Hey everybody! Wow, I've reached the 10th chapter already! I'd like to
thank everybody for all the reviews that people have submitted....they
really are appreciated!! Thank you SO much! Anyway, here's chapter 10 for
you guys!! (I think that this is the final chapter...unless I get "pleas"
for an epilogue....hehehe)
~Family Portrait~
(we fade into the kitchen where we see Ross sitting by the table, a mug of hot tea in his hand and Rachel sitting across from him)
Ross: And I didn't even know about what Maggie said to her.......!
Rachel: Yeah, I think that she told Chandler not to tell you.....
Ross: Well, I didn't see Chandler when I got home. Right when I arrived, I saw the car driving away. (takes a drink of his tea)
Rachel: But Ross, you knew that it would be so hard to accept...I mean the wedding, then suddenly the 'replacement'......
Ross: She's not a replacement!
Rachel: Whatever. It's just, so hard for her to take in......and then there's you, who is supposed to be supportive, but instead, you're yelling at her!
Ross: I never yelled at her......
Rachel: Rooss.....I heard about every 'fight' that you had when she was there......!
Ross: (looks down at the table and at the mug) I didn't mean any of it.....I was just so mad, and also pretty sad about the whole thing. (pause) But she was also being so un-kind and so stubborn!
Rachel: Ross, she's a CHILD. And she's just so troubled.......not THAT many children have to go through something like this. Yeah, parents get divorced.....but she went through more than that.
Ross: (still looking down) I guess.....
~~
Rachel: You know Ross, I never did understand why you left that night. I mean, just because of one little mistake I had made that night, it made you realise that you should have left.
Ross: Rachel, it wasn't only the mistake....and you know it. Just the whole fight......(Rachel cuts him off)
Rachel: I know.......I know what I said was terrible.....and very wrong. But I'm over that now. I've had to raise her all on my own Ross......raising a troubled teenager. Do you know how hard that is? I tried so hard to fulfil her needs.......it's a miracle we can still afford this house! I tried to help her get over the pain......I tried so hard......but you don't know how it feels Ross. You don't know how it feels to lose a father.....and a father that she loved so much. I didn't think she would ever come back to me again.....she lived with Monica for a while, and when she came over for some stuff, she could barely LOOK at me. (pause) Do you know how THAT feels like Ross? Your own daughter can't even look at you in the eye.....!
Ross: Rachel, I'm SORRY! But I can't do anything to change what happened that night....I know it, and you know it.
Rachel: (raising her voice a bit) Well what do you expect me to do?? Just forgive and forget?! It might be easy for you to say it Ross, but it's hard for ME to take it in. Look Ross, before you left, you had Melanie. She loved you so much.....and you know why she couldn't look me in the eye?? Because when she did, instead of seeing me, she saw YOU. And that's what scared her.......she didn't want to hurt more than she already did. She hated me Ross.....Let's face it. She hardly ever spoke me or anything.....!
Ross: Well, just because she wasn't as perfect as Emma and was always so close to YOU.....doesn't mean that she HATED you Rachel!! That's a pathetic excuse!
Rachel: (gets up and points at him) How dare you bring Emma into this and even make FUN of her!!
Ross: I didn't make fun of her!!
Rachel: I never said that Emma was perfect......but at least she tried to get close to her mom!
Ross: Melanie tried......but you just never let her 'in'!! You were all cooped up on Emma.....(pause) Emma was gone....and yes, you missed her....I did TOO....but I knew that we had another daughter that we needed to take care of, so I put that just aside.....for MELANIE'S sake!! But you IGNORED her!!
Rachel: You don't know how it feels to watch your child die before you!!
Ross: How could you say that to me?! Emma was MY child too!!
Rachel: Yes, well you didn't spend almost more than a DAY in labour for her!! You didn't feel the pain giving birth to her!! And YOU didn't feel how I felt when I first held her in my arms after struggling so much.
Ross: Maybe I didn't.....but that doesn't mean that I wasn't sad......she was my daughter, and I loved her very much. But you have to face it....Melanie needed us too....and you just weren't there.
Rachel: Don't talk to me like that Ross....because you KNOW that I've been there. Maybe it didn't look like it before......but we've gone through HELL together!! And we've been 'there' for each other! So don't you DARE tell me that bullshit!
Ross: You know what?! You seem to think that you're so much better than me.....so I'm just going to LEAVE. You seem to think that Melanie doesn't need me at all...so I'm going to leave.
Rachel: You do that!! And don't come back begging for forgiveness again!
Ross: (coldly) I wasn't saying it to you anyway..... (he gets up and starts walking towards the front door, Rachel following closely behind. He opens up the door, and for a second, we flash to the top of the stairs, where we see Melanie. They don't notice her, and she's just watching)
Rachel: I'm sorry you had to come all the way here for nothing.....
Ross: (coldly still) Yeah, I'm sorry too. (pause) Now go back to your daughter.....she "needs" you doesn't she?? You've been "there" for her haven't you?? Now go.....dont mind ME!
Rachel: yeah, I wont.
Ross: Have a nice life, Rachel.
Rachel: Yeah you too. Just watch out for that bitch of a replacement!
Ross: Now you STOP! STOP RIGHT THERE! She might have said those things.....but I heard her talking about Melanie too. And all she said was good things......so that must mean that Melanie said somethings to her also.
Rachel: You dont have to stand up for her Ross.....she cant hear you. Maybe you should say all that in her face.....and also include that you hate Melanie, just like her!!
Ross: Oh my God! I dont know what the hell is wrong with you Rachel.....(Rachel interupts)
Rachel: Oh, NOTHING is wrong with ME! But there's definitely something wrong with you!
Ross: I'm not the one who pretends to have only one child!!
Rachel: What??
Ross: What ever happened to Nicky, Rachel?? Forgot about your son there?
Rachel: (quietly) I did not.....
Ross: I got to go......(he looks outside, and there's still a bit of rain, but it's slowly stopping now) Goodbye....
(Rachel says nothing, and just stares at him as he turns around and begins to walk. We go to Melanie, and she is staring at him walk away, and she looks like she's thinking.)
" He left you Melanie......he left you alone.....and he doesn't deserve your forgiveness. Or does he? Was it all just some stupid mistake like he SAID it had been?"
(she stood there for a few more seconds, but suddenly a thought came to her head and suddenly a burst of energy struck her weak body and she ran down the stairs and out the door)
"Don't let him go this time.........."
~~
(melanie ran out the door and on to the wet grass)
Melanie: Dad!! DAD!
(Ross turns around and sees Melanie running towards him, he's looking confused. She runs into his arms and hugs him tightly, sobbing)
Melanie: I'm sorry...I'm sorry......please don't leave me again....please! I'll do anything! (pause) He's hugging her, looking down at her head) I'm sorry....I'm sorry.... (she keeps repeating it while sobbing.)
(Ross looks up from her head and while hugging her looks to the front porch and the front door. Standing there is Rachel, watching them and crying. Ross stares at her and she stares back. After a while she looks down and smiles a little. Ross smiles a bit too and look down at Mel and kisses her on the head)
He knew that it would take a while until things would go back to normal with them again.....maybe they never would......but one thing he knew was that he had found what he had been 'searching' for, for all these years. And what he had not known was that the whole time he was searching, they were there, waiting for him.......
(as we fade away, the last few words of Family Portrait by Pink play)
I'll be your little girl forever........I'll go to sleep at night........
~THE END~
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!! Happy ending!! Happy ending! Yay! Did that seem rushed? I hope not, coz I wasn't trying to be. But hey, maybe it's NOT the end! Maybe, if I get more ideas, I'll write more. Maybe an epilogue......or another chapter. Who knows. Just please review, tell me what you thought, give your opinion. What ever. Thanks for reading! Peace out, *ME*
~Family Portrait~
(we fade into the kitchen where we see Ross sitting by the table, a mug of hot tea in his hand and Rachel sitting across from him)
Ross: And I didn't even know about what Maggie said to her.......!
Rachel: Yeah, I think that she told Chandler not to tell you.....
Ross: Well, I didn't see Chandler when I got home. Right when I arrived, I saw the car driving away. (takes a drink of his tea)
Rachel: But Ross, you knew that it would be so hard to accept...I mean the wedding, then suddenly the 'replacement'......
Ross: She's not a replacement!
Rachel: Whatever. It's just, so hard for her to take in......and then there's you, who is supposed to be supportive, but instead, you're yelling at her!
Ross: I never yelled at her......
Rachel: Rooss.....I heard about every 'fight' that you had when she was there......!
Ross: (looks down at the table and at the mug) I didn't mean any of it.....I was just so mad, and also pretty sad about the whole thing. (pause) But she was also being so un-kind and so stubborn!
Rachel: Ross, she's a CHILD. And she's just so troubled.......not THAT many children have to go through something like this. Yeah, parents get divorced.....but she went through more than that.
Ross: (still looking down) I guess.....
~~
Rachel: You know Ross, I never did understand why you left that night. I mean, just because of one little mistake I had made that night, it made you realise that you should have left.
Ross: Rachel, it wasn't only the mistake....and you know it. Just the whole fight......(Rachel cuts him off)
Rachel: I know.......I know what I said was terrible.....and very wrong. But I'm over that now. I've had to raise her all on my own Ross......raising a troubled teenager. Do you know how hard that is? I tried so hard to fulfil her needs.......it's a miracle we can still afford this house! I tried to help her get over the pain......I tried so hard......but you don't know how it feels Ross. You don't know how it feels to lose a father.....and a father that she loved so much. I didn't think she would ever come back to me again.....she lived with Monica for a while, and when she came over for some stuff, she could barely LOOK at me. (pause) Do you know how THAT feels like Ross? Your own daughter can't even look at you in the eye.....!
Ross: Rachel, I'm SORRY! But I can't do anything to change what happened that night....I know it, and you know it.
Rachel: (raising her voice a bit) Well what do you expect me to do?? Just forgive and forget?! It might be easy for you to say it Ross, but it's hard for ME to take it in. Look Ross, before you left, you had Melanie. She loved you so much.....and you know why she couldn't look me in the eye?? Because when she did, instead of seeing me, she saw YOU. And that's what scared her.......she didn't want to hurt more than she already did. She hated me Ross.....Let's face it. She hardly ever spoke me or anything.....!
Ross: Well, just because she wasn't as perfect as Emma and was always so close to YOU.....doesn't mean that she HATED you Rachel!! That's a pathetic excuse!
Rachel: (gets up and points at him) How dare you bring Emma into this and even make FUN of her!!
Ross: I didn't make fun of her!!
Rachel: I never said that Emma was perfect......but at least she tried to get close to her mom!
Ross: Melanie tried......but you just never let her 'in'!! You were all cooped up on Emma.....(pause) Emma was gone....and yes, you missed her....I did TOO....but I knew that we had another daughter that we needed to take care of, so I put that just aside.....for MELANIE'S sake!! But you IGNORED her!!
Rachel: You don't know how it feels to watch your child die before you!!
Ross: How could you say that to me?! Emma was MY child too!!
Rachel: Yes, well you didn't spend almost more than a DAY in labour for her!! You didn't feel the pain giving birth to her!! And YOU didn't feel how I felt when I first held her in my arms after struggling so much.
Ross: Maybe I didn't.....but that doesn't mean that I wasn't sad......she was my daughter, and I loved her very much. But you have to face it....Melanie needed us too....and you just weren't there.
Rachel: Don't talk to me like that Ross....because you KNOW that I've been there. Maybe it didn't look like it before......but we've gone through HELL together!! And we've been 'there' for each other! So don't you DARE tell me that bullshit!
Ross: You know what?! You seem to think that you're so much better than me.....so I'm just going to LEAVE. You seem to think that Melanie doesn't need me at all...so I'm going to leave.
Rachel: You do that!! And don't come back begging for forgiveness again!
Ross: (coldly) I wasn't saying it to you anyway..... (he gets up and starts walking towards the front door, Rachel following closely behind. He opens up the door, and for a second, we flash to the top of the stairs, where we see Melanie. They don't notice her, and she's just watching)
Rachel: I'm sorry you had to come all the way here for nothing.....
Ross: (coldly still) Yeah, I'm sorry too. (pause) Now go back to your daughter.....she "needs" you doesn't she?? You've been "there" for her haven't you?? Now go.....dont mind ME!
Rachel: yeah, I wont.
Ross: Have a nice life, Rachel.
Rachel: Yeah you too. Just watch out for that bitch of a replacement!
Ross: Now you STOP! STOP RIGHT THERE! She might have said those things.....but I heard her talking about Melanie too. And all she said was good things......so that must mean that Melanie said somethings to her also.
Rachel: You dont have to stand up for her Ross.....she cant hear you. Maybe you should say all that in her face.....and also include that you hate Melanie, just like her!!
Ross: Oh my God! I dont know what the hell is wrong with you Rachel.....(Rachel interupts)
Rachel: Oh, NOTHING is wrong with ME! But there's definitely something wrong with you!
Ross: I'm not the one who pretends to have only one child!!
Rachel: What??
Ross: What ever happened to Nicky, Rachel?? Forgot about your son there?
Rachel: (quietly) I did not.....
Ross: I got to go......(he looks outside, and there's still a bit of rain, but it's slowly stopping now) Goodbye....
(Rachel says nothing, and just stares at him as he turns around and begins to walk. We go to Melanie, and she is staring at him walk away, and she looks like she's thinking.)
" He left you Melanie......he left you alone.....and he doesn't deserve your forgiveness. Or does he? Was it all just some stupid mistake like he SAID it had been?"
(she stood there for a few more seconds, but suddenly a thought came to her head and suddenly a burst of energy struck her weak body and she ran down the stairs and out the door)
"Don't let him go this time.........."
~~
(melanie ran out the door and on to the wet grass)
Melanie: Dad!! DAD!
(Ross turns around and sees Melanie running towards him, he's looking confused. She runs into his arms and hugs him tightly, sobbing)
Melanie: I'm sorry...I'm sorry......please don't leave me again....please! I'll do anything! (pause) He's hugging her, looking down at her head) I'm sorry....I'm sorry.... (she keeps repeating it while sobbing.)
(Ross looks up from her head and while hugging her looks to the front porch and the front door. Standing there is Rachel, watching them and crying. Ross stares at her and she stares back. After a while she looks down and smiles a little. Ross smiles a bit too and look down at Mel and kisses her on the head)
He knew that it would take a while until things would go back to normal with them again.....maybe they never would......but one thing he knew was that he had found what he had been 'searching' for, for all these years. And what he had not known was that the whole time he was searching, they were there, waiting for him.......
(as we fade away, the last few words of Family Portrait by Pink play)
I'll be your little girl forever........I'll go to sleep at night........
~THE END~
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!! Happy ending!! Happy ending! Yay! Did that seem rushed? I hope not, coz I wasn't trying to be. But hey, maybe it's NOT the end! Maybe, if I get more ideas, I'll write more. Maybe an epilogue......or another chapter. Who knows. Just please review, tell me what you thought, give your opinion. What ever. Thanks for reading! Peace out, *ME*