Here is the next chapter! I know it's mostly dialog. I hope you don't mind mostly dialog. Anyway, thanks for the reviews and happy Easter!
Alvin runs as fast as he can on all four paws. It's faster and more efficient then running on his hind legs. Trailing behind him are Simon, Jeanette, Theodore and Eleanore. Alvin doesn't seem to notice the rest of the group.
To be honest, Alvin as no idea where he's headed. He could be running to the boarder to the United States, or even running to the east, and he might even end up in Québec soon.
"Alvin! Slow down!" Simon calls out.
"I can't!" Alvin calls back.
Simon doesn't exactly know where Alvin's going for sure, but he has an idea. Brittany isn't anywhere to be seen, and Alvin's probably trying to find her. It would work out better if everyone split up into groups, but Alvin's in too much of a rush to realize that.
Alvin begins to go in a zig zag direction, hoping to find Brittany somehow this way. Simon manages to tackle Alvin. That stops him.
"Get off!" Alvin exclaims, pushing Simon off of himself.
"Will you stop for five seconds?" Simon says, standing up and off of Alvin. "We need a good plan to find Brittany, and her sisters might have an answer."
"Alvin, what happened between you and Brittany last night?" Jeanette asks, catching up to them.
"That sounds wrong!" Alvin says, being more stubborn before.
"Boys...." Jeanette mutters. "Did you get in an another fight?"
"No."
"Really?" Jeanette sounds surprised.
"No, and now she's gone!" Alvin exclaims, not caring that he's being more emotional that he would like.
"What did you talk about?" Jeanette asks.
"I dunno...she said something about it being cute that my brothers and her sisters are falling in love, and how she;s glad to see them all happy, and then she looked sad, and I asked her what was wrong, and she said nothing, so she's fine," Alvin says.
"No!" Jeanette and Eleanore exclaim at the same time.
"When a girl says nothing is wrong, it means that everything is wrong!" Eleanore exclaims.
"She probably got discouraged about going home since you and Theodore like each other," Jeanette accuses. "You know how she's a drama queen and overreacts to everything."
"M-me like Theodore?" Eleanore asks, her cheeks turning red. It's obvious she's blushing, even under all of her fur.
"Well, if I like Eleanore then Simon loves Jeanette," Theodore says in a teasing way.
"What?!" Simon and Jeanette exclaim at the same time.
"I do not like Jeanette!" Simon says, obviously in denial.
"Yeah...we're friends...just friends...only friends...completely friends...no romance involved at all...no...just friends...non-romantic friends...," Jeanette says, looking down.
"Exactly," Simon agrees.
"Can we please continue this paw-pointing after we find Brittany?" Alvin impatiently asks. As much as he wants to join in on the teasing, he mind is set on finding Brittany.
"We'll find her." Simon promises.
"She wouldn't have gone far." Jeanette adds in.
"And she knows how dangerous and scary the forest can be." Eleanore chimes in.
"But she's not here now!" Alvin cries out.
Simon's expression goes from worried to smug. He has it all figured out. It was pretty obvious all along.
"You like her, don't you?" Simon asks.
Alvin shoots Simon an evil glare, "Don't be silly! I don't like Brittany at all! She's annoying, a pain, and she she gets angry so easily, I could just bite her tail!"
Simon's smug expression doesn't change.
"You li-ike her!" Theodore teases.
Alvin glares at Theodore too.
"We have to find her." Alvin changes the subject, and he begins to search some more.
She's not in any pine tree, under any rock or hiding in any bush in the whole park, but Alvin's not done searching. There must be other parks in Toronto, and the city isn't small. She could by anywhere by now. Alvin doesn't give up, though. She'll turn up sometime.
Alvin crosses under the gate to the park, with the other chipmunks following. They find a road in front of them. Alvin is about to cross it when a large tire of a car nearly runs him over. Horrible thoughts enter his head about Brittany's attempt to leave the park. There are cars, people and wild animals that could roll, stomp and eat her.
"Alvin, if I know anything about Brittany, it's that she knows better than to just run into the middle of the road." Jeanette says reassuringly.
"But what if something did happen to her!" Eleanore frets.
"It wouldn't happen, and I'm sure she's back inside the tree waiting for us." Jeanette says, calming everyone.
Simon pauses on the way back to the tree. Today is a special day, but he can't remember why. They came to Canada to record a new album, and then they have to get home.
"The plane!" Simon exclaims, making everyone stop, "We're supposed to get back home!"
"I'm not moving until I find Brittany!" Alvin says stubbornly.
"I don't want to go either, but I'm sure we can negotiate something with Dave when he finds us." Simon says.
Alvin continues back to the tree, hoping to find the right tree, not the one with that Scottish squirrel. They find the right tree, but Brittany's no where to be found.
"She'll come back." Jeanette says, still trying to sound confident.
Alvin hopes she's right. She has to be right.
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