Life and Amnesia

Part 17

It was after 8:30 when Sulley got home to his apartment. He lived by himself now. He fixed himself up some dinner and then looked up Randall's brother. Yep, there was a Ned Boggs in the phone book.

He dialed the number. A male voice picked up.

Sulley explained who he was and that he had something for him. It was something from the brother that he had.

Ned was shocked to hear this. He hadn't heard from Randall in years. He had read about his case in the newspaper that he had been arrested once, and he had escaped, but there had been no hearing about him in years. He assumed he was dead.

Sulley asked when they could meet. It was important that he get this letter.

Ned said the coming Saturday was fine.
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The next day when he went to work, Sulley met up with Mike on the laugh floor.

"So, how did your meeting go?" Mike asked.

"You won't believe this, Mike, but it wasn't any of the board of directors. It was our old enemy, Randall." Sulley said in a low voice.

"Randall! What did he do?!" Mike demanded.

"Nothing. He came to make amends with us." Sulley said. "He also wanted me to deliver a letter to his brother."

"He would never do that and I didn't know he had a brother." Mike said.

"I swear, Mike. He didn't try to harm me. He only wanted to talk. He actually said he was sorry for what he did."

"I assumed he was dead for a long time or just held in prison for life. You should have called the police. You should never have believed what he said."

"He was treated horribly in prison, Mike. He told me things. But like you, he also has a family now that he wants to return to. He's leaving today and he doesn't plan to come back."

"Good. We don't need him here causing trouble again for us. But maybe he deserved it all for what he did to us." Mike said.

"Not the kind that he spoke of."

"And what could have been so bad for him that he didn't give to us?" Mike was so angry.

Sulley leaned down and whispered in his ear so others wouldn't hear. "Rape."

Mike's eye widened. That, he knew, no one deserved that.

"Oh, well, that's different. But he still deserved punishment for what he did to us."

"Yes, he did. But there was no excuse for that." Sulley said. "But I swear, Mike. He's changed. He didn't sound like the same Randall we knew twenty years ago. He even showed me a picture of his three kids."

"It's amazing any girl would want to be with him." Mike said.

"He was a single parent all those years, but to top it off, he said he had also lost his memories too for five years."

"I still wouldn't believe him, Sulley."

"With the way he explained things to me, I had to believe him, Mike. And I'm going to do what I promised. I'm going to meet his brother this Saturday to give him Randall's letter."

"I'm coming with you."

Sulley was okay with that. But until then, they both had jobs to do.
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Randall left Monstropolis early in the morning. He just wanted to be out of here before there might any chance of arrest would come. That is if Mike was going to turn him in that he was in town again. He was glad nothing had happened last night.

After a long two hour drive back to Roarington, he was happy to be back home again. He called up his friends, telling him he was back. He also sent texts to his kids that he was home again. They all replied back that they would come home for the weekend for some family bonding.
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That Saturday, as promised, Mike and Sulley met up with Randall's brother, Ned in a park. They wanted this meeting to be more isolated.

Ned was more of a greenish lizard, but with the same number of limbs. He had blue striping on his back. He had green eyes too. He only had two fronds.

"So, where is my brother?" Ned asked. He nearly sounded a little like Randall.

"I only saw him this week and he wanted me to give you this letter. That's all I know. I don't know where he is." Sulley said.

Ned opened up the letter and he got some information on what his brother had been up to all these years. There was even a picture of his family for him. But Randall said he was welcome to call him. He said he was sorry for all the years of estrangement and that he wanted to catch up. There was a phone number to reach him.

After reading it, Ned folded it back up again.

"Does it say where he's staying?" Mike asked.

"No. But I can call him if I want to catch up with him. We had such a strained relationship when we were younger. I didn't approve of him being a scarer. Now he's a mechanic. He has a family. He also said I could bring Rex, my son, with me if we should decide on meeting up again." Ned said.

"Well, it was nice meeting you, Ned. We'll leave you to think this all over. This is your decision." Sulley said. He didn't want to take up too much of Ned's time. The green lizard he knew had to make an important decision, on whether to catch up with Randall or not.

Mike and Sulley left. Ned went the other direction.

If they and Ned were going to stay friends remained to be seen. Ned surely hadn't been like Randall had been, from the small time that they had with meeting him.