Ch. 20 -Essay Coloring
...yesterday (Thursday)...
"I'm bbbooorreeeeddddd," whined Alvin, tossing and turning in bed.
"We know," said Simon. "You said that five minutes ago."
He and Theodore were sitting on Nikki's bed, playing a game of checkers, or at least Simon was anyway. Theodore kept getting confused about the game and Simon kept having to stop thinking strategy and help Theodore understand the game.
"Maybe you should try holding still, Alvin," suggested Theodore.
"And maybe being quiet while you're at it," muttered Simon.
Alvin groaned and sat up. "It's no good! It's too early!"
Nikki had gone out with her family to find Christmas tree Decorations.
"Please stay here this time," said Nikki as she got ready.
And even though the chipmunks had promised they would, Nikki checked her coat, her shoulder bag and then the car, much to her father's confusion, for, you see, no one told him about the day before's incident.
So with nothing to do and nothing good on TV, Alvin was trying to sleep, but that was proving failure.
Theodore finally got so annoyed with the confusing concept of checkers, that he hopped off the bed, found some crayons and paper and began to doodle. Alvin and Simon came over to look. Simon began laughing but Alvin grew angry. Now he grabbed a crayon and began doodling madly. Simon was now in hysterics, Theodore looked shocked and a bit hurt. But Alvin wasn't finished. He kept drawing. Theodore began laughing as Simon stopped. Now he grabbed a crayon and began scribbling.
... Later that night...
Nikki came home and found the chipmunks asleep on her tabletop.
"Awww!" thought Nikki as she placed them into their bed before she collapsed on hers. "They're sweet kids. I can't believe anyone would wanna hurt them."
...that morning...
"AAAAHHH! I'M GONNA BE LLLAAATTTEEE!"
Nikki was running around her room like a chicken with its head cut off. Her essay was lying on her table just as she had left it last night. She quickly scooped it and bolted out the door to catch up with her friends.
...that afternoon (present)...
"Class," said Mrs. Seki, "Please pass in your essays!"
The class began passing their paper. Nikki was about to pass her's in when she accidentally dropped it. It hit the floor and opened to a random page. Sure, the front was alright, it was the rest of the now visible pages that made her jaw drop.
There, scribbled in big letters was:
THE RATE OF ALVIN'S WHINING
The line graph, now vandalized, was now showing that Alvin could whine a mile every quarter of a minute.
The next page read:
THE SIZE OF THEODORE'S BUTT
Underneath was a picture, drawn around the graph, was a huge picture of, what she guessed was, Theodore's backside, or, at least by the caption, some of it. With the caption she had written before, it wasn't drawn to scale.
Next page:
THE SIZE OF ALVIN'S HEAD
On the page was a huge head. A side caption read:
IT'S BIG, BUT THERE'S NOTHING IN THERE.
On the next page, was a pie chart. The title had been crossed out and replace with:
SIMON'S INTELLAGENCE
2% SMART
15% ANNOYING
83% NAG
Nikki didn't even look at the picture. She shut folder in disgust and it was all she could do from screaming.