Fanfiction – Alvin and the chipmunks – "How long I can last"
Chapter 8 – "Alviinnnnn!"
- "No, no,no, no, NO!"-Alvin started mumbling- "Theodore what are we going to do! Dave will ground us at least for, let's see...one,two, three weeks... for eternity?!"-Alvin shouted dramatically waving his hands.
- "Alvin maybe not for eternity"-Theodore said trying to cheer up his brother, even though he himself knew that they were in a big trouble.
- "Theodore, I don't know if you realize what just happened ! Oh my god! maybe if we take this strange machine again"-Alvin said reaching towards the gun that was lying on one of the piles of popcorn. But before he could touch it a puff of smoke came from the device followed by a 'boom' sound. The machine fell apart. Alvin, seeing how his last hope had died, fell to his knees and started screaming in despair.
- "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo"
- "Oh my god what are we going to do now, Theodore!?"-Alvin asked his brother in a panic
- "I.i..I don't know, Alvin! You're the one who said it was going to end well!" - Theodore cried out in response
- "You were in on it too!"
- "But…!"
Their pointless conversation ended when they heard a sound of opening door.
Simon went inside without paying attention to what was going on around him. When he raised his sight, he saw the living room full of popcorn and in the middle of it, his brothers.
Simon pov.
- "What' s going on in here! "- I yelled in disbelief. I could see the alarm on my brothers' faces. I started walking towards them, passing by bigger piles of popcorn.
- "I can explain this, Simon. It's not what you think. "- Alvin said stuttering. I sighed and covered my eyes with my hands.
- "Yeah, Alvin... I'm listening. Tell me how it got to THIS!"-I pointed my hands at the piles of popcorn that were seen all over the house.
- "Because you see we..."-Theodore started to explain glancing at Alvin. - "we, we, we were hungry and thought we could make ourselves some popcorn, but we ate it pretty fast, but we kinda still wanted a little more... but there were no more packages, so Alvin said we should take your machine and copy..."- Theodore was explaining until Alvin filled his mouth with popcorn. I looked at Alvin furious.
'I beg you, don't tell me that Alvin was playing with my inventions again!' My mind screamed.
- "Simon, don't be mad, I just thought that the device you made recently could save us some money and time to go to the shop, and so I tested it for you." -Alvin said with little smirk. I was about to interrupt my brother and lecture him why he shouldn't take my stuff when suddenly Alvin started to talk dramatically. Like he was in some theather and he was playing main role in play – "But your device just went crazy! I set it at the minimum power and it did this "- Alvin started pointing out around him - "so you see it wasn't my fault! "- Alvin screamed heavily with those fake sugary eyes.
- "It wasn't like that at all "- Theodore said chewing the rest of the popcorn that Alvin put in his mouth. Alvin looked at the Theodore with a face saying 'don't you dare say that to him'
- "Alvin, leave Theodore alone! "-I said harshly to Alvin. Then I turned all my attention to my younger brother.
- "Because you see Simon, I was telling Alvin that maybe we should go to the shop instead of taking your stuff, but Alvin didn't listen to me... He somehow convinced me to participate in his stupid idea. We went and took your gun. I swear we just wanted to test it. We started by duplicating one piece of popcorn. Your machine worked really well. Even the taste of the popcorn was the same as in the original! "- Listening to the Theodore, I couldn't help but give a light smile. Finally, my machine worked properly. – "But after a couple of copies, Alvin started complaining that if this goes on, we'll be duplicating popcorn by tomorrow so he switched the machine's power level to maximum."
- "Theodore how could you tell him that! I thought we agreed to keep it between us! "- Alvin cut the Theodore off.
- "I told him it was a bad idea, but he didn't listen to me! "- Theodore ignored Alvin and tried to tell Simon what happened next. – "Alvin turned on the machine and suddenly the house started to fill with popcorn! We tried to turn it off, but it was useless. Before we noticed the entire house was filled with popcorn..." - At that stage Theodore's eyes were wet and his voice was slightly cracked.
I was really angry, but one look at my nearly crying brother face made me feel pity for him instead of anger. I sighed and stroke the Theodore's hair.
- "It wasn't your fault Theodore"- I said in a gentle voice and then looked at Alvin- "Alvin it' s all your fault! What were you thinking!?" -I yelled
- "I know I went a little bit overboard, but"-Alvin tried to explain himself, but I interrupted him.
- "a little bit! you think that' s a bit!"- I started waving my hands around showing Alvin the state of our house.
- "ey don't yell at me! this is as much my fault as it is yours! "- Alvin replied.
- "my fault? How is it my fault? I wasn't even here!" -I couldn't believe my brother's words to me after all I always tell him that my inventions are not his toys!
- "you were talking about your amazing invention during dinner it was clear that I was curious how it was going to work. You know that I can't resist such things, so it's your fault that You told me about it... And besides, if you didn't want me to find this piece of machinery of yours, you would have found a better place to hide it from me! "– Alvin yelled last words.
I couldn't get anything out of myself. Words stuck in my throat. Alvin blamed me for his behaviour. My older brother blamed the whole situation on me. He should be the wiser, responsible brother, so why is he like that! I was angry. I felt like throwing myself at Alvin. The only thing that prevented me from doing this was the look in Theodore's eyes.
Theodore watched his brothers arguing. He was teary-eyed. Most of his attention was focused on preventing his tears from falling down. He knew he shouldn't care about what was going on, after all, Alvin and Simon often quarrelled. Theodore should have gotten used to it, but he could not. He always hated when his brothers were fighting.
Theodor watched his brothers and he knew that he had to do something to stop them from doing unnecessary things.
- "Guys, stop it!" -Theodore yelled but his voice cracked at the end – ''We have to think about what we're going to do about this whole mess and not whose fault it is "- Theodore finished talking and looked at his brothers. Simon was the first one to end their pointless argument and turned his attention to Theodore.
- ''Right, we have to do something about it before Dave gets back from work" - Simon said while starting to walk around. His thoughts searched the corners of his mind to find a solution to this situation.
- "If I tried to divert the direction of the beam, maybe I could reverse the duplication process and then..." - Simon mumbled under his nose. Alvin and Theodore hearing his words began to fidget, but Simon was so absorbed in his own thoughts that he didn't notice his brothers' strange behaviour.
- "Ahm... Simon about that device of yours "- Alvin started nervously. – "Ha ha funny story because you see it kind of ... ... ... exploded "- Alvin said the last word quietly.
- "What?!" -Simon said frantic.
- "Well, you know, it made a little Boom! "- Theodore said showing with his hands explosion, then a little giggle could be heard from his mouth.
- "Please tell me you're joking"- Simon said in disbelief. When he saw that his brothers hadn't answered him, he mentally snapped. His machine, which he had been working on for the last three months, exploded. It just exploded. Simon didn't know if he should be angry, or whether he should laugh or just cry. He stood motionless.
- "Uhm... What are we going to do about it?"-Theodore asked quietly. Simon woke up from his motionless stae and Alvin looked at him as if he had just realised that they had to do something about this mess before Dave came home.
- "Right, Dave mentioned that he should be back around 7PM, so we still have 5 hours to clean up"- Simon started -"Alvin you and Theodore need to gather all this popcorn in one place. I'll go to the lab and try to fix my machine and reverse the process"-he finished thoughtfully.
- "No way! You see how much of it there is! We can't do it with only two of us!"- Alvin whined. Simon looked at him exasperated.
- "Then call the chipettes!"
- "No!"
- "Why not?"-Theodore asked innocently. Alvin started rubbing his hands over his face in annoyance.
- "Because, when I ask Brittany for something, she makes me buy her some stupid cosmetics!"-Alvin whined
- "And what's wrong with that?"
- "What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that! Theodore, you know how much this junk costs! My whole pocket money went on it last time"-Alvin cried out in desperation.
- "Alvin!"-Simon said threateningly-" I don't care if you want to do it or not. You're supposed to clean up this mess somehow. So, you better hide your pride and ask the girls for help or we won't have time to get it done before Dave gets here!" - Alvin was surprised by his brother's sudden outburst. He was about to respond with some other argument as to why he couldn't do it, but before he had the chance to, Simon turned around and started heading towards the basement saying he was going to start fixing his machine.
Simon entered the basement slamming the door behind him. Theodore and Alvin stood in the living room stunned.
- "I think Simon is angry with us"-Theodore whispered to Alvin.
- "Yeah? How could you tell"-Alvin replied sarcastically. Theodore looked at the other angrily, but Alvin ignored his brother's stare and took out his phone and started dialling Brittany's number.
Brittany was preparing a homemade moisturizing face mask when suddenly her phone rang.
- "Eleonore! The phone is ringing, can you answer it?"- Brittany said getting upset that someone was disturbing her with her work.
- "Brittany, I'm cooking right now! Pick it up yourself"- Eleonore shouted from the other room. Brittany sighed and walked towards the ringing phone. She opened the phone and saw that it was Alvin calling her. She answered the call
- "Alvin! What do you want! I'm busy!"- Brittany said irritated.
- "Hey, Britt! This is Important. You have to help me!"-Alvin said desperately.
- "What could be more important than my mask to improve my already perfect skin!"
- "Listen Britt. This is a matter of life or death, do you understand? My life depends on it, which is why I need your help and the girls" -Alvin pleaded through the phone. Brittany began to ponder what could have happened again - "Please, we can't manage alone. Britt I'm begging you"-Brittany's ego was growing with every word the chipmunk said, after all, one doesn't hear his pleading cries often. Especially her, but despite how happy she was with the whole situation Brittany knew she could get something more out of it.
- "And what would we get in return for helping you?"- She asked slyly. There was silence between them for a few moments.
- "Arrgghhh"-Alvin sighed-"Okay, what do you want?"- Brittany smiled triumphantly.
- "I recently saw a new handbag at my favorite boutique, but unfortunately I don't have the means to buy it. But I think you would love to buy it for me, don't you?"-she asked Alvin
- "But, what, no, the last time I bought you a bag, my entire allowance went into it!" - Alvin cried out.
- "Well, apparently you don't need our help that much" - Brittany said and was about to hang up when she heard Alvin's voice.
- "Wait! I'll buy it for you, I promise just please come here and help us!"
- "Deal, I'll be with the girls in 15 minutes"
Author's note:
And we have another chapter! What do you think?
In the next chapter: How will the chipettes react? Will they manage to clean the house? What will they do with all of the popcorn? And will Alvin's pocket money be gone?
And There will only be one update next week (on Friday) as I won't have the ability to share a chapter with you before then. It's hopefully a one-off situation, so I hope you'll forgive me :*
I do not own any characters.
I wish you a wonderful day 😊
