Chapter 12:
A New Millennium
It was the morning of December 31, 1999. Fourteen years later I left to England.
Believe or not, in December 31 of 1999 I woke up in a house in North Western.
It's been almost seven years since my husband and I moved to North Western.
When I came back from England, I moved to my grandmother's apartment that was located in Greenwich Village…. in Manhattan… Then I got married (that was ten years ago)… and my husband and I continued living in the apartment for a while, but when the babies started to come we decided to leave the city to be on a safer place…
I touched the other side of the bed looking for my husband… and he wasn't there, which was weird because he usually he wakes up so much later than me… then… I found out the reason he wasn't there…. because it was way to late to be in bed…. It was 11 in the morning! I got up, and went to the "kitchen-living room"… my husband Chandler, was reading the New York Times in the kitchen table.
It
was so easy living day by day
Out of touch with the rhythm and the
blues,
But now I need a little give and take,
The New York
times, the daily news...
Fourteen years since we danced that song for the first time. And we still knew it by heart.
He looked at me, and… of course… he made a joke…
Chandler- oh! Good morning sleeping beauty… or should I say Good afternoon? Tank God that you have a very understandable husband who prepared you a brunch...
Monica- oh... (I smiled) tank you honey…
I sit next to him, and I started to eat my late breakfast.
Chandler- so…. what time are the kids returning?
Monica- well… Elaine and Emma are coming by noon…
Elaine and Emma are our twin girls… they were 6 years old… and they were in a friend's house for an sleep over… it was the first time the spent the night away from home…
Chandler- And Daniel?
Monica- Ross will take him tonight…
Daniel was our older son… who was 8 years old… He was at Ross's house because he was very close with Ross's older son, who was 9…
Ross married my old friend Julie nine years ago…. They started dating after I introduced them when I came back from England. Ross married her after dating a few years and they have one son and four daughters…
Chandler- ok… so… the three of us will be alone… that's interesting…
Oh… I'm pregnant with our fourth child, by the way… that explains that I sleep more than usual and that Chandler referred to he and I as "the three of us"…
Monica- yes… but you have to help me and the baby to prepare the food and clean everything for tonight… Chandler- ok… I will help you… I can't say no to you when you are pregnant. Monica- only when I'm pregnant? Then I won't take the pill for as long as I live…We laughed. Then, we started the preparation for the New Year's Eve…Chandler and I had planned to throw a New Year party to receive the new millennium.
But I know what you are thinking…. How came they are together? Didn't she move to England?
Well…. I did move to England…. But Chandler and I never broke up…. During my two years in Oxford Chandler called me everyday…. Besides, he visited England four times in those two years: twice for my birthday and twice for Valentine's Day… plus… I spent my summer holidays in New York…. So… we kept in touch…
As soon as I got my degree and I became a chef, I moved to Manhattan, to my grandmother's apartment and he moved in with me immediately… two year after that he proposed to me and we got engaged… we been happily married for ten years…
Chandler- I'm so glad to finally see Rachel and Joey again
Monica- I'm too… we are going to meet Melanie…
Rachel and Joey have been marry for nine years…. They started dating as soon as Rachel moved to Los Angeles but Joey had some commitment issues so…. it took five years of dating, two breaks ups, and three ultimatums for him to propose…. But eventually he did… he married Rachel and the two of them live very happily in L.A. We see them once a year… they have a four-year-old son named Gabriel and a baby girl named Melanie who we still haven't met…
Chandler- is Phoebe coming?
Monica- yes, she is coming with her husband….
Right after I left to England, Phoebe stabbed a cop and she went to prison for a while…. But don't feel sorry for her… because she ended up marring her lawyer…. A guy called Mike, who is a lawyer by day and a pianist by night, got her out of prison… they fell in love and got marry…. Now they have a daughter called Sarah and the three of them live happily in my grandmother's apartment…
Right now…. Phoebe, Rachel and I are reunited in my garden….
We already had dinner and celebrated the arrival of a New Millennium whit our husbands and kids… but there is one thing that we had to do without them….
Like I did when we received the year 1980 and were twelve years old, I'm holding a box that the three of us are going to bury….
Phoebe putted inside that box the T-shirt she was wearing in L.A… when she felt the baby she lost kicking for the first time.
Next, Rachel putted the crown they gave him when she was crowned prom queen.
And I putted the tiny dress my birth mother gave me, the first thing I ever wore, and a picture of me when I was fat.
We putted all those things inside the box and we buried it. And we promised to never unbury it.
We where doing the same ceremony we did in 1980…. But this time we weren't burying our whishes and dreams for the future… we were saying goodbye to our past…
Because the future is not here yet and the past is long gone. So, all we have is now…
And right now, we have each other.
THE ENDSo…. now you have the whole story…. this the part when I say: What do you think? Please! Review! Please! (thanks so much for the reviews I've already gotten)
To Sarah: see? I wasn't sad after all! And you called me liar… So… take that back! LOL