After a long day at school the chipmunks sat at home relaxing. Eleanor and Theodore were going through a basket of assorted fruit and candies they received from winning the music awards, Jeanette and Simon were playing chess, Dave was checking his email to see if they had any performance requests and Alvin and Brittany watched TV, although Brittany wondered as to whether or not Alvin had zoned out again until he randomly stood up jumped off the couch and started walking down the hall towards his room.

Brittany, still curious what was wrong, followed him. She watched as he climbed the bunk beds to the top and once he was on the top bunk, she slowly snuck into the room and started to climb up to see what he was doing when suddenly she started hearing him talk.

"What's wrong with me? Why do i mess up everything," he whimpered. Brittany stopped climbing. She was perched on the middle bunk bed listening. "I don't know what I'm doing anymore. . . maybe I should quit my singing career and leave," he said with a sigh as he fell backwards into his pillow.

Brittany waited for him to say something else but instead she heard snoring.

"Did he fall asleep?" she asked herself. She slowly climbed to the top bunk and peeked over to see Alvin fast asleep. She pulled herself up and walk over to Alvin to see something she never saw before. At first she thought she was seeing things but at a second glance she was certain the fur under Alvin's eyes was damp with fresh tears.

A lump grew in her throat. "He... he cried himself to sleep," she thought to herself. "Oh Alvin, so that's what's been bothering you." She walked to the edge of the bed and dropped down.

As she walked down the hall she couldn't help but think about what she just witnessed: Alvin, the munk that wasn't scared of anything, was crying. It brought tears to her eyes to think about it. She wiped them away as she walked into the living room.

Dave called out to everyone, "Dinner's done come eat!" Dave had made a type of soup from a recipe he found on the internet but he wasn't the best cook to begin with. Everyone climbed up to the table. Dave looked around and asked, "Where's Alvin?"

"Sleeping," Brittany answered so Dave wouldn't yell and wake Alvin up.

"Sleeping?" Dave asked. "He's been sleeping too much these past couple days. . . I'm gonna go talk to him."

Knowing Alvin wouldn't want to talk, Brittany thought quickly. "He's not feeling good," she said. "He ate something at lunch today that didn't agree with him."

"Oh, but i made your lunches today," Dave said suspiciously.

"Well..." Brittany stammered losing control of her lie.

Seeing her sister struggling, Eleanor said, "Well no offense, Dave, but... your cooking could stand improvement." Eleanor winked at Brittany.

As mean as it sounded, it was true and it saved Brittany's tail.

Dave sighed, but he had to agree. The only reason he even ate his own cooking was because he thought everyone else enjoyed it. But knowing they didn't, Dave said "Why don't I order a pizza then?"

Everyone said at once, "ok," trying not to sound as relieved as they were so as to not hurt Dave's feelings anymore than they already were.

Awhile later, the pizza delivery man was at the door. Dave paid him and brought the pizza to the counter and got everyone a plate and for the second time that night everyone was at the table getting ready to eat, when they heard a voice say "what no one was gonna wake me for pizza?"

It was Alvin who had woke up to the smell of something actually edible.

"We were just gonna let you sleep since you weren't feeling good," Dave said.

realizing she was about to be caught in a lie, with no way to explain herself without revealing Alvin had been crying, Brittany began stuffing her cheeks full of pizza. Alvin sat with a confused look until he saw Brittany's nervous eating and realized she had told Dave he wasn't feeling good.

"Well, I'm feeling better now," he said with a smile.

After dinner everyone got ready for bed. On the way to their room, Alvin stopped Brittany and asked why she lied to Dave about him and she didn't know what to say she couldn't tell him she saw him crying, that would kill his ego so she thought fast and said cunningly.

"i'll tell you that when you tell me why you've been acting so distant." Shocked but the quick and witty comeback Alvin just let Brittany go with no more interrogation. as he lay there staring at the ceiling.

Alvin kept thinking about how he messes everything up but he kept coming back to why did Britney tell Dave he was sick. He also was irritated by the fact that something as stupid as that would bother him but he kept thinking about it.

Why wouldn't she just tell him why she said it, why did she say it in the first place, and why was she so nervous about getting caught? These thoughts circled through his head all night till he finally fell asleep.

The next morning, all he could think about was why would she have said that. He decided he would just do anything to find out even if it meant telling her why he had been depressed for the past couple days not like she didn't already know back when they were stranded. He already basically told her.

It was friday, the last day of school for the week. Alvin decided he would ask her during their class together last period. he went up to her and asked bluntly, "Why did you tell Dave that lie?"

Brittany looked at him, irritated that he wouldn't just let it go, and retorted "Why does it matter? It was just a little white lie and besides you lie all the time."

"If it was just a little white lie, then why were you so nervous?" Alvin smirked.

Brittany was surprised he had noticed, but she thought it was strange he didn't blow her cover. She wasn't about to give up just because he knew she was nervous. "I'll tell you when you tell me why you've been acting weird." She teased.

Alvin was about to tell her when all of a sudden he felt a lump in his throat. He couldn't tell her. His pride wouldn't let him and at this point he wanted to tell her because he didn't want to hold the pain in anymore.

But he just couldn't, no matter how hard he tried, so he just lied and said "Nothing's bothering me."