Chapter 10:
Hospitals always do that…
I finally got to the hospital where they took Rachel and Phoebe after the accident, as I walked quickly into the emergency room I was praying that they were ok. Hospitals scared the hell out of me… but… I think they always do that to people…
In the emergency room I saw Ross and Chandler, they were sitting in the uncomfortable hospital chairs, whit very sad expressions…. Hospitals always made people sad… except maybe during a baby's birth… anyway…. I rushed towards them…
Monica- hi... I came as quickly as I could… what happened? How are they?
Chandler- well… Rachel and Phoebe stole Joey's car and was driving when they crashed to a truck… Rachel has a broken arm… and a very ugly cut on her face
In horror I covered my mouth with my hand. To Rachel, a cut on her face would be like death.
Monica- Oh my God!
Chandler- don't worry… doctors say that a plastic surgeon would easily fix the scars… it will like the accident never happened…
Ross- doctors are making some test now to see if she has any inside injury, Joey is with her…
Monica- I have to call her parents
Ross- I already called them… they are coming on the next plane…
Monica- ok… and how is Phoebe… is the baby ok?
Chandler and Ross looked at each other… then Ross looked sadly at the floor while Chandler gave me the bad news…
Chandler- Phoebe lost the baby Mon… Monica- oh no!I started crying my eyes out…. "poor Phoebe", I thought. I could only imagine how terrible it must be loosing a child. Chandler hold me while I cried… and then I made my self strong and I went to see Phoebe.
I entered in Phoebe's room, and she was just laying in her bed, looking very sad and pale… whit her eyes red for crying a lot. Why do hospitals always make people look and feel physically worse than they actually are?
Monica- hi Pheeps… How are you?
Ok… it was a stupid question, I know that now…. But I had not idea what else to say… what do you say to a woman who has just lost her baby? If you know that, you are smarter that I am… because I had not idea what to say…
Phoebe- I lost the baby Mon! they said I lost it!…
Monica- I know honey… and I am SO sorry….
I gave her a very tight hug, and a kiss in her forehead… Then I sited next to her… not knowing what to say… finally Phoebe broke the silence…
Phoebe- it was a girl… a girl! And I didn't tell this to anyone but I was going to keep her after all…
Monica- oh Pheeps
Phoebe- yesterday I had my feet into the Pacific Ocean and she kicked… she gave me her very first kick… I considered it a sign that I should keep her… I loved her so much…
Monica- (nodding) I know honey…. Well… actually… I can only imagine… (With tears in her eyes) I whish I could help you somehow… I feel so useless…
Phoebe- is ok… you help just being here
Monica- is there anyone you want me to call? Maybe the father of the baby…
Phoebe- no! He abandoned me after I told him I was pregnant….
Monica- oh… I'm sorry about that…
Phoebe- is ok… I never loved him or needed him… although, I really needed a man today… not him… but someone who loves me… isn't it stupid?
Monica- no… that's not stupid at all..
Phoebe- is just… when they brought me here I felt so alone… it suddenly hit me… I was going to be a mother, and I'm alone!
Monica- honey… you are not alone…
Phoebe- I know I have you guys… but… today, when the doctor told me that I lost the baby I felt really bad for not having a man loving me and caring for me…. And I feel like and idiot for feeling that…
Monica- you shouldn't feel like and idiot… everybody wants someone to love… is normal…
Phoebe- is not normal to me! I'm Phoebe… I'm not like you… I've never dreamed about finding my soul mate… I never cared about guys… I never had a serious relationship, I've never wanted that… to me guys where just great boys to have fun with… I had a great time having sex with them but that was it… not even when I was pregnant I whished I was married…
Monica- well… that's ok… you were always special…
Phoebe- but today I wasn't! today I wanted so bad to have a man with me… you know? I really wanted to have a fucking soul mate!
What Phoebe was trying to tell me is that loosing her baby turned her into a totally different person: into me…
Just in that moment, Rachel entered into the room… she was wearing a cast in her arm and a bandage on her right cheek…. A nurse was taking her in a wheel chair because she had insisted in seen Phoebe. The nurse let her next to the bed…
What we didn't know is that she have heard the last part of the conversation…
Rachel- well… maybe we can be each other's soul mates… and then guys would only be… "just great boys to have fun with"…
Monica- (smiling) I like that idea…
Phoebe- I like it too…
Watching Phoebe like that broke Rachel's heart…. And she burst into tears…
Rachel- Phoebe…. I'm so sorry… I will never forgive my self for doing this to you…
Phoebe- it was and accident… you didn't want this to happen…
Rachel- but I was driving… and I wasn't careful… please… forgive me… I'm really sorry…
Phoebe- I don't blame you Rachel… I blame my bad luck… remember who are you talking to… I always blame fate… I wouldn't have lost my baby if it wasn't because good things are not meant to me… I always loose everything that means something to me…
Rachel didn't know how to respond to that, so she just hugged Phoebe and hold her while they both cried her eyes out. I was crying my self… but there was one thing I needed to do…
Monica- girls… I think is time to go home… They nodded…. So I went to the nearest pay phone and I called the only person I wanted to pick me up… A couple of hours later, I was sitting in the emergency room, resting my head in Chandler's shoulder while I saw him coming…. Immediately I ran towards my dad, who was walking towards us along whit Mr. and Mrs. Green, and I hugged him with tears in my eyes… Jack- hi…Monica- hi dad…. How did you come so soon?
Jack- When you called me I was already in the airport sweetie… I took the plain whit Rachel's parents because they call me and told me what happened…
Monica- oh… and do you hate me? Am I grounded for life? Are you mad at me? Are you ever going to forgive me for leaving like that?
Jack- relax little Harmonica! I don't hate you… and I'm not mad… I was worry about you, but I understand that you were really up set and that's why you left…
Monica- oh… tanks for understand me…
Jack- I'm very understanding but you are definitely grounded… until you start college…
Monica- that's fair…
Jack- so… tell me… did you meet her?
Monica- yes… and she is really nice… but I realized that I prefer you and Judy as my parents…
Once Phoebe and Rachel recovered physically, they where discharged from the hospital. Rachel's scar was still bad, but her parents were friends whit the best plastic surgeon in the East Coast, it was a Doctor from Manhattan, who would fix Rachel's scar before she starts college in UCLA…
Phoebe decided that she didn't want to live in L.A. after what happened, so she decided to look for her grandma and move in with her in New York…
Joey, of course, would stay in L. A. to see if he could get a better acting job… he was sad because everybody else was leaving, but Rachel told him that she would move to L.A. in two weeks, so they would be constantly in touch….
Ross and Chandler decided to return to NYU, even though the classes would start two weeks later.
And I had to return to my house in Long Island.
But even though we where going separate ways, our story was very far from it's end….
To be continued…So… did you like this chapter? It was kind of short…. And more like "a filler chapter"…
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Chapter 2 is corrected! Is had several spelling mistakes that I hadn't noticed
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By the way…. tank you to Jeremiah for telling me about my mistake! And… answering to your
question: Yale might be great…. But remember that Monica wanted to live very far away from her parents… so… her dream is going to Oxford