Chapter 3:

Revelations

That Saturday morning, while I was making my college decision, Rachel and the other popular girls where shopping for some clothes they needed to go to L.A. They all had been accepted in UCLA and they where really looking forward to live In L.A. But the morning was ruined when they saw Chip Matthews who wanted to talk to Rachel. She tried really hard to avoid him, but finally

She asked him what he wanted.

Chip – I just wanted to apologize for what I did last night… I ´m sorry

Rachel- Don't bother! I will never forgive you.

Chip- Is just... I just want you to know that I never meant to hurt you… I only did that because I though that was what you wanted.

Rachel- You are a bigger idiot than I though then.. Why would I want you to cheat on me? You are such a jerk!..

Chip- I didn't mean that you wanted me to cheat on you! I meant that I thought you didn't want a serious relationship... I though you didn't care about me

Rachel- Well… I did… Why did you assume otherwise?

Chip- It doesn't matter now...

Rachel- explain it to me… is the less you can do..

Chip- Well... is just… you always been so shallow, and please don't take it the wrong way,

Because there is nothing wrong with being shallow… is just who you are and is ok. But you never take anything seriously.

Rachel- (really mad) I was seriously in love with you! But tank you for making me see the kind of person you really are… Now I will easily get over you and I will go to LA and find a real man!

She left quickly after saying this. She walked away from Chip so fast that she accidentally tripped with her own feet and she fall down. A hansom boy helped her to get up from the floor.

Rachel- tanks...

Boy- You are welcome cutie ...

Rachel smiled at him, but her friends, Marian y Mimi, immediately drag her away from that boy.

Rachel- What the her are you doing girls? Didn't you see I was trying to flirt over there?

Mimi- yes.. but you where flirting with the wrong guy!

Rachel – what are you talking about? do you even know him?

Marian – we've only heart some stories about him.

Mimi – his name is Joey Tribianni, he didn't went to high school, he is an actor from New York,

he slept with half Manhattan and he was in prison for six months..

Rachel - oh my God! Why?

Mimi - he ran over an old lady because he was driving while he was drunk ... luckily the old lady is fine now…

Marian- the guy is a mess and no decent girl would date him.

Rachel stared at Joey for a while and she saw that he met with Phoebe and began to talk with her. Then Rachel realize that Joey was probably the guy who would take Phoebe to Los Angeles.

At that night, I came back to my house after going for an ice-cream with the only female friend I have made during high school: Julie. She was a very smart Chinese girl who was going to study paleontology at UNYC. I though to my: "If Ross was single, Julie would be perfect for him".

Anyway… after hanging up with Julie I came back home and I overheard my parents having a huge argument in the kitchen.

Jack - I don't want you to tell her! I won't let you

Judy - but she has the right to know what happened…

Jack - it will be terrible for her...

Judy - it will be worse if she discovers it later on because it will be to late for her to do anything about it!

Jack – we had decided not to tell her anything at the first place, when it all started, remember?

Judy – you are not being reasonable...

I entered in the kitchen and I coughed to make them notice that I was there and I noticed that my father became really pale.

Jack- How much did you heard?

Monica – I heard that you are hiding something from somebody and that it is something really big (confused) What's happening? Is it something I should know?

Judy- yes

Jack- no!

Mónica- What's going on? Please, tell me… you are scaring me..

My father went to the living room and sat down in the couch, then he made me sit next to him. Obviously he had realized that it was pointless to keep the secret more time.

Jack - Well... Mon... There is something that is important for you to know...

Judy - Mon… we love you very much and we will always love you because you are our daughter, but… you are not biologically our daughter… we adopt you when you were a few days old.

Mónica - (astonished) what! (About to cry) you are not my real parents? you lied to me during my entire life!

Jack - (very hurt) Darling… I understand that you are angry... but we ARE your parents, Because we love you as our daughter, we raised you, and we took care of you whenever you needed it… You gave you everything you ever wanted!

Monica- (with tears in her eyes) I don't understand… Why did you wanted to adopt? You had a baby: Ross. Mum could had gotten pregnant again…or (confused) Is Ross adopted too?

Judy- no Mon... your brother is not adopted.. but... Do you remember that we told you that your father and I had problems to conceive during a lot of time before we had Ross?

Monica - Yes… you said that my brother was a medical marvel ..

Judy - Well... but before I got pregnant, your father and I wrote down our names in several

Adoptions agencies because we were looking for a baby, but we had no luck... Somehow… I got pregnant but we never told it to the agencies.

Jack - when Rossie was six months old one of the agencies called us and they told us that there was a baby girl who needed a family if we wanted her… we could not refuse... so we adopt that baby and named her Monica after my mother…

Monica - I cannot believe it... (still crying and looking at Judy) that explains so many things, now I understand why I have always been so different... but.. Why did you tell it to me now? You could had just keep hiding it from me… as long as you wanted.

Judy – Yes, but something happened mon... Something that made impossible for me to continue with this lie, because of what recently happened my conscience didn't allow me to continue lying any more.

Monica – What is it?

Jack- Honey… your biological mother called us, she is desperately looking for you because found out that she has cancer and she wants to at less meet you just in case she… you know…

Judy – darling, she doesn't want to take you away from us, all she wants is to meet you..

Monica- (with tears in her eyes) Why didn't she came here and faced the situation personally instead that over the phone?

Judy- Because she lives in Los Angeles, honey, and not only she can't afford o travel, but she is also under a medical treatment and her doctors don't allow her to live the town. Besides, she feels that it would be wrong to simply show up and change your life … but she wants you to call her, we got her phone her name is Elaine... just like your middle name

To be continue...