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"Alright this is cool just remain clam and everything will be fine. All I have to do is never see him again and--"

"Oh that is wonderful, old man!" Rachel suddenly heard Thomas so, she turned around to see the Duke and Thomas talking to one another.

"But YOU sir!" I haven't seen you look like this in well…ever!" Thomas continued. "I almost didn't recognize you, the first time I saw you."

"well I have this young lady to thank." The Duke said as he grabbed Rachel's arm and gently pulled her into the conversation but not after giving her a gentle kiss on the hand.

Suddenly Rachel's fears of falling for Thomas was suddenly gone. Everyone on the room disappeared the moments the Dukes lips touched her hand.

"I was just telling old Thomas about our little get together tomorrow. OH, do say that you will come." The Duke pleased.

Uh that okay." Rachel began. Great! She was trying her best to not even come in contact with Thomas and here he is, getting invited to the damn ball. Way to go Dukie!

"I'd love you but I have prior reengagements that I really need to attend to." Thomas said.. It was funny, Rachel didn't notice it before but, Thomas was not taking his eye off of Rachel. Every time she slightly made eye contact with him, she noticed that his eyes were locked on her.

"Awwww! That too bad! Well darling I am getting dreadfully tired so I think it would be best if we called it a night and headed back home."

Monica, who was standing right behind the group eavesdropping on the conversation then exploded into it. "YES! I do believe that we should head back home. After all it is…..CRAP 3:35! Oh god! I have got to get some sleep! Ihe Part is at 6:00 so that mean...holy CRAP! I'm not gonna have ANY time to get ready!" Monica began to panic.

"Wait a moment, you just said that the ball is at six...that would give you...fifteen hours to get ready!" Charles said confused. You have fifteen hours to get ready."

"I know…we don't have ANY time!" Monica said and she began her panic dance…which looked a little like a kangaroo on drugs.

"You obviously don't know women." Thomas said with a smile. "well it was a pleasure meeting you two young ladies. And you my good man," Thomas said gesturing to The Duke "have found a beautiful one." He said shooting a glance at Rachel who was rushing out of the door with Monica.

"Shall we ladies?" The Duke said as he helped Rachel in to the carriage. He was just about to help Monica in when Charles stopped her.

"Excuse me ma'am but I was wonderin' if you didn't already have an escort to the…" One thing that Monica noticed about Charles was that he was invading the hell out of her bubble because he was RIGHT up on her. "…would that be alright?"

Monica just continues smiling, raised her hand to Charles' face and gave him a light peck on the cheek.

"I'll take that as a yes?" Charles asked.

"mm-hmm." Monica nodded and stepped away into the carriage.

"Good for you lady." The Duke said to Monica with a smile.

"HO!" Rachel said.

"Well I see it like this, if I can have Chris…who not Charlie?" Monica said in a somewhat bitter tone remembering Christian.

"Well we have a long day ahead of us so I suggest that we get some rest the moment we arrive home." Rachel said while looking at the Duke.

"Home?" Monica asked while pointing at the two. "Wait…where are you going?" Monica asked Rachel.

"Well I thought that it would be easier if I stayed with him and we came over and I picked you up in the morning so we can do dome sight seeing, then when three o'clock hits, we spend all that time getting dressed and prettied up." Rachel said simply.

"Uh…no.no.no.no.no!" You are not spending the night with any MAN young lady. When I get out of this carriage you are taking your ass with me! Understand?" pause "UNDERSTAND!"

"Yes." Rachel said.

"And YOU!" Monica said turning her attention to the Duke. "You should be ashamed of yourself."

The Duke just looked down in a sad baby like manner.

At that particular time that carriage had stopped "Now MARCH!"

Unlike Rachel, Monica didn't go directly to bed. She decided to make a little stop in the theatre and think. She hopped on stage and think. How was she going to get home? Did she still have feelings for Christian? Why did she have this sudden urge to eat pie?

"This is ridiculous." She said to herself.

"What is?" A voice said from behind her.

Oh my god!" She screamed. Out of impulse her knees gave out and wound up on the cold stage floor.

I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you!" Christian said as he held his hand out to help her up.

Moncia ignored the hand and let herself up.

"I truly am sorry." Christian said again.

"It's alright." Monica said not making eye contact with Christian. "So did you come here to scare the hell out of me or did you want something?" Monica asked jokingly.

"I was just wondering…because the ball it tomorrow and I remember at dinner you never got a clear answer from--"

"OH you don't have to worry about that. I have an escort." Monica said.

"You do?" Christian said shocked.

"Yeah. So it's perfect, you go with Satine and I go with Charles." Monica said with a small smile.

"Who is Charles?" Christian asked.

"A duke." Monica said excited.

"I see…well… I am happy for you and I suppose I will see you in the morning." Christian said.

"Oh uh…actually, I am going out with--" Monica began but Christian cut her off.

"Charles? Oh well--"

"Noooo with Rachel and the Duke." She said kind of irritated. She hated be interrupted and she was so confused by the way Christian was acting.

"Well uh…I'm sorry to have frightened you and I will leave you to your…" He didn't finish his sentence though, he just headed out but before he left Monica yelled. "Christian!"

He turned around and stared at her.

"Could you come here for a moment?"

Christina slowly headed back toward the front of the stage. "What?" he asked with a attitude.

Monica said something low under her breath.

"What?" Christian said. This time he was getting a bit irritable.

She repeated what she's said but Christian still couldn't hear.

"I can't…wait a moment." He then leapt on stage and came closer to her.

"---ss you." She said.

"What?" Christian said for the last time and got even closer to her.

"Monica? Are you al--"

Without warning Monica wrapped her arms around Christian and began to kiss him. Christians entire body went stiff and a board while Monica felt ad if she were going to pass out on the floor. Then to Monica's surprise, Christian began kissing her back. He wrapped his arms would her and pulled her in closer to him. Monica felt as if she were about to explode.

"Why are you in bed---OH MY GOD!" Rachel said.

Monica immediately tried to push Christina away but for a split second he didn't let go.

"Alright…" Rachel said lowly. "I'm just ah…gonna…back away and….pretend that this was all a dream….all a dream…and when I wake up from this dream…I want…uh…to have a serious talk with the err….REAL non-dream Monica…and tell her about my….d-dr-dream. Yeah that right that what I'll do….Well g-gg-good night. Monica…I mean dream Monica who was not just doing what I think she was doing."

After that Rachel has sprinted out of the room as if someone had told her that there was a bomb.

Monica dint say anything to Christan she just stared at him for a moment and went to bed.

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