"Amazing"
"So how was Derek?" Link asked me in a voice in which I could tell he was hoping things had at least gone good for me. I sighed...this was getting to be too much. Clenching my fists and squinting my eyes, trying not to cry, I stood up from the gas station, surprised when a sudden burst of frustration began to pinch at every part of my body. But maybe it wasn't so surprising...
"Derek," I said, not looking at the others, pausing when tears threatened to break loose. "Derek is a selfish jerk." I heard a gasp. "No!" Recognizing Bob's voice, I didn't even bother to turn around. "Yes," I stated in a regretful tone.
"All that talk about us...oh, I'm so proud of us...there was no us. There was only Derek. Why did I have to get hit by a meteor to see that?!" Frightened by my own blinding anger, I whipped around and kicked the gas station unintentionally, watching as Dr. Cockroach and Link managed to get out of the way, but hearing laughter as Bob flew up into the dark sky along with the ceiling. I instantly felt much better.
"Fighting an alien robot?" I questioned myself aloud, my mind taking in an overwhelming sense of new confidence. "That was me. Not him. And that was amazing!" I glanced at Link and Dr. Cockroach, suddenly feeling sorry that I'd almost hurt them just then...
"Meeting you guys?" I said in a gentle voice, bending down to show that I wasn't going to be kicking the gas station again. "Amazing." Right when I'd said that one word out loud, amazing, I meant it. No longer was I yearning to go back to being Susan Murphy, the girl who was about to be wed to that pompous jerk. When Derek crushed my heart, when even my family couldn't accept the fact that I'd become friends with a group of monsters, it crushed me even more because I was a monster like them, too. But they weren't monsters. They were my friends who'd helped saved the Golden Gate Bridge, and if no one could accept that big of a deal, I was sticking with them all the way.
"Dr. Cockroach!" I said, getting his attention. He stood upright, his antennae perked up and ready to listen to what I had to say. "You can crawl up walls, and build a super computer out of a pizza box, two cans of hair spray, and-" he cut me off, excited. "And a paper clip!" I grinned. "Amazing!" Turning to Link, I continued. "Link," I told him, "You hardly need an introduction - you're The Missing Link! You personally carried two hundred and fifty co-eds off of Coco Beach and still had the strength to fight off the national guard!" He proudly put on one of his macho poses.
"And the coast guard. And also the life guard," he added. I smiled, about to tell him something else, when I heard an audible rubber-band like thud! beside us. I turned to see Bob, he'd finally landed from when I'd kicked him up into the air. Amazingly enough, he didn't have one single bruise on him!
"Bob," I said, exasperated, "who else can fall from unimaginable heights and end up without a single scratch?" A confused expression appeared on his innocent face. "Link?" he asked in an uncertain voice, pointing to him next to me. "Uh," I replied, trying not to laugh, "You." His single eye widened, he was clearly shocked. "Amazing!" he cried. A near deafening roar split the conversation and Insectosauraus trudged up to us.
"Hey, good point, Insecto," Link said, "Susan, don't short-change yourself." Susan. The name didn't sound familiar to me. "Oh, I'm not going to short-change myself ever again. And the name is Ginormica." Everyone cheered...I'd always remember this moment. For in this moment, it was when I'd finally realized I stood in the right place.