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Chapter 27
Later that day, after their disciplinary hearing, Mike and Sulley returned to the OK fraternity house. The other Oozmas were eager to hear what had happened.
“Expelled?” Don gasped.
Mike nodded. “Yeah, we really messed up.” He looked at his Oozma brothers and said, “I’m sorry, guys. You’d be in the Scaring Program right now if it weren’t for us.”
The Oozmas stared at Mike and Sulley awkwardly, as if they knew something else. “What?” Sulley finally asked them.
“Well,” Don began, “it’s the gosh-darndestthing. Hardscrabble’s letting us back in the Scaring Program.”
“She was impressed with our performance at the games ... so she invited us to join next semester!” Terri and Terry continued.
Sulley started laughing. “Congratulations, guys!”
“And that’s not the only good news,” Don said eagerly. “Sheri and I are engaged!”
Mike and Sulley looked at each other in confusion. “Who’s Sheri?” Sulley asked.
“She’s my mom,” Squishy said, embarrassed.
Ms. Squibbles suddenly waddled up to the group. “Well, if it isn’t my two favorite fellas!” she said, beaming at Don and Squishy. Ms. Squibbles nuzzled up to Don, smiling. “Come here and give me some sugar.”
Squishy looked like he was ready to die. “So uncomfortable ...,” he muttered.
“Aw, come on, Scott,” Don said to Squishy. “I don’t want you to think of me as your new dad. After all, we’re fraternity brothers first. Just think of me as your big brother who’s marrying your mother.”
“This is so weird,” Squishy said, cringing.
Mike and Sulley packed their bags and said their farewells to their Oozma brothers. “Promise you’ll keep in touch,” Don said, handing Mike his business card. The word “sales” was scratched out and the words “scare student” had been written in.
Mike smiled. “You’re the scariest bunch of monsters I ever met,” he told them as they hugged their last good-bye. “Don’t let anyone tell you different.”
“So, what now?” Sulley asked as he and Mike walked toward the campus gate.
“You know, this is the first time in my life I don’t really have a plan,” Mike replied.
But Sulley wasn’t worried. “You’re the great Mike Wazowski!” he said. “You’ll come up with something.”
Mike shrugged as his bus arrived. “I think it’s time I leave the greatness to other monsters. I’m okay just being okay. So long, Sul.” He shook his friend’s hand and climbed aboard the bus.
Sulley nodded. “So long, Mike.”
The bus pulled away. Mike stared out at the university he was leaving behind.
Suddenly, two blue hands reached into the window. “Wazowski!” Sulley yelled, and then fell away.
“Stop the bus!” Mike yelled. He jumped off and ran back to see Sulley lying on the ground. “Are you crazy?” Mike asked, rushing up to him.
Sulley sat up and looked his friend in the eye. There was something he needed to say. “I don’t know a single Scarer who can do what you do,” Sulley said. “I know when everyone sees us together, they think I’m the one running the show, but the truth is I’ve been riding your coattails since day one. You made the deal with Hardscrabble, you took a hopeless team and made them champions. All I did was catch a pig. Mike, you’re not scary, not even a little ... but you are fearless.”
Mike stopped in his tracks. He’d never thought of himself, little Mike Wazowski, as fearless.
“And if Hardscrabble can’t see that,” Sulley continued, “then she can just —”
“I can just what?” Dean Hardscrabble said, approaching from behind him. Sulley and Mike gasped at her. “Careful, Mr. Sullivan. I was just beginning to like you.”
“Sorry,” Sulley said quickly.
Dean Hardscrabble held up a copy of the Campus Roar. “Well, it seems you made the front page again.” Mike and Sulley sheepishly looked at a photo of the CDA hauling them away from the shattered door lab.
Dean Hardscrabble couldn’t help but smile a little as she handed the paper to Mike. “The two of you have done something together no one has ever done before,” she said. “You surprised me. Perhaps I should keep an eye out for more surprises like you in my Scaring Program.” She began to walk away, then turned around. “And, Mr. Wazowski? Keep surprising people.” Then she f lew off.
Mike watched as she disappeared into the sky. Then he looked at the newspaper she’d left behind and noticed something on the back page. Suddenly, he smiled at Sulley. “There’s still a way we could work at a scare f loor,” he said, holding up the Help Wanted section.