Randall's Love

Part 15

A week later, Hallie still hadn't invited Mike and Sulley yet, but she did invite her parents and Randall's family over for a trip to the park. Her apartment was kind of small for them all to fit in there. Randall went too, but was invisible.

At the park, Cassie and Mason were glad to meet Ned, Marissa, and Rex. Hallie's parents loved meeting little Rex most of all. He was a little shy but opened up. Then he was allowed to go play on the playground while the adults all talked about things.

They talked about their jobs, interests, and stories about each other, just getting to know about the others.

It was a great day and that they had finally all met.
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Within the next week, Hallie talked to Mike and Sulley that they were invited to come over to her place for an evening next Saturday. There was something important to discuss.

"Just you two this time, Mike. You can tell Celia about it later. I just need to talk to you two." Hallie said.

"Alright." Sulley said.

Mike was a little bummed that Celia wasn't invited too, but he would get over it. Maybe another time she would have her over too.

At home that night, she told Randall they were coming over on Saturday.

"I really hope I am ready to face them." Randall said.

"I know this is hard, but it needs to get sorted out. If we can get them on your side, it makes it better for you in court later." Hallie said.

"Sullivan might see it, but I doubt Wazowski will."

"You guys were friends in college. You should be able to claim a friendship again if you just really try. From what you told me about the RORs, they were the ones who messed you all up. Seeing things from their side is not how we should be, Randall. I know it just wasn't all about losing in the games to Sulley. But they were a bad influence on you. Even when you lost, they could have offered encouragement instead. Everyone can have an off time here and there. That just wasn't your night. But you owe this talk to them and yourself to get some powerful support for your court case and our life together."

"And also about your fraternity, if what you call the 'cool kids' is better than true friendship, that just isn't right. Mike was more your friend than they were. At least he didn't try to torture you."

Hallie did have a point.

Randall sadly remembered back to the college days in the RORS that if something wasn't done right, Johnny especially would be hard on him. Or the others too. Things might have seemed fine out in the open in public, but at the fraternity house, things were not always that way in the way of brotherly friendship.

Randall though had remembered when Mike had ignored him for a long time too. It had been too late. Mike had always been one self important fool. Things always had to go his way. He was a workaholic, and all in the end, he was never meant to be a scarer.

Sullivan had been such a jock in college. He thought he could just get by on his family name to get him through school. But it took more than just a good family name to get through the scare course or school all together. And it was only thanks to his cheating in the scare games his team had seemed to have won, but Randall hadn't stuck around to see the end of it. But he had seen in the paper the next day that he and Mike had been expelled.

But despite everything, everyone had always loved Sullivan compared to him. Because of Randall's temper and everything after that, he had such limited patience for idiots. Even when he had been a top scarer before Sullivan and Mike had become part of the teams, there had still been many that had feared or hated Randall. It seemed to him that when Sullivan became the top scarer that so many others were wanting a scarer that was more friendly.