Monica woke up with a big headache. She looked around and looked at the clock 8:24. She let out a big sneeze and plopped back down onto her pillow. She got up and slowly walked out the door where she found Phoebe, Rachel, Ross and Joey eating breakfast. They all greeted her with a good morning. She groaned and started coughing.
"You ok?" Ross asked as he brought his bowl to the sink.
"I'm fine." She sniffed and headed towards the bathroom, soundingnasaly.
"Are you sure?" Rachel wiped her mouth with her napkin.
"Yes." Monica walked into the bathroom and a couple minutes later came back out. "Rach.. where's the toothpaste?"
"Oh we ran out so it's probably at our place." Joey said as he swallowed his food.
Monica moaned and walked across the hall. When she opened the door to the guys apartment she stopped when she saw Chandler and another woman sitting on the stools laughing and eating. "Sorry. I just came for the toothpaste." Kathy was pretty. Why was she so pretty? Monica walked into the guys bathroom and looked around for the toothpaste. The bathroom was very dirty. She grabbed the toothpaste and walked out of the bathroom.
"Find it?" Chandler asked as he put back the orange juice.
Monica held up the tube of toothpaste and smiled.
"I'm Kathy." Kathy said with a big smile.
"Oh.. I'm sorry I forgot to introduce you." Chandler shook his head. "Kathy this is my neighbor Monica. Monica this is my new girlfriend Kathy." He said a little awkwardly.
"Oh Monica..." Kathy gave Monica a weird look and then looked over at Chandler. "Um.. Chandler's talked about you."
"Great." Neighbor? Neighbor? Why not friend? So they weren't even friends anymore? "Nice to meet you Kathy." Monica gave her a small smile.
Kathy put out her hand, but took it back when Monica wouldn't take it. Not that Monica didn't want to but well she was sick.
"I better go brush my teeth." Monica smiled at Kathy and looked at Chandler for a while before leaving.
"Chandler I really don't want to go in there if Monica's in there. I mean it was really awkward this morning."
"It wasn't awkward."
Kathy shot Chandler a look.
"Monica's like that every morning. She's not a morning person." He shrugged.
"Really?"
"Yes. Don't worry. Besides she's probably at work." He kissed Kathy's cheek. "My friends love you."
"Really?"
"Yes."
She smiled and took his hand as they walked into Central Perk.
"You guys are so cute!" Rachel smiled.
"Thanks." Kathy smiled.
"Guess what!" Phoebe said with a big smile.
"What Pheebs?" Chandler laughed.
"My cold has officiallybeen gone for a week!"
"That's great!" Chandler smiled and wrapped an arm over Kathy's shoulder.
"Yea but Monica has it." Rachel tucked her hair behind her ears.
"Yea but she got it much worse then I had."
"Is she ok?" Chandler asked trying to sound very casual.
"Yea. But she's trying to pretend like nothings wrong."
"It's Monica. What do you expect?"
"Rach.." Monica said as she walked into the coffee shop holding a shoe in each hand. "Rach.." Monica was sounding more nasaly then earlier.
"Honey what are you doing out of bed?" Rachel asked stroking her arm.
"I was cleaning."
"You're supposed to be in bed."
"Phoebe didn't stay in bed."
"You're much sicker then I was. If I were that sick I'd be in bed."
"But I'm not sick." Monica began to walk over to the empty space near Phoebe and stopped. "Hey Chandler. Hey Kathy I didn't see you guys."
"Hey." Kathy smiled and looked over at Chandler.
"You sound very sick to me Mon." Chandler said removing his arm around Kathy and folding his hands together.
"I'm fine. I better get going to work.." Monica handed Rachel her shoes and started towards the door.
"Monica what am I supposed to do with these shoes?" Rachel yelled but Monica couldn't hear her because she was already out the door. She rolled her eyes and put the shoes onto the floor. "I can't find the other shoes to these."
"Wow Monica's really sick.." Chandler said looking out the window and saw Monica looking at him and quickly walking away when she saw him look at her. "Someone better stop her from going to work before she gets people sick."
"Yea I'll do it. I have to go put these shoes back into the apartment." Rachel stood up and grabbed the heels on the floor. "I'll see you guys later."
"Yea I have to go too." Phoebe grabbed her purse. "Have fun." She smiled and followed Rachel out.
Kathy and Chandler sat quietly for a while. "So was that awkward? Or is Monica just always like that?"
"She's sick."
"I don't think that's why Chandler. I think it's because she still has feelings for you."
"I don't think so. That's Monica. She has a lot of pride. If she's sick she's going to pretend like she's ok."
"I'm not talking about her being sick Chandler! She practically ran out of here when she saw us."
"Kathy she wanted to go to work ok?"
"Chandler why are you pretending like it wasn't awkward when it really was? Do you still like her or something?"
"No. "
"Well it seems like you do."
"I don't."
"Chandler this isn't going to work out if you have feelings for her."
"Well I don't. I'll prove it to you. Come over to my place tonight for dinner."
"Ok.." She smiled and kissed him.
"So that means you can't bring up Monica tonight. Ok?"
"Ok." Kathy smiled.
"Ok." Chandler smiled and kissed her cheek.
Chandler closed the drawer and walked over to the girls apartment. "You ok Mon?" He walked over to Monica who was leaning against the doorframeof her bedroom with her eyes closed and her hand over her eyes.
"Yea. Just a little dizzy." She said opening her eyes,and walking over to the table and grabbed a white medicine bottle and tried to open it.
"Need help?"
"No." She said pushing the bottle down and twisting it. "I hate these bottles!" She said as she banged the bottle against the table.
Chandler grabbed the bottle away and tried to open it. "Where are you going?"
"Return those." Monica pointed at the videos on the table and started to cough.
"I don't think you should go. You look terrible."
"Thanks."
"I think you should go to bed."
"I can't."
"Monica you're really sick."
"No I'm not." Monica grabbed the bottle away from Chandler and started banging it against the table. "I need to return those."
"Where's Rachel?"
"She went to some fashion show."
"Phoebe?"
"Date. Ross has Ben and Joey has a date."
"I'll return them for you then."
"Chandler I don't think so. You're all dressed up. What are you doing here anyway?"
"Matches."
"That drawer." Monica pointed and put the bottle onto the table and grabbed the videos. "Have fun on your date.. Kathy seems really nice." Monica nodded with a smile.
"Thanks."
"Are we still friends?" Monica said looking down and then up at him.
"Yea.. " He smiled. "Come here." He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her tightly. He kissed her on the forehead. "Oh my god. Monica you're burning up." He said putting a hand to her forehead.
"I'll be fine."
"I'm serious Mon. You're really hot. How many jackets are you wearing?"
"Three. I'm freezing."
"Monica you're going to overheat."
"I'm fine Chandler. " Monica smiled and walked over to the door. "Go have fun with your girlfriend."
Chandler took the videos away from Monica. "I want you to go to bed."
"No."
"Monica."
"Chandler."
"Go change. I'm going to go make a call and I'll be back."
"Chandler you don't have to cancel for me."
"I do. Go change and I'll make you some soup."
Monica smiled. "You don't know how to make soup."
"Yes I do."
"Really?"
"Yes. I make it all the time!"
"Sure." Monica laughed.
"Go change."
"Yes father." Monica smiled and walked to her room. She stopped at the door and turned around.
He smiled. "I'll be back."
She smiled back and proceeded to her room.
Chandler walked into his apartment and found Kathy coming out of his room. "Hey.."
"Hey. Where were you?"
"Over at Monica's."
"Oh.. whatwere you doing over there?"
"I have to cancel tonight. I'm sorry.."
"Why?" She asked a little hurt.
"I'm gonna help Monica. She's really sick."
"Weren't you going to prove to me tonight that you have no feelings for her?"
"She's my friend Kathy."
"Really? Cause earlier you referred to her as your neighbor."
"Well she is my neighbor and my friend."
"I don't think we should see each other any more. Because I know you like her. I don't want our relationship to go any further because I don't want to get hurt."
"Well if you're not going to trust me then yea I don't think we should see each other."
"Fine." Kathy said storming out.
Chandler shook his head and walked over to his room to change. He didn't care that he was no longer with Kathy. It wasn't like they were serious or anything. They had only been going out for like 2 weeks and they didn't do anything but kiss and go on dates. He only did it to make Monica mad. He hated kissing Kathy. It was weird and just wrong. He preferred Monica's kisses, her kisses were like heaven. He didn't know how to make soup. Other then pouring soup from a can into a pot. And he still wasn't sure when it was done. He had to go buy soup from the restaurant across the street. He finished changing and ran down the stairs and bought some soup. When he came back up he poured the soup into a bowl and walked over to Monica's. "Hey."
"Hey." She smiled. "That took a while. I began to think you wouldn't show up."
"Had to make the soup." He smiled and placed the bowl in front of her.
Monica put the spoon into her mouth. "Mmm.. tastes just like the soup from that new restaurant across the street.."
"That must mean I'm pretty good huh?"
Monica laughed.
"I'm gonna go return these videos and I'll be back. K?"
She smiled and nodded. "Thank you Chandler."
"Anything for you." He smiled and kissed her forehead.
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