The One With The Wrecked Christmas
--Chapter 12--
THE ONE AT THE BARS
Hey, sorry it took me a while to update but I was busy lol :P go figure, right? I hope you'll enjoy my newest update of this fanfic story: Chapter 12 and I would really appreciate if you would review afterwards. Your comments are very useful and thanks to those who're Reading n Reviewing. Here's chapter 12…
(Continues where Chapter 11 left us off...)
(Scene: A bar. Monica, Phoebe and Rachel are still sitting on the bar/counter drinking their Diet Cokes and talking)
Monica: How're you feeling now, Pheebs?
Phoebe: No, I feel pretty good. Ooh, I feel pretty too—but never mind, I always feel pretty.
Monica: God, you can't believe how happy I am for you, for being pregnant.
Phoebe: I know, I'm happy for me too.
Monica: Have you thought of any names yet?
Phoebe: Of course!
Rachel: (sighing in frustration) Oh god you're not gonna talk about Hercules or Phoeb-o or Jinxie or Darwin now, are ya?
Phoebe: Fine.
Monica: Fine.
Rachel: Fine it is, then.
(Silence)
Monica: Richard wants me back.
Rachel: What?
Phoebe: What?! Richard? Richard as in "your crazy ex-boyfriend Richard"?
Monica: Yes, and he's not crazy.
Phoebe: No, I meant in bed.
Monica: What?
Phoebe: Never mind me, I'm pregnant.
Rachel: So how is that possible? Where did you even run into Richard?
Monica: He, uh, he broke into our house and was watching TV in our living room and apparently he's "buddies" with Chandler now! I mean, what, are Ross and Joey not good enough anymore?
Rachel: So, what, he just told you he wants you back? Just like that, in front of Chandler?
Monica: No, Chandler wasn't even in the room. He was putting the kids to sleep, he-he didn't know and I didn't tell him.
Phoebe: So what'd you tell him?
Monica: Nothing, Phoebe I just said I didn't tell him about Richard!
Phoebe: No, what did you tell Richard?
Monica: Well, I said I was married. I said I'm happily married and that I have kids that I love and that-I, I can't do that. I said I don't love him anymore.
Phoebe: (drinking from her Coke) Oh, so you lied.
Monica: What? Phoebe! I didn't lie!
Phoebe: Okay, so you used lying as your saving protection plan.
Monica: No! I-I didn't, I didn't use anything! I really do not love Richard anymore!
Phoebe: Ok, like, what's with all the lies?
Rachel: Don't you think you should talk to Chandler about this?
Monica: No. I mean, I wanted to, but then he'd get mad and I just-he's friends with Richard now, y'know? I mean, I honestly never expected them to be but…I don't wanna, like, jeopardize their friendship over nothing. You know, just like you and Joey.
(Rachel clears her throat after hearing the word "Joey")
Rachel: Umm, uh…Like me and-like, me and Joey? Joey?
Monica: Yeah. I mean, let's say, hypothetically that Joey told you he loved you.
Rachel: WHAT?! MONICA, I'M GETTING MARRIED IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!
Phoebe: She said "hypothetically". (turns to Monica) Does he?
Monica: No! I-I don't know, no! Ok? Look, let's say Joey says he wants you back, Rach. What would you tell him, knowing that you don't wanna jeopardize his friendship with Ross?
Rachel: Well… (clears throat) I would uh I would tell him that I'm getting married in a week and a half and that, uh, well y'know that I can't do anything about it.
Monica: And that you don't love him.
Rachel: Well, right, yeah. That too.
(Phoebe breaks the tension of the moment by raising her glass of Coke)
Phoebe: Ok, I would like to propose a toast.
Monica: Ah.
(Monica and Rachel raise their glasses of Coke too)
Phoebe: …to, um, to Rachel and Ross.
Rachel: Awww.
Phoebe: …and Phoebe! …And to baby Princess Consuela Buffay-Hannigan! (touches her pregnant belly)
Monica: That's sweet.
Phoebe: And to friendship.
Monica: To friendship.
(Monica and Rachel are ready to cling glasses until…)
Phoebe: To long, ever-lasting friendship.
(Monica and Rachel smile and are ready to cling glasses again, of course until…)
Phoebe cont'd: To life, to babies, to crazy ex-boyfriends who want their married neat-freak ex-girlfriends back.
Monica: (laughing) Okay.
(Monica and Rachel are clinging glasses and then…)
Phoebe: …And to the wonderfulness of—
Rachel: (interrupting) OKAY!
Monica: Just drink! Drink!
(They all cling glasses and finally drink)
Phoebe: Whoa, that was strong.
Rachel: It's a diet coke.
Phoebe: I have allergies. Ooh, ooh, peeing alert. Stay clear of me, people! (she goes to the bathrooms)
(Monica and Rachel laugh as they watch her go)
Rachel: She is…
Monica: …a hostile, angry pregnant lady. (A woman comes from the direction Phoebe went from, with a black eye) She's pregnant and very sorry about that!
Rachel: Ah… This is nice.
Monica: Yeah, I don't think that's what she's gonna say in the morning. (referring to the black-eyes lady)
Rachel: No, I mean this. Us just, y'know, hanging out again. Pretending to be single and all.
Monica: Yeah, it's overwhelming though. So, tell me, how many guests are you and Ross thinking of inviting?
Rachel: No, no, no, no, no, Monica, no wedding-stuff alright? No talking about the wedding. We'll deal with that in the morning, when Phoebe's throwing up, I'm drunk and you're cleaning in your sleep again!
Monica: (laughs) Fine, fine…
Bartender: (approaching Monica & Rachel) Ok, your bathroom pregnant friend, she's gotta go.
Monica: What?
Bartender: She just sent 3 people to the emergency room already!
Rachel: Sorry.
Monica: Sorry about that.
Man: (approaching Bartender) Pregnant lady's throwing up on the mirrors.
Bartender: OH GOD! (leaves)
Rachel: Can we get 3 more Cokes please, before you go?
(Scene: A different bar. It's the guy's turn. Chandler, Joey and Ross are sitting on the bar/counter in the correct order as listed from left to right. They're having beer.)
Ross: Do you know how long it's been since I've been to a bar?
Joey: Do you know how long it's been since you've seen another woman's breasts?
Ross: Shut up, you turned down Nurses.
Chandler: Man's gotta point.
Ross: I'm gonna miss this. Y'know, us hanging out together, drinkin' beer, laughing, making fun of Joey's turning down Nurses.
Joey: Enough with that already.
Chandler: So, Ross, how long are you planning on staying married this time?
Ross: Oh, no-no, this is for real. This is for real this time. No screwing up, no time for divorce. Divorce-divorce is off the table.
Joey: For real?
Ross: Yeah, I mean, I can't let this marriage end. I'll be the lonely desperate dude who got divorce 4 times and lives in a van.
Chandler: Yeah, you're probably right.
Joey: How big is that van?
Ross: I just, I have to make this one work, y'know? I gotta try hard, not screw this up again. Not be a complete jackass.
Chandler: Not sleep with the copygirl.
Joey: Or say the phrase "WE WERE ON A BREAK!"
Ross: Yeah. (holds up his beer) To no screw-ups.
Joey and Chandler: (holding up their beers) To no screw-ups!
Joey: And hopefully more break-ups in the future. (Ross looks at him.) The far, far future.
Chandler: Oh, yeah, I'm drinking to that.
Ross: Cheers.
(Chandler and Ross have a sip then put their beer down on the counter as they notice Joey is gulping the entire bottle)
Chandler: Done?
Joey: (without a breath) Yeah.
Ross: Three more drinks, please. to Chandler So, Chandler, heard an ex of yours is replacing your old apartment.
Joey: A very annoying ex of yours.
Chandler: Oh, you mean Janice?
Ross: Possibly.
Chandler: Yeah, this woman's never gonna leave me the hell alone. I mean, do you know what it cost Monica and I to get her not be our neighbor?
Ross: No, what?
Chandler: A kiss! (pause) Yeah, a filthy, disgusting, one helluva kiss.
Joey: So did you talk to her?
Chandler: No, are y'kidding me? And say what? "Hi, Janice, it's me Chandler." "Oh, Chandler… OH, MY GAWWD!!" (A woman sitting at a distance leaves after hearing Chandler's mocking Janice) I don't care, I'm a family man anyway.
Joey: Just go say hi, man.
Ross: Dude, are you trying to get my sister divorced?
Joey: Sor-rey, it's just with you and Rachel getting married and with Phoebe and Mike, y'know pregnant now or whatever… it's just, it would be nice to see someone going through a divorce.
Ross: You are a thoughtful, thoughtful man.
Joey: (smiling, blushes) Thanks.
Chandler: (to Ross) I'm really happy for you, man. Really glad you and Rachel are finally "no longer on a break".
Ross: Yeah, thanks man.
Chandler: No, really, I mean you guys like deserve to be together, y'know? (Joey is looking down now.) I mean, it's like one of those things… We just look at you two and-and it just, it just fits, you know?
Ross: (smiling) Thanks, man. Really appreciate it.
(Joey is dreaming of his and Rachel's kiss now—from a previous chapter (one of the first ones)—and he's smiling)
Chandler: Joey! Joey!
(Back to present time…)
Joey: What, what, what's goin' on?
Chandler: Our drinks are here.
Joey: Ohh. (he takes a sip of his new beer)
Ross: Were you thinking of some woman? (he smiles)
(Joey looks at Ross, saddened)
Joey: Umm, yeah, yeah. Yeah I was.
Chandler: Well…?
Ross: Is it someone we know?
(A pause. Joey looks down then up at Ross, who is smiling at Joey waiting)
Joey: (shaking his head) No. No, it's…I was thinking—someone from my old job.
Ross: You guys hit it off well?
Joey: Yeah, really well.
Ross: Well, then, I would like to propose a toast. (They hold their beers) To Joey and the Mystery Woman.
Joey: Oh, no, Ross. No, you don't wanna…no…
Chandler: Cheers!
Ross: Cheers!
Joey: Yeah, yeah, cheers…I guess.
(They all have sips and Joey barely even has a sip)
Chandler: What happened to you, Joe? Two minutes ago, you were gulping the entire thing.
Joey: I uh… I'm uh…
Ross: Thinking of the Mystery Woman.
Joey: (chuckles) Yeah. Kind of.
(Joey looks at Ross, who looks away. If only he knew what was going on his best friend's mind. If only he knew the Mystery Woman is in fact his fiancé, his love of his life, the woman "he's supposed to be with"…if only he knew it's Rachel)
Joey: (beer up for Ross) Congratulations again, man, on your engagement.
Ross: Thanks.
(Joey has a sip of his beer, wishing for one second he could take Rachel's image out of his mind.)
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To Be Continued.
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