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Thanks for everyone who reviewed and gave this story a chance, here is another chapter of "Matteney - Years Go By"
(I think that's what I titled it)
This chapter is formed a little differently, hope it doesn't confuse anyone but once again...for the fifth time, Disclaimer - ...you get the point, none of it's mine, except the title, well not the word Matteney because I didn't make that up, technically I didn't make any of the words in the title so this is just pointless rambling. Forget this Disclaimer (Another word that I didn't create)
2004
They were just back stage. The final airing of the show that got them all together and created a friendship, a family. Its been a journey; something that made an impact world wide. No one wanted this day to end. Not them, not the producers, not the fans. It was a show that everyone wished didn't have go off the air.
As they formed their last huddle, tears were already made.
Matthew stood next to Lisa and reached his arm further over to comfort his friend on the other side.
Courteney looked up and smiled. This emotional day was just beginning and she had a feeling it was going to last awhile.
There was not a single dry eye in the room as everyone watched them take their final bow. No one wanted to break their latch with their friends hand. No one wanted the curtain to close. But soon...they did.
The night went on. The audience left. And the crew stayed.
They all sat in the bleachers of the stands as they remembered the old times and the memories that would stay with them forever.
"Hey Matthew, what movie was that line from again? Chicks cannot hold a smoke, that's what it is..." Jen laughed "Weird Science maybe?"
Matthew rolled his eyes and smiled as they all remembered the day.
Courteney sat in the chair that had her name engraved on the back as she read through her lines.
She still couldn't get the movie that she just saw the night before out of her head. "Chicks cannot hold a smoke, that's what it is..." She imitated Anthony Micheal Hall the same way she heard it in the movie.
"Chicks cannot hold a smoke, that's what it is..." She repeated
"Oh-Oh, Weird Science." Matthew walked over just as she finished the line
Courteney shook her head "No, that's The Breakfast Club." She corrected
Matthew chuckled "I don't think so."
"Matthew, I am one hundred percent sure it's The Breakfast Club."
"Well I'm one hundred percent sure, it's Weird Science." He mimicked her
Courteney sighed with frustration that he was picking this argument with her. But since she knew she was right she had to prove it.
Seeing David Schwimmer walk by she stopped him.
"David!" She touched his shoulder so he faced her "Okay, settle this for me, this line, said by Anthony Micheal Hall-" She pointed out "-Chicks cannot hold a smoke, that's what it is-what movie is that from?"
"Weird Science." He told her
"Ha!" Matthew had a huge grin on his face
"It is not!"
"Is not what?" Lisa asked walking up to the group
"Okay, The Breakfast Club, you've seen it right?" Lisa nodded "Chicks cannot hold a smoke, that's what it is...isn't that line from-"
"The Breakfast Club." She nodded again
"Yes! Thank you!" Courteney shouted, glad someone knew the truth
Matthew shook his head "This doesn't settle anything." He told them "So what, one other person thinks it's your movie, that doesn't mean you are right."
"Yes it does."
"Then I must be right too because David thinks it's Weird Science."
"You know what." Courteney put her hands up, signaling him to stop "You want to figure this out now? There is only one way to know for sure who is right..."
Two hours later, the whole cast and crew were in on finding out the true answer, they had Mark, the cameraman, on the internet trying to figure it out and Steve, the boom operator, going out to get the tapes with everyone else calling their friends and relatives to see what their opinion was on the subject.
Matthew walked back over to Courteney "You want to make this interesting?" He had a smirk on his face
"What did you have in mind?"
"20 bucks?"
Courteney smiled "I think it's worth more, what about 50?"
Matthew thought about it "Okay, so when we figure this out I'll be 50 bucks richer." He nodded "Deal."
Then they shook on it.
An hour later, after Matthew thought about this bet and realized it could be better, he approached Courteney again "I think we should raise this little bet we made."
Courteney laughed "Like a hundred? Two hundred?"
He shook his head thinking for a while "I know!" He said seriously "How about if I when I get to sleep with you."
Courteney chuckled "What?"
"And-And If you when, you get to sleep with me?" He reached out his hand
"I am not shaking on that."
He took his hand back
"How about if I win you have to be my man slave..." She suggested
Matthew shrugged "For how long?"
"Six months."
He thought about this "Fine, but if I win, I get to sleep with you."
Courteney knew that was a risky bet. Everyone was searching for this answer for hours and it just brought her to doubt her answer to this line. But she just stuck with her first answer and nodded "Deal."
Then they shook on it.
Just when they were about to push another hour Kevin Bright walked in the room with all the commotion. "Jud Nelson is over on Stage 29!"
Half of the people that knew who he was ran over to the stage that he stood at and asked the question that had everyone wondering.
And so they found out their answer.
Courteney turned to Matthew and grinned "You know...I think I'm kind of thirsty."
Matthew frowned and looked over at her "What you want..?"
Dinner was coming up and they all realized that they had it free.
Going out to their favorite restaurant they all ordered the same thing and remembered another well known memory.
It was another day of work, all the members of the cast and crew were at Stage 24 rehearsing their lines for shooting later in the week. The only members of their formed family that was missing were the three creators of the show, Marta Kauffman, David Crane, and Kevin Bright.
They had to meet with the producers of Warner Brothers Studios to see what was to come with the seasons and how much their show was costing and making out of the ratings; leaving the rest to keep the cast with the right procedures.
"You know what we should do?"
"Go over our lines..." David Schwimmer commented
"No," Matt shook his head as he ventured "We should call up the fire department...have like five of their guys park out front, making it stretch all down the street. Then when Marta, David and Kevin come back they will freak!"
"-And never leave us alone again." Jennifer answered
Matt sighed "Come on, we should do it. It's just a harmless prank; plus, with all these candles being set up around this part of the building, it will be the safe thing to do."
Matthew looked over at Courteney and smiled.
As their limo pulled up David's eyes widened as he saw firetrucks everywhere "Oh my God!"
All three of them jumped out of the car and hurried inside.
After they saw that there was no fire or any kind of damage, Marta had a very long talk with everyone saying how pranks weren't funny, swearing that she seemed like their mother leaving her kids home alone.
"This is it..." Jennifer said sadly as they all were about to go their separate ways.
"No, come on. Don't say that." David said as he wrapped his arm around her "We are going to see each other tomorrow for Opera's interview."
Jennifer nodded as she looked around at her friends that she made close connections to in the last 10 years.
Lisa's tears began to spill once again as she thought about the end. How she wasn't going to see these same people everyday at work. She wasn't going to have another laugh at Central Perk or spend the whole day messing around to see which movie the line was from or tricking Marta that the set caught fire once she left them alone. But then she remembered the good moments ahead. Courteney was to have her baby in just a couple months, Matt was expecting a daughter in a few weeks, Matthew finally found love, Jen was preparing for a new movie, and David was going to start his family soon.
Lisa still looked back at that one day where she walked onto the set for the first time and all she saw was apartment 20. She knew no one expect for the directors.
As she looked around she saw two ladies and three gentleman around her age and went to talk to them. Who knew they were going to change her life.
This was probably a chapter that you hated waiting a week for but I really wanted to add this because I watched them on the commentaries and both of these stories are true by the way, I didn't make them up...well their lines I did because they didn't tell the story word for word. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it.