Chapter 9:
It was for the best
The tears started falling from my eyes as I watched my beloved big brother sitting down in the chapel's floor, feeling shocked, hiding his face with his hands. I could tell just by looking at him how hurt and disappointed he was. I knew him well enough to realize how he was feeling even though he wasn't saying a word. After all he was my brother, except by blood.
After watching Carol leaving the chapel whit her "maid of dishonor", Ross stayed sitting there, processing what had just happened for a very long time.
Once Ross was ready to get up and leave, we convinced him to come to L.A with us. We thought that he needed to have some time to think things over. He couldn't come back to the university yet, he wasn't ready to face everybody, but he couldn't stay in Vegas either… because that city would always brought to him the memory of Carol. Therefore, he agreed and came to Los Angeles.
The trip from Vegas to L.A went very quietly… Ross was too depressed because of what happened with Carol, Phoebe was nervous because she knew that she had to sing the adoption papers to give her baby up very soon…. And I was nervous because very soon I was going to meet the woman who gave me up…
A few hours later, we arrived to Los Angeles, California. We got two rooms (one for the boys and one for the girls).
Since the weather was very hot and we needed something refreshing after the car trip, the first thing we did after getting the rooms was visiting the beach…
Ross was laying in a towel placed over the sand. He watched at the Pacific Ocean that was just in front of him…. And he saw the beautiful ocean whit his friends and his little sister on it.
Phoebe was wearing a T-shirt and she only had her feet inside the ocean… she had one hand in her pregnant belly and her eyes were close.
Rachel was in a very sexy bath suit, trying to get inside the ocean to swim, but she was complaining because the water was too cold… Joey grinned maliciously, he ran towards Rachel, carried her against her will and throw her to the ocean. After that, Rachel and Joey started a big, but very fun, "water fight".
I was carefully walking into the Ocean's very cold water. I was walking very slowly trying to get my body use to the temperature change…. But, so far… I didn't get wet any part of my body but my legs… Chandler saw all this, standing in the sand, and he mocked me….
Chandler- Mon… there are two ways for getting into the water… one is your way… which is also known as… the loser's way….
Monica- (teasing him) oh… really? And which is the other way? Swim champion
Chandler- the winner's way is this….
Chandler quickly ran into the water and jumped under a wave without a hesitation… then he came out to the surface and, being fully wet, he looked at me and challenged me…
Chandler- so… are you planning to get wet anything other than your legs? Or are you going to let me win on this?
Monica- no way!
I walked out the ocean, and then ran into very quickly… then I jumped under a wave and swam next to Chandler. I locked proudly at him…
Monica- "team Monica" always wins…
Chandler- then I want to be a part of it…
He pulled me very close to him a kissed mi passionately.
Ross was watching the whole scene. He already knew Chandler and I had something… so it wasn't quite a shock seeing us kissing. Of course, he was very uncomfortable because his best friend was dating his little sister, but he had his own problems and he didn't feel like making a huge scandal…
A few minutes later, Phoebe stopped wetting her feet in the Pacific Ocean and went to lay in the sand, next to Ross….
Phoebe- how are you doing?
Ross- I'm playing a game called… how bad things get before I actually start considering suicide…
Phoebe- (surprised) is THAT a game?
Ross- no Phoebe, that's my life (Punching his own head) oh!… Sorry Pheeps… I shouldn't have said that… knowing what happened to you and all…
Phoebe- is ok Ross… I'm fine… just because my mother killed her self it doesn't mean that people can talk freely about suicide with me…
Ross- I'm still sorry… is just… I'm so…
Phoebe- I know…
Ross- I should have never been so impulsive… so spontaneous…
Phoebe- hey… you being spontaneous was a good thing…
Ross- I don't know…
Phoebe- (sighted) at lest they look happy… (Pointing at Chandler y Monica) Don't they?
Ross- (reluctantly admitting) yes, they do…
Phoebe- do you know what's funny about Monica and Chandler?
Ross- frankly… I don't think there is anything funny about them…
Phoebe- but there is! Think about it… you are the reason they are together… and that's hilarious…
Ross- first at all… that is not funny… and second of all… I didn't do anything… how can I be responsible for their relationship?
Phoebe- well… if you hadn't decided to marry Carol in Vegas. Monica would had just borrow some money from you in Miami and we all would have continue our trip without Chandler, and Monica and Chandler would have never travel to Vegas together and wouldn't start a relationship…
Ross- I'm glad that my misery helped someone…
Phoebe- but there was something good for you too… Ross… if you hadn't decided to marry Carol so soon, she wouldn't have felt nervous enough to kiss Susan and she would have never realized that she is a lesbian… you are very lucky…
Ross- how exactly?
Phoebe- because Carol realized she loves Susan soon enough, and you didn't marry her and lived with her for years, trapped in a fake marriage….
Ross- I guess you are right….
Phoebe- I'm so right! All of this was meant to happen…
After a day at the beach, I finally took the courage to call my birth mother… she was very happy when I told her who I was and that I was in L.A. She begged me to visit her, and I agreed to go to her place the next morning…
I went to her apartment by my self, and a very fat woman opened the door… at first I thought she was my mother, but then she introduced her self as Courtney, my Mother's sister, and explain to me that she was taking care of my mother, who was waiting for me in her bedroom because she was too sick to get up of bed.
My "aunt Courtney", took me to my mother's bedroom… and there she was Elaine… my birth mother… black hair… blue eyes… and, of course, she was fat too… however… you could tell that she had lost a lot of weigh because of her decease… she was very pale… and in spite her being sick she looked way too young to be my mother…
Courtney- Elaine… this is Monica… she came to see you… (to Monica)… If you need anything I'll be in the kitchen to give you two some time alone…
Monica- ok… thanks… (To Elaine) hi…
Elaine- (smiling) hi… came here… I want to give you a hug…
I hugged her… and then pulled a chair next to her bed and sited there…Monica- I would have visited you sooner… but I found out about my adoption a week ago… and it took me very long to come here…
Elaine- I understand… and it's ok… you are here now! I can't believe it…
Monica- I'm so glad I came…
Elaine- I'm to… it's just… (Looking at me confused) I don't understand… you got my eyes and my hair… but… you are so thin… it doesn't make sense considering that you have my genes…
Monica- (laughing) oh… actually it makes sense… because I was very fat when I was a kid… but I started doing diet and exercise and I loose all my extra weigh a couple of years ago…
Elaine- good for you!… you are a very beautiful woman… and you were the cutest baby ever…
Monica- really?...
Elaine- yes… and you were so tiny… (Remembering something) That reminds me something! Could you please look inside that box over there? there is something I want you to see…
She pointed at a box that was next to the closet. And I saw a tiny little baby dress inside it; I took the dress and showed at her…
Monica- this is what you wanted to show me?
Elaine- yes! That's the first thing you ever wore…
Monica- really?
Elaine- yes… when I first found out I was pregnant I thought that I was going to keep you, so, as my belly kept growing I kept buying baby clothes…. But most of them were too big, and when you were born that dress was the only thing that fit you…
Monica- I'm sorry to ask you this… but I need to know… when did you decided to gave me up for adoption and why?
Elaine- well… right after you were born… I realized that you deserved so much better that what I could give you… see… I was 14… and I didn't have much money… and when I looked at you… looking so fragile… I realized that I was not capable of taking care of you the way you needed it…
I did it because I knew you would be better with a different family… I thought that the Guellers where the best family for you…
It was funny she said that…. Because during my whole life I wished I didn't have the family I actually had… I would have chosen any family but the Guellers. But in that moment, I wasn't thinking about the woman who raised me as her daughter, I was looking at my mother, the woman who gave me up in order to give me something only she could have given me: a life better than her own. So… there was only one thing I could say…
Monica- (with tears in her eyes) mum… you did the right thing… I had a lovely life so far…At first I thought I was just saying that to made Elaine feel better… but as soon as that words left my mouth I realized something: they were the truth.
I mean… Jack and Judy weren't the perfect parents, but deep down I really loved them and they really loved me… besides… without Judy pushing me I would have never loose weight, and I wouldn't have got admitted in Oxford… besides, without Ross as my brother I would have never known Chandler…
One thing was for certain… my adoption was really the best thing that could ever happen to me.
At the same time… Rachel was with Chandler and Phoebe at our hotel room… Joey was still sleep..
Rachel- I'm so bored that I could die!
Chandler- I'm so bored that I could die ten times!
Phoebe- I'm too… but don't worry… as soon as Joey wakes up he will takes us to see the houses of the big celebrities…
Rachel- (exited) I know! I just wish we could go right now…
Chandler- we must wait for Joey… because he owns the car…
Rachel- then I will go to wake him up…
Chandler- Rachel! No!
But it was too late… Rachel went to Joey's room… and she came back a few minutes later… whit a malicious grin on her face…
Phoebe- so? did you wake him up? Is he mad? Did he yell?
Rachel- no… I didn't wake him up… I did something much better…
Phoebe- oh no! what did you do?
As an answer, she showed Phoebe the keys of Joey's car…Chandler- please… tell me you didn't steel Joey's car keys …
Rachel- I did! And right now you and me are going to go all around L.A. in a great car…
Phoebe- awesome
Chandler- I don't wanna be a part of it…
Rachel- ok…. You stay here with the sleeping beauty… I'm going to have a great time driving around! I love driving! Specially when is forbidden…
Saying this she started living… then Phoebe followed very excitedly...
Phoebe- Wait Thelma! You are going to need a Louise!
The two girls, go and stole Joey's car… Rachel started driving as fast as she could and they were having the time of their lives….
Until the car crushed against a huge truck… To be continued…This is a great cliffhanger isn't it? What do you think is going to happen?
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