So it was monday and mike had already woken up, ate breakfast, and had gotten on the bus. His mother was worried after hearing from manitoba that mike and mal play together in his mind, calling him a "bad influence" is the biggest understatement possible. She was hoping things might be a little better at school. Meanwhile on the bus, mike already had someone's lunch dumped on him by "accident". He was starting to get angry until he remembered that game of soldier, he started laughing because of it and soon everyone started whispering to each other; "I told you he's crazy!" "He really is nuts!" "What's a loony like him doing at our school?!" Mike's head began to slump down once again, he was struggling to find something cheery to think about. Just then mike looked at the window and saw mal beside him, smiling, then all of a sudden the teasing started to grow louder as a girl got on the bus, she was new. She had bright red hair, red dress, tan shoes and had a small flower in her hair. The girl noticed mike being teased, "HEY LEAVE HIM ALONE!" The girl yelled as she ran to sit next to mike. "Hi I'm zoey, what's your name?" Zoey asked picking egg out of his hair, mike blushed and hesitantly answered, "I'm mike". He didn't say anymore as zoey frowned, now almost worried but the frown quickly turned to a smile when she asked him the question, "wanna be friends?" zoey asked with a nice smile. Mike nodded then all the kids turned around. "ZOEY and MIKE sittin' in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G.!" Mike gasped and his eyes turned black, zoey thought his gasping meant he had asthma. She pulled out her first aid kit and shoved the inhaler in his mouth, he gasped again and turned back into mike, "why do you have a first aid kit?" mike asked, he coughed a little because of the inhaler medicine. "I'm a Girl Scout, girl scouts always come prepared and I'm a tad paranoid." She pulled an awkward smile. "Isn't that the Boy Scout motto?" mike corrected. "I'm not too sure, After all I haven't been to any of the meetings in a year or earned any badges." She awkwardly laughed as did mike until it became hilarious. "So are you new here? I haven't noticed you around." "Yeah, it's a long story, my dad lost his job as a hotel manager and got a new one as the principal of this school. I didn't get to see him that often, that's why I was transferred here so that I could be closer to him." "Oh uh heh heh...greeaaat." Mike was beginning to get a little nervous that his new friend was the daughter of the principal, the same principal who despises him.
~Meanwhile in the subconscious~
Mal was watching this through the seeing mirror and was wondering how it was possible for this "new girl" to send him back to his mind. "You know how mike gasps whenever one of us take over-" Mal seemed shocked that it looked like manitoba was reading his mind, he decided to ignore manitoba's "all-knowing-ability" and went along with it. "Yeah, what about it?" Mal wondered, "and do you know what asthma is?" manitoba asked. "Sort of, doesn't it have to do with having issues with breathing and stuff?" "yep and so you know what happens when you have difficulty breathing, you start to gasp for air, an inhaler helps to stop the gasping. Without mike gasping, we can't come out, that's what inhalers are meant to do." Mal was shocked at this and was worried for mike, "what if he needs us and that girl has that inhaler-thingy around", "then I guess we're outta luck." "no...no...no NO! I WON'T ALLOW THAT! I know how to take control other ways anyway." And with that mal stomped away, leaving manitoba in shock. When mal had gotten into his room, he saw a few pieces of paper and some pens on his desk. He ran over and started drawing, he drew horrible drawings with zoey in them and in all of them, something horrible was happening to her. Falling off a cliff, getting stabbed, struck by lightning, anything he could think of were on those papers. Mal knew he had to hide them of course so that mike wouldn't see them or the other personalities. Since there weren't many hiding places, mal's genius started to show as he actually created hiding spots. He'd pull out one of the drawers so that he could see the bottom of the desk and taped some to the ceiling of the desk itself so that even if you opened the drawer, you wouldn't be able to see it. In between mattresses as opposed to just under the bed. Painting the back of the paper to match the wall and taping it up there(hiding in plain sight). Mal looked behind him and saw manitoba by the door, he was just as stunned as manitoba, "mal...you-" "NO ONE IS GONNA TAKE MIKE AWAY FROM ME! MIKE IS MY FRIEND!" Manitoba looked down and then back up with a warm smile as he walked into the room, "it's ok, I understand how 'ya feel so I'll keep quiet, 'ya don't have to worry, mike's not gonna leave you behind." Mal started to cry and manitoba hugged him. "It's awlright, mate." Mal then let go and got on the bed to try and sleep it off. When manitoba had left the room and he heard the door close mal wiped his tears away and grinned showing his sharp teeth and the dark circles returned as well. Mal started to quietly chuckle and try to come up with a plan to get rid of zoey. "No one."