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here's the next part, and I hope you like it!!
~Family Portrait~
As Melanie found her seat in the air-plane along with Maddy, she suddenly felt like not going. She didn't want to go see Los Angeles.....she didn't want to go see her dad's new wife..............but she DID want to see him. She wished he would come home, and this whole nightmare would be over. She had tried to make her mom come along, but she knew that it would have been a miracle if she would have said yes. For the next few hours, Mel kept herself entertained by reading a magazine, and after only two hours in the air, she had read it three times. Every once in a while Maddy glanced over at her, as if expecting her to explode any second. After the one thousandth glance at Melanie, Melanie got pissed.
Melanie: What do you keep looking at me for?!
Maddy: I-I-no reason. I'm jsut, uh, worried about you.
Melanie: Why?
Maddy: Are you sure this is the right thing? I mean-
Melanie: Maddy, he's my father. You dont know how I feel.......you HAVE a father! I haven't seen MY father for like 3 years. This IS the right thing........GET IT??
Maddy: (looks down) I'm sorry. I just, I dont want you to get hurt.
Melanie: (softens up) Maddy, I wanted to go, okay? Dont worry! (pats her on the arm which is resting on the arm rest)
(But as Melanie turned away and looked out the window and at the clouds outside, she wasn't so sure about anything she had just said.)
~~
(time lapse: half an hour)
(Maddy is asleep beside Melanie and Melanie is jsut sitting there reading an inflight magazine. Suddenly a head pops up behind Melanie and Melanie looks up and smiles)
Melanie: Hey sweetie. What are you doing?
Girl: I gotta go pee-pee Melie!
Melanie: Ask your mommy or daddy to take you!
Girl: Nah-ah! You!
Melanie: Okay Grace, okay.
(she stands up and 'meets up' with Grace in the walkway. She takes her hand and they start walking)
(Grace was Monica and Chandler's second daughter. She was five years old.)
(they reach the bathroom stalls and Melanie opens up one of the door)
Melanie: Hop in!
(Grace walks inside then looks back up at Melanie as Melanie is about to close the door)
Melanie: Now just lock it, and you know where the seats are!
Grace: (shakes her head) Nuh-uh!
Melanie: What do you mean 'nuh-uh'?
Grace: Stay with me!
Melanie: Ugh, okay fine. I'll wait out here......now just lock it and go!
Grace: DONT lock!
Melanie: Okay, okay! Fine. Just, close the door and go.
(Grace closes the door and Melanie sighs. Grace was adorable, but she was also very annoying. Melanie stood there for a minute or two until she felt someone touch her arm. She looked to her side and saw Chandler)
Chandler: hey sweetie.....what's up?
Melanie: Nothing.
Chandler: Is Grace STILL in there?
(Melanie nods and watches Chandler as he chuckles. Ever since her father had left, Chandler had practically been her second dad. She respected him a lot and really looked up to him.)
(suddenly the door opened and Grace walked out)
Grace: Mel......I'm scared!
Melanie: (sighs) Of what?
Chandler: The flush....dont worry Mel, I'll do it. (turns to Grace) run along sweetie. Go to mommy. (Grace smiles and runs off to Monica) So, are you nervous?
Melanie: (looks down) Not exactly. I mean, he IS my father isn't he?
Chandler: well yeah........but he's the father that left you.
Melanie: (looks up at him) You think I shouldn't have come?
Chandler: I think it was pretty stupid for Monica to think you should.......but hey, maybe something good will come with it all.
Melanie: You think?
Chandler: I dont know. (pause) Anyway, you go back to your seat, we're landing soon. (makes a weird face) And as for me, I got to go flush a toilet.
(Melanie giggles and begins to walk back to her seat)
~~
(later on, they're about to land. Melanie had fallen asleep and Maddy was shaking her awake)
Maddy: Mel! Wake up, we're here!!
Melanie: (sits up) We're here!?!
Maddy: Yes, so get ready!
Melanie: When did I fall asleep? (confused)
Maddy: Like 15 minutes ago.........
Melanie: Oh. Right.
(a few minutes later, the plane touched down. And as they rolled into their gate, Melanie's heart was beating like crazy. Suddenly, she didn't want to be here at all.)
(she looked out the window, and could already visualise her father standing by the gate, awaiting her arrival. No, not her arrival. He didn't care about her. Or his family. He was getting married.............he was replacing them. Tears threatened to fall, but Melanie would not cry.)
Maddy: mel? Honey.....come on. Get up......get your stuff.
(Mel turned around and wiped her eyes just in case)
Maddy: So sweetie.....Mel, Mel.......dont cry!
Melanie: I'm not crying........
Maddy: Come here........(they hug) Everything is going to be FINE. Okay?
(Melanie nods and we fade out)
~~
(we now go to them getting out of the airplane, and walking into the arriving hall with their luggage and everything)
Monica: I wonder where he is...........?
Voice: Monica! Chandler!
Chandler: There you go! (he's standing beside Melanie with Grace in his arms)
(Melanie looks down, Ross hasn't noticed her yet since she's now behind Monica and Chandler)
Ross: You guys, this is my fiancee Beth and her daughter---(Melanie looks up shocked, and Ross looks shocked too) Melanie?!
A thousand images and thoughts were going through her head that she barely heard what Ross said. She was going to say something.........until a word he had said came back to her and hit her hard.
A daughter.............
She was being replaced.
~~TO BE CONTINUED~~
Hey, I hope you liked that part!! Please review if you've got something nice to say!! Thanks for reading!! Bye 4 now guys!!
~§*Steph*§~
~Family Portrait~
As Melanie found her seat in the air-plane along with Maddy, she suddenly felt like not going. She didn't want to go see Los Angeles.....she didn't want to go see her dad's new wife..............but she DID want to see him. She wished he would come home, and this whole nightmare would be over. She had tried to make her mom come along, but she knew that it would have been a miracle if she would have said yes. For the next few hours, Mel kept herself entertained by reading a magazine, and after only two hours in the air, she had read it three times. Every once in a while Maddy glanced over at her, as if expecting her to explode any second. After the one thousandth glance at Melanie, Melanie got pissed.
Melanie: What do you keep looking at me for?!
Maddy: I-I-no reason. I'm jsut, uh, worried about you.
Melanie: Why?
Maddy: Are you sure this is the right thing? I mean-
Melanie: Maddy, he's my father. You dont know how I feel.......you HAVE a father! I haven't seen MY father for like 3 years. This IS the right thing........GET IT??
Maddy: (looks down) I'm sorry. I just, I dont want you to get hurt.
Melanie: (softens up) Maddy, I wanted to go, okay? Dont worry! (pats her on the arm which is resting on the arm rest)
(But as Melanie turned away and looked out the window and at the clouds outside, she wasn't so sure about anything she had just said.)
~~
(time lapse: half an hour)
(Maddy is asleep beside Melanie and Melanie is jsut sitting there reading an inflight magazine. Suddenly a head pops up behind Melanie and Melanie looks up and smiles)
Melanie: Hey sweetie. What are you doing?
Girl: I gotta go pee-pee Melie!
Melanie: Ask your mommy or daddy to take you!
Girl: Nah-ah! You!
Melanie: Okay Grace, okay.
(she stands up and 'meets up' with Grace in the walkway. She takes her hand and they start walking)
(Grace was Monica and Chandler's second daughter. She was five years old.)
(they reach the bathroom stalls and Melanie opens up one of the door)
Melanie: Hop in!
(Grace walks inside then looks back up at Melanie as Melanie is about to close the door)
Melanie: Now just lock it, and you know where the seats are!
Grace: (shakes her head) Nuh-uh!
Melanie: What do you mean 'nuh-uh'?
Grace: Stay with me!
Melanie: Ugh, okay fine. I'll wait out here......now just lock it and go!
Grace: DONT lock!
Melanie: Okay, okay! Fine. Just, close the door and go.
(Grace closes the door and Melanie sighs. Grace was adorable, but she was also very annoying. Melanie stood there for a minute or two until she felt someone touch her arm. She looked to her side and saw Chandler)
Chandler: hey sweetie.....what's up?
Melanie: Nothing.
Chandler: Is Grace STILL in there?
(Melanie nods and watches Chandler as he chuckles. Ever since her father had left, Chandler had practically been her second dad. She respected him a lot and really looked up to him.)
(suddenly the door opened and Grace walked out)
Grace: Mel......I'm scared!
Melanie: (sighs) Of what?
Chandler: The flush....dont worry Mel, I'll do it. (turns to Grace) run along sweetie. Go to mommy. (Grace smiles and runs off to Monica) So, are you nervous?
Melanie: (looks down) Not exactly. I mean, he IS my father isn't he?
Chandler: well yeah........but he's the father that left you.
Melanie: (looks up at him) You think I shouldn't have come?
Chandler: I think it was pretty stupid for Monica to think you should.......but hey, maybe something good will come with it all.
Melanie: You think?
Chandler: I dont know. (pause) Anyway, you go back to your seat, we're landing soon. (makes a weird face) And as for me, I got to go flush a toilet.
(Melanie giggles and begins to walk back to her seat)
~~
(later on, they're about to land. Melanie had fallen asleep and Maddy was shaking her awake)
Maddy: Mel! Wake up, we're here!!
Melanie: (sits up) We're here!?!
Maddy: Yes, so get ready!
Melanie: When did I fall asleep? (confused)
Maddy: Like 15 minutes ago.........
Melanie: Oh. Right.
(a few minutes later, the plane touched down. And as they rolled into their gate, Melanie's heart was beating like crazy. Suddenly, she didn't want to be here at all.)
(she looked out the window, and could already visualise her father standing by the gate, awaiting her arrival. No, not her arrival. He didn't care about her. Or his family. He was getting married.............he was replacing them. Tears threatened to fall, but Melanie would not cry.)
Maddy: mel? Honey.....come on. Get up......get your stuff.
(Mel turned around and wiped her eyes just in case)
Maddy: So sweetie.....Mel, Mel.......dont cry!
Melanie: I'm not crying........
Maddy: Come here........(they hug) Everything is going to be FINE. Okay?
(Melanie nods and we fade out)
~~
(we now go to them getting out of the airplane, and walking into the arriving hall with their luggage and everything)
Monica: I wonder where he is...........?
Voice: Monica! Chandler!
Chandler: There you go! (he's standing beside Melanie with Grace in his arms)
(Melanie looks down, Ross hasn't noticed her yet since she's now behind Monica and Chandler)
Ross: You guys, this is my fiancee Beth and her daughter---(Melanie looks up shocked, and Ross looks shocked too) Melanie?!
A thousand images and thoughts were going through her head that she barely heard what Ross said. She was going to say something.........until a word he had said came back to her and hit her hard.
A daughter.............
She was being replaced.
~~TO BE CONTINUED~~
Hey, I hope you liked that part!! Please review if you've got something nice to say!! Thanks for reading!! Bye 4 now guys!!
~§*Steph*§~