How do we get rid of the annoying neighbor lady?
I hope you like the story and that you tell me his 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 they inspire me
CHAPTER 3
When Chandler closed the door he entered the kitchen and saw that Monica had tears on her cheek.
Chandler immediately hugged her, ¿love, what's wrong?
"I'm tired, I'm sleepy, and now the house is full of chocolate and the couches are all stained," Monica said between tears.
He separated her, wiped her tears with his lips while he kissed her. "Mon, now we're going to take care of the kids, then we'll eat something, and tomorrow morning I'll call the company that cleans couches and I'll help you get the chocolate out of everywhere."
"i thinks that for now we've gotten it out of the way a little bit, but I think the move is inevitable," Chandler concluded.
"Honey, I love this house, we bought it because it had everything we wanted"
"Yes, but it also came with Janice, the inspection didn't notify us," Chandler said smiling. "Look, tomorrow we'll see what we do, now let's see the twins."
The next day they cleaned all the chocolate that had found its way into the most unusual places, and in the afternoon the company came to leave the armchairs spotless for Monica's peace of mind.
Late in the afternoon Monica called the girls and told them about her unexpected neighbor, and Chandler's decision to move.
"The story is long, it was horrible, although to tell the truth the one who stopped it was Chandler, but he still has the idea of moving. Come on Saturday, tomorrow we are going to buy a barbecue and some furniture, the three boys can help Chandler put some together, I'll tell you about it, and you can help me think about what to do.
The next day they got up early well, at the time when babies begin to ask for bottles, and after changing them and filling a bag with diapers and bottles, they loaded them into the car and left for the shopping center.
When they were in the car, Chandler reflected out loud, "It is really worth buying this furniture, except for the barbecue and the garden furniture, the rest will depend on the size of the rooms in the new house. This morning I saw ads in the newspaper of houses on Long Island, even close to your parents that are not much more expensive, I know that we would have no problem extending the mortgage a little"
Monica lowered her head, Chandler looked at her, "What's wrong? After yesterday, do you still think that it is not necessary to move?
"Honey, I don't know, yesterday you managed to stop her very well, maybe she noticed her?
Mon, she realized what? The children already treat us like uncles, she said she would come back, she is totally family, we will have them for Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, she is already planning vacations together, she is not going to back down, I know she is not a bad person, she is even generous, but she is terribly nosy, insistent, she shouts, she is not going to change, it is her personality. Look, I never thought that in the neighborhood we would be a hermit couple, I wanted to get to know the neighbors, see who we could have a friendship with, but I don't want Janice to impose them on us, once we enter that circle we won't be able to leave, right? What if there are more Janice's in that gang?
"Okay, but let's not rush, tomorrow we'll talk to the others and get their opinion," Monica answered.
"I'm telling you right now that I don't think Joey will come visit us if she's hanging around here."
"Chandler, now let's focus on what we have to buy. In any case, if we move, the house we would choose will be more or less the same size. I don't think that what we buy today won't work for us in it."
"OK, but ¿you would make me stay in that house if the neighbor was Richard?" Chandler said.
"That's totally different, he was my boyfriend, I know you hate him, of course I wouldn't put you through that hassle and he would also be a hassle for me, but I remind you that Janice was your girlfriend, and you went back to her again and again. Maybe, for something serious," Monica answered, annoyed.
"Precisely because she appeared, she insisted, she didn't want to understand that I didn't love her, and I was an immature and cowardly idiot who didn't know how to tell her that not only did I not love her, but I found it unbearable, I still don't know if she ever understood, and to make matters worse, you told her that I had feelings for her the day she intended to come home and go to our wedding, do you remember that?"
"Chandler, at that time she was alone, now she is married to Sid, they have a family" said Monica.
"Ha, ha, as if that stops her when she proposes something of her own," Chandler replied.
"Are you afraid that she will conquer you, that suddenly that love that she said you felt for her and that you didn't realize would suddenly emerge?" Monica said with a mocking smile.
Chandler looked at her with his eyebrows furrowed. "You realize she's already making us argue! "She came hours ago and we are already fighting, and the worst thing is for someone who is not worth it, who I don't want in our lives."
"Sorry I didn't mean that, I just know that our love is not going to be destroyed by Janice or anyone else. But if it bothers you so much, let's see if we can do something so she doesn't come or we'll move the way you want," Monica answered.
That day in the afternoon they delivered all the purchases, the staff who delivered all the assembled furniture arranged them in the living room and dining room where Monica indicated them, as well as the king bed and the sofa for the suite, they placed the garden furniture and the barbecue. However, the furniture for the twins came in boxes to assemble.
Monica was preparing a cake for dessert the next day, and Chandler was in the garden arranging the furniture and cleaning the barbecue they would use the next day. The twins were each in their hammock on the kitchen table. They hadn't talked about it again, Janice, until they heard a knock on the door.
Monica opened it and obviously Janice was there, with her children, fortunately without chocolate cake.
"¡HELLO MONICA! I saw they were taking down the furniture and I came to see" said Janice when she shouted again "¡OH ... MY ... GOD!" here are the twins, THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL! Come guys and see the babies, these are your cousins Erika and Jack!
"Thank you Janice, but don't shout too much, they just fell asleep," Monica told her with a fake smile.
Chandler had heard the screams from the yard and rushed inside to put out any fire.
"Hi Janice, hello guys, everything's fine," Chandler said with some indifference.
"We saw that they were bringing furniture and we wanted to come and see and along the way we were able to meet the babies, ¡THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL I DIDN'T THINK THEY WERE SO CUTE!" said Janice fanning her face, "¡it's incredible, but they look like you!" Janice said turning to Chandler
"I don't think so, they both have Monica's eyes, which indicates that they will be as beautiful as her," Chandler replied.
Janice ignored the answer, making a gesture with her hand as if to say let's move on.
"Get the furniture," said Janice, entering the room without any invitation.
Chandler looked at Monica intently, his look said "I told you so."
"¡OH MY GOD! Janice shouted, "The table is perfect and the chairs, I love the upholstery, I have to upholster mine, the boys ruined the fabric quite a bit, I think I'm going to copy you" laughed loud and throaty.
"And what else did they buy?" Janice asked.
"The garden furniture, the cribs, but these are to be assembled, tomorrow everyone will come to help us" Monica answered.
"Oh! "I'm looking forward to seeing everyone, and Rachel is coming with the girl," said Janice, determined to invite herself to the meeting.
"Yes, everyone comes," Chandler answered and explained clearly, "but tomorrow they're coming to help us, we're going to be busy, but the next time they come we'll let you know so you can come with your family."
"Don't you want Sic to help them too?" Janice asked, seeing an opportunity to be at the meeting.
"No, it's not necessary, we'll let you know next barbecue," Chandler answered again more firmly.
"Well, let's go," said Janice. "Monica is with her cake and you are with work in the garden. I congratulate you, the furniture is beautiful, but the most beautiful thing is the twins." Janice laughed loudly while Monica walked them to the door.
Chandler just looked at his wife, raising an eyebrow with a half-mocking smile, and returned to the garden.
The next day everyone arrived, after coffee the men went upstairs to assemble the furniture.
The three friends sat in the living room.
"On Tuesday they had to come to clean the couches, they were covered in chocolate left by Aaron's hands."
"God, that kid must be terrible," Rachel said.
"Exactly" she looks at Emma, sitting playing with her dolls, "she is a princess," said Monica, looking at her niece with total love.
"Well, tell us what's going on," Phoebe asked.
Monica told them in detail the entire adventure with Janice from the Monday morning when Janice appeared to Chandler while he was mowing the front yard until yesterday afternoon.
"From that moment she appeared to Chandler, he came in saying "we're moving now," and until now the idea hasn't left his mind, to make matters worse, Janice doesn't help, she comes all the time," said Monica.
"And what do you think, what do you want to do?" Rachel asked.
"At first, the move seemed crazy to me, but now I don't know what to do. On the one hand, I think that she's not a bad person and we shouldn't run away from her as if she were a criminal, that's why I feel that moving is an extreme solution, but I also know that she is crazy, meddlesome and insistent, that she somehow wants to run our lives."
"Mon, she always pursued Chandler, even at one point, even when she was with her husband whom she was not sure about divorcing, she went out with Chandler, she cheated on him, she hurt him, remember when she invented to both of you that she had a partner and then tried to stay at your house, later she went out with Ross, regardless of whether you are only bothered by his nosy nature, I don't know if he is not looking for something more, he seemed to always be behind Chandler or around him as if waiting for the opportunity" Rachel said
"Chandler loves me, I trust him completely, and she makes him uncomfortable, as much as Richard makes uncomfortable," Monica said, smiling.
"Yes, but you just told us that they argued about her," Phoebe said and continued.
"Mon, she's probably a good person, and it makes you feel bad to push her away or walk away just because of her personality, but she's undoubtedly going to be a thorn in your side. It was fun for me, but I admit that if she were trying to manage my life, my friends, and If I even suspected she was after Mike I would kick her ass."
"I just don't think she's after Chandler, she seems happy with Sid, her husband and her kids, she's made friends in the area, she just wants us to join them," Monica said.
"Chandler is okay with that," Rachel asked.
"No, not at all, he told me that he wanted to meet the neighbors and see if we would get along with any of them, but he doesn't tolerate Janice imposing hers on us," Monica answered.
"Mon, Chandler is right, you guys moved here to live a quiet life away from the city, with the white fence and the ice cream truck, but with Janice so close it will be difficult to have peace of mind," Rachel said.
"The truth is that you are in love with the house, with the neighborhood, you don't want to move, but you are not going to be able to live with an uncomfortable Chandler and a nosy neighbor all day in your house, you have to find a way to stay and at the same time to get rid of Janice," Phoebe said.
"What!, do you want me to kill her?" Monica said with wide eyes.
"Mon, Chandler never told her clearly and clearly that he didn't love her and couldn't stand her," Phoebe said.
"Yes, he told me that he recognizes that he was an immature coward for not having told her from the beginning," Monica commented.
"It's time for both of you to be mature and brave, you have to tell her that you can't be friends, that you don't want to be friends or be part of his gang, you just want to be good neighbors," Phoebe concluded.
"But she's going to be offended, and she'll probably talk bad things about us to the other neighbors," said Monica.
"Phoebe is right; she can't be offended if you give her a good reason that she understands." Said Rachel
"And what?" Also, if she doesn't want to understand it, because she's obviously not easy to convince," Monica said sadly.
"Then you'll have to move. This isn't the only house there either, Chandler wants to go back to Long Island, there are good houses there, you would be close to your parents so they can help with the twins." Rachel explained.
That night, after putting the babies to bed, Monica told Chandler the girls' advice.
"What do you think" Monica asked.
"I don't know what to think, I don't know if it will work, and what can we say, did you think of something?" Chandler said, crestfallen.
"It occurred to me to tell her that I neither want nor can I be friends with one of my husband's ex-girlfriends, that makes me uncomfortable, in the same way that it would make you uncomfortable if we were friends with one of my ex-boyfriends," Monica proposed.
"Richard would undoubtedly make me uncomfortable," Chandler said with a smile, "but it's okay, talk to her, tell her that and if she doesn't accept it, we'll move, it's a promise," Chandler asked and offered her his little finger.
Monica linked her pinky saying "I promise" with a smile.
On Monday Monica went to Janice's house, it was the first time, she hadn't even wanted to pass by on the street, she gathered up the courage and all the door.
Janice opened it with a surprised face and then shouted "OH MY GOD!, how happy you came to visit me, and the twins?"
"They stayed with Chandler," Monica said.
"Come in, come in, you want a coffee, we'll sit in the living room, then I'll show you the house!" Janice was a flood of offers
"No Janice, thank you, I just need to talk to you about something important," Monica said seriously.
"OK, come to the living room," Janice said with a worried face.
"Look, I want you to understand me, both Chandler and I consider you a good person, but it makes me very uncomfortable that we maintain a close friendship, since you were Chandler's girlfriend for quite a long time, there is no problem that we are good neighbors, but nothing else"
"OH ... MY... GOD!" Janice shouted, "Chandler is still in love with me, he still loves me!
Monica took a deep breath, "Janice, Chandler doesn't love you, maybe he once had a passing crush many, many years ago, but he doesn't love you, he recognizes that you are a good woman, but nothing more."
"Then why can't we be friends?" Janice said with tears in her eyes.
"Janice, I can't help but feel upset if you pretend that we have a close friendship, in the same way that Chandler would feel upset if one of my boyfriends pretended that we were all friends, I understand him and support him, the same way he supports me," Monica concluded.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I was happy to have you around, to be together all the time, to do things together, we are family, I wanted you to be part of my gang…. I spoke highly of you to my friends, and now I find out that you faked joy when you saw me... Monica you are really evil and controlling, I can't believe that Chandler, such a good man, could have fallen in love with you, and because of your whim, don't let him be our friend." Janice said crying and fanning her eyes.
"Janice, Chandler also feels uncomfortable, he doesn't want us to have to be friends, no matter what, we weren't pretending when you came home, for us it was a big and unexpected surprise," Monica told her and continued.
"We thank you for all the possibilities you offered us, but we want to organize our lives in our own way, we already have our gang who, after so many years, became our family, not to mention that Ross is my brother and Rachel my sister-in-law."
"Understand, you were Chandler's girlfriend years ago, and in that capacity you participated in some of our meetings at Central Perk, but you have to admit that you were never part of our gang, we were not friends then nor are we family now" she told her. Monica said trying to calm her down, "Do you understand?"
"NO! OF COURSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND!, no one had offended me and hurt me so much in my life, do you think you're better than me? I'm not stupid, Chandler would take me to the cafeteria so that you could get to know me and accept me, he loved me, and he probably still does, which is exactly what scares you since you know that if I put my mind to it he will leave you for me" Janice said crying, fanning her face and almost screaming, it was a waterfall that didn't stop.
"You all always came between us. You Monica wanted him for yourself, I always noticed, but all of you managed to convince him to stay away from me, especially that idiot Joey. I'll make sure no one in the neighborhood wants to be friends with a couple of snobs, keep him, he's all yours, you're one-size-fits-all, just as they're the same as the rest of their gang, all stuck-up." "Look, you better get away from my home, and I don't want to see you anymore" Janice finished shouting.
Monica got up and left, obviously everything was a disaster, Janice was offended, angry, and she would have to move out.
She arrived at the house and as soon as Chandler entered he saw by her face that things had not gone well.
Chandler the big hug, "tell me what she said"
"She was very offended, she yelled at me, she started crying, she said that I was evil and controlling, that we took you away from her, that you probably still love her, that we were presumptuous and that she was going to tell the neighborhood that we offended her" … "We will have to move..."
"Honey, wait, we wanted to get rid of Janice, and we did it, I don't think the whole neighborhood is friends with her either, maybe those four that she mentions as part of her gang, but I'm sure that many neighbors must escape her, let's hope a couple of months, if everything is calm we will stay"
"But I promised you that if she didn't understand we would move," Monica said through tears.
"You love the house, and if Janice stays away, we don't have to move," Chandler told her.
"But we're going to find her at the market, at the mall, and it's going to be uncomfortable," said Monica.
"Well, it will be uncomfortable for a few minutes, but not forever," Chandler reassured her.
And everything really calmed down, except that, a little more than a year later, they decided to return to Manhattan, they had tried suburban life, the white fences, the ice cream truck, the garden, but the daily commute to their jobs, especially the of Monica when she had a night shift at the restaurant, not only was it tiring, but when she got home her children were already asleep, and Chandler, who waited for her every night on the couch, after a hard day of work, the trip, taking care of the children with dinner, the bath, it was inevitable that he would succumb to sleep hugging a book.-
She realized that moving to Long Island wouldn't change any of that. This was not the marriage she had dreamed of, greeting him with a kiss when he arrived and Chandler kissing her and telling that he loved her, and the children, she always dreamed of being able to sing to them to sleep and kiss them goodnight. This was not the family she wanted.
The return made the whole gang happy, they found a house with the necessary amenities in the Village not far from the old building, and although its value was higher than the house they were selling, both had increased their income which provided them with enough support to obtain a major mortgage.
They told the neighbors with whom they had managed to have a good relationship that they were moving to Long Island, they did not want to take the risk, since neither of them wanted to meet their NEIGHBOR again. But we must admit that with Janice you can never say "never further".