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Anyway, I'll try to update every weekend, it's just that I got a big project this week and it's kicking my butt. So I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 2: Anger and Apology
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore walked down the already empty school hall, heading towards the parking lot in the front. School had just ended and Dave was going to pick them up. There was nothing but silence between the three brothers. All of them had thoughts of their one as they recalled their first day of school. After the encounter with Derek, school actually didn't turn out so bad. Except Alvin's complaining in every class.
They first went to their home room with their science teacher. Then they split up to their other 5 classes: Simon went to French ELA for 2nd hour, Math for 3rd hour, then it was lunch, afterwards he went to Technology for 4th hour, Gym for 5th hour, and History for 6th hour.
Theodore went to Reading for 2nd hour, Math for 3rd hour, then lunch, History for 4th hour, Gym for 5th hour, and Art for 6th.
And Alvin went to Band for 2nd hour, Math for 3rd hour, lunch, Reading for 4th hour, Gym for 5th,and History for 6th.
At the beginning of school, they realized they had science, math, and gym together. And Alvin and Simon had History together for last hour. Not only that but the brothers also found out that Alvin had Derek for Reading and Theodore for Art. And all of them had Derek Small for gym, too.
Luckily Derek didn't bother them after this morning, but he did give them weird looks as if he was planning something big that he couldn't wait for. It only unsettled the singing chipmunks even more.
"So... Uh, how was school guys?" Theodore tried to break the silence, he knew that the morning event had really effected his brothers and he wanted to put their minds at ease.
"Oh you know the usual. Boring classes, strict teachers, swarmed by fans. And... I think I'm missing something... Hmm.. What was it? Oh ya now I remember, being threatened by some stupid kid!" Alvin snapped. He really didn't want to talk about his school day.
The sharp tone in Alvin's voice caused Theodore to slightly flinch away from the livid chipmunk. Alvin immediately regretted his sharp tone to his naive little brother. And Simon's glare only increased his guilt and anger.
"Alvin please, calm down. Theo was just asking about your day." Simon intervened.
"Well, I don't want to talk about my day, thank you very much Si. It's been a long, rough day for me and you giving me dirty looks isn't exactly helping my cause. So the least you could do is show just a little compassion."
Simon sputtered at Alvin's words, " Y-y-your cause?! Pff- what?! You think it's rough only for you! Uh, hello! We're in this mess too genius! T-the mess th-that you created!" Alvin and Simon both stopped and glared at each other. The tense, aggravating hours of school, setting them on edge. Simon stiffly folded his arms and gave his irritating brother a vexed look. Alvin retuned the look but with his paws tightly curled into fists at his sides.
Theodore stood to the side of the hall with a panicked look in his eyes. This was not at all how he had hoped he could talk to his brothers.
"You think I don't know that!" Alvin nearly shouted. His body started to shake.
Simon just rolled his eyes,"Obviously, or else we wouldn't be in this wreck of yours. Oh who am I kidding. We're always in your mess."
"Well I'm sorry I'm not a pushover like you!"
"I'm not a pushover, I just think before I act. Something you should look up if you had the brains to do so!"
"So what? Derek had it coming to him, I couldn't just let him shove me around," Alvin was fuming, it took nearly all his mental strength to not attack and strangle his intelligent brother.
"C-c-couldn't?! No no no no no, Alvin you could have! You could have just said I'm sorry for tripping you and just leave it at that! There was no need to insult him!" Simon scoffed, oh how he wanted to slap his stubborn brother.
"Well it wasn't my fault that he couldn't see me. I'm only a foot tall!"
"Argh! Alvin he wouldn't have tripped if you hadn't walked right into their playing field!"
"The fields not their's! I can walk wherever I want to!"
"Yes-yes but you see you wouldn't have had walked in his way if you hadn't ditched us the second David left! We're a family Alvin! What kind of brother are you to leave your younger brothers alone?!" Time froze as the word slipped out of Simon's mouth. Theodore's eyes widened to the size of tennis balls. Alvin stood rigid as he just stared emotionless at Simon. And poor Simon stuttered,"Al-Al-Alvin, I'm so sorry. I didn't me-."
Growling Alvin launched himself into the air, towards the stunned blue chipmunk. "That's it!"
Bringing Simon out of his shock, he only had enough time to yelp in surprise before he felt a heavy weighted shoulder jam into his stomach. The two brothers tussled around on the floor, clawing and spitting at each other. Sharp claws cut jagged lines into their clothing leaving gaping holes and flying fists hit everywhere in the arms, stomach, and even face.
Theodore stood horrified as he witnessed the ferocity between his bickering brothers. Sure, Alvin and Simon argued a lot but their fights rarely turned physical fights. Something snapped inside the lime green chipmunk. He had had enough fighting.
"Enough!"
Alvin, who was in mid-strangle with Simon, froze and sharply looked up to the furious voice. Simon, who's vision was starting to get a little blurry also looked up to see an outraged Theodore standing over them with his hands to his hips.
"I said enough, now let go of each other!" Alvin and Simon literally jumped when they heard the furious growl come from their little brothers mouth.
Not wanting to to anger the chubby chipmunk any further, they quickly loosened their holds on each other. Standing up, the red and blue chipmunks both checked their appearance in the reflection of a small hand mirror on the floor. Their fur was bedraggled, sticking up everywhere and seeing a few missing patches. They winced, boy what would they tell Dave when he picked them up. Their clothes were tattered and dirty from the floor and they had a few almost noticeable bruises on their face and body.
Oh nuts, Alvin thought.
"Th-Th-Theo, I'm so sor-" Simon tried to apologize only to be interrupted by a raised hand.
"I don't want to hear it Si! Not now and not here. We'll talk about this later, but now Dave is outside waiting for us. And I will not have him worry. You can tell him your own story when we get in the car." Theodore stared coldly at his brothers in disappointment. With a sharp turn, he walked down the empty hallway to the front doors.
"Whoa," Alvin remarked.
Sighing, Simon quickly snatched his backpack from the floor and slung it over his shoulders. "Come on, Theodore's right. We'll have to talk about this later. For now we just don't tell Dave, agreed?"
"Agreed." Alvin answered back, he grabbed his backpack and followed in step with his brother outside. The afternoon sun spilled into the hallway as Simon opened the doors. The warm rays of light splashed onto the two brothers, evaporating any of the cold still left in their hearts. Alvin breathed in a mouthful of fresh air to calm his nerves.
Honk Honk!
The two boys turned their heads to the car honking about 10 feet away from them. Inside was their father/guardian, Dave, and their little brother, Theodore. It seemed that Theodore had rushed to the car when he left.
Simon deeply sighed, Here we go.
Together they walked to the car, Alvin jumped into the passenger seat while Simon took the backseat with Theodore. No sooner as they closed their doors, they were bombarded with questions. "What took you so long? I was starting to get worried. What happened to your clothes?!"
"Umm...W-w-well you see Dave, we sort of-," Simon tried to explain before another voice spoke up.
"We crashed into a garbage can!" Alvin blurted.
Dave stared at them perplexed, "Both of you ran into a garbage can?"
Simon just stared at Alvin confused, surprise and a bit angry, but he let his red brother continue.
"Y-ya, you see Dave we were trying to race each other outside when brainiac here, slipped around the corner and we both crashed into a garbage can."
"But that doesn't explain why your clothes are tattered."
"Well... It was because of a...a... A rat! Ya, it was a big, mean, and ugly rat that when we crashed it got angry and attacked us!"
"Oh my gosh! Are you boys ok?" Dave quickly became concerned, searching his boys for any injuries. Simon shot Alvin a look, A rat?! Are you kidding me?! This is how we're going to tell the story!
Alvin rolled his eyes, Well if you have a better idea, please be my guest.
"Psh, ya were fine. Simon was struggling for a little but I saved him with these bad boys." Alvin pumped up his arms to show off his minuscule muscles.
"W-w-what!" Simon yelled back.
"Your welcome Si." Alvin gave his brainiac brother a smug smile.
"Ok, well if you boys are alright I guess we could go home," Dave started the car and smoothly drove down the road.
"That's the best thing you've said all day!" Alvin sighed and lowered himself into the comfy seat.
The trip home was a silent one except Simon's explaining about how his Technology class was going to teach him how start to make their own webs. Nobody even brought up Derek and what happened in the morning. The boys decided that they would have to talk about it when they got home. The car slowly stopped in their driveway, turning off the engine Dave called out. "Home sweet home fel-."
The passenger door burst open and a red blur zoomed by Dave and into the house. "And there goes the red Tasmanian Devil."
Simon quickly followed after his brother, leaving Theodore alone in the car until Dave picked him and took him into the kitchen to get a snack. By the time Simon made it to their room, Alvin was already about to head out with his skateboard.
"And where do you think your going?" Simon folded his arms.
"What does it look like Si, I'm heading out to the skatepark." Alvin answered.
"I don't think so; do you have homework?"
"On the first day of school?! Are you kidding me Si?! Of course not!"
"Let me check your planner."
"What are you? My mother? I told you I don't have any homework."
"I have a hard time believing that." Simon squinted at Alvin.
"Well that's your own fault you have trust issues." Alvin pushed past his brother and started to walk downstairs.
"Not so fast Speedy," Simon grabbed Alvin by his hoody and dragged him into the room. "The homework isn't the only thing we need to talk about. What are you going to do about Derek?"
"Me? If I remember correctly, we're all involved in this." Alvin spread out his arms.
"No no no, Alvin your the one-," Simon tried to say before a hand slammed onto his mouth.
"Please don't start this again. I'm tired of it and I don't think Theodore can take anymore fighting." Simon's eyes widened as he remember about his little green brother.
Taking a deep breath, Simon moved the hand away from his mouth, "Y-your right. Poor Theo, Alvin what are we going to do?"
"I don't know, we'll just have to be careful I guess. But don't worry, if Derek ever comes near you guys then he's going to get a face full of red fury!"Alvin said, Simon rolled his eyes but he couldn't stop a small smile forming at his lips.
"Oh and Simon," Simon looked at Alvin to see a small frown on his face, "Don't tell anyone I said this or so help me I'll brake those glasses but I-I-I'm sorry. I was just mad at myself for starting the problem. I let my cockiness get in the way and now it's my fault that we're in this mess. You were right, what kind of brother am I." Alvin looked down, somber. He's the oldest, he should be protecting his brothers, not dragging them into trouble. It's the reason why he likes to do things solo, so if he does get in trouble at least his brothers would be safe. But now was a different story.
Simon just stared at the hotheaded chipmunk in shock. It was rare that Alvin would apologize, let alone to Simon; his ego was just too big for it. But the shock wasn't big enough to hide the immense guilt in his heart. He made his brother feel hurt when he accused him, and worse he blamed him for causing them problems. "Oh Alvin you shouldn't be apologizing, I mean sure you did anger Derek, but I never meant to blame you. I should be the one to apologize, I drew you away when you bumped into Derek and worse, I blamed you and accused you of not being a good brother. I'm so sorry bro, I should never had said such things."
Alvin looked up to see small tears start to form in Simon's eyes, "Hey hey hey," he called out softly and grabbed his brother by his shoulders. He lifted his brothers chin up just like how Simon did to Theodore and looked him in the eyes. "Listen, let's not try competing on who can apologize the most ok. We're both sorry and that's that. Now all we can do is be happy and remain brothers. Besides I believe that there is one more apology we owe."
"Don't worry, you have already been forgiven," a small voice said from behind them. Looking behind them, they saw Theodore standing next to the door with the biggest smile ever. He had listened to their entire conversation behind the door and couldn't help but be happy and relived that his brothers made up.
Alvin and Simon looked at him with surprise, "Were you eaves dropping the entire time?"
Theodore shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe."
Alvin grinned and looked at his blue brother, "What do you say we have a little 'chat' to our dear brother about not eaves dropping on conversations."
Simon smirked and nodded, "Agreed."
Theodore paled as he saw his brothers charge straight towards him. "Aaah! Wait!" Holding up his hands, he was bowled over by two bodies. The flailing ball of arm and legs rolled over their room, giggling and laughing as they tickled each other.
Outside the laughing chipmunk's door, Dave beamed with happiness. He too was also glad Simon and Alvin made up, and now hearing the boys play together made him burst with even more love. No matter what, they'll always be brothers.
There's chapter 2. Please review, the ending sucks buts it's all I could think of with a truck load of homework at my feet. Until next time. :)