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-May 17th 1997-

   Later while at The beach house.Me,Joey and Chandler are sitting at the dinner table while Monica is looking in the fridge.

Monica:"Closing the fridge".Shoot!.We’re out of soda.

Chandler:"Jumping up".Oh I’ll go out and get you some.

Monica:Really?!.

Chandler:Nope!.Because I’m not your boyfriend.

Phoebe enters.

Tabitha:Hey Pheebs how did it go?.

Phoebe:Well um my Mom’s friend Phoebe is actually my birth Mom.

We look at her shocked.

Chandler:I found a dried up seashores.

Monica:Sweety what are you talking about?.

Phoebe:Oh my new Mom w-who’s a big,fat abandoner!."Starts to go upstairs".

Joey:Whoa wait Pheebs wait a second!. Don’t you wanna stay here and talk about it?.

Phoebe:No.I’m just I wanna I need to be alone.

She starts to go upstairs but turns around.

Phoebe:Monica!.

Monica:Oh.

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-May 18th 1997-

Me,Joey,Chandler and Monica are at the beach.Chandler and Monica are out getting some sun while Me and Joey are digging a hole as the two talk.Soon Joey gets ready to jump into the shoulder deep hole.

Joey:Hey you guys!.Take a look at this!.

   Chandler and Monica jump up and go over to the hole.

Joey:Check this baby out me and Tabitha dug us a hole!.

Chandler:Excellent hole Joe.

A wave crashes on the beach and partially fills up Me and Joey's hole.

Joey:Oh no!.No!.Me and Tabby's hole!.

Monica:"Screaming in pain".Ow!,Ow!.

Joey climbs out of the hole.

Joey:What?!,What?!.What is it?!.

Monica:Jellyfish sting!.Oh it hurts!,It hurts!, It hurts!.

Chandler:Well can we help?!.You want us to take you back to the house?!.

Monica:It’s like two miles!.

Joey:Yeah and I’m a little tired from digging the hole.

Monica:Oh damn the jellyfish.Damn all the jellyfish!.

Chandler:We’ve got to do something!.

Tabitha:Well there’s really only one thing you can do.

Monica:What?!,What is it?!.

Joey:You’re gonna have to pee on it.

Monica:What?!.Gross!.

Joey:Don’t blame me I saw it on The Discovery Channel.

Chandler:You know what he’s right.There’s something like uh ammonia in that,that like kills the pain.

Monica:Well forget it!.It doesn’t hurt that."Tries to take a step".bad!.

Joey:If you want some privacy you can use me and Tabitha's hole.

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   Soon the four of us arrive at the beach house with our heads down in shame.

Ross:Hey!.

Rachel:How was the beach?.

Monica:Nothing I don’t know.

Ross:What happened?.

Monica:Nothing.I’m gonna take a shower.

Chandler:Me too!.

Joey:Me too.

Tabitha:I'm gonna join Joey!.

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-May 18th 1997-

   Back at Central Perk Ross is telling Me,Joey and Chandler about the letter Rachel wrote him.

Ross:She wants me to take responsibility for everything that went wrong in our relationship.I mean she goes on for five pages about about how I was unfaithful to her!.

Me,Joey and Chandler shrug our shoulders.

Ross:"Yelling".We Were On a Break!.

Chandler:Oh my God!.If you say that one more time,I'm gonna break up with you!.

Ross:Fine!.Fine!.But this break-up was not all my fault and she,she says here."Reading from the letter".If you accept full responsibility..."To Chandler,Joey,Tabitha". Full responsibility!."Reads".I can begin to trust you again.Does that seem like something you can do."Yells at Joey".Does it?!.

Joey:No?.

Chandler:Look Ross you have what you want you’re back with Rachel.If you bring this up now you’re gonna wreck the best thing that even happened to you.

Ross:"Calming down".Yeah I know.I mean no you’re right.Yeah I guess I’ll let it go.But y-you understand h-how hard it is to forget about this.

Joey:Sure it’s hard to forget!.But that doesn’t mean you have to talk about it!.A lot of things happened on that trip that we should never."To Tabitha,Chandler".Ever talk about.

Ross:What the hell happened on that beach?!.

Tabitha:It’s between us and the sea Ross!.

   Ross laughs and has a look on his face as he looks and Chandler who nods his head in agreement with Me and Ross looks stunned.

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   At Monica and Rachel's Me,Joey,Chandler and Monica are sitting at the table eating dinner and not talking.

Monica:Pass the cheese please.

   Joey hands her the cheese without looking at her.

Monica:My God you can’t even look at me!. Can you?.

Joey:Nope.

Phoebe enters the apartment.

Chandler:"Jumping up".Hey!.Phoebe!.We can talk to Phoebe!.

Phoebe:No.I’-I’m to depressed to talk.

Chandler:I’ll give you a thousand dollars to talk to us.

   Ross comes inside from the balcony with Rachel.

Ross:Hey you guys!.What do you,what do you think about making that beach trip an annual thing?.

Chandler,Monica,Tabitha,Joey:No!.

Rachel:All right that’s it you guys!.What happened out there?.

Monica:What?.We took a walk nothing happened.I can back with nothing all over me.

Ross,Rachel:Come on!.

Ross:What happened?.Joey?.

Joey:All right."Gets up".

Monica:No!.Joey we swore we’d never tell!

Chandler uns over and joins me and Monica.

Chandler:They’ll never understand!.

Joey:Well we have to say something!.We have to get it out!.It’s eating me alive!. Monica got stung by a jellyfish.

Monica:All right!,All right."Walks slowly into the living room".I got stung.Stung bad. I couldn’t stand.I-I couldn’t walk.

Me and Chandler follow Monica.

Chandler:We were two miles from the house.Scared and alone.We didn’t think we could make it.

Monica:I was in too much pain.

Tabitha:And Joey and I were tired from digging the huge hole!.

Chandler:And then Joey remembered something.

Joey:I’d seen this thing on The Discovery Channel.

Ross:Wait a minute!.I saw that!.On The Discovery Channel yeah!.About jellyfish and how if you... "Stops suddenly and turns to look at Monica".Ew!.You peed on yourself?!.

Phoebe,Rachel:Ew!.

Monica:You can’t say that!.Y-you don’t know!.I mean I thought I was gonna pass out from the pain!.Anyway I-I tried but I-I couldn’t...bend that way.So..."Looks at Joey".

Phoebe,Ross,Rachel:"Turning to look at Joey".Ew!.

Joey:That’s right I stepped up!.She’s my friend and she needed help!.And if I had too I’d pee on anyone of you!.Only uh I couldn’t.I got the stage fright.I wanted to help but there was too much pressure.S-so I uh I turned to Chandler.

Chandler:Tabitha and Joey kept screaming at me Do it now!.Do it!.Do it!.Do it now!. Sometimes late at night I can still here the screaming.

Tabitha:"Laughs".That’s cause sometimes we go to your apartment just to do it through the wall to freak you out.

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-May 19th 1997-

   Me,Joey and Chandler are about to enter Monica and Rachel's apartment when we hear Ross scream as we open the door.

Ross:"Yells".We Were On a Break!.

The three of us enter the apartment.

Chandler:"To Monica".Coffee house?.

Monica:You bet.

   Me and Joey leave to Central Perk together alone and we smile at eachother...This man will forever give me butterflies in my stomach.