Soooo. After our late conversation last night, one wonders how the morning will unfold. Well one, you don't have to wonder. Cause the answer is right below you…also what kind of name is ONE!

Chapter 8: Good morning

Brittany slowly opened her eyes. The sun beamed through the window and warmed her bed. Se sat up in her bed and look across the room.

She got a small shock when she saw Alvin's bed was empty, but she quickly noticed that the other beds were empty as well.

She moved out from under the covers and jumped down off her bed, landing on the small bedside table that sat in between the beds. She looked at the alarm clock.

'Ten' she exclaimed 'how can it already be ten'. They had been fixed into the routine of wakening up at nine everyday except for school days. So she was understandably surprised to see what the time was.

She jumped off the bedside table and walked towards the door. She could here the sound of explosions and chattering chipmunks on the other side.

She opened the door and walked down the corridor, into the living room.

The first thing that she was Eleanor, Theodore and Alvin standing on the couch. Theodore and Eleanor both stood at a joystick controller. It took the two of them to play. Eleanor moved the joystick and Theodore mashed the buttons, and it reflected onto the space game on the television.

Alvin however just jumped around the two, almost coaching them as they played the game

'To the left, to the right, to the up' he yelled as he jumped around the two excitedly.

Suddenly he stopped, noticing Brittany in the corner of his eye.

'Britt' he said in a chirpy voice. Brittany gave him an odd look and then jumped up onto the couch next to him. He seemed very much the bubbly chipmunk he always was when he played videogames.

'Good morning Britt' Eleanor said without looking away from the screen

'M-morning guys' she hesitated 'hey why didn't you wake me up this morning?' she finally asked

'Well' Theodore struggled to speak and play games at the same time

'You slept right through the alarm' Alvin said as he looked away from her and back to the screen 'so we let you sleep in'

'Oh' she said in a slightly confused voice 'o-ok'

Brittany could feel that there was a hidden motive within his voice. The way he turned away when he said it had given it away.

'Well Alvin' Brittany began, but she was quickly interrupted

'Want some breakfast?' Alvin said hopping up onto the back of the couch

'Alvin made it himself for us' Theodore said. Brittany was slightly taken back by this. She hoped up onto the back of the couch next to Alvin.

Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped as she saw the kitchen.

…it was a bomb sight. The mess was spread from one side of the kitchen to the other.

Alvin jumped across and landed on the bench right next to a plate topped high with food.

'What do you think?' he asked as he gestured to the stack of food nearly taller then him heaped on the plate. It was hard to tell what food was on the plate. It just looked like a variety of everything in the pantry

'Alvin' she said slowly. She tried to form a sentence, but she was too stunned.

'He's the only one that's going to get into trouble' Simon's voice sang from across the room. Brittany's eyes trailed across to the computer that sat just next to Dave's music room. Simon and Jeanette stood on the computer desk. Simon crawled over the keyboard and the words spread across the screen while Jeanette just sat on the edge of the table, looking over her shoulder at Simon and the report they were typing up for their English class.

'No I won't' Alvin said confidently 'because I'll have it all cleaned and sparkling by the time Dave gets home' Brittany leapt over to the bench. She expected to slide like she always did when she landed on the bench, but instead she only skid for a short while. The countertop was sticky and covered in something Brittany hoped was Honey and nothing more.

She cringed as she felt the honey on her feet.

'Alvin' she continued as before 'Alvin what have you done?'

'Cooked breakfast' he said in a curious tone 'want some?' he dug his hand deep into the pile of mixed meals and pulled out a small amount of mush.

Brittany felt her gag reflex build up. She put her hand over her mouth and subtly coughed

'Uh' she said 'I'm-I'm not hungry Alvin' she lied. He looked at her funny, then shrugged.

'Suit yourself' he said as he stuffed the mush into his mouth. Brittany had to turn away

'What's wrong?' Alvin asked with his mouth full. Brittany went to speak, but she couldn't form the words to describe how disgusted she was. She waved her hand back at him and dropped off the counter.

She walked towards Simon and Jeanette and with every step she could still feel the honey stuck to her feet.

She hopped up onto the computer desk and looked straight at Jeanette. She rolled her eyes as she gestured to Alvin and Brittany rolled her eyes back.

'Good morning Brittany' Simon said as he typed away with both his hands and his feet.

'Morning Simon' she said with a forced smile. Her mind was still half on the honey on her feet.

She dropped down and sat next to Jeanette, grabbing her foot and trying to wipe off whatever was stuck to it. Jeanette just looked at Brittany with a disgusted look

'Don't give me that look' Brittany said as she could see Jeanette out of the corner of her eye.

'He's your responsibility' Jeanette pointed out. Brittany looked over to her with a confused look

'Huh?' she asked

'You know' Jeanette said 'his, health'. Brittany suddenly remembered

'Oh right, of course' she chuckled.

That's when it really hit her.

The talk she and Alvin had shared last night suddenly flooded back into her mind. All the things Alvin had admitted to her suddenly filled her thoughts, and all the pieces fell into place.

"That's why he didn't wake me up this morning, and cooked the breakfast" she thought to herself "he's trying to avoid having to talk about it"

'Britt?' Jeanette's voice brought Brittany back to reality 'everything alright?' Brittany shook her head to clear her thoughts and then smiled back to Jeanette.

'Yeah' she said with a smile 'just…remembered something I had forgotten'

'Anything important?' Jeanette asked calmly

'Yeah' Brittany replied slowly as she turned her head to look at Simon. Her mind was brought back to what Alvin had said last night about the new Album. He had said something that had confused her slightly. But she knew how to get to the bottom of it.

'Hey Jeanette' she said, turning back to look at Jeanette 'can you do me a favor?'

'Sure' Jeanette said suspiciously

'I need you to distract Alvin for a second'

'Why?'

'I' Brittany stalled 'I can't, really tell you. You'll just have to trust me'

Jeanette gave Brittany a suspicious look and Brittany crossed her fingers

'Alright' Jeanette finally agreed. Brittany smiled and nodded as Jeanette stood up and leapt of the table heading towards Alvin, who was now back on the couch with Theodore and Eleanor.

Once Brittany saw that Alvin's attention was fully set onto Jeanette, Brittany moved in close to Simon

'Hey Simon' she said in a soft tone

'Yeah' Simon said without looking away from the screen as he typed

'I need to ask you something'

'Ask away'

'Something serious Simon' she said, getting slightly aggravated. Simon sighed and stepped off the keyboard

'What's up Brittany?'

Brittany took a breath in

'You have to keep this really quiet okay'

'Is something wrong?' Simon asked curiously

'Well…no. it's about Alvin' Brittany said softly. This caught Simons full attention

'Is he alright' Simon asked in a slightly alerted tone

'He's fine' Brittany reassured 'its just'

'Just?'

'Well, we were talking last night, and he started telling me about the new album. And that if it was a failure he was going to have to take all the blame for it. Do you know why he's thinking like this?'

Simon stood still for a second, then spoke

'Alvin would take most of the criticism' he said bluntly

'What, why?' Brittany gasped

'Well' Simon began 'Alvin is really the face of the chipmunks. If we ever have any bad reviews, they're usually mostly directed at him'.

'But, why?' Brittany repeated.

Simon sighed. He quickly looked passed Brittany to Alvin. He was still talking to Jeanette. So Simon took advantage of that

'Follow me' Simon said as he dropped of the computer table 'there's something you need to see'. He disappeared into Dave's music room.

Brittany scratched the back of her head, but followed Simon off the table and into the music room.

She looked around the room as she walked in. it was filled with various instruments and recording gear. The walls were covered in posters of some of the Chipmunks more famous live shows. And right above the piano hung the framed four gold and two platinum albums the Chipmunks had previously won.

In the corner sat the trophy cabinet. It was filled with various shining trophy's such as the two Grammy awards and the American music award

they only really went into this room when Dave had a new song for them to learn. Other then that the room seemed like Dave's little Chipmunk free zone.

Simon had stopped in front of the CD rack that sat next to the piano. Brittany walked up next to him as he analyzed the CD's in the rack.

'Ah here we go' he said as he pulled one of the CD's out of the bottom shelf

Brittany looked at it and instantly recognized it

'This is your fourth album' she said

'Yep' Simon confirmed 'but what's the first thing you notice on the cover?'

Brittany looked it over. It was a picture of the three of them jumping about on a white background. Her eyes were quickly drawn to one thing

'Well, Alvin is the first thing I see' she answered

'Now' Simon slowly said 'look at Theodore'.

Brittany slowly looked across the CD to Theodore's face. His mouth was hidden behind the neck of Alvin's guitar. But her eyes widened as she noticed something she had never seen before. His eyes were Glassy and you could tell he had been crying.

'Oh my, he looks so sad' Brittany said slowly

'He was sad' Simon said 'he had lost his favorite toy that day; he didn't stop crying all day'

'I-I had never noticed that before' Brittany stuttered, getting slightly choked up just looking at Theodore's sad face

'That's because Alvin had made sure that people wouldn't notice it when it was taken' Simon explained 'you know Theodore's there, but your attention is just drawn to Alvin'

Simon pushed the CD back into the rack, and shuffled his hand across the CD's next to it, stopping on another one and pulling it out.

Brittany instantly recognized this one, it was her favorite album.

'this is your love songs album' she said as she thought back to times when she would listen to it and daydream that Alvin was singing it straight to her, not that she would admit it to anyone but her sisters.

'But again, what's the first thing you see?' she scanned the cover and the answer was the same

'Alvin' she said. On the album Alvin was sitting in the middle of his brothers, his guitar in hand and a rose hanging out of his mouth.

'Now look over to me on the album' Simon said. She let her eyes move across the cover. At first he seemed normal as he sat on the couch with sunglasses on rather then his normal glasses. But slowly she saw something she didn't quite expect at first.

'Are you' she stalled 'asleep?'

'Snoring apparently' he said 'it was one of the longest days of my life, and I just couldn't keep my eyes open'

Brittany gave him a funny look. She found it to be kind of funny. But Simon just continued, not noticing the look she gave him.

'So Alvin threw some sunglasses on me, held me upright and did the photo shoot that way. I woke up an hour later'

Brittany looked up at Simon as he pushed the album back into the rack.

'I guess what I'm saying with this is that Alvin puts in more work then any of us' Simon said 'when one of us cant pull the energy to play at our full potential, he takes his own energy and redirects the attention to him'

'Oh' Brittany said slowly. She was almost seeing a side of Alvin she had never seen before, his dedicated side.

'Don't get me wrong I'm sure its half his egocentric personality and need to be the center of attention' Simon threw in. Brittany smiled and nodded in agreement 'but at the same time, he does do a lot more work, so it's no wonder the media sees him as the head of the group'

Brittany stood in silence for a while. This was exactly why Alvin felt responsible for the success of the new album, because he essentially was.

She took a breath in and went to speak. But she was interrupted by a loud sound that bellowed out of the living room.

'AAALLLVVVIIIIINNNN!' Dave's irreplaceable voice yelled. Simon and Brittany both jumped slightly, but once they regained their composure they both shot out of the room quickly.

Aaaaaahhhh. Iiiinteresting. But hey look daves home! This should make for an interesting turn of events. Find out how it goes, next Friday ;)