Randall's Love

Part 4

Hallie went to work the next day, but didn't see any sign of Randall around. She didn't see him at lunch either.

Randall was there, but he was busy in the basement in the morning, at lunch, and after work. Otherwise, he had avoided Hallie. He was just nervous about starting a relationship.

Hallie tried to find him after work, but nothing at that time either.

She ran into Celia on her way out the door. "So, do you know where Randall is, by any chance?"

"No. Afraid not. He's so mysterious in his ways." Celia said.

"Who is?" Mike asked, coming up.

"Randall."

"Oh, him. Yeah, he can be. But more than anything, he's a jerk." Mike said.

"And you are?" Hallie asked.

"Mike Wazowski. And Celia's boyfriend."

Hallie could see the resemblance of them both having one eye.

"Hallie Norman. Randall did tell me some things about you."

"He did? And what did he have to say?"

"Well, he thinks you and your friend stole the top scarer title from him. And he knew you from back in his college days. He says he lost to your team in the scare games."

"Yeah, he did. Randall was my roommate first and we were friends then. But then he joined the RORs and he changed. So he's not my friend anymore. He tries to scare me any chance he gets." Mike said.

"Hey Mike." Sulley joined them. "And who's this?"

"I'm Hallie Norman."

"James P. Sullivan, but everyone calls me Sulley." The big blue one said.

"Nice to meet you." Hallie said.

The two boys saw that this female lizard was Randall's species, but she was nothing like him.

To Hallie, Sulley and Mike seemed nice. Maybe Randall had them all wrong. But then, Randall may just not like them because they were guys. Guys had that jealous and too competitive streak all too often.

"Are you waiting on Randall?" Sulley asked.

"I was looking for him, but I can't find him." Hallie said.

"Don't know where he is. He left the scare floor, leaving in the opposite way. Our boss might have been wanting to see him or something. Who knows."

"You shouldn't even associate with him, Hallie. He'll only hurt you." Mike said.

"There's more to him than you know. I talked to him last night, and he let me into his world. I can't say much right now. I still just barely know him."

"We could go to dinner just as friends." Sulley suggested.

Hallie did want to see everyone's point of view on each other. She might be able to make Randall understand, or to make them understand him more if she heard all of their point of views.

Randall was too busy working on the scream extractor right now to be there noticing what had been going on. Fungus came down and helped him. As much as this project was thrilling to think about, ending the energy crisis, Randall really wanted to go home and get some sleep. Plus his mind did drift to the girl on his mind too. He did want to see her again, but knew he had work to do.

Hallie, Celia, Mike, and Sulley went to dinner as friends and talked about their jobs, Randall, how they all met and knew each other, and their interests and families.