This story takes place about sixteen years after the finale. The kids are all in high school and the Friends are now in their late forties. These characters are the creation of Bright Kauffman and Crane and I know I should be updating and working on my script but this idea just came to me…. And one other thing … marta, david , and Kevin can I have just Ross please ?
Emma Geller sat down at the kitchen table in her parents Scarsdale house. She wished she could say that her mother was a good cook, but that wasn't the case. Her pom poms on the floor , she reached for a piece of toast to only have her father grab her wrist.
"Emma , is that all you are going to eat today?" her father asked as he put down the newspaper and drank his coffee from a mug with the legend on it , I heart dinosaurs .
"Daddy , I don't have time. We have to decorate the lockers for the players before the game tonight." Emma wailed.
"And I know how important that is." Commented her mother. Even though she was now forty five , Rachel Geller's hair still had the golden color in it when she was in her thirties. Her eyes still had that sparkly quality. Dressed in a Prada business outfit , she held her briefcase and looked at her Movado watch.
"And I would stay , but I have an important meeting." Rachel smiled and then she put a kiss on the cheek of the man with the graying temples and the glasses resting on his nose. His hair was still thick , but now it was black mixed with gray.
"I won't be home early. Faculty meeting." He said as she headed out the door. After that Ross went back to his paper.
She had seen pictures and videos of what her parents looked like when they were young. Her mother in her red Lincoln High cheerleading outfit and her huge nose. Then her father with his dark curly hair and his mustache. If you would have seen pictures of them when they were teens, you would have never understood how the two of them ended up together. Her Aunt Monica who was a fantastic and famous chef and resembled a model herself , could be seen as a fat teenager, and she could only laugh at her Uncle Chandler 's wild hair.
As she looked over at her father, she tried to picture what he looked like when he was in his twenties. He had always been very tall and he had these eyes that her mother called his puppy dog eyes. His hair was short when they started dating , yet older pictures showed him with a thick head of black hair. One thing though, whenever he was looking at her mother , he had the goofiest of grins on his face.
She remembered hearing all their stories. The time he wanted to drink the fat . Or the time that he said her name when he was marrying that British woman. Or the night she said she wanted a break. She even heard the warped version of how she came to be because of some dumb story. And the most famous of all, how he was going to take her to the prom anyway and when they saw the video they started to kiss each other.
One time she had even saw the video of her first birthday. Her cake in an obscene shape. Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Joey and their gifts and the story that her Grandma Geller told about her Aunt Monica's first birthday . Daddy didn't appreciate that.
"I am going now , Daddy." She said as she grabbed her pom poms and gave her father a kiss. "Give em hell Emma." He smiled and then went back to his paper.
Emma walked to school , since it wasn't that far. Her friend Jenna met her and they had planned to decorate the lockers for the game. Today was the big pep rally and just like her mother , she was petite and was picked for the top of the pyramid. The girls decided that once they were done, they would go to the gym and then they could perfect their routines.
"Hey Geller." Screamed Jenna as she ran down the hall.
"What's up girlfriend?" Emma said curiously as she opened her locker.
"Jeremy Myers asked me to the dance next Friday." Jenna said with her silly metal mouthed grin.
"That is totally cool." Emma said as she looked in the mirror and tied her hair with a red ribbon. "Although my cousin said you were hot and I think he wants to ask you out."
Jenna gave her a puzzled look. "You mean that kid who cracks jokes all the time? He is such a loser."
"Hey that is my cousin Jack you are talking about." Emma said proudly. "And he isn't that bad."
"No but he isn't your half brother either." She smirked . "And for an old guy, your uncle the movie star , totally hot."
"Uncle Joey." Emma smiled. "You know my mom dated my Uncle Joey when I was a baby."
"And she still picked your dad. That I will never understand ." Jenna scoffed. "I mean she could have been with Joey Tribbiani and instead she picks some boring dinosaur guy."
"She loved him though." Emma tried to see the logic but her uncle was very good looking from his pictures as well.
"Anyway I am going to this dance with Jeremy." Said Jenna as she began to tear tape and stick the crepe paper to the metal lockers. "Hey come with me to shop." She begged.
The two girls managed to decorate the lockers with red and white crepe paper and stick candy bars to the players lockers. Emma still thought about what her best friend said about her mother and her Uncle Joey . If her Dad did love her for all this time, then why did it take so long for them to get together. Mom had this Barry guy and Dad was married to Ben's mother. Then her dad married this British woman that her mother referred to her as the British bitch. And one day while trying to find something , she found a marriage license that was dated the year 1999… that said her mother Rachel Green and her father Ross Geller were married in Las Vegas. She could barely read the certificate because she couldn't read the signatures.
"Okay girls , we need to work on this pyramid and get it right." The captain of the cheerleading squad Wendy said as the other girls followed her. Emma or Jenna did not care for her . The girls grabbed their water bottles and then began to stretch for the acrobatics involved. The top of the pyramid had to do a double backflip to dismount and then she would land on the ground. It would be the high light of tonight's game. Unfortunately Emma's mother had a meeting with a buyer from Bloomingdales and her father had some sort of a faculty meeting , so in that event her cousins would come to the game instead and her half brother Ben and his girlfriend , Sarah.
Emma watched as the other girls started to make the pyramid and she brought her toe to her nose to make herself more agile. Each girl would make sure that she was strong and then the next girl would crawl up and secure herself. Emma took a running jump when all the girls were in place and climbed up the girls . She got to the top and then she raised her hands in a cheer salute … Go Bobcats ! she cried as she got ready to do her dismount . She started to pike her feet in the upright position and she began to spin out of control. Flying through the air , she couldn't keep her balance and all she could see was the hard floor beneath her. Jenna broke her position as she tried to catch her best friend before she landed on the wooden floor. One of the girls thought to put out a wrestling mat when they were practicing and Emma headed right for it . She hit the mat and then just laid there. Her eyes were closed as she lay unconscious.
"Oh my God ." screamed Wendy. "Get an ambulance." Jenna got down to her side and prayed that Emma would be alright . "Someone call her parents or her aunt and uncle." She screamed.
Some time had passed and Emma was laying on a bed in a nurse's office. Her head was pounding and she didn't know where she was . She was not in Scarsdale anymore that was obvious by the posters on the wall for AIDS.
"Sweetie , you had a terrible fall." The school nurse said to her. She looked over and saw the white uniform and the hat on her head. She was also wearing white hose. "But I think you are going to be fine. If you are feeling alright , then you should go back to class."
Emma got up slowly and wondered why Jenna wasn't there. Then she opened the door and saw the hallway. There was a huge trophy case and in the trophy case it said Lincoln High.
"Lincoln High?" Emma questioned . "Isnt' that where Mom and Dad and Aunt Monica went to school." None of this was making any sense. She was walking down the hall and noticed her cheerleading outfit was different . It was red and white and had an L on the front. It was a lot more modest as well, it wasn't a midriff , but a short sleeved sweater.
"So you are the new girl?" a girl came up to her with auburn hair and a rather large nose. "Where did you transfer from?" she asked curiously .
"Scarsdale." She answered truthfully.
"Oh yeah. Well I am captain and I am Rachel Green." Emma's eyes opened wide and her mouth dropped. She did recognize her from the picture . This girl she was talking to was her own mother. "Welcome to Lincoln High."