It Could Happen To You - Part 1

It Could Happen To You - Part 1

Monica Bing stepped out the car, a smile on her face. She looked up at the house, closed her eyes and sighed deeply. It was certainly her dream house and she was so glad that she and her husband had agreed to buy it. Of course, it was a bit steep and they had to borrow from the bank but it was worth it in the end. They had bought the house 10 years ago but it had only seemed like a week ago that Monica had stepped out of the taxi and into her new home.

Chandler opened his eyes and found them staring into someone elses. He blinked a couple of times, trying to clear the fog. When his eyes and mind were cleared he decided than he was staring into the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen.

"Hi, honey. Good trip?" He asked as Monica leaned down to kiss him softly on the lips.

"It was all right, apart from the weather, the delayed plane and missing you." Monica told him as she scrambled over him to climb into the bed.

"Well, I'm glad you missed me. We didn't miss you that much."..."Joking!" He shot back as she threw her pillow at him.

By 'We' he meant himself and their 3 children - Paddy, which was short for Patrick, who was 9. Paddy was tall for his age with black hair and blue eyes. He enjoyed playing computer games and was very helpful when it came to keeping his younger brother and sister in line. Paddy's sister is called Elizabeth but everyone calls her Ellie for short. She has shoulder length brown hair with piercing blue eyes. She's very shy and quiet but enjoys having fun. Unfortunatelty she doesn't get on very well with her brothers. She's 7 years old. The youngest of the 3 children is Denny. He's 4 years old with brown hair and blue eyes. His favourite word at the time is 'no' and he loves peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

Monica glanced at the clock next to her. It read 5.30. That meant they could have another hour of sleep before Denny would wake up. She rolled over and placed her arm across Chandler's stomach. She saw him smile so she leaned in and softly kissed his cheek. He returned the kiss and wrapped his arm around her. They fell asleep with their arms around each other.

Paddy slowly opened his eyes and gazed at his surroundings. It was a fairly large room with two bookcases, two chest of drawers, two beds and two comfy chairs. The reason there was 2 of everything was because Paddy had to share with Denny. He was a bit reluctant at first but when his parents had told him he could chose the paint he happily agreed. He had decided to go red and blue - very American. These two colours were also his favourites. Two of the walls were painted red with blue spots and the other two were blue with red spots. He had done it himself with a little help from Denny and Ellie. Their parents hadn't known about it and they nearly hit the roof but then they realised that he had only tried to help so they let him off with just not allowed to watch television or play a computer game for a day.

Paddy's bed was underneath a window which was opposite the door. Along from his bed was Denny's. Paddy sat up and saw that Denny had gone. Paddy decided that he had better go and find him. After all, it was Sunday and his parents rather enjoyed a lie in - or as much of a lie in as they could get. He got out of bed and walked across the room to the door on the soft blue carpet. Reaching up, he pulled down a red dressing gown and wrapped it around his blue pyjamas. Slowly he opened the door and walked down the corridor to his parents room.

Monica opened her eyes when she saw Paddy open the door. She watched him look around the room and then when he caught her eye she asked,

"What's wrong?"

"Sorry to wake you. Have you seen Denny?"

"Yes. I sent him downstairs to watch cartoons. Could you go and watch him?"

"Sure. Great to have you back, Mum." Paddy told her as he walked over to give her a hug.

"Great to be back." She told him. Paddy left and slowly closed the door after him. Monica smiled as he left. Next to her she felt Chandler stir.

"Who was that?" He asked, groggily. He rubbed his eyes and sat up.

"Paddy, he was looking for Denny."

"Ok." Chandler said and then he glanced at the clock it was 7.39. "Hey, Mon, you'd better get up before you have 4 hungry people awake."

"You know, you could make breakfast yourself."

"I could but you make THE best bagels and srambled egg ever." Chandler told her as he gave her his best puppy dog eyes. Monica looked at him sideways as she thought about it,

"All right! On two conditions - one, you make sure everyone is dressed before breakfast and two, you give me a kiss."

"Done and done." Chandler told her as he leaned over to give her a kiss.

Chandler knocked on a white door. He was now dressed and wearing a pair of jeans with a red shirt. He heard a little voice say, 'Come in.' so he let himself in. He found himself in a small room with pale purple walls and white curtains, which had been drawn apart to let the morning sun in. In the far corner was a table which had pencils, paper and a lamp on. Two small plastic chairs were tucked underneath it. Opposite the table, under the window, were 3 big purple cushions. Around the cushions on the floor were lots and lots of books. Some were big, some small, some thing, some thick, some paperback, some hardback. A bookcase, which didn't have many books in as they were all on the floor, on the wall next to the wall with the window. The wall opposite this one had a chest of drawers and down from the chest of drawers was a bed. Sitting on the bed was Ellie. She was wearing a pair of pink leggings with a white t-shirt. Her hair was falling back over her shoulders, it had been brushed and now she was just waiting to have it put up by her mum.

"Hey, didn't you hear your mum calling?" Chandler asked as he sat down next to her.

"I'm not hungry."

"She made bagels and scrambled egg."

"I said, I'm not hungry."

"Ellie, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Is that 'Nothing' a 'There is geuninely nothing wrong. Nothing' or a 'There might be something wrong but I won't tell you unless it's over an ice-cream. Nothing'?" Chandler asked. Ellie looked up at him and smiled.

"The second one."

"Well, tell you what. How about we go downstairs and eat breakfast and then after lunch we'll go down to Baskin and Robbins and have some ice-cream."

"Just us?" Ellie asked.

"Just us." Chandler agreed.

Monica turned around from the stove when she felt someone tugging on her black trousers. She looked down and saw Denny standing next to her, holding an empty plate up to her.

"Thank you, sweetie. Do you want to put it in the sink?"

"No." Denny said and continued holding the empty plate up to her.

"Just a little bit." Monica told him and she gave him a spoonful of scrambled egg. Giggling, Denny went back to sit at the table next to Paddy. Denny reached over for the orange juice and in the process he knocked orange juice all over Paddy's egg and bagel.

"Mum!" Paddy complained. Monica turned around to see what the fuss was about. "Denny spilled orange juice all over my egg and bagel."

"I thought you had finished."

"Well, I have now. But I'm still hungry - I'd only eaten a quarter of it."

"Tell you what. Why don't you have Denny's and I'll give you another bagel to go with it." Monica told him. She walked up to Denny and knelt down so their faces were at the same level. "Denny, could you go and build Mummy someting?"

"Yea!" Denny said, rushing off. He enjoyed building things, especially if they were for his mummy.

"Simple. Easy. And painless." Monica said to Paddy as she handed him Denny's plate.

Ellie sat in the car, silent. She was waiting for Chandler to find his jacket and wallet. She was looking foward to the ice-cream but then she realised that if she had the ice-cream she would have to tell him. She knew it was the bes thing to do but she didn't know how to. It had been 5 hours between agreeing to go to Baskin and Robbins and now. In those 5 hours she had eaten breakfast, watched some television, gotten into a fight with her brothers and then had soup for lunch. She kept quiet during lunch, as normal, and only spoke to ask someone to pass her something or when someone asked her a question.

There was a tap on the window. Ellie glanced up and saw Paddy and Denny standing there. She opened the door and stepped out.

"Where are you going?" Denny asked.

"Out with Daddy."

"But we always play soccer with him after lunch on Sunday." Paddy said.

"He asked me before breakfast."

"You're just trying to take him away. You're so selfish." Paddy told her.

"Yea! Selfish!" Denny echoed. Ellie slowly stepped away. Then she looked up when she heard the front door opening. She stared at Chandler as he walked out of the door and pulled it shut. Then she glanced back at her brothers who were glaring at her. Not wasting a second she turn and ran down the street.

Chandler called after her but she didn't come back. He looked at they way she had gone. Reckoning that she had gone to the lake at the park he glanced at his watch.

"2 hours." Chandler said to himself. "2 hours. Then I'll go after her."

With that he walked back into the house with Denny and Paddy in tow.

Authors Note: Sorry that not much happened in this one. I was just getting you introduced to the characters.