The night before tuesday mike had spent his night in his mind playing all sorts of games with mal, Imaginary fist fights, War, Pretend king, and practicing battle strategy for the next game of soldier, not to mention pulling pranks on chester for hitting them with a cane. The other personalities just watched the two little boys playing and having fun meanwhile manitoba was deep in thought. He was contemplating whether he should really tell mike about what mal was doing while mike was in school. After a while of just watching the two having fun he decided not to, he seemed harmless enough and it doesn't seem that mal was really thinking about his previous plans. "I guess he just sorta slept it off." Manitoba thought with a sigh of relief. Mike woke up the next day and after getting on the bus, zoey went straight for his seat. Mike had found out yesterday that zoey was actually in his class as well. several times a day, mal would try to take over and each time zoey foiled his plans. Mal had began to grow impatient until he was filled with rage. Tuesday and wednesday had been perfect until all of a sudden, everyone started targeting zoey as well as mike. On the bus they both would have egg in their hair, in lunch they were shunned, in gym everyone was aiming for their faces and them only. One day, zoey was walking to the bus to go home and several guys ran up and tackled her, she was kicked and hit in the stomach over and over again. Mike was switched out with mal when he was about to get on the bus, as he passed zoey, she looked up and begged him to help her. He just ignored her and got on the bus. "Heh, that'll show her." Mal sneered as he got on the bus and saw her angry face, he blew her a raspberry and the bus left without her. The seeing mirror wasn't up the entire time so mike saw nothing. "Mike is mine and mine alone." He whispered. As mal got inside, he saw his mother on the phone with the principal and all he heard was a bunch of "I'm sorry's" on her side of the call. Mal entered the room as his mother's back was facing him. "Right, I'll tell him right away. I promise it won't happen again. Thank you, goodbye." She hung up the phone and turned around, she jumped startled. "Mike?..." "no". His mother started to feel uneasy, "it's you isn't it?" "nice to see you once again, mommy-" "I'M NOT YOUR MOMMY!" his mother yelled, nervously. "Where's mike, you little-" "in here", he answered bluntly. "Bring him back, I want to have a word with him-" "if it's about zoey then-" "it's about you!" his mother angrily replied. "I don't think you want to wake him up, he'll be awfully cranky, besides we're going to be playing some more soon, I thought of a new game on the bus and it's gonna be really fun when I go to sleep." "I want to see my baby...RIGHT...NOW!" His mom had a cold look in her eyes, mal shrugged and decided to meet her request. He lied. He fake gasped as his eyes turned light brown like mike's and all of his usual evil facial features had vanished, his hair went up and he began to imitate mike's voice perfectly. "Mom? What's wrong?" Mal acted, his mother bent down and hugged him with tears in her eyes but quickly wiped them off, trying not to cry in front of whom she assumed to be her son. "Honey, I need to talk to you about something-" "yeah?" "...-It's about your 'friend'...mal." "What about him?" Mal/mike asked. "Is it possible to get rid of a personality?" His mother asked on one knee to meet him on an eye to eye level. "What are you implying?" Mal asked, curiously "I want you to get rid of mal, can you do that for me?" His mom wondered, hopefully. "No, I don't know how, I've given it thought really, like with vito so I wouldn't get in trouble anymore. Sorry." Mal answered, his mother looked down in disappointment but then looked up with a forced smile and tried to warn him, "it's just that… I don't think mal is a good influence on you. So I'd just like you to be careful at least, ok?" She asked, hopefully. "Ok, I will." His mother sighed in relief. Mal yawned and asked what was for dinner and then told his mom that he was gonna go do his homework. She agreed and told him "turkey" he nodded with a smile on his face and then left the room and went down the hall to his room. He locked the door behind him and went to sleep.
~In mike's mind~
Mal had just appeared in mike's room beside him who was fast asleep on his bed. Mal's appearance had woken him up, mike rubbed his eyes until he could see clearly, "mal?" Mal just looked down, pretending to be unable to look mike in the face. "Mal, what's the matter?" "It's that girl...zoey...she doesn't like you anymore and I was really happy for you that you made a friend on the outside but then-..." "WHAT? zoey doesn't like me anymore...WHY?" Mike asked upset. "It was the kids, they told her about your multiple personalities. I saw it with my own eyes, when I walked down the halls and passed her, she'd laugh at me along with her new group of friends." "I-I thought that zoey would be different… that she'd like me for me, but I guess not…" Mike said with his head slumped down. "Hey it's ok, you still got me after all." Mal said in a soft tone as he put his arm around his shoulder. "You're the only one I can really trust, mal. I'm glad to have you as my friend." "Me too!" The two boys hugged on it. Little did mal know that manitoba was eavesdropping on their whole conversation. "I knew it!" He whispered.