Chapter 7 Breaking Up
One year later. Phoebe and Joey were back together, but they didn't plan on getting married. Their baby Courtney was the easiest baby and they loved her dearly. Ross and Rachel were looking forward to their wedding in a month, which they had been planning for a year now. They were excited to be spending their lives together, but they didn't know what was going to happen anymore. They were just happy to be together now. Monica and George were happy and the two of them were going to go and spend the night at a drunken club. Chandler, still single felt glum.
"Why are you all with someone?" he demanded. It was a warm September day and he was annoyed with not being with anyone still.
"Go to a drunken club, get drunk and hook up with someone," Joey suggested.
"Ick!" Chandler said puckering his lips. "My name isn't Joey Tribbiani so you're not going to get me to go and hook up with someone after getting drunk at a drunken club."
"Sorry," Joey said.
"Hey!" Rachel said entering the room. "Do you know if Phoebe or Monica is around? I'm going to go and pick up my wedding dress at this place, but I need them to come with me. They promised."
"Monica's at a drunken club with George so if you want her to come she's going to be pretty drunk and Phoebe's cooing over Courtney at Joey's place, but I'm sure that she'd be willing to come."
"Okay thanks, but Monica promised and I'm also choosing my Maid of Honor and I have to tell them both together," Rachel added.
"Who'd you choose?" Ross asked. "I promise that I won't tell. I couldn't choose if I wanted Chandler or Joey so I made George Best Man instead. I know that it isn't fair, but they decided that it was only fair. I decided that I was going to choose Tommy Sanders from one of my classes to be the ring bearer. He's really gentle. I decided two best men and one ring bearer. That's ridiculous, but there isn't a law is there?"
"How old is Tommy?" asked Rachel stifling her laughter.
"He's seven, gosh," Ross said. "He's cute too and I don't know why you're all so fussy. He's really nice too and I don't think that anyone else would care. He's the only one who actually cares about my lectures."
"That really cute one?" Chandler asked. "You know who I mean, light brown hair and bright green eyes?"
"That's him," Ross said.
"Oh I love him!" Rachel cried out. "Choose him."
"So who's your Maid of Honor?" Joey asked.
"I decided that I was going to let Monica be the Maid of Honor and let Phoebe be one of my bridesmaids and even though I'm not close to my sisters Amy's been calling nonstop ever since we got engaged and she thinks that I'm her favorite sister so I've got to choose her as my other bridesmaid."
"Anyone but Janice," Ross said approvingly.
"Great!" Rachel said. "I'm also not choosing Jill, because she lazily got together with this guy and got drunk and conceived a little girl named Rosie and she's the cutest girl ever so I'm choosing her to be the Flower Girl. Sound fair?"
"Yup," Ross agreed. "Go tell them before I explode and I go and tell them."
"Okay," Rachel agreed, but I'm going to have to tell Phoebe first. "I wonder how she's going to feel."
Phoebe entered and Rachel didn't even have to walk over. "Hey, Rach. What's up?"
"You're bridesmaid," Rachel blurted. "I'm sorry, but I just couldn't make you Maid of Honor."
"It's fine," Phoebe said taking it surprisingly well. "I don't deserve it and I know that it's more meant for Monica. You've known her longer so I would've expected you to choose her anyway."
"I'm so glad that you're okay with it!" Rachel said hugging Phoebe. "You're the best."
"I mean, I don't even want to be Maid of Honor. I stink at toasts, you know." Phoebe shrugged Rachel off of her and left.
"That was easy," Rachel said sighing with relief.
"I wish that it was that easy for me," Ross said. "To tell other people. You get it so easy."
"That's why you want to be a girl," Rachel said pointing to herself.
"Well girls-" Ross began pointing to Rachel, "-have to go through labor, they have to... they have to go through pregnancy even when it's uncomfortable. They have to pee on a pregnancy test, they have to-"
"Those are terrible reasons!" Rachel interrupted. "You're bringing a wonderful new life into the world."
"Are you pregnant?" Joey asked without warning.
"No!" Rachel said. "Except I'll take a test if you're so concerned."
Joey turned away. "Not concerned, just interested. I probably shouldn't have said anything."
"Yeah, don't speak again," Rachel said.
That Night
"Hi," Monica said entering through the front door and Rachel and Ross turned around. "Are you guys the only ones here?"
"Yeah, what is it?" Ross asked looking at Monica's face.
"If you're going to blow up," Rachel said pre-cautiously. "I just want you to know that you're my Maid of Honor."
"Great!" Monica exclaimed, "but that's not the problem. I couldn't find George and they were going to make me leave, but I couldn't find George, but as I was leaving I saw George leaving with another woman and he didn't look drunk."
"Is he having an affair?" Ross asked looking shocked.
Monica shrugged sitting down next to Rachel. "I don't know," she said. "We've been going out for what... four years or something? I never expected to find him cheating on me. I expected him to be going into an engagement ring store looking for an engagement ring for me."
"I can't imagine George cheating," Rachel said thinking. "Are you sure, Mon?"
"I'm sure that I saw him with another man and I think that he's cheating," Monica croaked.
"Well you have to find out what's happening. Go over there and find out what you can find out!" Rachel jabbed Monica playfully in the side. "Go!"
Monica looked up at Rachel. "If you're sure then okay, I'm going."
The Next Day
Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey were quietly talking in Rachel's room when they heard the door slam from outside. They immediately rushed to the door to listen to the conversation.
"You actually slept with that girl?" Monica yelled at George. "Were you drunk?"
George didn't reply right away. "I think so," he said hesitantly.
"You can't not know!" Monica snapped slapping George. "You weren't drunk, George. How can I trust you anymore?"
"You've got to, Mon," George said trying to sound convincing. "I love you."
Monica thought falsely. "Wait, do you actually love me or do you love to sleep with other women and then spend time with me?"
"Don't answer that question," Chandler muttered after hearing. "Terrible question to answer."
"Say 'no', say 'no'," Ross willed silently.
"I can't believe you!" Monica cried out. "You can't even reply to question, huh?"
"Be smart," Joey said through the doorway quietly. "Just charge out of there, George. I still support you."
"Do you really?" Phoebe asked turning away from the doorway.
"Not really," Joey admitted.
"Dammit!" Phoebe shrieked quietly suddenly. "I left Courtney alone. I've got to go out there."
Phoebe was beginning to fret, but Joey pulled her back down. "Courtney is fine."
"How do you know?" Phoebe demanded. "I've got to find out."
"Pheebs," Rachel said. "This should all be over soon."
"It won't be!" Phoebe wailed.
"It's fine," Rachel continued trying to be helpful, but Monica's yelling interrupted them.
"You're the worst boyfriend anyone could ever wish for! I want you to die now! I do!"
"You don't really mean that-" began George, but Monica cut her off yanking out a knife.
"I will if I have to!"
"It sounds like a soap opera out there," Joey snickered.
"PUT THE KNIFE DOWN!" George yelled at Monica and Monica dropped it to the ground with a clatter.
"Why?" Monica demanded angrily. "Why me?"
"WELL IT IS YOU!" George continued to yell. "I WANT TO BE WITH YOU, BUT I CAN'T, BECAUSE YOU'RE ACCUSING ME OF SLEEPING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN-"
"Which you did!" Monica interrupted.
"He did," Chandler said in Monica's defense. "I have to be honest about that. I stand in Monica's defense."
"I agree," Rachel said.
"All in favor!" Ross muttered.
"Say 'I'," Phoebe added and they all muttered 'I.'
Monica wouldn't stop yelling and George felt helpless.
"I-" George began, but Monica was ignoring him.
Monica was screaming at George her nose flaring. "You slept with another woman? What's wrong with you, George?"
"I got drunk," George admitted, "Mon, I'm really sorry and I know that I will never do it again."
"I can't forgive you!" Monica snapped. "It's a month till Rachel and Ross's wedding and you were supposed to be one of the Best Mans and now what? Is that going to go away? Ross admired you so much that she made you best man instead of... instead of Joey, but what's going to happen now?"
"I don't... I don't know," George stammered.
"I do!" Monica yelled. "This is over George. I never want to see your face again. Go and never come back!"
"Monica..." George began.
"Go!"
And that's the end of George and Monica. Had to end it for them. They just aren't meant to be.
