Ring! The bell rang, indicating that school was out- for the summer! Kids dashed out of their homerooms and then throwing their binders filled with old work into the air to let all the papers fly away. Some of the kids pulled the fire alarms, thinking they wouldn't get in trouble. Simon just walked to his locker calmly, ignoring all the racket going on around him. As he put his notebooks into his backpack, he gently closed the locker and turned around to see Alvin running around kicking all of his work all over the floor.

"Alvin. You are trashing the hallways. That is not a way to act. You know that trees died for you to write on those papers. You are wasting that." He confessed. Alvin turned to look at his nerdy brother.

"Tree hugger, everyone else is doing it, so why can't I?" He quizzed. "Exactly." He snapped not letting Simon get a chance to answer his ridiculous question. He ran down the hallway not waiting for Theodore or Simon to walk home from school with him.

"Huh..." Simon sighed. He continued down the trashed hallway to the entrance of the school building. Mostly everyone was gone, some forgetting their things in their lockers or something like that. Who cares about school anyway? Simon thought to himself.

"Hey, Simon." Theodore startled him. He was wearing his normal everyday outfit, a green zip-up hoodie with some blue jeans and a pair of green and white sneakers. As normal, he was eating the cookie that he saved for the walk home.

"H-hello Theodore." Simon greeted his younger brother who started to walk with him. "You frightened me."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Where's Alvin?" He asked, looking around not seeing his mischevious older sibling. He began munching on his peanut butter cookie.

"That's ok. I don't know where he is if you come to think about it. The last time I saw him was when he was kicking his notebooks across the hallway." Simon chuckled. As he said the last sentence, he spotted Alvin walking with Jeanette down the school steps. "There he is!" He pointed towards him.

"What's he doing with Jeanette?" Theodore asked. Simon walked a little faster, still keeping an eye on his brother.

"I don't quite know." He kept the pace a little slower for Theodore to catch up with him. "Hey, Alvin!" He shouted. Alvin turned his head. Once he caught sight with his brother he turned back around and ran, pulling Jeanette. She yelped with pain, as Alvin firmly gripped her shoulder in his paw.

"Hey, stop! You're hurting her!" Simon shouted again. But Alvin couldn't hear him, at least pretended not to. He just kept on telling Jeanette to move faster and faster till they were out of reach. "He's gone." Simon panted as he saw them vanish.

"That was weird." Theodore breathed heavily as he caught up with him. "Why was he running?"

"For the last time Theodore, I don't know! We got to find him, he was hurting poor Jeanette!" He pushed up his black, round glasses. Theodore brushed crumbs off his sweater and continued to follow Simon down the cemented sidewalk.

"Where do you think he would've gone?" He asked. Simon didn't answer. He was probably focused on Jeanette and what Alvin was going to do with her.

Oh, no! What if he traps her, or makes her do chores for him? What if he begs her into buying that new video game for him? I will kill him if he hurts her! I got to put a stop to this, starting now! Thoughts swirled into Simon's head. "I might know where he would've gone." He murmured.

They wandered down a few streets and crossed a few roads. They were heading on the contrary direction of their house. They only stopped to catch their breath.

"Where are we going again?" Theodore asked.

"Shh..." Simon put his paw up to Theodore's mouth. "You have to be quiet." He whispered. Then they heard it.

"Help! Someone, please help me!" A faint cry echoed into the cloudy sky. It sounded like Jeanette. Simon dashed up the road, not waiting for Theodore this time. He turned around the corner, dropping his bag.

"Help!" Jeanette cried helplessly. It was coming from an abandoned shop. He braced himself for what he was going to encounter inside. He opened the door and listened for a cry. He heard it once more as the door shut behind him and the lights flickered off.