Welcome back! Chapter 11 is here. Thanks to the couple more reviewers who have arrived and to the long time reviewers. As always, All rights to go their respective owners. Without further ado.

Chapter 11: What Should I Do? Part 2

Dave was busy on the phone as he was talking to someone and then hung the phone up sighing at the responce he heard over the phone.

"I thought it would have been there by now." Dave thought to himself just as Jeanette and Simon walked into visable range of the kitchen as Dave noticed the two were holding hands as the two walked by. "What's up you two?"

The question seemed to startle the two as they quickly released from each other's hand as they seemed a bit rattled at the sight of Dave noticing them.

"Oh uh Dave...uh we didn't see you there." Simon nervously chuckled. Simon was beggining to say something else, but Jeanette began to pull him away.

"We were just going," Jeanette chuckled along as she pulled Simon away as Dave smiled shaking his head. He was glad to see his kids so friendly with each other, though for other families it would be strange for their own kids to have a liking for each other. It was one of those unusual circumstances.

Simon and Jeanette had gotten out of Dave's sight as both of them breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them were shy enough with each other as it was; the two of them felt almost embarrassed if any of the others saw them. They knew one day they would get over it one day, but now wasn't the time. Simon turned back around to see if anyone was around then back to Jeanette.

"Phew! That was too close." Simon sighed out which brought a giggle to Jeanette, but Simon didn't get what was funny about what he said.

"There's nothing wrong with liking each other around the others, they already know we do." Jeanette said with a smile to him.

"Well...I-I guess you're right. What is there to hide really?" Simon acknowledged. Simon then went to grab Jeanette paw's and they both giggled along. "I guess there isn't anything to be worried about."

Just then though Eleanor came running by and said hello to them which made Jeanette jolt her hands out of Simon's grasp and nervously waved back to Eleanor as she came by. Simon looked kind of blank faced as Jeanette turned back to him.

"What was that all about?" Simon asked. Jeanette then quickly realized what she did and kind of fumbled around the words she wanted to say.

"Well...honestly, I feel uneasy doing it around Eleanor, that's all. You know with Theodore gone, she doesn't have anyone to be close to. I feel I'm not being a good sister if I do this around her." Jeanette blushed to him. Simon understood her honesty, Simon in a way may have felt the same way if the roles were reversed.

"I understand, let's just go somewhere private." With that grabbed their hands again, but just as they did so, they heard a growling pur in the background which they again both yanked their hands from each other and looked over in the distance.

"ALVIN!" They both yelled over at him who gave an innocent look and shrugged his shoulders with his paws behind his back.

Eleanor ran into the kitchen to speak with Dave to ask him if she could use the phone.

"Well you guys are still grounded technically." Dave looked over to her as she hopped onto the table.

"I need to talk to Theodore...please?" Eleanor looked at Dave sincere telling him. Dave understood in the matter, none of them even got a chance to talk with him again before he went off. Eleanor had looked forward to being with him again, only to have him pulled away just as quick. Dave made an exception and let Eleanor head over to the phone. Because they were small, they used the voice speakers to talk in to make it easy, Dave decided to give Eleanor her privacy with him to talk as he wasn't how personal the matter would be.

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At Ian's estate during the sunset, Ian was outside at his own personal swimming pool that the munks had been before. It had been a couple years back and Theodore didn't quite remember the fun that he had doing this when he was slightly younger. Ian had his client resting by the pool under an umbrella stand as Theodore was waiting for Ian to show back up, he looked around a little timid looking at everything around being unfamiler when suddenly Ian came up in casual clothes with his butler next to him carrying with a huge banana spilt as Theodore noticed that very quickly and smiled from side to side on his face.

"There ya go Theo, nothing like a Banana Spilt next to the pool side." Ian said with joy as Theodore's eyes were in a trance as he sniffed away at his treat. "Anyway, I'm going to be inside to deal with some matters, if you need anything...let Uncle Ian know." Theodore looked over to Ian.

"Thank you...I don't know what to say...you've been so nice to me." Theodore told him which Ian nodded.

"I know...and...it's actually quite fun. Anyway, dig in little guy. Enjoy." And with that Ian ran off back in the house as his butler followed leaving Theodore by himself to gather himself.

Theodore looked around gazing at everything around him completely in awe, he was top of the world, and it felt great. He looked upon his gigantic Ice Cream Split and began licking away at after wipping his lips after several bites, he sighed as he felt like he had died and gone to heaven. Life was good...very good.

Afterwhile, Ian's head butler walked back out to the pool side to deliever a message to the young one as he was exhausted from enjoying his sweet treat.

"Master Theodore, you have a phone call." The bulter reported.

"Really? Well let's go." Theodore said and jumped up on the butler's shoulder. "But you don't have to call me master...that just sounds silly. What are you a genie?" He said chuckling which actually made the butler smile also. After walking back in, the head bulter sat Theodore by the phone and then left him be to have his conversation. Theodore prepared to speak to find out who it was. "Hello?"

"Theodore...it's me."

"Eleanor! I'm so happy to talk to you." Theodore cheered out.

"I am too." Eleanor responded back with a smile on her while talking. Eleanor was about to continue but Theodore spoke first.

"You wouldn't believe how much fun I'm having. Ian's being so nice to me and he's letting me do so many things and meet so many people soon. And giving me ice cream." Theodore spoke with a lot of joy and splendor in his voice, which almost made Eleanor regret what she wanted to say to him.

"Theodore...I need to tell you something." Eleanor told him glumly. "I...I want you to come back home." Theodore gave a look of shock hearing what she said. If Eleanor had seen his reaction, she would have felt even more terrible than she already did.

"What? But why?" Theodore didn't understand Eleanor's concern in the matter.

"You just don't need to do this anymore Theodore, you..." Eleanor started but Theodore was quick to point something out to her.

"But you said this wasn't about me, you told me it was about making people happy. That's what I'm doing, what changed your mind?" Theodore told her. Eleanor could tell in Theodore's voice that something had changed; he seemed to believe what he was saying as if he was confident. Not the shy, timid chipmunk she once knew. Even going back when Theodore and Alvin got in their argument in the car, something about her friend sounded different.

Meanwhile in another part of the house, Ian was walking into the main room looking for his little money maker as he heard he and Eleanor talking on the phone with the use of the voice speakers on another phone. He listened in as Theodore was in another room unaware that his conversation was being spyed on as he heard Eleanor talk.

"I don't trust Ian Theodore. I feel he's trying to keep you away from us. Don't you feel that way too?" Eleanor told him as Ian continued to listen to hear what little Theodore was about to say.

"I-I don't know..." Theodore stuttered. "Ian's been really nice to me and is letting me do a lot of things. But I don't understand though, why didn't you just tell me from the start? I would have never left if you felt that way."

"I didn't want you to think I was being selfish Theodore. I'm sorry." Eleanor explained to him. But that got Theodore to remembering something.

"So you lied to me instead? You said you would never lie to me, but you did. Why?" Theodore cried to her. Eleanor knew she didn't have an answer, she had her mouth trying and thinking of something to say, but nothing came out. She realized she had done wrong. But even though she felt terrible, as did Theodore, she knew as Alvin said this the best thing to do to just admit her feelings, but she just couldn't bare it much longer.

"Theodore, will you please just come home?" Eleanor pleaded with him again.

Upon still listening in, Ian then decided the time was right and hit the hang up button on the phone he was listening to and the dial tone was sounded. At both ends of the line, both young chipmunks wondered what had just happened.

"Theodore? Theodore can you hear me?" Eleanor called into the phone getting no reply as Dave listened on to what happened and then walked in. "What happened?" Dave asked.

"I don't know. Did he hang up on me? I...I wasn't mad at him." Eleanor answered as he sat down trying to help.

Meanwhile...

"Eleanor? Eleanor!" Theodore called out to the phone...no answer. Theodore confusingly sat down, unsure to just what happened. He couldn't explain how he felt; he felt so disappointed in himself calling Eleanor a liar, but at the same time he felt so wronged. He trusted Eleanor. He trusted that she would always be honest with him, but instead she lied to him to say what she felt was right, rather than what she really felt.

Ian peeked in to the room Theodore was in and thought now was a good time to make an entrance making sure to look unsure. He walked in straight faced knowing Theodore would have no clue of the matters.

"Hey, what's wrong little guy? You look bummed out." Ian asked walking up to him.

"I...I think Eleanor hung up on me." Theodore said a bit crushed in the voice.

"Awe, I'm sorry little guy. What was she talking about?" Ian continued on with his poker face.

"She wanted me to come back home. I don't understand why though. She was there for me from the start. Why would she change her mind." He told him.

"Hmm...Well it's sounds to me like they're all showing their true colors. I hate to say I told you so Theo, but... " Theodore looked as he started soaking all of this in. Eleanor told him this was the right thing to do, making people happy was a sweet thing to do, now she sounded like she went back on everything she said. But why? Why did she lie to him? Why he wondered? Theodore's once sweet face suddenly started turning upset as he looked up at Ian.

"I need to settle this." Theodore told him and Ian nodded and he prepared to head to the Seville's home. Ian smiled underneath his sad look on his face as he knew everything, even things not of his own doing, were making his plan work to perfection, everything was falling into place.

There is Chapter 11. Letting you know in advance that chapters may take a tad bit longer to appear as most of these early chapters I had a script outline for along with a bunch of the end of the story; it was just a matter of turning it into story form. The next couple chapters will be coming up in whole and may take longer to fill up to my next written out spots. So stay alert for updates and thanks for reading. :)