Monsters Inc.
Chapter #1 : Casting Call
"Ready to go to school now Janel!" Molly said as she ran in the apartment door. "Hey... what are all these people doing here?"
"It's a casting call for Jordan's story!" Janel explained. "Where do we work, Molly?"
"We all work at Monsters Inc.!" Melodie supplied as she ran over to hug Molly.
"Get off meeeee!" Molly screamed in response to Melodie's hug.
"Should we change the name of my story from like Monsters Inc. to... uhhhh... something Inc.?" I stated quizzically.
"Yeah because we're beautiful!" Meg shouted as she ran in the door. "Sorry I'm late."
"We may be but you're not," Brad pointed out.
"Ooh, burn!" Govind laughed.
"Oh, he smiled!" Janel giggled.
"Aren't you suppose to say 'count it'?" I asked.
"No, 'count it' is only for 'your mom' jokes, and do you realize the amount of spelling errors you making Jordan! Make sure you let me edit before you hand it in to Molly said.
"Be quiet, it's my story!" I said standing on a coffee table. "Now everyone be quiet!"
"Are you a character in it?" Molly said, disobeying my command.
"Kind of… not really. I'm the narrator, but I'm going to be a made up character!" I said, sitting down on an armchair. Clearly my tactics weren't working.
"Whatever," Molly said, hitting me with the hard part of her cast.
"Ouch," I said, rubbing where Molly had just hit me.
"Can we get on with the story!" Govind said impatiently.
"I'm finding this part fun! I need some popcorn, anyone want popcorn?" Melodie said as she rushed into Janel's kitchen.
"Yes!" everyone yelled after her.
"Well we do have to get on with the story sooner or later," Govind tried to point out.
"Hey, I just got that!" Meg shouted out, realizing the burn Brad had made on her earlier.
Everyone stared at Meg wondering what in the world was going on in her head.
"What?" Meg said, wondering why everyone was staring at her.
"What did I miss?" Melodie said as she came from the kitchen door with a tray full of popcorn bags that actually looked a lot like the ones at the movie.
Everyone rushed over to grab the bags of popcorn, many yells of "yumm!" and "so good!" came from everyone except for Brad.
"My popcorn is burnt," Brad said, sulking.
The room was quiet…
"Hear that Brad? That's the sound of no one caring," Molly said as she gobbled up her popcorn.
"Hey someone took my popcorn!" Melodie shouted as she got up from the floor, brushing the dust off herself.
"Can we please get on with the story!" Govind whined.
"Fine," I replied, not really paying attention to what he actually said.
"Aw, no fair!" Melodie and Janel said unison.
"I barely said anything!" Janel said as she sat down on the couch.
"Well that's your own fault," I said, running over to Janel. "But you're gonna be the main character!" I finished. (I'm still trying to get invited to that party...)
"I'm Sully!" Janel said while hugging me.
"No, you're still Janel, you just play Sully's part," I explained, gasping for air. (She was hugging me very tightly!)
"Duh! ...Wow, I agreed with Jordan. Jordan stop making me agree with you!" Molly said, shaking her head in hope that she would stop agreeing with me.
"Will it make you feel better it you get Mike's part? Instead of Meg being Mike?" I said trying to calm Molly down.
"I guess…" Molly grumbled, then seemed to realize, "Hey, wait! You were gonna cast Meg as Mike, not me? I am the most promising one here!"
"Yes, but only because she was short. Then I thought of Brad, but he would be a better Randall," I explained. I seem to be doing a lot of explaining nowadays.
"I'm going to be Randall!" Brad shouted as he pulled out one of his earphones.
"Yeah, is that OKAY with you?" I said walking over to Brad.
"I guess, but I don't like it, unlike your mom!" Brad laughed crossing his arms.
"Count it!" Govind yelled.
"Whatever. Govind, you're Roz," I told him.
"WHAT! I'm an old lady?" Govind yelled snatching the clipboard from my hands.
"Would you like to be Mr. Roz, even though you are a girl?" I asked.
"Ooh, burn!" everyone chanted.
"Finally I burned someone!" I exclaimed, jumping up and down.
"Your first and last time," Janel said, patting me on the back.
"Melodie, you're Boo," I said, recovering from my first real burn.
"Yes!" Melodie said while doing a little happy dance in the corner.
"That part is so fitted for her," Molly observed, "but I would have done better. I'm just so talented!"
"I thought I did a good job on that choice... Okay, now we need someone to be Celia. Since Molly's character is going out with that character, it'll have to be a boy..." I said.
"JAMES!" everyone laughed.
"NOOOOOO!" Molly yelled.
"Payback…" I smirked.
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO BROKE MY ARM, I SHOULD BE GETTING PAYBACK AGAINST YOU!" Molly yelled at me.
"Ooh, someone's mad!" I giggled. "So, who would you want Celia to be then?"
"James…" she blushed.
"Ooh!" everyone laughed.
"Well then, those last 6 lines were a waste…" I said rolling my eyes and crossing my arms.
"Every story has to have a road to it!" Other Molly said laughing. "Who am I being?"
"Uhh, you can play…" I strained to find someone who had yet to be casted "How 'bout... Fungus okay?"
"Who's he?" Other Molly asked.
"Well one, you're going to have to watch the movie and find out who he is. And two, he's Randall's helper," I said making a few notes on my clipboard.
"Oh, him! Okay," Other Molly said as she picked up a script.
"I never knew there were scripts!" Janel said, rushing to get one of the bundles of paper, soon followed by everyone else.
"WELL DON'T YA THINK THE ROAD HAS BEEN LONG ENOUGH!" Govind said, a little too late for anyone to understand or notice. They were all too busy reading over their scripts and highlighting their lines to notice anything Govind was saying anyway.
"Well let's be on our was to work now. Oh! One last thing. Meg, you're Needleman. Amanda, you're Smitty... Um, who can be the boss... Hmm... Um, well... Ryanne, you're the boss!" I decided finally.
Ryanne appeared out of nowhere.
"Whoa, where am I?" Ryanne asked.
"You're in my story, Monsters Inc.!" I yelled.
"Okay…" Ryanne said going over to sit with Janel.
"Who can be the dude that gets socks and human stuff on him?" Janel asked.
"Well, who fits that part?" I shot back.
After a few minutes they came up with an answer.
"Tayleur!" they all shouted.
"Wow, where am I?" Tayleur asked.
"I'm guessing we're in Janel's apartment in Monstropolis. You're playing the guy that gets human socks on him. There, that's done! Are we done yet Jordan?" Govind asked me getting very annoyed that people weren't listening to him.
"Yes, now no more atrociousness!" I said, picking out a random long word. "On with the story!"
"You've been working on your big kid words!" Molly said, sounding as if she were a three year old. Which is about the level of my attention span, but still...
"They're not 'big kid' words, they are 'grown up' words!" I corrected proudly. "Now we're going on with the story!"
by: Jordan Holmes, age 12 ...
May 28, 2006 - June 2, 2006