Sad Simon 4

"Okay, here are the plans guys, in exactly three weeks or less, we're going to escape this place. First of all, we're going to act like we want to stay here even though this is the last place we want to be. According to my calculations, it's September the 5th right now so in three weeks it will be the 27th. It will be our last day there so we can ask to sing a song together. He will most likely say yes, and right after we're done we can run out of the place. Maybe I'll be able to walk by then, maybe not. If I can't walk by then than I'm going to have to ride someone else's back."

"I can carry you Simon."

"Are you sure Alvin? I weigh about six more pounds than you and I am six inches taller."

"Yeah I'm sure. We do need to save you as well, don't we?" Simon smiled at Alvin than broke into a coughing fit. His throat hurt every time he coughed too. Jeannette once again offered him some milk and this time he accepted it thankfully. He hadn't eaten since breakfast time and he was still hungry although he didn't tell anyone that. They already had enough to worry about. All of a sudden, as the girls had hoped wouldn't happen; the rat came back, bringing some other rats along with it. The girls shrieked and scooted to the edge of the jail cell. Alvin went to the edge as well, to make sure the rat didn't get Brittany. One rat went next to Simon and he tried shooing it away, but it wouldn't leave. It just came even closer and started climbing up his shirt. Simon picked it up and threw it into the corner, but it just came back up to him. Alvin scooted closer to Simon and started dragging him to where the girls were. He finally got Simon there and then ran toward the rats, making them run away for a second, but then they came back. They kept coming back every time one of them shooed them away. Simon starting getting mad. This was too much for the girls to handle. They were in the corner bawling their eyes out. Despite the pain and agony, he reached over for some rocks he saw sitting on the corner and smashed one of the rats using great force with the rocks. Than all the other rats ran into the little cracks in the jail. Simon grunted. He would deal with them later.

Once the rats left, some bats came out of the cracks where the rats had just gone. They flew all over the place and one got tangled in Brittany's hair. She started screaming on the top of her lungs. Alvin calmed her down and then untangled the bat from her hair with a sick look on his face.

"If some of these bats are vampire bats like the man said, how come they're not coming after us to suck our blood?"

"Well Brittany, vampire bats only bite their prey when it's asleep." Jeannette explained. "But that doesn't stop me from being disgusted by them."

By the time the sun had come out, all four chipmunks were exhausted from staying up all night. They groaned silently when they heard Samuel's voice.

"Good morning children! Did you sleep well last night?"

"Why yes, we did." All four of the chipmunks said at the same time. They all knew it was a big lie, they hadn't even gotten a wink of sleep.

"Well then, would Alvin and Simon please follow me to the singing room? I assume the girls have told you about the singing you guys are gonna be doing for the next few days." Alvin and Simon nodded. Alvin got up, then helped Simon up. Simon groaned out loud and then got up, his face filled with a look of pain.

"Come on already, we don't have all day ya know!" Samuel started getting upset. Alvin finally got Simon to his feet and started dragging him to the jail door. When they got to the singing room, he told Alvin and Simon that they could sing any song they wanted to. They said they couldn't sing anything without Theodore. He brought out this young boy about their age and he sung with them. When they finished singing, Samuel told his men to get Simon some crutches. Simon was very grateful for this because now he didn't have to have anybody helping him with anything any more.

The days passed by and finally September 27th came. Everyone was excited that they were going to get out of here. Simon was still using crutches and hurt himself when he tried to walk on his fractured bone. He said that Alvin would carry him out. Then Brittany asked something that made them all think.

"What if Simon's plan doesn't work? No offense Simon, but we are going to be slowed down by you. What if the men catch up to us and kill us all? Won't Theodore, Eleanor, Dave and Ms. Miller be devasted? Maybe we should wait up for the police to find us. Not that Simon's plan isn't gonna work but we need to make sure that the plan is logical."

"It's our only chance Brittany, otherwise we'll die from either malnutrition, starvation, lack of sleep, or all of the above and more." The others all agreed. This was the only chance they were gonna get. Their plan was going to work out even better than they had planned because Samuel and some of the other goons had gone out to sell some of the albums that they had made over the past few weeks, and they didn't have to sing. Now there was only ten of his men here and they were all stupid. They knew by experience. Samuel was always having to tell them the rules over and over, and they never said anything that made any sense.

When the sun started setting, Simon said that the plan would go into action. Brittany and Jeannette went up to a guard and said that they had to go to the bathroom. They let them go and then when the girls got to the bathrooms, they signaled to the boys by singing out a little tune. Simon went onto Alvin's back and Alvin started carrying him and the crutches over to where the girls were. When they got there, they went to the window in the bathroom. The guards were to busy playing cards to notice what was going on. After the girls had gone down the window by tying a bunch of sheets together and scooting there selves down, Alvin started going down, followed by Simon. Simon moved as fast as he could because he knew that Samuel would be back in ten minutes. They ran out of the property, but not before Simon poured some gasoline he saw laying outside all over the property and then lit a match he saw lying on the ground to the gasoline. The place went on fire right away sending debris and other stuff flying everywhere. The chipmunks all walked fast instead of running so that Simon could keep up with them on his crutches.

All four chipmunks walked for hours until their hunger and tiredness got the best of them. They found an empty cave and slept in it for the night. When morning came, the chipmunks searched for food. They found some wild berries and Jeannette said that they were okay to eat so they gobbled them up until the whole bush was bare. An hour later, the chipmunks started feeling sick from eating the berries. They had eaten about twenty berries each, and they were starting to throw up. All of them were to sick to eat for the rest of the day. When night came, the tempurature dropped from 99 degrees to 10 degrees. All the chipmunks huddled together hoping that would make them feel a little warmer. It didn't, so they tried doing some exersice thinking it would make them feel hot. That didn't work either, so they walked and walked until they saw a leaf big enough to cover them all. They used it and it made them feel much warmer. They fell asleep and when morning time came, all of them was feeling much better. They found some banana trees, some apple trees and some mango trees. They made sure to only eat one of each fruit because they didn't want to get sick again. They walked some more until they started smelling some fresh bread, spaghetti, pizza, and hot dogs and hamburgers. They ran towards the smell and saw that they had found a city. Simon checked his pockets and saw that he still had twenty dollars in his pocket from a few weeks before. Alvin and Brittany both had ten, and Jeannette had fifty. She had been saving up for a telescope but right now food, water, and shelter was much more important. They walked towards a man selling some meat and bought twenty pounds of it. Then they saw someone selling camping backpacks and Alvin bought some since it came along with water canteens. Simon bought some books on how to survive in the wilderness. Jeannette and Brittany bought some warm clothes for all of them since their clothes they were wearing at that moment were worn out and torn in lots of different places. They saved ten dollars just in case they would need it later. They looked at the stuff that they had bought. It was enough to keep them surviving for two months. They hoped to be out of here before that though. They walked up to an officer and asked him if he could help them get home.

"Well, I would help you kids, but I'm not a real officer. I'm only dressed like one because I lost a bet with my sister. The least my family could do though is give you some dinner." The chipmunks all said yes immediatley and followed the man to his home. He lived in a mansion with three cars out in the front yard. The chipmunks followed him into a room that looked like the dining room. They stared at it in awe. His dining room was a big as their houses put together. They studied the man when they came to their senses. He looked about seventeen or eighteen and had a mustache that covered his whole entire upper lip. He had brown hair that almost covered his eyes and the girls thought it looked cute when he swished his head to get the hair out of his eyes. His mother then came into the room. She was heavyset and held lots of food in her hands. She put a bowl of hot steaming food in front of them all and they all ate like pigs.

"My goodness, you eat like you haven't eaten in weeks!"

"We haven't eaten hot food in weeks," Alvin answered back. After they had that delicous food she gave them some dessert. They ate it gratefully too. After they finished eating and they started leaving the woman stopped them.

"Stay here for the night." The chipmunks agreed without even thinking. They were extremely tired from walking all day and they wanted to sleep in a real bed for the first time in 3 and a half weeks. "But if you want to sleep in a bed you must take a bath first. I don't want my bed sheets to get dirty. The chipmunks did as they were told and took turns taking baths, each of them taking only ten minutes. When they finished the lady showed them where the beds that they were sleeping in were and they fell asleep instantly. However, she stopped Simon before he joined the others.

"Your leg is broken son?"

"Yeah but it doesn't hurt any more," he lied. It had been hurting because he hadn't gotten it wrapped up like it should have been when they escaped from that place. It probably would have been healed halfway if it had been. Right now it felt like the pole that that man had hit him with was still hitting his leg. She ordered him to sit on the sofa. He did as he was told. She told him she was a doctor and that she gave casts out to kids all the time. She knew everything about broken bones and that she would wrap his up for ten dollars. He took out the ten dollar bill that he had in his pocket and gave it to her. She took it and started wrapping it up like she had promised. He gritted his teeth to keep himself from screaming in pain. When she was done, he thanked her and he went to the room.

When Alvin and Brittany got up, they saw that Simon's leg had been wrapped up. They tiptoed past him and Jeannette not wanting to wake them up. Then they walked into the dining room and saw that no one was there and started having a low conversation.

"Brittany, did you know I've always loved you?"

"Yes, yes I did. I've always loved you too."

"Well I was just wondering when we're out of this place would you like to go out with me?"

"If we ever do, yes."

"Brittany I-" Brittany shooshed him before he could say anything else. She leaned forward and gave Alvin a quick peck on the lips before running of squealing. Alvin sat there with his mouth wide open. He was astonished that his true love of his life had just kissed him and that she loved him too.

Brittany was running off towards the room where her sister and Simon was. She jumped on top of Jeannette causing her to jump up.

"What's wrong Brittany?"

"I just kissed Alvin on the lips! Do you think he'll hate me for doing that?"

"Well actually he's been wanting to kiss you for as long as I can remember," said Simon who was just waking up. "He said that if I ever told you that, he would tell Jeannette that-" Simon paused.

"Tell me what?"

"Never mind."

"Aw, come on. Tell me. Please!" Jeannette looked at Simon with puppy eyes.

"Well, he said if I told Brittany that Alvin liked her, then he would tell Jeannette that I feel that same way about her," Simon said not looking their way.

"Aw, that is so cute!" Jeannette leaned forward and kissed Simon on the cheek. He blushed even harder but smiled when she did that. Then the lady started saying something.

"Oh no, it's that fat lady again. Act natural guys." They all started acting as if they had just gotten up and saw that their clothes had been washed and cleaned.

"Gee, thanks mam."

"Oh, I just love little children. Now hurry up and eat some breakfast. Then you can walk over to the big city. It's a whoppin' fifty miles away. If you had any more money, you could pay for a plane. Then it would only take an hour to get there. But by foot it's a three week walk."

"How much does a plane ticket cost?"

"Only $196."

"We don't even have a penny!" Simon explained that she had wrapped his leg for ten dollars. The others nodded at him.

"Well, after you eat breakfast I'll give you kids some of the stuff you're going to need to get where you're going to go." They ate breakfast quickly and she handed them some important things that they hadn't boughten yet. She gave them each a bigger bag than what Simon had boughten and in the bags that he had bought, she filled them each up with ten huge water canteens. She put some blankets, some more food, some nice clothes for warm weather and some for the hot, some nice shoes for hiking in, and a map. She drew a line to the places where they were supposed to walk.

"Wow, all this just to get help from an officer." The others nodded at Alvin. This was going to be hard, and with Simon's leg still broken it was going to be even harder than they thought.

Just so you know, I'm not trying to offend anyone that's overweight. I'm just writing what most kids would usually say if they have a big mouth about a big person. If there's anything I can do to improve my stories, please let me know in a review:)