twenty-six | zara's smile

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THE ONE WITH ZARA'S SMILE.
EPISODE SEVEN.

Zara felt a little strange. For the first time in a year and a half since she started her book, she wasn't currently writing. The final draft had been submitted for the publishing house to read through it, and then — finally — it'll be sent to printing.

Of course, there was the sequel to start, but Zara was letting herself get settled back with her new kindergarten class before she started (plus, she deserved a break). Though, maybe the break was forced with Zara's laptop hidden somewhere for the week, where she suspected it was either in Monica's room or at the guys' apartment.

"Hey," Ross caught their attention as Zara's head turned to face from where she sat on the sofa next to Monica. "When you guys were kids and you played Happy Days, who were you? I was always Richie."

"I was always Joanie," Monica announced.

"Question," said Joey. "Was egg the Gellers the war cry of your neighbourhood?"

Zara laughed at that, but the sound vanished as the Mattress King came on screen that Phoebe was quick to point out, disgusted by it.

"Don't look, honey," Chandler told Janice. "Change the channel! Change the channel!"

Unable to stop herself, Zara's nose curled in disgust at the nickname. While it was already coming up to a year since the two had separated, Zara was yet to find a way to get over Chandler Bing, but she was making progress.

"Wait, wait," Janice protested. "I want to see this. That's right, after I divorce him, half of that kingdom will be mine."

"My kingdom is suddenly lonely without a queen."

Zara pressed her lips together so that she couldn't laugh. If the kingdom was lonely, then Zara was willing to return the queen. But, the depressive advert changed into a sale, where Janice's ex-husband didn't seem that upset.

"What a wank," Chandler said.

"Oh, I cannot believe he's using our divorce to sell mattresses."

"I know," said Monica. "At $499 for a pillow top queen set, who cares about the divorce? Those babies will sell themselves." Though, even Zara was looking at Monica, knowing she had done the right thing of keeping her mouth shut. "I'm appalled for you, by the way."

Later, Zara headed over to the guys' place in the hope to find her laptop, where she found Joey on the phone. With him distracted, she snooped a little, relieved to know that Chandler was walking Janice out.

"You won't find it," Joey told her, hanging up after.

Zara turned, frowning at him. "So it was you."

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