A/N Hey so I just thought of this idea for a story so just let me know what you think. I haven't updated in forever, just have writers block at the moment kind of annoying but there you go.
There are just a few things you need to know before you read the story, Monica does not know any of the gang accept from Ross who is her brother but they do not see too much of each other. Monica and Chandler kind of knew each other when they were younger but lost contact. at this point I am not sure how much the other characters will appear in the story.
Chapter 5: Flashback.
Over the next couple of weeks, Zak was getting used to having Chandler around a lot more and was really liking the fact that he could talk to someone other than Monica about things. Chandler still lives in his apartment across the hall but he is staying there a lot less than he used to. Monica suggested that he gets a roommate to help him pay the rent and so that there is someone actually there instead of no one living there, and she made a very good point in that there is a spare room in his apartment that is not getting used and probably won't do because of the fact that her and Zak live across the hall they wont be needing a room for Zak at his place.
Chandler comes into Monicas apartment to speak with her for a bit about this roommate situation he is in. "Hey your here, I have a friend who is still looking for a place, if you want me to let him know about the apartment?" Chandler looks surprised that Monica has actually found someone as she is usually picky about people. "Sure, whats her name?" "HIS name is Joey, when I was little before my mom died he lived in the house next door to us." Chandler looks a little shocked that she has a friend who is a man considering all of her past and that most of her friends are women. "Oh I see. How do you know he is looking for a place?" "I ran into him in Central Perk a few days ago and we got talking and just caught each other up on our lives and stuff." "How did you find out it was him?" Monica looks anxious to answer the question. "Okay well he hit on me in there and thats how I found out about his name, I do not think he recognized me or remembered me for a start really though." "Did you tell him about Zak and I?" "Of course I did, actually he is still in contact with Ross and Ross told him about Zak and just the general things." "Ahhh okay, so you got a phone number to call him on?" "Yeah, lets call him now and see if he wants to come over and look at the place."
Monica Dials Joeys phone number from the small piece of paper that she found neatly folded up in her purse somewhere, she put the phone on speaker so that Chandler could hear the conversation and talk too. A voice answers the phone and sounds tired and disturbed from sleep. "Hi, Joey its Monica." "Oh hey Mon, how are you" is heard from the other end. " I am good thanks, Chandler is here we were just wondering if you wold like to come and look at the apartment today?" "Ummm today is good, would you mind it being a bit later though as I have an audition at 3pm today?" "That would be great for us, What time do you think you would be done with the audition?" "I'm not sure around 4.00pm but no later than 4.30pm. I will phone and let you know when I am finished with the audition though as I need to get there and stuff too and to make sure that somebody is there when I get there." "I wouldn't worry about nobody being here, someone is always around. Like you said just phone me when you are on your way over. You have the address right?" "Yes I do. I have to go now , but I will see you later. Bye" "Bye bye!" Both of them hang up the phones.
Monica looks back at Chandler and tells him that Joey is a really nice guy and was a good friend to her especially when she was little when her mother was always drunk and being mean to her, Joey would stick up for her and let her stay at his place in one of his many sisters bedrooms. "Wow that was really nice of him" "Yeah hes a good guy, we was only small but he was really nice. Just one small thing with Joey he is kind of dumb sometimes. You have to be careful what you say to him because sometimes okay most of the time he doesn't understand big words." "So I should talk to him the same way I talk to Zak" "No thats mean just use simple words that everyone can understand." "So tell me more about this guy, before he comes over to make it easier to work with him and to get to know him." "Okay, well he loves food, so he will eat a lot. Make sure you keep the cupboards full up. He is an actor and thinks he is really good at it, he kind of is sometimes he just hasn't had that right acting role for him yet but he gets by. You would get on well with him, he likes to protect all of his family and friends and always be there for them. Can I tell you a story?" Chandlerr looks at her and says of course she can tell him anything she likes.
Flashback.
It was a warm summers evening, Monica is about 6 or 7 and is playing outside in the park across the street from her house with her brother Ross and a couple of other kids in the neighborhood including Joey. The kids are all having fun and suddenly they hear some kind of glass breaking they look around to find out where it is and see that it is Monica and Ross house, so they all decide to go and investigate it out because their parents were out tonight to dinner as it was their anniversary and there was nobody in that house for the night. Monica and Ross are going to stay at Judy's friends house nearby and the lady said that they could play at the park until it is time for their baths and bed. The kids slowly get to the house and see a shadow inside the house moving about, they made a plan and Monica and Joey were to go into the front entrance, Ross and his friend Will are going to go through the back door, Rachel and Megan were going to try going into the house through the kitchen door at the side of the house if they couldn't get in there they would just go in though the front door or the kitchen window whichever is easiest.
Everyone gets into their places and lets everyone know that they are their by the walkie talkies they had, they did this so that everyone would enter the hosue at the same time and hopefully whoever was in there if anyone was in there would get caught by the kids who was going into the house or going into a room in the house. As Joey and Monica were entering the house they saw that the glass that they heard being smashed was a mirror in the front entrance, but that does not explain how whoever was there got in. Then they saw a faint trail of blood leading from the mirror over to the living room, they decided to investigate the blood and told everyone about it on the walkie talkies, Joey insisted that he would go in first but Monica was so stubborn and said no because it was her house she knew all the secret passage ways and everything about that house, so the person would definitively get caught. Monica slowly opened the door and entered thee room as she saw nobody was in there and called for Joey that he could come in but as she turned around to face the back of the door that she came through she saw her mother there with a really nasty smirk on her face, Monica knew what this meant and tired to make a run for the door but her mother shut the door before she could get there and bolted it up at the top, so that nobody would be able to get in using that door.
"Mom, I thought that you and daddy was out for the night?" Monica says in a scared nervous voice. "Well so did I, until he decided not to meet me at the resturant where we was going to meet, I can back here to see if he was here." Judy is slowly getting closer to Monica with a big shard of glass in her hand Monica is trying to back away because she knows that Judy would probably hurt her with the glass as she has been in the house even though she was not supposed to be. "Anyway the question is Monica dear, why are you in here?" Monica is trembling and really scared by this point as Judy would not back off and kept moving closer to the poor little girl. Monica found it very hard to answer but had to as she does not want to get hurt again like on several occasions before. "We was at the park and heard some glass or something breakign so decided to come and investigate it out." "Who was you with? How did you even get in the house it was all locked up?" "Well you um you left your keys with Ross to give to your friend to get in during the morning for our clothes. I was with Ross, Joey, Rachel and Megan at the park." "And where are they now Moncia?" Monica stays quiet for a minute trying to think of where the others could be in the house and if she could lie about where they are. "MONICA I ASKED YOU A QUESTION, I WILL ASK ONE MORE TIME BEFORE I GET ANGRY. CHILD WHERE ARE THOSE LITTLE IDIOT CHILDREN YOU PLAY WITH NOW" "They are in the house somewhere." Monica saays quietly but loud enough for Judy to hear her speaking "Right, Get them out of this house now." "But I am locked in here." "I will unlock the door for you to go find them and to tell them to get the hell out of my house" Judy slowly backs away still pointing the shard of glass at Monica and unlocks the door to find Joey standing outside the door. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING EAVESDROPPING "I'm not eavesdropping just wondering what was taking my friend so long in there." "DO NOT BACK CHAT ME LITTLE BOY, NOW GO AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WHEREVER IN MY HOUSE TO GET OUT OR MONICA WILL GET IT." "Okay Mrs Geller sorry." "I WILL KNOW IF THEY HAVE GONE OR NOT."
A few moments later Judy counts all of the kids that go out of her house and makes sure that Monica is staying in the room she made her go in. As Joey is about to walk out of the house Judy calls him over "Yes Mrs Geller." "You have to stay in here because you was a naughty boy and needs to be punished just like Monica does." "I'm sorry for what I did, Now can I go?" Judy looks as if she is lightening up a little and then her face turns sour again. "Well that is tough luck young man, you shouldn't have done the eavesdropping in the first place if you did not want to get punished. Now get into the living room, that is where Monica is and where you shall both recieve your punishments." "Yes Mrs Geller. " Joey slowly walks into the living room and immodestly sees a terrified Monica and goes to run over to her. "Tut tut tut. Do not go over there to her, go and sit on the couch until I tell you any better." Judy walks past her briskly and tells Monica that she knows the rules and she should not have been going into the rooms in the house especially with nobody there. "Now you will have to take your punishment and it will be the same as before but worse." Monica looks up at the door and notices that Judy has not locked it this time, she points it out to Joey silently and together the silently work out a plan for them both to get out alive before either of them got hurt. Judy goes over to Monica and looks are her evily, and tells her that she knows the drill and to do what she usually does. Monica gets on the floor and lays face down, Judy bends over to retrieve the usual belt that she uses to whip Monica about with and as she is right bent over Joey now thinks now is time to put the plan into action. He quietly gets up and runs over to the side of the room that Monica and Judy are on and kicks Judy and she immediately falls over and can not get back up as she is still being kicked by Joey on the floor and she is screaming in pain. "MONICA RUN NOW, QUICK GET OUT OF HERE." "Monica gets up runs over to the door and opens it. "What about you Joey?" "Dont worry I will be fine, just run and go get help before she does anything serious." Monica runs to get help and leaves the door open after her so that joey could escape if he wanted but he is still lightly kicking Judy and can not get away because he is worried that she will get him if he gets up and goes.
A few minutes later sirens are heard from not so far away, it is the Police and they have come to Joeys rescue thankfully Joey slipped it to Ross that he needed to call the police because he thinks that Judy had gone crazy for some reason, Ross did not want to call the police on his mom but he knew that Joey and his sister would both be in a lot of danger if he didn't so he did. The police run into the crime scene and see that Joey is still in the room with a on the floor Judy still screaming in a lot of pain. "Okay son, what happened here?" Joey was in so much shock about what happened he couldn't speak at that current moment, the police say it is fine and they can take his statement later as well as from Judy and the other children that were there.
Flashback finished.
"Wow that sounds horrible what happened. How come you never told me about that before?" Chandler hugs Monica close. "It was horrible, I guess I was still young when we were together the first time and I didn't want to relive it back then, Now I know that it is the past and I have to get over it. Besides I shouldn't let my mom hold me back from everything like that now." "Okay, She went to jail for it all right?" "Yes, she is due to come out next month and that was only because of good behavior I am hoping she doesn't track me down." "Well why don't you change your name from Geller to something else then?" "What am i supposed to change it to?" "I thought you said Joey was the dumb one" Monica looks really insulted "That is really rude, You mean to change my name to Bing?" "Well yeah, I mean your mom doesn't know anything about me or my name, and besides how many people actually voluntarily change their names to Bing" Monica chuckles at this."That is true but I have no reason to change my name to that." "Well what about if we got married, then Zak could have his name Bing too?" "Wow really?" "Of course, I love you and would love to spend the rest of my life with you and besides why not." "Okay but can I change my name to Bing and then we get married a while after only, I want time to plan the wedding and stuff." "That sounds great."
A couple of hours later Joey had been over and has accepted the offer to live in Chandlers apartment with him. Monica was right they did turn into great friends. They are all sitting in Monica apartment just chilling and chatting about random stuff.
"Hey, Chandler remember when we met?" "Of course I do, I think Zak would even remember that one" "No dummy I meant the first time when we were teenagers." "Oh Yeah I do. Of course I would remember it."
Flashback.
A woman around the age of 35 came into the room with Monica closely following behind, Monica is around 18 or 19 now and is nervous because there is a lot of people around and she still remembers from when she was young and got abused by her mother a lot of the time. Monica has been living in care homes ever since the incident with her mother and the police came. She has gotten moved around quite a lot as she doesn't want to get too close to people as if everything that has happened. The only person that was around her age was a boy who was called Chandler and she thought that he looked nice and decided to go and talk to him as she might not be there for long but wanted to be nice anyway just in case. "Hi I am Monica Chandler put his hand out to shake it and introduced himself. Monica didn't want to shake his hand but she slowly did and started a conversation with him. They got on well for a start and even started going out together to places more often, but then Chandler got told that he had to leaft the home because he is now too old to be living there and he has to get a place of his own and stuff, shortly after he moved out and got his own place Monica was soon moving to a different care home all the way across the town. Eventually Monica got out and got her own place as soon as she found out she was having Zak and even though Chandler had gone she knew that she would be able to do this with or without him. She left her new address at the care home for him just in case he came by and wanted to know where she had gone to.
End of flashback
"So that what happened" "I hate those people, I went back to both of those care home places and both of them said that they did not know where you had gone and didn't know why you had suddenly just got up and left." "Trust them, they are liars and insensitive jerks. Oh well at least we found each other again and are back together. Everything is all okay in the end." Joey looks at the couple and smiles at them. "Wait a minute, where is Zak if neither of you has him?" "He is at my brother Ross' house today." "Oh good, I'm glad you know where he is." "He is staying the night there as we are going out tonight and didnt want to disturb him when we came home so he is just staying there." "We should be getting ready as it is almost time for us to leave." Monica and Chandler get ready to leave and go to have a lovely dinner out together and a wonderful night together.
Wow that was long, the longest chapter I think I have ever written on here before lol.
Please review it doesn't take long and it makes me want to write even more. I also don't know if I really want to continue writing this to be honest so you will probably have to convince me to if you want it to be carried on. either that or give me ideas in a review.