Monica's Revenge
I hope you catch them, 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 inspire me.
CHAPTER 4
Friday arrived.
Around 6:30 p.m. Phoebe arrived with the puppy, it was a furry and very affectionate black and white Terrier named Bobby, Monica was already changed for the date she would have after the prank, she had put on a red dress that her figure stood out.
They locked Bobby in Monica's bedroom, the dog was very trained by the owner, so Phoebe placed him on the bed to sleep.
They closed the door to Monica's room, they both went to hide in Joey's apartment, since he was not there and also knew absolutely nothing about the revenge.
Rachel stayed in apartment 20 waiting for Chandler.
Chandler arrived on time, he had a beautiful bouquet of red roses, Rachel opened it for him and she couldn't help but feel a little upset because of how handsome and elegant Monica's date was, but she had to play her role correctly.
"Hello, come in, how are you?
"Okay, is Monica here?" Chandler asked, clearly nervous.
"Yes, she's in her bedroom finishing getting ready, why don't you come in and wait for her on the couch, I have to go, but make yourself at home, and have a good time" Rachel answered as she left, closing the door and turning around gently the key to not make noise.
Chandler sat for several minutes, but since he didn't hear any noise coming from Monica's room, he approached gently, barely touching in question.
"Monica, are you okay?" He waited a few seconds and hit again, "Monica, you're there, you're okay."
And when he didn't receive an answer he said "Look, I'm going in," he opened the door and Bobby happily jumped out to greet him.
At one-point Chandler froze, he didn't know that Monica had a dog, and as Bobby kept jumping up to him to greet him and receive affection, Chandler ran towards the apartment door to escape, but it was locked.
Chandler was panicking and didn't understand what was happening, he was trying to enter Rachel's bedroom, but it was locked, while Bobby followed him wherever he went, trying to get out the window, but it was also locked.
He then began knocking on the door asking for help.
On the other side, in the hallway, Phoebe and Rachel were dying of laughter and Monica was scared to death.
"Please let's open," Monica said.
"Okay, okay, but this is so much fun," Phoebe said.
Rachel opened the door, the three entered the apartment before Chandler's scared look and shocked face.
He didn't understand why Phoebe and Rachel were laughing out loud.
When he catches his breath a little he looks at Monica very seriously, "Monica, what's happening, I don't understand?"
Then Phoebe laughing told him "it's just a joke we wanted to play on you to help Monica in her little revenge."
"Monica, what is she talking about, what revenge?" Chandler's voice was still agitated.
"Please tell me what's wrong, what revenge?"
Monica was paralyzed, she didn't know what to answer, how to explain to him that everything was a mistake, nonsense, that she didn't want to hurt him, but her words didn't come out.
"Monica speaks, what revenge? Chandler repeated.
Then Rachel spoke up. "Look, when you went to Monica's house for Thanksgiving, Monica heard when you told Ross "I don't want to stay with your fat sister." Monica heard it and it hurt her a lot"
"We thought that you would come the following year and we had revenge prepared, but you didn't come, the plan failed."
"I don't remember saying that, but I was still an 18-year-old idiot with a ridiculous hairstyle, I could have said anything else, but it's been 11 years" …. "I can't believe it! You only accept my invitation to take revenge like this?"
"Chandler, don't exaggerate, it's just a joke, to all laugh for a while, we're just taking advantage of the date," Phoebe said.
"No, Phoebe, this was not a joke, you said it, it was revenge and they used my phobia, which you already knew, to plan this, to laugh at something that is inevitably very scary for me. I didn't think you would be so cruel; you have no idea how much damage you have done to me" Chandler said with his face red with rage.
"And you," he said, addressing Monica, "I really liked you, I was in love with you, I thought you were as beautiful inside as out, a real woman, but you turned out to be a stupid 17-year-old girl who did not hesitate to deceive me, you made me believe that you had feelings for me, and you just wanted revenge. Well, you've already achieved it, more than enough, you can be satisfied, and everyone can continue laughing."
"Chandler wait…" Monica said as tears ran down her cheeks.
"Wait what? I'm not interested in anything you want to tell me, I will never trust you again, I don't want to see you again."
Chandler left, slamming the door loudly.
Monica ran to her room and lay on the bed sobbing, she had lost Chandler because of her stupidity, she should have stopped this, she should have known better than to take it as a joke, they set him up and would never forgive her.
Her friends came in trying to comfort Monica, but everything they said made her angrier.
"It was a joke" "it's an exaggeration" "it's ridiculous that he's afraid of Bobby"
"Stop it, I don't want to hear you trying to blame him anymore, Chandler has a trauma, instead of understanding it we make fun of him, the fault is ours and especially mine, I shouldn't have allowed you to move on, I'm in love too from him, I should have protected him, now because of the idiocy we did I lost him. "Please leave me alone, please."
The girls left, "I didn't think it was that big of a deal, it was a joke" Phoebe said.
"Phoebe, we went too far, in a joke we all have to laugh, the one who makes it and the one who receives it, we should have realized that for him this was not a simple joke, we hurt him and Monica was also hurt, if she is in love with him, she will never forgive us, she wanted to stop the revenge, she asked us and we insisted, that's the truth," said Rachel.
The girls remained silent, how would they resolve this?
Chandler returned to his apartment furious, he pulled on his jacket and tie, he lay down on the couch, his head hurt, his heart was still pumping fast, but the worst thing was the sadness that invaded him, except for his parents, no one had hurt him so much, how could he think that Monica would be so cruel, creating expectations just to get revenge for something stupid from 11 years ago, why didn't she tell him and he would have apologized. But obviously she wasn't interested in his feelings, she only wanted to take revenge by ridiculing him, she surely planned it since they met, she worked little by little until she saw him in love, so revenge would be more effective, not only had she hurt him using his phobia, but she had laughed in his face at the love he felt for her.
Since he was a child, he had never felt so devastated, since he was 9 years old he had never cried again, not even when he broke up with Julliet, but now his tears couldn't stop.
When he calmed down a little, he took a paddle and went to a practice front-on that was in a square, and he began to hit the ball for several minutes with unusual force, until he sat down exhausted.
He returned to the apartment, had a couple of beers, he still had some relaxing pills that he took when he was undergoing physical therapy, he took two and fell asleep.
The next day his alarm rang, he was confused, he didn't know what day it was, his stomach was upset, he went to the bathroom and vomited. Then he went to the kitchen to drink water, he saw on the clock that it was Saturday and he had to go to class, but he didn't have the strength, his head hurt, his wrist hurt from the effort he had subjected it to the night before, he didn't want to see anyone. So he called to say he was sick. And he lay back on the bed.
Monica was another disaster, she couldn't sleep more than a couple of hours, she got up, Rachel was in the kitchen having coffee, but Monica didn't even say good morning to her, she poured herself a coffee and went back to her room without saying a word.
A while later Phoebe arrived and asked Rachel how things were, "Badly, she didn't talk to me, she just poured herself coffee and went to her room."
They were talking when Ross came in, "Hello, good morning, how are you, and Monica?" "I wanted to ask she how her date with Chandler went last night."
The girls looked serious and Rachel's face brightened.
"What happened, did he not come, or did he hurt her, did he do something to her? Ross said as anger began to appear in his voice and his face turned red.
"No Ross, nothing happened, or rather it happened, but it wasn't Chandler's fault at all" Rachel said.
"Then can you explain to me what's going on, where is Monica?" Ross reiterated and added "I'm going to see her."
"No Ross, don't come in, we'd better tell you everything from the beginning," Phoebe told him.
The girls began the story from Thanksgiving 1987 until the night before, they even told him that Monica tried to stop the revenge and the prank, but they insisted that nothing bad would happen.
Ross's face went from red to pale, his eyes were pleased, he couldn't get out of his astonishment.
When they finished they told him that Monica spent the night crying because she is in love with Chandler, and obviously she is angry with them.
Ross stood up and started pacing back and forth.
"You. You are crazy, totally insane, for God's sake, what a shame, Chandler needed friends and he thought he found them in all of us, you betrayed him, to make matters worse he fell in love with Monica, he told me so I would know he was serious, you ruined everything, he didn't have an easy life and now he must be devastated. And how foolish Monica is to allow such nonsense, to stupidly lost a good man who loved her, for something stupid said when we were idiots."
Monica, who was listening to her brother because he was shouting, left the bedroom,
"Wait Ross, I know what we did was stupid, but when he called me fat he hurt me."
"HA HA HA," said Ross, "in reality, he only told the truth, you were fat that's why you didn't have boyfriends at school, at that time we all did and said stupid things, or perhaps you, so bright and mature, at that time you called your genitals "the flower" and those of the man "the tenderness"
"For God's sake, Monica, don't try to defend yourself, the 17-year-old girl was offended, but the 27-year-old woman could have given Chandler a heart attack."
"I'm going to see him, I'm not going to lose my friend because of the evil actions of my sister and her friends," said Ross.
"Ross, wait, tell him it was stupid, that I'm sorry, that I'm in love with him too," Monica begged him.
"I'm not your messenger, you tell him if one day he opens the door for you," Ross said and left, knocking on the door.
Ross went down the stairs and crossed to the building opposite, he didn't know what to say to Chandler, he only thought of asking for forgiveness for having such an idiot sister.
Ross knocked on the door a couple of times, Chandler took a while to open it, when he saw Ross he didn't say anything, he just let him come in and sank into the couch.
"Dude, I just found out what those stupid women did, it's not like apologizing to you, I feel like shit."
Chandler remained silent for a moment and then looked at Ross. "You're my friend and you don't have to apologize for them. What they did was horrible. I really had a phobia of dogs since I was a kid. I don't know why. A therapist told me that maybe I'm afraid because something happened as a child, a bad experience, but I can't know, I doubt that my parents found out about anything since they were never there, maybe a maid, I will never know" and he continued with his head down.
"But the worst thing is that Monica has used my feelings towards her to ridicule me, to laugh at me, supposedly to get revenge for something that she says I said 11 years ago that I don't even remember. I feel trampled, humiliated by the woman I was in love with, I can't believe I was so stupid, not realizing that she was manipulating me, that she didn't feel anything for me."
"Chandler, I know that none of this can be forgiven, I didn't come to ask you that, but you need to know something, when you and Monica met she thought about revenge again, but then she got to know you, she fell in love with you"
Chandler looked at him suspiciously.
"Yes, I'm not lying to you, she really loves you, she spent the night crying without sleeping, she had told the girls several times that she didn't want revenge anymore, she wanted to stop the cheating, she was really happy with the date, but she couldn't handle it. They convinced her that it was just a joke that you would laugh at too," Ross said and continued for several minutes.
"I'm only telling you this because it's important that you don't feel used, that you understand that there was no manipulation on her part, she's not trying to make you fall in love to get revenge, she's not a bad person, the same thing happened to her that happened to you, she fell in love, sincerely, but she behaved like a 17-year-old girl, without realizing that she was risking her love and your love."
"Chandler, when you told me that you were in love with her I felt happy, calm, she had finally found a good man who loved her, and not the shitty ones she dated before, I was sure that if she had accepted the date with you it was because she felt the same. Now it hurts my soul that their love is ruined, she will have to live with that."
"Finally, I ask that this not alter our friendship, I care about you, we can meet in another cafe, or we can meet at my house or here. Furthermore, Joey is also totally out of this story, he ignored it, and he is also a good friend who appreciates you," Ross concluded.
"Ross, our friendship is intact, as for them, I don't know if I can ever get over it."
They both stood up, gave each other a quick hug, and Ross left.