Chapter 5

The school day seemed to drag on endlessly to Eleanor. The thought of going to lunch and having to sit with her sisters and the Chipmunks while pretending everything was fine was unbearably to the youngest Chipette. Instead she went to the nurse's office with the excuse she had a headache. Eleanor would have preferred to stay there all day but once the period ended the nurse insisted she go back to class.

At long last, the final bell of the day rang. Ellie gathered all her things from her locker and hurried out of the school in record time. Normally she'd wait for Brittany and Jeanette at their lockers and then the three sisters would walk home but neither was coming straight home today. Brittany was accompanying some of her friends to the mall and Jeanette wanted to stay after and study in the school's library. Eleanor found she didn't mind their absence since it allowed her time to mull over the day's events.

Many would consider the green-clad Chipette the "thoughtful one" of the group. It was a title Eleanor never minded since she was always thinking. At times she even admitted to over-thinking certain situations, but not this one. Maybe if she had she wouldn't be in this situation. If she had stop for a moment and thought out exactly what to say to Alvin she wouldn't have slipped up and said the wrong thing causing her to lose the boy of her dreams.

"Eleanor! Wait up!" Startled, the Chipette turned to see the last person she expected to be calling her name.

"My brothers had to stay after school; Simon said he needed to work on some project and Alvin has detention. So is it okay if I walk home with you?"

Eleanor was so surprised that he had spoken to her she nearly forgot to answer. "Of course, Theodore!"

"Great!"

They walked for a while in awkward silence. She was at a loss for what to say. Why is he here? Was the only thing the Chipette could think about.

"Are you alright, Ellie? You look like something's bothering you. "

"Oh no, I'm fine. I guess I was just thinking about today." How much should I say? Thought Eleanor, should I tell him that I'm sorry and just want to be friends? Even though I want to be more than that…

"Yeah, I heard what people were saying about you and my brother."

"Oh Theodore! None of that was true!"

"I know…I heard you tell that to Alvin," the green-clad Chipmunk's voice was vacant of any emotion.

"But what I told Alvin wasn't true either!"

"Oh. So you do like him?" The pair had stopped walking and stood in the middle of the sidewalk Theodore was looking down at his shoes, which upset Eleanor since she couldn't see his face and tell what he was thinking.

"No Theodore, I like you." She had spoken so quietly that at first she didn't think he'd heard her. Part of her was hoping that he hadn't. After what felt like hours the young Chipmunk lifted his head. "Really?" he asked.

"YES!" Ellie blurted out, she knew her face was probably twenty shades of red. But now that she was half way in, she might as well go all the way! "I didn't realize it till this weekend," she quickly explained, "but I've always liked you Theodore! As more than just a friend." She shut-up just as fast as she'd started, not sure how much she should tell him or what certain feelings she needed to make sure he knew. Theodore pondered what she said for a minute before responding.

"I've always liked you too Eleanor," now it was his turn to blush, "I just never knew how to tell you!"

"Really?"

"Truly!" With that Theodore took her hand and gave it an affectionate squeeze.

"Would you like to go out with me Eleanor?"

Eleanor found it hard to answer due to the huge grin that now covered her face. She simply nodded and gave Theodore's own hand a loving squeeze. All the while thinking, this is the BEST day of my life!

Everyone was surprised the following day at school when the youngest of the Chipmunks and Chipettes arrived at school hand in hand.

"I told you all Eleanor liked Theodore! Ellie and I are like best friends so of course I knew!" claimed Melissa.

"Is that so?" asked Alvin Seville who was standing close by.

"Yeah Melissa, we were wondering- just where do you get your information from www.ImSoStupidNoOneBelievesAWordISay dot com?" inquired Brittany who wanted to 'teach her a lesson on what happens when you mess with Brittany Miller's little sister.' Not that Eleanor cared what happened to Melissa, as far as she was concerned nothing anyone said or did could bring her down, now that she was dating her best friend (and in her opinion the most wonderful guy in the whole world) Theodore Seville.

However it's important to point out that not everyone in school was completely shocked by the new young couple. Jeanette Miller could only smile as she watched her younger sister talking to her new boyfriend. The brainy Chipette couldn't be more pleased that things had worked out for them. After all, big sisters always do know best.

THE END

That's all folks! What did you think? Personally I had a lot of fun writing this story (but that might have been due to the singing hamsters that inspired me! lol)

I plan on writing kind of a sequel to this, except it would be Jeanette based (and Simon would actually be in it unlike this one!) So please let me know if you think I should continue with a second story or if i should take up another hobbie instead of writing?

Something I'd like to know in a review would be if I was off on any of the main characters. I thought I did pretty good with the Chipettes' personalities, but I'd like others opinions. I know Alvin wasn't very "ALVIN!" in this story but he wasn't really one of the focus characters (shhh, don't let him know that though!)

Thanks so much for reading! Have a great day! :)