A/N: Here's Chapter 4, yep that's it, so please enjoy.
April 13 2012
Dave awoke from his slumber and sat up stretching as he did so, 'what a beautiful morning' he thought to himself as he glanced out the cabin window that had sun streaming through it.
"Good morning Dave" Simon said cheerfully bounding into the bedroom on all fours, "morning Simon" Dave replied standing up. "I just dropped by to let you know we're heading out to breakfast" Simon said.
Dave looked at him with a curious look; Simon caught on and said, "you told us to let you know when we left the room". Dave nodded quickly, "right… thank you" he said, Simon nodded slowly than asked, "are you taking Claire out to breakfast today?"
Dave stopped putting on his shirt for a second before continuing, "actually… I was, is there a problem?"
"No we were just curious that's all" Simon replied
"I would have thought Alvin would be the one in here questioning me" Dave said facing the chipmunk, "well he would have been but…" Simon replied holding up a short piece of broken toothpick.
"Oh… you drew the short straw" Dave said nodding his understanding, Simon nodded than left the room to rejoin the others in the living area. "Well?" Brittany asked as Simon bounded into the room.
"I'll tell you on the way" he said heading straight for the door.
After the moderately long walk to the main dining room the chipmunks sat down to eat breakfast, "he's taking her out to breakfast so I doubt we'll see him for the rest of the day" Simon said thoughtfully.
"That's both bad and good" Alvin replied taking a bite of his pancakes
"How is it good?" Jeanette asked, "they're obviously serious about each other which will only be bad for us".
"In the long run it's bad… but right now it's good… we get to do whatever we want" the red clad chipmunk replied with a chuckle "so we might as well the good before the bad sets in".
"And what are you thinking about doing?" Simon asked very suspicious of any idea his older brother might have.
"I don't know… anything Dave usually wouldn't let us do" Alvin replied with a very defiant smirk
"Will Dave mind?" Theodore asked curiously.
"No/yes" Alvin and Simon replied at the same time. "Alvin you aren't going to do anything stupid" Simon warned.
"Nothing I do is stupid" Alvin said, "Brittany can contest to that" he said wrapping an arm around her.
"I really don't want to answer that" the chipette said softly
"Whatever" Alvin replied dropping his arm, "look… Dave's having fun so why can't we have fun too?"
"We can… but when you want to do something like bungee jumping, that's where I draw the line" Simon explained with great emphasis. As the smart blue clad chipmunk spoke Alvin perked up even more, "bungee jumping… why didn't I think of that, that's a great idea Simon" Alvin praised, "who's coming with me?"
Without reply every last chipmunk besides Alvin hopped off the table and left, "fine… I'll go alone, it won't be as much fun but I'll still enjoy myself" he called after the others. As the other 5 chipmunks left the dining room Brittany stopped at the door and waited for Alvin who was on his way out.
"You coming?" he asked her
"I guess, I could come watch you kill yourself" she replied as they began walking off in a completely different direction from the others.
"You told me that harness was to make sure I didn't fall!" Brittany shouted as she shakily walked along with Alvin back to the cabin. "I thought it was" Alvin replied.
"I free fell nearly 80 feet with the only thing supporting me being a bungee cord… do you know how that makes me feel?" Brittany raved.
"Exhilarated?" Alvin asked
"No… terrified, scared to death!" Brittany retorted hotly just before they entered their cabin. "It's about time you got back" Dave said seeing the two chipmunks. "What's going on?" Brittany asked watching Dave put on his tuxedo jacket.
"We're going to dine with Claire's family and friends for dinner tonight… you two better hurry up and get changed" Dave replied combing his hair.
"I have to take a quick shower first" Brittany replied bounding into the bathroom, "ok but make it quick" Dave called after her.
Less than 10 minutes later each chipmunk was dressed in a tuxedo of their signature color while each chipette was dressed in a chipmunk sized sparkly evening gown of their signature color.
As they all assembled at the door with their respective counterpart and date there was a knock. "Claire's here" Dave announced knowing who had knocked, "now I want all six of you to be on your best behavior tonight, understand?"
"Yes Dave" the six chipmunks chorused, "ok" Dave said than opened the door, "Claire… shall we go?" Dave asked extending his arm for the girl to take. Claire linked arms with Dave and let him lead off toward the dining room. Each chipmunk couple in turn linked arms as well and followed Dave out, in a very dignified way.
Upon arrival in the dining room they quickly found the table they were looking for. "Mother, Father this is David Seville" Claire said introducing her date to her parents, "and these are his kids" she finished as the chipmunks hopped up onto the table.
"Oh" Claire's mother exclaimed seeing the six chipmunks,
"Aren't they just adorable?" Claire asked sitting down with Dave, "yes adorable" Claire's father, Mr. Wilson said gently shooing Theodore away. "Where do we sit?" Eleanor asked in a whisper to her sister. Simon over heard and answered first, "you girls sit over there and we'll sit there" the chipmunk replied pointing out two spots on the table.
The two groups hopped down off the table and walked around to their spots and hopped back up. "David?" Mrs. Wilson said addressing Dave, "yes ma'am" he replied.
"What is it you do for a living?" the lady asked
"Well I write songs and I currently manage two bands" Dave replied with a smile, "in fact we're on our way home from the European leg of our world tour".
"So these bands you speak of, they're on the ship?" one of the young men asked.
"Yes… they're right there" Dave replied gesturing towards the chipmunks and the chipettes, "they sing?" Mrs. Wilson asked confused.
"Yeah kinda lady" Alvin retorted, "where have you been?"
"Alvin!" Dave growled across the table at his son.
"What name do you perform under?" Mr. Wilson asked. "Alvin and the Chipmunks" Alvin replied, "the Chipettes" Brittany put in.
"Is your music popular?" one of the young ladies at the table asked curiously. "Popular?" Alvin repeated sounding somewhat insulted, "we're more popular Mickey Mouse".
That comment made the crowd chuckle and laugh, "these people are pretty cool" Alvin whispered to Simon who was shaking his head on his left. "I just wish they would serve some food" Theodore replied from Alvin's right.
Not long later the waiters began bringing out various types of food and began serving it, Alvin quickly stuck his fork into his mashed potatoes and took bite as one of the waiters put a basket of bread in the center of the table.
Seeing the bread, Alvin got up and quickly scurried towards the center of the table leaving his fork in his potatoes. Grabbing a piece of bread he scurried back but tripped over a napkin causing him to land on his fork handle that was extending out from his plate. The force of Alvin's fall was enough to turn the fork into a catapult sending a forkful of mashed potatoes straight for the chipettes who were sitting directly across the table.
"Jeanette could you please pass the salt?" Brittany asked just before the mashed potato projectile hit her right in the face. "AH!... Ew!" Brittany muttered wiping the glop from her face, looking across the table she saw Alvin grabbing his fork and running back behind his plate. "He wants to play it that way" she muttered gathering a hand full of the mashed potatoes that had been launched at her. Taking careful aim she threw the handful of potatoes across the table but missed Alvin completely and hit Theodore in the face, "whoops" Brittany whispered sitting back down quietly as Eleanor accidently placed her hand in the mashed potatoes on her plate.
Theodore wiped the potatoes from his face and looked across the soon to be battle ground to see Eleanor wiping the potato off her hand. "Ellie?" he called over questioningly.
Although she didn't mean to, seeing his face covered in mashed potatoes was funny enough to make her laugh. Theodore than grabbed a handful of his potatoes and tossed them at Eleanor hitting her and Brittany with them.
"Alvin!" Brittany growled standing up.
"What?" Alvin asked, suddenly Brittany grabbed a handful of pudding and hit Alvin in the face with it. Spitting out the pudding that had got in his mouth he ran over to her, "what's the big idea Brittany?"
"You started it" Brittany shouted.
"Oh yeah?" Alvin said with a smile, "well I'm gonna finish it as well", swiftly kicking the lower area of the stem of a wine glass that was near them Alvin quickly stepped aside just in time for Brittany to get doused in red wine. "Good year Britt?" Alvin asked teasingly, as Brittany coughed and spit out the wine that had flooded her mouth.
"You are so dead!" Brittany retorted. Reaching behind her for the first thing she could grab, getting a handful of cake she flung it at him hitting him in the face.
"FOOD FIGHT!" Alvin shouted prompting everyone to look just before the food began flying.
"Oh boy" Simon muttered and dived under the table with Jeanette following his lead.
"I don't want to get my dress dirty" she said running her hands down the smooth fabric, Simon nodded his understanding as they waited out the disturbance above.
Meanwhile on the flip side the other four chipmunks were dipping, diving and tossing food back and forth ignoring the shouts from everyone including Dave. Alvin kept lobbing balls of mashed potatoes at his enemy, "Theodore get over here" Alvin called to his brother.
Theodore dropped to all fours and scurried over but got hit with a grape and went down, "Alvin I'm hit!" he cried out holding the leg the grape had hit. Alvin quickly lobbed some cover fire before running out and dragging his 'wounded' brother back behind their lines.
"Ok let's do it" Alvin said picking up several mashed potato balls, with a yell they charged out and across the table to find the two chipettes gone. "AAAALLLLVVVVIIIINNNN!"
"OK!" Alvin shouted back.
Dave promptly walked over and grabbed the two chipettes that were hiding behind a fallen wine bottle before gathering up the other two. "Simon!… Jeanette!" Dave called out not seeing either of the two middle children.
"Here Dave" Simon replied emerging from underneath the table with Jeanette. "Come on we're leaving" Dave said letting the other two climb up onto this shoulders. "I am so sorry… will you excuse us?" Dave said before walking out of the room.
Dave was silent until they entered their cabin, that's when he flipped his lid. "What was that?" he asked angrily as he set the six chipmunks down on the floor in front of him. None of the chipmunks answered, nodding lightly Dave turned to face Simon and Jeanette, "how did you two stay so clean?"
"We didn't partake in the event… we merely hid under the table" Simon replied. Dave nodded, "you two are off the hook… go get ready for bed" he said dismissing the two chipmunks.
"I'm not even gonna ask who started that fiasco back there" Dave said walking over and flopping down in a chair.
"It was me I guess… but it was an accident" Alvin said leading the chipmunks towards Dave.
"Explain" Dave said loosening his bowtie. "Well I tripped and landed on my fork sending a pile of mashed potatoes at Brittany" Alvin stated.
Dave nodded, his expression remaining very stern and angry. "I don't know… go get cleaned up and changed, then we'll discuss you punishment".
"Yes Dave" the four chipmunks said sadly hanging their heads as they walked away.
Once Theodore and Eleanor had taken a shower Brittany entered the bathroom and hopped up to the sink and turned on the hot water than adjusted the cold to get just the right temperature. Jumping down into the sink she plunged herself into the stream of bathwater warm water. After scrubbing her fur very diligently for the next several minutes she managed to get most of the wine stains out.
As Alvin waited outside he quickly began to grow impatient, finally he walked in and hopped up onto the sink, "you done yet?" he asked. Brittany whirled around and looked up at him, "no Alvin… that red wine stained my fur pretty good and I can't reach my back" she retorted.
"Would you like me to scrub your back?" Alvin asked, Brittany stared up at him a second than said, "since you caused this that would be nice".
Alvin scoffed at this and hopped down into the sink, "you should really see you're stripes… they're a nice dark pink".
"Lovely… get it out" she ordered, Alvin shrugged and got a handful of soap and began rubbing it in and scrubbing until her auburn fur was back to its original shade. "Thank you Alvin" Brittany said in a softer sweeter tone than she had been using previously.
"You're welcome" Alvin replied as he began to scrub his own fur. "I'll wait outside" Brittany said before leaving.
Once Alvin was finished with his shower the four chipmunks gathered back in front of Dave who was still sitting in the same chair. They sat on the floor and looked up at their father with questioning eyes. "After thinking about it for a while I realized that it was started by an accident, but you still not only embarrassed yourselves but you embarrassed me as well…" Dave said letting his voice trail off at the end.
"We're sorry Dave" Theodore said softly looking up at Dave with his big love filled eyes.
"I know you are… all of you… and that's why I'm only gonna ground you for 2 days, starting right now, no TV, no leaving the cabin, no nothing for two days" Dave said.
The four chipmunks nodded then headed off to bed in their respective rooms, "what did Dave say?" Simon asked as Alvin and Theodore entered the room, "we're grounded for 2 days" Alvin replied climbing into bed.
"He must be going soft" Simon commented, "you do know you made him look like a total jerk in front of Claire, her parents and her friends right?"
"It was an accident Simon" Alvin stated getting annoyed
"I know… I saw what happened, but it really started when you tipped the wine glass on Brittany and that was done on purpose" Simon replied. Alvin nodded, "yeah that was…"
"Tell me Alvin" Simon said "are you trying to single handedly destroy Dave's life?"
"What are you talking about Simon?" Alvin asked even more annoyed.
"You're always making him mad, and now you make him look like an idiot in front of the girl he obviously likes, her parents and her friends" Simon said explaining his point.
"I'm not trying to destroy his life… I just don't want to be left behind again like our parents did to us" he replied sadly.
"Dave won't do that to us Alvin… how many times do I have to tell you that? He's even told you that" Simon reassured him.
"Yeah… mom and dad told us that too" Alvin muttered sadly. Simon didn't know what to say to that so he let Alvin continue, "what he says now might not be what he does next year" Alvin said, "Alvin trust me… I'm usually never wrong and you know it" Simon replied.
Alvin nodded, he knew Simon was rarely ever wrong sometimes it bothered him but right now he found it very reassuring, "thanks Simon" Alvin whispered, "good night".
"Good night" Simon replied.
A/N: Things are finally winding down to the moment of truth, so come back tomorrow for chapter 5 and see what happens next!