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One month later:
The Chipmunks and I are all upstairs in my room. Okay, and my sisters. We're all on the floor gathered in a circle playing…BS!
"BS, Alvin, BS," Brittany screamed in excitement.
"Ughh," he responded while grabbing the whole card deck laid in the center of all of us.
Wow, it's so entertaining watching everyone get so competitive at this game. Even I do!
DING, DONG!
"Girls come downstairs, we need to talk," Miss Miller softly yelled. "And, boys? I thinks it's about time ya'll leave."
All six of us scurried down the stairs. Underneath the door entrance was a woman and a man dressed in a suit and two adult male and female chipmunks. We immediately decelerated at the sight of them.
"Bye, guys," Eleanor whispered awkwardly. All of us hugged our good-byes.
"Bye, boys," Miss Miller said.
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore all spun around in a ripple. "Bye Miss Miller," they yelled in perfect harmony.
Miss Miller turned around to the three of us, "Girls, this is Ms. Smith, my lawyer," she gestured to the woman in the suit. We all said our how-do-you-do's and shook her hand. "This is Dr. Grove," pointing at the man in the suit. We all shook his hand and said our how-do-you-do's, again. "And, finally, this is D'Angelo and Taryn Lockhart," pointing at the chipmunk couple. "Your parents."
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. OH, MY GOD! Just then, my eyes became so wide it looked like they were goanna pop out of their sockets. My jaw dropped open so low that it could've touched the ground. I was so surprised that I couldn't breathe. I was seriously screaming at the top of my lungs in the inside. I couldn't say a single word!
There weren't many things I could say. At last, I found just one word -- "What?!"
"Your parents," the blond and blue-eyed chipette repeated in a thick Australian accent, for Miss Miller, giving us a big teddy bear hug.
I think Brittany and Eleanor were just as surprised as I was. "Huh!" we exclaimed in a synchronized fashion.
"Yes, girls, your parents," Miss Miller said again. "Now let's sit in the living room and talk about this situation."
We all sat in the living room and for a couple minutes, there was a dead, awkward silence.
"Do any of you want coffee?" Miss Miller asked.
"Oh yes, please," the adults replied in an echo.
Miss Miller got out of her seat and walked into the kitchen. Once again, the room was silent.
About 5 minutes later:
Miss Miller came out with five mugs of coffee and three glasses of orange juice on a silver tray. She carefully and slowly placed the tray on the coffee table.
The adults grabbed their mugs and put in their desired amount of creamer and sugar and stirred it about with a teaspoon. Still in shock, I just took a single sip of orange juice.
"Well, I think we should get started now," Ms. Smith said, breaking the awkward silence.
"Yes, of course," Dr. Grove rapidly added.
Miss Miller turned to my sisters and me. She had this concerned look in her eyes. The closer I looked at her, the more I noticed that she looked very, very pale. "Well…girls…this is quite difficult for me to say and I should've told you a long time ago…. But, how can I say this? I'm sick."
"Then, stay in bed and we'll have this meeting later," Eleanor smirked.
"It's not that easy girls, I'm dying," Miss Miller gloomed.
Yay! This was extraordinary news! Just fantastic!
"She has about three months to live," Dr. Grove said, in a very serious tone. "We don't know exactly when, though, but it'll be sometime in October."
Even, greater!
"That's why your parents are here today, so you can be readopted by them," Ms. Smith added. "It was a very challenging search, indeed."
Well, now that phone call makes A LOT of sense.
"What the?! They abandoned us!" Eleanor was infuriated with this news. Usually, she's very sweet, you know? "Why would they want us back?!"
"Actually, it's not what you think. I'm sorry that you think we did, but we didn't mean to. You see, the day you were born was the most magical day of our lives. And, a couple weeks after that, your father and I were gathering food before winter hit." Our mother said in a voice filled with remorse.
"Yes. When we came back an hour later, you three weren't there," Our father, Mr. Lockhart, added. "All three of you disappeared. We thought that you were kidnapped or something."
"I was heartbroken for years, but I never lost hope. So, I prayed every night, hoping that we'll be reunited once again," Mrs. Lockhart said. "Now here we are." Tears began to run down her furry face.
"Well, how do you know that they're our parents?" Brittany uttered, turning to the lawyer. I glanced at "my parents" from the corner of my eye and boy did they look devastated.
The lawyer, Ms. Smith, said, "That was actually extremely tricky. In various parts of Australia, we put out papers all over the streets if anyone had missing chipettes. We asked a significant amount questions what their children looked like. And, everything that they described was you three. But, just to be a hundred percent sure, we took a DNA test and it was positive."
"Err, okay," I replied.
"So, here are the papers to sign for the adoption papers. But, it'll probably take a while to get approved." Ms. Smith said.
Ms. Smith brought out a humongous stack of papers and three black ink pens.
"Sign here… here… here… and here," she repeated again and again, flipping and pointing at every page that must by read and signed.
One hour later:
The whole process was done, and it was dark outside. Up to now, I'm still in shock. Everyone was lifting their butts off of their seats to go back home and started to walk towards the door. I ran up to the closed door to open it, so they can just leave faster.
Each person passed the door offered out their hands for me to shake. Except, for "my parents." They opened their arms and gave me a huge bear hug. It was really weird because, well, I hardly know them.
5 minutes later:
The three of us sulked back upstairs and threw our bedroom door open. We stripped off our clothes and changed into our pajamas. Everyone including Brittany was silent.
Brittany tossed her shimmery auburn hair and whispered, "I can't believe this is happening."
Oh, well. The silence of her not talking was nice while it lasted.
Eleanor replied quietly, her eyes all red-rimmed and teary, "Yeah, I know…I mean, our parents and Miss Miller dying?"
They both suddenly turned around to look at me.
"So, what do you think, Jeanette?" Brittany asked.
"I don't know Britt, I'm still stunned about it," I heard myself whisper back.
I snatched my iPod and put in the headphones to my ears and laid in bed. Ellie and Britt did the same minus the iPod and headphones.
30 minutes later:
I tossed and turned in my bed. I couldn't sleep at all. I sat up and my back was against the headboard of my bed. I turned to look at my sisters who were so snug and comfortable underneath their comforters. Everything was happening so fast and so badly. I couldn't handle any of this, that quickly. I hunched myself into the smallest ball imaginable on my bed, hugging my legs to my chest and resting my chin on my knees. Tears began to run down my face uncontrollably.
It was about ten pm and Miss Miller passed our bedroom door and she made a u-turn once she saw me. She sat beside my bed and pulled off my headphones. I hastily grasped my pink, round glasses, from my night table and positioned it on my face. I threw my hands to my face in order to wipe my tears away.
"So, what are you listening to?" Miss Miller asked.
"Nothing important," I sniffled.
"Nothing's not important."
"How can you be so calm about this?"
"It's a part of life. Everyone dies."
Miss Miller relocated my hair, that was in my face, behind my ear. She pulled me closer to her body and hugged me so tight that she could've crushed every single one of my ribs.
"Now go back to sleep my love," Miss Miller whispered, kissing my forehead.
"Yes, ma'am."
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
Miss Miller began to exit out of the darkened bedroom and giggled, "Good night, don't let the bed bugs bite."
Author's Note: First, off I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've just been busy. Okay, so they're reunited with their parents at last. And, to top it off Miss Miller is DYING! Congrats to DiceRox09 for being a great guesser that their parents would be found! Well, please review. And, I accept anonymous reviews!