All through the weekend, Hallie was so excited about going to start her new job on Monday. She also kept on thinking about Randall. She wondered if she could actually get his attention. He hadn't noticed her at all on Thursday, but she had been too far away for him to notice her too. But she hoped she could catch him and introduce herself before she went to the kitchen.

On Monday, she went to work extremely early to make sure she would be able to find everything. The place was open at eight, but all major shifts wouldn't begin until nine. She didn't wear any clothes this time. She knew she would be wearing an apron all day and that was fine with her.

Hallie tried hard to find Randall, but she knew learning her way around was more important. She was hurrying to the kitchen when some little pink bean monster suddenly ran into her and he fell over. Hallie's four feet kept her on her feet, but she looked down.

"Oh, excuse me, sir. I'm sorry." Hallie helped up Fungus, Randall's assistant.

"I'm sorry, Ma'am." Fungus said, and he was surprised at who had helped him up. The female voice he had heard. This female resembled his partner a lot, but she didn't look like him in color.

"Uh, what's your name?" Hallie asked.

"Jeffry Fungus, and you are?"

"Hallie Norman. Pleased to meet you, Mr. Fungus. Now I must be on my way. It's my first day here and I don't want to be late."

"Where are you going?"

"The kitchen. I'm the new kitchen worker and cook. I'll probably see you in there later at lunch."

"Yeah, maybe. But good luck with your first day." He said and started walking again.

"Thanks." She said and continued to the kitchen.

Hallie hadn't brought much with her to work. Since she was working in the kitchen, she would find out when she would be allowed to eat her own lunch. Well, she had been shown to the girl's locker room, and she did bring her keys and wallet, but that was it.

She made it to the kitchen and Mrs. Grafton started showing her what they were going to be making for lunch that day. After lunch would be the responsibility of gathering and washing dishes and the floors. And she was fine with that too.

…..

Fungus found Randall in the coffee area, getting some coffee.

"Hey, Randall."

Randall growled at his annoying assistant.

"I was on my way to find you and I ran into someone." Fungus said. He saw his partner didn't seem interested in what he had to say.

"So you ran into someone."

"It wasn't just anybody. It was no one we knew, just yet anyway. But she says she's going to be working in the kitchen."

Saying the word she had somewhat made it more interesting to him.

"Randall, she was a lizard monster like you."

Randall turned his head to look at his assistant. A female lizard?

"We should have lunch in the kitchen today. You could meet her." Fungus said.

Randall had a slight suspicion that his assistant was trying to set him up.

"Maybe. We'll see how it goes, Fungus." He said.

Fungus was enthused. He hoped Randall would get to meet this girl. And yes, maybe he was trying to at least set up a meeting. He knew that his partner didn't exactly have a lot of friends in his life. Perhaps this could be special with them meeting.

….

Later, when the lunch hour came, a lot of monsters had worked up their appetites.

Hallie was ready to start serving the workers here for the first time. She and the kitchen staff had all the food and drinks set up and ready to take orders. She had worked all morning long on the specials for today's lunch.

Monsters began filing in and making a line to get their food and drinks. Some wondered who she was, and looked at her new name tag to know her name was Hallie Norman. A lot of monsters used their last names, but most liked the first name approach.

Hallie hoped to see Randall come in soon. She really wanted to see him up close.

Fungus was pestering Randall that he was hungry and he really should meet this girl. Randall was hungry himself and agreed they would get some food. They went to the locker room to grab their wallets to pay for the food, then went to the cafeteria.

The cafeteria was filled with monsters when they got in. They were some of the last to come in.

Hallie was loading up more drinks when she saw someone come in that she had been expecting to meet up close. Her eyes widened when she saw the male lizard.

"There she is, Randall." Fungus whispered.

Randall looked over and he could make out a little something, but his vision wasn't that good from this far away. He went over to the line to order something. It was the only way he would be able to see her up close enough.

Hallie was nervous that he was coming her way, but she couldn't back down. Maybe he was nice to girls compared to what that one had said about him last week.

Randall had ordered a chicken special and he wanted some coffee to go. Now he could see her a lot better.

He had always had bad luck with the women it seemed. Always passing him by, using him, rejecting him, making fun of him. But here before him was one of his own kind. He had rarely seen one of his own kind, outside of his family.

To him, she did look beautiful. He saw that she was eyeing him as well and their eyes locked.

Hallie saw that Randall was mostly purple, but had a blue tail, and some dark blue striping on his back, and three pink fronds. She saw his emerald green eyes. And he had the same number of limbs that she did.

"Hi, I'm Hallie." She said.

"I'm Randall."

Fungus could see there was a connection.

"Well, nice to meet you. See ya round." Randall said. He got his food, paid for it, and went to a table. He sat down to where he could observe the counter. He didn't give Hallie a chance to respond.

Fungus was up next. "Hey, down here."

"Oh, hey there, Fungus."

"I could see there was something between you two."

"Oh, stop it. Now what do you want?"

"I'll have that juice special." Fungus said.

Fungus got what he wanted and he went to go join his partner.

Randall had begun eating, if a little shakily.

"I knew having you meet her was a good idea, Sir. She seems to have her eye on you too." Fungus said.

"That's ridiculous, Fungus. She's nice, but I doubt she's interested. We only just met. We don't even know each other."

Hallie did though in fact have her eyes on the male lizard over yonder. She smiled. She was glad she had finally officially met him. His voice did sound nervous when he was talking to her, and the sound of his voice seemed to fit him. Just the look of him alone had her attention.

To the other monsters, now that they had met Hallie, it wouldn't have taken geniuses to figure out that she might easily get interested in Randall just because they were the same species.

When lunch was finished, the workers piled up the trays on the trash cans and the kitchen staff would get them and clean them.

Hallie watched Randall and Fungus leave the kitchen too. She really had her eyes on that male now. She might be willing to take a chance on him. He had seemed nice to her. But it was only this one meeting so far. She hoped they could become something more.

"Mrs. Grafton?" Hallie asked her boss.

"Yes?"

"Do you know anything about the male lizard known as Randall Boggs? What does he do here?"

"That snob? He's a scarer. He did used to be the number one scarer around here, until James P. Sullivan took over his title. He's extremely jealous of him. He doesn't like most of us here, so I would stay clear of him, dear. He might hurt you."

Hallie would take it easy, but she did want to know him eventually.

…

When he and Fungus were clear of the lunchroom, Randall felt a little shiver go down his spine. Was it possible he did have a connection with this girl? But to him, it would take a miracle for anyone to ever have true feelings for him. Mostly everyone thought that he was so heartless.

Randall was currently in the middle of making his scream extractor. He was so determined to get it done, though he felt a small vibe connecting to this special girl, he felt he didn't have time for a relationship. Maybe when the machine worked and made him famous, then he would consider a relationship with someone.

Randall did think it was nice that another reptilian like himself was working here, but he just wasn't ready for a relationship right now. Sometime in the future.

….

James P. Sullivan, or Sulley, and his friend, Mike Wazowski had met the new lizard in the cafeteria. They found that it was female, and unlike the one they currently knew, she was really nice. Just the opposite of Randall. But they wondered if her working here might get Randall's attention at all.

Maybe someone could get through to Randall. There had to be somebody that he could talk to about why he was the way he was.

They had never seen him be mean to Celia. Or the girls. It was mainly towards other guys. But then, he mainly ignored the girls, though he might make an exception to this one.