While mike was in the shower he became deep in thought, when the water started to get cold, he snapped out of it then peeked through the curtains to look at the mirror. He concentrated and tried to do what bue did but….it wouldn't work. After he finished washing in freezing water he shivered over to his room and started to dry off. When he got dressed, there was a great smell in the air and went to the kitchen to see what it was, grilled cheese and tomato soup. Mike looked over to the table and saw zoey in the middle of dipping her grilled cheese in the soup. "Hey mike! come sit next to me!" She told him excitedly. She was just happy to see 'mike' after a whole week. He smiled and walked up to the seat just as his mom brought out his serving. She seemed calmer now and zoey apparently doesn't hold grudges luckily, mike was relieved. After they ate mike asked if it would be ok to play outside since it was a nice day, his mom nodded and the two ran out of the house. There was a big tree in their backyard and so they went on to climb it, "race 'ya to the top!" Mike told her excitedly, zoey nodded. "READY...SET...GO!" They both declared as they ran to opposite sides of the tree and began to climb. Mike's side was awful, he had to seriously stretch to get from one branch to the other, thus, putting zoey in the lead. Then he gasped, alerting zoey who had an emergency inhaler in her dress pocket and was about to pull it out until she remembered the phone conversation with his mother and how he gasps before he turns into one of his personalities. She was curious to see who this was, just then she saw mike's face change and his eyes 'sparkled' as he leaped in the air doing multiple flips in between jumps from limbs until he/she caught up to zoey who was in shock at what she was seeing. "Mike?" "Svetlanaaaa!" She sang as she did one more flip making it to the top, "beat you!" Zoey climbed up quicker and caught up to rest on one of the tree limbs, "so it IS true! Mike really DOES have multiple personalities!" Svetlana looked nervous at her statement worrying that she might have done something wrong since mike was trying so hard to keep it a secret. "THAT'S SOOOO COOL!" Zoey's face glistened with surprise and happiness and svetlana sighed in relief. Mike's mom was watching through the window in her bedroom and smiled that they were getting along even though she couldn't hear them.

Mike was switched back and nearly fell from the tree when it happened since he was standing on a thin branch on one foot like a frickin' tightrope walker and plummeted until he grabbed a branch directly across from zoey so he was hanging from the limb with nothing below him. But they both laughed about it as he finally got his arms completely over the branch but couldn't go any further up making zoey giggle some more and mike blushed. Then he remembered what he had done before, the last time that he saw her and there was a short pause between the two. "Ummm...zoey?" "yeah?" "I-I just wanted to apologize for what happened at the bus stop last time…." "it's fine, don't sweat it! And I know what you're thinking and I'm perfectly fine with being your friend no matter the way we're treated OR that you have MPD...it's totally ok." She smiled at him and he smiled back with another blush, this time, she blushed too. They both laughed and started chatting about what's been going on lately with them, luckily zoey did most of the talking and mike was happy to listen. Not too long after zoey started her story mike had already gotten off of his branch and on a closer one to zoey, the sun was setting and the light shined through the leaves hitting her just right so it seemed as though she sparkled and soon enough, mike was sitting on the same branch as zoey next to each other while zoey continued talking about the past week and during school and at home with her dad. Mike listened with no complaint of her rambling as he smiled like a love-struck goofball, his mom had stopped watching them and was now simply watching tv waiting for them to come in, she had sort of a feeling that it'd be mean to interrupt them, not when her son was having fun with his friend and not while she could still hear their joyous laughter, let them come down on their own. She thought with a warm smile and conveniently looking at a romance drama.

Another hour had passed and so she assumed that they wouldn't be leaving that tree any time soon so she decided to call zoey's father to ask if she can sleep over. It was her mother that answered and she secretly sighed in relief then asked her about the sleepover. She said yes, luckily not having to deal with her short tempered father. Night had fallen and his mother was beginning to worry, don't tell me they're going to stay up in that tree all night. It was a full moon night and all the stars were visible and the little amount of clouds there were surrounded the moon perfectly making it shine even more. Zoey had finished her story and when the moon came up the two turned around on the tree branch to face the moon, where they were was an open spot on the tree (there was a big gap of leaves surrounding them with a big opening in the middle of sight for perfect viewing like a big movie screen.) and they both were just completely silent. It was a long pause until a gust of wind came, nearly throwing the two off the branch and now they were hanging from the branch upside down like monkeys, luckily zoey wore brown leggings under her dress. The blood started rushing to their heads and they both laughed at each other's red faces and tried to swing up...it wasn't too successful seeing as now they're both just hanging from their arms now but neither cared and just remained calm as they both faced the hypnotizing moon. His mom heard giggles once more and smiled. When mike and zoey climbed up back onto the branch and sat down next to each other they were blushing. Mike slid his hand along the tree limb slowly closer to zoey's hand, when he grasped it zoey looked down immediately and blushed even more then looked back up at mike with a smile, mike smiled back. In his mind manitoba, vito, and svetlana were in chairs eating popcorn looking at the mirror in front of them like a movie screen. Zoey began to lean in slowly and closed her eyes as well as mike. The moon shined a beautiful light on them creating a silhouette of two figures holding hands….and kissing. Svetlana squealed in excitement like a little cheerleader as vito almost choked on his popcorn and manitoba looked away blushing in embarrassment. The romantic moon got hidden by clouds and mike opened his eyes, when he did he accidently lost his balance and fell from the branch. Zoey was frightened for mike and tried to grab his hand before he fell but it was too late. It was when the moon came back that mike had already touched the ground and hit his head creating a large bump. She climbed down as fast as she could to get to mike, while she did she was calling for mike's mom who rushed outside the minute she heard her scream. Zoey got down beside mike and his face was twitching with a few bruises, his mother had rushed to him and got down to pick him up. "It wasn't his fault, it was mine...i'm really sorry, i-it's not like I pushed him but we were...distracted…." Mike's mom just looked away with her eyes tightly shut and a single tear was shown by moonlight, zoey looked down feeling overwhelmingly guilty. I could've done something! But….why didn't I? She looked up at the clouded moon again and thought hard about it, not noticing how blank her expression was as she stared aimlessly at it. Something wasn't right… "ZOEY". Mike's mom alerted her, she snapped out of it and looked to where the lights of the kitchen window were and saw his mother making gestures with her hand telling her to come in. Zoey ran into the house and saw mike with a bandage on his head where he was hit, he was all right and smiling and for once….awake.