Chapter seven:
Late breakfast and a hurt friend
The next morning….
Joey walked in Monica's apartment. Every morning his favorite neighbor prepared him a delicious breakfast, which he ate gladly. But that morning he didn't see her making breakfast as usual.
Monica was deeply asleep on the couch. That was very weird because Monica usually slept on her bed and got up very early to get ready before having breakfast with Joey and going to work.
Joey thought that maybe she had the day off….
Since he knew that Monica needed some rest because later she had lost sleep, he decided to make breakfast him self and let her sleep a few more minutes…
Joey tried to make some French toast as quietly as he could… but he accidentally dropped a plate that smashed to the floor…. What used to be a beautiful plate was now little pieces of glass… Joey looked nervously at Monica, expecting her to wake up screaming for the noise… but Monica continued sleeping like nothing happened…
Joey was very surprised because the noise of the plate crashing didn't wake Monica up. But he simply cleaned the mess and continued making breakfast. Once breakfast was ready, Joey decided to wake Monica up him self… He approached to Monica and shook her softly and called her name, but she remained asleep, so Joey shook her harder… then she finally woke up…
Joey- hey… is night o'clock in the morning…
Monica- (startling) what? I overslept!
Joey- that's right… in the city that doesn't sleep you managed, somehow, to oversleep…
Monica- I have to call to work and say I'm sick… that's ok… I didn't feel like going to work anyway…
Feeling embarrassed, Monica went to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and washed her face. After that she called to her work and said that she had the flu… then she joined Joey for breakfast.
Joey- apparently that couch is very comfortable… you were sleeping like a rock… you didn't even wake up when I…
Joey suddenly stopped talking… he almost confessed that he had broken one of Monica's plate… that was like committing suicide.
Monica- when you what?
Joey- well... eh... when I made the normal noises that a person makes preparing breakfast… you are chef, you know what I was talking about…
He putted into his mouth a huge bite of French toast with honey. Monica looked at him and smiled… he was so sweet sometimes.
Monica- yes… well… I'm a heavy sleeper.
Joey- actually... Chandler use to say that any little noise wakes you up… and you told me your self that you were having problems sleeping… What happened? Why were you sleeping on the couch and so deeply?
Monica- well... after I saw Chandler yesterday I couldn't sleep on my bed… sometimes is to difficult for me being alone in that huge bed… but yesterday it was harder than ever, so I came to sleep on the couch and I took some sleeping pills…
Joey- that explains it… but Mon, you shouldn't be taking those sleeping pills… there are bad for your health…
Monica- the doctor prescribed to me, because of my insomnia…
Joey- since when do you have insomnia?
Monica- since my husband is sleeping comfortable in somebody else's arms
Joey- right… I should have seen that answer coming…but I still thing those pills aren't good to you..
Monica- I told you the doctor prescribed then to me!
Joey- yes, but look what happened this morning…. The pills made you overslept…
Monica- but that was only because I took more pills than the amount the doctor told me to take…
Monica regretted saying those words as soon as they left their mouth. She had practically confessed that she abused of sleeping pills. Joey looked at her in shock.
Joey- Mon… How could you! Does it happen often?
Monica- I'm not a junkie Joe! I just felt very sad yesterday… because Chandler took all his stuff… all of Chandler's stuff are gone… and it hit me… is all over… is over Joey… and I felt so dam tired and depressed… I just wanted to get some sleep…
Joey pulled her into a big hug…
Joey- I understand… but promise me that you will never do anything like that again…
Monica- I promise…
They were very close to each other, it would have been so easy to simply kiss…. A simple kiss on the lips… What was wrong with a kiss?… The temptation was too much for Joey… he almost forgot about the consequences and the implications of he and Monica kissing and he almost kiss her… almost…
Suddenly, Ross entered in the apartment interrupting Joey's intentions of kissing Monica. He looked very worried and he was carrying Emma in his arms. Monica, very glad to see her niece took her from Ross's arms after greeting her brother.
Ross- hey… did you guys see Rachel?
Monica- no... ever since she moved with Dennis we haven't seen much of her…
Joey- I haven't seen her in days… isn't she in her apartment?
Ross- I called there… but nobody picked up the phone… I'm very worried about her… Emma spent the weekend with me and Rachel never showed up to pick her up.
Monica and Joey started getting as worried as Ross.
Monica- oh… And when was she supposed to pick Emma up?
Ross- yesterday at 7 pm.
Joey- but… didn't she call you?
Ross- she called at 6 pm to tell me that she was going to pick Emma at 7 pm, but she didn't show up and she doesn't answer her cell phone.
Monica and Joey went from feeling just a little worried to feel worry sick and very mad at Ross.
Joey- she's been missing all night and you just started to look for her now?
Monica- What is wrong with you? Why didn't you tell us this sooner? Something bad could have happen to her!
Joey- maybe she just got arrested for driving Dennis's car with an expired license…
The three of them remembered that Rachel told them that sometimes she drives her boyfriend's car even though she has her driving license expired.
Monica- I'm going to call the police…
Joey- (to Ross) Why didn't you look for her last night?
Ross looked down feeling very embarrassed.
Ross- I thought that she wanted me to baby-sit Emma more time… that she was shopping or something like that…
Joey- Without even calling you first? Do you think she is that irresponsible?
Ross- I'm sorry...
In that moment, Rachel her self walked in the apartment and she was wearing a cast in her arm.
Joey- speaking of the devil...
Rachel- Emma! Ross!... When I didn't find you in your apartment I figured you were here!
Ross- What happened to you?
Rachel- I had a little car accident when I was going to pick up Emma… I broke my arm and they made me stay all night in the hospital for observation.
Ross- Why didn't you call me? We were worry about you!
Rachel- I couldn't call...
Ross- Of course you couldn't! Because a phone call would have implied thinking about other people… and that is too much to ask for the prom queen Rachel Green.
Saying that he left very angrily and Rachel started crying.
Monica- I don't blame him for being mad... you should have call…
Rachel- I was too ashamed for what happened to call…
Joey- why? Anyone can have a car accident..
Rachel- yes... but that is not what I had… if I had called Ross he would have gone to the hospital and he would have found out what really happened…
Monica- And what really happened?...
Rachel- Joey... can you leave us alone for a minute?
Joey- sure...
Despite saying that, Joey remained motionless until Monica gave him a killer look.
Monica- Joey! Please..
Joey- what?... ok… I'm leaving...
Joey finally leaves and Monica and Rachel sit on the couch to talk. But Rachel suddenly become very nervous and she changed the topic of conversation on purpose.
Rachel- is surprising that lately Joey spends more time here than in his own apartment.
Monica- What are you talking about? Joey always spent a lot of time here…
Rachel- but I don't remember he spending so much time alone with you…. Maybe since you are not with Chandler…
Monica- no! Nothing could ever happened between me and Joey…
Rachel- that's what I thought before Barbados… however we dated for a week
Monica suddenly remembered something.
Monica- wait a minute! You were about to tell me how you broke your arm!...
Rachel starting feeling more and more nervous.
Rachel- oh... it doesn't matter… so you are going to sleep with Joey… that's great
Monica- Rachel!... stop it… we are not changing the subject… how did you brake your arm? Rachel- ok... Do you remember what I told you just before Phoebe's wedding? That sometimes Dennis hurts me during sex…
Monica- (shocked) Did he brake your arm during sex?
Rachel- no!... but, we were arguing because of his roughness in bed… and he got mad… he got very mad… and he pushed me very hard… as a result… I fell down the stairs…
Rachel's eyes filled with tears and Monica covered her mouth with her hand in horror.Monica-Oh my God! He really did that to you? This is unbelievable!
Rachel- he didn't notice we were close to the stairs when he pushed me
Monica- Rachel... you have to do something… you can't let him hurt you
Rachel- is ok Mon… he said he is sorry… that wont happen again…
Monica- you are not seriously considering forgiving him… aren't you?
Rachel- I kind of already forgave him….
Monica- no way! Rach… is not ok for him to hurt you… you can't be with someone like him…
Rachel- he didn't mean to hurt me…
Monica- next time he might hurt you even more, or he might hurt Emma.
Rachel- no way! He would never hurt the baby, he loves her… and he loves me!
Monica- he has a funny way to show it…
Rachel- he does love me! And I wont leave him…
Monica- look… you are an adult and you know what you are doing, but my advice for you is to get out of that relationship, I don't think he deserves another chance after what he did…
Rachel- enough! I wont break up whit someone who really loves me… I wont miss what probably is my last chance to be happy….
Rachel glanced at her watch and saying simply: "I have to go" picked up Emma and left.
To be continued...
THANK YOU! I love you all! Apparently all the begging I did for a review really worked! You were wonderful! And I thought that deserved a quick update…. So… I hope you all enjoyed chapter seven…it was kind of a short filler chapter… it's meant to introduce a possible CJ relationship (I know I will get several complains because of that) and to show some progress in Rachel's story.