Today [June 12, 2012] is my birthday! I finally turned 15 like all my friends. Give me reviews as a birthday present because all I got for my birthday was an iPhone, lots of food, and pictures of hot guys (from my friend). And to be nice, I won't have a lot of foreign speak in this chapter.
"Aaaww!" Alvin groaned as Dave gave Alvin a huge list of chores that he was going to have to do for as long as Simon and Theodore were still speaking French and Spanish. Sweep and vacuum the whole house, do the dishes, clean the table and counters, dust the bookshelves, clean his bedroom thoroughly, etc.
As he was scrubbing off the kitchen counters he said to himself, "I bet Theodore and Simon are having a way better time than me!"
ALVIN RULES, THEODORE DROOLS (he's not very bright)
'I wonder where we're going,' Eleanor thought to herself. 'Maybe to the park. No, this is Theodore we're talking about. Probably to a bakery or a restaurant. Maybe he's in a romantic mood and wants to take me to a nice restaurant instead of a cheap one, like last time. I mean, he brought me to McDonalds and expected me to feel like it was romantic because he got us pies!
'Or maybe since his personality changed along with his language he's more romantic and he'll take me dancing! Oh, that would be wonderful! We would hold each other close and I'd smell his wonderful cologne up close…wait? Theodore is wearing cologne?'
Theodore looked at the blond Chipette he had been walking hand-in-hand with and saw she looked spaced out and decided to try and snap her out of her trance. "Ellie, ya casi estamos alli."
Eleanor wasn't listening. 'I can't believe he's wearing cologne! I know it can't be Dave's because his is cheap. This smells expensive…'
"Hola? Estas ahi?"
Eleanor snapped out of her thinking trance as her head popped up. "What was that?"
Theodore gestured towards the area where they were. "Quieres ir al centro comercial muy rapido? Quiero conseguir algo de ropa nueva."
Eleanor nodded in agreement as she looked at the mall's name. 'What kind of name is 'The Mall' for a mall? That's just plain stupid.'
They walked inside and Theodore gave her a ten dollar bill and told her to buy herself something nice, in Spanish of course.
As he walked away, Eleanor said to herself, "Nice to see some things haven't changed. He's still so…cheap. I mean, who gives a girl only ten bucks to spend in a mall when: one, everything's expensive and two: I want a lot more things than ten stupid dollars can give me."
She decided to buy herself an ice cream cone. She went up to the ice cream seller dude and asked, "Excuse me, but how much is this ice cream?"
The ice cream seller dude, who for now we'll just call Bob, said, "Uh…I dunno."
"Well, can you go check?" Eleanor asked in an irritated tone.
"No, no…that's okay, dudette. I'll figure it out myself." He started looking for the menu that had the prices of the ice creams, and finally said, "It's twenty bucks for a cone, ten bucks for a kid sized cup, fifty for super-sized, and one buck for the puppy size."
"Puppy size." Eleanor said this slowly as if it were the stupidest thing she'd ever heard.
"Duuudee…people will get their dogs anything these days."
"Well I'll have the puppy size." Eleanor decided on the cheapest one.
"Sorry dude, we only let puppies have puppy size, not people." The guy scratched his red hair and Eleanor was 99% sure she saw little flakes of dandruff coming out.
She growled in frustration. "Fine, I'll have kid-sized." Eleanor was glad she always carried around change with her.
"Just a sec…" He looked at the menu and squinted at it. "Sorry dude, I forgot my glasses. I'm trying to figure out how much the kid-sized is."
All of a sudden, a short, brunette girl with wild, curly hair tied in super messy ponytail came into the room. "Hey, why don't you go into the back and get us some more napkins, Jimmy?"
"Dude, my name is BOB, not JIMMY!" He said angrily as he walked into the kitchen to retrieve more napkins.
"Sorry about him, he's the new guy." She said apologetically.
Eleanor read the brunette's nametag which read:
Asst. Assistant Manager: Jessica
"Jessica, I'll have a…" She was cut off.
"Would you like our special? If you buy a large soft drink for $5.99, you can have a puppy sized ice cream 10 % of the price taken off!"
"Fine!" Eleanor was ready to do anything if it meant she got her ice cream. She had already been in there for fifteen minutes and she didn't want it to be in vain. "I'll take your stupid special!"
"Would you like a drink with that?" Jessica asked, smiling. It didn't achieve whatever she had hoped it would because her teeth were rotting out of her mouth. Probably from years of too much ice cream and soft drinks.
"I just said I wanted the special, didn't I? Doesn't the special come with a large soft drink?"
"Oh, yeah. Sorry! So, you want our special, right?"
"YES!"
"Geez, no need to yell. Do you want a drink with that?"
"Yes," Eleanor said with fake calmness.
"Okay. You should've just said so in the first place, silly!"
"But I did two times!…I mean, my bad! Silly me!"
Jessica looked at the cash register and said, "Hm…which button to choose from?"
"I thought you were the assistant manager! Shouldn't you know these things? Shouldn't you be much better at your job?" Eleanor practically screamed.
"I'm not the assistant manager exactly. I'm the assistant assistant manager."
"Oh, that makes PERFECT sense!" Eleanor rolled her eyes.
"Our assistant manager is out getting his acne treatment, and our manager never shows up."
"Gee, I wonder why…" Eleanor muttered.
"Oh, here it is!" Jessica yelled as she pushed a button. Eleanor had a glint on hope in her eyes. "No, never mind. That wasn't it."
"You know what? I'm out of here." Eleanor stomped out the ice cream shop, fuming with anger. Theodore showed up and had a couple of bags in his hand and saw the ten dollar bill in Eleanor's hand.
"Si usted no sabe lo que quiere gastar su dinero que te di que voy a hacer que nos ambos conos de helado."
"Theodore…snap, what're the words I'm looking for…Theodore, no entrar ahi!"
Theodore either didn't hear her or ignored her and walked inside with the money in his right hand. Five minutes later, he walked out with two ice cream cones and was licking one.
"En este caso, para usted!"
Eleanor's eye twitched as she took the ice cream from Theodore and stared at it for a couple of minutes before saying, "Gracias, Theodore. A donde vamos ahora?"
"Es una sorpresa. Tienes que cerrar los ojos para que no lo estropees."
Eleanor closed her eyes and ran into a person who was walking by. The person wasn't that upset that the scoop of ice cream went on them and gave her a kind-hearted one-fingered gesture as they walked by.
"Tal vez deberia esperar hasta que estemos fuera del centro comercial antes de cerrar los ojos."
"Eso peude ser una buena idea." Eleanor said sheepishly.
You will know where they go after the little mall fiasco in the seventh chapter. Simonette is next, which is going to be kind of hard for me, but I'm ready and willing for a challenge.
Translations:
*Ellie, we're almost there.
*Hello? Are you there?
*Do you wanna go to the mall really quick? I wanna get some new clothes.
*If you don't know what you wanna spend your money I gave on I'll just get us both ice cream cones.
*Theodore, don't go in there!
*Here, for you!
*It's a surprise. You gotta close your eyes so you don't spoil it.
*Maybe you should wait until we're out of the mall before you close your eyes.
*That may be a good idea.
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