Hi! Happy Easter, and here's the next chapter! The chapters alternate and flip back and forth from Randall to Sulley.
"Eight...nine...ten! Ready or not, here I come!" A large, furry blue monster exclaimed as he removed his hands from over his blue eyes. He looked around what looked to be a vacant room. "I know you're in here!"
Sulley crept around the room, but he wasn't the lightest of all monsters, and his weight caused the floorboards to creek.
"I'm getting warmer! I'm getting warmer!" Sulley yelled out. He went on his stomach to look under the bed. There were some clothes, toys and a Nemo squeaky toy, but that was it. He looked behind a small table with a plastic tea party set on it, but no sign of her. He looked under the blankets of her bed, and behind her neat pillows, but still no girl.
"Ok, Boo, I give up," Sulley said.
Still, everything was quiet.
"Boo, I said I give up. You win." Sulley said, but Boo never revealed herself. "Boo, I'm serious. I give up. Don't you wanna play again?"
"What is the first rule about laughing a child?"
Sulley turned to see his green best friend awkwardly carrying a six-year-old.
"Never leave the door open?" Sulley said.
"Exactly!" Mike said as he dropped Boo. She landed on her feet, but she wasn't too high off of the ground to begin with. "Do you know what could have happened? Letting a human into the monster world? Remember what happened last time?"
Sulley just smiled at Mike's overreaction. He of course, did remember what had happened three years ago when Boo was accidentally released into the monster world. Everything turned out fine.
"She's safe now, and besides, it's after hours," Sulley responded.
"Oh, after hours," Mike responded sarcastically. "You found her after hours the first time!"
Sulley ignored his best friend's sarcasm, and he picked up Boo as Mike continued to rant.
"Ok, Boo, you're gonna have to go to sleep now," Sulley said. He tucked her in, but she kept pushing her blankets off of her.
"I don't wanna!" Boo protested. "I wanna stay up! Can we please play hide-and-seek one more time? Please?"
Sulley had trouble resisting to her puppy-dog-pout, but he put her teddy bear beside her.
Boo picked up her teddy bear, and jerked it from side to side, singing the teddy bear song Sulley sang to her to stop her from screaming in the apartment.
"Are you even listening to me?" Mike asked as his rant came to an end.
"I'm just putting Boo to bed," Sulley said. He tucked her in, but as he left, she grabbed on to his finger.
"We're gonna play tomorrow, right?" Boo asked.
"Yes, I promise," Sulley said. Sulley and Mike went to Boo's door and left her room, but Sulley opened it again, and saw that Boo was already fast asleep.
Sulley caught up to Mike who had already left the practice room.
"So, where was Boo?" Sulley asked.
"Behind some laugh canisters. You should have known that she would have escaped!" Mike said, still sounding a bit upset.
"Mike, nothing happened- nothing to get upset about," Sulley began to feel a bit worried for Mike's sudden anxious behavior. He was prone to overreaction, but he never got like this before.
"I'm not upset!" Mike protested quickly. "I'm fine! I'm happy! Happy, happy, happy!"
"You're right- you're not upset, you're crazy," Sulley said. He was beginning to understand why his best friend was acting so strange. "I know what kind of craziness you have. I believe it's called head-over-heels-iosis."
"Ok, you got me," Mike sighed. "Tonight...on my date with Celia, I'm gonna...ask her to marry me."
Sulley suddenly picked Mike up and hugged him, and spun him around. The hug was nearly squeezing the living daylights out of Mike.
"Really, Mike, really?" Sulley couldn't hide his happy expression.
"Put me down!" Mike exclaimed, and Sulley obeyed. Once Mike was returned to the ground, he took in a deep breath, to show that he was chocking. "Yes, really."
"Really?" Sulley's voice went up an octave.
"Yes, really!" Mike was starting to sound upset again, "But I have no idea if she'll say yes...and I'm worried that she'll say...you know, no."
"Of course she'll say yes!" Sulley exclaimed.
"I hope so," Mike said as he and Sulley walked out of the building and headed home. The walk home was quiet, due to Mike being a bit worried. That was unusual for Mike not to talk, even if he was nervous.
Later on that night, Mike went to his date with Celia, and then it was Sulley left in the apartment. He was watching TV, but nothing was on. He was tempted to go back to the factory to visit Boo again, but the TV caught his attention.
"Attention all monsters," The reported said on a news show, "we have heard that Randall Boggs has escaped from the human world. He was been spotted near the outskirts of town."
"That's impossible!" Sulley said to the television set. It was impossible. He was in the human world, and the only way to return to the monster world would be through a door, but Sulley was the last to leave the factory, and no one else was there.
"We think that he came in through the old factory near the outside of town," The reporter continued.
"But that's been closed before I began working," Sulley mused to himself. The old scare factory had been closed due to the town growing, and a factory in the middle of town seemed easier to access for the new employees. The only doors left were some banishment doors and doors that were never shredded. He couldn't have got in...unless, someone was a partner in crime, but who?
It's probably a hoax, some kids were playing a prank, Sulley thought to himself. Besides, how could Randall communicate to anyone if he was in the human world? It had to be a hoax.
The apartment door burst open, and that caused Sulley to jump.
Mike walked into the door with a huge smile on. "I feel like a million bucks!"
"So, is that...," Sulley's voice had gone up and he cleared his throat to sound normal. "So, is that a yes?"
"You bet it is!" Mike exclaimed. "Just think of it! In a matter of months, my new life will begin! I'm the happiest monster in the world!"
"So be on the lookout for...," The reported on the television continued, but Sulley turned him off.
"Wait, what was that about?" Mike asked.
"Oh...uh...," Sulley couldn't ruin Mike's happiness with the news about Randall's escape into the monster world. "There's...going to be a huge game of Where's Waldo...so we gotta be on the lookout for Waldo. Remember, striped hat and striped scarf."
"Uh-huh," Mike didn't sound convinced, but he was too excited about Celia to be suspicious about Sulley's behavior. "So, anyway, Celia and I were thinking that we should get married by Port Monstropolos, right on the beach and in front of the water. Isn't that a good idea?"
"Yes...yes it's a great idea," Sulley said.
"And guess who's gonna be my best man?" Mike asked, still with a big smile on. "You, big guy!"
"That's...great," Sulley said, and it was great. It was truly, truly great. Mike was going to get married to the girl of his dreams, and Sulley had every reason in the world to be happy for his best friend, but he realized that Mike would move out, and he would want to be with Celia all the time. It would be different for him to live on his own. They've been roommates since college.
"I know it's great!" Mike exclaimed. "Oh, and can Celia and I get a half day off tomorrow? We have a lot of planning to do!"
"Yeah, sure," Sulley said.
"That's great! You're the greatest friend a monster could have!" Mike exclaimed.
"And so are you," Sulley muttered, and he wasn't sure that Mike could hear him.