A/N: yep the 10th chapter is here. I think there's gonna be 5 more chaps before I finish out this story but I'm not sure. I'm already working on 12… we'll just have to see. So enjoy oh and I have 3 more storys on the site. Ones a standalone but I have two that I haven't finished "Can their relationship last?" and "My story" I want to start working on one of them again so I'm leaving you guys to choose which one you want to continue reading for the time being. I will finish this one though so don't worry. Please R&R
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F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Last Flight Out
© 2002 Ash Matthews
~ Chapter 10 ~
Chandler sighed and stood up from the couch. He was in no mood to deal with Johnny, but when was he ever? He just had to remind himself he had two more albums then he was free. Just two more.
"Bring on the wolves" he said as he exited the bus
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Monica sat on the couch while her mom paced in front of her and her dad sat on a chair on the other end of the room. Her mom was going off about Monica leaving when told not too or something like that. Mon wasn't sure cause she wasn't listening, she was thinking about Chandler. She hoped he wasn't in too much trouble. The way Ross was talking on the way home certainly pointed in that direction. He was probably being bitched at too.
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"This is the last straw Chandler!" Johnny shouted "I'm too the point of replacing you, there are plenty of guys out there who would kill to be where you are now. It wouldn't take me long to find a replacement, don't make me do it"
"You don't think I'd go if I could?" Chandler yelled back "I've got no choice but to stay, if I had one I would have been gone along time ago."
"You could be gone sooner than you think if you keep pulling this shit"
Johnny, as well as Chandler, knew every thing he was saying was an empty threat. Johnny would be out of his mind to replace Chandler. He writes the songs, plays lead guitar, and is the lead singer. Plus, he's the most popular member of the group, if Chandler went it wouldn't be too long until the band went down with him.
After an hour lecture Monica heads up stairs to go to bed. She puts on an old long tshirt and gets into her bed turning on the t.v. It was around 12:30 but she wasn't tired at all, not after the day she had. She wasn't in bed 30 minutes when there was a soft knock on her door.
Monica sighed and turned off her t.v. so her parents would think that she had been sleeping and crawled out of bed. She opens the door and Chandler walks in giving her a quick kiss. She shuts the door behind him.
"What's going on?" she asked as he walked to her window then back to her
"Get dressed, I've got an idea" he said sitting on her bed, he couldn't stop moving
"I'd ask what but I'm sure I don't want to know"
"We're not gonna be out all night I promise" he said standing up "Come on, it'll be fun" he smiled
Monica went to her closet and picked out a pair of jeans and a shirt throwing them on her bed. Chandler sat back on her bed. He laid his head on her pillows, hands behind his head, and put his feet on the sheets watching her get her clothes. She took of the long shirt, now standing in front of him in just her underwear, and grabbed her jeans.
"A Wo Ho!" Chandler grinned
Monica looked up at him and smiled "You're a dork"
"I know" he said hopping off the bed "I'm hyper too"
"Really? I would have never noticed"
They made it out of the house without being heard. They drove for about 15 minutes before Chandler pulled up in front of a tattoo parlor.
"I know this isn't where we're going" Monica said looking at the parlor
"Ya, come on" he said getting out of the car
"I'm not going in there"
He opens up her door "Come on"
She reluctantly gets out of the car and follows him
"So what are we doing here?" she asked him while he looked at all the drawings of the tattoos that can be done
"I dunno yet. I mean I wanted to get my tongue pierced but Johnny would make me take it out so I think I'm gonna get a tattoo"
"Why?"
"To piss him off, and cause I've always wanted to… but mostly to piss him off" Chandler smiled "You should get one too"
"What? No"
"We can get one together, ya know, like a Ying yang. You get the Ying and I get the yang or vise versa"
"You're crazy. That's permanent"
"I know that's why if we get one together it would work out cause if something happened and we ended up hating each other." Chandler looked up from the books of drawings "Which nothing will." he said quickly "We could always just get the other part done."
He had decided to ignore his 'conscious' and go for a relationship with her. If it didn't work out, well then it didn't. With the tattoo there was no way for him to cop out because his 'conscious' was telling him to. This way he was hers and she was his, forever. Even if they ever broke up he would always have her with him and him with her. He had thought about her non stop ever since they had sex, he felt in his heart he was doing the right thing. She meant more to him than he had let himself think. She was the first girl to make him feel the way he did about her. He wasn't about to let that go.
"I don't know…"
"Or we could get two different ones that went together"
"Like what?"
"Um… Oh like Japanese symbols. I could get one and you could get the other and they could say something together like… 'True' and then 'Love' or…"
"Chandler" she said to stop him but he kept going on "Chandler!"
"My bad what?" he said looking to her
"This means a lot to you huh?"
"Well ya, sorta, I've always wanted to get one and that would be awesome if we both had one"
"I'll do it" she said
"Really?" a grin spread across his face
"Ya" she smiled
"What do you want to get?" he asked opening up the book so she could see
"The symbols were a good idea" she said looking at the many symbols
"The 'True Love'?" he asked
Monica nodded
"Ok I'll get 'True' and you can get 'Love', sound good?"
"Sounds perfect"
He kissed her softly "Where they gonna go?"
"We have to get them where Johnny can't see them right?"
"Uh huh, or where he won't see them right away"
"So lets get them on our stomachs" she suggested
"Or on our chest. We'll get them on top of our hearts" he smiled "We'll just get the outline of the symbols now cause otherwise we'll be here for 5 plus hours"
It takes them somewhere around 45 minutes apiece to get them done. They leave the parlor at a quarter to three, and get back to the house at around 4. They get inside and up the stairs without interruption.
"Are you ok?" Chandler asks walking her to her door
"Ya I'm fine, my boobs a little sore though" she laughs
"Mine too" he grins
Monica opens the door and Chandler follows her in
"We have a photo shoot tomorrow for… I dunno some magazine but I'll pick you up when we're done, ok?"
"That's fine. Do you know what time you'll get done? So I'll be ready"
"No but… here" he takes off his watch and puts it on her wrists "I'm gonna say around five, this way if you're out or something you'll know"
"I think I have something to do with Joey tomorrow… we should be done before then though"
"There's a Joey?" Chandler asks raising his eye brows
"Uh huh" Monica said twisting the watch on her wrists "He's a close friend of mine" she sat on her bed and began taking off her shoes
"Close… how close?"
Monica looked at him and smiled "Look at you all jealous"
"I'm not jealous" he defended although he was lying "Just wondering"
"If you must know he's my best friend. He's been a friend of mine since I was 11" she took off her last shoe and placed both of them next to her bed side by side
"Did you guys ever date?"
"I feel like I'm being interrogated by the police" she sighed and began to change her clothes "We did a year ago but it didn't last too long we decided we'd be better off if we stayed friends, we still joke around though"
"That's uh that's cool" he said rubbing the back of his neck. He suddenly found himself extremely jealous of a guy he'd never meet and had just heard about a few minutes ago. He wouldn't be so worried about it if, before he was famous, two of his girlfriends, Janice and Kathy, had cheated on him. As a result whenever he had a girlfriend after that, which wasn't hardly ever because he had hit it big not long after, he had become very protective.
"He's nothing to worry about" she tossed on her night shirt "We're just friends, plus he's going out with Rachel,… wait scratch that he was going out with Rachel but they just broke up"
"So he's single now?"
"Quit worrying about it Chandler it's no big deal. We're friends nothing more"
"I believe you" he said "You wouldn't happen to have a picture of him would you?"
Monica looked at him strangely
"I just want to know what he looks like"
Monica sighed and pointed to a calendar that sat on her wall next to the door. Chandler looked to it then back to her not understanding.
"He's in your wall?" he teased
"No the calendar he's the guy for July, June, December, and August"
"Oh" Chandler said slowly making his way over to the calendar "He's a model?"
"No actor actually that was just a side job" she said walking behind him to look at the calendar too
Chandler flipped through the calendar and landed on July. In the picture Joey was wearing a skin tight black shirt with a pair of equally tight jeans. Next to the picture in black ink there was Joey's signature and 'Love ya babe'. Chandler shut the calendar and turned to Monica.
"I'm gonna go to bed, it's getting late and I have to get up early" he said giving her a soft kiss trying as hard as he could not to let Joey get to him
"Ya I have to too" she said breaking the kiss
"I love you"
"I love you too"
Chandler walked out of the room shutting the door behind him
He laid in bed starring at the ceiling. Joey was bothering him more than he knew he should. He had nothing to worry about and he knew that. He just couldn't get the image of Joey on the calendar followed by the words "Love ya babe" out of his head. She loved Joey as a friend and she loved Chandler in a relationship way so why was he worried? If anything it was Monica who should be worrying about him, he was the known player of the band. He pulled out his note book and started writing. Before he knew it he had a song. He sang it softly to himself and smiled. She'd love it. He tore the page out and stuck it in a pocket in his suitcase, he'd work on the music for it later. He drifted off to sleep.
Monica woke up to the sound of her radio alarm, her clock read 7:30. She reached over and hit snooze. She continued to hit snooze until her phone rang forcing her to get up, she reached over and grabbed her phone off the stand next to her bed. Her clock now read 8:14.
"Hello?" she answered groggily
"Are you still asleep" Joey's voice rang through the phone
"Not anymore thanks to you" she yawned
"Well good get up. We're sposed to hang out today remember?"
"Ya I know. I'm getting up, how long have you been up?"
"Since 6:30ish. What ya want to do today?"
"I don't know" she said pulling herself out of bed "Whatever I guess"
"I figured we could go see a movie then go to the mall or we could see a movie then go eat"
"Sounds good" she looked in the mirror, her hair was sticking out in every way possible
"Which one"
"I'll let you know when you get here, I'm still not thinking strait"
Something on her floor in front of her door caught her attention, she bent down and picked it up. She opened the envelope that read Monica on the front, while listening to Joey talk about what movie they could go see. She interrupted Joey while reading the letter.
"Let's go to the mall after"
"You sure you're not gonna be hungry?"
"No Chandler's going to take me out to eat tonight" she answered while finishing in the letter that was signed "Love Ya, Chan Chan"
"How's that going?"
"Really good" she said with a smile
"That's great" he congratulates with no enthusiasm in his tone
"What's wrong?" she asked picking up on it
"Nothing i'm happy for you"
"So what movie are we seeing?" she asked to change the subject
"I thought 'The Grey Zone' would be cool"
"A war movie?" she yawned. She begins to dig through her closet for something to wear
"Aww man we're seeing a chick flick huh?" he whined
"I dunno, is 8Mile a chick flick?"
"8Mile?!? You wanna see that? Yes!"
Monica laughed "Ya I wanna see it, he's hot"
"I knew there was some secrete reason"
"Pick me up in an hour and a half"
"Alright"
They both hang up. Monica takes a quick shower and gets dressed with time to spare. She heads outside to wait for Joey. He pulls up a few minutes later. Monica stands up and walks to the car. Joey gets out and opens her door for her.
"Some one looks sexy" she says playfully while looking him over
"You like that do you?" he smiles shutting the door as she gets in
"Who wouldn't?"
"You've got a point" he said pulling out of the drive way
Two hours later, after the movie, they enter the mall
"What store you want to go to?" Joey asked as they picked their way through the food court. he took a hold of her hand
"Let's find somewhere to sit. I need to talk to you"
Joey looked at her confused "Oook"
They make their way out of the food court and find a bench to sit on
"So" he says taking his hand from hers "Whats up?"
"Well I'm leaving for a little bit"
Joey starred at her for a minute "Where you going?"
"I'm gonna go on tour with the guys. It's that or my aunts"
"For how long?"
"Somewhere around two weeks"
"You think that's a good idea? You guys just started going out" he said genually concerned
"Ya, I mean, he's pretty serious about this relationship"
"Anyone can say that Mon. Doesn't mean they mean it"
"I know but last night we went out and he got a tattoo" she purposely left out the fact that she had also
"Of what your name?" he asked a bit shocked
"The Japanese symbol for 'true'." she explained
"I'm not trying to be negative Mon but that could stand for anything. It doesn't mean it was for you"
"I got one too"
"What! Why would you do that? You hardly know him..." Joey sighed "What's it of?"
"Japanese for 'love' so they read 'True Love'."
"You really like him huh?" he asked sighing again, he knew there was no reason to fight with her about it or anything when her hear and mind was set on it
"I love him,... he loves me too"
"Then I'm happy for you, I really am" he smiled "But if he hurts you..."
"He won't. I know he won't" she interrupted
"If he does, I'm gonna kick his ass"
Monica smiled "Lets hope it doesn't come to that... which it won't"
"So can I see it?"
"The tattoo?"
Joey nodded
Monica pulled back the v-neck collar of her shirt to expose the tattoo that sat on the top of her right breast
"Yeah baby" Joey grinned
"Can we go shopping now?" Monica asked standing up
Joey sighed and stood up next to her "Ya lets go but I'm not going into Victorias Secret or Claires or any of those really girly stores"
"I can deal" Monica smiled
They walked passed a stand that sells calendars and sports cards. Joey stops.
"What are you doing?"
"Seeing if they have my calendar" he said looking over the stand, a grin spread across his face "Here I am" he said picking up a calendar studying his pictures on the back "Damn I look better than I thought"
"Oh my god…" Monica trailed off shaking her head walking away from the stand
A/N: Ok that's it for this chap… not much happened… this story will pick up the pace soon. So stay with me lol Please Review. I don't know when the next chap will be posted I'm going through a hard time right now… we'll see.
Whoa the damage is
Done so I guess
I'll be leaving