Brittany fanned herself with her trembling palms, trying to calm herself down. Alvin paced up and down the lounge floor, deep in thoughts - mostly pointless ones. Theodore was busying binge-eating pretty much everything in the fridge, trying not to panic. Eleanor lay motionless on the Treehouse sofa, staring worriedly into the ceiling.
And Simon... Simon was worried most of all. Beads of sweats trickled down his anxious face as he navigated through a sea of troubled thoughts.
"Okay, okay! Don't panic! Nobody panic!" Brittany exclaimed.
"Guys..." Eleanor began, "I'm pretty sure she just needed a little space from us, and all the conflict. That's all. She's probably outside somewhere -"
"Exactly! SOMEWHERE!" Simon cut off. "WHERE has she escaped to? She... she could be ANYWHERE!"
"YOU should know, Simon," Brittany said, "since YOU know her the best. THINK: where does she go when she feels stressed or worried?"
"To me! She comes to ME, Brittany. Whenever she's down, whenever she's upset, whenever she needs somebody to open up to, she comes to me. She confides in ME. But, where is she? I don't see her. She's not with me, is she? So -"
"Where else could she have gone, then?" asked Theodore.
"There must be somewhere else she goes to," Alvin reasoned. "Maybe... to the library... to take care of Miss Croner's cats... to -"
A sudden inch of realisation washed over Simon: "To stargaze! To see the stars!"
He checked his ocean-blue phone. "Yep, yep. Tonight's the meteor shower that she wouldn't stop talking about. Maybe she went out to check it out... for some peace?"
He then mumbled to himself: "I can't believe we can be SO stupid, that she needs a break from her OWN family. What GENIUSES we are."
"Well, then. What are we waiting for?" answered Alvin. "Let's go and get our sister back!"
- - - - -
Eleanor circled their Treehouse, desperately trying to find a purple-clad Chipmunk relaxing on the ground. She wasn't there...
Theodore - as USUAL - first checked the fridge of the Treehouse. Unsurprisingly, nowhere to seen...
Alvin surveyed the Chipmunks' garden lawn and swimming pool. Could she have been resting on a deckchair? Not today.
Brittany scanned Ms Croner's house from atop the Treehouse balcony. Nothing.
Simon paced around the Chipmunks' house in hope to find his beloved sister. He failed to do so.
The Chipmunks got together again in the centre of the Treehouse lawn.
"I couldn't find her!"
"This can't be happening."
"Where could she be?"
"I'm freaking out right now!"
"This isn't right."
They couldn't give up; they just couldn't. However, they were slowly starting to lose hope in the search...
ALVIN'S FLASHBACK:
"What? How?" asked the bewildered Alvin.
"I... uh... I dunno... Simon taught me a few tricks, but uh -"
"Jeanette beat me at a video game? No way!"
Simon winked at her.
SIMON'S FLASHBACK:
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The Sleepover: Alvin and the Chipmunks
FanfictionDave Seville's gone for a few days on a business trip, leaving ALL his kids alone to spend the couple of days... together! What could possibly go wrong? *nervously laughs* 😶 Everything. A lot of things. Things really get out of hand. DRAMA | ADVE...
