I do not own Monsters University or Monster's Inc. I only own Melanie.

Story Start

The dorm was so quiet after Alex moved out, but Melanie was getting accustomed to the silence. She and Alex were still friends, but they didn't spend as much time together now that Alex had sorority sisters.

A few weeks had passed since Alex moved out, and she found out that she was not going to get another roommate until next year. Roz had checked on her a few times over the phone or through letters, but it was still nice to have some type of person looking out for her in this new world.

The only thing that was starting to bother her was one Johnny Worthington. He had not talked to her since coffee that one day, but every time she saw him around campus his eyes were solely focused on her. At first she was happy that he didn't bother her anymore, but his staring was starting to unnerve her.

Thankfully her classes and her job at a local cafe helped distract her from Johnny's odd behavior, but eventually she would have to talk to him about his staring.

The rest of the semester passed fairly quickly, and Melanie spent break on campus. She couldn't go back to the CDA because it really wasn't somewhere to live. She basically lived in a nicer version of a cell when she had been there. She worked on articles for her journalism class over the break.

Her work had received her enough credit and attention that she was picked to be one of the journalists for the upcoming scare games. She would be in charge of interviewing contestants, writing about every fraternity and sorority, and writing about the events and outcomes of the scare games.

Of course with her luck, the scare games meant she would be faced with Johnny again. She was slightly curious to see how Johnny would act towards her, but she couldn't stress over it.

"Melanie, over here," Alex yelled from outside her Journalism class. She was practically jumping in place with how excited she was.

"Hey Alex, let me guess, scare games?" she questioned as she started walking down the hall with her friend.

"Yes, I don't get to compete this year, but next year I'll definitely get to compete. They're doing the team sign-ups today. We should go watch," Alex said as she looped arms with Melanie.

"Sure, I need to get a list of all the teams and competitors anyways because I have to write about the games and competitors," Melanie said as they exited the building and started walking to the quad.

A stage was set up in the center of the quad, and two students were standing on the stage with a microphone between them. Different fraternities and sororities were lined up to sign-up for the scare games.

Melanie could not help but scan the crowd for Johnny. She already knew that he and his friends would be competing. She had already heard from many students how Roar Omega Roar almost always won the scare games.

"Isn't this exciting?" Alex asked while pulling her friend's arm.

"Yeah, it's exciting," Melanie replied, but her focus was on Johnny, who was staring straight at her. He had a strange expression on his face. Their staring ended when one of Johnny's fraternity brothers tapped him on the arm. She watched the Roar Omega Roar team approach the stage to sign up. She did notice Johnny threw her quick glances every now and then.

"Alright, we're ending sign ups," one of the students on the stage started to announce, but he was interrupted by the same monster that Melanie remembered seeing catch the pig at the big return to school party.

"So we have an underdog in the competition," she whispered while pulling out her notebook. "Looks like there is some conflict between two of the team members too," she thought as the green monster reluctantly accepted the blue furry monster on the team.

"Well their team is going to do well," Alex sarcastically muttered before looking at her friend, who was taking notes.

Melanie paused in her writing to look at Alex. "Don't underestimate underdogs," she told her friend, who just rolled her eyes.

"I'll believe they can win when they actually start acting like a team. Oh, I just remembered, I need to go shopping with the girls later. We're getting stuff to make posters and shirts to cheer on our sisters. Catch you later," Alex said and she left after Melanie told her goodbye and to have fun.

Melanie walked over to the stage to talk to the students, who were in charge of the games. She got a copy of the sign-up sheet, and she was about to leave. However, the girl on stage handed her a note, and then walked away from her.

Melanie put her notebook in the bag before opening the note. The note was from Johnny. He was asking her to meet him at one of the bridges on campus, which was not too far from the quad.

"To go or not to go," she whispered while putting the note in her pocket. "Just go. If you don't then your curiosity will bug you to death," she grumbled and started walking toward the bridge. She was nervous but she was also curious about Johnny wanting to talk to her after it had been so long since she shot him down because he was being arrogant.

Her heart started to beat faster when she made it to the bridge and she saw Johnny waiting for her.

Johnny glanced at her and gave his usual smirk. "Hey Melanie, thought I would get the first interview," he said but his smirk vanished. "Just kidding. I really wanted to talk to you about something," he said and internally gave a sigh when she approached him.

"What did you want to talk about?" she asked when she saw how serious he looked.

"Did you used to be a human?" he finally rushed to say.