Chapter 2
"Boys, it's time to get up!", Dave called from downstairs. Simon and Theodore quickly got dressed whereas Alvin, tired from his sleepless night, slowly followed behind his younger brothers. Dave had the TV on the news and listened as he made the boys breakfast. "Alvin, you don't look so good", Theodore said. Alvin struggles to keep his eyes open as he says, "I couldn't go back to sleep last night. I was too frightened." Simon then said, "That must have been one bad nightmare to scare you that bad. This is worse than when you had werewolf nightmares a few years ago just before Theodore got turned into a werewolf." "Scared?! I was fearing for my life! That burned psycho was trying to kill me!", Alvin then said. Alvin continued, "Why don't you use that big brain of yours and tell me why I have cuts on the exact place of my arm where that creep slashed me?!" Simon, slightly taken aback by the response says, "Calm down Alvin! Like Dave and I said last night, you most likely got so frightened by your dream that you clawed through your shirt and that is what you felt when the man you saw slashed you." Dave then said, "Ok boys, that's enough. Eat your cereal or you'll be late." Theodore was the first one finished with Alvin and Simon a little ways behind.
Dave's car pulled up at the school several minutes after leaving the house. "Have a good day at school fellas!", Dave said. "Okay Dave!", Simon and Theodore said. The boys then heard Ms. Miller's recognizable voice say, "See you later girls!", as she dropped the boys' friends, the Chipettes off. "Bye Ms. Miller!", Eleanor said as she and her older sisters, Jeanette and Brittany walked toward the school. "Hi Ellie!", Theodore said cheerfully. "Hi Theo!", Eleanor replied. "Good morning Simon.", Jeanette says. "Morning Jeanette.", Simon replied politely. "Alvin, what's with you?", Brittany asked said chipmunk noticing him looking tired. "Had a terrible nightmare and couldn't go back to sleep last night.", Alvin says. "What was it about? You losing your looks?", Brittany teased with a smirk. "Ha ha, very funny Britt. I'm serious, it was terrible. I was in a boiler room and this horribly burned man in a red and green striped sweater with a dark brown hat and glove with knives on it was chasing me. He wanted to kill me. I know he's real because he slashed my arm in the dream and when I woke up, there were cuts in that same area.", Alvin said. "Hey there!", came a voice from the side. It was Nathan, Theodore's former bully who since the werewolf incident has become a friend to the Chipmunks and Chipettes. "Hi Nathan.", Alvin said with a yawn. Nathan took notice and said, "Didn't get much sleep last night?" Alvin said, "Yeah, had a terrible nightmare." Nathan's eyes went wide and he said, "Was it about a man in a striped sweater with knives on his fingers?" "Yes. How did you know?", Alvin replied. Nathan answered, "I've seen him too." "What?!", Alvin shouted. "What are you punks going on about?", came a voice the boys and girls didn't want to hear. It was Derek Johnson and his friend Bobby Woods, the school bullies. Brittany groaned and said, "Go away you hooligans." Bobby said, "Oh, we will, after you give us your lunch money." "Back off!", Nathan said. "Make us.", Derek sneered. Derek then added, "Also, what were you and red boy talking about?" Alvin then said, "A burned man trying to kill me in my dreams." "You're scared about a nightmare, you wuss?", Derek asks. "He's real!", Alvin defended. "Yeah. About as real as Godzilla. You're crazy.", Bobby says. He then said, "Now, about that lunch money." Just then a teacher walked by glaring at the two bullies. The bullies then backed off. "We'll finish this another time.", Derek said frustrated as the two boys walked off. "We'd better get to class", Simon said.
Alvin was having trouble staying awake in math class. Not just from boredom like usual since he couldn't do math that well, but from the fatigue brought on by the sleepless night. Alvin laid his head on his desk and closed his eyes and drifted off. "Alvin!", the math teacher Mrs. Shepherd shouted. Alvin immediately bolted up. "Pay attention Alvin. I know you'd be afraid to fail this class.", Mrs. Shepherd said. She then got a strange look on her face and said, "Maybe you ought to feel that feeling right now." Alvin's desk then closed around him as the lights suddenly dimmed. "What's going on?!", Alvin said as he struggled to get free. He looked up and to his horror, saw the burned man standing across the room at the teacher's desk. "Oh no!", Alvin thought. The man then said as he walked to Alvin's desk, "What does being trapped plus me equal? Fear, hahahaha!" Alvin by this point is shaking with fear. The disfigured man then says tauntingly, "Are you cold? You're shaking." He then raises his knives toward Alvin and with a sick, evil smile says, "How about I warm you up? By maybe 1000 degrees?" His knives then light on fire. Alvin then wakes up and gasps. "Are you okay, Alvin?", Mrs. Shepherd asks. "Yes ma'am", Alvin replied. "Good. Now please pay attention, you need to know this for the upcoming final exam.", the teacher then said. Alvin thinks, "If I'm alive by then."