Chapter 6 "Unexpected proposals"

Monica looked at her watch again for probably the hundredth time. It was only 8 am and sun was beautifully rising. Morning sun made her face look angelic and nobody could really tell that she hadn't gotten any sleep at all last night. She was wearing her jogging pants and a tight top 'cause she had just returned from jogging. She thought it would give her some distraction, but she was wrong. It didn't make her feel any better. She looked outside from the window and smiled weakly at the sight of the sun rays shining over New York. She loved this city so much all though sometimes it made her feel so alone because it was so big. The quiet yet beautiful moment was ruined by aloud and eager knocks...well bangs actually, coming from her front door. "Who could it be this early?And does he wanna broke down my door or something?" she wondered and started to walk towards the door.
"I'm coming! No need to break down my door!" She yelled. She took a look from the peep hole and froze. It was Mr. Bing!
"Oh my God!" She gasped.
"Open up!!!" Chandler yelled from the other side of the door. "I heard you! I know you are there!" He continued banging the door.
"No I don't have to open the door if I don't want to!" Monica yelled back nervously.
"Oh yes you do!!! Otherwise I really am gonna break this door down! And you can't do anything to stop me!"
"Yes I can...I can call the police!" Monica replied quickly.
"No, No, No! You see I should be the one calling the police. You stole my money!!!"
"Hold on a second....I didn't steal your money. As I recall you gave it to me willingly."
"Yes but at the time I didn't know what a bitch you were!"
"What did you call me?!"
"Oh you didn't hear me?! Well I guess you are a one debt bitch then." Chandler smiled at his clever remark.
"You have no right to call me that...no right at all. You don't know me."
"And I don't even wanna know you! You are the most devilish woman I have ever met. All you care about is money and getting it as much as you can.You don't care who you hurt in the progress." Chandler yelled harshly.
Monica was shocked. She felt so weak and her eyes begun to water. Why did a strangers words have such an affect on her.
"What?! Did the truth hurt?" Chandler said after waiting a few seconds for a reply.
Monica was so glad that man couldn't see her. She was an absolute mess.
"No...I don't care what you think of me." She finally replied with a unsteady voice.
"You are no better than I am..." She added.
"What did you say?!" Chandler couldn't believe what he was hearing. This women had some nerve.
"I mean why else Cathy would have walked out on you. There must be something wrong with you." Monica immediately regretted her words but it was too late to take them back now.
Chandler couldn't believe what she was saying and hit his hand hardly to the fall to vent the anger he was feeling towards this woman. She was really making him boil. "You really wanna hurt me!? Huh?!"
"...no" Monica whispered, but Chandler didn't hear her. She waited for a while for the man to continue, but nothing happened. She slowly took a glance from the peep hole and saw that the hall was empty. The man must have left.
"Thank God" Monica thought all though she really did feel bad for being so harsh. Yet she couldn't help but feel unbelievable anger towards the man. She knew she had done the wrong thing by taking the money, but Mr. Bing didn't even let her explain. He just yelled at her and called her a bitch...what right does he have to do that. He doesn't even know her yet he still wanted to hurt her more than anyone has ever hurt her before.

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Ross sighed he couldn't believe he had let it slip. The last thing he needed was to let someone...especially someone who was Chandler's friend, to know about his and Cathy's plan. "Well! What's the point. Cathy having ran out and me already having slipped half of the plan, it is kind of ruined as we speak." he thought. "I might as well tell the whole story." He sighed again, this time deeper than before. Then he slowly turned to look at Rachel and found her observing him carefully. Her eyes were locked into his. The room was in total silence. She was obviously waiting for something and Ross knew exactly what it was... It was the truth.
Ross took a deep breath before starting. This was going to be harder than he thought...
"Few months ago my dear uncle Robert died. He was very lonely, he had no friends, but I occasionally went to take care of his house and spent some time with him. I had no idea that he had grown so fond of me. He always said how he would like for me to find that special girl and start a family, but I had no idea that he would actually leave me all of his money, which IS ALOT. Well he had a one condition though. I have to get married before I'm thirty. Other wise NO MONEY." Ross explained as Rachel carefully listened him.
She nodded her head gesturing him to continue even though she wasn't sure if she wanted to hear the rest. She didn't really like where this was going.
"Well Monica and me. We had just started our catering business and it wasn't running that smoothly yet. I really needed my uncle's money, but I had already lost hope of getting it. Well I wasn't dating anyone and I had no chance of getting married by the age of thirty. Well then Cathy and Chandler found our catering business. That was when everything changed. One day when I was supposed to have a meeting with them I found Cathy crying at their home. She was sobbing that she didn't love Chandler and that she would wanna run away and not marry him. I asked her why she didn't just go for it and she said she was afraid. She told me about Chandler's temper and that he would haunt her down and punish her if she would do something like that. Besides she said that she had nowhere else to go and that she had no money. I promised that I would help her and that's when I got the idea. Why wouldn't we both help each other? We could first leave for Hawaii until things cool down a bit. Then come back to USA and get married. We would have to be married for a year and then we could take a divorce." Ross took a deep breath after finishing his story.
Rachel just stared at him her mouth open, that's how surprised she was... and how angry she was! She was actually absolutely furious with him! I mean she had been mad before, but now knowing that Ross had actually done this all for money. All the hurt Chandler had to and still has to go trough for what?! A few bucks! All the images of Cathy and Ross came back to her... Something still didn't add up... She had seem them kissing before by the elevators....
"But then why where you kissing in the hotel lobby?!" she said deciding to ask about it.
"You were spying on us?" Ross asked a little angry himself.
Rachel didn't even bother to answer she just stared at him her eyes full of anger. I swear if a look could kill, Ross would already be a dead man by now.
"Nevermind..." Ross ignored her.
"We had to make us being in love look real. Nobody was to know that it was just an agreement... That we weren't really in love! One of my uncle's conditions was that it had to be a love marriage and he would make sure that it was one." Ross explained and waited for Rachel to say something, but she didn't. She was too shocked to speak. Besides she was deep in her thoughts thinking what Chandler would do if he found out about this. Well actually WHEN he found out about this, 'cause it was only a matter of time when he would.
Ross was deep in his thoughts too. He was very frustrated. He had been so close and still so far, but now all because of this woman his plan had fallen into millions of pieces.
"Arg!" Ross yelled. He couldn't hold the frustration inside anymore.
"What!?" Rachel harshly asked getting more and more annoyed by him as the minutes passed.
"Thanks to you my plan is ruined!" he angrily stated.
"I can't believe you! You're so self-absorbed! Don't you care anybody else but yourself! Chandler loved Cathy! You left him broken hearted! And for what?! For money!" Rachel yelled harshly.
"Would it have been better that he had married a woman who didn't love him?" Ross asked lifting his eye brows.
"Well..." Rachel started but couldn't think of anything to say, 'cause she realized that Ross did have a good point. She turned to look Ross in the eyes and noticed that he was looking at her as well. For a minute they just explored each other's faces. Finding each other very attractive, maybe all this anger was turning into sexual tension, but neither of them wanted to admit it. They quickly turned away and ignored the emotion.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I CAME THIS CLOSE!" Ross yelled sitting down on the bed. "WHY THE HELL DID YOU HAVE TO COME HERE AND RUIN EVERYTHING!!!"
"You have no right to blame me for this! It was good that your plan got ruined... you selfish..." Rachel yelled back.
Both of them were still avoiding each other's eye contact. They were sitting on the bed with their backs turned to each other. Ross on the other end and Rachel on the other.
"Oh I'm selfish! What about you!?" he asked wanting to say something back, but deep inside he knew that she was right and that he was the only one who was selfish here. He had already started to regret his deed, but he had already become too far to turn back.
"What about me?" Rachel asked surprised. He didn't know anything about her? What right had he to call her selfish? God this man had a nerve!
"I don't know." he yelled back and Rachel found herself almost starting to laugh, which was weird because there was absolutely nothing funny about this situation, maybe the fact that it was so unrealistic made it a bit amusing. Luckily Rachel had enough strength to not to start laughing. In stead she regrouped herself and staid quiet waiting for him to continue. She didn't have to wait long....
"Well you should really fix this situation." he said after a short while.
"What could I do?"
Ross turned other way around and was now facing her back.
"Well...." Ross hesitated before finishing. "you could become my wife." He couldn't believe he was even suggesting this, but it was too late he couldn't take it back... Not anymore.
Rachel quickly turned around with a shocked expression on her face.

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Many hours had passed and Monica was still sitting on the living room couch. The TV was on although she didn't really pay any attention towards it. Her mind was still on Mr. Bing. She had never seen anyone so angry with her before yet she knew the man had every right to be angry. She did took his money even though it was her brother who ruined the wedding. Well there was nothing she could do about it anymore. No way was she going to give the money back after Mr. Bings arrogant behavior. She never wanted to see him again.
Few minutes passed and the phone started ringing. Monica was about to answer at first but then she thought about the possibility of it being Chandler and hesitated. She really didn't feel like talking to him so she decided to let the phone ring. Eagerly wanting to get out of her apartment, that reminded her of everything that had happened this past few days, she took her coat and opened her front door. Walking towards the stairs in a hurry she missed to see a dark figure starting to follow her.
It was quite dark outside since it was already pretty late. New York city was a city that never slept, but tonight there weren't many people on the street. "Probably since it was monday." Monica thought. Many people had to go to work early tomorrow morning.
She didn't like to walk around New York city this late all by herself...it was pretty dangerous, but she just couldn't stay in her apartment another second. Tightening the robe in her jacket she looked up into the dark cloudy sky thinking how beautiful it looked.
She jumped as a hand crapped her from behind pressing her tightly against the cold wall of a skyscraper.
"Pretty ladies shouldn't walk around New York city alone this late at night...You never know who might attack you." deep voice whispered in to her ear.


Ok, so I don't know if this story has any readers anymore, well I wrote couple of chapters last night and this morning I wrote some more. So I have written about 7-8 chapters now. I will sent all those chapters here, but the 8 chapter isn't by far the last chapter. This stroy is really long... Well I don't know if I write this story anymore after that, 'cause I don't know if anyone out there is still reading it. I will probably start to write another one, because I have this interesting idea in my head :). Well anyway thank you for reading this story and if you really, really want me to finish this one then review and let me know...