Well, this epilogue just summarizes the story a little. I hope you have a few giggles with it and I hope it wraps up things neatly. And I also hope that you don't mind if I disappear into my writer's-hole for a few months so I can finish off that sequal I've been promising you. (I finally went back to it recently and...well, I hated what I saw...the first chapter was almost fine, but the three following it were total bores, and it's no wonder I stopped writing. Absolutly nothing was happening...so little that it made ME want to just drop the whole thing. So I'm starting over from the end of chapter one and I hope it'll go faster now that I've cleaned up the boring-ness.)

Ok, here's your stats for this story:

Pages (on Microsoft Word 2007): 85

True Word Count: 32,303

(Yes, that is SHORT by my standards.)

AND DON'T FORGET: Sign my petition to let Ross and Janice know that we want to see more of the cartoon Chipmunks (and not just the old episodes either...the Chipmunk Adventure needs to be shown on TV as well as the fact that they need to make more).

Switched

Epilogue

They all sat in the comfy chairs in their best outfits, watching outtakes from the last two weeks. The first day seemed like it had only been a few hours ago…but a few hours ago they had been unpacking their things once again, finally back in their own bedrooms. At that particular moment, they were being shown a clip where the girls were recovering the beds in the boys' room with their own sheets.

"Brittany!" Jeanette scolded as she looked at what had once been Alvin's bed.

"What did you make your bed with this morning anyway?" Eleanor asked as she and Jeanette started to clean up the mess their sister had made.

"Just some old stuff I found in the closet. You know, those old blankets that Miss Miller provided when we first moved in, before we got to use what we wanted."

"Brittany, it's not that bad sleeping in Alvin's bed."

"Oh yes it is! I wonder how often he takes a shower? Not enough! He's probably filthy…And you wonder why I brought all my sheets with me. I don't want him messing them up." The boys watched as the girls headed to what was to be their beds for the next two weeks. "Do you two want some too?"

"Want some what?" Jeanette asked.

"Extra sheets! I brought enough for all three beds."

"Actually, that doesn't sound too bad," Eleanor said. "Just so long as we make their beds before we leave."

"Oh, don't worry. We'll clean this room too."

"Brittany, you hate cleaning," Jeanette said as she carefully started un-making Simon's bed.

"I hate cleaning, but I hate living in filth even worse. Remember how we kept the tree house clean? I can't stand living someplace dirty."

"This isn't that bad," Eleanor said. "It really could be a lot worse."

"But it's still gross. Our room is cleaner than this."

The boys almost jumped when the clip ended and the announcer turned back to them. "Well, boys…How did that make you feel?" Andy asked them.

"Dirt is better than frills," Alvin declared. "Besides, we keep our room picked up!"

"That was picked up?" Brittany scoffed. Everything was coated in a layer of dust…and it smelled funny."

"Your room smelled like cheap perfume." They silently challenged each other with their glares.

"Well, that was just day one! Things really started heating up later on." He pressed play for their next pre-selected clip, and Alvin almost groaned out loud when he saw it.

"That's it!" Alvin yelled as he threw his pencil down.

"Trouble with homework?" Simon asked.

"No."

"Then what's wrong?"

"I'm just so…frustrated! Do you even realize that this the most we've said to each other all day is 'let's go to the park to do our homework'?"

"We're just trying hard not to say something that's against the rules," Eleanor said. "I wasn't so badly to ask how Sunday chores went, but we can't."

"I want to know what you did yesterday," Theodore said. "That's not off-limits, right? Seeing as you guys probably went out…Dave always lets us go do something on Sunday afternoons."

"We got ice cream," Jeanette said. "And Brittany took us window shopping."

"Just window shopping?" Alvin asked.

"We put the last of our money together to get the ice cream."

"There was such a gorgeous necklace in one of the stores," Brittany said as she played with her hair. "It would look just perfect with my new dress…But I suppose I can get that any time. What surprised me was that Jeanette found something that she adored."

"Brittany!"

"What? Is it a crime to tell the boys that you liked a lovely necklace? It would be perfect for our Christmas concert with the boys…but knowing you, you'll never, ever buy it for yourself. And I'm quite sure you'd never just ask anyone for it…"

"So why don't you get it for her?" Alvin said.

"Because I'm saving up for that necklace to go with my dress. I just wouldn't feel fully dressed without it. Of course, If someone were to buy me the necklace, then I could get my sweet little sister something for the concert."

"Forget is! You've borrowed too much of my money already."

"Borrowed?"

"You had money for her to borrow?" Simon asked.

"Why do you think I'm broke all the time?" Alvin replied. "It's her fault.

"Aw, Alvin," Brittany cooed. "You know you always want to look good on stage, and of course when I look good, so do you. You know, since we're such a tight-knit group."

"We are not a group Brittany. We are we, the Chipmunks, and you are you, the Chipettes. We sing together sometimes because we're helping you on your rise to fame. You really should be more grateful!" Alvin jumped off the bench and headed for home.

"Alvin!" his brothers called to stop him. "Alvin! Don't go home!"

"Why not?"

"Because we're not allowed to!" Theodore told him.

"Then I'll see you at Miss Miller's house!"

"And so started a week-long feud," Jillian laughed. "You six are quite an adventure, even in your own backyard."

"You have no idea," Simon told her.

"Care to share?" Andy said, interested in getting the kids talking.

"Not really. It seems crazy to us, but it'd probably bore you."

"Well, you kids sure do seem to have a lot of things going on, both planned and on accident."

"That's right!" Jillian agreed. "A dazzling concert, and then you youngest ones at Wal-Mart? That has to be one of the most interesting performances I've ever seen."

"We owed them," Eleanor told her. "We kind of made a huge mess of things so we had to do something to make up for it. Not only was it the right thing to do, but it was for a good cause!" The six kids all noticed the two adults glance 'discretely' at the camera crew and then turn around and bound into their commercial speeches.

"And after the break, we'll meet with the guardians and hear their side of the story!" Jillian cheered, and the kids' hearts sank. They'd never done that before!

The six of them were ushered off rather quickly as Dave and Miss Miller were pulled onto the set to get ready. The two announcers instantly dived into conversations with them and the kids were left to just watch and see what was going to happen.

"Hey!" they heard someone call.

"Jack!" Simon replied cheerfully. Jack was instantly followed by his two siblings, each of which were staring and wonder at the fact that all six kids were gathered together before their eyes.

"Can you sign this?" they said in unison, holding out the picture that Simon and Jeanette had already signed.

"I see you've met my brother already…" Alvin said apprehensively as he took the pen and scribbled his name down.

"We met on the bus," Jack told him. "When he was heading here to unrig the polls."

"And we helped them distract everyone so they could do it!" Tyler explained cheerfully. "Roxy was still mad that we let her cousins piglets run loose in the studio, but she forgave Jack because he'd done such a good deed."

"Where is Roxy anyway?" Jeanette asked.

"Bathroom," Rachel said.

"Not anymore!" Roxy called as she ran up to join the group. "You'd think they'd have cleaner bathrooms in a studio. Geeze." They all jumped as they were hushed. The commercial break was coming to an end.

"Welcome back everyone to our extra-special interview," Andy called cheerfully.

"For the first time ever on the show, we're interviewing the guardians of our switchees," Jillian echoed. Instantly a clip reel started up with all the moments where Dave and Miss Miller had to step up to the challenge of taking care of each chipmunks' unique problems. It was a collage that included the evening after Alvin and Brittany's fight first began, the day Dave and Miss Miller had both taken one of the kids to the doctors, the night when all six had woken up from their nightmares, the shopping day and the comforting that had had to take place after the concert, and it was all wrapped up with their Thanksgiving dinner.

"So you've both known the other kids for a while," Andy started when it was finished. "Was it different than you expected actually having to care for them as your own?"

"I'm not exactly used to girls," Dave started, "but I'm certainly used to adventurous triplets. Some of it was harder than others, but in general everything went as, well, smoothly as it could have gone."

"That was smooth?" Jillian couldn't help but laugh.

"For us, yes," Alvin hissed, only to be instantly hushed.

"Boys are easy to handle compared to girls," Miss Miller declared. "I just hope they give us a break before they plow on into their next adventure." All six children couldn't help but snicker at that. It wasn't like they chose when they'd have an adventure, adventures just seemed to seek them out more often than it sought out other kids.