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Los Angeles-
Joey moaned as the phone next to him rang. He looked at the clock, it was noon. Chris was already up and gone. He reached over and picked up the receiver.
"Hello?"
"Is Joey there?" It was a man's voice. He couldn't put a finger to it, because his brain was still trying to wake up, but he knew it sounded familiar.
"This is him," he mumbled.
"Joe? This is Chandler." Joey sat straight up. That's where he knew that voice from.
"Chandler? Is that really you?" Chandler laughed.
"Yeah its me," he said.
"Hey buddy! How are you? How's Monica? You two are still married right?"
"Yeah," Chandler said laughing. "For nine years."
"Kids?"
"Of course. We have a son, Alexander, he's seven. Then there's Sophia, she's five, and Natalie just turned two."
"Wow," Joey said. "I figured you had kids."
"What about you? Are you married?"
"Nope, but I'm living with a girl. Have been for almost three years now. Her name is Christina, or Chris," Joey told him.
"That's good," Chandler said. They heard a click on the line and Joey heard a female voice.
"Hi Joey," it was Monica.
"Hey Mon! How are you?
"Good," she told him. "You?"
"Can't complain. What's up?"
"We actually called to see if you wanted to come back to New York for a visit," Chandler asked. "We were going to call the whole gang. Bring Chris along."
"I would love to!"
"We can pay for your flight," Monica told him knowing how Joey was with money.
"I got it," Joey said.
"Do you know how we can reach Phoebe?" Chandler asked. Joey gave them Phoebe's cell phone number and they talked a little longer before they hung up. Joey did a little dance and when Chris came in he could barely contain himself as he told her the news.
"I'd love to go!" She told him. "Meet these friends of yours."
Vancouver-
Ross reached for the phone again to call his sister when it rang.
"Hello?"
"Ross?"
"Monica?"
"Yeah," she told him.
"I was just about to cal you!"
"Great minds think alike," she told him laughing. "Listen, Chandler and I want to have the entire gang get back together. Can you bring Wendy and Alicia to New York for a visit?" She paused waiting for an answer.
"We'd love to!" His wife looked up at him with a questioning look. "When?" Monica gave him all the details and he told her that he couldn't wait and hung up the phone and turned back to Wendy and Alicia.
"Monica wants to know if we can go to New York and visit them and all my old friends," he told her.
"Oh honey," Wendy said. "That's what you wanted!"
"Yeah," he said sitting down at the kitchen table with her.
"And Alicia will get to meet her cousins," Wendy continued. Ross nodded.
"Monica said that there is a cute little bed and breakfast that we can stay in a few minutes away. She said that Joey and his girlfriend are going to stay with her and Chandler, and we could too, or else we can go to the hotel."
"Hotel," Wendy said. "I bet that the house will be crowded, it'll be better to be in the hotel." Ross nodded and couldn't wait to see his friends and family again. It had been too long. Way too long in his opinion. He hoped that Monica and Chandler could get a hold of everyone.
Chicago-
The phone rang in the kitchen of Rachel's apartment and she ran to get it. She picked it up and said hello.
"Is this Rachel?"
"Monica?" Rachel almost dropped the phone. "Is that you?"
"I guess this is Rachel," Monica said. "Yeah its me."
"How are you?"
"We're good, you?"
"Good. So do you and Chandler have loads of kids?"
"We have three," Monica said smiling. "Alex, whose seven, Sophie is five, and my baby Natalie just turned two."
"I always figured you would," Rachel told her.
"What about you? Any kids? Are you married?"
"Yep, my husband's name is Brian, and we have a six year old named Trent. What about the rest of the gang? Do you talk to them? How are they?"
"Well," Monica said. "You'll be able to ask them that for themselves. Chandler and I want to have everyone come to New York and visit us."
"You still live in New York?'
"Well the suburbs," Monica said.
"Are you still a chef?"
"Kind of," Monica told her. "Chandler bought me a restaurant after Sophie was born. He had gotten a promotion and so he thought that it would be nice."
"That's so great!" Rachel told her.
"How about you? Still in fashion?"
"Yep," Rachel said. "Oh Mon, I'd love to come out and visit everyone. It's been what eight years? That's too long."
"I know," Monica said. "Ross and Joey are coming for sure. Joey is bringing his live-in girlfriend Chris, and Ross is bringing his wife and daughter."
So Ross was married, for some reason, Rachel felt a surge of jealousy. She pushed it back down and told Monica that was great. She got the details off of Monica and they chatted a little longer about their lives and kids and husbands before Rachel reluctantly hung up the phone. She smiled to herself and couldn't wait to see her old friends again. Just the thought of seeing them had brightened her day and she walked around on cloud nine for the rest of the day.
Minsk-
Phoebe was out playing with her kids when her phone rang. She ran and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hi, is this Phoebe?"
"Yeah," she thought for a moment while trying to place the voice. "Chandler?"
"Guilty," he said.
"How are you? How's Monica? How are the kids?"
"How did you know we had kids?"
"I just knew. And you wanted to ask if David, the kids and I could come visit you and the gang."
"How did you know that? Pheebs, that's unbelievable!"
"Joey told me," she confessed. "He called last night."
"So you know what I'm going to say?"
"Yup," she said. "David and I would be delighted to come visit you."
"That's great! I can't wait to tell Monica!" He went over the plan with her and smiled as he hung up the phone. It was going to be great. Phoebe turned back to Davie and Henry ,her boys, and resumed playing with them thinking about how great it was going to be to see everyone again. Two weeks, she thought. I'll see everyone again in two weeks. She didn't know if she could stand to wait.
Suburbs of New York-
In a few hours, six friends would gather and meet again after eight years. They would compare what they had been doing these past years and meet their spouses and kids. They would go over old times and reminisce about the past. In the large house at the end of a cul-de-sac, Monica was trying to get everything ready. Rachel's plane was due in first, and then Ross, then Joey, and finally Phoebe and David. Chandler slipped an arm around her and smiled.
"Honey, the house looks perfect, you have baked delicious cookies, and everything is wonderful," he told her.
"You ate one of the cookies?"
"No," he lied wiping his mouth of the remains that threatened to reveal him.
"Yes you did," she told him. "And you let each of the kids have one."
"How do you do that?"
"Sophie has chocolate all over her face," Monica said pointing to her daughter. "And Natalie is still trying to eat hers."
"Busted, huh?"
"Oh yeah," Monica giggled and kissed him. They had it all planned out. Joey and Chris would stay in one of the extra bedrooms, and Monica was going to put Sophie in with Natalie and Trent would stay with Alex, and Rachel and Brian would get Sophie's room. She had a double bed so it worked out perfectly. Ross and Phoebe would stay at the bed and breakfast down the street. For the hundredth time, Monica checked her watch. Rachel would be there soon. She picked Natalie and took Sophie and washed their hands and faces from the remains of the stolen cookies.
Rachel and her husband and son had rented a car and now were trying to find Monica's house by her directions.
"This road right here," Rachel said as they pulled into a neighborhood called Whispering Pines. Rachel looked up at the large houses and followed the road all the way down to the end where she saw the large brick house with the mini-van and SUV in the driveway and saw the name Bing on the mailbox.
"This is it," she told him as he pulled over and she slowly got out of the car.
"Nice house," Brian said as he got the bags out.
"Yeah," Rachel agreed.
"Look Mom!" Trent said. "They have a tree house!" He pointed to the back yard.
"I told you honey, they have a son a little older then you. His name is Alex." She walked toward the door and rang the doorbell. A little girl opened the door. Rachel knew in an instant it was Monica's daughter. She had dark curly hair, and bright blue eyes and dimples. She looked exactly like her mother. She was adorable.
"You must be Sophie," Rachel said.
"Yes," Sophie answered. "You are?"
"Rachel?"
"Oh yeah," Sophie opened the door a little wider and Rachel stepped inside.
"Rachel?" Monica yelled. "Is that you?"
"Monica?" Monica appeared in the hallway. The two women shrieked and ran towards each other holding each other close as they rocked back and forth crying.
"I missed you so much!" Rachel told Monica.
"I know," Monica cried right back. "I feel the exact same way. Eight years is way too long!"
"It sure is," Chandler appeared at the bottom of the stairs. Trent and Brian had come in and were watching the two women with interest.
"Chandler!" Rachel shouted and bounced from Monica's arms to his.
"Hey Rachel," Chandler said hugging her back. "Been too long."
"Yes," Rachel said nodding. "It really has been." Brian cleared his throat and Rachel grinned spinning around to face him.
"Hi," Monica said. "I'm Monica."
"I'm Rachel's husband Brian," he introduced himself.
"This is my husband Chandler," Monica continued.
"Nice to meet you," Chandler said shaking his hand.
"This is my son Trent," Rachel said.
"Our kids are around here somewhere," Chandler joked. Sophie appeared in the hallway again and so did Alex and Monica went back into the kitchen to get Natalie.
"I'm Alex."
"Trent," the younger boy said.
"This is Alex, and Sophie. Guys these are Mommy and Daddy's friends, Rachel and her husband Brian and their son Trent."
"Nice to meet you," Sophie said sweetly smiling a toothless smile that made Rachel's heart melt and she figured with that smile Sophie had her parents wrapped around her little finger.
"And this is Natalie," Monica came in carrying her little girl who like Sophie looked exactly like her.
"She's so adorable!" Rachel exclaimed. She hugged her friends one more time before letting it hit her that she was with them again after eight years. They had been right. That was way too long.
The doorbell rang again and Monica slipped out from under Chandler's arm on the couch and ran to answer it. Her brother was standing there. He picked her up and spun her around.
"I missed you too Ross," she told him. "But put me down." He laughed as he set her on her feet again. Chandler and Rachel came into the hallway and it was a teary reunion and they went into the living room for the introductions.
"Sophie, Alex, and Natalie, this is your Uncle Ross. He's mommy's brother. And this is his daughter, your cousin, Alicia, and his wife your Aunt Wendy," Monica said.
"Hi," Ross said. Alicia was clinging to him, but Sophie went over to her and took her hand.
"I have a new Barbie house with a working elevator, want to see? Although its in my room and Aunt Rachel and Uncle Brian are staying in there, and I'm staying in my little sister's room. Her name is Natalie," Sophie and Alicia left the room chatting away and Ross sighed a sigh of relief, she was unusually shy around other people and he knew that if she was walking away with Sophie that was a good sign. They continued introductions and were all sitting around talking when the doorbell rang again and Chandler came back in with Joey and his girlfriend.
"Monica!" Joey shouted running over to her and picking her up. He placed her back down and spun Rachel around. "Rachel! Ross!" Ross backed away before Joey could pick him up. Everyone laughed.
"Oh Chris!" Joey took her hand and led her over. "This is Monica, Ross and Rachel. I don't know who those people are, and those are a bunch of kids which, that boy right there that looks like Chandler, is his and Monica's and of course those two little dark haired girls. Look at the eyes, see how they're bright blue? No one but those two could have kids with eyes that blue." Everyone laughed.
"Yep, Joe," Chandler said. "Those are our kids. Alexander, Sophia, and Natalie."
"Daddy!" Sophie exclaimed.
"She hates when anyone calls her Sophia," Monica explained. "Its an old family name from the Bing side. Although I liked Sophie anyway, and that's what we were going to name her, it just was nicer this way."
"But its not your name," Sophie argued.
"Want to see her get real mad?" Alex asked Trent who nodded. "Sophia Grace Bing is a scaredy cat! She has nightmares and is a baby, Sophia Grace." Sophie's blue eyes filled with tears and she ran to her mother's arms who looked at Alex with a look to tell him to stop.
"Alexander Jacob," Chandler warned. Alex stopped and went over to Sophie and apologized.
"Sorry Soph," he told her.
"Okay," she told him wiping at her eyes.
"So what's Natalie's middle name?" Rachel asked.
"Rose," Chandler answered. "Natalie Rose."
"I'm Alicia Louise," Alicia said. "That's just as bad as Sophia." She told Sophie who willingly jumped out of Monica's arms and took Alicia's hand and they ran off to play.
"Louise?" Joey asked Ross. "What were you doing to the kid?"
"Family name as well," Wendy explained. "My mother's urging. If she would have gotten her way completely she would be Louise."
"Trent is Trent William," Rachel offered. "Brian's father's name." They finished up introductions and Monica got dinner ready for everyone to eat. Phoebe and David's flight was coming in later and they were all going to eat first. When they were done, Wendy, Chris, and Rachel were helping Monica clean up.
"Alicia and Sophie are getting along great," Wendy told Monica.
"I know," Monica said smiling. "Its too bad we didn't have enough room for everyone to stay here."
"Well," Chris said. "This place is huge. I don't think that you need anymore room." Monica smiled.
"Thanks," she said. "Chandler and I bought it right after Alex was born." Rachel realized that she hadn't been there for that. Just as she hadn't been there for the birth of any of Monica's children, nor had Monica been there for Trent's birth. Or her wedding. What happened to us? Rachel thought. We were so close once. What had happened to our gang?
"Hello?" Phoebe's voice traveled through the house and Rachel and Monica hugged her close.
"Hey you," Chandler said to her hugging her after his wife was done.
"How are you?" Rachel asked.
"I'm good, you?"
"Can't complain," she said.
"These are my boys," Phoebe said. "David, Davie, and Henry."
"Nice to meet you," Chandler said. "My son Alex and Rachel's son Trent are running around here somewhere."
"Great," Phoebe said. "Go play."
"Okay," they handed her their coats and ran off to find the boys. The little girls came into the hallway led by Sophie who was telling Alicia about the latest doll she had gotten. The two girls waved and kept walking. Natalie was stumbling along after them trying to keep up. Monica scooped her up and kissed her nose. Natalie giggled.
"This must be Natalie," Phoebe said. "Mon her and Sophie look just like you."
"I know, don't they?" Rachel agreed.
"Good thing too. No offense Chandler," Phoebe added as an afterthought.
"None taken, I'm glad they look like Monica," he said kissing her and Natalie at the same time.
"Dada!" She giggled. She knew a few words and was beginning to piece together sentences.
"Momma, down," she commanded and Monica obliged and set her on unsteady feet and the adults laughed as she ran out and fell onto her bum. She looked back and they all saw her bottom lip quiver.
"Here it comes," Chandler said and sure enough, Natalie began to wail. Monica sighed and picked her up.
"Its okay sweetheart," she said bouncing her on her hip as she walked back into the living room.
"So?" Chandler said as he and Monica were getting into bed that night. "Are you happy now that we're all back together again?"
"Extremely," she told him slipping under the covers. She kissed his cheek and he turned off the lamp and held her close to him. "I love you."
"I love you too," he told her. He couldn't sleep so he just held her and planted kisses on her head as he listened to her steady breathing. In the next room, Chris and Joey were getting into bed.
"So what did you think about everyone?" He asked waiting for the verdict.
"They were all very nice," she said.
"Good," he smiled. "I think so." She giggled.
"Monica and Chandler are so cute together," she continued.
"I told you."
"And they're so good with their kids," she said.
"Yeah. Monica's wanted kids for like ever."
"I was just thinking, when are we going to get married and maybe have one of our own?"
"What? A kid?" She nodded. "Really?" She nodded again. "Soon, baby, real soon." In the next room amid little girl's things and toys, Brian and Rachel lay in bed.
"Do you like them?" Rachel asked.
"Yes sweetheart," he told her. "They're very nice."
"Good," she told him. "And Trent is getting along so nicely with all the boys."
"Yes he is," Brian answered.
"Well," it was apparent to Rachel that he wasn't going to talk anymore, so she decided not to try. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight Rach," he said before falling asleep. Two streets over, Ross and Wendy were turning off the lights.
"You're sister is so sweet," Wendy told him. "And Alicia just adores Sophie. It was such a good idea to get everyone back together again. Why did you guys drift apart in the first place?" Ross didn't know.
"I can't remember now," he said. "Well Joey wanted to try LA, and Phoebe got married, Rachel got a job transfer, and so did I."
"Oh," Wendy said. "That still doesn't explain....never mind, good night. Love you."
"Love you too," Ross told her kissing her cheek. Phoebe and David were in the other room and were in bed.
"I missed them so much and I didn't even realize until now," Phoebe told him.
"I know you did," David said. "And maybe its time for us to move back here."
"Really?"
"Yeah," he said. "We've been in Minsk long enough I think. Change will do us all some good." She squealed with delight and laid contently in bed.
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