Get Me To The Airport On Time
Monica, Phoebe and Chandler were consumed with curiosity and after giving Emily twenty minutes to contact Ross, they all three arrived at Ross's flat to find her hurriedly packing.
'I've got a flight to Athens,' she announced, 'I've got to get to the airport quickly though. I was lucky to get it at all.'
'Oh, you got hold of Ross,' Monica said.
'Yes,' Emily beamed as she closed a case. Monica wondered how she could pack so fast but she supposed she only needed to repack what she'd unpacked a short time before. Her plan of stalling Emily further by interfering didn't seem feasible. 'It was so good to talk,' Emily said. 'If only I had been able to meet him at the airport it would have saved all this, but better late than never.' She rushed around the room closing and locking windows she'd flung open a short time before. 'It's going to be so good. We can have our honeymoon and put all that unpleasantness behind us. I mean, I suppose it wasn't really his fault anyway.' She disappeared into the bathroom while the others looked at each other. She returned with her zipped up toiletries bag, placing it in her other bag. 'Well that's me packed,' she said closing the bag. 'Thankyou for coming to see me, it means a lot to me. I know I'm a stranger to you all and I know that Never mind. I'd better go,' She picked up her bags. Chandler rushed forward to take the heavier one saying,
'I'll help you.' They all trooped out of Ross's apartment - Monica supposed they'd have to get used to calling it Ross and Emily's apartment if things worked out - and headed down to the street to hail a cab.
'We'll come with you,' Monica said.
'I think I might give it a miss,' Phoebe said. 'Hauling myself around is a bit hard at the moment.'
'Oh Phoebe!' Emily and Monica exclaimed. 'You shouldn't have come down with me,' Emily added.
'I'll be fine,' Phoebe said. 'You have a good honeymoon.' She kissed her cheek, and Monica wondered if that would be the last time they saw each other.
'You don't have to come with me Monica,' Emily said, 'It's far too much trouble. I'm used to catching planes and I don't usually miss them.'
'No, I want to come,' Monica said. She wanted to know what Ross had said to Emily.
'I'll come too,' Chandler said.
The taxi was taken and they all arrived at the airport in time despite Emily's anxiety.
'I really can't miss a second plane,' she said, 'That would be ridiculous.'
'How did you come to miss the first one?' Monica asked.
'The tube took longer than I thought - there was a breakdown, and then I ended up in the wrong terminal. I don't know how I came to go there. By the time I got to the right place, the plane had left - or at least, the gates had closed.' Monica realised that if Emily had arrived five minutes earlier she might have seen Ross get on the plane with Rachel. Even now that she was headed to Greece, something of the same sort might happen if Ross took her to the resort.
Emily checked in and breathed a sigh of relief at having done so. Now all she had to do was wait, and that, not for very long. While Chandler took a quick break, Emily said to Monica,
'Do you know, I think Chandler fancies you.'
'What?'
'I'm sure he does. He looks at you in a special way,' Emily said. Monica blushed.
'Do you really think so?'
'Yes, and you fancy him too,' Emily smiled. 'I think that's lovely.'
'Please don't say anything to Ross,' Monica said, not ready for the reaction of her big brother to this relationship.
'No, of course I won't, that's for you to say when you're ready. Are you officially together yet?'
'No!' Monica said, 'No, I mean we're not really going out or anything it's just I don't know if anything's going to happen.'
'If it's up to Chandler, it will,' Emily said.
'You should be thinking of yourself, not me,' Monica said.
'I'd rather think of you,' Emily said. She smiled at him as he returned to them, surprising him until Monica told him of this part of the conversation.