Class
Mondler fiction based on the film 'Class' staring Jodi Lyn O'Keefe and Justin Bruening.
Monica Geller is a young single mother struggling to make ends meet and Chandler Bing is a rich, preppy NYU student. Joey, Rachel, Phoebe and Ross will be in it a fair amount too (so don't worry).
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The streets of New York were busy with hundreds of people rushing around to get to their destinations on time, people pushed past one another and dodged traffic, tuting and sighing as people got in their way.
Amongst the chaos were Monica Geller and her seven year old son Daniel. She was clutching his hand protectively as they negotiated the hectic morning rush. Monica looked down at her son and smiled sadly, wishing that she could provide him with better. She was only a teenager when she got pregnant, the father ran way when Monica told him of her pregnancy and she hadn't seen or heard from him since that day, so Monica had basically raised her son alone (with a little help from her brother and friends). As if being a single teenaged parent wasn't enough, Daniel had serious health problems, the main being severe asthma and he was often rushed into hospital after having asthma attacks.
They rounded the corner onto a considerably quieter street and began walking to the local state school, after a few minutes Daniel stopped abruptly and began to cough and gasp for air, Monica froze and dropped to her knees in front of her son and began to rub and pat his back soothingly until the coughing subsided and his breathing slowly returned to it's regular pace.
"Honey, are you okay?" Monica asked her son, her voice thick with motherly concern.
Daniel nodded "yeah, I'm better now mummy" he told her. Monica offered him a small smile and rubbed his back again.
"Are you sure, sweetie, we can go home" Monica said softly.
"I'm fine" Daniel reassured his mother; she relaxed slightly and dropped her hands from his shoulders.
"Have you got everything for school?" Monica asked Daniel, he paused, thinking momentarily before nodding slowly.
"I think so" he said.
Monica smiled warmly at him "lunch?" she asked, Daniel nodded yes.
"Homework?" she asked next, Daniel nodded again and patted his back pack, as if to prove a point, Monica smiled again.
"Inhaler?" Monica asked.
"Yep" Daniel said confidently then patted his pockets "in here".
"Rubber band ball?" she asked after a second, Daniel's smile faltered and his eyes widened slightly.
"Oh man, I forgot it" Daniel told Monica sadly, Monica looked at her son and started to smile before reaching into her coat pocket and pulling out Daniel's favourite toy, his rubber band ball. Daniel's face lit up again and he took the ball in his hands and stuffed it into his other pocket before flinging his arms around Monica's neck.
"Thanks mummy" he grinned.
"You're welcome sweetheart; now" she said and looked to the school gates next to them "get to school".
Daniel nodded and hugged his mum harder; Monica tightened her hold on him too and kissed his dark blonde hair lovingly before pulling away and straightening his coat.
"See you later mummy" Daniel called as he ran into the school to play with his friends.
"Bye sweetie" Monica called after him and stood up, she waited until his class were collected by the teacher before reluctantly walking to work.
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Two hours later Monica was scrubbing dishes in the fancy restaurant where she worked as a dishwasher, Monica placed another sparkling clean plate on the pile before reaching out to grab another plate, covered in tomato sauce.
She gasped quietly as she felt a familiar buzzing in her back pocket of her jeans, she took a quick look around the room and pulled the mobile out of her pocket and answered it, preying silently that her boss wouldn't catch her on her phone.
"Hello" she answered.
"Hello Ms Geller, its Miss Isaac from Daniel school"
"Oh my god" Monica whispered "has he had an attack?"
"I'm afraid so, he's okay now but a little shaky"
"I'll come and pick him up, have you given him any caffeine?" Monica said quickly.
"Yes, we gave him a soda"
"I'll be 20 minutes tops" Monica said and hung up, she turned back around and was met by a very angry head-chef, boss and all-around-ass-hole, Mr Palter.
"Monica" he said, in more of a statement.
"I'm sorry sir" Monica said quickly "but it's my son, he's had an attack, I need to go get him from school" she explained.
"You aren't entitled to any leave Monica" Mr Palter said bitterly.
"But my son" Monica started to explain.
"No buts Monica, you can't leave or I'll have to fire you, this is the third time in a week"
Monica's eyes flashed with fury "please..." she tried again.
"No" he said sternly.
"Fine, I quit then" Monica snapped angrily and shoved the apron into his chest and stormed out of the room, slamming the kitchen doors behind her. She paused for half a second, slightly regretting her outburst but she needed to be with Daniel and she'd find another job soon.
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At the exact same time across the town, the students of NYU were returning back to their class's after a weekend off. A smart silver car, which was obviously expensive, pulled into an empty parking space along with several other cars which were just as flashy. Chandler Bing, a wealthy boy in his final year at NYU stepped out of his car, and straightened over-prised jacket and locked the car by pressing a button on his keys. He smiled to him self and began to walk up the large stairs towards the college.
"Chandler" he heard someone call, Chandler turned around and scanned the students until he noticed his best friend and roommate, Joseph Tribiani, or Joey as her preferred.
"Hey Joe" Chandler greeted him "good weekend?"
"Yeah" Joey grinned smugly "it finally happened with Pheebs Saturday" he added and grinned happily.
"Cool" Chandler said, not really interested with his best friend's sex life... that guy had more dates in a month then Chandler had had all year.
"So how was you're parents?" Joey asked Chandler, Chandler's smile faltered for a moment.
"Ah the usual" Chandler sighed "mum was drinking and dad was boring me with his stories of work"
"At least you have a job waiting for you when you leave" Joey pointed out "you're gunna be some big-shot lawyer"
Chandler smiled slightly at the thought "I've got to get to class" he told Joey.
After saying goodbye Joey and Chandler went their separate ways and Chandler found himself walking the familiar corridors to his class, where today he would be receiving his last ever assignment.
Chandler took his usual seat in the class, making small talk with his class mates before their lecturer Victoria.
"Hello class" she chimed brightly and dumped a massive green folder on her desk, Chandler's eyes widened when he saw the thickness of it and soon realised that this wasn't going to be an easy last assignment as he had hoped for.
Victoria sat down at her desk and took the register before turning to the class and smiling with anticipation of their new assignment.
"You're final assignment" she said "is to help someone less fortunate then you to achieve something, be that getting a job, finding an apartment or getting into college. You will all be assigned someone different and have until you graduate in May to improve their lives.
Chandler looked at Victoria wearing an expression of shock "but what does this have to do with being a lawyer?" he asked.
"I want you to meet the people you will be helping Mr Bing" Victoria told him, and the rest of the class.
"But, the people we will help won't need to find a job..." Chandler said.
"I'm trying to improve you as people too" Victoria said sternly "this is you're final assignment, you must all come and see me and I will arrange someone for you to work with"
"Great" Chandler murmured to himself.
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