A/N: Thank you to all who read the last chapter and story all together. We're almost at 30 chapters, pretty good for my first story and for something that was just a hashed up idea in my head nearly a year ago. Anyway, here's Chapter 27. As usual, All rights go to their respective owners. Without further adu, let's go!
Chapter 27: Brittany Blows
While insanity was going on throughout the whole Seville family. By far something to remember that they all heard, which was the reason it was something to forget. Alvin slowly walked along the hallway as he approached their bedroom, where both Eleanor and Brittany were. No one had seen either one of them since Theodore's interview, and niether one of them were in a good mood; most notably Brittany. Alvin knew that even though it was a battle that couldn't be won, that he still had to try. He had to talk to Brittany.
"Brittany? Are you still mad at me?" Alvin called out through the door. There was a short pause, which seemed like forever. Alvin believed that Brittany had calmed down, but...
"Go away Alvin!" Brittany yelled out with harsh demeanor.
"Well that's one way of saying yes..." Alvin said quietly to himself as he scratched his head. He wasn't determined to give up though and he leaned in to try again. "Brittany, will you at least talk to me?"
"No! Now go away!" Again Brittany persistently called out to him, Alvin though wasn't ready to quit, but he had had enough of Brittany's attitude and wanted answers.
"No! I'm not leaving until you talk to me..." Alvin yelled back through the door. Then the pause of silence again, he worried if he had made her feel bad, but with Brittany that wasn't likely. Just when Alvin couldn't take it anymore, the door cracked open. There Brittany stood, far from pleased in the exact outfit she wore when she ran off; so mad she didn't even bother to change. From the look in Alvin's eyes, she knew he was as upset as she was, but she wasn't interested in finding out why.
"Fine Alvin, now talk so you can leave." She glared at him with one paw on the side of the wall, waiting for his words.
"Look Brittany, I understand how you're feeling..." Alvin calmly told trying to sooth her anger, but to no avail.
"Good, are you finished?" Brittany bellowed to him as she looked to close the door again, but Alvin blocked the door from shutting got within a nose from her.
"Brittany, what is wrong with you?" Alvin called her out on her anger. What could have been said to make Brittany this upset?
"You're" what's wrong with me Alvin." Brittany stated within an instant of the question being answered. Alvin was completely dumbfounded by the responded that he looked around the house at looked like a million miles an hour.
"Me? What did I do?" Alvin asked with a paw to his chest jesturing to her. The look on his face showed her that he truely didn't understand...her rage soon dropped slowly. She could tell that he wasn't here to start a fight, he just wanted to talk to her. Maybe she did owe it to him to at least give him that small request. With that, Brittany slowly creeked the door open and looked dead into his eyes.
"You really wanna know?" Brittany told him.
"Uhh...yeah!" Alvin remarked in a very smarked voice, he honestly wondered why she would even ask that, of course he wanted to know. If he didn't, he would not have asked it.
Brittany stopped for a couple of seconds to gather the correct words to explain it to him as best as she could.
"You said everything was going to be fine. That things would be the way they were. I trusted you Alvin, you trusted your brother. He took advantage of your Alvin." She said in that soft voice that Alvin had grown to love, but there was no tone for love that was meant. Her words made Alvin lower his head looking down at the floor. "Don't you feel used?"
Alvin understood why Brittany would take it like that, he did tell her to trust his gut feeling, but it was wrong. Now he had to pay for assuming so.
"Well..." He slowly said, but it was all he could say. Brittany could tell by his demeanor that even if he did feel that way, he wouldn't admit it. Theodore looked up to Alvin like a dad, and Alvin never wanted to put anything of shame to his brother. However the line was starting to be drawn, and for Brittany, it was starting to get in the way of each other. Everything that Theodore said about all of them, even Alvin, and yet Alvin still didn't accept that his brother hadn't changed.
"Just forget it Alvin...you're just never gonna admit, but I will. I don't care what you say anymore. The only one I can't stand more than you right now, is your selfish little brother!" Those words hit Alvin like a ton of bricks. His brother...selfish? Before he could respond back, Brittany continued on. "Eleanor told me Theodore promised her he would show her how much he cared for us, then he goes and pulls that today; your brother broke my sister's heart Alvin! I will never forgive him for that..." Brittany's tone started to go back up and her last remark, she started pointing right at Alvin's chest...like he thought Brittany believed it was on him that it happened.
"And I thought you were bad...oh amazing what a little ego did to Theodore. Spilling your dirty laundry on national TV." Brittany finished her ramble, but that was it. Alvin wasn't going to take that remark from Theodore and make Brittany believe it was true.
"But I didn't say any of that Brit." Point blank Alvin said. She stopped and he stopped to both get each others reactions.
"So you don't think I'm a Drama Queen?" Brittany asked him with a touch of sorrow.
"Well, not exactly. No." Alvin quickly held his mouth noticing what he said. A very poor choice of words it was to someone he was trying to make feel better. Of course with Brittany, she pointed it out in a heartbeat.
"Not exactly"? What is that supposed to mean?" She accused him of lying.
"Well...I said no too Brit." Trying to change his words around, but it was too late, Brittany soon turned around and was ready to walk back into the bedroom, which Alvin then grabbed her by her paw which stopped her and she turned back to him. But the look she gave him wasn't one of forgiveness, but vengefulness.
"Let go of me Alvin." She threatened to him. Slowly and slowly, Alvin's grip loosened and Brittany slipped her arm and then paw away from him and walked back into their room and slammed the door shut.
Alvin was in a panic trying to set things right. "Come on Brit...how long are you going to stay angry at me?" Alvin called out to her through the door.
"About a billion zillion years!" Brittany answered back in an angry tone which set Alvin back.
"Well at least it's not forever!" And Alvin stomped back down the hallway to the living room, alone. He sighed as he fell back in the couch, realizing how badly he messed up this time. He blamed everything on his younger brother, even before at the last concert they performed at. He had been such a terrible older brother and he began to understand his brother's resentment. He wished his brother was there next to him as he looked over, wishing they could go back in time and work it all out, preventing any of this from happening. But it was too late now, much too late.
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That night all Theodore could do was look out the window thinking about all the people he made feel bad and let down thanks to Ian, he could only hope that they would see through what had happened...
Eleanor, meanwhile, was looking out a window at their home doing the same her friend was...
Eleanor's POV
When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together, lives within my heart
Theodore's POV
And when she was sad, I was there to dry her tears
And when she was happy, so was I, when she loved me.
Alvin was now outside on the porch as he leans on one of the support railings looking at the stary sky.
Alvin's POV
Through the summer and the fall, we had each other, that was all
Just she and I together, like it was meant to be
In the living room, Simon and Jeanette quietly look around the house seeing and hearing each of their siblings in a quarral and Jeanette lays down in Simon's arms as she hugs him tightly which Simon returns as it saddens them seeing their family falling apart.
Simon and Jeanette's POV
Simon: And when she was lonely, I was there to comfort her
Jeanette: And I knew that he loved me.
Meanwhile on her top bunk, Brittany was in their bedroom burying her face in her pillow trying to forget her ordeal with Alvin.
Brittany's POV
So the years went by, I stayed the same
And he began to drift away, I was left alone
Still I waited for the day, when he'd say "I will always love you."
Alvin's POV
Lonely and forgotten, never thought she'd look my way,
She smiled at me and held me, just like she used to do,
Like she loved me, when she loved me
Eleanor's POV
When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful,
Every hour we spent together, lives within my heart
Theodore's POV
When she loved me.
All of them had their heads down as all of them were very sad of the route their lives were being taken.
There is Chapter 27, I always liked that song and thought it was perfect for this scene of events. But what will happen now? We'll see together. Until then, thanks for reading! :)
