Monica's Revenge
I hope you catch them, and that you tell me your opinions, through them I know if I'm on the right path.
Remember English is not my native language, I hope the translation is correct, check it, but sometimes I miss some incorrect personal pronouns for the phrase, sorry.
I reiterate, I do not own the characters of Friends I only rely on them for the pure pleasure of writing stories without any economic interest, and Monica and Chandler inspire me.
CHAPTER 8
Joey opened the door and found Phoebe looking desperate.
"What's up, come in," Joey told her.
"I need you to help us with Rachel, she went to find Ross to tell him that she loves him!"
"But he's getting married to Emily in a couple of hours," Chandler exclaimed.
"Yes, we all know that, but she started with that idea apparently while we were still at home, the night after dinner with your mom she told us, Monica and I tried to dissuade her, but Rachel is stubborn. When I got out of the shower she was gone. "I'm going to look for Monica, we have to find her before she says something."
When the friends began the search, Rachel, in an aqua green dress that looked beautiful on her, had already run to the chapel for several minutes. When she entered she saw Ross talking to Emily, who had her back to the entrance and to whom he gave a tender kiss.
Rachel was paralyzed, she had come determined to speak, now she didn't know what to do, she loved him, she wanted him to be happy, but her heart was jumping out of her chest, she needed to speak.
As Emily left the chapel, Ross saw Rachel and approached. "Rachel, you look beautiful… is everyone here already?"
"No, I'll go ahead"...
"Ross, no one wants me to talk to you," Rachel said while Ross frowned in question,
"but I need to do it, first of all, I don't want anything to change, I want you to be happy and follow the path you chose, I didn't come to ruin anything like the girls think. I just need you to know that I love you, I never stopped loving you, all my nonsense was just that, nonsense to convince myself that I was over you, but I wasn't" Rachel said with tears in her eyes.
"Well, I already said it, I really want you to be happy with Emily, obviously she loves you since she leaves everything to follow you. I didn't know how to do that." Rachel culminated.
Then she smiled at him and said, "can I give you a hug as a friend, a friend forever?"
Ross was paralyzed, he didn't understand why it had taken her so long to realize, just now that it was so late for both of them.
"Yes, of course, friends forever," Ross answered and they hugged. When they separated, Rachel left and Ross stood motionless.
When the friends arrived at the chapel they saw Rachel and ran over.
"Rachel, what did you do? Monica asked.
"Nothing, I told him what I felt, but that nothing had to change the path he chose, that we would be friends forever," Rachel said as a tear ran down her cheek.
The friends looked at each other, none of them dared to bet what would happen, in a moment without the others seeing, Chandler squeezed Monica's waist, and whispered, "don't worry, whatever happens, the only thing that matters is that Ross is here. I'm sure he will be happy no matter who he chooses."
To make matters worse, Ross and Emily's parents were still arguing since the rehearsal dinner about the expenses that Emily's father wanted the Geller's to pay. And Ross again had to intervene.
His head was a whirl of confusion.
The organizer accommodated the couples who had to enter, Felicity with Emily's brother, Joey with Emily's stepmother, then Monica and Chandler and finally the bride.
Rachel was sitting next to Phoebe in one of the rows of seats.
The ceremony began, everything was going as planned until the officiant asked Ross to repeat "I take you Emily", only that Ross, in the deep shock that Rachel's words left him, said "I take you Rachel"
Everyone froze, Monica on the other side of the altar looked at Chandler, Rachel asked Phoebe "do I have to go there?" Phoebe pinched her, "You just sit here."
Ross's parents didn't understand what was happening, Judy told Jack "this wedding is worse than the lesbian one."
Emily wanted to continue the ceremony, they left the chapel, Emily elbowed Ross very hard in the stomach and left.
Everyone arrived at Emily's house where the reception would take place, but Emily didn't show up, until Ross discovered that she had run away, "Just like me," Rachel remembered, and everyone gave her icy looks.
From there it was crazy, everyone helping Ross look for Emily. - Monica and Chandler understanding that the meeting that night would hardly take place.
Ross managed to talk to Emily's parents and told them that the next day he was going to the airport for the honeymoon, that the confusion was just that, that Rachel was just a friend. "And please tell her that he would wait for her at the airport"
The next morning, early, the flight to NY left, a few minutes before Chandler went to see Ross, who was devastated.
"I'm going to go to the airport and wait for her, I hope she understands that it was a mix-up, that's all, but if she doesn't come…" Ross told his friend.
"Look, if she doesn't go on the trip, you still go to Greece, you need to put your thoughts and emotions in order, maybe she will reflect and find you there, but you also have to reflect on your feelings, I know how important that has been Rachel in your life, she has been in your head and in your heart for 20 years, I know that she told you yesterday that she loves you, I know that you feel that you love Emily now, take advantage of the journey, take advantage of the loneliness to really find out what your feelings are, who you want to be with," Chandler said and finished, "Listen to my advice."
"I gave you advice too and you didn't listen to it," Ross answered, looking at Chandler.
"Dude, don't be so sure," Chandler said with a smile and winked.
"What, did something happen?" Ross asked, suddenly interested.
"Ross, go on the trip, think, fix your romantic life and when you get back I'll tell you about my romantic life.
Everyone went to the airport, Chandler wanted to take care of checking everyone in, so he managed to have the seat next to Monica, Phoebe and Rachel would be together and Joey in a separate seat.
But when they were going to get on the plane, Joey noticed that Monica had to travel next to Chandler, and thinking that this closeness was going to bother her, since they were still distant, he changed seats with Monica.
Neither Monica nor Chandler had said that everything was already fixed between them, in fact much more than fixed, so they remained silent about the change and Chandler had to endure the whole flight of Joey's talk about whether he would be successful as an actor..."
When they arrived, everyone went to their house. Chandler managed to whisper to Monica that he was waiting for her at his house when she could calm down Rachel, who was a bundle of nerves and sadness.
Monica had at first been angry with Rachel for speaking out, but then she understood that perhaps her brother was making a mistake by marrying Emily, so she would let things fall into place on their own.
Phoebe and Monica tried to reassure and support Rachel that, in addition to having lost the man she loved, she felt like she had ruined his wedding.
That support took them a while, so Monica gave the excuse of going to the laundromat, and crossed to Chandler's apartment with the laundry basket.
"Wow, you came to get my clothes to wash," Chandler said, dying of laughter when he saw her.
"No silly, it was the only excuse I found to leave the apartment, since we gave Rachel a tranquilizer, she's probably sleeping until tomorrow, and Phoebe went home, so you have me all to yourself for the whole night."
"Perfect, but I don't want to continue hiding, Ross stole his thunder by himself, now it's our thunder's turn, so we can be together as much as we want without lies or stupid excuses"
OK, let's spend this night underground and we'll tell you tomorrow!
The next afternoon the three girls and Joey were at Monica's house preparing the low table to play cards, when someone knocked on the door and entered.
Except Monica, the others were surprised, Chandler had not returned to Monica's house since the fateful day of the revenge prank.
Chandler came in with a huge smile, greeted everyone and went to Monica and kissed her on the mouth.
Everyone was more than surprised.
Monica explained, "Guys, we're together from London."
"from London! Joey exclaimed.
"Yes, more precisely, since the rehearsal dinner," Chandler said with a huge smile.
"But you didn't tell us anything," Phoebe said, reproachfully.
"I didn't want to steal Ross's thunder, it was his wedding, and I didn't want it to stop being the most important thing for everyone, so we decided to save it until we got home."
"And Ross knows that? Joey asked.
"No, he's going to find out when he gets back, I guess in Greece he is going to calm his anxieties and he will have resolved his confusion," Chandler said, looking at Rachel, who questioned him with her gaze, what he had meant.
From that day on Monica and Chandler didn't hide anymore.
Ten days later Ross returned to the City, he came with news. He told everyone that from Greece he flew first to London, managed to meet Emily and they decided to annul the wedding. On the one hand Emily wanted him to change some things in his life that he was not willing to do, and on the other hand the confusion about his feelings had been cleared up, Emily had come into his life at a time when he was sure that his true Love had turned the page and he had to make an effort to do the same, but in London he said, looking at Rachel, "I discovered that none of them had turned the page, so I am here in the hope that we will try again, but this time, knowing how much it hurts separately, we will do it with more maturity"
Rachel stood up and went straight to Ross kissing him. "This time we cannot fail; we owe it to ourselves"
Obviously Ross was informed that the love between Monica and Chandler was going at an accelerated pace.
Monica practically stayed at Chandler's house almost every night, because now in apartment 20 Ross was also staying with Rachel.
Chandler and Monica were quite noisy during their passionate nights and Chandler felt uncomfortable knowing that Ross, in the other room, would hear everything.
It had been 6 months since "London" when Chandler proposed to Monica to live together, the only problem was where.
Chandler's apartment felt cozy to Monica, but the rooms were smaller than Apartment 20, as was the kitchen.
"Monica, I have no problem moving into your apartment, but what do we do with Rachel?" Chandler asked.
"She could come live here," Monica said.
"But the rent for this apartment is more expensive, and besides, she would have to pay for it alone," Chandler reflected.
"Yes, you're right," Monica answered.
"Mon, is it just a matter of size, or do you really not want to leave apartment 20?" Chandler asked her with a smile.
"It's true, I love that apartment, but we can't live there with Rachel, having Ross at home all day. I love Ross, he is my friend, I want him to come visit my house as many times as he wants, but a visit is one thing and coexistence is another, which was always very difficult between him and me, we would be heading towards a disaster that would even "It would affect us," Monica explained.
"So what do we do, I want us to live together…" said Chandler with a sad puppy face.
Monica laughed at the look on his face. "Me too, you fool."
"What if we moved to another apartment, in the Village, something with a good kitchen, and three bedrooms," Chandler said.
"The good kitchen is fine, but why three bedrooms?" asked Monica.
"Obviously one for us, another for me to use as a desk, and the third, well I don't think it will take us long to make a baby, we are very good together" Chandler said.
"Are you thinking about us having a baby?" Monica asked surprised.
"Well, whoever says one can say two or three," Chandler replied with a smile and continued.
"Look, I know that we would have to follow certain steps, commitment, marriage and then babies, but I wouldn't care if any of the latter came first. "Mon when I had Phoebe's baby in my arms I felt like we would be good parents," Chandler explained.
"But how did you know that we would have children and be good parents if we were fighting?"
Monica left with her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"Yes, I was still a little angry, but I loved you too much and deep down I knew that we would get together and make beautiful babies like the one I had in my arms," Chandler said smiling.
"Okay, we'll talk to Rachel, we'll explain to her what we want to do, that she can keep apartment 20, maybe even Ross will move in."
Three months later they had found the place, just three blocks from apartment 20.
Leaving the place was painful for Monica, but she also knew that it was in the family and they would love and care for it like she did for the last 9 years, and they would always come. to eat pizza, play cards, the gang would still be together at one or the other's house.
In short, when she met Chandler again, when the vengeful 17-year-old girl had suddenly resurfaced in her, she never assumed that "the idiot" would become the love of her life, and with him she would form the family she had always dreamed of. Unthinkable twists of fate, or simply Karma as Phoebe would say.
End