Okay, so you just saw chapter one, where that OC Derek, that I made, who has a crush on Brittany, left Alvin in the forest.

Brittany wants to start forgetting and tries being Derek's girlfriend…uh-oh. Her heart's trying to tell her what's right…and her sisters are trying to get through to her…but can it work?

~ That's Life ~

Chapter Two: Still Lost

What am I doing here?

Where am I?

Why am I here?

What happened the day I fell out cold?

All I remember is that…oh no. I think I figured it out.

"She's mine." Then all I remember is Derek.

Brittany…

He has a crush on her…

No, Brittany, please! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME AS A MEMORY!

I can't be a horrible, overwhelming, make-you-want-to-cry memory!

Britt, follow your heart. Not Derek.

Britt, do what's right.

Do it for me, I need it.

I can't let you go, I'm going to come home.

Britt, do it for me…

Think of me…

Please?

Will you?

- Alvin

Brittany needs me. It all makes sense. I remember the scene perfectly.

"Britt, I remember. I was going to set up your surprise…and then Derek came, whacked me with my beach umbrella, and I've been stuck here for weeks trying to remember, living off of bugs and taking shelter in a tree…," Alvin muttered.

That last part is really disgusting…

A bug crawled on his arm. "I guess this is lunch…"

At Fifi's house…

Everyone but Derek, Brittany and her sisters, and Alvin's brothers sat in a circle in the living room.

"Why did you call a meeting?" Danielle asked. "Ugh. So many questions! Did you hear about the investigation on Alvin's disappearance?" Fifi asked. Danielle nodded. "I know who left him."

"WHO?" Erika yelled. "Derek. He wants Brittany, so he stranded him. He was too heavy to drag home, and by the time I led the cops to where he was, he had disappeared."

"DEREK!" Luke growled. "Luke, calm down," Fifi said. "Fifster, how can he calm down? Derek is his brother and goes and does that behind his back," Erika pointed out.

"True," Leah said.

"WHY MY BEST BUD ALVIN?" Jeff said. Fifi rolled her eyes. Time for another scene of Mackenzie Munk-falls… "WHY? WWWHHHYYY?" Jeff was on both knees with his hands in the air.

"Shut up," Max said. "You shut up," Jeff said, snapping out of his drama. "You."

"YOU."

"YOU!"

"YOU!"

"SHUT UP!" Fifi yelled, getting in between them.

"Fifi, what happened next?" Mia asked, pulling out her notebook. She reported for the Nature Grove Post.

"I left. It's sad," Fifi said.

"Notice anything weird?" Violet asked, getting ready to take a picture of anything. She worked with Mia.

"Tracks. They stopped about one hundred yards short of the Secret Beach," Fifi said. "Let's go Mia," Violet said. Mia and Violet ran out to Mia's raspberry convertible.

They drove until they saw the edge of the forest. "Here it is, wait here. If I'm not back in a half hour, call the cops," Mia said.

Violet slumped in the back seat. She knew the cops. They were Jackie and Nellie, two female chipmunks. At least, that was two of them from the cop squad.

Violet heard a twig crack. "What the heck?" she muttered. Some tree branches high above the car shook.

"What in the world?" Violet, making sure that Mia had grabbed the keys and left the car unlocked, walked out of the car and shut the door.

A figure jumped off of the tree and started running. It was Derek, a big grin plastered on his face. He was running toward the chipettes' house.

"Brittany…," Violet muttered.

At the chipettes' house…

"YOU WHAT?" Eleanor and Jeanette yelled. "I scheduled a date with Derek," Brittany said again.

"But you love ALVIN!" Jeanette said. "He's probably dead by now. He's probably gone…," Brittany said.

Britt, you love him. He's probably alive…, Brittany thought. She tried to push that thought away. STOP PUSHING YOUR HEART AWAY! Brittany thought. But her brain and will power were stronger.

The next day…

Eleanor and Jeanette ran into Brittany's room to wake her up. "BRITTANY!" the yelled. Brittany yawned.

"What?" she asked groggily. "Look at this article!" Eleanor said.

NEW INFORMATION IN ALVIN SEVILLE CASE

POLICE KEEPING CASE OPEN

By Mia and Violet

After a short meeting at a home belonging to a chipette named Fifi LaBeau, Mia and Violet, reporters for the Nature Grove Post, received new information in the Alvin Seville case, a case police were ready to close.

Shortly after three P.M., the pair had discovered a suspect from witness Fifi LaBeau, hostess.

"Derek the chipmunk had whacked him with a beach umbrella and left him stranded. He was too heavy to take home myself, so I went back to the house to call the police, but Alvin was gone by the time the police and I got back," Fifi told Nature Grove Post.

Keeping in mind that information, Mia and Violet set out. Mia discovered that a claim of footprints 100 yards short of the Secret Beach was true. Eleanor, a sister to Alvin Seville's girlfriend Brittany, believes that he probably survived and is alive at the moment, living off of bugs and taking shelter in trees.

"We can't lose hope. I know some people are, but if my theory is correct, and there's a 50-50 chance it is, Alvin is alive," Eleanor says.

Alvin Seville's emotional brother Theodore was in tears when Alvin failed to come home after a week.

"It's heartbreaking," Theodore told the pair of reporters in an emotional breakdown.

If anyone else has any information, call (555) 555-5555.

"You and Theodore called the paper?" Brittany screeched. "Had to," Eleanor said.

"And did you see the part on Derek?" Jeanette asked. "Maybe it was another Derek," Brittany said. "Britt, we know the whole town. THERE'S ONE DEREK!" Eleanor said.

"And why did it say I'm his girlfriend? He's probably dead, so we're through. And now I'm dating Derek," Brittany said.

"SO IF ALVIN DID REALLY DIE, YOU'D FORGET HIM?" Jeanette yelled. Brittany nodded.

"BRITT! WHAT IF YOU DIED AND ALVIN FORGOT YOU?" Jeanette yelled as she stormed out of Brittany's bedroom.

"Britt, how can you live with yourself?" Eleanor asked, shaking her head in disapproval.

She followed Jeanette out the door. Brittany sighed and walked to her computer. She had a new email from Derek.

So the article gets out. Congrats. You figured it out, I did it. I admit it. I just wanted to get Alvin out of the way. You're never getting out of being my girlfriend, because I'm good at lying and have a lawyer. BUA HA, HA!

Brittany slammed her laptop shut. Jeanette and Eleanor and everyone else were right - DEREK WAS EVIL!

Brittany picked up her cell phone. Luckily, Derek didn't have caller ID, which was not weird considering he and his mother chipmunk lived in an older house.

Brittany dialed his number. It rang three times before Derek picked up. "Hello, may I ask who's calling?"

Brittany disguised her voice as a man's deep, mysterious, evil dark one like in those old movies.

"You've done wrong…the walls are closing in…guilt will eat you alive…" "Shut up, Britt." Brittany slammed her phone shut. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING!

Brittany's focus turned to a photo of her and Alvin at the fair a few weeks ago.

Alvin. I'm not going to act hopeless anymore. I know you're out there, come home. I need you, Alvin. I need you.

OMG! HE'S EVIL, I-IT'S IN THE EYES! (Justin Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place…)

Okay, so you saw the truth come out about Derek…the big fat liar.

Brittany's finally believing that Alvin may still be alive…

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