Getting to Know You

Alvin and Britney's story

Part II

When we last left Britney and Alvin, Alvin had just confessed his feelings to Britney after an exciting and insightful game of Spin the Bottle. Let's see what's happening now…

"Me?!" Britney asked, both stunned and excited at Alvin's answer.

"I knew it; you're going to hate me now!" Alvin lamented, obviously misreading her expression in the darkness.

"On the contrary, I was worried you would say someone other than me." She said quietly when she saw that he didn't believe her; she leaned over and kissed him again. This time though, she poured all of her emotion into the kiss she gave him, and as soon as he recovered from his shock again, he began to kiss her back with a passion that neither knew could exist.

As their kissing deepened and their senses began to lessen until the only thing that seemed real was the person in their arms, the porch light flicked on startling them both. The door creaked open and Eleanor poked her head out and said, "Not to be rude but, if you guys are making out, does this mean you are finally going out?"

Alvin turned a deep shade of crimson and scratched his head as he answered, "Actually, I didn't get the chance to ask yet"

He shyly turned to Britney and asked, "Will you go out with me?"

"Oh Alvin, of course!" Britney answered excitedly, ecstatic that he had finally asked her out.

When he heard her answer, he almost fainted from shock.

"Wait," Britney said as she turned an evil eye to her sister who was still in the doorframe looking at them with a smirk, "What the hell are you doing up at this time of day, you were asleep a few minutes ago."

"Well, I was going to wake up Theo and do what you guys were doing, but I figured I'd at least see who asked out whom first." She replied smugly.

"Why did you care?" Alvin asked suspiciously.

"Well, you see," she said in reply, stumbling over her words as they came out, "We had a pool going as to when you guys were going to finally start going out, and there was also a side bet between me and Theo as to who would do the asking. Heh heh, guess I should have kept that a secret huh?"

"Oh yeah, cause tomorrow when the guys wake up there's gonna be hell to pay." Alvin swore with an angry look on his usually collected face.

"That goes for you and Jeanette as well." Britney said.

"Heh heh, I'll be going now…" Eleanor replied laughing nervously as she imagined what Brit would do to them in the morning.

"What do you think she was really doing?" Alvin asked Britney when the door closed.

"I think she was actually trying to see if we'd hook up." Britney replied.

"You know what; I think it's getting early. Maybe we should go to sleep?" Alvin suggested.

"I think that's a good idea." Britney answered, the moment of magic they had just shared lost in the wake of Ellie's interruption.

And so our young lovers shuffled back into the house and crawled into their sleeping bags, both hardly daring to believe what had just happened.

The next morning, as the kids struggled into waking up after their long night,

"HHHAAAAAHHHH" Theo yawned as he sat up.

"Morning babe," Eleanor greeted him with a smile.

"Will someone please shut the sun off…" Alvin mumbled as he stuffed his head under his pillow.

"I don't think that would be physically possible." Jeanette said in reply, obviously not getting the joke.

"I think he means close the curtains." Simon said from his spot on the floor, as he rolled over onto his back and blinked away the sleep that had accrued during the night.

"I got it." Britney said as she stood up out of her bag and stumbled over to the curtains to close them.

When the lights were dimmed, thanks to the curtains, Alvin groaned out a thank you to Britney and rolled over to continue sleeping. Only to be kicked in the side by his brother Simon.

"OW! What the hell Si?"

"Get up; you still have to do the science project we were assigned last month. Remember? It's due tomorrow?" he replied coolly as he made sure that Alvin actually got out of bed this time.

"Ugh, at least let me eat something before we head out to the damn library." Alvin grumbled.

"Eleanor has some food for us in the kitchen." He replied curtly, turning to leave the living room to go eat breakfast.

As he watched Simon leave the room and turn the corner, Alvin muttered, "Scrooge"

After checking the bathroom to see that it was clear, Alvin peeled off his clothes and hopped in the shower. As th warm water began to flow over him, he thought back to the night before when Britney had put her head on his shoulder as they watched Grease, and how much he could relate to the guy in the movie, trying to impress the girl he thought didn't like him. Then when he found out that she did, he didn't think there was a word out there to express just what he felt. Then this morning, nothing, almost as if she was trying to forget about last night.

"Maybe she's not a morning person…" he pondered out loud to himself.

After a few more minutes of letting the water run down his skin, he decided to get out and get dressed. The only problem was that he had forgotten to bring a towel in with him.

"Ugh, you have got to be kidding me!" he said in exasperation as tried to figure out what to do next. He knew where the linen closet was, but it was also clear across the hall and out of reach unless he sprinted. And even then, there was a chance that someone could see him while he made this mad dash. Maybe he should just call out for one of his brothers to bring him a towel?

"Need one of these?" Britney said from the doorway, startling him to the point that he actually slipped and fell, cracking his head on the water spout.

"WHAT THE HELL!!!" he cried in alarm. Trying to turn himself so that he still maintained a sliver of privacy, "Why are you in here!? Did you knock?!"

"You left the door open," she said, covering her eyes, "And I saw that you forgot a towel, so I went to get you one when you shut the water off and I was standing here. Sorry, I just tried to do something nice, and I ended up scaring you."

"You didn't scare me, you took me by surprise, can I have the towel now?" he said trying to will his face to go back to its usual tan color, rather than the rose complexion he had recently adopted.

"Oh, sure, um, I'll be going now," she stumbled over her words as she left the towel on the sink and closed the door.

"Geez, I think she was more embarrassed than me" he said to himself, "I wonder what all she saw?"

After a couple more minutes of wondering what she was really doing in there, he decided he'd be better off asking her later, when they had a chance to be alone in the library, and he proceeded to finish up with his morning routine.

Britney couldn't believe what she had just seen. She had originally gone up there to use the bathroom, but when she went in and saw that Alvin was using the shower, she immediately tried to avert her eyes, but after a couple seconds of being in the same room as him, her will power had crumbled and caused her to sneak a look at him. Even with his back turned to her, she was still amazed at the tone he had, and the water running down the little canyons between the finely sculpted muscles of his back had her wondering just what his front must look like as he reached for the shower handle and turned off the water.

As he did, the steam seemed to dissipate instantly and he turned around to reach for the towel that wasn't there. When she saw him reaching around on the empty rod, she was hit by an idea, and announced her presence by offering him her own towel. Needless to say, the whole scenario had played out better in her head.

As she left the bathroom red in the face, she ran smack into her little sister Jeanette, though little was a relative term.

"What were you doing in there?" Jeanette asked curiously.

"Uh, I just went in there to give Alvin his towel." Britney replied trying to forget everything else she had done before then.

"Alvin's in there?" she asked a little shocked, "If he's in there, why did you go in?"

"Uh, I went in there by accident," Brit hastily answered.

"But you just said,"

"I know what I said Jeannie, now let's go get some breakfast." Britney cut her off, trying to steer her away from the whole topic.

"But I already ate, didn't I?" Jeanette said, though not very convincingly, as if she was trying to remember if she had actually eaten.

"Well, you know what, I want to have breakfast with my sisters, so come on." Britney said and physically spun Jeanette around and led her into the kitchen to eat, and wait for Alvin to come down from the bathroom.

When he was done getting changed into his usual red shirt and jeans, Alvin walked down the stairs trying to avoid his brother so he could at least have a few minutes of quiet to himself before going off to the library for the day. When he reached the bottom of the steps that led into the kitchen, he saw that Britney and Jeanette were eating at the counter by themselves. Thinking it was safe to approach, he started to walk forward quietly so he could scare them like normal. As he got closer though, he was too stunned listening to what they were talking about to care about scaring them.

"So do you want to tell me why you were really in the bathroom with Alvin?" Jeanette asked.

"I told you already Jeanette, I went in there by accident, and we didn't do anything, I was handing him his towel and then I left." Britney replied.

"Well, whatever you did in there, please tell me it won't come back to haunt you." Jeanette finished going back to her toast.

"It won't, I promise." Britney said determinedly.

"Well, isn't that sweet, and here I thought you were in there to check me out." Alvin burst out, startling Britney and Jeanette both.

"And all this time, it was an easily forgotten accident. Good to know Brit." He said as he stormed out of the room with a pained look on his face as he went to go get his stuff from the living room.

"Ah shit," Britney said under her breath as she chased after him once she had collected her senses.

"Oh dear," Jeanette exclaimed, feeling partially responsible for the whole incident, "Should I come along and try and explain?" she asked as she watched Britney rush out of the room after Alvin.

"NO!" Britney said emphatically, "Just go tell Simon that he'll be up to the library after I have a talk with him."

As he was packing up his stuff in the living room, Alvin heard a small noise coming from the entrance. When he looked up, he saw that the noise was caused by none other than Britney, who stood there looking at him like she was ashamed.

"What do you want?" he snapped at her, the hurt he felt becoming apparent immediately.

"I wanted to talk to you about what happened," she said hesitantly.

"And what happened exactly?" he asked.

"I was hoping you could tell me, all I know is the boy I told my feelings to last night is acting really strange today, and I'm not sure why that is." She answered quickly.

"So you were serious last night, you were serious?" he responded, still refusing to look her in the eye.

"Of course, and I think you were serious last night too. Which is why you have me worried when you act like this all of a sudden."

"Gee, let's think about this for a second Brit, last night was great. I can't stop thinking about it, but this morning, you don't so much as say hello, then you turn up in the bathroom watching me, which doesn't really bother me if you ask, then to top it off, you tell your SISTER that you'll forget it all happened. Tell me which part of all this I'm supposed to be cool with Brit." He said angrily, all while Britney watched in disbelief as he unloaded all this on her.

"Alvin?" she asked, wondering if it was safe to talk yet, "Are you done yet?"

"Yeah, I'm done, now what?" he responded.

"If you must know, I couldn't stop thinking about last night either, that's why I was up in the bathroom, I needed to cool off and gather my thoughts. Seeing you was a pleasant surprise, and I was just about to leave when I saw you getting out and decided I'd save you a trip down the hall." She started, as he listened silently, "Then when I left, Jeanette saw me and was trying to figure if we were in there having sex, that's what she meant by, it won't come back to haunt you, that was it. Tell me what about that gives you the right to act so mean."

"Brit," Alvin started to say as he got up, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm alright, I'm just glad you aren't still mad about the whole watching you in the shower thing." She said relieved.

"Oh that I'm going to get you for, but not yet, and definitely not here." he replied with a wicked grin that sent chills of anticipation up her spine.

"Why not?" she asked seductively, leaning into his arms, trying to get closer to him.

"If only there weren't these damn clothes in the way" she thought to herself.

"Because," he replied in her ear, his breath tickling the back of her neck, "You're little sister is standing in the door watching."

When she heard this, she immediately straightened up and mad some distance between herself and Alvin, trying to keep up appearances. But when she saw Jeanette looking on with a smile, she knew that she wouldn't tell. Her sister had always nursed a soft spot for romantic stuff like this, and she was always trying to find ways to supplicate the unrequited love she felt for Simon, perhaps she was imagining herself and Simon in the same position she found herself in when she was with Alvin.

"Can we help you Jeanette?" Alvin asked offhandedly, though he seemed to like the way we sounded when he spoke about them.

"Oh," she said, snapping out of her trance for a minute, "I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm ready to take you all to the library when you are. Simon already drove Theo and Ellie over an hour ago."

"Cool, just give me a minute to get my stuff together." Alvin responded as he stooped to finish his packing.

By the time the three of them reached the library in Jeanettes van, Simon, Theo, and Ellie had already done a fair amount of the work for their presentation that was due Monday. As Alvin and Britney rounded the corner to the spot that Simon usually reserved for them, they were greeted by the interrogation techniques of Eleanor and Simon, while Theodore was in the back highlighting passages from the textbooks.

"Did you guys have a nice leisurely trip over here?" Simon asked sarcastically.

"Actually, yes." Jeanette replied for them, obviously not picking up on the sarcasm dripping from his voice.

"Chill Si, we were a little late and now we're here. Just let it go and let's get this shit done so we can still salvage what we can of the day." Alvin said in answer to Simon's question.

"And just what took so long that you all showed up an hour later than we had agreed?" Eleanor questioned, trying to uncover what they were obviously hiding.

"Nothing, I just had to shower." Brit retorted sharply.

"For an hour? Seems like a long shower." Simon said.

"Look guys, can we just get this done, I kind of have plans for the rest of the day." Alvin said suddenly.

"Fine, come on, you guys have your reports outlined right?" Simon said giving up on trying to get any further on the matter, and led them over to the table.

"Uh, no not really…" Britney and Alvin said together, unprepared as usual.

"Ugh… fine, then go into the stacks and find some books for reference and when you find about five each, get back here and I'll show you how to write a draft." Simon groaned, never ceasing to be amazed at the depths of unpreparedness that his siblings constantly found themselves in.

As Alvin and Britney went into the rows of books though, he could have sworn he saw them smiling at each other, like they had other plans than doing their work.

"You should really go a little easier on them Si." Jeanette said quietly from behind him.

Simon turned around to find her an inch away from his face; he could smell her floral perfume, intoxicating as usual. Jeanette just had a way of making all the stress in his life, undoubtedly brought on by living with Alvin, disappear.

After scrambling in his head to find something to say, he replied, "If I don't make them work harder, then they'll think you can skate through life on looks and fame alone." And so saying, he turned back to his own project as Jeanette glowered in frustration at his obliviousness.

As Alvin walked away from his brother, he couldn't help but smile at the fact that he had all but been handed the chance to chill out with Britney without any interference, this was just too good. He just hoped that Britney's mind was in the same place his was.

Britney couldn't believe that they were going to be left alone until they decided to "find" some books for their report. Until then though, who could say what they would do. She just hoped that he was thinking the same thoughts as her.

After looking through the library for a few minutes, Alvin finally found an old study room that was completely out of the way, and even better, unlocked.

"Alvin, what are we doing in here?" Britney asked innocently, "I thought we were here to get our projects out of the way."

"And we will, but I think that we could use some motivation to get done faster." He answered with a lopsided grin that gave her chills in all the right places.

"Oh, and what kind of motivation would that be?" she asked, liking where this was going very much.

"I think you know what I mean." He said as he closed the gap between them and gripped her around the hips and pulled her closer until they were kissing and grinding all at the same time.

As they continued to kiss and caress each other, the time seemed to flow much slower, and they gradually began to lose all track of time. The problem with time slowing down though, is that when it starts again, it has to go much faster to catch up, and our two lovers learned this the hard way as they were torn back to reality by Theodore materializing in the doorway and clearing his throat.

"Uh, you guys…" He said, really not wanting to break up such a scene.

As she regained her senses, Britney spoke up, "Yes Theo? Can we help you?"

"Yeah, I really hate to interrupt you guys, but Simon was starting to wonder if you were crushed by a bookcase. You've been doing research for the past hour."

"Oh shit, we've been in here that long?" Alvin asked surprised.

"Kind of, yeah" Theo replied as he turned to leave and leave them alone again.

"Maybe we should go and actually do some work…" Britney suggested.

"One last kiss before I lose you to the books?" Alvin said pleadingly.

"No, if I kiss you again, I'll lose the rest of the day." Britney replied laughing, and dragged him out of the room and into the stacks of books to finally get their project done.

The next day, Alvin sat on the steps at the entrance to the high school with his brothers, waiting for the Chipettes to show up. They were actually late, which was rare for the girls, whose schedule was run by Miss Miller and Eleanor. When they saw Jeanettes van pull up to their parking spot and the girls climbing out looking more excited than usual.

Theo and Alvin ran over to them and each went to their respective girlfriend and went their separate ways. This left Jeanette alone with Simon.

"Hey Simon!" Jeanette said as cheerful as ever.

"Good morning Jeanette." Simon replied, still a little tired from the all nighter he had pulled to help Alvin finish his project.

"How are things at your house?" she asked, trying to start a conversation about something other than school.

"Everything's going fine, except for the fact that I now have to deal with two smitten brothers and the emotions are enough to smother a person. What about your sisters?" he answered.

"I think it's lovely that our siblings are going out. It's so romantic, don't you think?" she said misty eyed over the whole affair, and wondering if Simon felt the same way she did.

"Heh heh, you've always been a bit of a hopeless romantic, haven't you?"

"Yep, and proud of it!" she said smiling at him, trying to make that smile convey all her feelings to him silently as they walked into their first class.

After Alvin and Britney walked off, they ducked into an abandoned classroom for a quick morning make out session, and neither realized what the time was until the five minute warning bell rang and they had to scramble to their first period, which conveniently enough, was the same science class.

As they walked in to take their seats, they were confused when their classmates started to clap and whistle. Then they realized that they were still holding hands. The cat was out of the bag now…

To be continued in CH III…

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