Chip-ergarten

About This Story: The Chipmunks start Kindgarten and meet some mysterious new friends, the Chipettes. Some similarities may overlap with "The Squeakquel", only they are in Kindergarten. Warning: some chapters contain some harsher adult(-ish) themes, even though age-wise they are 5. I don't own any part of the Chipmunk franchise, just borrowing them from Nickelodeon, Janice Karman, & Ross Bagdasarian, their family, & their company.

About This Chapter: Rated PG, for mild action and depiction of mild injury, also mention of female undergarments.

Pairings: Alvin/Brittany, Simon/Jeanette, Theodore/Eleanor

6. A Near Hit

Although Alvin enjoyed hanging out with Jeanette and Eleanor at lunch that day, during recess he returned to playing ball with the bigger boys. He saw that Theo and Ellie were headed for the swings, and Simon and Jeanette were doing the seesaw again.

He caught a brief glimpse of the other Chipette sister, Brittany, as she was off playing in the same hopscotch corner as yesterday with some of the other girls in their class. Those girls were off minding their own business.

Alvin and his partner Ryan were winning at whatever ball game they were playing, if there were really a score to keep. Derek and Xander were throwing the ball to them. At one point, Derek was throwing the ball pretty hard. Alvin was originally going to ignore it, since it was headed out of bounds. But at the last second, he looked up and saw that Brittany was walking in the line of fire, oblivious to the danger, probably on her way to get a drink or go to the restroom. Alvin hated to see anything happen to Brittany, even though he barely knew her. He still thought she was pretty, and he was instantly friends with her sisters earlier at lunch.

"Look out!" Alvin called out as he dove in front of Brittany as a last-ditch effort, pushing her out of the way, but tumbling into her in the attempt. He shook his head to regain his senses, then glanced at the girl chipmunk under him. "Are you OK, Brittany?" He scrambled off of her to help dust her off.

Brittany remained lying on her left side, but she blinked in shock as she looked at him. "Uh...thank you for the save." She nearly heaved as she tried to regain her breath. "And I don't think we've been officially introduced, so how did you know my name?"

"Me and my brothers sat with your sisters at lunch today." He smiled. "I'm Alvin, by the way. Sorry about knocking you over, but I was afraid it would hurt you more if I let that ball hit you - Derek has been throwing pretty hard today." He tried helping her to her feet.

"That's OK." Brittany winced in pain once she was pulled to her feet. She glanced at her left elbow and left knee, and saw that both were bruised, scraped, and bleeding. "Oww..." She moaned.

"Are you alright, Brittany?" Ms Garcia asked as she came up to check on the fallen chipmunk children. Upon inspecting her scrapes, the teacher concluded, "I think you might need to see the school nurse to get that cleaned off and bandaged." She turned to Alvin. "What about you, Alvin? Your knee is scraped up too."

"What?" Alvin glanced down at his knees. Sure enough, his right one was scraped up and bruised as much as Brittany's left knee. "I didn't even notice that! I was so caught up in making sure Brittany was OK. I'm sorry about knocking her over, I just didn't want the ball to hit her and probably hurt her more."

"Yes, I saw you trying to save her, Alvin." Ms Garcia smiled. "That was very brave of you. Would you like to walk with her to the school nurse? You could get your own knee cleaned off and bandaged while you're there."

Alvin nodded as Ms Garcia took his right hand and Brittany's left hand, leading them back inside the cafeteria. She opened the door for them and pointed across the large atrium. "It's that room over there, on the other side of the kitchen area, almost where the gym is. Do you think you can make it from here OK?"

"I think so." Brittany nodded.

Ms Garcia left them to resume her post of watching the other kids at recess. The two of them headed to the nurse's office by themselves.

Alvin noticed that Brittany was still wincing in pain, and even walking with a slight limp. "How's your arm and your knee?"

"Still hurts. And I may have also hit my head. Did I hit my head against your head? Or was it just the ground?" She groaned. "What about your knee?"

Alvin shrugged as he tried feeling his head for bumps and bruises. "My knee is starting to hurt a little more. But my head is fine. I think your head hit my shoulder, though, I can feel a bit of a bruise there." He sighed, "If I only did a better job of saving you, we wouldn't be on our way to the nurse's office. Sorry about that."

Brittany smiled over at him, despite the pain. "Oh, thank you again for saving me, though. That ball was aiming right for my head! And it was half as big as me! I'm actually sorry that I didn't get to hang out with you at lunch today. And I'm sorry that I haven't been very friendly around you, or your brothers. I guess I was mad at you yesterday at recess, for looking at my panties. I've heard from my sisters that you guys are really nice. But I've just heard nothing but bad stuff about you guys from my manager."

Alvin slightly chuckled while rolling his eyes. "Yeah, we go way back with Uncle Ian. And we really didn't leave him on the best of terms."

Brittany paused. "How did you know our manager's name? We aren't even supposed to tell you."

Alvin clarified, "At lunch, we were talking with your sisters, telling them about our manager - and dad, we call Dave - and asking them to tell us more about your manager, or what you call him at home. When Jeanette said that at home you call your manager 'Uncle Ian', we realized it was Ian Hawke, since that's what we called him when he was our manager. I guess he's still pretty mad at us if he doesn't want you girls to tell us anything about your home life." He took a few more steps before adding, "Oh, and sorry about recess yesterday. I mean, I wasn't trying to look up your skirt - nice as your panties were - but your dress was coming up on its own while you were spinning around really fast. Your sisters told me at lunch that I had made you feel bad then, so I felt bad after hearing that and just wanted to apologize."

"Apology accepted." Brittany smiled at him. "I feel bad now that all I hear about you from Uncle Ian is bad. I mean, he loves me, and he's nice to me. It's too bad I'm the only chipmunk he likes."

"He was kinda nice to me, too - at least while we lived with him." Alvin stated in surprise. "He just wasn't so nice to my brothers. Uncle Ian would lock them in the 'Punishment Cage' a lot - sometimes for no good reason. But Giorgio totally loved me. He was nicer to my brothers than Ian was, but he was even nicer to me. I was definitely the closest of the Chipmunks to him." He sighed again. "Well, we're almost to the nurse's office. How is your arm and your knee, and your head? My knee is starting to hurt a little more, and my shoulder still feels sore, but OK."

Brittany glanced at her wounds. "They're still bleeding, and they all still hurt a little more than earlier, but now that I've gotten to talk to you I realize you aren't the enemy - I feel a lot better about you. For what it's worth, I'm still glad you could 'rescue' me from that ball. I guess this makes you my 'hero' or something." They shared a chuckle.

He slipped his arm around her and smiled at her as they came up to the door of the nurse's office. "It was my pleasure - at least I got to meet you during this whole accident. And now that I've met you, I don't want to let anything bad happen to you. I mean, we singing chipmunks have got to stick together."

A/N: Ryan and Xander are from "The Squeakquel", and Derek is from the 2015 Nickelodeon cartoon series. And since Alvin is in Kindergarten, and he's never been the most "grammatically correct", so it would make sense that he would say "me and my brothers..." instead of "my brothers and I...". But I'm sure some hardcore "grammar enthusiasts" were still cringing. This chapter is fairly short and sweet, but I'm sure the Alv-ittany fans were anxious about them meeting. Looks like they can be nicer to each other when they realize they are on the same team!