AN: Well it's time everybody learned what happened to Rose. This chapter is going to be in Alvin's POV. Here is chapter 11.

Chapter 11:

2 years ago:

I awoke that morning to the sun shining in my face. "Ugh! Morning already?" I mumbled while I wiped the sleep from my eyes and got out of my straw bed. I made my way to the opening of our family tree. As I stepped onto the branch that acted as our 'front porch' I heard someone creep up behind me and grab my tail. I let out a surprised yelp as I whirled my head around so see who it was. Not surprisingly, my sister was standing there with a sly grin on her face. "Rose! What the hell! You know I hate when you grab my tail!" I exclaimed. Rose simply smirked and said "I know. That's why I always do it."

I glared at her, but soon that glare changed into a mischievous glint as I began to slowly make my way in her direction. As I got closer, she backed up. "Alvin…what are you doing?" She asked. I replied in a playful tone with "Revenge" As I continued to get closer to her. "Alvin, don't even think about it!" She replied sternly, but I didn't listen. Instead I lunged at her knocking her to the ground. As I sat on her I began tickling her mercilessly. "Haha! Alvin stop! Hahaha!" She laughed. I ignored her and continued tickling her until I heard a groan. "Can you stop being so noisy! People are trying to sleep." I heard Simon yell from somewhere in the tree.

I rolled my eyes and ceased my relentless tickle attack on my sister, and got off her. After she caught her breath she got up off of the ground and glared at me playfully. "I'm going to get you for that later." She said. "Just you wait."

I simply rolled my eyes and looked in Simon's direction. Suddenly an idea popped into my head. I looked at Rose and gestured for her to come closer. She obliged and approached me. I whispered my plan into her ear. When I finished explaining my plan to her she let out a small chuckle and nodded.

Rose made her way to the left of Simon's straw bed, while I made my way to the trees opening and grabbed one of our Makeshift hollowed-out acorn buckets and climbed down the trunk of the tree. I quickly filled it with water from the river and made my way back to the tree. I climbed it using only one arm and my hind legs while my other arm held the water filled acorn tightly.

When I finally made it back to our nest I got on the right side of Simon's bed with the 'bucket' of water. I looked at Rose and mouthed 3...2...1. At 1 we both pulled the makeshift blankets off him, and I dumped the water all over him. He let out a surprised squeal and jumped out of his bed. Both me and Rose burst out laughing at Simon's reaction. Simon, however, was not happy. "ALVIN! JUST WAIT TILL I GET MY PAWS ON YOU!" He yelled angrily as he charged me. Just as he was about to grab me, I jumped out of the way and he ran straight into the side of the tree. He let out a groan of pain as his head made contact with the wall.

At that moment both me and Rose collapsed onto the ground in a heap of laughter. "Hahaha! Simon, you should have seen you're face when I poured the water on you!"

"Yeah! And you running into the wall just made it better!" Rose laughed. Simon growled while he rubbed his aching head. After about a minute of nonstop laughter I heard a groan come from behind us. I turned my head in the direction of the sound. My eyes stopped at Theodore's bed and I saw him pull the makeshift covers over his head. "Can you guys please be quiet? I'm trying to sleep." Theodore said. We all stood there waiting for Theodore to say something else, but when he didn't we assumed he fell back to sleep.

I rolled my eyes and looked at Simon. "What time is it?" I asked him. "How should I know?" He answered back with another question while he continued to glare at me. "Wow, you must have hit your head pretty hard." I said smirking. "What's that supposed to mean!" He shot back. I rolled my eyes. "Didn't you make a clock?" He looked at me puzzled. "A clock?"

I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "You really did hit your head pretty hard!" I stated in mock disapproval. "He shot me another angry glare as he got up from the ground "Ha-ha very funny! Get to the point already! What clock?"

I shook my head disapprovingly "I'm talking about that thing over there." I said pointing out of the hole in the tree to the stick jutting out of the branch. Simon followed my finger and said "Oh you mean the sundial." He stated. "Yes the sundial!" I said. "What time is it?"

"Why do I have to look at the time?" Simon asked. I sighed. "Because I can't tell time, remember?"

"Oh yeah." He said as he got up and walked out of the nest. He looked at the sundial and yelled "its 9:30!" in our direction." I groaned. "Only 9:30." I asked. Simon said "Yup." when he re-entered the nest. (From now on I'm gonna call it our house)

I sighed "Only 30 minutes until we have to start gathering nuts again!"

Everyone groaned "Again?" They asked. I sighed "Unfortunately yes." I said. "Well what happened to the nuts we gathered yesterday?" Rose asked. I looked at her and said "Guess." as I gestured in Theodore's direction. Both Rose and Simon let out a small chuckle, and I couldn't help but crack a small smile myself.

"Well what do you want to do for the next 30 minutes?" Rose asked. Simon and I simply shrugged. Suddenly an idea popped into my head. "How about we go explore that cave? It's only a 5 minute walk from here." I suggested. "That's a great idea Alvin!" Rose exclaimed. I smiled at her. Man was I glad she was my sister.

She was basically a second me, because we had the same personality. She was almost the same age as me. At the time I was 14, Rose was 13 and a half, Simon was 13, and Theodore was 12. Her fur was a lighter color than mine, but not quite as light as Brittany's. She had beautiful amber eyes that always seemed to sparkle in the sunlight. She was just as tall as me at the time. I was 9 1/2 inches tall, Theodore was 6 1/2 inches tall, and Simon was 10 1/2 inches tall. We were the best of friends and always did things together. I loved her with all my heart, and even though we picked on them, I can tell our brothers loved her too.

I looked at Simon. "You want to come, or are you too much of a chicken?" I asked, chuckling a little when I said the last part.

Simon glared at me and said "I'm not a chicken, but I think I'll stay here."

"I knew it! You are a chicken." I exclaimed. "I knew you didn't have the balls to come with us." I finished. Rose chuckled a little when I finished my sentence.

"Y'know, comments like that aren't necessary. And I do so have the balls to go with you, but someone needs to stay here and watch Theodore." Simon said.

"Oh yeah! Hehe. Your right! Well then we'll see you in a half hour!" I said as me and Rose left the house. We climbed down the tree and headed in the direction of the cave.

Just like I thought, it only took us 5 minutes to there. Once there we entered the cave. It was fairly large. Large enough to allow a full grown human to walk in without having to duck. As was somewhat typical in caves, Stalagmites and Stalactites were present, but they were spread all over the place. Thanks to that we had plenty of room to walk around.

"Well this place doesn't seem too bad. I bet we could make this our little hangout." Rose said. I smiled and said "Great idea! Glad I thought of it." Rose just rolled her eyes and continued to head deeper into the cave. I followed her. "What? You're not going to say anything?" I asked suspiciously. "No witty comebacks or anything? That's so unlike you Rose." She didn't say anything. I sighed. "Fine! Don't say anything!" I replied irritably.

After walking for another 10 minutes we stumbled across a split in the tunnel. There was a path that was going to the right, and one going to the left.

"Soooo which way should we go?" I asked Rose. She looked down the left path, then the right, then left again. "Let's go left." She said. "It looks less crowded, not to mention safer."

I rolled my eyes. "Since when do you care about safety?" I asked.

"Since I'd rather not get hurt, or worse." She replied.

"Whatever. Honestly, sometimes you can be a little too much like Simon." I replied. She rolled her eyes but didn't say anything as she started down the left path. I followed her. "Hey wait up!" I called.

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