Simon and Eleanor were on the smartphone when an email alert came up. "What could this be about?" she asked.

"Dear everyone,

I need you to add more rules since I will be out of town for the weekend in a few weeks. Anyone can contribute except Alvin, since he does not follow then anyway.

Thanks,

Dave"

Eleanor smirked at Simon before saying, "You are so good with rules, why don't you write a whole section by yourself?"

Simon replied, "Possibly, I just have so much going on between the science olympiad and the math team that I might not have time."

Eleanor said that she could help, so they started writing the list together.

11. Do not let anyone play console games

Simon: I still remember that time Alvin shattered the television screen during Wii Bowling

Brittany: Remember when you nearly broke the PS2 remote because you couldn't see the screen and thought we were still on the mini game in Dragon Ball?*

Simon: I can never see the screen regardless. I specifically asked you to let Jeanette and I know about round changes

Alvin: Didn't the background music change?

Simon: No, not even during the mini game

12. Ignore Alvin if he randomly sings

Alvin: heaven ain't close in a place like this, I said uh heaven ain't close in a place like this...

Brittany: I just really hate the Killers

Alvin:..bring it back now, bring it back now tonight

Alvin: I got room with you and any way

Brittany: Please don't

Alvin: And somebody told me, that you had a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend, in February of last year

Brittany: He does it for attention

13. Do not sympathise with Alvin when he gets in trouble

Brittany: These rules are getting harder

Alvin ^in punishment crate^ The long and winding road, that leads to your door, I always travel here, I've seen that road before

Simon: Should I get the Mishkya** cage?

Brittany: He's not that dumb

Alvin: Don't leave me standing here, lead me to your door

Brittany: Please get it Simon

Simon: ^goes down to lab^

Alvin: Many times I've been alone, and many times I've cried

14. Do not use self-defence in school

Simon: I learned this the hard way. Alvin has not learned yet in any way

Alvin: But remember when Theodore was getting bullied?

Simon: You mean every day?

Alvin: That one time...

Simon: Which one do you mean? We have been in school for two years, Alvin. That is more than 360 days

Alvin: The time Ryan and the boys...

Simon: Can you be more specific? They do it multiple times a day

Alvin: ?

Simon: The humans get the wrong message

15. Alvin cannot sleep alone

Alvin: Why? I have my own bed

Simon: I do not want you getting into any shenanigans while we are asleep

Theodore: I don't want to be woken up. Let me sleep

Simon: We do not have desks anyway, so my bed is now my desk

Alvin: So you're then one who strangles me in my sleep

Simon: ?

Alvin: You try to kill me every night...

Simon: To be fair, you deserve it

Alvin: Hey!

16. Alvin cannot attend school sports games

Alvin: Why?

Brittany: I love seeing the cheerleaders, most of them are my friends

Simon: You keep yelling and jeering to the point where everyone else on the bleachers is visibly embarrassed

Alvin: They're doing it too!

Eleanor: I don't think you should take your insults from Simon. Ryan was mad at you for a month after you called him a melanin-deficient, melanoma-ridden Anglophone from the sidelines

Simon: I did not mention melanoma, nor do I have any idea where Alvin got it from. I mentioned sunburns, which increase the risk of skin cancers in general

17. Do not let Let it Bleed and Let it Be play similtaneously

Eleanor: It lets ears bleed, but doesn't let them be

Simon: Alvin thought the perfect compromise was whatever letters were left in the Stones' version after taking out the word be***

Alvin: Let it led, let it led, let it led, let it led

Jeanette: The poor syntax makes me stressed

18. Everyone must finish their homework for the next day before having fun

Simon: This rule is really meant for Alvin, everyone else does it

Brittany: Does this apply when you and Jeanette have fun doing homework?

Simon: I am not sure, Eleanor wrote the title of this one

Eleanor: I meant to do write do their own thing, but that was too long

19. Curfew for everyone is 7 o'clock

Alvin: Why? There's so much to do

Eleanor: Dave made me in charge of enforcing curfew, so I can set the time. I thought it would be easier if it was two hours before lights-out

Brittany: My little sister does a decent job, but Simon would have the curfew be close to four o'clock

Eleanor: In the afternoon?

Brittany: Yes

20. Always keep the Alvin police squad fully charged

Brittany: How do you charge a police squad?

Jeanette: They are drones

Alvin: Let me guess, Simon built them

Jeanette: Not really, he just programmed them to receive GPS signals

Alvin: So I have a chip? ^unplugs APS^

Simon: ^comes into room^I told you to keep these charged

Jeanette: They also have mechanical limbs to bring you home, Alvin. We bought them from an Amazon pilot program when they were updating their drones

Simon: I had to add a steel coating and rubber grips in order to strengthen those limbs, since you originally escaped from them

*This is referring to a mini game that exists in the loading main game on one Dragonball Z game for PS2. In the minigame, you use the nunchuck of the remote to reduce the mass of pink creatures and the faster you do it, the better. My brother, a Dragonball superfan, had this among several games

**The main character in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Prince Mishkya. Mishkya is a mild diminutive of Dmitri, and the use of a diminutive name as automatic indicates his lack of experience, knowledge or extreme fondness to others

***The Rolling Stones (the band) are often referred to as the Stones by classic rock fans. The title song of the album of the same name is a spoof of the Beatles Let it Be,and released in 1971

Author's note: Please send me more rules! I need your help. I will take any and all ideas