Chapter 28: I'll Be There for You
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"Good morning." Monica said to Patricia when she came out of the room.
The teen girl was slumped on the couch wearing her PJs and eating ice cream while watching That 70s Show. "Mornin' Mon."
"You ok?" She asked softly as she sat down beside her Goddaughter and wrapped an arm around her.
"Yeah, it's just where can I find a guy like Michael Kelso?" Patricia asked, pointing to the TV. "I mean he's cute and sweet."
"Didn't he cheat on his girlfriend?" Monica replied, looking down at her and watched her nod. "You only want Ashton Kutcher."
"Maybe…" The younger brunette said quietly making Monica chuckle.
"Let's do something today." Monica suggested.
Patricia was in the middle of eggs while Monica blended the butter and sugar together. Monica had told the gang that they should take the day to try to cheer Patricia up. She did dodge a bullet but he still cheated on her and that hurts.
"The trick is elbow grease." Monica said when she put the bowl down on the table and the butter and sugar blended together perfectly.
Patricia looked into the bowl. "Wow that looks really smooth."
"Thank you." The older girl replied happily. She smiled when she noticed Patricia had a talent and passion for cooking. "You can crack eggs with one hand?"
"Uh-huh." She hummed and cracked another egg perfectly.
"Nicely done."
"And that's how you ice a cupcake." Monica told her, showing her the perfectly frosted cupcake.
"Cool." Patricia replied before picking up the piping bag.
"You know Patricia it's all going to go up hill from here." The older woman told her, taking a seat beside her Goddaughter. The teen looked at her confused. "Love."
"Oh." Patricia retorted, nodding her head. She raised an eyebrow. "Don't you mean downhill?"
"Huh?"
"Well going downhill is easier than going uphill." She explained logically and sounding a lot like Ross.
"See right there, there's the proof you're related to Ross." Monica told her. "What I'm saying is you're going to have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince. And most of them won't be frogs. They'll be guys you really love and their perfect but they're not for you."
"So…is Chandler your prince?" Patricia asked teasingly before she continued to ice her cupcake. She's always loved how Monica and Chandler were so close as friends and she always had routed for them so now she was really happy.
"I like to think so." She replied smiling and blushing.
"Aww!"
"And sometimes your prince has been there all along but you never realise until you are in a completely different scenario."
Patricia sat down on the couch in between Joey and Ross, who were currently arguing over what to watch on the TV. She waited patiently to make up their minds but they dragged her into the whole situation.
"Ok. Patricia the Knicks game or a stupid, boring documentary that sucks the life out of life?" Joey asked the teen.
Ross gripped the remote control tighter and looked at his Goddaughter. "A very interesting document or a stupid basketball match where it's just a few guys in shorts running around and there all sweaty."
"Knicks game it is." Patricia said earning Joey to smile widely.
He wrapped his arms around her and gave her a squeeze. "Atta girl."
"Well you two seem to be forgetting something." Ross told them evilly and he held up the remote. "I have to remote and this controls the TV."
Patricia looked at Joey, who nodded in approval. Patricia than turned to Ross and pinched the part of his shoulder that was close to his neck and making him drop the remote in pain. Joey dived on the floor and quickly caught the remote before it fell on the floor. He changed the channel to the Knicks game and he and Patricia cheered in triumph.
Rachel and Patricia walked the busy streets of Manhattan, both swamped with bags. They were looking around for a sale seeing that they spent a lot of money already and they wanted to make a bargain.
"Sale at Macys!" Patricia exclaimed when she saw the big sign saying 'SALE NOW ON' in the Macys window.
Rachel smiled widely. "Go!"
Rachel and Patricia ran around the store frantically, looking for clothes. They grabbed everything they liked and put in their shopping basket. Patricia and Rachel saw two tops they liked. They rushed over and grabbed them put there was a strain on them.
"Rach, it's stuck." Patricia exclaimed as she pulled but being careful she didn't rip it.
"So is mine!" Rachel replied also tugging at her blouse.
"LET GO!" Two female voices called from the other side of the rack.
Patricia and Rachel gave their tops another strong pull and their tops came loose but it was followed by two girls, one Patricia's age and the other one Rachel's age.
"Strong fabric." Rachel and Patricia commented on their tops.
"Hmm could you let go of my top." The two friends asked the two girls, who were holding onto their tops.
"Your top?!" They both questioned angrily. "You let go of my top!"
Rachel and Patricia exchanged glances before they tackled the two girls to the ground. After a few minutes they stood up triumphantly hold their tops in the air. The small crowd that had gathered around them cheered and the other two girls stood up and screamed before running out of the shop.
"You just kicked their asses!" A woman in the crowd exclaimed.
"Whatever…" Patricia and Rachel replied flipping their hair over their shoulders.
"Ok that was good but this one is better." Patricia told Chandler, who rolled his eyes playfully. The two were sitting on the reclining chairs telling each other their best jokes. ''I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?'' He said, ''How flexible are you?'' I said, ''I can't make Tuesdays''."
"It was good, but this one's better. I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'Have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite."
"Two aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married. The ceremony was rubbish - but the reception was brilliant."
"I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already. "
"There's two fish in a tank, and one says ''How do you drive this thing?''."
"I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any."
Before they knew it the two were in an argument over whose jokes were better. They soon found themselves in front of Monica, Joey, Ross, Rachel and Phoebe telling their best jokes.
Patricia went first. "I swear, the other day I bought a packet of peanuts, and on the packet it said ''may contain nuts.'' Well, YES! That's what I bought them for! You'd be annoyed if you opened it and a socket set fell out!''
Chandler went next. "I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself."
"When Susan's boyfriend proposed marriage to her she said: 'I love the simple things in life, but I don't want one of them for my husband'." Patricia said making the judges laugh.
Joey giggled. "Cause Susan's a lesbian."
"That too." The teen girl replied.
"My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well, I was amazed, I never knew they worked." Chandler said causing Joey to look at him confused.
"You don't have a mother-in-law." He commented.
"It's just a joke, Joe." Chandler deadpanned.
"Ok guys, last joke." Phoebe told them.
"A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: ''Ugh, that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!'' The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: ''The driver just insulted me!'' The man says: ''You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I'll hold your monkey for you.'' Patricia said causing another roar of laughter.
"A young blonde woman is distraught because she fears her husband is having an affair, so she goes to a gun shop and buys a handgun. The next day she comes home to find her husband in bed with a beautiful redhead. She grabs the gun and holds it to her own head. The husband jumps out of bed, begging and pleading with her not to shoot herself. Hysterically the blonde responds to the husband, ''Shut up...you're next!'' Chandler said before he laughed himself. He looked up when he didn't hear anyone else laugh. Everyone just looked at him while Phoebe and Rachel glared.
"I vote for Patricia." The two blondes said simultaneously.
"I gotta go with Patricia too." Joey told them, causing Patricia to stick her tongue out at Chandler.
"Hmm my Goddaughter or my best friend…" Ross said slowly as he looked at the two. They ended up yelling at him to hurry up and decide. "Fine. I pick…Patricia."
"Monica, I'm you're only chance to have a baby and I love you." Chandler told her making her smile.
"I'm your Goddaughter. I am your Godbaby." Patricia explained while smiling.
"Patricia." Monica said.
"Haha!" Patricia teased making the funny man roll his eyes.
"What are you, fifteen?"
"Yeah."
Patricia and Phoebe were sitting on the armchair in Monica's apartment. The blonde had her guitar and the two of them were singing away while writing down lyrics. When they were satisfied they called the gang over to listen. They gather around.
"So this a little different than some of my other but I think you'll enjoy it." Phoebe told them before she played a few notes on her guitar.
Phoebe and Patricia started singing. "Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red. My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life. For now my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife. And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy. I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad. And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad for if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother of the widow's grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run and he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son. My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue. Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild. And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild. 'Cause now I have become the strangest 'case you ever saw as husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa. It sounds funny, I know but it really is so. I'm my own grandpa."
They gang clapped even though the song totally confused them. Even Ross, who had a PHD.
"Does that make any of them incest?" Chandler asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I don't think it does…" Ross said.
"Hey." Chandler said when he walked into Monica and Rachel's apartment. Monica was over at the sink drinking some water and she was dressed in her PJs.
"Hey." She replied placing the glass in the sink.
Chandler looked down at the floor and smiled. "So I'm your prince, huh?"
Monica gasped and tried to think of where she heard that before. She looked over at the couch where Patricia was sleeping. "The mouth on her."
Patricia walked into apartment twenty. She just got home from school and it was hectic. She looked over at Ross and Joey, who were having another argument about what to watch on TV. Patricia sighed before putting down her bag and heading over the couch.
"Hey Patricia!" The two guys greeted.
"Hi!" She replied, sitting down in between them again. "What do you guys wanna watch?"
"Documentary."
"The Rangers game."
"Can I have the remote?" Patricia asked and they nodded in response. She took it of Ross and changed the channel.
"Hey!" Ross and Joey said at the same time when That 70s Show came on aka Patricia's obsession.
"You guys should like this, it's about the 70s." Patricia explained slowly. "Remember that decade?" A few minutes later, Joey and Ross were glued to the TV along with Patricia.
"Oh my God." The two said when they watched the TV making Patricia smile and nod.
A/N: Three more chapters to go! I can't believe it's nearly over. What do you think is going to happen next?
Also please check out my story Holding On To Nothing. Summary: It was supposed to be one of the happiest of their lives but on the way to the wedding reception the bridal car crashes. Monica loses her memory, Rachel loses her baby and Joey's life hangs in the balance. Will they get through this?
Peace out ✌~ Mystery Girl 911