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-April 23rd 1998-

   At Monica and Rachel's Cassius,Monica and Phoebe are opening their invitations as I open Me and Joey's with him.

Monica:Oh this is so amazing!.I can’t believe my brother’s getting married!.And in London!.It’s so romantic!.

Tabitha:"Grinning".Yeah I love weddings!.

Joey:"Teasing".Especially ours.

Tabitha:Well yeah!...But the honeymoon was loveable too.

Cassius:"Taking apart invitation".Hey pretty smart.Tissue paper.You’re at the wedding you have to cry,Handkerchief?.No,no I got my invitation.

Phoebe:Oh look!.Isn’t this adorable Ross let Ben address mine!.

Tabitha:Awe!.

Chandler enters the apartment.

Chandler:Hello!.

Tabitha,Joey:Hey!.

Cassius:Hi.

Monica:Hey!.

Phoebe:Hey!,Hey did you get your invitation to Ross’s wedding?.

Chandler:"Sarcastically".No.

Cassius:Don’t worry man I get to bring a guest.We’ll show him.

Phoebe:I’m so jealous you’re all going!.I can’t believe I never knew that you can’t fly in your third trimester.

Tabitha:I didn’t know that.

Monica:I never knew that either.

Joey:I knew that!.

We all look at my husband.

Joey:I so didn’t know that but you should see your faces.

Rachel enters the apartment.

Rachel:Hey guys!.What’s up?.

Cassius:Heyyy.

We all try and hide our invitations.

Monica:We’re hanging out.

   Rachel starts going through her mail and come across her invitation.

Rachel:What’s this?.Is this Ross’s wedding invitation?.

Chandler:See maybe that’s the one we should’ve actually hidden.

Rachel:Oh no!.No you guys!.Come on you don’t have to do that.I’m happy for him.I am.I really I’m,I’m happ-I’ll work on it.

Tabitha:I’m sorry honey.

Rachel:Yeah.

Monica:Rach you’re gonna come though aren’t you?.

Rachel:Oh honey I don’t know.I…

Chandler:This isn’t one of those uh y’know If she doesn’t come,we,we don’t,we don’t come?.Right?.Because I already bought my ticket…

Monica:You know what would be real weird?.Is if you weren’t there.Just say you’ll think about it okay?.

Rachel:No I’ll think about it.Yeah.

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   Later on at Central Perk Me,Joey,Chandler,Cassius and Phoebe are reading a book about things to do whilst in London.

Chandler:All right check it out.Check this out.It says here that there’s a place you can go to rent videos of all the museums."Reading".It’s almost as good as being there.

Cassius:It’s better!.You can’t go to a museum in your underwear!.

Joey:Oh that's great!.

Chandler:Well You could but...probably just the one time.

Cassius:I bet we could get videos of all the sites,get a VCR in our hotel room...we'd never even have to go outside!.

Chandler:If we do that we gotta get Die Hard.

Cassius:Oh-ho!.I bet the British version is good!.

   My husband looks sad and I give him a small smile.

Tabitha:Don't worry we can watch Die Hard together.

Joey:"Grins".Really?.

Tabitha:Well duh.

   We chuckle together and then he kisses me and Cassius makes a ew noise.

*****************************************-April 30th 1998-

    At Central Perk we are all hanging out as Phoebe is returning from the bathroom.

Phoebe:"Angrily".That’s like the tenth time I’ve peed since I’ve been here!.

Monica:That’s also like the tenth time you told us.

Phoebe:Yeah oh I’m sorry it must be really hard to hear.I tell ya it’s a lot easier having three babies play Bringing in the Noise Bringing in da Funk on your bladder.I’m so sick of being pregnant!.The only happiness I get is from a cup of coffee which of course is decaf cause.Oh!.I’m pregnant!.

Ross:Pheebs did…you want a cookie?.

Phoebe:"Starting to cry".Thank you so much.

Tabitha:So uh Pheebs honey how are those mood swings coming?.

Phoebe:I haven’t really had any yet.

   Me,Monica,Joey and Chandler all shake our heads.

   The next day at Monica and Rachel's Me and the girls including Phoebe are eating breakfast.

Phoebe:"To her babies".Stop it!.

Monica:What?.

Pho:One of the babies is kicking.

Tabitha:I thought that was a good thing.

Phoebe:It’s not kicking me it’s kicking one of the other babies.Oh."Looks down her dress".Don’t make me come in there!.

Cassius and Joey enter the apartment.

Joey:Hey!.

Monica:Hey!.

Cassius:Do you guys have like a big bowl I can borrow?.

Monica:Yeah there’s one right under the cabinet.

Cassius:"Grabs it".Thanks.

Monica:Why do you need it?.

Cassius:Oh we’re having a big party tomorrow night.Later!.

The men start for the door.

Rachel:Whoa!.Hey,hey you planning on inviting us?.

Joey:No later.

The men walk out the door.

Phoebe:Hey!.Get your ass back here Tribbiani!.And Cassius!.

    The men both walk back in scared of Phoebe.

Tabitha:Hormones!.

Monica:What Phoebe meant to say was um how come you’re having a party and we’re not invited?.

Cassius:Oh it’s Ross’s bachelor party.

Monica:So?.

Joey:Are you bachelors?.

Monica:No!.

Cassius:Are you strippers?.

Rachel:No!.

Joey:Then you’re not invited."Starts for door".

Rachel:All right fine!.You’re not invited to the party we’re gonna have either.

Joey:Oh whoa what party?.

Rachel:Well um…

Monica:The baby shower for Phoebe!.

Cassius:Baby shower.Wow!.That sounds so like something I don’t want to do!.Later!.

The boys leave.

Phoebe:I can’t believe I’m gonna have a party!.This is so great!."Excited".A party!.Yay!."Starts crying".

Me and Rachel move to comfort her.

Phoebe:I don’t know why.

    The next day at Monica and Rachel's Monica is returning from shopping and Me and Rachel are hanging out.

Monica:Look what I got!,Look what I got!, Look what I got!.

   Monica shows Me and Rachel what she bought.She bought a little leather jacket and a little cowboy outfit for the babies.

Monica:Can you believe they make these for little people?.

Rachel:Little village people.

Tabitha:Oh I can't wait to have babies!.

Monica:Okay look at this one.This is my favourite.

   She shows us a little pink and white dress for the girl baby.

Rachel:Oh that is so sweet!.

Monica:I know!.Phoebe is gonna love dressing them in these!.

Rachel:Huh.Except Phoebe’s not gonna be the one that gets to dress them.

Tabitha:Because she’s not gonna get to keep the babies.

Rachel:Oh my God!.We are throwing the most depressing baby shower ever!.

Monica:Wait a minute!.Unless we give her all gifts she can use after she’s done being pregnant.Like,like um regular coffee Tequila.

Rachel:Oh and somebody can get those leather pants she’s always wanted!.

Monica:Oh she’s gonna love that.

   Later that night at Phoebe’s baby shower Phoebe is holding leather pants and isn’t happy about it.

Phoebe:What the hell is this?!.What did you actually thought it would make me feel better to give me stuff that I can’t use for another two months?!.This sucks!.All right what’s my next present?!.

All:I don’t have anything.

    We all hide our gifts behind our backs...The next day at Central Perk Phoebe is entering as Me,Monica and Rachel talk on the couch.

Phoebe:Hi guys.

Tabitha:Hi Phoebe.

   Me,Monica and Rachel try to move out of Phoebe’s way.

Monica:Hi Phoebe.

Phoebe:I-I wanted to apologise if I y’know seemed a tad edgy yesterday at my shower. Y’know it’s just the hormones y’know.

Rachel:No we…

Monica:Hormones.

Rachel:Hormones yeah.

Phoebe:Anyway I just wanted to say thank you it was just it was so sweet.

   Phoebe goes to hug Monica and Rachel  and they both flinch.

Monica:Wow you seem to be doing so much better.That’s great.So how,how are things going?.

Phoebe:Good.Y’know no,no okay it’s,it feels like everything’s been about me lately so what’s happening with you?.

Rachel:Oh well actually we were just talking about me not going to Ross’s wedding.

Phoebe:Oh!.

Rachel:It just might be too hard given the history and all that…

Phoebe:Wow!.This reminds me of the time when I was um living on the street and this guy offered to buy me food if I slept with him.

Rachel:Well h-how is this like that?.

Phoebe:Well let’s see it’s not.Really like that.Because you see that was an actual problem and uh yours is just like y’know a bunch of y’know high school crap that nobody really gives y’know…

Rachel:"Starting to cry".I’m,I’m sorry I just thought that…

Phoebe:Alrighty here come the water works.

Rachel starts crying harder.