Life with the Chipettes 1: Bespectacled Brunette
by ChipetteGirl10
~Chapter 8~
Brittany and Jeanette unknowingly excused themselves to the bathroom at the exact same time. Both sisters met up with each other in the hallway with tears of embarrassment and complete humiliation falling down their already tear-streaked cheeks. They said nothing as they walked alongside each other to the girls' room, not even expecting what was about to happen next. Jeanette pushed the heavy door open and was led into a small corridor. They were about to get to the sinks and stalls when Brittany stopped her sister, and pointed to Eleanor talking to Jennifer and Adelaide. Suspicions rising, they leaned against the wall quietly and watched.
"We had a deal," Eleanor said again, looking at the spoiled-brat cheerleaders. Jennifer circled Eleanor as she looked the chubby chipette all over, before finally speaking. "We didn't have a deal at all. I have no clue what you're talking about," she said, smirking at the blonde-haired girl. Eleanor's fists balled. "Yes, we did have a deal," she said dangerously, "you told me that you would tell the whole school about my LOVE for Theodore and I how I wanted to marry him and have three kids unless I spilled everything…and you promised not to breathe a word!" she snapped. Jennifer smirked at her again. "I don't recall a thing," she retorted. Brittany and Jeanette gasped. Jennifer Rangstonly had blackmailed their little sister into spilling about the vacation's events. The two other girls suddenly appeared to Jennifer, Adelaide, and Eleanor, making all three gasp.
"It's not what it looks like," Eleanor stammered nervously as soon as she laid eyes on her siblings. Jeanette and Brittany ignored her plea and walked right up Adelaide and Jennifer. "You blackmailed our little sister," Brittany snapped as the ginger-haired girl smirked at her. Jeanette placed her hands on her hips as she walked up to blonde Jennifer, who had her arms crossed and an amused smile planted on her lips. "You blackmailed Eleanor. I was starting to wonder how you knew so many things about what happened," she stated with narrowed eyes. Eleanor pressed herself against the back wall as she prepared for a fight, noticing Adelaide's fist curling. As predicted, Adelaide punched Brittany square in the jaw. The pink-clad chipette stumbled back into the wall as she held her throbbing jaw. Eyes ablaze with fury, the blue-eyed girl cried out in pain. Adelaide smirked at her. While Jeanette observed her sister's fight, Jennifer pushed her into the wall, the back of her head smashing into the cold, hard, white tiles with a loud bang. Eleanor gasped at her sisters, and her brown eyes came to life with rage as she faced their attackers, white-knuckled fists formed.
-MEANWHILE-
Lola walked quietly through the empty halls, clutching a bathroom pass close to her chest as she stopped at one of the bright red lockers in the school corridor. A light blue sticky note stuck out of the back pocket of Lola's skirt. Her fiery locks slapped her face as she abruptly turned around and stuck the note on one of the lockers. Then, as if she wasn't doing anything, she went to walk back to class when she heard a few shrieks coming from the girls' bathroom. Curiously, the girl pushed open the door ever so slightly to peek in at whatever was going on. Her blood boiled as she saw Jeanette weakly stumble back into the wall and finally fall down. Then she looked to Jennifer and saw that she had pushed her back. Brittany was tending to Jeanette's injuries, although there was a fairly large purple bruise on her jaw. Eleanor and Adelaide were wrestling with each other on the floor. In her shock she dropped her bathroom pass, which clanged to the floor. All five pairs of eyes were suddenly on her.
Jennifer was the most shocked to see Lola bubbling over with anger at her friend – ahem, ex-friend. The red-head walked over to Jennifer and slammed her back into the wall on the opposite side of the room. Jennifer quickly recovered from her initial shock and delivered an uppercut to Lola's jaw, as she did to Brittany. Lola seemed unfazed and hit Jennifer in the stomach, causing the blonde to stumble as she doubled over with immense pain. Her eyes were burning with a frightening amount of anger as she used her foot and wrapped her ankle around Lola's, and the brightly dressed girl fell to the floor with a painful sounding noise. Jeanette grimaced as she saw her newfound friend hit the hard, cold ground. She could see a large gash on the back of Lola's head with blood pouring out. Everyone became frozen as they saw Lola get knocked unconscious from the blow. Jennifer's eyes widened, as she realized what she'd done. "I-I didn't m-m-mean to knock her out or cause her to bleed," she said. Right then Adelaide screamed as she saw blood slowly start to rush onto the white tiles on the floor out from behind Lola's head.
"We need to get the nurse right now!" Brittany stated, ignoring the throbbing of her jaw. She dashed out of the bathroom with Eleanor at her heels, leaving unconscious Lola alone with Jeanette, Jennifer, and Adelaide. The blonde and ginger-haired girl glared up at Jeanette. "If you wouldn't have made friends with this girl, then she wouldn't have come running in here to defend you," Adelaide snapped. Even though her conscience was telling her it wasn't her fault, Jeanette felt a sharp pang of guilt run through her as hot, nervous blood shot through her body, bringing an odd feeling to the brunette. But she refused to give in to her hate and argue further. Instead she ignored them and pressed wet paper towels to the back of Lola's head. She also continually checked to see if she even still had a pulse.
Right then Brittany and Eleanor re-entered the room with the nurse, who gasped at the bloody scene and could easily see the guilt in Jennifer's pristine blue eyes.
"What happened here?" she demanded. Jennifer gulped and took a deep breath as everyone watched, eyes glued to the cheerleader with the pain of an agonizing wait. She looked to everyone and then pointed to Jeanette. "Adelaide and I were in here minding our own business when Eleanor came in here with Brittany and Jeanette and they all started screaming vulgarities at us and began to beat us up. Then Lola came in here and started to defend us when Jeanette got mad at her and threw her into the wall. She hit her head and it started to bleed like that," she said. Jeanette, Brittany, and Eleanor all gasped at the lie while Adelaide grinned. Brittany shook her head.
"Nurse Indindindigo, that's not what, happened. What happened was that Jennifer and Adelaide went on the PA system without permission and started gossiping to the whole school about us. Eleanor ran in here and claimed that they had a deal. Apparently, Jennifer and Adelaide blackmailed her into spilling about everything that happened to us over the break. They swore they wouldn't say anything but they did. So then Jeanette and I came in and overheard everything. Then Adelaide punched me in the jaw and Jennifer pushed Jeanette into the wall and she hit her head too. Eleanor and Adelaide started wrestling and then Lola and Jennifer started fighting because I guess Lola and Jeanette are friends and Lola and Jennifer used to be and then Jennifer pushed her back and she hit her head three times as hard as Jeanette. She got a giant gash on the back of it, and the blood started coming," Brittany stated. The nurse looked to Jennifer and Adelaide, and then to the trio of chipettes. She continued shifting her gaze until it finally landed on the chipettes. "Girls," she said sternly, causing the worry-filled eyes of all three girls to stare at her nervously, "I think you should wait with Lola here while I call an ambulance. This looks bad. Meanwhile, Jennifer and Adelaide, report yourselves to the principal's office immediately so we can call your parents!" The chipettes let out a silent breath of relief and began to tend to Lola's injuries while the nurse began to dial 9-1-1. Jennifer and Adelaide trudged off to the principal's office.
"I hope she's okay…," Jeanette whispered, moving hair out of Lola's face.
-WITH THE CHIPMUNKS-
It was now fifteen minutes later and paramedics were carrying Lola's stretcher out to the ambulance. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore watched from outside the school with the rest of the student body. The trio looked across the mass of teens and spotted Jeanette, Eleanor, and Brittany standing off, alone against a pillar at the entrance to the school campus. Brittany had her arms crossed with a distraught look on her face. Her giant bruise was clearly evident on her chin, and her clothes were now dirty from being on the bathroom floor. Eleanor's hair was a mess and her sleeve was ripped on her left shoulder. She had a few bruises and a bloody scratch on her wrist. Jeanette looked the worst. Violent sobs for her newfound friend wracked her body. Her hair was completely messed up, her clothes were slightly ripped, and she was bruised and bleeding from various cuts. Tears slipped down her cheeks, staining them.
"Jeanette looks mentally and physically scarred," Simon said barely inaudibly, noticing how torn up his counterpart was. Alvin looked to her to see what Simon was talking about and almost gagged when he saw the girls' conditions. "They looked terrible. Does anyone know exactly what happened in the bathroom to make them all look so darn hideous?" Alvin exclaimed. The two boys then looked down to the youngest brother to see if he had any answers.
"Jennifer and Adelaide blackmailed Eleanor into telling them what happened over the break and then they promised not to say anything. But apparently Brittany and Jeanette overheard what happened as they were walking in so they started fighting. I guess Lola was doing something in the hallway and she heard yelling coming from the bathroom and went to see what was the matter and since Jeanette and Lola are friends Lola wasn't too happy with Jennifer and Adelaide hurting the chipettes so she fought with Jennifer before she got pushed hard back onto the floor," the green-clad chipmunk explained to his older brothers. The two boys' mouths fell agape at the explanation given to them and walked over to the girls, with Theodore following on their heels. As they approached the chipettes, their injuries became clearer, and they were much larger than previously thought.
"Are you guys alright?" was the first thing that Alvin said. Simon smacked him lightly on the back of the head. Jeanette shook her head and broke down again, harsher sobs sending her shaking to the ground in a ball. Alvin and Simon both reached to comfort her, with Simon getting there first. Alvin scowled at his brother and swatted his hand away and then went to comfort Jeanette himself. Pangs of hurt hit Brittany as the two boys fought over her sister. Theodore and Eleanor looked on sadly.
