Chapter 8

The months had rolled by; it was now December, close to Christmas Day. Zoey had heard about Mike's breakdown during his family dinner on the same day that she'd tried to help him. Mike and Zoey were walking through the snowy town, it looked…beautiful; Mike had his right arm around Zoey, bringing her close, and Zoey had her head rested on his shoulder.

"Merry Christmas Mike,"

"Merry Christmas Zoey," They shared a quick kiss as they approach the town square, it too looked pretty with all of the Christmas declarations all over the place. Mike and Zoey both sit down on a nearby bench, looking at everything, and staying warm in each other's arms.

"Hey Zoey…do you think that maybe…" But he stopped right there, because he's been dying to give Zoey something that he'd bought from the jewelry store, but he just doesn't know how to give it to her.

"Maybe what Mike?" Mike sighs and takes out ring, a promise ring.

"Zoey…I love you with all my heart, I love you more than anything else in the world. But other than that, you've been helping me with my condition; no one's every tooked the time to do that for me before," Zoey was smiling at Mike, a few little happy tears were going down her eyes from Mike's kind words and hear opening.

"I love you Zoey, and I promise to be with you forever, I promise to always love and care for you, and most of all…I promise to always be there for you. Zoey…promise you'll do the same…for me?" Zoey had more happy tears going down her face, enough for the cold weather to freeze them.

"Of course Mike, of course I do promise!" Mike takes the ring and slides it on her finger. They look into each other's eyes, and then kiss.

"I love you Mike,"

"I love you too Zoey,"

Zoey looks up at him and rest her head on his shoulder again as they continue to watch the fresh fallen snow.

Mike's house,

Mike and Zoey were in Mike's room, watching an action movie; they were, of course, enjoying it so much.

"Pow, right in the kisser!" Zoey points out with excitement from a great looking punch. Mike chuckles and takes some popcorn: while he does so, he and Zoey's hand meets in the bowl, both look at each other, blushing and smiling.

They continue to watch the movie, but Zoey brings something up.

"Hey Mike, didn't you try out for our school's basketball's team the other day?" Mike looks at her and nods.

"Yeah, why?"

"Because I've found out that your first game is before Christmas break…next Thursday." Mike's eyes widen a little; he couldn't believe that the first game is going too happened in a few days…already.

"Already? But we've just started practice." Zoey shrugs and looks at him some more.

"Don't worry Mike, you'll do great, and I'll be there to cheer you one, literately."

"'Literately'?"

"Yes, the other cheerleaders and I are going to be there." Mike sighs with relief.

"Thanks Zoey," He looks at his clock.

"Oh…I guess it's time for you to go now?" Zoey looks at the clock as well; she sighs as well and gets up.

"Yeah…but hey, good luck at the game and I promise I'll be there." They kiss each other good bye and Zoey then heads home.

Thursday...last two hours of school,

The game was all set, the two basketball teams was all practicing for the big game. Mike, of course, was nervous about this, he felt like his personalities were going to ruin this moment.

Zoey was with the other cheerleaders, staying at their spot, on the other side of the gym, facing the visitor team's cheerleaders. Anne Maria was sitting with five other girls, having a nice chat, while Zoey was along and praying that everything will go just fine.

Mike was practicing with throwing the ball into the hope, until he missed the shot and it rolled over towards Zoey. Zoey picks up the ball and sees Mike running towards her for it.

"Hey Zoey,"

"Hey Mike," The smile at each other, both was nervous about the game.

"Ummm…here you go Mike." Zoey then hands the ball back to Mike, and he takes it.

"Thanks Zoey and good luck." He dribbles the ball away from her.

"Same to you." Zoey shouts back.

About fifth teen minutes later…the game begun: Mike was dribbling the ball towards the other teams net, his other team mates were shouting to give the ball to them. Mike passes the ball to one of his team mates, his team mate, Roger, was about to make a slam dunk, when someone from the other team had knocked him over while trying to get the ball away from him.

Mike took the ball away from the other team and shot a goal: His team mates that were sitting in the bleachers cheer, the cheerleaders for their school was cheering as well, especially Zoey.

"Ok girls, let's go!" One of the cheerleaders, Sam, shouted.

"Let's go Wolves, let's go!" Is what they were repeating.

While the game was going on, some of the boys in the bleachers for the other team were trying to come up with a plan.

"Its 12-16…we're losing." One boy points out.

"Don't worry," Say a black haired boy.

"I've got a plan."

"Which is…?"

"See that red headed cheerleader?" The other boys see Zoey.

"Yeah…what about her."

"I hear that she and one of the boys playing on the other team are going out."

"Yeah…who?"

"Him, Mike Smith." He points at Mike, who had just been told to take a break playing and send another player in.

"Where are you going with this, Will?"

"Watch and see…"

Will picks up a basketball, and throws it towards Zoey. The ball had hit her, causing her to fall down from the pyramid that her and the other cheerleaders were doing. Mike sees what had just happen, he couldn't believe it, he quickly rush towards Zoey. The announcer had stopped the timer and rushes towards them all as well.

"Zoey, Zoey…are you ok?" Mike asked worried to her. Zoey begins to open her eyes a little, and then closes them again. Mike felt both worried and angry; he then gets up from his knees and turns around to face the guy who'd throw the ball towards his girlfriend.

"What the hell man, why the hell would you do that?" Will say with a smirk.

"I don't know what you're talking about." He walks away, and sits right back down with his team.

"Will…you do realize that…that was a very mean thing to do…do you?" Will looks back at his team mate.

"Ohh shut up and get out there!"

The game was still going on, it was now 22-22, a tie. The timer was now down to one minute, and the game was on its last ending.

"C'mon Mike, win it for the team!" Roger called out as he was sitting down from an injury from the last ending.

"I can't do this, I can't do this…" Mike thinks to himself as the ball was past to him. He then starts making his way towards the hoop, but gasp.

"But Svetlana can do anything…even the impossible!" Mike, who was now Svetlana, was sprinting and leaping towards the hoop.

"Make way for Svetlana!" The ball was thrown into the hoop by the countdown. The timer was on 00:02 when the ball went into the Visitor's net, causing them to lose.

"Home team wins!" The announcer calls out of the intercom.

The crowd shouts with excitement, Mike gasp and turns back into his original self again. His team mates rush towards him and pats him on the back, telling him "Great job Mike!"

When all of the excitement was over, well for Mike because the excitement was still going on, went down to the nurse's office, back into his original clothing and some flowers from Anne Maria had given him.

Zoey begins to stir a little, her parents were sitting next to her has she begins to wake up.

"Hi sweetie…are you feeling alright?" Anna asked worried.

"I'm fine mom, really…quite your worrying." Zoey and her parents begins to talk for a while, until Mike knocks on the wall, causing the family to look at him, Zoey was smiling big.

"We'll leave you two along, c'mon Trenton." And so, Zoey's parents leaves the room, leaving Mike and their daughter by themselves.

"You ok Zoey?" Mike asked.

"I'm fine…now that you're here." The blush and Mike hands her the flowers.

"I saw what had happened when you got hit with that ball…one of the team mates from the other team had thrown that ball on purpose, and he wasn't even playing that ending." Zoey looks at him.

"Ohh Mike…well…did we at least win?"

"Yeah…I won the game for us on the last two minutes." Her eyes widen as she's looking at Mike.

"Wow, great job Mike…we won?"

"Yes."

"Ohh Mike…that's great news."

"Yeah, but do you think you'll be better soon?" Zoey rubs her head a little before answering.

"Yeah, I'll be fine."

"Hope you get well Zoey."

"I think I'm already better."

They smirk at each other, the same joke that Mike used on her while he was in the Nurse's office, they lean in for a kiss.

While at home, Mike was hoping that Zoey does feel a little better soon. And hopefully…make some new friends; Christmas break was tomorrow, but for now…he slept.

I hope this chapter was pretty good for u guys! XD

I WAS gonna put the basketball game part in the next chapter...but decided not 2.

Only 5 more chapter left!^^ / :'(

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