Chapter 10: Trouble in not-so-paradise
"Hey Mon could you hurry up there are a bunch of things that I would love to do than spend hours at the bank"
Monica and Rachel had been waiting for about ten minutes for the bank manager. Monica had decided that it's about time to close Chandler's account, donate half the money to charity and keep half of it for their little baby. If Chandler was really alive, there would have been some signs by now, but there weren't any. She had been waiting for about four months now and they had gotten no information about him. So, the police have presumed him to be dead and told her that there was nothing more they could do.
Monica choose to ignore that for about two months but now she was forced to think practically, she cannot bring another human being in the world if she was emotionally unstable. Her baby didn't deserve it. She had to accept the fact that Chandler is dead and move on. She had to focus all of her attention on her baby now, she was going to be a mother and she had to make sure that she is capable of giving everything to her baby including the emotional support he needed.
"Rach, just a few minutes I promise"
"You promise?"
The bank manager couldn't have chosen a better moment to intrude them.
"Mrs. Bing, I presume?"
"Um, it's Miss Geller actually"
"My apologies I just assumed that you were-"
"It's alright"
Monica might have been ready to accept that Chandler was no more but she couldn't bring herself to hear it from a stranger's mouth.
"Would you kindly follow me this way?"
"Okay"
Monica followed the manager quietly into his office and took a seat across him.
"Miss Geller, have you gotten all the required documents?"
"Yes, I have them all right here in this file"
Monica handed him the file.
"Wow, it's well organized"
"Thank you"
Monica wasn't interested in making small talk with him. It wasn't that he wasn't a nice person, she just wasn't in the mood to do anything when it came to making the arrangements about Chandler. She wasn't ready to say goodbye to Chandler, not just yet.
Flashback:
I slowly made my way up the stairs and opened the door to our apartment. Chandler was looking at the wedding book as I entered. I put my purse on the counter as Chandler closed the book.
"Hey" I greeted him.
"Hey"
"Listen umm, I've been thinking, it's not fair for me to ask you to spend all of your money on our wedding. I mean, you worked, you worked really hard for that"
"Eh!"
"Eh, you worked for that" Chandler smiled.
"Look, I thought about it too, and I'm sorry. I think we should spend all of the money on the wedding."
"You do?!" I was shocked. Earlier he was so serious when he said that he wanted to put his foot down and didn't want to spend all the money on the wedding.
"Yeah, I'm putting my foot down. Yeah look, when I proposed I told you that I would do anything to make you happy, and if having the perfect wedding makes you happy, then that's what we're going to do." He pulled me in for a hug. His hands slowly made their way to my waist as I stood on my tip toes to kiss him.
"Oh, you're so sweet. Oh, but wait, what about our, what about the future and stuff?"
"Eh, forget about the future and stuff! So we only have two kids, you know? We'll pick our favorite and that one will get to go to college" Chandler thought about the future? And that didn't send him running through the door. I'm really intrigued.
"You thought about that?" I couldn't help but asking him.
"Yeah"
"How many kids were we gonna have?" I asked.
"Uh, four, a boy, twin girls and another boy"
"What else did you think about?"
"Well, stuff like where'd we live, you know? Like a small place outside the city, where our kids could learn to ride their bikes and stuff. You know, we could have a cat that had a bell on its collar and we could hear it every time it ran through the little kitty door. Of course, we'd have an apartment over the garage where Joey could grow old." I moved closer to him, completely mesmerized by his foresight.
That's what I want. I don't want to just get married to him, I want all of him, forever. And I finally made my mind.
"You know what? I-I don't want a big, fancy wedding"
"Sure you do"
"No, I want everything you just said. I want a marriage"
"You sure?"
"Yeah"
"I love you so much"
"I love you"
Monica loved him so much that it hurt.
Suddenly the doors barged open, drawing attention to the people who entered the bank.
"Everybody get down on your knees!"
There were four men and a woman who had entered the bank. Their faces were covered in masks and had guns slung over their shoulders. One of the men approached Monica and the bank manager and caught them by their shoulders, brought them out and threw them on the floor.
She saw Rachel and quickly crawled over to her. Rachel had tears streaming down her eyes, Monica hugged her and tried to get herself into control.
"It's okay Rachel, nothing will happen to us" Monica whispered into her ears trying to calm her a bit.
The four men kept walking back and forth observing all of them. The women had gone inside the back of the bank.
"All of you throw your phones in the front and don't even think of calling the police"
Everybody around them threw their phones, so Monica took her phone and Rachel's phone out and threw it in front of them. Rachel was way too traumatized to do anything. She just kept looking at the wall behind the people who were robbing the bank.
"All of you get up and sit at that corner, don't try to act smart or you will be killed"
Everybody did as they were told and quietly made their way to the corner the masked man pointed to. Monica led Rachel to the destination, sat her on the ground and sat beside of her.
Monica took the moment to look around. There were around twenty-five people taken as hostages including Rachel and her. All of them were of different ages. She saw a little girl clinging to her mother as her mother tried to console her. She saw an elderly couple sitting across her looking scared, they smiled at her and she couldn't help but smile back at them.
Her eyes trailed further and landed on a guy with short sandy brown hair and light blue eyes. She couldn't believe what she saw. Monica gasped. This couldn't be true, maybe her mind was playing tricks on her. After all this time and heart break? He couldn't just be sitting across from her. It couldn't be that simple. No! it couldn't but then he smiled back at her when he saw her looking his way. He was about to open his mouth to speak, but she beat him to it.
"Chandler?"
"Hey"
A/N: I know you anticipated it but I hope I have been doing justice to this fic so far. Don't hesitate to let me know. Also, I'm planning to continue the next part of this chapter as another series like maybe 3-4 chapters later. What do you guys think? Let me know. That's all for now folks!