To Monica… in her 37th birthday
Chandler was walking down the beach… he couldn't sleep at all and his plane to New York would leave in three hours. He was devastated and he felt like such an idiot… he had really believed Rachel… he really believed that Monica was his girl so he went to L. A. to get his woman back but he couldn't do it. When he saw her in that wedding dress he realized that Joey could make her happy. And he wanted Monica to be happy above everything. He had to accept that Monica was happy with Joey for her own sake.
Chandler had screwed things up big time by leaving with Andrew… and Monica marring Joey was the punishment for Chandler's mistakes. He had to be a man and take that punishment.
Chandler looked around him… no single soul was on the beach. That was understandable… it was way too early for people to be on the beach and it looked like it was about to rain anyway. He had a big shock when he noticed a woman sited on the sand and crying a river… he had a bigger shock when he noticed who that girl was. It was Monica. She was sited on the sand with her knees on her chest and her hands covering her face and she was wearing a long pink dress.
He didn't know what to do… he didn't expect to see Monica there… alone and in so much pain. He walked towards her and hugged her.
Monica startled very afraid… but then she noticed that it was Chandler and she couldn't help smile.
Monica- oh my God! Chandler… what are you doing here?
Chandler was now sited next to her and he wiped Monica's tears with his hand.
Chandler- please, baby, don't cry… I hate it when you cry…
Monica- ok… I'm not crying now… I'm so glad you are here… I thought you were already back in New York…
Chandler- my plane to New York will leave in three hours… I was just taking a walk…
Monica looked into Chandler's beautiful blue eyes and she could read them like a book.
Monica- Chandler… you didn't come to L.A to congratulate me… didn't you?
Chandler shook his head.
Chandler- I came here because I still love you… I came to tell you that I can't live without you and that I need you to be with me again because if you don't forgive me for what I did I will die inside… but when I saw you in that wedding dress…
He didn't need to complete the phrase… Monica knew exactly what Chandler must had felt when he saw her trying on a dress for a wedding with another man.
Monica- you thought that I was happy about my engagement with Joey… that I was looking forward to marring him and that he would make me happy…
Chandler- exactly… that's exactly what I thought.
Monica started laughing hysterically… and Chandler looked at her oddly.
Chandler- what's so funny?
Monica couldn't stop laughing…but eventually she put her self together and answered.
Monica- the funny thing is that if you had stayed in the store a bit longer you would have seen that when I saw my self in that wedding dress I had a panic attack…
Chandler- what!
Monica- like I said… you were thinking that I was happy with Joey and I was having a real panic attack… they had to take me to the hospital…
Chandler- really? Are you ok now?
Monica- yes…
Chandler- but… why are you here now… alone?
Monica- because I broke up with Joey a few minutes ago… Chandler… I don't want to marry him… he is not the person I want to spend the rest of my life with…
Chandler saw that Monica was telling the truth and he smiled widely…
Chandler- he isn't?
Monica- I want you… I miss you so much… I never stopped loving you…
Chandler- I love you more than anything Mon… and I willing to spend the rest of my life proving you that you are everything to me… but will you be able to forgive me?
Monica- yes… I love you so much that I can't live without you… so… I will trust you completely again and I will forgive you because if I don't I will be miserable the rest of my life… you are the only one I want… the only one that can't make me happy…
Chandler kissed her and they made out in the sand… after a while they got up…
Monica- but look at me… I'm a mess…Her clothes had lots of sand, her make up was ruined because of crying and her hair was a mess. Chandler was in not better conditions… his clothes were very dirty and his eyes were read for crying, his hair was a mess too and he had shadows under his eyes… They both looked so tired… and they looked like they had aged 20 years in the time they were apart…
Chandler- we need to fresh up… we need to take a cold shower and start over…
Like if the sky was listening to them it started to rain… first it was just a very soft rain but very quickly the rain grew stronger and heavier and it seemed like the sky it self was falling over them. They were soaking wet but they couldn't care less about that. Monica kissed Chandler passionately, taking his face with both of her hands and then he lifted her up and she put her legs around his waist and they continued sharing that passionate kiss under the rain…
Two months after that…. In Monica and Chandler's apartment.
Monica woke up in her old but very beloved apartment… she woke up with a huge smile in her face. It was her 37th birthday and Chandler had promised that it would be her best birthday ever… and she believed him… after all those years of being madly in love with each other and after two months of being together again like a happy couple Monica didn't expect anything less than a wonderful, mind blowing, breathtaking birthday surprise.
She got up off bed and went to the kitchen where Chandler was giving the twins their favorite breakfast: pancakes with honey and milk… He looked at her and smiled…
Chandler- good morning Mon… happy birthday!
Monica- thanks!
They kissed softly on the lips… and then the twins got a little jealous and claimed a little of their mother's attention…
Little Joey- happy biday mommy
Elizabeth- happy biday!
Monica smiled with her eyes filled with happy tears… it was the first time her kids wished her a happy birthday (the fact that they were too little and didn't even know what a birthday was didn't mattered to her). Monica kissed both of their twins and gave each of them a huge embrace…
Monica- thank you! Mommy loves her little ones so much!
Chandler pretended to be extremely disappointed…. And then he talked imitating a child's voice:
Chandler- and mommy doesn't love daddy?
Monica smiled and nodded…Monica- mommy loves daddy very much… specially when daddy makes her some pancakes…
Chandler- all right!
Chandler immediately started making pancakes for Monica while she was in the bathroom washing her face and cleaning her teethes. Chandler entered in the bathroom when she was just finishing brushing her teethes and kissed her…
Monica- can you believe I'm 37?
Chandler- no… because that would make me 38… and that's impossible because there is no way I'm that old! But don't worry… I will love you when you are old… maybe I will even love you when you are 40!
Monica smiled… Chandler looked cuter than ever when he was joking…
Monica- I'll love you even when you are 50…
Chandler- that's easy for you to say… you have experience loving old men…
Monica punched him playfully in his chest…
Monica- stop kidding and give me that envelope you have in your hands…
Chandler hided the envelop behind his back… and pretended to be confused…Chandler- what envelop?
Monica- Chandler Muriel Bing! That envelope has something to do with my birthday surprise and I want it…
Chandler- what birthday surprise? I don't know what you are taking about!
Monica took the envelope that said: "To Monica… in her 37th birthday" and opened it… a letter written by Chandler was inside. Monica read it: " HAPPY BIRTHDAY MON! I have good news and bad news… I got you a birthday present but I won't give it to you… you must found it your self… your first clue that will lead you to your present is the following: you must leave the bathroom and have "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Love… Chandler… "
Monica gave Chandler a weird look… She had to go all the way to Tiffany's?Monica- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"… you must be joking!
Chandler- just do what the letter says…
Monica went out the living room and she looked everywhere… and then it hit her… when she saw that kitchen table where her twins were having breakfast she noticed an small bag in there… a bag from Tiffany's next to the plate in which Monica's pancake was….
Monica- of course!
Monica went and opened the bag… a piece of paper was inside… it only said: "finish your breakfast and you will find the next clue"… Monica looked at Chandler a bit disappointed…
Monica- do I really have to finish my breakfast before continuing the game?
Chandler- just humor me… please! Finish the pancakes and I will go to get the kids changed…
Monica- ok… whatever you want…
Monica finished her pancakes but she didn't found any clue… she called Chandler who was in the twin's bedroom…
Monica- honey… I finished breakfast!
Chandler- then I guess I have to pick up your plate…Then it hit her: "Of course! Under the plate! Think Monica! Think!"… That was what she was thinking while Chandler picked up her plate and she saw a piece of paper that was under it… Chandler faked surprise…
Chandler- oh! Look at that! I wonder what that might be!
Monica read the paper… it said: "It could have been a four or a five… but it was a four". A lot of memories from Vegas flashed to Monica's mind… and she realized that they were under a table when Chandler told her "It's a four". So she looked under the kitchen table… she saw a post-it that was stick in one of the table's legs… it only said: "I'm still on London time… and that counts"
Monica smiled remembering when they came back from London… but she was very confused… where was her next clue? She looked in the front door and in the entire living room… which was where Chandler said "I'm still in London time… does that count?" and she answered "Oh… that counts"… she tried to remember every detail… and she muttered to her self:
Monica- London time… being on London time… time… London… time… Chandler winked his eye at her when she said the word "time"…Monica- that's it! Is about TIME!
Chandler- I don't know what you are talking about… I just had something in my eye…
It was definitely about time… and the Monica remembered something… she went to her bedroom a looked in her night table and there was it: the alarm clock she bought in London. She picked it up and, as she suspected, her next clue was under it… it was a piece of paper that said: "darling… you look wonderful tonight"… Monica smiled… it was a line from the song "Wonderful tonight" the song she and Chandler danced the night they got engaged… Monica noticed that Chandler was looking at her…
Chandler- you really looked wonderful tonight… but that's because you always look beautiful.
Monica smiled and gave him a kiss… Monica- thanks… but I have not idea what this clue means…She checked the entire living room again… after all they danced there… and she even checked inside the CD box of the Eric Clapton but she found nothing in there… Chandler finally decided to help her a little…
Chandler- think Mon… you looked wonderful that night… what were you wearing?
Monica smiled and went straight to her closet… she looked desperately the pink dress she was wearing when Chandler proposed… and she found a piece of paper attached to it with a clip… it said: "wear me and then go to your car"… Everything was getting weirder… but Monica got dress with the short dark pink dress she was wearing when Chandler proposed to her and then she went out the building and when to her car… another piece of paper was there… it said "the only person who can't drive me will use me to take you to your present"… She noticed that Rachel was there…
Rachel- well…well... well… you finally got here! Happy birthday!
Monica- thanks… you know what is this all about?
Rachel- I have to drive you to your present…
Monica- but… you can't drive my car…
Rachel- do you want to get to your present or not?
Monica- ok…
Monica and Rachel got in the car and Rachel drove it… Monica was very confused… she had not idea where she was going… she was shocked when she noticed that they were leaving Manhattan.
Monica- Rach… tell me… where are we going?
Rachel- you will see…
After a while Monica saw they were in Westchester and Rachel parked in front of a beautiful house. The house had a big sign that said "ON SALE" but it was covered with a smaller sign that said "SOLD"… Monica looked at Rachel speechless…
Monica- oh my God! Does it mean what I think it means?
Rachel- just check the mail box…
Monica looked inside the mail box… there was an envelope in there… she opened it and there was a key… and a note that said: "CONGRATULATIONS! You found your birthday present! Now go inside the house and kiss the man who bought it for you".
Using the key Monica opened the door of the house and saw Chandler inside it… he was looking at her with a big smile and the twins were running around… playing in the house that was still empty but would be soon full with the Bing's stuff and with the Bings.
Monica quickly kissed Chandler and they melted in a very sweet kiss…
Monica- oh my God! You bought me a house?
Chandler- actually, I bought the house for the entire family… I bought something else just for you…
Saying that Chandler took a very small box out of his pocket… he opened it and showed Monica a beautiful engagement ring… Monica was speechless…
Chandler- Mon… when we first got engaged I promised to make you happy… and I kept that promise for a while… then we got married and you made me the happiest man on earth… but then something happened… life happened… things started to fall apart and instead of staying with you like I was supposed to do… I ran away and left you to be with someone else because I thought that things would be easier that way… that was the biggest mistake I have ever made… Mon… you are my soul mate… I could never be happy without you… we belong together and I want to spend the rest of my life with you and the kids… and with this ring I promise that I'll always love you… that's the only thing I can promise you now because that's the only thing I know for certain… no matter what I will ALWAYS love you… so… Monica… Would you marry me again?
Monica was happy crying without thinking it twice she said…
Monica- yes… yes… yes… I will marry you! I will marry you 100 times if I have to because no matter what I'll be forever yours… I love you so much…
Chandler- and I love you…
Chandler put the engagement ring in Monica's left hand… and then they kissed passionately…. Their lives will never be exactly the same… but they will be just as great as they once were… and their second marriage would last forever…
THE END
Well… here you have the last chapter…. I really gonna miss this story… is really my personal favorite and I liked how it turned out… Anyway… THANK YOU so much for reading this and for send me all those reviews… I appreciated each of them, you guys were great (and I'm hoping to get more reviews for this last chapter!).
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Well… it's goodbye for now then… I'll focus in finishing "The age of un-innocence" and in a fanfic of "Commander In Chief" I'm dying to star.