Chapter 8:
For every action there is a reaction…
Chandler's bedroom…It is very early in the morning, and Chandler is still asleep. He is alone in his bed and the phone rings… he picks it up, half sleep…
Chandler- Yeah...put him through. (long pause) Ross, it is 5:00 a.m. If this isn't an emergency you will spend the rest of your political career cleaning my toilet…. (he listens what Ross says then he becomes fully awake) You must be joking! (listens to Ross again) Yeah... all right.
He hung up the phone and looked around the room…. He saw Monica trying to quietly dress herself and gather up her things. Chandler watched her for a moment surprised that she was planning on leaving so early and then he said…
Chandler- Mon?
She turned around and smiled at him…Monica- hi!
Chandler- What are you doing?
Monica- I wanted to leave the building before the press corps got here
Chandler- funny… that's what I think every day of my life…. Anyway… Ross just called and he is…
Monica interrupted Chandler thinking about his brother.
Monica- Boy! Ross would go nuts if he knew that I spent the night here.
There's a knock on the door. And Chandler finished what he was about to say…
Chandler- he is on his way up.
Monica- What? why?
Chandler- we have a tiny problem… (speaking up to the door) Come on in, Ross….
Ross comes in and the image of Chandler in his underwear with Monica on his side is too much for him to handle….
Ross- oh my God! Is true!
Monica tried to sound professional and cover the uncomfortable situation…
Monica- Hi, Ross… Well, Mr. President, thank you for considering investing in my restaurant… I'll just get my coat, and be on my way.Chandler laughs at Monica's pathetic and lame intend to cover the real reason she was there… and then he spoke to Ross…
Chandler- What's the situation?
Ross- They're camped out at every exit.
Monica looked at both very confused…
Monica- Who? Who's camped out?
Ross- The press.
Monica- The press is camped out?
Ross- here is an idea little sis…. The next time you have an affair that needs to be secret take a dam cab! They saw your car and recognized it…
Monica- how do they even know my car!
Joey entered in the room.
Joey- Good morning Mr. President. Hello Monica. I came over as soon as Ross called me.
Chandler- Thank God!
They were all used to him being sarcastic so Joey didn't pay attention and continued talking.
Joey- I think the important thing is not to make it look like we're panicking.
Chandler- that's funny! I think the important thing is actually not to be panicking.
Phoebe knocked on the open door and walked in.
Chandler- now is a party!
Phoebe rolled her eyes and talked very professionally:
Phoebe- Good morning, Mr. President. Good morning, Ms. Geller. I see everyone's getting an early start today.
Ross- we have a dilemma… How do we exit Monica from the building and how do we explain all this to the press?
Phoebe- we just need a diversion.
Monica looked at everybody very concerned.
Monica- a diversion?
Joey- don't worry… by diversion she is not suggesting we set the White House on fire.
Monica- good
Chandler- No, please, let's do that.
Everybody ignored Chandler's comment and try to think what to do… they all tried to come out with a logical solution…. With the exception of Phoebe.
Phoebe- I can get drunk and naked…
They all looked at her concerned… specially Ross who is taking everything way too seriously.
Ross- Can I state very clearly that I can't be part of anything illegal?
Chandler- Good for you, Ross.
Ross- Say what you want, but it's always the guy in my job that ends up doing eighteen months in Danbury Minimum Security Prison.
Chandler- Relax Ross. We're not creating any illegal diversion… not even a legal one.
Joey- we are not creating any diversion? What are we going to do?
Chandler looked at Monica and spoke in a caring voice…
Chandler- honey… you car must be surrounded by reporters but we will have somebody take you home. Don't worry…
Joey- What about the press statement?
Chandler spoke to Monica again…Chandler- Mon when you leave here, you will run into reporters and photographers. Your picture's gonna be taken every day, and you're gonna be asked questions every day. If you want to answer them, that's entirely up to you. But the White House's official position is that there is NO official position… all we will say is "no comment".
Monica nodded understanding everything, but Joey looked disappointed…Joey- No comment?
Chandler- exactly… The White House will not comment on the President's personal life.
Joey- We can't just leave it like that, sir.
Chandler- you know what, Joey? We just did!
Joey- But, sir...
Chandler gave Joey a very angry look and everybody understood that the meeting was over and left the bedroom…
Chandler- Mon, I'm sorry about all this. We'll do it better next time.
Monica- (smiling) I'm no expert, but I thought we did it pretty good this time.
Chandler- No, I mean...
Monica- I know. And I had a great time.
Chandler- Me too. I'll call you. I'll be in Panama, but I'll call you, and we can have dinner together when I come back…
Monica- (smiling more widely) I would love that.
They kiss goodbye and she left the bedroom leaving Chandler who smiled and muttered something to him self.
Chandler- All right...okay...this is good.
A little later that same morning…. At Jack and Judy Geller's house….
Jack Geller was about to have a nice breakfast made by his wife. While he was waiting for his breakfast to be ready he thought about turning on the radio and listen to the news…. As soon as he turned the radio he regretted that decision….
Male reporter's voice on the radio- Monica Geller, Senator Richard Burke's ex wife, who accompanied President Bing to last Saturday's state dinner, spent the night at the White House. This fact was known when several reporters noticed that Ms Geller's car was the entire night parked outside the White House… and those reporters plus several photographers saw Ms Geller her self leaving the White House today at 5 AM….
Jack felt like he was about to have a heart attack….
Jack- this isn't possible!
Judy- she is not that stupid…. She couldn't have done something so unbelievable stupid….
Jack- maybe that reporter was wrong….
He changed the radio station hoping to hear something different…. He did not got his way…Another reporter's voice- Monica Geller, who is the White House chief of stuff's younger sister and Senator Burke's ex wife, spent last night at the White House…. after days of speculations we finally have a confirmation that Ms. Geller does have a romantic relationship with President Chandler Bing. Apparently, the world's most eligible bachelor is off the market.
Jack looked at his wife desperately…. But she was speechless…
That night…. At the White House (the residential part)
Elizabeth Bing was doing her Science homework and Phoebe was trying to help her but she was having more problems understanding Science than Chandler's kid.
Phoebe- you know, honey…. You should probably ask you uncle Ross for help…. He is more into Science than me…
Elizabeth- but you are cooler and funnier…
Phoebe- well… when you are right you are right…
Elizabeth- besides… If Uncle Ross finds out that I have problems with Science then Ben will find out as well…
Phoebe- so what?
Elizabeth- I don't want Ben to offer me his help with my homework… that would be weird because I like him…
Phoebe- you like Ben?
Elizabeth- yes… the other night I called him like 19 times but I hung up all those times…
Phoebe- Aren't you too young for your first crush?
Elizabeth- I will be eleven next month…
Chandler entered in the room… and Phoebe looked at the time…Chandler- hello….
Elizabeth- hi dad…
Phoebe- hello Mr. president… you are suppose to leave to Panama in half an hour…
Chandler- yes… they are preparing the Air Force One, but I wanted to say goodbye to my daughter.
Phoebe- all right… I will go and leave you alone…
Chandler- wait Phoebe… thank you for babysitting her…
Phoebe- you are welcome, sir…
Chandler- It's funny… I have a lot of people working in this house… but I still needed you to take care of her… you know you are the person I trust the most… right?
Phoebe- oh… I do know that… have a safe trip Mr. president…
She smiled at Chandler and left…
Elizabeth- I'm glad you came to say goodbye… because I wanted to ask you something…
Chandler- what is it?
Elizabeth- may I invite Monica to my birthday?
Chandler was very surprised….
Chandler- what? You want her to come to your birthday?
Elizabeth- it would be nice… and your other friends are coming… including her brother… if I don't invite her she might feel left out…
Chandler- honey… I know you want me to be happy and you are ok with me dating… but don't force your self to be friends with Monica… you don't have to do that…
Elizabeth- I'm not forcing my self… she is your girlfriend and she is a nice person… so I thought it would be a nice gesture from me to invite her to my birthday…
Chandler- all right then… you can invite her…
Elizabeth- for the record… I'm not mad because she had sex with you last night…
Chandler was shocked… his daughter knew way too much for her age. Just like him when he was her age bur he didn't want her daughter to be like him.
Chandler- that's it! I will not allow you watch TV, listen to the radio, or read any magazine without adult supervision anymore…
Elizabeth smiled not taking seriously any word her father was saying.
Elizabeth- ok dad… now go to Panama and have a nice trip.
Four days later…. Richard's office…. Very early in the morning.
Richard was trying to focus on the papers he was supposed to read…. but he couldn't…. maybe it was because he had the TV on. No… that wasn't it. He could work with the TV on the background. What was bothering him was what they were saying on the TV. He couldn't help but look at the TV and pay attention to the female reporter…
Reporter on TV- The President returned from Panama yesterday at 7 pm after a three-day tour through Central America and the first thing he did after coming back was having dinner with Monica Geller at a very fancy and romantic restaurant.
On TV, Richard could see images of Monica and Chandler sharing what seemed to be an intimate candlelit dinner in a restaurant packed with secret service agents and with photographers outside taking pictures through the windows of the restaurant. Very angry due to those images, Richard turned off the TV and threw the control remote to the other side of the room…. That remote almost hit his son Tim that was coming inside the office.
Tim- careful Dad! You will break that remote…Richard- I'm not in the mood to be careful….
At that moment, one of Richard's political advisors and best friends, Robert, entered in the office.
Robert- I have good news for you Senator…
Richard- really? You found our something dirty about Bing that we can use against him?
Robert- very close… we found out something about Monica that we can use against Bing…
Richard was very surprised and he couldn't believe what he had just heard…
Richard- what did find out about Monica that I don't know?
Robert- she has an FBI file…
Richard- that's nothing Bob! Even my mother had an FBI file…
Robert- but I have a very interesting picture of your ex wife being a very bad citizen….
Bob handed Richard the picture and he looked at it but he still wasn't impressed. Tim… on the other hand got very exited…
Tim- look dad! That it's the picture of a protest. The picture is old, but you can tell that the one in the front is Monica and that she is burning a FLAG!
Robert- she is burning a Flag of OUR country… that's why she's got the FBI file…
Richard- this is not good enough! Don't you understand what I want? Didn't I explain my self clearly? I want to find out something REALLY bad and dirty about HIM…. I want to destroy HIM
Tim- dad… the detective is already working on that… but he needs time… please… just give him time… attacking Monica's character will work for now…
Richard- all right… we can use this for now… but I was expecting so much more from you guys… now get the hell out of here… I want to be by my self…
The guys left Richard's office… Robert was clearly very mad about the way Richard treated them.
Robert- your father better calm down… I'm doing the best I can… I know he is my boss but I thought he was my friend as well…
Tim- I'm sorry Bob… he is just going through a difficult time… he will pass through this bad phase and he will be a nice again…
Robert- yes… but Will he have any friends left by then?
Tim- please… be patient…
Robert- all right… I will go and spread this picture of Monica burning the flag through the media…
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