The Wolfman

chapter 4

The next morning, Theodore was making odd requests of meat to Dave to eat, though he was a vegetarian now. Patrick and Emily were concerned when Atticus started to act the same way.

"Are you two feeling okay?" Jessica asked.

"Just starvin'." Theodore said as he picked at the food he ate that wasn't meat based.

"If you guys want, I can drive you to school today," Emily offered to the Chipmunks and Darla since they went to the same school. "It'll be on my way to the grocery store."

Atticus ate the same food and their reactions were looking like they disliked it. Yuck!" he said after the taste.

"I don't think this is normal." Dave whispered to Patrick.

Patrick shrugged honestly. "It's probably a phase."

Darla kept eating, then wiped her mouth politely. "I may not know much about boys, but this can't be normal for teenage or chipmunk boys."

"I think you're right, Darla." Alvin said.

"Oh, by the way, we wanna thank you." Simon said to her.

Darla went to put her bowl in the sink. "For what?"

"We know it ruined your career, but we wanted to thank you for that disaster at Mammoth Pictures after your movie premiere," Simon explained. "People didn't think we could sing either."

"Oh, well, you're welcome... I'm actually kind of glad to not be famous anymore myself." Darla smiled back gently.

"Yeah, because then, you wouldn't have been adopted by us and be part of the family." Jessica said.

"My own family..." Darla fluttered her eyes, smiling. "I miss my old family of course, but I don't think they'd want to see me sad like this... I wonder what they would've thought of me these days."

Emily checked the time. "Come on, let's get you guys to school."

Dave handed the sack lunches. "Here you go, Alvin, no tomatoes."

Alvin smiled as he took his lunch.

"And Theodore—" Dave handed the bag to the youngest chipmunk.

"Steak sandwich?" Theodore looked excited.

"Theodore, you don't eat meat." Dave reminded him.

"I don't?"

"No, you don't."

"Weird." Atticus said.

Emily went to drive Darla, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore to school.  Jessica took Atticus to the bus. Cherry was shown in a seat by herself with her backpack up with her headphones on and she was bobbing her head to the beat of her music, humming some of the tunes to herself. She wasn't really asleep, but she always did this on a bus ride to just relax before she would get to school.

"Cherry?" Atticus asked.

Cherry opened an eye, then removed her headphones to reveal classical music was playing. "Oh, hey."

"Hey, Cherry." Atticus said.

Cherry yawned a bit. "What's up?" she rubbed her tired eyes.

"Well, I gave Mo the necklace as a present." Atticus said.

Cherry smirked. "Why don't you marry her already?"

"Ha-Ha, very funny." Atticus said, sounding confident, sitting down.