Friends - The Ones With Ellie

The one with the whiny guy

Later the day I sat in our apartment with Thea and we were playing Mouse Trap on the floor in her room.

Actually, she didn't like this game very much, but all the others were in the boxes that hadn't arrived yet.

And when we had finished the fifth round, I could see that Thea really didn't want to play anymore.

"Thea, what do you think about getting to know some of my friends? They life right above us and we can say hi to them." I asked her, because I remembered that I told Chandler I will come over sometime.

Thea pretended to think hard about it until she finally nodded.

"Okay, do you think, they have cookies?" She asked me.

"But sweetie, we have cookies too." I told her.

"But they are not good."

We walked up the stairs one floor and I knocked on apartment 19. After waiting for a while, no one had opened the door, and I was about to go back downstairs when I remembered that Chandler had said that Monica lived right across the street.

So I'll try my luck there.

Surprisingly, the woman in the wedding dress from before opened the door and didn't give me another look as she simply let me into the apartment.

"She looks pretty." Thea whispered to me.

At first I thought we had chosen the wrong apartment, but I saw Chandler, Ross, Monica, Joey and Phoebe sitting on the couch and they hadn't noticed us yet.

I took another look at the bride. Oh my gosh, this was  Rachel. Monica's best friend from high school.

Why didn't I recognize her before?

What was she doing here? And why was she doing it in a wedding dress?

I took Thea's hand and walked over to the sofa.

"Hi, what are watching?" I asked, when I picked up Thea.

"Oh, hey Beth," Chandler said. "Some Spanish soap."

"Now I'm guessing that he bought her the big pipe organ, and she's really not happy about it." Monica guessed about what's going on in the show.

Apparently none of them could speak Spanish.

And with my eight years of Spanish in school, I could definitely say that assumption was very wrong.

"Daddy, I just... I can't marry him! I'm sorry. I just don't love him. Well, it matters to me!" Rachel spoke the phone.

Who our age called their father Daddy? Even Thea said Dad.

The scene on the television changed and now you see two women, one holding the other's hair in her hand.

"Ooh, she should not be wearing those pants." Chandler commented on the one woman.

"I say push her down the stairs." Joey said.

"Push her down the stairs! Push her down the stairs! Push her down the stairs!" Joey, Chandler, Ross and Phoebe said.

The woman was eventually pushed down and the people on the sofa cheered.

"That's not really nice." Thea in my arms said.

"But she's not very nice either." Chandler turned to us and spoke to Thea.

But it was me who answered.

"How do you know? I was the one of the two of us who had Spanish in school."

"Beth, you have learned all languages the school offered."

"Is that your daughter? She is so cute. How old is she?" Monica asked suddenly and walked towards us.