Happy Easter to all and thank you to all who read or reviewed so far. Here is Chapter 7, as usual all rights go to their respective owners.

Chapter 7: The Aftemath

Day had turned into night and as Dave and Eleanor were helping make dinner, the others were sitting on the couch staring straight ahead. No one knew what to say or even how to say it if they did. None of the furry singers could possibly fathom what their brother and/or friend had just done. It was like winning the lottery, over and over again. After several minutes, Alvin was the first to break the silence.

"I still can't believe what I heard." Alvin stated still blankly staring at the TV.

"One hundred million dollars...that's a lot of toaster waffles." Brittney imagined to herself.

"How did he do it?" Jeanette was next in line with the drone like reaction as they were all completely mindboggled.

"And to think, it's all because of you." Simon finished up pointing over to Alvin which Alvin looked over in partial disbelief.

"Um, what exactly did I do Simon?" Alvin confusingly asked his older brother.

"Put two and two together Alvin; you got all of us in trouble, you got us all grounded, Theodore sings a song,Theodore becomes a superstar. That could have been all of us." Simon stated leaning back on the couch. Something though didn't seem right. Jeanette felt she needed to give her opinion.

"I don't know Simon, we've been singing together for years."

"Yeah..." Brittney added on. "And together we never got approached with something like that." Alvin was trying to put the pieces together, but it was like the puzzle kept falling apart in his hands. Every answer they could come up with made zero sense, and none of them could figure it out.

Meanwhile Eleanor was standing on a stool in the kitchen stirring a pot of soup as Dave was looking in the cubbard grabbing some crackers for the kids to eat with.

"I'm so proud of Theodore." Eleanor said so happily.

"I am too, it's just, I never expected anything like this to happen." Dave replied back not in a fun or cheerful way though which Eleanor noticed and she turned around hopped on the table as he sat down on the chair next to it.

"Dave, is something bothering you?" Eleanor put her paws on his hand in concern.

"Well kinda yeah. It's just, I decided to end the shows because Theodore told me that he didn't really want to do them anymore. Now not only is Theodore gonna be doing all of that again, but he'll doing them by himself. I'm not sure if he realizes what may come of this." Dave gave his reason and Eleanor understood, but at the same time she did convince Theodore that it was the right thing to do and that he did it for the right reasons, then it was a good thing.

"If I know Theodore, I know he's not doing it for himself; he's doing it for others. I know if Theodore can put a smile on someone's face, that he would be happy no matter what he does." Eleanor responded back, Dave thought hard about it and nodded.

"That sounds just like Theodore..." As Dave stands up, "and it sounds like yourself too... maybe that's why you two are made for each other." Dave said with a smile.

"Thanks Dave." Eleanor smiled back.

While the conversation was going on, Alvin couldn't help but listen in. Alvin couldn't understand how one little talk between Theodore and Eleanor would convince him from not wanting to sing anymore to going out on his own. Does Theodore care that much for Eleanor that one talk would convince him to set out, but then why would he leave her, and with only a single night to think about it? Wasn't Eleanor the reason he wanted to stop and stay in the first place? After while Britney noticed that something was on Alvin's mind and snapped him out of it the only way Britney would do so to Alvin, bonking him on the head.

"Ow, what's you do that for?" Alvin complained rubbing his head.

"I was tying to get you to stop thinking Alvin, it hurts my head." Brittney answered.

"Not as much as it hurts mine." Alvin sarcastically said.

That night everyone was in sleeping well, all except for Alvin who couldn't sleep a wink. He couldn't help but wonder about his younger brother, he peeked over out the window to see the cloudless, stary sky and couldn't help but sigh.

"I wonder if Theodore's looking at the stars tonight? I hope he's not worrying about us." Alvin said with another sigh to himself before tucking himself in and trying to get to sleep.

Meanwhile at Ian's estate, Theodore was about to go to bed also, but Theodore was also looking at the stars. Not with concern though as Alvin and his friends may have thought, he actually felt quite happy. Theodore then sighed as he gazed upon the stars and moon.

"I hope they're not worrying about me..." With that Theodore jumped up into bed and cuddled up in his nice comfy regular size bed that was made for him to give him plenty of room to sleep.

Alvin soon realized that trying to sleep was hopeless, he jumped off his bed and went over to the window to look at the sky. Alvin would be the first to say to anyone that he wasn't much of a stargazer by any means, but ever since Theodore left, something about the stars interested him. He wondered why some of the stars in the sky were brighter than others and ironically in his mind, the stars in the sky reminded him of all of them. In their own way, they were stars too afterall. For years, Alvin was the brightest star of all, he was on top of the world...untouchable. But then in the blink of an eye, everything changed. Now as Theodore began to shine brighter and brighter, he felt that had become duller and dimmer to his brother's shine. Was Alvin really jealous of his brother? While Alvin was deep in thought, someone walked up behind him. It was Brittney as she sat down next to him, though he didn't even seem to notice.

"Alvin what's wrong? It's not like you to be thinking so much." Britney questioned to her alike counterpart. Alvin slightly chuckled at the notice.

"It's not like you to care either." Alvin responded back to her.

"Perhaps. We all seem to be acting a bit different." Brittney pondered as Alvin stuck the remark hard on her.

"I'm sorry Brit...I'm just so upset with myself." Alvin said in a gentler tone.

"Really? Why?" Britney said with care.

"My brother's getting the chance of a lifetime; I should feel happy for him and all I can think about is myself. I feel like that dim looking star up there" Alvin said pointing to a star near the moon they both could barely see. "...fading away into nothing while Theo gets brighter right next to me." Alvin continued then pointing to the star next to the one he claimed himself to be which looked twice as bright as "himself".

"That's so selfish of me." Alvin spilled his guts right to Brittney, probably the only one that he would have. Brittney really didn't know what to say

"I'll leave you alone Alvin." Britney then stood up. "If you want me to." And she began to walk off when Alvin called her name which she stopped.

"I need to ask you something..." Alvin swayed trying to keep Brittney by his side which she then walked back over sat on the desktop looking to him as he was still looking out the window. "What is it Alvin?" Brittney asked him.

"Well, I noticed how close Theodore and Eleanor were getting and I got to thinking..." Alvin started which Brittney in a joking way. "More thinking?" Alvin turned to her with a look and then back to the window. "...how come we never got that close?" Alvin looked back asking her straight up.

Brittney was put on the spot, but she knew Alvin was being open to her. She only felt she owned it to him to be open back, in fact to Alvin, he wouldn't have expected anything left.

"Well Alvin, It's hard to be with someone close when they feel they're better than you." Brittney replied back which Alvin looked back at the response and looked back to her and held her hand.

"Is that how you think about me?" Alvin asked another question.

"Of course I do..." Brittney said, slowly pulling her hand away from Alvin. "And I know it's how you feel about me too... Isn't it?" Brittney knew what the answer was as Alvin just hung his head. "And that's why we're just not meant for each other Alvin." Brittney's only response afterwards was to tell Alvin good night and head back to bed.

Alvin was beggining to learn the hard way that living on top of the world only makes the crash down to earth that much harder, he began to realize why Dave wanted to get them away from the spotlight when they were young rather than wait until it was too late and became too much to bare. That was just one of the reasons Alvin loved Dave was that he was willing to help them learn it rather than live it. And just the thought that he's brother could endure that...

There's Chapter 7. Chapter 8 Coming Soon. Thanks for reading.