Chapter 4-Lafonzo
Alvin and Jeanette were in the basement playing ping-pong.
"You don't stand a chance, Jeanette!" Alvin said confidently.
"You sure about that?" She replied when Alvin missed the ball.
"Aw, nuts!" He cried, "I wanna rematch!"
"You're on!" Jeanette said with a competitive but playful smirk as she paddled the ball to Alvin and he paddled it back. "So how come you and Britt don't hang out anymore?"
"Well," Alvin said, "I don't do it intentionally to her, but I kinda like hanging out with you better. I guess I just get tired of always fighting with her. Heck, if I was playing this with her right now, she'd have already thrown the ball at my head and stomped back upstairs." Jeanette blushed.
"I know how you feel," she said, "she does that to Ellie and me all the time at home." The ball went out of bounds and flew across the basement. "I got it." She said as she went after it to bring it back.
"Don't worry about it," Alvin said, "let's just go play outside."
"Okay, that sounds fun," Jeanette said as she followed Alvin outside.
"So what do you wanna do?" he asked her.
"Wanna do a few foot races?" she asked suggestively.
"Okay!" he said cheerfully as he ran across the front yard.
"Hey!" she yelled, "No fair! Come back here Alvin Seville!" She ran after him playfully, not angrily like Brittney usually did. They continued to laugh and play together.
Across the street, a 7 year old boy, named Lafonzo was watching Alvin and Jeanette play in the front yard. He hated Alvin, since Alvin beat him up for hurting Theodore a while back. Now he was looking for trouble again. He picked up a rock, he was gonna embarrass Alvin in front of his little "girlfriend". He hurled the rock at Alvin but missed and hit Jeanette in the head.
"Ouch!" she cried with pain. She knelt down holding her head and crying a little. Alvin stopped running and rushed over to her.
"Are you alright, Jeanette?" he asked. She nodded. "What happened?" he asked. Jeanette straitened up a bit.
"Th-that boy," she said pointing across the street, "he hit me with a rock!" Alvin glared at Lafonzo across the street.
"Lafonzo!" he hollered, "You stupid little punk! I'm gonna kick your…donkey!"
"Bring it on, Seville!" Lafonzo screamed as he ran across the street to confront Alvin.
"You want some of this, pal?" Alvin said as he took his shirt off and stood in his red shorts, flexing his small muscles. Jeanette was sitting on the ground watching. She suddenly felt something for Alvin she'd never felt before. She kinda liked it. Alvin drew back his fist and punched Lafonzo in the nose. Lafonzo cupped his hand over his nose and ran home crying. Alvin laughed as he walked over to help Jeanette off the ground.
"Thanks," she said sounding a little dazed. Alvin raised an eyebrow.
"You sure you're okay?" he asked, "I could go get my baseball bat and take a Lewieville slugger to his mom's car and then make it look like he did it." Jeanette giggled.
"N-no, that's okay," she said, "I gotta be getting home, it's almost dinner time!"
"Okay," Alvin called as she ran away, "thanks for tutoring me!"
"No problem!" she called back. On her way home, she couldn't help but think about Alvin. She'd had those feelings for Simon…but not anymore. She never thought she'd say it but…she liked Alvin!
Yeah, short chapter but I have a new bedtime now. Sigh. Oh well. Next chapter may be longer. And possibly be up tomorrow. Please review!!