I hope you catches the story, and you tell me your opinions, through them I know if I'm on the right track.

Remember English is not my native language, I hope the translation is correct, I check it, but sometimes I miss some incorrect, sorry.

I repeat, I am not the owner of the characters, I only rely on them for the sheer pleasure of

practice writing stories without any economic interest, and these two characters inspire me.

Chapter 14

On Monday, Chandler went to teach his first class as an adjunct professor of literature.

When he returned Monica asked him excitedly, "And how did it go…?"

"I don't know, the kids don't seem very enthusiastic about the subject, obviously the way it's being presented to them is boring and the worst thing is, it doesn't make them think, so, ten minutes into the classroom, after asking them some questions that few could answer, I decided that the way to teach the class is going to be decided by me, we will see how long it lasts…"

"Honey, if the students are interested in the way you teach the class, I'm sure you'll last, they won't let you leave," Monica told her with a smile.

"Chandler looks", and she lift up her shirt, "it's already starting to show, I can't button my jeans, that's why I put on these joggers, I'll have to go buy some clothes."

Chandler smiled at her, hugged her and put his hand on her tummy, he crouched down and spoke to her tummy, "guys, dad is here, you will always hear my voice." Monica kissed him on the hair and smiled at him, she never thought that she would have such a sweet man.

On Thursday, during the second class, the students were more attentive and more participatory, with several of his explanations he made them laugh out loud, the class began to loosen its ties. -

After class, as he was leaving, he ran into Rector Webber. -

"Hello Dr. Bing, how are you, how were these classes?"

"Today was very good, on Monday in the middle of class I abandoned certain pedagogical corsets, and I taught the class as I always did, and today I started to see results, I don't know if Dr. Mac Gregory could stand me, but I can't teach otherwise," Chandler told him.

Dr. Webber smiled, "Look, Dr. Bing, on Monday when you were leaving, an adjunct of the

philosophy professor, Dr. Mark O'Donnell, saw you, you didn't see him, and then he came to my office to ask me if you were here to give a lecture. I explained to him that no, that you moved to the City and is as an adjunct of the literature professor." Continuous Webber

"O'Donnell looked at me in surprise, Dr. Bing as deputy, can't it be? He was the best teacher at RoelHampton," and he told me that he and several others who were in the Post Graduate Degree in Philosophy went as listeners to your lecture on narrative and creativity since the classes you taught were excellen."

"The last name sounds familiar to me, but if I came as a listener I would have to see it to recognize it, I had many students of listeners... I'm probably going to run into it at some point," Chandler answered.

"Look Dr. Bing, I don't pay much attention to letters of recommendation from other rectors, they are not always reliable, but O'Donnell's comment made me think that perhaps on this occasion I should pay more attention to the letter and his resume, give me some time to talk to the head of studies Wilson, and see if it is possible to establish a chair of narrative and creativity" Webber

concluded.

"I thank you, it would really be perfect for me to give my professorship here at Columbia again, … let's hope that in the meantime Dr. Mac Gregory doesn't throw me out…" Chandler said, laughing

"Don't worry, we won't leave you…" Webber answered and they said goodbye.

Chandler returned home very excited and told Monica in great detail about the conversation he was hopeful, he wanted to do what he liked.

Since he only had work on Mondays and Thursday mornings, he occupied his free time writing his novel, playing tennis or going swimming.

The first week of November, Chandler was leaving to play tennis when he received a call from Aunt Olivia inviting him and Monica to Thanksgiving dinner.

Chandler remained silent, in fact he had not celebrated Thanksgiving since he moved to London, the previous ones were spent with his grandparents, aunt and cousins, sometimes his mother wasthere, but it was a holiday that had been completely left out of the calendar of his life.

Chandler told Olivia that he needed to talk to Monica first, since he didn't know what she was doing for those parties, he was going to find out and call her.

"Son, I know that you have other obligations now, but your grandmother is anxious for you to be with us that day, she makes me crazy about calling you, please talk to Monica about it."

"Yes, aunt, I will do it today."

When Chandler got home Monica was with Phoebe and Rachel having coffee, and Monica noticed that Chandler seemed serious, as if worried. "Something's wrong baby, you're serious."

"No, it's just that Aunt Olivia called to invite us to Thanksgiving dinner, grandma wants us to go, but I don't know what plans you have for those holidays, for me in reality since I moved to London they don't exist, I never took it into account as a problem to decide," Chandler commented as he took a bottle of water from the refrigerator and sat down at the table.

Monica looked at the girls, and hesitated, "Honey, we always spend that day having dinner here, the five of us, sometimes my parents come, although they have been going with some friends to a beach for two years, I don't know what they have planned this year."

"Mon, I know that this party is important here, I want to be with you, but I also know that my grandmother is anxious for me to be with her, after so many years…"

"What if everyone comes here, your grandmother, your aunt, David?" Rachel asked.

"Rachel, my grandmother is in a wheelchair, we can't take her up 5 flights of stairs." Chandler answered, lowering his eyes.

"Mon, go with Chandler to Aunt's house," Rachel said. "I can go with Phoebe to my mom's house, Joey to his parents, and Ross to yours."

"Rach, we are a family, I don't want to leave you."

"Honey, why don't you ask your parents what they plan to do, and we'll decide accordingly"

Chandler said.

Monica called Judy and she told her that they were going to Puerto Vallarta with the Nicolson's.

With this news Chandler called Aunt Olivia, "Hello, can we go with Monica's brother and our three friends,"

"Of course, of course, we are waiting for you all, I met they when Monica and David traveled, it will be fantastic to have you all home"

"There," Chandler said to the girls, "we're all going to Aunt Olivia's house."

"Are you sure we won't be a complication?" Monica asked.

"No, you've already been to her house, you saw that it's huge, we'll be fine."

"Then I'll make the turkey," said Monica.

"No love, you can't work that much, you'll have to be on your feet a lot and the doctor advised against it", "We'll take care of the drinks and buy the desserts" … "you have to tell Ross"

On Thanksgiving Day, David and Michel were also at her aunt's house. Stefani couldn't travel due to the advanced stage of her pregnancy.

The meeting was perfect. Everyone had fun with David, Joey and Chandler's jokes, who were funniest, Grandma Emma wanted to sit next to Chandler and kept stroking his hand. Everyone had a great time. -

Two weeks passed, and they both went to the four-month check-up, everything was perfect, Monica had recovered from the anemia, but the doctor advised her to continue with a quiet life,they were two babies who would grow quickly and she was small,

Then she went on to do the Ultrasound, Chandler had Monica's hand very tight, the doctor looked from one side to the other, the heartbeats were strong and fast, and asked, "Do you want to know the sex?" They are arranged to see them clearly."

The two in unison said "Yes!! And Chandler kissed Monica's head and they both smiled at each other with tears in their eyes.

"Ok, here is a girl…. and …. here is another girl, they are going to have girl twins!!!

The smile of both of them did not fit on their faces, two girls.

"Wow," said Monica, "two girls for dad and no boys for mom…" and she smiled.

Mon, don't worry, this is just the beginning…" Chandler told her, laughing.

"Of course, your belly is not the one that grows…"

The doctor smiled at them. "Look, first finish this mission, you are young, you have time for several more."

They were happy, Emma was on her way, already in the taxi they began to think about the other girl's name, also from the taxi she called her friends to come to the house, there was news.

When we arrived from the hospital, everyone was already waiting anxiously.

"And you already know the sex…" Joey asked anxiously.

Chandler, with a huge smile, and Monica in unison said "THEY ARE TWO GIRLS"

Everyone burst out with joy, they knew that Emma was on her way, but they didn't know the other's name...

Monica told them "look I chose Emma's name; Chandler will have to choose the other one…"

Chandler looked at her in surprise, "God, I have hundreds in my head, I don't know which one to choose."

"Love doesn't have to be now, think about it calmly,.. What we do know is that the girls' middle name will be Rachel for one and Phoebe for the other, then when you choose your name we see which first name the middle name matches best with."

The next morning Chandler called Marion, her mother, her father, Aunt Olivia, and several friends in London with the beautiful news, he would be the father of two girls.

On the other end of the phone everyone jumped for joy.

Monica called her parents and her aunt, and a couple of her friends from college. She also called Susan, who was working with Pete.

Christmas came early and with some snow.

The previous night the 6 friends spent together handing out gifts, on Christmas Day Monica, Ross, her parents and Chandler were invited by Olivia to share lunch. Rachel and Phoebe went to Rachel's mom's house, and Joey went to his parents.

For New Year's Eve they organized, like every year, a party in apartment 20. This was the first New Year's Eve in which Monica and Chandler shared a passionate kiss at the moment the ball dropped.

There was also a kiss between Rachel and Ross, both of them had gotten closer little by little since the day he confessed his problems. Monica was happy for them, but afraid that they would return to their old ways, she really wanted her brother to be happy and she knew that Rachel would be

instrumental in her life to achieve that.

A couple of days before Christmas Nora called Chandler to let him know that she would be in New York in mid-January and, although she hated spending that month in the city because it always snowed a lot, she made all her arrangements to see them, stay 15 days and talk.

"Mom, let me know what day you'll be arriving so I'll look for you."

"As soon as I have the flight, I'll let you know, and I'm going to stay as always at the Plaza, so we can organize a dinner with Monica and your friends at the restaurant, we'll also tell David"… "But regardless of the meetings, I need to talk to you and Monica"

"About what? Chandler asked, worried about his mother's occurrences.

"I'll tell you when we meet, I'll let you know the day and time I arrive, kisses to Monica and my granddaughters"

On January 12, Chandler went to JFK to look for his mother. -Obviously because of the suitcases Chandler brought he thought she would stay for quite some time. They hugged and she asked him to go directly to the hotel, she was tired since she came from Berlin and she had to make a connection in Paris for several hours.

They agreed that the next day she would go to Chandler's house, he asked her to go in the afternoon since that day in the morning he had classes, so it was agreed.

The next afternoon Monica and Chandler were on the couch waiting for Nora.

Monica was worried that Rachel would show up, since she found out that she was coming to visit them she is eager to meet Nora, Monica had asked her not to come closer that day, but she knew how capricious Rachel was sometimes.

When there was a knock on the door, Chandler went to open it and his mother hugged him in her arms, then went directly to Monica, whom she hugged affectionately. "Girl, what a tummy, how many months old are you?

"Five months …. but of course there are two…" Monica said with a huge smile.

"You guys don't know how happy I am, two girls, I left a suitcase at the hotel, I didn't want to bring it today, but it's full of clothes for the girls, I bought it in every city I passed through, and I had the foresight to buy sizes up to two years old," said Nora beaming

"Mom, there was no need…"

"Of course not, I don't do it because you need it, I do it because I want to, I want girls to be as flirtatious as me."

Monica laughed, "they'll need a big closet…" "But thank you, I'm happy because you're happy."

"What a nice apartment you have, and I love how it is decorated, it is very cozy… ours on Park Av is horrible, the two years we lived there were torture…" Nora commented as she toured everything.

"Sorry mom, but I was the one who lived in that apartment for two years, you did it for short periods…" said Chandler.

"Son, I already know everything I did wrong, don't remind me now that I'm happy for my

granddaughters, I thought you had forgiven me?"

"Mom, I forgave you a while ago, it's just that things have to be told as they were…"

Monica looked at him and rolled her eyes. She gently shook her head. It was not the time to talk about the past, and Chandler looked down at her.

Monica gave her a tour of the apartment and showed her the room where they would install the nursery.

"This week, whenever you can and want, we are going to choose the furniture you are going to need, crib, changing table, a rocking chair, it is my gift, but I want everything to be to your liking, and Chandler, you are going to have to paint the room, ask David and your friends for help," Nora organized.

"mother. We have time…"

"You may be, but I'm not, I have presentations to make and I want to leave some days of May free to be here when the girls are born, and by then everything has to be ready," said Nora.

Chandler opened his eyes and raised his eyebrows…. "Please mom! Monica and I have our times... and Monica is quite organized so that now you come and between the two of you drive me crazy..."

"Wow, I didn't know that being quite organized drove you crazy," Monica replied with a look of surprise and disgust.

"Sorry honey, I didn't mean that, you know I love the way you are, but mom is going too far,"

Chandler said with annoyance "See mom, we never argue and you make me talk nonsense"

"Okay, for now I won't say anything else. I have a very sensitive son." She smiled and winked at Monica.

Nora stayed for dinner, Monica had prepared fish that she knew her mother-in-law really liked.

During dinner Chandler's discomfort dissipated.

Nora asked if they already had a name for the other girl.

Monica commented that since she had

chosen the name Emma, it was now Chandler's turn and he had not yet decided.

"son, but you have to decide the name…"

"I don't want to yet, I think when she's born and I see her face I'll know her name…" Chandler answered with a raised eyebrow and a smile."

"Monica I can't understand how you put up with this man…"

"Because I love him, he loves me even though I am organized, and I love him even though he is stubborn."

When Nora left Monica made Chandler sit on the couch. "Love, I understand perfectly everything you suffered, maybe she didn't know how to show you her love or her concern, she was young, immature and that made her selfish, and I think that her work, her trips involved her, they didn't leave her time to mature as a mother"

"But Chandler, she loves you, she's probably matured and what she's trying to do is repay you for what she didn't do before." …" She is happy, she wants to give everything to the girls, allow it…. you needed her hug when you were a child…. Now she is the one who needs your hug, that you accept her, don't now be the one who pushes her away"…" The day we went out in London she seemed to me like a mother worried about the happiness of her son…. and I consider it very valuable on her part"

"Chandler smile at her, hug her, she shares her enthusiasm for caring about a couple of girls who she knows make her son infinitely happy."

Chandler's eyes filled with tears. "It's hard for me to let go of a lot of things…. But you're right, I have to look to the future with my heart, thank you... that would be the advice that Marion would give me" and he gave a beautiful and sweet smile to her beloved Monica.

Obviously, Nora and Monica went shopping to furnish the nursery, Monica didn't know if all of that would fit in Rachel's small room, plus all the clothes she had brought, but she let Nora do what made her happy.

On Friday Nora invited Monica, her son, all of her friends, including David and her girlfriend to dinner at the Plaza.

Rachel was totally delighted with Nora, she had brought her more books, Rachel was in heaven.

The next week Nora asked Chandler and Monica to meet at the Park Av apartment.

"Hello mom, what are we doing here?"

"Seeing the huge and expensive storage room that you and I made for this apartment"

"Yes, really, you always buy huge houses for me to live in alone…"

"Chandler, please don't go there," Monica told him with a smile, but firmly.

Nora liked Monica, she was sweet, funny but she was also firm, and she could tell that she wastrying to get Chandler to move forward.

"Well, children, we are here because I must give some explanations that until now I have not considered necessary."

"My father was a very hard worker, an entrepreneur, from nothing he built a large and valuable company, one day a multinational company came and offered him a lot of money, millions, Dad accepted and sold it. Anyway, although incredibly rich, he couldn't sit still so he went into other

successful businesses until he died, Chandler knows."

"When Charles and I got married, Dad gave me a house in Long Island, where we lived until the divorce"

"At that time, I wanted to sell the house because I wanted to live in Manhattan, so Dad gave me the remaining money to buy this place, which was very expensive, imagine the size and location" and after some continuous suspense

"But he bought it with one condition, the property had to be in Chandler's name only."

"What?" Chandler exclaimed, "this apartment is in your name and mine…."

"No, dad believed that, if he put it in my name, because of my crazy head, I was going to sell it at any moment and throw away the money, plus he didn't trust at all in my writing career, hethought I wasn't going to amount to anything." … "then the only way to ensure a future for yourself was to buy the apartment in your name"

"But he also made a condition, we would tell you that it was in both of our names, because if when you were 18 you had a crazy head, like your mother, he and I could prevent you from wasting it."

"I'm really not interested in owning this, but I don't understand why you waited so long to tell me," Chandler said.

"I was thinking of doing it when you were of age, but by then I had matured a little, I understood Dad's reasons and in some way I made them my own. When you entered Oxford you were a studious boy, responsible with your studies, but you also really liked having fun, going out with your friends to party, you like women, and since you were a seducer you changed your girlfriend every

week".

Monica looked at him with raised eyebrows and a mischievous smile, her whole face said "you didn't tell me that."

"Mom, don't exaggerate…"

"Well, actually they lasted two weeks... but that's not the point, I knew you hated New York and I was afraid that as soon as you knew it was in your name you would put it up for sale and squander the money on fun and girls... In a word, I thought like dad…. So I asked him and Marion for their opinion

and we concluded that it was better to tell you the truth when you reached stability…"

"Mom, it has been several years since I reached stability, why are you only telling me this now?"

"Chandler, sorry, but what you had with Cynthia was not stability, it was conformity, I knew that at some point you would realize it and I was sure that you would achieve stability when you found that woman for life. And now the time has come" said Nora and continued.

"Guys, this apartment is very valuable because of the size, the location, but it is also very expensive to maintain, and I also don't think Chandler intends for you to move here."

"Chandler, I don't want to organize your life, this is just advice, put it up for sale, I was looking into it and with half of what you get from the sale, you can buy an apartment in the Village or Soho, with the same amenities or, you would even buy a house on Long Island or any other suburb for much less, and they ensure they have surplus funds for the education of the girls and those who ok

come later.

"Mom, even though grandpa has put it in my name, the apartment is yours, it is your inheritance, that's how I feel, and I don't want to deprive you of it…"

Nora took Chandler's hand. "Son, first of all, Dad left Olivia and me an important inheritance. You don't deprive me of anything. I'm happy that now you can enjoy what Grandpa wanted to leave you… you know I have my own fortunately that one day,...I hope it is not soon... It will be yours" and she laughed "I want you, the four of you, to enjoy it…"

"Also think that the apartment where you live is very nice, but it is not that big, two girls come who are just over a year old and will walk around the house filling it with toys, they need to have at least one more room for now… so don't delay in making decisions"…. "Son, I repeat, it is just advice…. "I love you, I love Monica, I love those two girls, and I want the best for you."

I don't think I deserve it…. "On my whim I didn't come to see Grandpa when he was sick..."

"Chandler, dad, mom, Olivia knew what Charles and I did to you, what I kept doing to you, leaving you alone…. Dad understood that you didn't want to set foot in New York…" Nora consoled him.

"But I should have come…" Chandler said again with wet eyes.

"Son, dad would be happy to know that you came back not out of obligation but out of love… don't punish yourself, we all make mistakes, that's how human beings are, they're not perfect."

Mom, what are you going to do with the house in London?" Chandler asked.

"Nothing, …. I love that house... And I also want you to have a home to go to when you travel to London, which I have a feeling will be followed."

Nora gave him the apartment papers, and they left there, neither of them feeling comfortable in that place.

A week later Nora left to continue with her presentation tours, Chandler hugged her and thanked her for "the advice", Nora laughed and gave him a big hug, "See you in May, I plan to be here when my granddaughters are born"