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Last part: Ross is now over at C&M's and Monica just asked him to tell everything that has happened over the years...
** When All Hope Is Lost **
Ross: Well...uumm...the movie business is really good...my movies normally do really well...but this year I'm kind of just taking a break...since last year...well it was so stressful...
(Monica is nodding, smiling. Chandler is glaring at Ross)
(suddenly the phone rings and Monica stands up to get it. While she speaks on the phone, Chandler hisses at Ross)
Chandler: Tell her the truth Ross!
Ross: (whispers) No...why dont you since you so want her to know...!
Chandler; * I * tell her?! I'm not the one!! YOU should be the one to tell her!!
Ross: Why do I have to tell her?!
Chandler: ROSS!
Ross: Okay...fine!!
(Monica comes back)
Monica: Only a person from work...
Chandler: Oh...okay...
Ross: Yeah...
Monica: Soo...what were you saying?
Ross: (sighs and gets a glare from Chandler) Okay...Mon...I dont think CHANDLER has told you all this stuff...but he wants ME to tell you the truth...and that's what I'm going to do...
(Monica looks confused and stares back and forth from Chandler and Ross)
Monica: (worried) What's wrong?
Ross: I-uh...
(Chandler gets up and walks over to he and Mon's room. He comes back later with a box. He opens it up and we see many newspaper articles and stuff)
Chandler: ALL about Ross...
Monica: how come you never showed them to me?
Chandler: Why dont you read them and see why??
(Monica stares at the angry looking Chandler and then takes one paper and unfolds it. She reads it and gasps. She turns to Ross who looks away quickly)
(Monica puts it down slowly and while still looking at Ross opens the next one. This goes on for a few minutes until she's almost in tears)
Monica: What went wrong Ross? Were we not there for you enough? Did you need friends? What happened??
She was blaming herself. This was why Chandler wouldn't tell her, Ross realised. He felt guilty. It wasn't entirely because of that...yes, maybe sometimes he needed a friend, but he was the one that made them grow so distant from each other...
~~
(Chandler looked madder than ever. He glared at Ross, waiting for him to say something proving Monica wrong. Chandler was mad-it had NOT been Monica and his fault...it was ALL entirely Ross' fault)
Ross: No Mon! This is NON of your fault! Why would you think that?
Monica: I dont know...it's just...it seems like it...
Ross: No Mon...
Monica; But Ross-
Chandler: MONICA! If he says its not your fault then its not, what do you not understand about that?!?!
(Monica looked shocked and Ross stared at Chandler)
(Chandler was really mad. He was getting overprotective...it wasn't Ross' fault...he never thought he would have to face them again)
Monica: Ross please...what went wrong? Please tell us...please tell ME.
(Chandler stared at Monica and then got up and walked out the door)
(Ross stared after him sadly)
Monica: (quietly) Dont mind him...just tell me Ross...
Ross: (sighs) Fine...well, I was pretty lonely...and I realised I made a big mistake about leaving you guys...but I didn't want to go back...because I had finally got a big break...and I missed Rachel a lot too. (pauses) Work was getting so stressing after a while...but I still strived harder to ignore it...but then Rachel calls and tells me that she's getting married...and then my heart broke. She thought we were only friends...but I still loved her...a lot. That's when I completely decided to disappear. Because I knew that if I didn't, I'd have to go, and get my heart broken.
Monica: Ross...maybe you really WEREN'T meant to be...like YOU said...
Ross: Monica...I explained this long ago...
(Monica nods and then gestures for him to go on)
Ross: Well I started getting both depressed and stressed...until I started smoking...and that led to drinking...and that led to going out late and getting involved with drugs. Yeah...
~~
He was trying to leave the suicide part out, because that would lead to A LOT of explaining...she didn't seem to know about it anyway...
~~
(Monica stares at him for a while)
Ross: Mon-I...I got to go...(he stands up and begins to walk to the door)
Monica: Please Ross...can you stay here?
Ross: Why?
Monica: I'm scared now...I'm not leaving you again...
Ross: (getting annoyed) Monica!! What do you expect me to do??
Monica: Ross...(she's crying a bit now) I thought you were smarter than this...
(Ross gets a sad look and walks up to her and hugs her. They stay like that for a while, Monica sobbing onto his shoulder)
Ross: Fine Mon...I'll stay...all right?
Monica: thank you Ross...
(he nods and walks over to the couch and sits down. Monica turns around slowly and looks at all the papers on the table. She's about to pick some up to put them back in the box but then sees one more paper in the box that she hadn't read. She picks it up and reads the headline. She gasps very lightly and looks at Ross very sadly. She puts it down and goes and sits beside him, leaning against him. We go over the paper that she left on the table and we see the headline read "Actor Ross Geller Attempts Suicide")
(fades out)
(we fade back in and we see Chicago. We just walk around for a while until we go down to the streets and follow around this woman. She walks into a building and she enters an elevator. That's when we see her face. It's Rachel. [yay!] She stands in the elevator impatiently until the door opens. She walks out, saying hi to people passing by. She enters a office and right away sits down at the desk. She was a junior president of a design company, and she had LOTS of work to do. Suddenly her phone beeps and she presses a button.)
Rachel: Yes?
Woman: Mrs. Adams? You've got a phone call one line 3...
Rachel: Who is it?
Woman: Mrs. ****
Rachel: All right...thank you.
(It was the head boss. The REAL president. Rachel sighs and presses another button)
Rachel: Rachel Adams...[*remember...she's married]
Boss: Rachel...hello...how are you doing today?
Rachel: (sighs) I'm okay...pretty tired...
Boss: What's wrong? Sick?
Rachel: Not really...I hardly got any sleep last night...I dont know why.
(Rachel knew perfectly well why, but she wasn't about to pour out all her problems to her boss)
Boss: All right...
Rachel: Um...if you dont mind me asking...why'd you call?
Boss: Well...I've got some business for you...
Rachel: Again? Didn't I JUST come back from Seattle?!
Boss: I know, I know...but you're the junior PRESIDENT remember?
(Rachel sighs)
Rachel: What's up?
Boss: We've just opened up another store! And we need you there for a while.
Rachel: Where now? Alaska?!
Boss: Rachel!
Rachel: Fine, fine...where?
Boss: New York.
(Rachel gets this look)
Rachel: Uuumm...do I HAVE to?
Boss: Yeah...sorry, I cant make it to that...I have to go to the second opening on in LA...it's important...
Rachel: (sighs) Fine...I'll talk to my husband...(mutters next part) i bet he wont care anyway...
Boss: What?
Rachel: I said I bet he'll be fine with it!
Boss: uumm...okay...
Rachel: When do I have to go?
Boss: Very soon!
Rachel: Can you hold please? I'll ask my secretary if she can check out if there are any flights soon...
Boss: Okay...
(Rachel presses a button)
Woman: Yes Miss?
Rachel: Can you check when the next flight to New York is ***?
Woman: All right... (a few minutes later) tomorrow miss...5 o clock in the afternoon...should I reserve a ticket?
Rachel: (sighs) Yes please...
Woman: All right...
Rachel: thank you...
(presses a button)
Rachel: All right...tomorrow-5 o clock...
Boss: thank you Rachel!
(hangs up and we fade out with Rachel putting her head down on her desk)
(we fade to C&M's. It's dark in the apartment, and we see Ross sleeping on the couch. Monica is already in her room[the bedroom door is shut]the front door quietly opens and Chandler walks in. He goes over to the couch and sits down. We hear a muffled voice and Chandler jumps up. Ross sits up on the couch)
[they'll be whispering through this whole scene]
Chandler: Ross?! What the hell are you doing here?
Ross: Dont get mad-Monica insisted that I stay here...
Chandler: I'm not mad...it's just...(pause, looks down at the floor) I'm sorry Ross...
Ross: What?
Chandler: I'm sorry for being so-so-well, what ever I was before...it's really great to see you...and well, when I read those papers...I was just so shocked...yeah, you WERE a jock in high school...and many jocks CAN turn out like that...but I never expected YOU of all-
Ross: Neither did I Chandler...(pause) (kinda smiles) I was not a jock!
Chandler: (smiles a bit too) Yeah you were...you were always like "I'm so popular!" it got annoying!
Ross: Well mister...you used to be one too! For your info...you used to hang around with me...you were like my best fr-
(Chandler and Ross stare down at the floor in silence)
Chandler: (sighs) What ever happened between us? I dont really get it...why did you suddenly leave?
Ross: I dont know...I was just so confused...and I think that what REALLY made me leave was that I was trying to run from reality...you know, Rachel getting married...stuff like that...it just broke my heart that she actually replaced me...
Chandler: But you weren't fully together anymore anyway...
Ross: But she said that she would never forget me...and that she loved me...and love is supposed to last forever...
Chandler: How did you know it was love Ross?
Ross: Because-it was a feeling I'd never had before...it just felt so RIGHT when ever I was around her...I mean, how did you figure out you were in love with Monica?
Chandler: I dont know...it's so hard to explain-
Ross: You see...love, is unexplainable.
(theres a silence for a while)
Chandler: I missed you Ross...
Ross: Yeah, I missed you too Chandler...you were my best friend, and I just took that for granted.
~~
(we fade to Chicago and we see this apartment. We go into this apartment and we go to the couch in it. We see a woman lying on it. When we go closer we see it's Rachel. She's hugging a pillow on top of her chest. She's crying quietly. We go to a clock on the wall and see it's about midnight. Suddenly we hear a door opening and a man walks in. He sees Rachel and goes up to her)
Rachel: Where have you been?
Hubby: Worked late again rach...
Rachel: I've been so worried...
Hubby: Rach, you KNOW I work late...
Rachel: CHRIS! It's not normal! What can you work on until midnight?! And yesterday, you came home at TWO in the morning!
Chris: Rachel...I had so many paper to read over an-
Rachel: Cant you do that at home?!
Chris: You just dont understand!! UGH! (he throws his arms up in the air and walks into one of the rooms, which is their bedroom)
~~
Rachel didn't believe him. He was hiding something...and she was going to figure out what it was...
~~
(Rachel walks into the bedroom and Chris is already lying on the bed, his back turned to her)
(she lies down beside him)
Rachel: Chris...(pauses, but he doesn't say anything) I'm going to New York tomorrow...
(this time he listened. He turns to her)
Chris: What??
Rachel: I'll be there for a while...we're opening another store there...
Chris: Fine.
(he turns back around and Rachel looks hurt. He didn't care. He didn't even care if his wife would be leaving him for a while...Rachel hated it. She knew this marriage had taken a bad turn, but she never wanted it bring it up. Maybe being back in New York would bring her more joy...)
TO BE CONTINUED...
** Next chapter: Rachel flies to New York...what will she find there? [heehee...it had to happen sometime!!] **
Hey guys!! I really hope you liked this chapter...I know it's really long...but I couldn't just stop ANYWHERE!! Anyway...if I get a lot of reviews I'll continue!! But I'm going to the beach-and I'll be back Sunday...so I'll type the next part then!! OKay?! Please tell me what you think...it'll mean a lot to me!! thanks!
Last part: Ross is now over at C&M's and Monica just asked him to tell everything that has happened over the years...
** When All Hope Is Lost **
Ross: Well...uumm...the movie business is really good...my movies normally do really well...but this year I'm kind of just taking a break...since last year...well it was so stressful...
(Monica is nodding, smiling. Chandler is glaring at Ross)
(suddenly the phone rings and Monica stands up to get it. While she speaks on the phone, Chandler hisses at Ross)
Chandler: Tell her the truth Ross!
Ross: (whispers) No...why dont you since you so want her to know...!
Chandler; * I * tell her?! I'm not the one!! YOU should be the one to tell her!!
Ross: Why do I have to tell her?!
Chandler: ROSS!
Ross: Okay...fine!!
(Monica comes back)
Monica: Only a person from work...
Chandler: Oh...okay...
Ross: Yeah...
Monica: Soo...what were you saying?
Ross: (sighs and gets a glare from Chandler) Okay...Mon...I dont think CHANDLER has told you all this stuff...but he wants ME to tell you the truth...and that's what I'm going to do...
(Monica looks confused and stares back and forth from Chandler and Ross)
Monica: (worried) What's wrong?
Ross: I-uh...
(Chandler gets up and walks over to he and Mon's room. He comes back later with a box. He opens it up and we see many newspaper articles and stuff)
Chandler: ALL about Ross...
Monica: how come you never showed them to me?
Chandler: Why dont you read them and see why??
(Monica stares at the angry looking Chandler and then takes one paper and unfolds it. She reads it and gasps. She turns to Ross who looks away quickly)
(Monica puts it down slowly and while still looking at Ross opens the next one. This goes on for a few minutes until she's almost in tears)
Monica: What went wrong Ross? Were we not there for you enough? Did you need friends? What happened??
She was blaming herself. This was why Chandler wouldn't tell her, Ross realised. He felt guilty. It wasn't entirely because of that...yes, maybe sometimes he needed a friend, but he was the one that made them grow so distant from each other...
~~
(Chandler looked madder than ever. He glared at Ross, waiting for him to say something proving Monica wrong. Chandler was mad-it had NOT been Monica and his fault...it was ALL entirely Ross' fault)
Ross: No Mon! This is NON of your fault! Why would you think that?
Monica: I dont know...it's just...it seems like it...
Ross: No Mon...
Monica; But Ross-
Chandler: MONICA! If he says its not your fault then its not, what do you not understand about that?!?!
(Monica looked shocked and Ross stared at Chandler)
(Chandler was really mad. He was getting overprotective...it wasn't Ross' fault...he never thought he would have to face them again)
Monica: Ross please...what went wrong? Please tell us...please tell ME.
(Chandler stared at Monica and then got up and walked out the door)
(Ross stared after him sadly)
Monica: (quietly) Dont mind him...just tell me Ross...
Ross: (sighs) Fine...well, I was pretty lonely...and I realised I made a big mistake about leaving you guys...but I didn't want to go back...because I had finally got a big break...and I missed Rachel a lot too. (pauses) Work was getting so stressing after a while...but I still strived harder to ignore it...but then Rachel calls and tells me that she's getting married...and then my heart broke. She thought we were only friends...but I still loved her...a lot. That's when I completely decided to disappear. Because I knew that if I didn't, I'd have to go, and get my heart broken.
Monica: Ross...maybe you really WEREN'T meant to be...like YOU said...
Ross: Monica...I explained this long ago...
(Monica nods and then gestures for him to go on)
Ross: Well I started getting both depressed and stressed...until I started smoking...and that led to drinking...and that led to going out late and getting involved with drugs. Yeah...
~~
He was trying to leave the suicide part out, because that would lead to A LOT of explaining...she didn't seem to know about it anyway...
~~
(Monica stares at him for a while)
Ross: Mon-I...I got to go...(he stands up and begins to walk to the door)
Monica: Please Ross...can you stay here?
Ross: Why?
Monica: I'm scared now...I'm not leaving you again...
Ross: (getting annoyed) Monica!! What do you expect me to do??
Monica: Ross...(she's crying a bit now) I thought you were smarter than this...
(Ross gets a sad look and walks up to her and hugs her. They stay like that for a while, Monica sobbing onto his shoulder)
Ross: Fine Mon...I'll stay...all right?
Monica: thank you Ross...
(he nods and walks over to the couch and sits down. Monica turns around slowly and looks at all the papers on the table. She's about to pick some up to put them back in the box but then sees one more paper in the box that she hadn't read. She picks it up and reads the headline. She gasps very lightly and looks at Ross very sadly. She puts it down and goes and sits beside him, leaning against him. We go over the paper that she left on the table and we see the headline read "Actor Ross Geller Attempts Suicide")
(fades out)
(we fade back in and we see Chicago. We just walk around for a while until we go down to the streets and follow around this woman. She walks into a building and she enters an elevator. That's when we see her face. It's Rachel. [yay!] She stands in the elevator impatiently until the door opens. She walks out, saying hi to people passing by. She enters a office and right away sits down at the desk. She was a junior president of a design company, and she had LOTS of work to do. Suddenly her phone beeps and she presses a button.)
Rachel: Yes?
Woman: Mrs. Adams? You've got a phone call one line 3...
Rachel: Who is it?
Woman: Mrs. ****
Rachel: All right...thank you.
(It was the head boss. The REAL president. Rachel sighs and presses another button)
Rachel: Rachel Adams...[*remember...she's married]
Boss: Rachel...hello...how are you doing today?
Rachel: (sighs) I'm okay...pretty tired...
Boss: What's wrong? Sick?
Rachel: Not really...I hardly got any sleep last night...I dont know why.
(Rachel knew perfectly well why, but she wasn't about to pour out all her problems to her boss)
Boss: All right...
Rachel: Um...if you dont mind me asking...why'd you call?
Boss: Well...I've got some business for you...
Rachel: Again? Didn't I JUST come back from Seattle?!
Boss: I know, I know...but you're the junior PRESIDENT remember?
(Rachel sighs)
Rachel: What's up?
Boss: We've just opened up another store! And we need you there for a while.
Rachel: Where now? Alaska?!
Boss: Rachel!
Rachel: Fine, fine...where?
Boss: New York.
(Rachel gets this look)
Rachel: Uuumm...do I HAVE to?
Boss: Yeah...sorry, I cant make it to that...I have to go to the second opening on in LA...it's important...
Rachel: (sighs) Fine...I'll talk to my husband...(mutters next part) i bet he wont care anyway...
Boss: What?
Rachel: I said I bet he'll be fine with it!
Boss: uumm...okay...
Rachel: When do I have to go?
Boss: Very soon!
Rachel: Can you hold please? I'll ask my secretary if she can check out if there are any flights soon...
Boss: Okay...
(Rachel presses a button)
Woman: Yes Miss?
Rachel: Can you check when the next flight to New York is ***?
Woman: All right... (a few minutes later) tomorrow miss...5 o clock in the afternoon...should I reserve a ticket?
Rachel: (sighs) Yes please...
Woman: All right...
Rachel: thank you...
(presses a button)
Rachel: All right...tomorrow-5 o clock...
Boss: thank you Rachel!
(hangs up and we fade out with Rachel putting her head down on her desk)
(we fade to C&M's. It's dark in the apartment, and we see Ross sleeping on the couch. Monica is already in her room[the bedroom door is shut]the front door quietly opens and Chandler walks in. He goes over to the couch and sits down. We hear a muffled voice and Chandler jumps up. Ross sits up on the couch)
[they'll be whispering through this whole scene]
Chandler: Ross?! What the hell are you doing here?
Ross: Dont get mad-Monica insisted that I stay here...
Chandler: I'm not mad...it's just...(pause, looks down at the floor) I'm sorry Ross...
Ross: What?
Chandler: I'm sorry for being so-so-well, what ever I was before...it's really great to see you...and well, when I read those papers...I was just so shocked...yeah, you WERE a jock in high school...and many jocks CAN turn out like that...but I never expected YOU of all-
Ross: Neither did I Chandler...(pause) (kinda smiles) I was not a jock!
Chandler: (smiles a bit too) Yeah you were...you were always like "I'm so popular!" it got annoying!
Ross: Well mister...you used to be one too! For your info...you used to hang around with me...you were like my best fr-
(Chandler and Ross stare down at the floor in silence)
Chandler: (sighs) What ever happened between us? I dont really get it...why did you suddenly leave?
Ross: I dont know...I was just so confused...and I think that what REALLY made me leave was that I was trying to run from reality...you know, Rachel getting married...stuff like that...it just broke my heart that she actually replaced me...
Chandler: But you weren't fully together anymore anyway...
Ross: But she said that she would never forget me...and that she loved me...and love is supposed to last forever...
Chandler: How did you know it was love Ross?
Ross: Because-it was a feeling I'd never had before...it just felt so RIGHT when ever I was around her...I mean, how did you figure out you were in love with Monica?
Chandler: I dont know...it's so hard to explain-
Ross: You see...love, is unexplainable.
(theres a silence for a while)
Chandler: I missed you Ross...
Ross: Yeah, I missed you too Chandler...you were my best friend, and I just took that for granted.
~~
(we fade to Chicago and we see this apartment. We go into this apartment and we go to the couch in it. We see a woman lying on it. When we go closer we see it's Rachel. She's hugging a pillow on top of her chest. She's crying quietly. We go to a clock on the wall and see it's about midnight. Suddenly we hear a door opening and a man walks in. He sees Rachel and goes up to her)
Rachel: Where have you been?
Hubby: Worked late again rach...
Rachel: I've been so worried...
Hubby: Rach, you KNOW I work late...
Rachel: CHRIS! It's not normal! What can you work on until midnight?! And yesterday, you came home at TWO in the morning!
Chris: Rachel...I had so many paper to read over an-
Rachel: Cant you do that at home?!
Chris: You just dont understand!! UGH! (he throws his arms up in the air and walks into one of the rooms, which is their bedroom)
~~
Rachel didn't believe him. He was hiding something...and she was going to figure out what it was...
~~
(Rachel walks into the bedroom and Chris is already lying on the bed, his back turned to her)
(she lies down beside him)
Rachel: Chris...(pauses, but he doesn't say anything) I'm going to New York tomorrow...
(this time he listened. He turns to her)
Chris: What??
Rachel: I'll be there for a while...we're opening another store there...
Chris: Fine.
(he turns back around and Rachel looks hurt. He didn't care. He didn't even care if his wife would be leaving him for a while...Rachel hated it. She knew this marriage had taken a bad turn, but she never wanted it bring it up. Maybe being back in New York would bring her more joy...)
TO BE CONTINUED...
** Next chapter: Rachel flies to New York...what will she find there? [heehee...it had to happen sometime!!] **
Hey guys!! I really hope you liked this chapter...I know it's really long...but I couldn't just stop ANYWHERE!! Anyway...if I get a lot of reviews I'll continue!! But I'm going to the beach-and I'll be back Sunday...so I'll type the next part then!! OKay?! Please tell me what you think...it'll mean a lot to me!! thanks!