Thanks for all of your wonderful reviews! Please keep them coming. To the person who said that Mondler are related, imo Nora and Ross getting married doesn't make Chandler and Monica related. They're adults and it's not like they were raised as family. Sorry for the delay, I just haven't been all that happy with the way this one is coming. Thanks for reading this, please review.

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Chandler had been in a rage.

He had thought Ross was his friend, his first real friend.

Sure Ross had been a bit of a geek, but Chandler was tired of his so called "cool" friends who were only his friends because he was rich and because his mom dressed provocatively. He thought Ross was different, someone unphased by his coming from money.

Ross was the one person he had felt comfortable enough around to confide everything in. Ross knew all the problems he had with his mother growing up and continued to have to this day. He had told Ross about his lonely childhood, about always struggling unsuccessfully for his parents attention as a child. Convinced if he was the perfect child they'd stop ignoring him. Then deciding being a screw up might get their attention. But nothing ever worked. All that ever happened was he'd get sent off to his room or to boarding school. His parents were both seemingly more interested in their own love lives than in the little boy and then later the young man who desperately needed their love and guidance.

Ross was supposed to be his best friend.

How could he have done this to him? With her?

He expected this type of behavior from his mother, she had been embarrasing him for years.

But he had thought better of Ross.

He had trusted Ross.

Clearly now it seemed that trust had been misplaced.

It was betrayal. Plain and simple.

Now, almost five years later, here he was, preparing to give his mother away to his former best friend.

It was a Freudian nightmare. He was less than an hour from gaining a step-father who was only a few months older than himself. Though his relationship with his mother had improved drastically in the past year and despite the fact that he had started cautioiusly speaking to Ross again over the past few months for his mother's sake, and only for his mother's sake, their relationship and upcoming marriage was a concept he still had a hard time wrapping his mind around.

In the immediate aftermath of his horrifying discovery, Chandler's relationship with his mother had only gotten worse.

Nora had tried to explain herself and justify their relationship, but he'd refused to hear it. There had always been some excuse with her. Why was this time any
different?

He had been stubborn and refused to speak to his mother for a while after that. But she was his mother, flaws and all. She hadn't blamed him for hating her. She would have hated her too.She had never been prepared to be a mother. And she had no idea what to do with a boy. Things only got worse with the divorce, she had been too busy trying to prove to Charles that she could make it and be successful without him. Therefore she was always working and busy with her love life, unfortunately it had been at Chandler's expense.

Depsite how it appeared however, Nora geniunely loved her son. She knew she had a lot to make up to him for his childhood. So she continued to reach out to him. And eventually he realized flawed as she was, he needed his mother back in his life. And
things slowly began to improve between mother and son. They still had a long road ahead of them. But they were on speaking terms,
and it was a start.

Her brother was getting married today. Monica was happy for him. Really she was. A bit
jealous, perhaps, since she was nowhere close, but mostly happy.

She had never in her life seen Ross this happy. It had seemed strange to her at first, her brother was involved with a woman twice his age. She thought he'd lost his mind. Her sister-in-law was going to be the same age as her mother for crying out loud!

But then she got to know Nora and they became friends. They went shopping together, and Nora would give her all kinds of positive advice about dating and life. Nora was like a surrogate mother to her. She got along better with Nora than she ever had with her own mother. She could confide in Nora and Nora didn't make her feel like she was a total screw up the way her own mother seemingly went out of her way to.

Monica had been thrilled when she was asked to be the maid of honor. Nora wanted the wedding to be as much about family as possible. Nora didn't have any daughters, but she loved Monica as though she was her own. Monica was sweet and beautiful and kind, everything she would have wanted had she had a girl, everything that she now wanted for her son. She knew nothing could make up for her lousy parenting skills, but introducing this angel to her son would have to earn her some brownie points.

Monica stood in the bridal suite in her bridesmaid dress and stared at herself in the mirror. She was insecure about her looks, her mother's constant nagging had done great damage to her self image, but she knew she looked good. The mahogany colored dress was especially flattering against her skin tone.

Staring into the mirror, she couldn't help but imagine what her wedding day would be like. To be standing at the alter vowing to love someone forever. Someone who would love her, and cherish her. The thought made her warm inside. Growing up and dreaming of her wedding day, she had never had a face on her groom, but now in hervision it was the stranger from the cab standing beside her, holding her hands, his blue eyesfilled with passion for her. They were a happy couple, completely in love. At least in her mind.

Monica was lost in her daydreams when Nora entered dressed in her wedding dress. Monica gasped when she saw her. She looked beautiful.

"Wow!" was all Monica could ennunciate when she saw the bride.

"I look like a cow, don't I?" Nora laughed.

"No! You're beautiful." Monica assured her.

"Such a sweet girl you are my dear" Nora said hugging Monica for a minute.

"I wish you were my mother, I get along so much better with you than my own
mother."

"You wouldn't feel that way if you had to grow up with me" Nora resonded.

"Couldn't have been worse than my childhood" Monica shrugged.

"I was an awful mother to my son, I have a lot to make up to him" Nora sighed and paused"If I did have a daughter, I'd want her to be like you though."

"Yeah well my mother doesn't agree, she goes out of her way to find fault with me."

"Oh honey, she's a mother, I'm sure she just wants the best for you. Even if she doesn't know how to express it."

"Doesn't seem that way to me" Monica stated resigned to her horrible relationship with her mother.

"Well, I'll just have to have a word with her then" Noraresponded. "Remind me to
introduce you to my son Chandler at the reception. You two would be
perfect together."

"Nora, I'm not sure..."

Any other time Monica would have been open to Nora's attempt to play matchmaker. Monica hadn't been all that successful with relationships, and if he was even half as great as Nora always proclaimed, then he sounded like a dream come true.

But she just couldn't get the handsome stranger from the cab out of her head.