Hey peoples! Sorry for the wait, but school is definately getting the best of me. Too bad I don't get paid to write these fanfics, I'd just live off of that.
veehxD- yep :) that's the way I wanted it.
RainbowVaneza- aw thank you so much, that means a lot to me. oh and just wondering... WHEN ARE YOU GONNA UPDATE ETERNAL MOURNING!? I've been dying to read more DX pleeze do hurry with that.
Demenaforever13- well then. Here ya go c:
Suefanficlover- thanx I try :P
Kayla Jones - thanks, and I totally agree. I just wish it'd all end, it's pointless, stupid, and harmful; Definatley something the world can live without. I'm sorry, just keep your head up and smile, I've learned that it helps :)
Luvin'MyMitchie- Luvin your name :P thank you, It's what I was aiming for XD
Now...
ON WITH THE STORY!

Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and we couldn't have gotten any closer, at least that's what I had thought. I thought I knew everything there was to know about Mitchie, but it wasn't till later that I found I was wrong. I knew something was off, but my 5 year old mind couldn't pick up what was possibly happening. I was too young to understand it even if she had told me. All too soon it was almost Christmas and I found myself standing outside in the chilly December air. I was bundled head to do in whatever my parents could find that was warm while Mitchie was clad in a black turtle neck sweater, jeans and a stocking cap. I envied her for being able to move around so freely. With the snow up to our knees, we trudged through Mitchie's backyard trying to decide where to put our snowman we planned to build.
"I think it should go here" Mitchie claimed gesturing to the corner of the yard.
"Why?" I asked watching her hot breath turn visible in the chilly weather.
"'Cause if it's here, its not in the way, and there's no tree above it so no dead branches will fall onto it." She reasoned. I looked around finding that she was right.
"wow, I never would have thought of that" I told her honestly. We got to work trying to build our first snowman. Not really knowing what to do, I started packing snow together trying to make it taller before Mitchie stopped me.
"what?" I asked her. She had her eyes slightly squinting and was sporting a frown. This was her thinking face.
"I don't think that's right." I looked to the small mound I had crafted. She was right, it looked nothing like what we saw on TV.
"it's supposed to be three snowballs" I said realizing what was wrong. "But how do we do that?" I looked to my friend who had gone and picked up some snow. She packed it together and made a snowball before studying it. She set it on the ground as if it were the most fragile thing and started sprinkling snow onto it and watching it stick. She picked up the small snowball and watched as a few bits of snow clung to it.
"I have an idea!" She suddenly exclaimed. She dropped to her knees and set the snow back onto the ground. She started rolling it around and I watched her eyes light up as she watched it get bigger. I walked over to her and sat on the ground beside her.
"How'd you know that?" I asked her curiously.
"I saw my Mommy do it when she was making powdered donuts. I thought it'd work the same way" She said as she continued to roll it around. "Here" She said motioning for me to keep rolling it. Once I did, she started another one. I looked between the snowball I was now pushing and the significantly smaller one she was working with.
"Hey Mitch" I called to her and she looked up to me with curious eyes.
"I'll race you to the house and back" She smiled.
"You're on!"
It was one of those days you never wanted to end. You just wanted it to go on forever. We were out there for hours. We finished our snowman then made a few snow angles before we broke out in a snowball fight. It wasn't long before Mitchie stopped moving. her hands and nose were bright red and she was shaking.
"Alex I'm cold" She said sadly as I came up to her. I looked to her frozen hands and back to her sad eyes.
"Here" I removed my gloves from my hands and placed them over her frozen ones ignoring the cool air hitting my warm skin. After she had them on, I unzipped my coat and helped her put it on. Next was my scarf. Soon I was left with my snow pants and my own stocking cap.
"Can we go to your house?" she pleaded. I sighed knowing I couldn't say no to her.
"yeah! Maybe Mommy will give us some cocoa!" With this new found excitement we ran out from her yard and three houses down the street to my house. I went up to the door and opened it letting Mitchie walk in first. Seeing as how she still looked frozen, I didn't remove my coat, scarf and gloves. I made my way to the kitchen where I found Mommy on Momma's lap. They were doing something weird where they had their mouths on each other.
"Mommy?" I called out confused. They immediately pulled apart and looked to me.
"Alex" Mommy said jumping up. "What are you doing here? Weren't you at Mitchie's? And where's you're coat!?" she asked and It was then I noticed I was shivering.
"Mitchie got cold" I told her honestly. We looked behind me to see Mitchie standing in the doorway shyly. She was still shivering and you could see her jeans and shoes were soaked. She suddenly sneezed and my mom gasped.
"Oh Mitchie sweetie, what were you doing without a coat?" Mommy asked her going to her. She knelt down beside her and brushed a few stray strands of brown locks from her face.
"I couldn't get it on and Mommy was busy"
"And she let you outside without anything?" She asked her concerned and the frozen 5 year old nodded.
"Oh honey, come on, let's get you into something dry" She told her scooping her up into her arms. Mitchie had become family here and my parents treated her like they did with me. She walked out of the room and I turned to Momma seeing as how she was the only other person in the room.
"C'mon sport, let's get these snow pants off of ya and then I'll make some hot chocolate" She told me undoing the straps on my snow pants. I put my hands on her shoulders as she helped me get them off revealing my jeans under them. She was now removing my snow boots.
"Momma?" I asked.
"Yes?"
"What were you and Mommy doing when we came in?" Her face got red and I started wondering why.
"Um nothing."
"Didn't look like nothing" She chuckled and cupped my face her hand.
"You're just like your mother" She smiled before picking me up and sitting me down on the counter. "You'll know when you get older" She then proceeded to get out two cups and the cocoa mix and I watched as she made it. She handed me one cup when it was done and I blew on it before taking a sip.
"Demi can you pass me the phone?" Mommy asked coming back into the kitchen without my friend.
"Mommy where's Mitchie?" I asked her but was left unanswered. She took the phone from Momma and dialed a number before letting it ring.
"Hey Connie, it's Selena. I just wanted to let you know that Mitchie and Alex are here and I think Mitchie's caught a cold..." She continued on with their conversation before she hung up.
"Mommy where's Mitchie?" I asked again.
"She's in your room sleeping"
"Why?"
"Cause she's sick sweetie, she needs to sleep"
"Can I go see her?" I asked
"If you don't wake her" She helped me off the counter and I ran for the stairs.
"No running in the house!" Mommy called after me and I slowed my pace to a walk. I got to my room and opened the door slowly. I looked in to see Mitchie curled up under the covers fast asleep. I smiled to myself and sneaked in quietly. I crawled onto the bed and snuggled up to her.
"Alex?" she called out groggily.
"Shh." I told her putting my finger to my lips. "Mommy says you need to sleep" She smiled before scooting closer to me as I wrapped my arms around her. We both fell asleep content and warm.
It was moments like that that I knew I'd always remember. That day was one of the best to me because I got to see Mitchie smiling. It used to be something that was frequent, but it gradually lessened. It was our first day of fourth grade and we were putting our things into our cubbies. I had turned 9 in July and she had just turned 9 last week.
"Hey Mitch, you wanna come over after school? I know there's no homework since it's only the first day, but we could just hang out" I offered. It had become tradition for her to come over after school to work on homework, but normally it was only for that. She seemed to think it over as she got out her pencil box and a notebook.
"Definitely" She told me with that smile that made me feel funny. I wasn't surprised when my stomach felt queasy, it always did when I was around her, I just figured it was normal.
"Okay class, take a seat so we can get started" Ms. White ordered the class. We all got settled down as she went over the class rules. I zoned out like I had been doing the past few years of school. The day went by slowly like it always did so when the lunch bell rang I happily jumped out of my seat and put my stuff away before waiting for Mitchie.
"C'mon! Let's hurry up and eat lunch so we can go out to recess!" I exclaimed.
"Okay, okay, Just give me a sec." She said putting her stuff away neatly and orderly where as i just stuffed everything into my bag.
"Um hi, would you mind if I joined you guys for lunch?" A voice spoke up from behind us. We turned around to see a curly haired girl standing there looking shy and awkward. "I just moved here and I don't really want to look lost." She informed us. Mitch and I looked to each other in silent agreement.
"Sure" We said in unison.
"I'm Mitchie" She introduced herself to the new girl. "And this is Alex"
"I'm Caitlyn" Caitlyn told us and I offered a friendly smile. I looked to Mitch expecting the same thing but she was staring at Caitlyn's shoulder.
"Mitchie?" I tried getting her attention. She snapped out of whatever trance she was in.
"Oh sorry, let's go" I decided to drop it as we made our way to the cafeteria.