CHAPTER 3

I hear the door open, followed by laughing. At first, I think it's just Sully, but then I hear another laugh. A feminine laugh.

It's her.

I summon all the courage I have to get up and walk out into the living room, fists clenched, brow tight. She is standing there, kissing MY man.

Fury fills my body. Watching their moist lips intertwined. They pull away from each other, and her eye meets mine.

She's a short, green, one eyed monster. It's like looking in a mirror. The only difference between us is a pink bow sitting atop her green scalp, and pink claw polish on her claws.

Skank.

We stand, staring at each other, not entirely sure what to say. Sully interjects.

"Oh, Mike…uh…. this is Mikenzie."

Mikenzie gives me a little wave.

Bitch.

I wave back.

There's a long awkward, pregnant pause.

"Well, I'm going to get going." Mikenzie says, thrusting through the silence.

"Oh, okay" Sully says, "See you soon!"

They kiss. I gag.

Mikenzie closes the door behind her.

Sully and I are left standing in silence in our little apartment. We both know what the other is thinking.

Sully breaks the silence.

"So…what do you think?"

I chuckle.

"What do I think? What do I think? I think she seems like a fcuking skank, that's what I thinks."

"Come on Mike." Sully replies, "What makes you think that?"

I'm FUMING.

"I just…that's what I think okay?!"

"But why?" Sully yells.

I turn and start back to my room. Then I stop. I'm going to put everything on the line.

"Because she looks just like me! That's why!"

Sully goes a paler shade of blue.

He stammers, "Th-that's ridiculous."

"Oh, come on Sully." I reply, "Take one look at that fugly whore, and you tell me we aren't IDENTICAL."

"B-but, she has pink claws, and a bow!" Sully exclaims

"I could have pink claws! I could wear a bow! Is that what you want James? You want me to paint my fcuking claws and put on a fukcing bow? Will you love me then?!"

"What?" Sully says.

"How can you be so blind, Sully?!" I scream, "I've been in love with you since the day we met. Back at Monster U."

"I know that!" Sully screams.

We both pause, thinking about what Sully has just said.

"You what?" I stammer.

"I know you're in love with me." Sully says, making his way over to the liquor cabinet. "I've known from the very beginning."

He opens a bottle of scotch and pours himself a drink.

"Then why have you stayed friends with me all these years?" I ask, tenderly.

Sully takes a big sip of his scotch.

"Because…because I feel the same way."

I gasp.

"What?"

He turns and looks at me, his eyes glassy with limpid tears, the fur under his eyes matted.

"I've always loved you, Mike. I've been ignoring it for ten years, trying to bury it under hookups, booze, and loose women. What I've really been searching for all these years, has been you. You're all I want. You're all I have. I'm just trying to find my own path in this crazy monster world we live in. I know Mikenzie looks just like you, didn't you think for a second that might have been the reason I'm with her?!"

We stand in silence.

I find the courage to walk up to him, and I take his big hairy paw in my small green hand.

"But why do you need her when I'm standing right here." I say.

My heart is pounding in my chest.

Sully leans down to my level, and engulfs my lips with his. There's fur in my mouth but I couldn't care less. My member tingles, as I feel him pressed against me. Things will never the same.