Ch. 10- Play Date
The next day, Ms. Miller brought the Chipettes over for their play date.
They knocked on the door and J answered it.
"Hello, girls" J greeted.
"Hi, Ms. J!" they returned.
"Please, just J… it makes me feel old" J told them. "Come in, sweeties."
She stepped aside to let them in.
"See you at 3" J told Ms. Miller.
"Yes, and if you need anything, I'm just a hop, skip, and a jump away" she replied and J chuckled.
"Alright now" J said and closed the door when she left.
"Boys, the girls are here!" J called up the stairs.
The Chipmunks came running down stairs to greet their counterparts.
"Hey, Britt" Alvin said.
"Hi, Alvie" Brittany responded.
"Hello, Jeanette" Simon says.
"Hi, Simon" Jeanette replied shyly.
"Hi, Eleanor!" Theodore greeted.
"Hello, Theo" Eleanor returned.
"Okay, I will make you some snacks" J offered "sound good?"
"Sound great!" Theodore exclaimed.
J went to the kitchen to prepare snacks for the kids.
She came back with some pretzels and juice boxes.
"Here you are" she said and placed them on the coffee table in front of the children.
"Thanks, J!" they thanked her.
"Well, I'll let you have fun" J said and got up.
"Where are you going, J?" Brittany asked.
"Upstairs. When I was your age I never liked it when my parents interfered with my play dates" J replied.
"You're not interfering" Simon stated.
"We like having you around" Theodore told her.
"We do too" the girls agreed.
"Alright" J sat back down.
Everyone talked to each other, played games, and watched TV until the Chipettes lost all interest in the boys and dumped a gaggle of questions on J.
"J, can you do magical stuff? Do you have a magic wand?" Brittany asked.
"What are the other versions like?" Jeanette wondered.
"What is being a fairy like?" Eleanor questioned.
"Do you fight bad guys?" Brittany wanted to know.
"Like dragons?" Eleanor asked.
"Or ogres?" Jeanette added.
J laughed and the young children's wild imagination and curiosity.
"I can do magic things like move stuff around, shrink, fly… but I'm not a fairy tale. I don't have a wand, but I do have a spell book, see?" J told them, showing them her spell book.
"Cool" Alvin tried to take the book but J put it away.
"And dragons, ogres; they don't exist. I do fight criminals and save the world back in the real world" she continued.
"Does this include animals and pollution?" Jeanette asked.
"Of course" J answered and Jeanette smiled.
"As for the versions; there's two of them. Of course they're much like you guys, just all different ages. The movie version at the moment is 15 going on 16 and TV show is 16 going on 17" J explained.
"And we're 8 going on 9!" Theodore said.
"That's right" J rubbed his head.
"Will we ever meet our counterparts?" asked Simon.
"Maybe" J said.
Alvin felt bored of lack of attention.
"Let's go outside and play tag" he suggested.
"Okay!" everyone agreed and went outside.
"So who's it?" J asked and everybody except her stepped back.
"Looks like you are, J" Brittany stated.
"Come and catch us!" Alvin said before they all ran around the lawn as she chased them.
Theodore tripped on the driveway way with the other five following.
The Chipettes and Theodore began to cry over their boo-boos while Alvin and Simon desperately tried not to.
J suddenly had déjà vu.
"Poor things. Okay, can you walk?" J asked them.
She helped them inside, taking them into the bathroom.
J cleaned up their boo-boos and gave them special Band-Aids with Mickey Mouse on them.
She kissed their boo-boos and made them all better.
"Thank you, J!" thanked the boys and hugged her.
"Yeah, thanks J" the girls chorused and hugged her as well.
"You're welcome, sweeties" J returned "go watch TV in the living room while I clean up in here."
They jumped off the counter and went to the living room.
J came out of the bathroom.
"Okay, everybody" J said "Ms. Miller should be here any minute so say your good byes."
"Awe" everyone sighed.
Each Chipmunk said goodbye to their female counterparts and they returned it.
Then the girls said goodbye to J.
"I wish you could be our babysitter" Brittany told her.
J picked her up.
"If you want me to, I can. You just have to ask Ms. Miller" J says.
"Really?" Jeanette questioned.
"Hooray!" exclaimed.
The girls hugged her tightly.
"But don't you already have a babysitter?" J asked.
"Yeah, but she's not like you" Eleanor stated.
"She doesn't have your 'magic' touch" Brittany added
"And she's not nearly as nice as you are" Jeanette agreed.
The boys were experiencing many different emotions; anger, hurt, confusion, betrayal.
Alvin took his anger to Brittany.
"WHAT?! You can't have our babysitter!" he screamed at her.
J let Brittany down.
Alvin and Brittany pressed their foreheads and noses together angrily.
"Just did!" she shot back.
"No! It's- it's not fair!" Theodore cried as his eyes watered.
"Too bad" Brittany said.
"But we love J!" Simon Informed, becoming teary as well.
"Well, I guess she loves us more!" Brittany yelled.
"Guys, why are you so upset? Taking care of the girls will be fun!" J says.
Tears filled his eyes as his expression of anger turned to sadness.
He separated from Brittany.
"You want J? Fine you can take her; see if we care!" Alvin shouted and ran upstairs.
His brothers followed him and there was a slam of the door that made the girls cringe.
J was hurt now.
"They don't care about me?" she asked.
"Don't worry, you babysit us now" Brittany told her.
"No I-" J was cut off by a knock on the door.
"That must be Ms. Miller" Jeanette said.
"I'll get that" J went to answer the door.
"Hello, dears" says Ms. Miller.
"We had soo much fun today!" Brittany stated.
"J is the best. When we got boo-boos, she made them all better, see?" Eleanor pointed to her Band-Aid.
"I see" she responded.
"We were wondering if she could be our new babysitter?" Jeanette asked.
"Well, I don't see why not" Ms. Miller replied.
The girls cheered.
"You hear that, J?" Eleanor said as J picked her up and kissed her cheek.
"Yes I did!" J returned and set her down to pick up Jeanette.
"You're our babysitter now" Jeanette says and J kissed her cheek.
Peeking out of their bedroom door, stood the Chipmunks watching sadly.
J's leaving them like every other babysitter they had before.
They look at each other, sniffling sorrowfully.
Alvin closed the door and they moped to their beds.
J picked up Brittany and kissed her cheek as well.
"You don't hafta babysit the chipmunks anymore!" Brittany said excitedly.
J put her down.
"I'm still gonna be babysitting the boys" J stated
"You are?" Eleanor asked.
"Yes, sweetie" J answered.
"Well, they think you're leaving them" Jeanette told her.
"Oh, no wonder they blew up like that!" J said "I gotta go."
J went up to the boys' room and opened the door.
Theodore was sobbing into his pillow, and Alvin and Simon were comforting him.
"Boys?" J said as she entered the room.
"J?" they asked.
She sat on the bed with them.
"I'm not gonna stop babysitting you" J explained "I have enough love for all six of you."
"Really?" Simon questioned, rubbing his eyes.
"Of course" J responded.
They smiled.
"C'mere, babe" she told Theodore and held her arms out for him.
Theodore hugged her tightly.
"You too, bring it in" Simon joined the hug.
"C'mon boxer shorts" Alvin crawled to the other side and hugged her too.
"I love you" she kissed their heads.
One more chapter... coming soon. X-D