Chapter 4: Coping with the Chipmunks
The Chipettes eventually made it to the Seville house. Brittany, usually, was the first to ring the front doorbell, but Jeanette rang it this time. Simon opened the front door, making Jeanette, Brittany and Eleanor a little nervous inside.
"Hello, everyone! Glad you could make it!" Simon said, gleefully.
"Y-yeah. I'm just as excited as you are, Simon." Brittany said, again trying her best to imitate Jeanette.
"So Jeanette, would you like to join me to my lab?" He asked. Brittany was even more nervous, considering the body she was switched in.
"Uh…um…" Brittany's palms were sweating rapidly.
"Is something wrong, Jeanette?" Simon asked again. Brittany was trying to reply to Simon's question, her palms still sweating in nervously.
Brittany got nervously red-faced. "NO! Everything's fine! I'd gladly join you for your experimental project, Simon!" She yelled. Jeanette and Eleanor were surprised, as was Simon. Strange, usually Jeanette thinks before she speaks. He thought.
The Chipettes got inside, Brittany joining Simon in his lab, and Eleanor came up with a plan.
"Alright, so here's the plan. We all hang out with the Chipmunks without letting them know something fishy's arising, okay." She whispered to Jeanette.
"Okay, so I'm with Theodore, and you're with Alvin?" Jeanette asked quietly.
"Yep, that's just about the size of it."
"Alright, let the plan commence!" Jeanette said excitedly.
Eleanor walked upstairs to the Chipmunks bedroom and knocked on the door. Alvin had answered.
"Brittany, what are you doing here? I'm trying to do something productive!" He said. Eleanor took a peek at his room. His Gamebox was on and he had paused his video game, "Super Alien Cousins."
"That's not very productive, Alvin." She told him in her best impression of Brittany.
"Then, what is? Putting on a bucket-load of make-up?" Alvin asked.
What he said didn't really have an effect on Eleanor, considering she barely puts on make-up. So she pretended to get hurt by Alvin's words.
"Alvin, how rude of you! I thought we were friends!" Eleanor cried, smiling a little inside.
"Oh, my! I'm sorry, Brittany! Can I make it up to ya? Wanna play Super Alien Cousins with me?" He asked.
"Sure!" Eleanor said. She happily walked in the bedroom. That's odd. Since when was Brittany a gamer gal? Alvin thought.
Theodore walked to the kitchen with Jeanette. "So, Eleanor, what'd you like to eat?" He asked. Jeanette paused. She knew her little sister shared Theodore's traits, but she wasn't really hungry.
"Um, I'd just like a granola bar, please?" She asked.
"Aw, but I made us hotdogs." Theodore said, sadly. Jeanette flinched. She wasn't a big fan of hotdogs, in fact she HATED hotdogs. The thoughts of different meats squished together in the shape of a wiener made Jeanette want to vomit. But she tried to keep her chunks intact since she was in Eleanor's body, and hated hurting people's feelings.
"Uh, well, I'm not sure Theodore…" Jeanette said, imitating Eleanor.
"Aw, c'mon, you know you'll like it!" Theodore suggested. No. I wouldn't like it. (Sigh) Might as well. I hope I don't vomit! She said in her mind.
"Well, okay." Jeanette said. She slowly grabbed the hotdog. Eww! Just holding it the hotdog…it's so slimy! She thought. Jeanette hesitatingly placed the hotdog in her mouth and began chewing it slowly. She then swallowed it, and gave Theodore a thumbs up sign, indicating to him that she "liked" the hotdog.
"See, I knew you'd like it, Eleanor!" Theodore exclaimed.
"Yeah, I enjoyed it Theodore, the greatest hotdog I've ever tasted." Jeanette said. After he left the room, Jeanette's cheeks puffed up from chunks. She quickly ran out of the kitchen and into the bathroom upstairs. She bent down and began vomiting. That was SO gross! I'm never eating hotdog wieners ever again! She thought. She then proceeded to continue her vomiting. Theodore had heard the vomiting, and was surprised.
"That's strange. Eleanor loves hotdogs…maybe it must have been a bad wiener or something else…" He said to himself.
Simon was inside his laboratory as was who he thought was Jeanette. He caught Brittany "reading" one of her books, Sapphire Flowers, the same book Jeanette had been reading last month.
"Jeanette, you've already read that book last month! Why're you reading it for a second time?" Simon asked. Brittany was shocked.
"Oh! I'm…uh, reading this again because…well, I r-really like this book." She replied. Simon had tried to comprehend what Brittany said.
Well, if she likes the book, why should I question her? He thought. "Okay. If you like it Jeanette, I don't blame you." He said to "Jeanette."
Simon was playing around with experimental chemicals, and mixing and labeling different test tubes.
"Jeanette, could you pass those other chemicals, please? But be careful with some of them. They can be harmful." Simon told Brittany.
"And ruin my hair with those, no way!" Brittany said, quickly covering her mouth.
Simon was confused. What?! Jeanette loves doing experiments, with me, what's going on? He thought. Simon felt something fishy go on.
"Jeanette, you've been acting strange lately. Is something wrong?" He asked.
"Well, the truth is, Simon…" Brittany was frozen still. Her eyes began to well up in tears. "(Sniff) I'M NOT JEANETTE!"
Brittany began sobbing. Simon didn't know what was going on. The Chipettes' little switching game was about to come to a complete end. And the truth about Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor's switch was about to be revealed.