Hi again! Sorry for the long wait... I was kinda busy, you know (:

Here's Chapter 6!

PS. Maybe the end of this chapter is kinda 'harsh' or something, but now you're warned ;)

Enjoy!

Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor sat on their usual school bench, drinking apple juice. Simon kept the straw inside his mouth without drinking. He stared at nothing, and had nothing to come up with.

Theodore broke the silence. "Sooooo, do you guys think we'll win?" he asked, just to say something.

"Of course!" Alvin smirked. "We are pop stars. How can we not win?" Theodore didn't answer. He just looked down at his half-full, half-empty juice.

Suddenly Simon blurted up. "Guys! I-I don't think I can d-do this!" he said, standing up. Alvin gave him a confused look.

"Do what?"

Simon rolled his eyes, at his brother's short-term memory. "Go on stage!" he said. Alvin sighed and rolled his eyes too, and walked up to his brother.

"Sure you can! It went well right before" Alvin said, trying to build Simon's confidence up. "And why do you say that?"

Simon looked down, running his left hand trough his messy hair. "I- I just think it would be more safety, to just drop out"

Alvin's eye widened a little. "What?!" he exclaimed. "Why should we drop out? That's the worst idea I've heard from you. The smart one" he said, trying to not be so funny though.

Simon rolled his eyes again. "You heard what Ryan said!" he cried. "He'll get us anyway, so it might be the best". Simon looked a little ashamed down at the ground, for sounding so weak.

"Come on, Simon! And now I think about it, why haven't Dr. Ruby said anything to him? You said it went well to your conversation" Alvin said, changing the subject.

Simon felt himself getting speechless. Did he really say that? Oh yes, he did! "Uhhh... I did?" he asked, trying to play innocent.

"Uh yes you did!" Brittany broke into their conversation.

Simon bit his lower lip. He never had been a good liar. "I..." he tried to say something, but couldn't find the right words. Had talking always been that hard?

Alvin cleared his throat. "Simon" he began. "What exactly happened to your talk with Dr. Rubin?" he asked sternly, but still soft. He wouldn't sound too harsh; he knew Simon was having it hard.

Simon sighed deeply. He sat down at the bench again, with Alvin right beside him. "I... I didn't tell her the truth..." he mumbled with a low voice.

Jeanette gasped a little. "What?" she asked. "Why not?"

Simon sighed. "I think Ryan kinda scared me to not tell her the truth. I'd still got beaten up". Alvin laid his arm around Simon before Jeanette could do it.

"Don't worry" he said. He got Simon's attention, as he looked up at his older brother.

"What do you mean?"

Alvin couldn't help but smirk a little. "We'll go tell Dr. Ruby anything. Right now" he replied trying to sound like an optimist.

Simon raised his eyebrows in shock. "What?! No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!" he cried as he stood up, keeping his eyes at Alvin. "We're not going to tell her anything! Ryan will kill me!"

Alvin rolled playfully his eyes. His brother was totally overreacting. Or was he?

"Come on Simon! You can't keep lying about it! Someday, it'll hunt you!" Alvin walked up to his brother again.

Simon didn't really know what to respond. "We should better go back know" he said, starting to walk towards the music room again in a fast speed.

Alvin quickly looked over at the four others. "Why won't he listen? I'm trying to help him, and again he thinks, he just can run away from it". Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor shook their heard on the same time. Alvin sighed. "I'm not going to give up. He needs it, he just doesn't think he does" he mumbled to himself, looking at his brother from the distance.

Simon came back to the music room. He looked at the clock. Exactly two minutes to Dr. Rubin would deliver the answers. Actually, Simon didn't hope they would win. He wasn't much competitive, cause for him it was just a competition. Another of those stupid competitions, were people just had to be the best, and Simon wasn't like that, he-

Simon felt forward, when someone pushed him. "So are you brats staying out of the conpetition or what?!" Ryan hissed. Simon turned quickly around to face him. He stood up, and tried to go backwards.

"I- I.. Uh.. we.. Well, it's a little complica-"

"Yes or no, geek!" Ryan interrupted. But before Simon could answer him, they heard Dr. Rubin's voice coming out from the stage.

"Students" she began. "We have found the three winners of you all. Participants, please come up on the stage, and we'll appoint the three winners"

Ryan looked over where Simon stood before, but couldn't find him. "What the...!" he blurted.

Simon quickly, but secretly walked over to his brothers and the girls, as they walked up on the stage. He knew that Ryan would do something to him later, but right know he just wanted to go home.

One of the three judgers cleared her throat. "And the first one who's going to the final is... Riley and Emily!" she said, pointing over at the two twins with her arm. The crowd clapped, and the two twins bent.

"They were just lucky" Brittany whispered to Eleanor, who just shook her head and rolled her eyes.

The second judge cleared his throat too. "And... Who's also in the final is... Daisy and Michael!". He pointed over at the couple. Sure, a cheerleader and a football guy was a perfect match.

Alvin growled low. "C'mon... Love songs are so boring". Theodore sighed at Alvin's jealousy.

"And the last performing group is..." the third judge began. "The Chipmunks and The Chipettes!"

Alvin smirked, cause he knew they would get to the final, Brittany whined in 'surprise', Theodore and Eleanor gave each other high-five, and Jeanette smiled.

'Damh it!' Simon thought. 'Guess who doesn't want to go to school tomorrow...'

Five out of six walked proudly home from school. The last one, couldn't think about nothing else than how Ryan would react to Simon. To his brothers. The all of them.

Theodore walked happily over to his older brother, who was not happy at all. "Simon! We got to the final! Where's your smile?" he asked.

Simon glared empty at him. He couldn't blame Theodore for his joy, but was it just like he hadn't been following the whole situation? Simon didn't really answer his younger brother. He looked down at the ground again, and kept walking.

"Please don't be sad" Theodore said. He was just so kind. Seriously, you couldn't be in bad mood, if Theodore was around. Simon smiled weakly up at him.

"Don't worry, Theo. I'm not sad" Simon tried his best to play it cool. Theodore raised his right eyebrow at him.

"Uh... Okay... Sure... of course"

Simon gave his younger brother another fake smile. As they continued walking, Alvin spoke up. "So, what song should we sing to the final?" Brittany looked up at the sky, thinking about her favorite song.

"Well, 'Single Ladies' would totally give us the first place" he said.

Alvin rolled his eyes. "Britt. Us boys are here too" he said. "We can't sing that, too girlish. What about 'beat it'?"

Now, Brittany rolled her eyes. "'Beat it' is too... like... 'Not us'." she said, flipping her long ponytail. Alvin gave her a glare.

"Then what should we sing?"

Brittany thought for a moment, but couldn't answer before Eleanor did. "Oh, we could sing 'Rock' N' Roll'! It's for girls and boys!" she cheered, hopefully.

Alvin thought about it for a moment. "No" he answered simply. "I think it's too... Childish"

"What!" Theodore and Eleanor cried. in unison. Alvin looked over at them, a little surprised.

"It's not childish! Last time we sang it was what, three months ago" Eleanor said. Alvin sighed irritated.

"Guys! If we need to win, we have to find a song we haven't sung yet" he said. "For example 'Beat it'" he smirked.

Brittany rolled her eyes. "Alvin, we're not going to sing that song" he mumbled. She looked over at her younger sister. "Jeanette, what do you think?"

Jeanette looked up. "Hmmm" she thought. "What about a song everyone here likes?"

The oldest pair looked at each other. They both thought for a moment, but suddenly they both burst out, with the same idea. "LIFE IS A HIGHWAY!" Theodore, Jeanette and Eleanor laughed at them.

"That's certainly the first time you two have agreed with each other" Jeanette grinned. Alvin and Brittany smirked.

"Well, let's sing that song!" Alvin said. Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor nodded in agreement. Alvin changed his eyes over at his taller brother, who just kept walking with his head in a low position. "Simon?" he asked. No respond. Alvin walked away from Brittany and over to him."Siii-moon" he called again. Simon looked slowly up.

"What?" he finally asked.

"What do you think?"

"Think about what?"

"The song"

"Which song?"

Alvin narrowed his eyes in annoyance, but suddenly changed it again. "What do you say if we sing 'Life Is a Highway'?" he asked. Simon just looked at him, with a bored face.

"I don't care" he muttered, and looked down at the ground again.

Alvin began to get a little annoyed. "What's wrong? Why are you so negative!" he cried.

Simon rolled his eyes. "I just don't want to sing, when Ryan threatens us!" he hissed.

The six teens were almost over to their house.

"Well, if you don't want to sing, go out of the group!" Alvin said sarcastically, but it didn't really sound like that. "No, I mean-"

"Fine!" Simon interrupted. "I'll do that" he snapped, speeding the tempo up. He was almost over to the gate.

Alvin ran over to him. "Simon, I didn't mean it, it was-"

"Go away!" Simon cried. He could feel the tears coming to his eyes. Simon ran into the house and smashed the door again. Alvin, Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor stood outside; a little shocked over the scene.

Dave was in the kitchen cooking food for the kids. Since he had to work, he couldn't come and see the contest. Dave heard the door open and close. "Hey fellas! Dinner's almost done!" he called. But no one came in. He heard someone race upstairs and got a little confused.

Alvin opened the door, and in came the five others. Again, Dave called: "Dinner's almost done!"

"Uh, okay, cool" Alvin replied quickly, not caring at all. He ran upstairs, trying to catch up his brother. When he came over to Simon's door, it was locked. Jeanette walked over to Alvin.

"Just leave him for a moment" she insisted softly. Alvin sighed, and walked down stairs again, with the four others.

"So, how did it go today?" Dave asked, noticing Simon was missing. "Where's Simon?" Brittany glanced secretly over at Alvin, who had his eyes planted at nothing. Dave cleared his throat. "Al-vin?" he said, raising his eyebrows.

"Simon felt bad" he lied. Luckily, Dave fell for it.

"Oh, I see. Well, do any of you know how it went today with him?"

Theodore sighed softly. "First he said that it went well, but then he-"

Alvin cut his youngest brother off, by putting his hand over his mouth. "Simon told us it went fine".

Dave had his back against them, so he didn't notice Alvin stopping Theodore with his hand. "Oh good" he said.

Theodore looked confused over at Alvin, but got a glare returned.

'First, no one listen to me, and then I kinda get kicked out!' Simon thought to himself. He had his face buried down in his pillow. Again, he couldn't hold the tears back, and was a little ashamed of it. Luckily, no one was around him.

How can you cry now? You're just like a baby! No.. Everyone likes babies... A familiar voice said, inside his head.

Simon lifted his head up again, and sat up in his bed.

If you just were as good-looking or cute as your brothers, you wouldn't have these problems.

Simon felt himself getting more and more upset.

Look! You're weak!

He suddenly stood up. An unpleasant feeling took place in his stomach, like he was about to throw up.

Why don't you have any friends? Because no one likes you, geek!

Simon shook his head weakly, trying to get those thoughts away, but it just got worse.

Trying to shake the pain away? How sweet...

Suddenly he found himself bursting out of tears, and fell down at his knees. Right now, he didn't want to be there.

No matter how hard you try to change yourself, you will always be that boring, ugly boy, which no one likes.

Simon looked up again.

No one likes you.

He stood up and walked over to his desk.

No one cares for you.

Simon looked over at the pocket knife Dave had given him.

No one loves you.

That was enough. He couldn't take it anymore. Simon took the pocket knife in his left hand. He considered seriously, if he should do it. Just once.

Before Simon could do anything else, the door handle moved. Simon dropped the knife on his table in shock. He quickly looked over at the door.

"Simon, dinner's ready!" Dave called from the outside. Simon sighed in relief.

"I'm not hungry" he mumbled.

Dave hesitated. "Are you sure?" he asked, a little concerned. Simon nodded ti himself.

"Yeah. I'm a little tired" he mumbled again. Dave didn't answer, but walked downstairs again.

Simon sighed again, and threw himself on his bed.

Poor Simon! Please review and tell me what you think :)

Chapter 7 will be out soon.

Don't worry, there will NOT be a break as long as the other ;)