20

-February 15th 1996-

   At Monica and Rachel's apartment.Me,Monica and Phoebe are sitting at the table as Joey and Chandler enter.

Chandler:Hey.

Tabitha,Monica,Phoebe:Hey.

Joey:Hey.

Phoebe:Oh look at you fancy lads.What's the occasion?.

Joey:Well you know that guy that's on my show that's in a coma?.He's having a brunch.

Phoebe:Ah.

Rachel:"Enters from her room".Ok ready when you are.

Phoebe:Okiedoke.

I get up ready to leave.

Monica:I can't believe you guys are actually getting tattoos.

Chandler:Excuse me you guys are getting tattoos?.

Rachel:Yes but you can not tell Ross cause I want to surprise him.

Joey:Wow this is wild.What're you gonna get?.

Phoebe:Um I'm getting a lily for my Mom. Cause her name's Lily.

Chandler:Wow that's lucky.What if her name was Big Ugly Splotch?.

Joey:So where you getting it?.

Phoebe:I think on my shoulder.

Ross enters the apartment.

Ross:What?.What's on your shoulder?.

Phoebe:Um a chip A tattoo I'm getting a tattoo.

Ross:A tattoo?.Why,why would you want to do that?."To Rachel".Hi.

Rachel:Hi.Well hey you don't,you don't think they're kind of cool?.

Ross:No sorry I don't.Tell me why would anyone pay someone to scar their body for life?.What if it doesn't come out right Phoebe?.Then it's like I don't know having a bad hair cut all the time.Why's everyone staring at me?.

Monica:Ross come sign this birthday card for dad.Rich is gonna be here any minute.

Chandler:Oooh Rich is going to the party too huh?.

Monica:Well he's my parents best friend he has to be there.

Joey:Oh is today the day you're gonna tell them about you two?.

Monica:Yeah.It's my dad's birthday I decided to give him a stroke.

Tabitha:No I think you should tell them.

Monica:No I don't even know how serious he is about me.Until I do I'm not telling them anything.

Ross:I don't know I don't think mom and dad would mind.Remember when you were 9 and Richard was 30 how dad used to say God I hope they get together.

   Me,Phoebe and Rachel are at the Tattoo parlor and deciding on tattoos.

Phoebe:OK Rach which,which lily?.This lily or that lily?."Pointing".

Rachel:Well I...

Phoebe:I like this lily.It's more open you know and that's like my mom.She had a more open giving spirit.Oh Foghorn Leghorn oh.

???:Alright blonde girl you're in room two not so blonde girl you're with me.And red girl room 3.

Phoebe:Here we go.

Rachel:Uhuh.

Tabitha:You're not going?.

Rachel:Uhuh.

Phoebe:What?.Is it is this cause of what Ross said?.

Rachel:No.Well yeah maybe.

Phoebe:I don't believe this.Is this how this relationship's gonna work?.Ross equals boss.I mean come on what is this 1922?.

Rachel:What's 1922?.

Phoebe:Just you know long time ago.Well when men used to tell women what to do a lot.And then there was suffrage which is a good thing but is sounds horrible.Do you want to get this tattoo?.

Rachel:Yes I do it's just that Ross is...

Phoebe:Ok hey,Hey.Is your boyfriend the boss of you?.

Rachel:No.

Phoebe:Ok who is the boss of you?!.

Rachel:You?.

Phoebe:No.You are the boss of you.Now you march your heinie in there and get that heart tattooed on your hip.Go!.

   We are still at the Tattoo parlor and Rachel is showing Me and Phoebe her tattoo.

Phoebe:Oh that looks so good oh I love it.

Rachel:I know so do I.Oh Phoebe I'm so glad you made me do this

   I then show the girls one of mine I got on my right hip.

Phoebe:Tab that is awesome.

Tabitha:Thanks."Smiles".

Rachel:Ok Pheebs lets see yours.

Phoebe:Ah.Ok Rachel let's see yours again.

Rachel:Phoebe we just saw mine let me see yours.

Phoebe:Oh Ok."Pulls over her shirt and shows a bare shoulder".Oh no oh it's gone that's so weird I don't know how where it went.

Rachel:You didn't get it?.

Phoebe:No.

Tabitha:Why didn't you get it?

Phoebe:I'm sorry,I'm sorry.

Rachel:Phoebe how would you do this to me?.This was all your idea.

Phoebe:I know,I know and I was gonna get it but then he came in with this needle and uh d-did you know they do this with needles?.

Tabitha:Really?.You don't say because mine was licked on by kittens.

   Me,Rachel and Phoebe enter Monica and Rachel's apartment and see Richard there.

Rachel:Oh.

Monica:Oh.Well did you get it?.Let me see.

Rachel:Is Ross here?.

Monica:No he went out to get pizza.

Rachel:Oh really ok."Shows Monica her tattoo".

Monica:That's great.

Richard:Very tasteful.

Phoebe:Wanna see mine,Wanna see mine?.

Monica:Yes.

Rachel:What?.You didn't get one.

Phoebe:Ok well then what is this?."Shows her bare shoulder".

Richard:What're we looking at?.That blue freckle?.

Phoebe:Ok that's my tattoo.

Tabitha:That is not a tattoo,that is a nothing.I finally got her back in the chair bairly touched her with a needle she jumped up screaming and that was it.

Phoebe:Ok hi.For your information this is exactly what I wanted.This is a tattoo of the earth as seen from a great distance.It's the way my mother sees me from heaven.

Rachel:Oh what a load of crap.That is a dot.Your mother is up in heaven going Where the hell is my lily you wuss?.Ok Phoebe that is not a tattoonthis is a tattoo.

   Rachel bends over and bears her tattoo right when Ross returns.

Ross:You got a tattoo?.

Rachel:Maybe.But just a little one.Phoebe got the whole world.

Ross:Lemme see."Looks".

Rachel:Well?.

Ross:Well it's really...sexy.I wouldn't have thought it would be but...wow.

Rachel:Really?.

Ross:Yeah so uh is it sore or can you do stuff?.

Racgel:I guess.

Ross:Hey save us some pizza.

   Ross and Rachel go off to Rachel's room and i show Monica and Richard my tattoo.Soon i go home and call Joey to come over so i can show him the tattoos...When he geta here he brings Chandler...I show them my first tattoo but then I show Joey my other one that is on my left hip.

   Joey see's it remembering our inside joke and he begins to laugh as I join in and Chandler stares at us.

Tabitha:Its a inside joke I used to call Joey a Dean Martin.

Chandler:Well I don't hear any bells ringing and people singing vita Bella.

   Me and Joey laugh at Chandler's joke...Joey and Chandler tell us as a group later on how he is getting his own place...The next day we are all helping Joey pack his things...As I help Joey pack up his closet a box falls and Joey grabs it.

Joey:Hey look at this...Its the Tabby & JoJo box.

   I raise an eyebrow at him as he opens the box.Me and him sit down on the bed as he goes thru the box.We look thru some old photos of us together.

  After a while reminiscing we put the photos aeay and continue packing soon we go over to our friends.

Joey:Hey you guys are still gonna come visit me right?.

Chandler:Oh yeah you got the big TV. We'll be over there all the time.

Chandler gives him a look.

Chandler:Except when we are here.

Phoebe:I know you're just moving uptown but I'm really gonna miss you.

Monica:I know how can you not be accross the hall anymore.

Rachel:Yeah who's gonna eat all our food and tie up our phone lines and is that my bra?.What the hell you doing with my bra?.

Joey:Oh no-no it's uh it's not what you think.We uh we used it to you know fling water balloons off the roof.Remember that those junior high kids couldn't even get theirs across the street.

Chandler:Yeah I remember.

Ross:Hey let's bring the rest of these down to the truck.

   Everyone except Joey and Chandler leave.I leave the apartment thinking about how my bestfriend and the one I love won't be across the hall from me anymore.