I felt my body tense as I stood before the class, their boredom slowly increasing and I raised my finger up, uttering.
"Just that... um... party at my house... tonight?"
"Woo!" someone in the back of the room cheered, and Simon looked at me flabbergasted. I quickly hurried to my seat, but as I sat down, I could hear the room erupt in a sea of whispers and giggles.
"Alvin... that was your announcement?" Miss Smith asked me plainly and I quickly nodded my head.
"Er, yeah..."
"Alright, it's not like they pay me to care."
"Alvin," Simon hissed in a whisper into my ear and I was still breathing heavily in and out in panic of our situation, "You could've said anything, YET you said THAT?!"
"I had to," I whined back in desperation and nearly fell off my seat in unsteadiness as I was still freaking out a little, "I'm Alvin Seville. They would've expected something amazing to come out of my mouth."
"You two." Miss Smith's voice snapped, grating on my ears and me and Simon both turned our eyes slowly up at her, "Stop talking."
"Y-yes, m'am."
"Stop." Miss Smith said plainly, and Simon pulled a puzzled look.
"Okay."
"Shhs..." she said grouchily, glaring down at him and Simon this time said not a word, "Good."
She got back to teaching the lesson and me and my brother looked at each other, very desperate and confused.
~x~
When the bell rang, Theodore got up to leave for the next class, the Chipettes walking out with him, and as I began to follow, not knowing what else to do-
Simon grabbed my arm, pulling to the side of the wall and yelling at me in horrified fear.
"Alvin! A PARTY?! Don't you realize you have serious altered the timeline?!"
"No..." I said back blankly, acting sarcastic, but it kinda dawned on me that second that... oh snap! I did, "I didn't, did I?!"
"Argh!" Simon growled, nearly choking the air instead of choking me, and I watched him, scared at how very angry he had gotten.
"Uh?"
Simon froze when we heard Brittany say this from behind us, and we both turned to look at her as she and her sisters waited at the door with Theodore.
"Are you two alright?"
"We're fine, Brit." I said back with a roll of my eyes and she just placed her hand on her hip, approaching us slowly as she continued.
"No, no, no," she said, coming over to me and looking me up and down in a concerned way, "You just told the whole class that there was going to be a party at our house. So how are we going to distract Dave?"
"First of all, our house? You girls live in a tree!"
"What?!" Eleanor said, her voice insulted and Brit looked at me like I was losing my mind.
"A tree, Alvin? Really? Since when have we lived in a tree?"
"Er, since a year ago!" I yelled and the blonde chipette just looked at me, with even more offhanded concern.
"I think he's losing his mind." Eleanor whispered in the distance, but it was loud enough for everyone to hear.
"No, sis." Brittany said, and looked at her younger sibling, "I think his already lost it."
"Whatever! Act like idiots. Me and Simon have to go and sort something out."
"Like what?" Theodore asked as I grabbed Simon by his blue sleeve and pulled him forcefully behind me as the two of us left the room, "Don't you remember we have to sign up for extra curriculum?"
"What?" Simon and I said at the same time, stopping in our steps and Brittany rolled her eyes, getting really annoyed with us now.
"What? Have you two honestly forgotten to take your brain pills today? First day of school remember? We have to sign up for our special interests before all the spots are gone."
"Oh," Simon said, trying to act normal and uttered out quickly, "Oh, yeah! Duh, how could we forget about that, Alvin..."
"I don't know, Simon..." I said in an equally annoyed growl at him, "I was just trying to-"
"Can we just go?" Brittany interrupted tired of all this back and forth between me and Simon, and the two of us gulped, nodding our heads as we left for the sign up board.
When we reached it, Brittany looked at it in horror.
"What? All the extra subjects are already taken?"
"Well, besides high level maths and astronomy."
"Oh, yeah... like I need to look at the stars when I am a star!" Brittany cried in despair and Jeanette quickly signed up for the last spot for astronomy.
Simon hesitantly picked up the pen, seeming to place the inked point of it against the maths sheet, and signed it... not knowing what else he was supposed to do.
"Well, great..." Eleanor said, all grouchily and glared at me and Simon annoyed. "We all agreed we would get on the soccer try outs sheet, theatre and the school singing groups. Now, now there's like nothing left!"
"Alvin, I really need to speak with you." Simon said to me in a drawn out desperate voice and grabbed my arm, pulling me away from Theodore and the girls.
When we had gotten to a quiet hall, he said in nearly a roar.
"We have so MESSED UP!"
"No... it's," I said quickly, trying to think of a smart answer, "It's fixable."
"I'm trying to remember what we did last year on this day," Simon said, playing back images of memory in his brain, "But nothing is coming to me. All I know is that Jeanette did not sign up for astronomy, and there was definitely no party. We have to call it off."
"NO." I said in an angry gasp, thinking of my reputation, "There has to be a party. Think about it, Simon." I said to him, grabbing him by the side of his upper arm and yanking to my side as I made him ponder the same thing I was pondering, "We're stuck here... on this day. We can literally make our future awesome now! You fix up a time booth and we'll be out of here and back to next year in a flash."
"Fix up a- FIX UP A-!" Simon screeched in fury and glared at me with so much rage I thought he was going to explode like a volcano, "That took me eight hours to build!"
"Then you better start building now... remember, Simon," I said to him, and he stared at me, his anger dying down a bit but his worry growing, "The longer we're in the past, the more we will mess with it. And I am so going to be the coolest kid at school this time next year."
"Alvin, don't use this terrible misfortune for your own benefit!" my brother said to me, and I just looked down to my phone, showing him the clock on it as I said.
"Ooo, you see the time, Simon. Tick tock, tick tock. The more you wait to get building, the more time I have to alter things..."
"Oooooh!" Simon groaned in frantic worried internal pain and said to me as he hurried to his locker, getting some things before pointing his small finger at me furious.
"If we go back and the world is in World War Three because of you Alvin! I will personally go back in time and make sure you are never born."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." I said, ignoring his half baked threat. There was no way Simon would do something like that, so that was the main reason why I knew he was lying, and my brother just gave pleading eyes, giving me a warning point at the fingers as he demanded.
"Please."
"Alright... alright..." I said to him, and he hurried out of the building.
As I saw him disappear from my sight, I gave a giddy giggle as I said to myself in delight.
"I won't change too much..."
I rubbed my hands together as if hatching up a plan for how I was going to relive this day.
"Just enough..."
