Randall's Love

Part 9

One day, when Hallie wanted to see Randall and he had blown her off again that morning, and he didn't come to lunch, Hallie was so upset that Sulley saw it and he invited her to dinner with him, Mike and Celia that evening.

She accepted the invitation.

They went to a restaurant uptown. Hallie was eventually going to tell them too, but wasn't going to say anything tonight.

While they were having dinner, the doors opened and surprisingly, it was Randall. He ordered himself a coffee and a steak to go. But he then heard some familiar voices and he turned around and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

What he saw shocked him, but suddenly made him so mad. He stormed over to the group.

"How could you betray me like this?!" He demanded to Hallie.

"Randall? I didn't know you were here. And we're just here as friends."

The others couldn't believe they were seeing him treat her this way.

"If you're with them, then you're against me!"

"I am not! This has nothing to do with betraying you!"

Their fighting went on a few more minutes before Randall got his food and stormed out.

"How long has that been going on, him treating you like that?" Sulley asked.

"A few months. I hate it. It might actually be over between us." Hallie said.

"We told you he was a jerk." Mike said.

"He was actually quite the gentleman for awhile. But something changed him."

They told her it wasn't her fault. She went home upset and cried herself to sleep. She didn't know she would ever get the chance to tell him what he needed to know. And then, maybe he didn't want to know. Maybe it was over.
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Randall was so mad when he got home that he just put his food in the fridge and didn't touch it. He had never thought his girlfriend would betray him like this.

He went to bed and went to work the next day, steamed over what happened, but after a few days, he began to calm down and he began to feel bad for saying what he said to her, but she had needed to hear what he had felt about her being with his rivals.

When Saturday finally came, he spent a good portion of his day thinking about how he could make it up to her. He still cared for her, but he had taken her for granted lately, but the thought of losing her to his rivals was not something he wanted to deal with.

He had just been under so much pressure from Waternoose to get that stupid machine finished and he had just been pushing himself to get it done that he was ignoring Hallie and a lot of other outside things. When the machine was done, things would be different. But he did want to make it up to her about what had happened.

He thought he would surprise her. He bought her some flowers and some chocolates. He knew these kinds were her favorites. He knew he had been hard on her and he was willing to do anything to make up for it.

He tried to go over in his mind what he was going to say, and hope she would accept his apology and hopefully let him be with her again.

Randall had made it to her apartment and he nervously knocked on her door. He listened. He heard footsteps coming. He hoped she was alone. His heart felt like it was going to pound out of his chest, he was so nervous about talking to her.

The lock was undone and it was opened a crack. He saw it was Hallie.

Hallie had heard the knock and she went to answer it. She opened the door and she was shocked at who it was. But she didn't want explanations right now. She saw that he had a shy smile on his face, but she slammed the door on him before he could try to force himself in.