"Hello Dorothy." I said to Dorothy as I sat down in a chair next to her at her hospital bed. She smiled at her, some color was coming back to her pale face as there was a book in her lap. It was a early night at the hospital, and after performing for the kids I would come over every once in awhile and hang out with Dorothy, and read to her.

"Hi Alice! Wanna see what I'm reading?" she asked me in a giddy tone as she held out the book to me. I took it from her, looking at the cover and smiled.

"Where the Wild Things Are." I read aloud, smiling as I placed the book on my lap and smiled at her, "Did you know that this book is my absolute favorite?"

"It is? It's my older brother's favorite, he brought it today when he came to say hi and he left it for me to read." she explained in a grin.

"And how many times have you read it?" I asked her in a grin. The thing about Dorothy was that she would read the same book over and over again, it kind of reminded me of myself when I was her age.

"10 times, but I wanna read it again!" She said in a grin, but her enthusiasm made me giggled and I was about to say something else to her when one of nurses came into the big room.

"Okay kids, time to watch our movie!" She said to everyone, and I heard cheering from the other kids. Looking over at Dorothy I saw her smile widen from the mere thought of watching a movie.

"Will you come watch with me, pretty please?" She asked aloud to me, her blue eyes wide with wonder and need. I smiled, how could I say no to her?

"Of course I will." I said to her, hearing a squeal of delight from Dorothy.

THe movie we were watching was Up! from Pixar. I only saw it once with my family. The kids were all enthralled with the movie as I sat next to Dorothy in her chair, seeing how much she loved the movie already within the first half and hour. It was nice and cozy in the hospital room where we were, the lights were low and the nurses made popcorn and candy for the kids that night. It was nice to watch a kids movie with Dorothy and the rest of the sick children, being able to not think about school or my grandfather with his disapproving nature.

As the movie kept playing and I heard the children laughing, I started thinking about my future. I would want to go to college and play in the orchestra, but then again when I joined the Glee Club I started to think about what else I wanted to do. My mind was set on playing the cello, but there were other things out there to do. I then also thought of Mike, where he was going to go to school and what he was going to do. Dancing of course, at least I hope he would.

"You remind me of Ellie." Dorothy whispered to me, and I snapped back to reality to look down at her.

"I do?" I asked her aloud with surprise in my tone of voice. She nodded her head, her curls bouncing with her head,

"You have the same hair, and you're nice, like her." She said to me in her small smile and I felt a small bit of happiness soaring through me.

"Well, thank you Dorothy." I thanked her and saw her smile turn into a smirk. She looked back to the movie.

"You're welcome, Ellie."

"She called me Ellie." I said to Mike as we were laying on my bed, looking up at the glow in the dark stars on my ceiling.

"She really likes you." Mike said to me as his hand that was intertwined with mine squeezed slightly.

"Dorothy likes you too. Did you see the look on her face when you danced for her?" I asked him, moving my head around so I can look at him properly. He smiled and looked back at me. We both were on our backs on the bed with our feet dangling off and almost touching the floor. My parents were out for the night with their own little date planned, and they trusted the both of us to be home alone. Thank god for trusting parents.

"She's a sweet girl." Mike said aloud in a calm down, a small smile on his lips as I manuvered myself a bit to rest my head on his chest, still staring up at the ceiling and seeing the many stars on my ceiling. Mike wrapped his arm around my shoulder as I heard his heartbeat and breathing in a steady rhythm.

"Mike?" I asked him aloud, after the moment or two of silence between us.

"Hmm?" He said, his hold on me soft.

"What do you wanna do after we graduate?" I asked him, thinking about it myself really. He was silent for a moment or two, so I knew he was thinking about it himself.

"To be honest I have no idea." He replied to me in a light tone. I moved my head up from him and sat up, seeing him still laying on his back and one hand to move behind his hand and the other rest on my knee when I was now cross legged on my bed.

"Not even one?" I asked him, seeing him think to himself and then shake his head.

"Nope. I mean, I had one idea, but it's dumb." He said to me and I giggled.

"Well what is it?" I asked him, now wanting to know the idea. But he shook his head,

"Nah it's silly." He replied immediately. But I tilted my head and rested my hand on his that was on my kneecap. His fingers were tracing my jeans, the temperature of his fingers soaking through the fabric onto my skin making it crawl in a good way.

"Come on, please?" I asked him in a innocent tone. He smiled at me, as if he had a sneak plan he wanted to conduct. He then shot up from his spot on the bed, sitting up properly and taking my hand in his, looking down at the two hands.

"I used to want to dance professionally, you know go on tour and other stuff like that." he said to me with enthuasim in his tone of voice, such excitement like he was going to go dance. I smiled, nodded my head, but then his smile went from pure excitement to genuine.

"But then when you asked me to dance with the Glee Club, for Dorothy and other kids, it changed." he replied to me, making me smile a little wider when he mentioned the kids, "Now I wanna teach kids how to dance, anyone at any age."

"Really?" I asked in sheer joy in my tone, even though I later thought it was a dumb question to ask. Mike nodded his head, his smile never leaving.

"Just seeing their smiles and hearing them when I dance, it made me feel like I can do something worth while with this gift, I mean really worth while." Mike explained to me,"I had no idea what I was going to do before I was in the Glee Club, and before I met you."

"You're just saying that to make me feel better." I said in a matter of fact tone, and I looked down at our joined hands in the middle of the two of us. I felt him squeeze our hands and I looked back up at him. He smiled at me, reaching out to push some hair behind my ears.

"How about you? What do you wanna do?" He asked me, and I paused for a moment or two.

"I thought I wanted to play professionally, be in a orchestra and everything like that. But I don't know, when I joined Glee Club I felt like I could do more than just play my instrument. I can be a photographer, I can go traveling around the world, anything really." I explained to him, seeing his eyes never leaving mine and then a small smile coming onto my lips.

"What?" he asked, and I tried to hide a giggle.

"I was just thinking, how I had everything planned out for my future, and when we ran into each other it all went out the window." I said to him in a simple tone, seeing his eyes going wide slightly and his smile widen.

"Well, it's safe to say, that I don't want to go anywhere without you." Mike said to me in a light tone, but could tell he was serious about it. I felt like I couldn't breathe for a minute or two, my body was frozen in my spot, all from him saying that he wanted me with him after high school.

"I'm the same way." I replied back to him, seeing him scoot closer to me on my bed and having my breath go in a rapid pace then. My heart was beating faster as his lips pressed against mine and his fingers danced along my neck like he would dance on the floor. My fingers slid to his shoulder blades, holding on for dear life as we fell back onto the bed.

Slowly his kisses were addictive as I placed one of my hands on his cheek. I felt one of his hands went to my thigh and I felt excitement going through me. We've only made out a handful of times on either one of our beds, and we were fine with that really. But the way he was kissing me, the way he was holding me protectively as we kissed, as they way I was feeling something going off in my stomach, I was on cloud nine in our kisses. The bed was beneath me as he hovered above me, kissing me very softly. Mike was never a aggressive kisser, well not to me as least.

My eyes were closed and my mind was occupied with how great of a kisser he was, but when I felt his tongue touch mine oh so gently my eyes shot open and I had a intake of breath. Mike instantly broke the kiss, leaning back a bit and having shock in his eyes. WE both have never done that before, not once and it took us both by force.

"I'm sorry." Mike immediately said aloud, having fear or concern in his eyes like he did something wrong. Why would he apologize for making me feel that? I only smiled at him, my nervousness that was evident on my face was long gone.

"It's okay." I only replied back to in a soft tone, knowing that talking louder would kill the mood we were setting. He smiled as I leaned up to kiss him again. Kissing him and getting back into the rhythm was easy, and when my tongue touched his again, this time he took the move and deepened the time. That insane kiss he gave me made my toes curl as I was about to kiss him right back, but with more passion when his phone went off.

Mike groaned against my lips and pulled away, grabbing his phone that was in his pocket and then opening it, reading the text. I sat up, seeing how close I was to him as he closed the phone.

"Finn just invited the both of us to a party that one of the football players is throwing, and apparently all of the club is going except for Rachel." Mike explained to me, and voice was heavy and out of breath. I needed to find my own breath, nodding my head and fixing my hair. As much as I loved kissing Mike, I was kind of glad his phone rang to bring the both of us back to reality.

"I say we go." I said to him, seeing a wee bit of sadness in his eyes like he wanted to go back to our previous action. I giggled, leaning in to give him a quick kiss.

"There's more to come, Mike Chang." I said against his lips and he smiled, kissing me back.

"I'm looking forward to it, Alice Everdeen."