Chapter 2-Packing
At breakfast, the next morning, Dave made pancakes.
"After breakfast," Dave said, "I need you boys to get your stuff packed for tomorrow."
"Okay," Alvin replied as Simon and Theodore nodded.
"So are you psyched?" Dave asked with a grin.
"Yeah!" they all screeched at once.
"That's good," Dave said, "I'll bet the girls are to."
AT THE MILLERS'
Ms. Miller and the chipettes were cleaning up after breakfast.
"You ladies oughta start packing," Ms. Miller suggested, "We're leaving first thing tomorrow morning."
"Okay," Jeanette said as she and Eleanor went to their room to start packing. Brittney went into the living room to watch TV.
"Brittney," Ms. Miller said, "Why aren't you packing?"
"I already took care of it last night," Brittney replied, "I had a lot, but Ellie and Jeanette made me pack lighter." She rolled her eyes.
"Well I'm gonna check and make sure you packed what you need, and not a bunch of junk you don't need," Ms. Miller said as she walked up the stairs to her girls' room. Brittney's suitcase was lying next to her bed. She opened it up and saw three different bathing suits, about ten shirts, ten pairs of shoes, twelve skirts, ten different colors of lip gloss, eleven different shades of eye shadow, and seven different shades of blush. She was outraged. "Brittney!" she shouted, "Get up here!" Brittney heard Ms. Miller shout for her, and rolled her eyes as she turned off the TV and headed upstairs.
"Coming, Ms. Miller!" she called back trying to sound pleasant, "Uh, Yes, Ms. Miller?" she said when she got to her bedroom.
"Young lady," Ms. Miller said sternly, "You're gonna have to pack better than that. There are way too many things in here that you don't need. You may bring two pairs of shoes, five skirts, five shirts, one bathing suit, one kind of lip gloss, and one shade of eye shadow and blush. You have to save room for a blanket, a pillow, and your tooth brush." Brittney frowned.
"Oh yeah," she said, "I guess I forgot about that stuff." She sighed as she began to narrow her packing down even more.
AT THE SEVILLES'
Dave went up to his boys' room to monitor what they were packing. Simon and Theodore both had everything they needed. Alvin, however, had all the things he needed, but he had about thirty CDs and his "Monster Book of Monster Facts". Dave sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Alvin," he said sternly, "You're not taking that book or all those CDs. You may take three CDs."
"Only three?!" Alvin whined, "But I need my music, and what if the Outer Banks are invaded by people eating, zombie aliens from the future? We'll be doomed!"
"Alvin," Dave said sternly, "there's no such thing as…whatever you just said."
"But, Dave…" Alvin tried to argue but Dave cut him off.
"The answer is no, Alvin," he said. Alvin perked out his lower lip, made his deep blue eyes super big, and looked up at his father with the sad "puppy dog" face.
"Pwease, Dave?" he said in a babyish tone.
"No, Awvin," Dave replied mocking Alvin's babyish tone. Alvin made his lip quiver and pretended to start crying.
"Pweeease?" he said in a babyish tone again and pretended to sob.
"Boohoo, no," Dave still didn't give in and still mocked his son. Alvin gave him the "puppy dog" face again.
"Pwease?" he said softer and still in the babyish tone.
"Yeah, Yeah," Dave said playfully as he lifted him up and held him for a second, "you're cute…but the answer's still no." He put him back down on the ground. Alvin crossed his arms angrily and glared at Dave.
"Fine," he said as he reluctantly put the huge book back on the shelf.
"Other than that, Alvin," Dave said, "You're good to go, now."
THAT NIGHT!
"Night fellas, Dave said as he turned out the light.
"Night, Dave," the boys all said. Alvin waited about ten minutes for his brothers to fall asleep, then got up and went to his bookshelf. He pulled out the "Monster Book of Monster Facts" and slipped it into his suitcase. He looked around to his brothers to make sure he hadn't waken them up, then crawled back into his bed and went to sleep.
There's Chapter 2! Hope you enjoyed!! I like reviews!!