as Dave stared to smile.
He cleared his throat before saying "sure Miss Miller I'll go get your groceries and would you like to join us for breakfast?" The woman looks at him appreciating his generosity and says "that would be great David and thank you for accepting to do me that favor" the man holds the door for the woman letting her in. "No problem, and I was-" "HEY DAVE IS BREAKFAST READY YET, BECAUSE I'M PLANNING TO GO TO THE SCATE PARK IN A FEW MINUTES?" Alvin rudely interrupted as he came from the stairs. Dave looks at his son making his way to the couch and questions him "Alvin can't you see I'm talking to Miss Miller here?" Alvin looks at Miss Miller standing behind his father before saying "oh sorry, I didn't know Miss Miller is here" Dave looks from his son back to the woman and says "breakfast will be ready in a few minutes so you can sit on the couch and wait-" "Could I help? I mean I don't mind giving you a hand making breakfast?" asked Miss Miller. Dave tells her "sure I could use some help" Dave leads the way to the kitchen leaving Alvin alone in the living room.
Alvin turns on the tv and begins to change the channels and as he's doing that, he hears someone coming from upstairs. He looks to see who it was and it was his youngest brother Theodore who looked hungry. The young boy looks at his older brother and says "good morning Alvin, beautiful day isn't it?" Alvin looks back at the tv and says "uh-huh" Theodore heads to the kitchen. Alvin who kept flipping the channels, found nothing interesting to watch as he waited for breakfast so, he makes up his mind and turns off the tv before heading to his room. When he gets there he sees Simon looking for something under his bed. Alvin passes by him and gets his skateboard that was leaning against the closet door. He was about to make his way out but Simon stops him. "Alvin have you seen my glasses?" he asked before bumping his head on his beds steel bars that hold it.
Alvin tries not to laugh and helps his brother up. "No I haven't seen them" replied Alvin. Simon who was seeing everything blurry, tells his brother "how did they just disappear? I remember I left them on the nightstand before falling asleep" Alvin shrugs and says "well I'm going to go now, I'm going to the skatepark" Alvin leaves the room. When he passes by the kitchen, he hears Dave talking on the phone. "Oh right now? "Oh I see" "well if it's that urgent that i'm on my way" Alvin goes in the kitchen and sees Miss Miller opening some eggs letting them drop in a pan and he also sees Theodore digging for something in the fridge. Dave turns to look at Miss Miller and says "oh I'm so sorry Miss Miller, I know I told you that I would-" Dave stopped speaking when he saw Alvin. "On second thought, I'll make sure your groceries get here before this afternoon" said Dave before approaching his oldest son.
Alvin didn't like what he heard and he especially didn't like the look Dave gave him so, he was about to run but, Dave stood in front him. "Alvin do me a favor and go get Mis Miller some items that she needs from the super mar-" "Please no Dave, it need to get to the skatepark before nine arrives because there are always some other dudes using my ramps-" "Alvin" "PLEASE DAVE ask me later because I need to get-" "ALVIN" "Come on Dave, why don't you ask Simon or Theodore to go get-" "ALLVIIIIIIINNN" "Okay, okay geez" Alvin gave up knowing he couldn't convince Dave. "That's better, now here's a list of the items she wants and-" Dave takes out his wallet and gives him a twenty. "Here's the money" Alvin puts the money and the list in his pocket. "Dave why don't you ask Simon or Theodore to go instead?" Dave crosses his arms and says "because Theodore could get lost and he is still to young to go out on his own. Simon can't go either because last night he promised me that he was going to be busy today fixing my computer. Another reason why I don't ask one of the two, is because, I asked you first" Alvin was irritated by this and says "okay fine but, I may take long though because the supermarket that's close to here, is always packed on Mondays" Alvin finishes talking before putting his skateboard on the sofa. He heads out the door and takes out the list Dave gave him.
Ten minutes later, Alvin was halfway there and he was starting to get bored from just walking so he gets an idea and reaches in his pocket. Suddenly he stops walking and says "oh crap, I forgot my phone" he kicks an empty beer bottle that was on the side walk making it hit a tree. After a few more minutes of walking, he hears a noise coming from his left. He stops walking once again and looks at an alleyway. His eyes scan every corner and every dumpster expecting to see a raccoon or a rat or something making those noises. Normally anyone who passes by an alleyway and hears a noise would just walk away but, Alvin didn't because the sound was a beautiful melody someone was humming. Alvin approaches a dumpster and looks behind it to find nothing.
Alvin wasn't scared nor creeped out by the beautiful noise coming from a spooky place. Instead it encouraged him to find out where it was coming from. Alvin begins to look at another dumpster but finds nothing again. The sky was still a bit dark so it was hard for him to see where it was coming from. There weren't any lamp post around the area which made it more difficult for him. Suddenly as he approached a huge broken flat screen tv he questions "is anybody there?" Um sorry for bothering you but, I just wanted to say that you sound amazing" he waits for a few seconds but he hears nothing in response. The melody now stopped and everything was now quiet. Alvin looked behind and all sides but doesn't see anyone.
Unexpectedly, the flat screen falls face down and behind it, was girl frozen in fear. Alvin jumped from the loud noise before looking at what made it. He was amazed to see two electric blue eyes looking at him. The girl who had her messy hair down, looks back at him as she begins to tremble "No no please don't hurt me, I'm just here to look for food because I'm really hungry but, I'll go now" the girl stood up and began to run away. Alvin was astonished by what he was witnessing because he had never seen such beautiful eyes before and had never heard such beautiful voice before. "WAIT" he shouted. The girl stops running before turning to face him. Alvin gets close to her and says "wait, I'm not going to hurt you" the girl takes a step back and questions "oh okay, what do you want from me then?" Alvin knew that the girl was scared of him which made him feel horrible even though he wasn't scaring the girl intentionally. "I wanted to tell you that, the melody you were humming sounded beautiful, so beautiful that I thought it was an angel humming" the girls cheeks get pink and smiles a bit. "Uh thanks, no one has ever told me that before" said the girl as she felt that he wasn't a threat to her.
Even though it was still somewhat dark, Alvin was still able to see her thanks to the moonlight. He looked at her clothing which was a long sleeve pink shirt that was dirty with holes and she had dark wash jeans that had huge holes exposing her knees and he also saw some red stains on them. The girl began to feel creeped out by him staring so she asked him, "sooo.. What's your name?" Alvin looks from her pants to her before saying "oh sorry where are my manners, I'm Alvin Seville but, you can call me the great Alvin Seville" Brittany could hear the cockiness in his voice and says "I'll call you Alvin, and my name is Brittany" "I don't know my last name is though" said the girl as she shook his hand. Alvin looked at her confused and questions "wait, you don't know your last name? But how?" Brittany was about to answer but, the noise of her stomach growling stops her.
She rubs her stomach and tries not to think about food. Alvin sees her movements and which reminded him that the girl was going to look for food in the dumpsters if he didn't showed up. "It's a long story, anyway I need to find something to eat or drink because I haven't gotten any for three days" Brittany walks by Alvin but, he quickly stops her by gently touching her shoulder. "Wait, is it cool with you if you could come with me to the supermarket that's near, so I can buy you some food?" Alvin questioned before smiling friendly at her. Brittany was stunned by his kind offer and says "no it's okay, please don't spend your money to buy me food because I'm not worth it. I'm just a homeless girl who is not important to anyone and who is a nobody and I've been looking for a job but no one wants to hire me" even though Alvin met the girl a few minutes ago, those words was like a stab to his heart. "Brittany don't say that alright, you're young girl who I can see that she can have a great future for herself. Also your so beautiful that-" Alvin stopped him so from talking as he realized what he just said.
Brittany's cheeks get pink again and she says "thanks Alvin, your the first guy who has told me that" Alvin mentally slaps himself before saying "your welcome Brittany. So shall we get going?" the girl giggles and says "we shall" Alvin leads the way to the store as the girl follows.